When Bond makes a surprise visit, he finds M handling a butterfly from his collection and remarks, "Unusually small for a Nymphalis polychloris." Apparently annoyed, M responds, "I wasn't aware that your expertise included lepidoptery."

Sir Hilary Bray traces Bond's genealogy to Sir Thomas Bond, Baronet of Peckham, who's coat of arms contains the motto: "Orbis Non Sufficit" which translates as "The World is Not Enough".

BUNT: There is the Bleuchamp Institute for allergy research.
BOND: What kind of allergies?
BUNT: All of them.

For dinner he wears Scottish Highland dress, an alternative for black tie. If he were to wear his famous dinner suit on this occasion, Bond would most certainly give himself away and blow his cover. Thus we see James Bond for the first and only time in a kilt and lace jabot.

Prevented from disclosing her room number by Irma Bunt, Ruby stealthily writes it on the inside of his kilted leg, using her lipstick. Later that evening, Bond breaks out of his room and visits Ruby in Room No. 8.

Blofeld has gone to great lengths, having his earlobes surgically removed to back-up his claims of nobility.

RUBY: I had this awful allergy about chickens. My family's got a chicken farm, and every time I had to do something on it, I nearly died. The specialist said there was this wonderful Swiss clinic where they cured you free because they were researching at the same time.

Bond, posing as brainy and not brawny heraldry expert Sir Hilary Bray, tries his hand at curling and lands flat on his face.

BLOFELD: Our great breakthrough since last summer has been the confection of a certain Virus Omega ... total infertility. In plants and animals. Not just disease in a few herds, Mr. Bond, or the loss of a single crop. But the destruction of a whole strain. Forever. Throughout an entire continent. If my demands are not met, I shall proceed with the systematic extinction of whole species.

After Tracy helps Bond escape from Blofeld's men, a blizzard forces them into a remote barn, where Bond professes his love and proposes marriage, which Tracy happily accepts.