Provides examples of:
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Much of the episode consists of David Owen complaining about being excluded from the show and insisting that the Alliance is ripe with comedic characters.
- Diplomatic Immunity: An unsuspecting old lady gets attacked by a man wielding an axe who then claims diplomatic immunity when Newman attempts to intervene.
- Funny Background Event: While David Owen complains about the Alliance being left out of the episode, some unseen sketches from the show play out. One shows Michael Heseltine apparently in a session with a psychiatrist.
- Malt Shop: The video for Da Doo Run Ron has one of these populated with world leaders. Lord Lucan is a soda jerk, and Thatcher and Tebbit make out over a milkshake.
- National Stereotypes: The Ming Dynasty sketch isn't much more than a string of Japanese stereotypes.
- Parody Commercial: François Mitterrand goes on about the virtues of UHT milk in a nod to a famous Cointreau advert that was doing the rounds at the time.
- Romance on the Set: Implied In-Universe between the announcer from The President's Brain is Missing and an unseen studio techie, who asks what the studio announcer is doing after the show.
- Sapient House: The poor, unsuspecting hospital that Norman Fowler preys upon is capable of speech.
- Stealth Pun: When Arthur Scargill goes to the barber's, his cloth-like hair appears to be growing out of his ears, "cloth ears" being an expression for someone who can't or won't listen.
- Stylistic Suck: The Video Nicies segment consists of an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows as a low-budget puppet show in the style of Tales of the Riverbank.
- Wildlife Commentary Spoof: In Lie on Earth, we see David Attenborough being interrogated by an Omniscient Council of Vagueness about the fact that he's been lying about the wonders of nature on all of his programmes.
