That Unwanted Animal references

References, allusions etc in That Unwanted Animal


 * 1) ‘Oh What’s the time Mr Wolf?’  Children's tag game
 * 2) Can’t you hear that scratching?  Lyric in Wild Blue Yonder
 * 3) Those plates they smash like waves Lyric in Battle Cries (also place your hand in mine becomes place your smile in mine in Battle Cries). There's also an obvious in-song link with throw the plate at the wall and plates smashing.
 * 4) The Horror motif is sung by Madeleine, transposed into a minor key.
 * 5) Holofernes was a biblical Assyrian general beheaded by Judith. The name also belongs to the schoolmaster in Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost. The latter is a pedant, which may link to I wink but you don't get the joke.