Show segments included: • The Glam Metal Detectives themselves. A
rock group charged with the mission of ''"saving the planet's
ecology with your top-hit records''", they would fight the evil media mogul Rolston Brocade (
Mac McDonald) in between gigs. This segment combined elements of the cultish, kitsch and televisual trash in an unpredictable manner. • Betty's Mad Dash - a 1930s-style
adventure serial about two
flappers, Betty and Maisie (Mackichan and Stockbridge), who are on the run from the police. Each episode involved hiding from the police in some period location and robbing people at
gunpoint. • Bloodsports - a short segment portraying, with live sports commentary, crime such as
ram raiding, car theft, or a bailiff attempting to take possession of property as if they were recognised sports. The footage often ended with the offenders messing up in some way and getting arrested. • Running From Death - a self-parody which saw the group running from the
Grim Reaper. Each episode would include this sequence, which always resembled the chase sequence in the Betty's Mad Dash section, ending with the group robbing the Grim Reaper at gunpoint. • The Big Me - a
chat show parody featuring Morag (Mackichan), who was extremely self-obsessed and egomaniacal, ignoring her guests and instead talking about herself, only to end up being replaced by her sycophantic chef Steve (Caven). • Colin Corleone - a nondescript Londoner (Yiasoumi) who believes himself to be the
mafia godfather of his neighbourhood after watching
The Godfather movies too many times, complete with inept henchmen (Beadle and Cornwell) who are just as deluded or playing along; for example, when his
dole is cut off because he refuses to work in
Do It All, he arranges a 'hit' on the
DSS office worker, shooting him with a
water pistol while he has his lunch. • Happy Hour - the revolting and chainsmoking bouncer and ticket seller of a strip club or clip joint stiff the customers. The bouncer fancies one of the acts, 'Vera' and has no idea that she is a man in drag. • Once an episode, a large man played by Stephen Marcus would, following an explosion, say his cliché line in a variety of different voices: "you 'ad to get involved!" before firing his machine gun. • Various manipulative American talkshow hosts who would introduce items saying "We'll be: removing this woman's dignity / withholding oxygen from this man / breaking up this marriage ... right after this!" • Spoof adverts to fill in the gaps, often for everyday items such as keys or bath plugs, small-scale businesses, petty criminals, or share offers for public "services" like The Sea and The Sun, parodying the Thatcher and Major programme of privatisation. ==In other media==