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s02e01 – 1996-03-08 – Hell ∞

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1:30 — Roddy Doyle?
2:00 — Ice age
2:15 — July 19
- Golway(?) liberated from Indians
- Marathon becomes Snickers (candy bar)
3:00 —
- Cocaine
- Raisin
6:00 — Camper = Recreational vehicle
7:00 — Aren’t they still on Craggy Island?
8:15 — The car/water uphill illusion is just a slope illusion.
- For an explanation, see something like Z6OeQtnultc.
11:15 — Hide-and-seek

11:45 — Perspectivity
- This is basically the second memorable moment in this show.
15:30 — I recognize, but don’t place that song.
16:00 — Celine Dion
16:00 — Riverdance
17:00 — I can’t place that song, and I’m not going to look it up.
17:45 — Heroin
18:00 — Urinary bladder, Terry’s Chocolate Orange
19:30 — They have a lamp poster.

s02e02 – 1996-03-15 – Think Fast, Father Ted ∞

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2:00 — Bruce Willis
7:45 — Why would they be driving in that broken car instead of their usual one?
12:30 — The Sting – (1973 movie), Paul Newman, Robert Redford
13:00 — Bee Gees
16:30 — New wave music, I guess.
18:00 — I recognize that music, but can’t remember its name.
18:15 — “Thunderbirds are go” is from Thunderbirds – (1965 show).
20:00 —
- AA = The Automobile Association
- Crashing the car to get the money back = Insurance fraud

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0:00 — Gary Lineker’s book of Ghost Stories is fictional.
0:15 — I couldn’t make out the other book’s title.
5:45 — Buckaroo! – (game)
8:00 — I don’t know what’s this is referring to. See That’s Life. Maybe it’s a movie or a series, but I couldn’t figure the dog reference out.
10:30 — Ferrero Rocher
14:30 — Aliens – (1986 movie)
15:00 — Heart attack = Myocardial infarction
23:30 — Hippie

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6:00 — The Life of Mel Gibson appears to be fictional. (Mel Gibson[doesn’t exist])
9:00 — Crack cocaine
9:15 — Dana Rosemary Scallon
12:30 — Boyz n the Hood – (1991 movie)
12:30 —
- Whore = Prostitution
- Pimp = Procuring (prostitution)
15:15 — Richard Whiteley, and I think there was a reference to the game show Countdown
- Carol = Carol Vorderman
22:45 — Horse racing:
- Grand National
- Darby = Derby (horse race)?
23:30 — The Iraq reference is unusual in this 1996 episode. It had been troubled before then and after then.

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0:45 — I can’t place that song.
1:45 — I Love Paris – (song), by Ella Fitzgerald
2:00 — Carnegie Hall
2:30 — Eurosong = Eurovision Song Contest
3:00 — Nandson(?) Mandella = Nelson Mandela?
3:15 —
6:00 — Rapping
- Ice-T
- Snoop Dogg
8:30 — Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976
- “mid hoogan and the hooganotes”
- Maybe I don’t know what contest this was, or maybe they’re fictionalizing it.
11:00 — Maybe that is Vienna – (1981 song), by Ultravox

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1:30 — Rollerblading = Inline skating
1:45 — Lent
3:15 — Scrabble
4:30 — The pieces of his cigarettes went everywhere.
6:45 — Sophia Loren
7:00 — Nicotine withdrawal
8:45 — Alcoholism
9:00 — “Matty Hislock”(?) may be fictional.
10:00 — Ave Maria = Hail Mary? There’s a proper reference here but I can’t remember it.
17:00 —
- Pop-Tarts
- Frosties is probably Frosted Flakes
- Sugar Puffs is probably Honey Monster Puffs
- Lucky Charms
18:30 — That bath water is disgusting.
19:00 — Indian burn?, see List of school pranks
20:00 — Addis Ababa – Ethiopia

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7:30 — Dougall has different sleepwear now.
9:15 — I vaguely recognize that song. Maybe just the artist(s).
10:00 — Adolf Hitler
10:30 — “Botty”
12:30 — Jurassic Park – (1993 movie)
13:00 — Malcolm X
13:15 — Connuth(?)
13:30 — O. J. Simpson
- Likely referencing the O. J. Simpson murder case
18:15 — Lassie Come Home – (1943 movie)
- Lassie = Pal (dog)
- Roddy McDowall
- Elizabeth Taylor

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