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In 2011, Channel 9 was going to air ''The Games: London Calling'', where the cast are hired to help with the London 2012 Olympics. Unfortunately, it got cancelled. There's a possibility that ''London Calling'' might get picked up by another network, though. Cross your fingers.
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* [[Acting for Two]]: Actors who play minor characters often reprise their roles as other minor characters.
* [[Australian Politics]]: It came cruelly close to what happens in real life politics (and not just in Australia).
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: They got the Olympics on, but they couldn't fix the Closing Ceremony and all the cock-ups and over-budgeting means that they have to get out of there.
* [[Character
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Sydney, portrayed as a city where everyone double-crosses you, the media will crucify you if you say one bad word, your co-workers will lynch you and run off at the first opportunity and nobody will help you.
* [[The Danza]]: All the main characters had the same name as their actors.
** Taken to an extreme by John Howard: See [[Character
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Most of the cast, but John Clarke raises it to an absolute artform.
* [[Double-Speak]]: In one episode, it's explained that 'X has my/our full support' means that the person in question is about to be fired.
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* [[Epic Fail]]: The video designed to be an introduction to Sydney. It contained a fuckload of errors (such as referring to Sydney as the capital of Australia, the home of the world's most famous athlete, and containing even more visual errors, like shots of Melbourne's Botanic Gardens, the Bank of Melbourne, and a shot of the freeway in Queensland) and was too hilarious to be anything but a failure.
** Three words: 'No wuckin' furries'.
* [[Exactly What It Says
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'''Nicholas''': No, it's a petition.
'''Gina''': No, the ropes course.
'''Nicholas''': Yes, it does concern itself with ropes, it ''is'' a ropes course. }}
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: '4 Corners': The tape was leaked by Nicholas so he could force the three of them into his scheme. The complacency of the ABC staff? They never planned to air the footage, they already had their story and were using the tape to distract Nicholas.
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* [[Pun-Based Title]]: 'The Games' refers both to the Olympics, and the psychological games played by John, Bryan, Gina and Nicholas.
* [[Springtime for Hitler]]:
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'''John''': I think we won.
'''Gina''': Why don't I feel like we won?
'''John''': Well, because I think what you wanted was to create industrial chaos so you could teach the Minister a lesson you thought he deserved.
'''Gina''': And yet I have, in the process, singlehandedly brought industrial stability to the Games, and saved millions of dollars in wage demands.
'''John''': Yeah, so it would appear, Gina. }}
* [[Stealing From the Till]]: Everyone souvenirs something in the final episode.
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