diff --git a/buildd b/buildd
index 864585e..422cd94 100755
--- a/buildd
+++ b/buildd
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 #
 
+# Our modules to import.
 import os
 import re
 import sys
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ from optparse import OptionGroup
 from optparse import OptionParser
 from urllib import urlencode
 
+# ubuntu-dev-tools modules.
 sys.path.append("/usr/share/ubuntu-dev-tools/")
 import common
 
@@ -59,6 +61,11 @@ optParser.add_option_group(retryRescoreOptions)
 # Parse our options.
 (options, args) = optParser.parse_args()
 
+# 'help' called by itself - show our help.
+if args[0].lower() in ("help") and len(args) == 1:
+    optParser.print_help()
+    sys.exit(0)
+
 # Check we have the correct number of arguments.
 if len(args) < 3:
     optParser.error("Incorrect number of arguments.")
diff --git a/common.py b/common.py
index 7be4457..f147441 100644
--- a/common.py
+++ b/common.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # common.py - provides functions which are commonly used by the
 #             ubuntu-dev-tools package.
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2008 Jonathan Patrick Davies <jpds@ubuntu.com>
+# Copyright (C) 2008 Jonathan Davies <jpds@ubuntu.com>
 # Copyright (C) 2008 Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals <rainct@ubuntu.com>
 #
 # Some of the functions are based upon code written by Martin Pitt
@@ -74,12 +74,17 @@ def checkReleaseExists(release):
         https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/releaseName page on Launchpad.
 
         If an error is returned; the release does not exist. """
-    release = release.split('-')[0] # remove pocket
+    release = release.split('-')[0] # Remove pocket
     try:
         urllib2.urlopen("https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/%s" % release)
     except urllib2.HTTPError:
-        print >> sys.stderr, "The '%s' release does not appear to exist on " \
-            "Launchpad." % release
+        print >> sys.stderr, "The Ubuntu '%s' release does not appear to " \
+            "exist on Launchpad." % release
+        sys.exit(1)
+    except urllib2.URLError, error: # Other error (NXDOMAIN, ...)
+        (_, reason) = error.reason
+        print >> sys.stderr, "Error while checking for Ubuntu '%s' " \
+            "release on Launchpad: %s." % (release, reason)
         sys.exit(1)
 
 def checkSourceExists(package, release):
@@ -91,6 +96,7 @@ def checkSourceExists(package, release):
         (release, pocket) = release.split('-', 1)
     else:
         pocket = 'release'
+
     try:
         page = urllib2.urlopen('https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/' + package).read()
 
@@ -100,21 +106,18 @@ def checkSourceExists(package, release):
             print >> sys.stderr, "Unable to find source package '%s' in " \
                 "the %s-%s pocket." % (package, release.capitalize(), pocket)
             sys.exit(1)
-
     except urllib2.HTTPError, error: # Raised on 404.
         if error.code == 404:
             print >> sys.stderr, "The source package '%s' does not appear to " \
                 "exist in Ubuntu." % package
         else: # Other error code, probably Launchpad malfunction.
-            print >> sys.stderr, "Error while checking Launchpad for package: " \
-                "%s." % error.code
-        
+            print >> sys.stderr, "Error while checking Launchpad for Ubuntu " \
+                "package: %s." % error.code
         sys.exit(1) # Exit. Error encountered.
-
     except urllib2.URLError, error: # Other error (NXDOMAIN, ...)
         (_, reason) = error.reason
-        print >> sys.stderr, "Error while checking Launchpad for package: %s." % \
-            reason
+        print >> sys.stderr, "Error while checking Launchpad for Ubuntu " \
+            "package: %s." % reason
         sys.exit(1)
 
     # Get package version.
diff --git a/get-branches b/get-branches
index 5755c8f..c7bc798 100755
--- a/get-branches
+++ b/get-branches
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ def main():
 
     (options, args) = optParser.parse_args()
 
-    # Parse our options aka Russian roulette time.
+    # Parse our options.
     if len(args) != 1 and options.lpteam == None:
         optParser.error("No team has been specified.")