Parodies and References in The Show
- The Six Million Rupee Man - parodies The Six Million Dollar Man.
- Skipinder: The Punjabi Kangaroo - parodies Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.
- I'm a Punjabi Girl... - parodies Aqua's "Barbie Girl" song.
- Hindi People - parodies Pulp's "Common People".
- Club Nirvana - parodies Wham!'s "Club Tropicana".
- The Marriage Emporium - pays homage to Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch and Dead Parrot sketch.
- Fawlty Turrets - pays homage to Fawlty Towers.
- The Delhi Tubbies - fictional Asian equivalent of Teletubbies.
- They Were The Blacked-Up Men - parodies Men in Black.
- The Bhandari Bunch - parodies The Brady Bunch opening sequence.
- Channa's Angels - parodies Charlie's Angels
- Arranged Shag - parodies the arranged marriage
Other parodies are based on shows such as Animal Hospital (where members of lower castes take the place of the pets) and Rough Guides (where tourists from India visit and make unpleasant remarks about England).
The "Going for an English" sketch is often cited as the first time a white English audience had seen a parody of their own behaviour in Indian restaurants, but the theme had previously been explored by other artists. Rowan Atkinson's "Indian Waiter" sketch, from his 1980s stage tour, for example, directly mocked such behaviour, whilst Alexei Sayle's "Stuff" in the early 1990s included a brief monologue where the residents of New Delhi got drunk and ate steak and kidney pies on a Friday night.
The "Six Million Rupee Man" sketch has also inspired a popular political and lifestyle blog.
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