In the "I Like Trucking" sketch, Rowan Atkinson was actually driving the truck as he held a Class 1 lorry licence.
In Election Special (1980), a hedgehog was seen crushed under the wheels of a lorry in the "I Like Trucking" musical sketch. Upset viewers sent complaints to the BBC and at the beginning of the following show, Rowan Atkinson apologized on behalf on the BBC and the cast and crew of the show and pointed out that the hedgehog in the sketch was a stuffed hedgehog and poked fun at the people who stuffed the hedgehog and advised people to write in to the BBC on who they know the identities of the people whom stuffs hedgehogs.