Call My Bluff - References in Other Works

References in Other Works

• On the musical episode of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Donna Henshaw and Janet Keogh (played by Natalie Casey and Sheridan Smith) Sang:

Smith: "Skankarific's not a word!"

Casey: "It means terrifically skankified, it was on Call My Bluff"

• An episode of the early-'80s LWT sketch-comedy series End of Part One parodied the show as Scrape My Barrel, where panelists had to figure out the meaning of the word working class.
• In the "Europe" episode of QI, Series E, a segment was featured entitled "Call My Euro Bluff", featuring stories about laws in the EU. The panel then had to decide whether each story was true or a "bløff" (Stephen Fry pronounced it "blerff").
• The show (and in particular its host, Robert Robinson) was the subject of a sketch by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in the second series of A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
• Comedy Playhouse episode #105, Elementary, My Dear Watson (18 Jan 1973) featured in one part the cast of Call My Bluff under Robert Robinson when they had to identify a dead solicitor slumped over his desk with a knife in his back. In the spirit of comedy, many strange ideas came forth, including one end of a washing line.
• A game has been based on the television programme.
• In The Doctor Who episode "Bad Wolf" Call my Bluff is mentioned as one of the games hosted in the game station.