The grid subjects featured on this edition are:
Main Grids: Words beginning with the letter "F" that first originated in the 1980s; Films with an insect in the title.
Auction Grids: Creatures with webbed feet; The twelve disciples.
Final Grid: Members of the Monty Python team.
Main Grids: Words beginning with the letter "F" that first originated in the 1980s; Films with an insect in the title.
Auction Grids: Creatures with webbed feet; The twelve disciples.
Final Grid: Members of the Monty Python team.
"Bug Alert!" appears as a Wipeout answer on a grid about films with insects in the title.
While this could be a reference to Bug Alert! (1996) (which would have been an incorrect answer as a TV series, rather than a film), the other Wipeout answers are all entirely fictional inventions, so it could be a coincidence. As the TV show isn't specified as being behind the answer, this isn't included under Movie Connections.
While this could be a reference to Bug Alert! (1996) (which would have been an incorrect answer as a TV series, rather than a film), the other Wipeout answers are all entirely fictional inventions, so it could be a coincidence. As the TV show isn't specified as being behind the answer, this isn't included under Movie Connections.
Bob makes an allusion to the trial of Ken Dodd for tax evasion on this edition, one of several series six episodes where he does so. (Although in this edition it could be interpreted as more of a "mean with money" joke, rather than an explicit reference to the trial where Dodd was acquitted.) It's an odd choice, given that by the time this edition aired, the trial was a decade old.
Other such examples include a remark in Episode #6.60 (1999) that Prague is "where you'll find more Czechs than Doddy's turned down in favour of cash", or Episode #6.78 (1999), where he claims he keeps his cash in a surgical support, known as his "truss fund".
Other such examples include a remark in Episode #6.60 (1999) that Prague is "where you'll find more Czechs than Doddy's turned down in favour of cash", or Episode #6.78 (1999), where he claims he keeps his cash in a surgical support, known as his "truss fund".
Unusually, Bob describes the runner-up prize as "wine glasses", rather than his usual terminology of "champagne glasses".
