Trivia for
"ShakespeaRe-Told" Macbeth (2005)

• Billy's line "Just call him 'The Scottish Chef'" is a sly reference to the superstition in the theatre that it is bad luck to mention the title "Macbeth" - instead it is usually referred to euphemistically as "The Scottish Play".
  
  
• The line spoken by Harry Gibby, the health inspector - "...the sins of a bloke what has made me work for my pound of flesh..." - is a reference to another play by William Shakespeare, 'The Merchant of Venice'.
  
  
• 'Pigs will fly' is sung by the bin men to the tune of 'Colonel Bogey'.
  
  
• Gordon Ramsay is a well-known and successful British chef and restaurateur, and has made many television programs about restaurants and cooking.
  
  

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