And of course, the registration plate on Crowley’s Bentley still reads NIAT RUC – CURTAIN backwards, a reference to Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, where it appears written on a mausoleum to symbolise the final curtain.The book’s narration informs us that any cassette tape left in the car too long (it was 1990, remember) eventually turns into Best of Queen (the Good Omens-verse equivalent of Queen’s Greatest Hits, presumably). The jukebox in The Resurrectionists pub in Edinburgh that plays Buddy Holly’s ‘Everyday’ no matter what the customer selects is a reference to a joke from the book that was left out for season one.The crystal ball in the magic shop seen in Episode 4’s 1940s-set minisode ‘Nazi Zombie Flesheaters’ is the same one used by Anathema Device in season one. One of the paintings in the pub The Dirty Donkey shows a dramatic image of Agnes Nutter being burned at the stake.These are, in fact, Wensleydale’s collection of The Wonders of Science and Nature magazines, which he donated to the bookshop.
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