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The team had a particular fondness for taking real footage and inserting their own around it - for example, having a drunken, swearing Atkinson go put on a blonde wig and blue dress, walk through a door, and then switch to some real footage of Margaret Thatcher leaving Downing Street.
Smith and Jones went on to continue their partnership, while Atkinson struck out on his own, notably with ''[[
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* [[Incessant Music Madness]]: Gryff-Rhys Jones plays a colonial planter, driven to drink by the noise of the jungle, who staggers drunkenly onto the verandah and demands, "Will you shut up! Will this damn noise never end!" The camera pans back, revealing that what we have taken to be the chittering of night insect noise is really 30 or 40 natives, each of whom is playing with a Rubik's Cube...
* [[Intellectual Animal]]: Gerald the Gorilla. "Wild? I was absolutely livid."
* [[Mile-High Club]]: From the song "Do Bears" by [[Rowan Atkinson]] and [[Kate Bush]] (originally performed at ''[[Comic Relief]] 1986'' and later included on one of the ''[[Not the Nine O
{{quote| '''Rowan:''' I met her in the first class lounge of a jumbo jet<br />
It was love at first sight, Romeo and Juliet<br />
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The Billy Connolly pub sketch.
** Constable Savage isn't the most decent of people either.
* [[Romance
* [[Skewed Priorities]]: One sketch is about an episode of ''[[Question Time]]'' being recorded shortly after the Soviets have just started World War III; aside from an [[Only Sane Man]] panellist whose contribution is "Help! We're all going to die!", the others focus on the 'real issues' such as blaming the crisis on the appalling record of the previous government.
* [[Surreal Music Video]]: Parodied in "Nice Video, Shame About the Song".
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