A prank was played on Andy Gray during the sketch in which he played a 'have a go hero'. The sketch starts with the camera in close up view on Andy's face whilst he talks about about being a have a go hero' against a group of thugs armed with machetes and hatchets. The camera then pulls out to reveal he is a disembodied head. To do this sketch, Andy had to stand inside a manhole on a safety rig and the crew had to build a pavement around his neck and add fake gore around it. Once Andy was incapable of being able to move once the fake pavement was in place, producer Colin Gilbert started to tease Andy by telling him there may be rats inside the manhole. Andy, who had a terrible fear of rats, was worried even further when he felt something brushing against his leg in the manhole. It turned out one of the prop men had positioned a fluffy toy on a string inside the rig where his legs would be. Gilbert later said "that would now probably constitute bullying at work!".
Bernard and Miriam, who were introduced in series three were later tipped for landing a sitcom spin off but the idea was dropped as producer Colin Gilbert felt they weren't popular enough.