The nosy neighbour thing must be a spoof of the opening scene from the Michael Caine spy film "The Ipcress Files", in which he's staking out a house from a first floor window.
I'd always assumed it was Michael 'Pane', not 'Paine', as in the nosy neighbour looking through the window pane. Ok, it's pedantic. Thanks, though - good stuff.
Yeah but I think what the uploader guy means is the impression is Peter Sellers doing Michael Caine, as opposed to a direct Caine lift. Sellers was the 1st to imitate Caine you see