A heckler, an award-winning moustache and the "worst date ever".

Newsbeat has put together a list of the need-to-know (well, sort of) elements of the debate just in case you spent the night before the Bank Holiday weekend at the local boozer.

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Another quick turnaround from the Conservative advertising team. This time it's a video mash-up of soundbites, external from Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon, which ends with the sound of smashing glass and a stark warning.

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Our political correspondent Chris Mason is ready and waiting to take your questions on last night's leaders' debate now on Facebook, external.

The Conservative party capitalise on Nicola Sturgeon's strong performance with this new poster. It speaks for itself, we think.

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Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham says the debate has buoyed up Labour members.

"The Labour troops are in good spirits today," he says.

"We feel that Ed won the debate and the polls back that up.

"Why? Because he put forward a positive vision that ordinary working people could relate to."

UKIP leader Nigel Farage says there were six parties that agreed on a lot of very big issues - and then there was UKIP.

Speaking in Kent this lunchtime, he says the other parties "are just so politically correct, they are so united around wanting to be popular on the international stage and my view is we are doing that at the expense of our own people".

He also claims David Cameron "didn't utter a single Conservative statement in two hours" during the live debate - but he says he would still consider doing a deal with the Tories in the event of a hung parliament.

The SNP says it has seen more than 2,000 new members sign up today, declaring there is "Nicolamania".

Meanwhile, the Scottish Sun takes a rather tongue in cheek look at Sturgeon's new-found popularity...

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has been speaking about Nicola Sturgeon's performance.

He told BBC Radio 4's World At One: "She certainly outshone the other challengers last night, let's hand that to her. But she did rather give the game away, in that she didn't just say she would prop up a Miliband government, she actually said she would 'keep him honest', but which she meant she would keep him left-wing, she would keep him on a path of departing from our fiscal plan.

"That is extremely dangerous. That would jeopardise our recovery and it is yet another indicator that if you want the recovery to continue and go on creating these new jobs and getting Britain out of the mess we inherited, the only way to do that is to vote clearly for a Conservative government."

Democratic Unionist Party deputy leader Nigel Dodds has reiterated his anger at the exclusion of his party from the TV debate.

He told Sky News: "We are bigger than four of the parties that were actually taking part in that debate and likely to play a role in the next parliament. We are going to end up with more seats than UKIP for instance, we are going to end up with more seats than the Greens and we are going to end up with more seats certainly than Plaid Cymru. So it is bizarre in the extreme that the Northern Ireland party that we represent did not have the opportunity to put our views."

Interviewed in the Rhondda, south Wales, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood says she's not surprised by her low placement in the polls.

"I was speaking to Wales last night, clearly the polls would be taken across the UK and so if there was a Welsh audience then perhaps they would have been... had reflected the fact I was speaking directly for Wales."

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Nick Clegg insists he is confident he will hold on to his Sheffield Hallam seat despite a poll indicating Labour are two points ahead.

The Lib Dem leader, who will spend Easter weekend campaigning in his constituency, says another Labour MP is "the last thing" Sheffield needs.

But he admits there are clearly "some folk in Sheffield" who are "not happy with the the Liberal Democrats".

"Of course I accept that going into government and then presiding over these difficult decisions comes with a political cost, of course it does."

UKIP leader Nigel Farage was accused of scaremongering by Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood after making remarks about foreigners with HIV coming to Britain.

He's been defending that stance today.

Politicians will be too by election day, according to these stats, external from our social media team.

Polls ranked Green Party leader Natalie Bennett as one of last night's poorest performers but she says she's not concerned.

"I think we'll have to wait to see how the dust settles. But I'm getting some very positive feedback on Twitter," she said.

"One tweet I saw this morning, was someone saying that their previously comfortably Tory wife had been converted to being Green, which I thought was quite nice."

It's not just the Conservatives getting all the tricky questions about post-election deals. Ed Miliband is asked whether he was warming to a SNP deal after Nicola Sturgeon's lauded performance.

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The question that will not go away. Defence secretary Michael Fallon says "no" when pressed over whether the Conservatives would work with UKIP in the event of a hung parliament.

"We're not in the business of forming another coalition government.

He echoes David Cameron's assertion that the party was "going for a majority Conservative government" but asked if that was a "no" to working with UKIP, he confirms: "That's a no."

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Nicola Sturgeon, who's out campaigning in Edinburgh, takes time out for a selfie with staff during a visit to a pharmacy.

She tells supporters she enjoyed last night's debate but is "glad it's over".

"I am really glad we had the opportunity to demonstrate Westminster is not just an old boys' network.

"There is a progressive alternative to the big mainstream parties and I hope that message got across."

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Not enough laughs in last night's debate for you? Our colleague Mike Hills has trawled social media to find you some of the funniest takes on all that political posturing.

And here's a flavour of them.

The first debate over and there's no sign of Cleggmania breaking out. A small crowd did turn up to see Nick Clegg unveil his latest poster in Hazel Grove, but they were Labour activists. That’s probably no reflection on his performance in the debate.

The Lib Dems are pleased with how their leader did, attacking his opponents while appearing reasonable. Crucially Mr Clegg avoided making any mistakes and didn’t appear to take much flak from the other leaders either. The trouble is that after five years in coalition with the Tories, he’s carrying a lot of baggage. No matter how well he did, it was never likely to lead to a boost in the polls and it hasn’t. But the ComRes poll taken immediately after the debate suggested that very few people felt he was the worst performer.

Mr Clegg told me he has not watched the debate back but if he’s starting to neutralise the hostility towards him, that’s progress.