Cultural References
- The title is a pun on the football movie Escape to Victory, about a football game played between prisoners of war and their guards in World War II.
- The frantic searching for bugs by Ted is stated by the writers in their scripts' book to be an allusion to the ending of the film The Conversation
- Ted's angry ranting as a football manager is resemblant of three 1990s British documentaries about football: Cutting Edge's "Graham Taylor: The Impossible Job" (1994), about Graham Taylor and England; Orient for a Fiver (1995), about John Sitton (and, to a much lesser extent, Chris Turner) and Leyton Orient; and Premier Passions (1998), about Peter Reid and Sunderland. All three of these documentaries contained a lot of swearing, from football managers leading struggling teams.
- Dougal refers to Gianni Versace, saying: "You remember that fella, who was so good at fashion, they had to shoot him?"
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