Two weeks ago, the Olympia became the final casualty, the real-life equivalent of the theater in "The Last Picture Show."

While the political parties in the series are fictional, they do have "recognisable real-life equivalents":

The real-life equivalent of these fantasy weapons often turned out to be a dart gun, water pistol, rubber band, spitballs, or snowballs, explaining their ineffectiveness.

This version featured 16 different club teams with the "unofficial" city names creating a reference to their real-life equivalents (this has been changed in later versions).

The game featured 10 different stadiums with fictional names which stand for their real-life equivalents.

There, the people who ran this whole shebang had a grand old time running the real-life equivalent of War Games.

(The real-life equivalent of a 12-inch locomotive, for example, would be 48 feet.)

Picture it as the real-life equivalent of Aladdin's Cave, a mind-boggling collection of precious objects wrought from gold, ivory, silver, diamonds and other materials.

Their real-life equivalents are the Talyllyn Railway carriages numbers 1 to 4.

Her real-life equivalent is the Talyllyn Railway brake van number 5.