In the gardening awards sketch, Syd plays a character called "Cyril" - his real name.
Squeeze often had more success with singles in the US than in their home country - although "853-5937" reached No.32 on the Billboard Charts, in the UK the single flopped, only managing to reach No.91.
While shot in front of a live audience, the production team often used canned laughter to augment the response - there are multiple occasions throughout this episode where this is particularly obvious.