Bait-and-Switch: The Windsors try to tell the Queen Mother that she can't put out a hit on Princess Michael not because it would be illegal but because it would spoil her birthday surprise.
Deus ex Machina: Thatcher appears in the form of God to shower money on the Tory election manifesto after they've spent years cutting everything to the bone with no obvious way of winning.
For Halloween Im Going As Myself: When Ronald shows up to a White House Halloween party, Nancy asks why he isn’t wearing a costume. Ronald points out that he’s Scatterbrained Senior with access to nuclear weapons, so he couldn’t think of anything scarier than that.
Yet Another Christmas Carol: David Steel is haunted by the ghosts of the Liberal Party past and present, but there's no future.
