• Funny Aneurysm Moment: When Jimmy learns that Ruth is pregnant, she tries to calm him down, saying "It's not the end of the world". Three weeks later...
  • Memetic Mutation: Anne Sellors, whose acting career begins and ends with her role in this film as "woman who urinates herself".
  • Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: No matter what those "Protect and Survive" booklets issued by the government told you, There Is No Way To Survive A Nuclear War. It needed to be said, and this film said it loudly and without any signs of sugaring.
  • Squick: The radiation sickness scenes are major examples of this.