There are numerous running gags and references on the show. Here are just some of them...

Show Intro
Every show, after the news and accompanied by the melodic sounds of The Hives, Tony and Ed introduce the gold that will be explored later in the show. Strangely much of the content either never sees the light of day or is sizzled by Ed for many days and, sometimes, weeks. Examples of this include 'Who's impersonating a German polar bear?' and 'Got a friend, got a hammer?' When eventually convinced to exhibit the gold behind the sizzle by Tony, these stories often struggle to reach the dizzying heights of their sizzle.

1980's Synth-Pop Music
Occasionally, the show would often drift into discussion of 1980's synthesizer pop music. The most prominent artist discussed was Nik Kershaw, with his music being used as the subject of a sketch which involved him travelling around the outback visiting drought-stricken farmers on the back of a flat-bed truck. Others discussed on the show included Howard Jones, who Tony Martin actually saw in concert early in his radio career, and Pete Burns, the former lead singer of Dead Or Alive, who Tony described as having "had his lips done by Beaurepaires", in reference to his extensive plastic surgery.
The genre of music in general was used as the main plotline of the first and only Passiona High sketch, which featured Tony's character competing against Ricky M. in a synthesizer playing competition.

Africa by Toto
Whenever the word "Toto", or any word that might sound like "Toto", is mentioned on the show, or Richard is called one of his nicknames, Toto Neorest, the beginning of Toto's song, Africa, is played. References to the continent of Africa may also be accompanied by the beginning of the song.

Broken Promises
On the 16th of October 2007, the day following the announcement that Get This was to be cancelled and in the spirit of the concurrent Australian Federal Election, Ed made a promise to fulfill the promises that he has broken or left unresolved since the start of the show. The first promise Ed has announced is the completion of the official Get This power ballad called 'Castles of Thunderbox'. To date, it has yet to go up on the Get This website. Neither has the broadcast inside a canvas/hessian sack been announced yet. The various promises included:

• The Shaft of Hope Film Festival
• The "Get This" power ballad
• The "Get That" online magazine
• The Crap Night Out
• The Birdman Rally
• "Birdy-gra" - The Gay Birdman Rally
• Do a show from inside a hessian sack
• Ed is someone's formal date
• Rain Dance Exhibition
• Tony Martin - Professional Kickboxer
• Ed and Richard's shopping montage featuring a visit to SUPRE

Only 2 of Ed's promises were ever fulfilled over the lifetime of the show. These were the hosting of a table tennis tournament and, ironically, the promise of more broken promises, as suggested by a caller on the last show of 2006.

Catchphrases
Several different characters from TV, film and radio have provided catchphrases repeated on the show:

• "You barmy old horse" - Frank Butcher, EastEnders
• "Pot-kettle!" - Frank Butcher, EastEnders
• "You are dealing with Dickinson!" - David Dickinson, Bargain Hunt
• "A cracking lot of kit!"- David Dickinson, Dickinson's Real Deal
• "Ooh, me plums!!" - Reg Varney, On The Buses
• "Assault! Assault! You touched me officer, sorry." - Drunk, Police10/7
• "How Come?" - Another Drunk, Police 10/7
  

Ed Eating
Ed frequently eats during the talk time of the show. Though not a true running gag, there are always a few laughs to be had when Ed can be heard chewing or unwrapping a sandwich near his microphone. Tony frequently refers to the bain-marie that Ed allegedly eats from during the course of the show, and since the announcement of Nikki's pregnancy there have been references made to eating competitions between Ed and Nikki.

Exclusive Interviews
A frequent mini-segment are the exclusive interviews, which involve Ed "interviewing" somebody famous. Naturally, the interviewees are always people that you would never have on the show ordinarily, for example, Nicole Kidman. In the Kidman interview, Ed praises her for the great success of her career and so forth, and the only reply given is a soundgrab of a loud, loud burp. The "Exclusive Interviews" are introduced and closed with the same piece of "dynamic" theme music and seldom last more than 30 seconds.

Gaelan
No-one who doesn't listen to Get This remembers Gaelan anymore, but he was one of the Big Brother contestants from 2006 who lived near Ed Kavalee. Usually referred to as resembling a horse or an alien, he was also found to be illiterate thanks to some shonky Big Brother interviewing.

Hinder
Nickelback the second. When Nickelback were taken off the playlist, Hinder arrived to take their place. In service, not only to their fans but also humanity in general, the Get This Team introduced the 'Hinder alarm' which was played before the terrible Lips of an Angel was played, allowing their fans to avoid the rubbish that was about to be played.

How Richard lives
After finding out that Tony had recently visited Richard at home, Ed decided it was up to the listeners to describe how they imagine Richard lives. One listener has suggested Richard lives in a one-bedroom apartment, reminiscent of the Gene Hackman's character in Enemy of the State (which is of course a complete rip-off of the Gene Hackman movie The Conversation) with many computers uploading torrents of Dean Geyer's album to the internet.

Ideas For Television
Over the course of the show, many suggestions were made for the improvement of TV programming. These included:

• Round Trip - A Biggest Loser-esque reality show which involved skinny people getting fat, then losing the weight they gained.
• The re-introduction of Sheffield Shield cricket matches to prime-time
• The return of "It's A Knockout!"
• The full broadcasting of the only episode of "Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos". This actually happened in 2008.

"I'm Richard..."
Whenever attempting to take at stab at Richard, Ed will always, in a girly voice, commence a usually embarrassing confession, supposedly from Richard, with the words "I'm Richard...", implying that Richard always begins a story by introducing himself.

"It's the Weekend!"
A semi-regular Friday segment during which the Get This team improvised suggestions for weekend activities, specifically those which "the kids" are into. Suggestions included:

• Bust a "wide stance" in a cubical
• Top up your superannuation
• Snort crushed-up Burger Rings
• Write away for tickets to be in the audience of the ABC's "Can we help?"
• Wear a sweater around your shoulders
• Finish constructing that shrine to Dame Judy Dench out of vol-au-vents
• Read N-Sync liner notes
• Find out what vol-au-vents are
• Watch Blankety Blanks on DVD
• Re-enamel your tartan thermos
• Thatch a thicket to your jacksie
• Invent a new way of sitting
• Label and catalogue your old VHS recordings of "The Onedin Line"
• Buy a mogwai and feed it after midnight
• Call your friends "home-piece"
• Stay home on Saturday and bottle some fruit
• Refuse to read stuff
• Cut up plastic rings on milk containers so platypuses don't get their bills stuck in them
• Have sex in a bed
• Laminate your legs
• Perfect your impression of Hyacinth Bucket
• Hang out with that tree man in Indonesia
• Make out with someone you're pretty sure is your cousin
• Wonder aloud whether "Sea Change" will ever come back
• Come up with a new emoticon
• Bounce down the street using only your gonads and a fruit
• Take a whole lot of ice and then fire off an angry letter to "Thumbs-down" in your local community newspaper
• Kick back with a sense of achievement after smoking legal stuff
• Log on to antiquesroadshow.net and guess how much that French commode is going for
• Give your mum a subscription to "Plumpers"
• Spend the afternoon machine-gunning shots of Lucozade
• Get a bin full of Jello and throw a kid in it... a kid that can't swim
• Get involved in an illegal drag race between two stolen paddle-steamers in a canal
• Go to a fjord and berate it for being not "lake-enough"
• Listen really loud to Tom Jones' "Chills and Fever"
• Try and understand John Laws' "Mind and the Music"
• Get around to watching "Drowning by Numbers"
• Update your facebook
• Wear some coolots
• Wave a glowstick
• Try to get some action
• Paint some china figurines as characters from "Sense and Sensiblity"
• Play some Warcraft
• Go outside and make a vintage car out of cheese
• Throw your hands up like you vaguely care
• Go and see all the Hillary Duff films in alphabetical order and work out when her teeth turned into tiny surfboards
• Wade through a creek (and while you're there don't forget to throw all the leaflets that you're meant to be delivering to your neighbourhood in there)
• Catch rocks with your hands

Jamie
Another Big Brother alumni, who snared the interest of the guys due to the poetry he composed while in the house. This one became a ringtone:

"These windows, not portals,
Outward upon freedom of thought,
But reflections inward,
Into awkward introversion.
These walls have seen strangers,
Faces so eerily blank and fun,
These faces have seen people
And tears will see them leave..."

Jumper Pants
During one of Gregory 'Medallions' Fleet's many visits to the Get This studios (remarkably, he was actually early on this day), listeners were invited to call in on the subject of 'Free Fun'. Whilst discussing this topic, Medallions discussed how he would sometimes wear a jumper in lieu of traditional pants and his plans to open a shop comprised entirely of jumpers that he would sell as 'jumper pants'. He even created a jingle for the advertising, which Matty D and his magical pots and pans later added backing music to (from Fleetcast, 22/5/2007):

"Turn your smile into a frown,
Turn your wardrobe upside down,
Jumperpants!'


It was only some months later than Fleet acknowledged that to "turn your smile into a frown" actually didn't make any sense.

Karl Stefanovic
It was first noted by Kavalee that of all the contestants from Channel 7's ill fated Dancing on Ice, Stefanovic was the only one not to sustain any injuries - serious or otherwise - leading to the only logical conclusion that he is in fact a robot. Many references have since been made to the robotic nature of Channel 9 Today show host, Karl Stefanovic, implying that he has no emotions, his speech is akin to that of a cyborg and Channel 9 actually employs a filter in order to prevent the robotic sounds of the Stefanovanator from being broadcast. Stefanovic has responded by stating, during a hosting spot on A Current Affair, "...and I can confirm we are human, most of the time." Click above for the full database about our favourite robot.

"Let's startle Bob Franklin!"
A gag with its origins in 2006, the aim of this was to try and startle the famously cool and collected Bob Franklin. The theme to this segment was the following:

Tony: "Let's startle Bob Franklin,
Let's startle Bob Franklin,
Let's startle Bob Franklin,
That's him over there!
Let's startle Bob Franklin,
Let's startle Bob Franklin.."
Bob: "Alright, startle Bob Franklin!"
Tony: "Call 1 triple 3 53!"

Bob was finally startled on October 24, 2007, by Talkback Mountain caller Stuart, who confessed that he had watched every single episode of CrashBurn...and kind of liked it.

Meat Pie
This was a feature film which starred Ed Kavalee. The film was meant to be an Australian take on the American Pie-sex romp genre of films, as such, one scene featured Ed making love to a meat-mincing machine, where he delivered the immortal line, "Feel the steel!" You could imagine what happened next ("OOH ME PLUMS!").
Reference was also made to a trailer... ahem... "trailor" of the film being on YouTube, and how there are also apparently scenes of man on goat intercourse added to the film to pad out the running time to 90 minutes.
The film, now titled "Going Down Under" was released (straight to DVD) in 2009 and can now be seen on YouTube.

Nickelback
During the first 6 months of Get This listeners would almost always hear a song by Nickelback on the playlist during the course of the show. The generic repetitiveness of the music and the 'wittiness' of the lyrics became the subject of much hilarity on Get This. This led to Tony's remake of The Beatles' Paperback Writer as Nickelback Liker, a tribute to Ed's supposed 'fondness' for the band.

Nissan Navara
The major sponsor of the show is the Nissan Navara, a vehicle with "huge pulling power". Constantly referred to in the segments, the fabulous extras now available with the Navara, according to Get This, have included:

• A China Hutch
• Karl Stefanovic as a navigator
• A Butter Churn
• Long blonde locks
• Clogs
• Three (count them!) beverage holders.
• The mystery snorkle

Nude News
A semi-regular current affairs segment on Get This devoted to all things nude. The catchy theme tune for the segment pays homage to Kenny Loggins' "classic" "track" "Footloose". The lyrics in full are as follows:

"Everybody nude, everybody nude
Nude news!
Everybody nude, everybody nude
Nude news!
Everybody nude, everybody nude
Everybody!
Everybody nude, nude news
Nude news!"

Obscure Television and Movie Trivia
Inevitably every conversation on Get This ends up being referred back to some obscure movie that Tony has seen at 4am or Ed watched during his time working at a video store, or to a TV show that hasn't aired in Australia for years, if ever. The Wizard of Speed and Time is a constant favourite in the movie stakes, while Arrested Development, It's Garry Shandling's Show, On the Buses and EastEnders are frequently mentioned TV shows.

Passiona High
Passiona High was a proposed story-based, serialised sketch series dealing with characters at an Australian high school. Listeners could suggest characters as well as famous celebrities, including regular guests on the show, to play these characters. Only 1 episode was ever broadcast and can be found in podcast 158. Check out theYouTube video by eloril.

Patterson Lakes Primary School
The sister station to Get This is PLPSFM, aka Patterson Lakes Primary School FM. When Tony and Ed visited to school last year to help the kids improve their content, Ed became the king of the handball court. When the kids visited Get This to help the team improve their content a comment by one of the kids named Mitchell, "That's a bit gay!", ended up in the computer. Following the announcement that Triple M were not renewing the contract for Get This in 2008 Tony rang Mitchell at PLPSFM to see if they could take him on. He was knocked back but the boys were offered janatorial positions at the school. No "Black Thunder" positions were available because the Principal Mr Doody took care of notebook distributions at PLPS.

People want Dutch!
'PWD' began when a Talkback Mountain caller (Silo) announced he was delivering ducks, because "people want ducks", which was also in reference to Ed's constant sizzling of the "rubber duck invasion" news item. This became a running gag and eventually morphed into "people want Dutch" as an intro to any story from or involving the Netherlands. An earlier story about a Dutch TV show purportedly offering a kidney transplant to a contest winner gave us the other running gag, "Something is rotten in the state of the Netherlands".

Playing soundgrabs during music
One addition to the show that has made it unique has been the soundgrabs the boys play during songs. The comedic timings are great, and not once has it ever been overdone. These soundgrabs have been in relaxed, laid back nature of the program. The two most notable edits are:

• Midnight Oil's "King Of The Mountain". The lyrics "Yellow-bellied black snake" are replaced with a grab of Brian Boyd shouting that phrase, and "...red rock" is replaced with a grab of Brian Boyd shouting "BARBECUE!".
• Matchbox 20's "How Far We've Come". During the song, every time the words "how" and "come" appear, they are replaced with the drunken New Zealander from Police 10/7 saying "How come?". In the middle of the song, the "Assault!!" soundgrab is also played.

Police 10/7
A classic part of the show where Tony plays segments off the NZ Cops show "Police 10/7", a reality TV show that follows NZ cops around on the daily beat. Most clips are of drunken islanders coming up with classic comments like:

• "How come?"
• "I was parked here for at least 30 seconds."
• "Assault!! Assault!! You touched me officer, sorry."
• "You racist, you just racist me."
• "He thought I was fiddling with his woman."
• "He just uses me for his stupid drugs."

The show boasts both the politest police in the world and the clumsiest drunks. It can now be seen on Channel 9, Tuesdays at 7:30pm. Find out more at ninemsn.com.au.

"Political Correctness Gone Mad!"
Naomi Robson became a target of mirth for the Get This crew with her oft-repeated phrase, "political correctness gone mad!" But fortunately for Naomi (and for us after she left Today Tonight), she was not the only journalist/television personality/tabloid editor/celebrity insider to be mocked. "Political Correctness Gone Mad!" is the phrase that encapsulates the Get This approach to all things media and journalism related. Time magazine was given a tabloid makeover; the editor of Woman's Day was suicidal over the absence of Suri photos; Todd and Brant recounted their horrible ordeal of facing the media throng post-Beaconsfield. Even John Laws and his missing golden microphone were not safe from being impersonated by Tony.

Political Sizzle
Stemming from Tony's fervent devotion to current affairs, Get This offers listeners the scoop on what's going on in politics and beyond. The most common format is that of the interview or Parliament sitting, done either with soundbites or Tony's impersonations. Thanks to the intrepid reporting of Get This, we now know that Kim Beazley loves cheese; that there are killer bees in Parliament;John Howard's kinky secrets; and that for Australia to export urameium, the government would need to arrange inspections with the mysterious I.E.A.E. And who else would detail what happens when a sandbag is dropped on the PM's plums?

Prizes
Primarily the domain of Ed Kavalee who, in the show's infancy, lobbied successfully to offer prizes to Get This punters. It soon became clear however that the much-vaunted "sweet prizes" of radio's self-styled "King of Prizes" were anything but. This was predominantly due to prizes in the early days being sourced from two-dollar shops, though Kavalee claimed that they were in fact purchased from, "Variety Gift Emporiums". Examples of these prizes included:

• A leather imitation bracelet with "real" fake diamantes
• A "real" opal necklace with a "W" on it for "Winner"
• A light blue t-shirt, with a man in a gas mask and some words that say "Who Farted?"
• An opal-encrusted dolphin

As time passed, the quality of prizes gradually improved and included the "Get This Illegal Download" CD, copies of "The Late Show presents: Bargearse and The Olden Days" DVD and for "Borgust", remote control helicopters, on one of which Kavalee famously electrocuted himself while attempting to fly it in the studio's confines.

As a running gag, other choices of "prize packs" offered on the show were made up of various soundbites, typically from TV news shows. These included:

• Cheques for a $53,000 breast enhancement and a $10,000 cheque for repairs to a car
• A bear or a giant possum
• (A) rented Newport house turned into a cannabis factory. Five rooms, 760 plants with a potential annual street value of more than 340,000 pounds
• Lunch with Brian Burke, or dinner and a strip show with Rupert Murdoch's "King of Tabloid"
• A chemical cocktail found oozing from drums, dumped illegally on a dirt track
• A loaded speargun, a shotgun, a large amount of ammunition, knives and an electronic cattle prod
• A lethal array of double-sided daggers, fantasy blades and concealed sabres favoured by some teenage street gangs
• A small hologram of cheeses which transforms into the world's most wanted terrorist and a statue of the Virgin Mary wearing a Muslim burka

Rex Hunt
An unfortunate soundbite of Rex Hunt explaining why paying women to meet him in an alleyway ("I'm paying money, she's got no money, I got my rocks off - ah, how good is this!") was a feature of the show during the first year. During the second year, another soundbite of Rex giving his detractors ("the thugs in the scallop industry") a serve featured regularly, along with "this is dizzy stuff folks!". Towards the end of Get This' tenure, more soundbytes were revealed, including "If you haven't got the right product your business will go down. You need good fresh ingredients to BAKE THE BEST CAKE!!"

Rodney Dangerfield
There are constant references to the film Caddyshack and a famous Dangerfield line, "Did somebody step on a duck?!" is often used as a soundbite. The team believe that there is no movie that wouldn't be improved by adding Rodney.

Snato Ghauro
On Santo Cilauro's first appearance on the show, Tony and Santo discussed numerous segments and events from their earlier radio career at Triple M/EON FM. Santo revealed that he often received mail with misspellings of his name, the most notable being "Snato Ghauro". As a result, Cilauro is now constantly referred to as Ghauro on the show. In 2006, whenever the contents of that week's podcast were announced, Ed would lament the lack of Snato in them. One of Martin's gotcha calls failed when the victim recognized his offered alias as "Bob Snato-Ghauro".

Shaft of Hope
Shaft of Hope was a effort to tell the story of the Beaconsfield miners Todd and Brant after their rescue. Being Get This, it wouldn't be your ordinary movie about hope and all that jazz, but about, as Ed put it, reporters "taking a dump in a Winnebago" because they don't do public toilets. While a proposed listener film festival was looking to be another promise Ed was about to break, YouTubers came to the rescue. eloril came up with a trailer that included the Stefanovinator, Snato Ghauro, Greg 'Caftan' Fleet and a cat playing table tennis. nakedfella managed to condense an imagining of Channel 9's future telemovie into a 3 minute animation, complete with gratuitous Eddie McGuire references.

Shortbus
Although this movie is not recommended for dates, Ed frequently mentions it on the show. Due to Richard's hosting history on the Late Date Show with Bessie Bardot many references to Shortbus end up with Richard attempting to not explain what a Turkish Grip is.

Steven Seagal
The king of the straight-to-video movie who is never filmed above the eyebrows or below the mouth. Also has his own band named Thunderbox and retails an energy drink called "Lightning Bolt" that can only be ordered over the internet.

Warwick Capper
During Richard's early career in radio he set up a series of "Gotcha" calls using soundbites from an ad taped with Warwick Capper. Once Tony dug this up the soundbites have become part of the show, including "My long blonde locks", "Alright, that's good stuff" and "I was the biggest thing on the footy field". When Warwick put his hat in the ring to run for Mayor of the Gold Coast, the Get This team decided to support him. However his history of stripping (although not on grass) and making a self-filmed porn video may not work in his favour.

What would Greg Fleet do?
Talkback Mountain callers would throw their toughest life dilemmas at Fleety, who would then dispense his wisdom in his usual Fleety way. Check out the lyrics to the theme:

"It's time to ask the question
What would Greg Fleet do?
Probably come out with some nonsense
Some rubbish about Camus
That's what happens when we ask
What would Greg Fleet do?"


Wikipedia Vandalism

To the dismay of certain self-proclaimed protectors of Wikipedian integrity, the Get This team unceasingly promoted the deliberate humourous vandalism of Wikipedia pages, including its own. Frustration for "Wikipedians" appeared to be borne out of a righteous indignation that Wikipedia, a website that in no way screens its contributors, should somehow be held up as a legitimate, fully-researched encyclopedia.

One of the most popular pieces of Wikipedia vandalism occurred on the C3PO wiki page when a contributer replaced the photograph of C3PO with a head shot of Karl Stefanovic. While on 18-10-2007, after a much loved Ed Kavalee spur of the moment decision whilst on air, a competition was launched with a DVD player the prize for the first person to C 'n' B Richard Marsland on the Get This Wikipedia page. The competition was won within a matter of minutes by listener Dean who captioned the picture simply as 'Do I win?'

Examples of the discussion by Wikipedians in relation to the vandalism of the Get This page included the following:

• The page protect has been removed - I disagree with this - as long the show continues to mention this Wiki article, it should remain. 10 September 2006
• Don't disagree, but given the enjoyment/airtime they get from seeing it vandlised, that'll probably be quite a way off... 11 September 2006
• Please put Page Protect back on - it's abundantly clear that this article needs tighter control on editing. 28 September 2006
• Does not help when the radio show makes light of the vandalism to this wiki and makes jokes about it, so in turn this encourages it even more!...I like funny stuff but people putting in useless comments not even related to the show then it makes it annoying 28 September 2006
• Since the latest removal a couple of days ago it seems to be getting vandalised as often as before - I say leave the protection up there for good. 13 October 2006
• Given that the show openly promotes vandalism of Wikipedia and this page in particular, you can only assume the semi-protection is appropriate until the show has finished its run for the year (or the hosts get bored of wikipedia and move on to the next running gag, whichever happens first). 15 October 2006
• Vandalism seems to be more frequent since the show acknowledged this article's existence. Any way to tackle this? 1 August 2006
• Actually I thought it was surprisingly minor. Nothing that a few regular Wikipedians can't revert where necessary. :-) 1 August 2006
• The vandalism was mentioned by Tony Martin and co-hosts on August 23rd 2006 show. 22 August 2006
• Yes... they seem to be encouraging it... 23 August 2006
• Is it permissable/possible to lock the article during the show's broadcasting times? The show refers to the "funnybone" comment (which had been changed to other words, most notoriously "spicy hot bonner" (sic) - cheers, Josephus) and its constant changes daily, this may alleviate vandalism issues possibly... 28 August 2006
• No, probably not. A lot of the edits are done outside those times anyway. 29 August 2006
• But you'd be amazed how many people are using Wikipedia whilst listening to the show! 29 August 2006
• I have added a section so the vandals can vandalise to their heart's content, and the essential information of the article remains intact... Let's see how it goes...
• Reverted. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. 29 August 2006
• But surely there is a call for humor in a comedy article. This isn't encyclopedia Britannica and never will be....
• Articles must remain neutral. Which means little humour - remember, what you might find funny may not be humourous to others! 29 August 2006
• In saying that, it will still happen anyway, due to members "Mucking around". 22 November 2006

You can see the history to the Get This wikipedia page for yourself here