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Referenced when discussing the workhouse system, noting that 'anyone who's read Oliver Twist will know' about Victorian welfare in the form of workhouses

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Referenced indirectly through the character Bill Sykes when discussing how Wilde's punishment would be worse for him than 'for a Bill Sykes' - the murderer from the Dickens novel.

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Extensively discussed as the hosts visit Saffron Hill, the location of Fagin's lair in the novel. A passage is read aloud describing Oliver's first impressions of the area.

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Mentioned as one of Dickens' earlier successful books before A Christmas Carol