Jim Norton has not and will never watch this episode because he says it will sadden him too much to watch it due to Dermot Morgan's death the day after filming the show's finale.
Bishop Brennan: The Kraken awakes. A reference to Tennyson's poem, where the creature is described as sleeping until something disturbs it's environment, whereupon, the Kraken attacks the disturber. Not unlike Father Jack.
The only episode in which the Pope appears.
Dougal: An audience with Lily Savage that's good as well. An audience with... is a program started in 1978 with Jasper Carrott and has continued to the present day with a number of major and minor celebrities having 1 hour of television devoted to them entertaining us.