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Dad's Army

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Dad's Army	comment	Permission to describe Dad's Army here, sir?Permission granted.Dad's Army was an ensemble sitcom on The BBC about the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon in World War II, a motley band of mostly elderly volunteers who would have been their fictional town's first line of defence had Nazi Germany invaded. The show aired for nine years (1968-77), though the war itself had of course only lasted six, and today remains among the most beloved of all BritComs over half a century after it debuted. Almost every character was finely and consistently drawn and had a catchphrase that most British people can still repeat with very little memory-searching.While waiting for the presumed invasion, the platoon does its best to prepare, resulting in many hilarious mishaps. They occasionally do some 'genuine' military work, such as guarding downed German pilots, and take part in training exercises with the regular army, where they are often surprisingly successful. The rest of the time they merely have to cope with the peculiar tense tedium involved in staying on alert for an invasion that never actually comes, as an essentially past-it, incompetent, yet brave and (mostly) willing rabble with occasionally clashing temperaments. They also have a vigorous rivalry with the neighbouring Eastgate platoon and with their obstreperous local Chief Air Raid Warden, who sometimes tries to sabotage the platoon.The main characters were: Captain George Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe): The pompous bank manager with no combat experience who appointed himself captain. Pronounced "Mannering". Sergeant Arthur Wilson (John Le Mesurier): Mainwaring's diffident deputy bank manager and platoon second-in-command, who proved a constant source of frustration due to his laid-back manner and his higher social class and military experience. Was strongly implied to be having an affair with Pike's mother, with a suggestion that he might actually be the boy's father.note Word of God confirmed that he is. Lance-Corporal Jack Jones (Clive Dunn): The local butcher and a 30-year veteran of the British Army, having served in the Sudan and WWI. His eagerness to see action was matched only by the amount of long-winded stories of questionable relevance he was willing to launch into. Private Frank Pike (Ian Lavender): Mainwaring's bank clerk, Wilson's (supposed) nephew and an all-round mollycoddled teenager, enthusiastic but hopelessly wet behind the ears. Was often seen wearing a scarf. Private James Frazer (John Laurie): The sour, gloomy and very Scottish local undertaker. A former Royal Navy cook, he made little secret of both his intense desire for more power in the platoon and exactly what a martinet he'd be if he ever got it. Private Charles Godfrey (Arnold Ridley): A gentle soul, even older than the rest of the platoon, excessively polite and friendly and a butt of constant humour relating to his weak bladder. Due to his WW1 experiences and his general physical ailments, he generally serves as the platoon medic. Private Joe Walker (James Beck): Good-natured spiv and the only platoon regular of military age — he evaded conscription on dubious grounds (allergic to corned beef). Can lay his hands on seemingly any kind of black-market goods. Usually to be found trying to sell people things. Occasionally came good by happening to have just the item the platoon needs... for a price, of course. Beck tragically passed away part way through the sixth series, leading to the writers retiring the character. ARP Chief Warden William Hodges (Bill Pertwee): The local greengrocer, chief air-raid warden and Mainwaring's Sitcom Arch-Nemesis. The two usually feud over rights to use the local church hall, their respective class differences, and their equal over-inflated sense of self-importance due to their wartime duties.Other significant characters were the rather effete local vicar, Timothy Farthing (Frank Williams), whose church hall the platoon made use of; the pompous verger Maurice Yeatman (Edward Sinclair), who tended to act as Hodges' fawning lackey; Mrs. Pike (Janet Davies), Pike's neurotic and overbearing mother who was heavily implied to be having an affair with Wilson; Private Sponge (Colin Bean), another member of the platoon who would often be called upon whenever a supporting role was needed; Mrs. Fox (Pamela Cundell), an overbearing local lady "of a certain age" with a bit of a thing for Corporal Jones; and Captain Square (Geoffrey Lumsden), the commanding officer of the nearby Eastgate platoon with a rivalry towards Mainwaring.Much humour was derived from Mainwaring's resentment of Wilson. Even though Mainwaring was in charge, both at work and in the Home Guard, Wilson was from a much higher social stratum and eventually inherited a title. His effortless charm and dignity utterly infuriated Mainwaring, the archetypal "pompous little man". The interplay between the two characters was always beautifully worked and the series is often held up as an example of near-perfect character comedy, enhanced by the acting talents of Arthur Lowe (Mainwaring) and John Le Mesurier (Wilson). Lowe has merely to bristle his moustache to render the audience helpless with laughter; Le Mesurier was hired because (in the words of a member of the production team) "He suffers so beautifully."The show, whilst at all times remaining funny, also had more serious plots and pathos, like the way the platoon react when they find out that Private Godfrey was a conscientious objector in World War I. Although they were duly contrite upon discovering that Godfrey in fact served valorously on the Western Front as a volunteer stretcher-bearer, they realised that, irrespective of Godfrey's wartime activities, their behaviour had been reprehensible.The show did not have an arc, but it did have continuity. During the first season, the platoon's equipment gradually improved as the regular army provided them with surplus gear. Over the series, Jones had a romance which culminated with a marriage in the final episode.Came fourth in Britains Best Sitcom. A film with all the original cast was released in 1971, while a feature film remake was released in February 2016 starring Toby Jones as Captain Mainwaring and Bill Nighy as Sgt. Wilson. We're Doomed, a Docudrama about the behind-the-scenes making of the show, aired in December 2015.As of its 50th Anniversary in 2018, the show is still being Re Run every Saturday evening on BBC Two, as well as being seen regularly on Gold.
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Dad's Army / int_1042bae6	type	Limited Advancement Opportunities
Dad's Army / int_1042bae6	comment	Limited Advancement Opportunities: Numerous platoon members are promoted or demoted over the course of the series. However, as Status Quo Is God, none of these rank changes lasted long.
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Dad's Army / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Dad's Army / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: He may not seem it, but Jones more than qualifies for this trope after spending 30 years in the British Army and serving with distinction in Sudan and WWI.
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Dad's Army / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Dad's Army / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Jimmy Perry appears in the episode "Shooting Pains" as entertainer Charlie Cheeseman. Perry originally intended to play Joe Walker, but was talked out of it by David Croft.
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Dad's Army / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Dad's Army / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Stand-up comedian Charlie Cheeseman, "The Cheerful Chump", who appears in "Shooting Pains" played by show creator/writer Jimmy Perry, is an expy of Max Miller, aka "The Cheeky Chappie".
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Dad's Army / int_13c880db	type	Creepy Mortician
Dad's Army / int_13c880db	comment	Creepy Mortician: Moody dark moor Scotsman Frazer.
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Dad's Army / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Dad's Army / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: Corporal Jones' frantic cries of "Don't panic! Don't panic!" - generally while he is the one running back and forth in a blind panic.
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Dad's Army / int_146f4e0	type	Blind Without 'Em
Dad's Army / int_146f4e0	comment	Blind Without 'Em: Mainwaring takes his glasses off in a coffee shop and struggles to find the door a few feet away. In an effort to prove his youthfulness when enlisting in the Home Guard, Corporal Jones takes off his glasses and accidentally signs the desk.
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Dad's Army / int_149ff4b0	type	HilarityEnsues
Dad's Army / int_149ff4b0	comment	One episode revolved around the platoon trying to find out whether a parachute that had landed in a nearby field was a British parachute (which are white) or Nazi parachute (which are cream). Unfortunately, Walker had found it and had it made up into women's lingerie to sell. Hilarity Ensues as Mainwaring visits each of Walker's customers and has to ask to see their underwear ...
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Dad's Army / int_1514ecc1	type	Home Guard
Dad's Army / int_1514ecc1	comment	Home Guard: The basis of the show.
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Dad's Army / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Dad's Army / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Mainwaring's wife. The closest we get to seeing her is the large dent she makes in the top half of a pair of bunk beds. She is finally seen in the 2016 movie, when she's running a women's auxiliary platoon (of which most of the members are relatives or love interests of the main characters).
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Dad's Army / int_1bf94a24	type	The Movie
Dad's Army / int_1bf94a24	comment	The Movie: Dad's Army (1971) (which RetConned most of the first episode)
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Dad's Army / int_1c3d047e	type	The Rival
Dad's Army / int_1c3d047e	comment	The Rival: Hodges. Captain Square occasionally fills this role as well.
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Dad's Army / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Dad's Army / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: In the lost Series 2 episode "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker", Walker is called up for military service. Concerned at the lack of access to black market goods (especially alcohol) this will cause, Mainwaring tells Wilson to send a telegram to the War Office which opens "DESIRABLE WALKER NOT CALLED UP YET", meaning "[It is] DESIRABLE [that] WALKER NOT [be] CALLED UP YET." However, the Brigadier at the War Office who receives the telegram has a brother-in-law who is trying to organise a speed walking team to boost morale and has asked him to circulate an advertisement around Home Guard platoons looking for long-distance walkers who haven't been called up yet. He therefore interprets the telegram to mean "[We have a] DESIRABLE WALKER [who has] NOT [been] CALLED UP YET." The ensuing conversation with Mainwaring and Wilson only serves to89 thoroughly confuse all three and does nothing to help Walker's problem.
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Dad's Army / int_1c751b35	type	The Vicar
Dad's Army / int_1c751b35	comment	The Vicar: The Reverend Timothy Farthing. Frank Williams (who in real life served as a lay member of the Church of England's General Synod for many years) also played him in the 2016 film adaptation — the only cast member to reprise the same character in that film note the only other cast member from the series to appear in the 2016 film was Ian Lavender, who had a cameo role as Brigadier Pritchard .
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Dad's Army / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Dad's Army / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: The Vicar and Verger.
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Dad's Army / int_1d037597	type	Haplessly Hiding
Dad's Army / int_1d037597	comment	Haplessly Hiding: Appears twice in the episode "Operation Kilt", when Captain Mainwaring's platoon try to spy on a rival platoon who are headquartered at a local farm. The first time, Private Walker and Private Frazer try to sneak through the fields while wearing a cow costume, but they attract the attention of an amorous bull. The second time, Corporal Jones hides in a hay cart while the rival platoon leader Captain Ogilvie gives his men a briefing. Ogilvie attaches a map to the side of the hay cart and marks key points on it with long pins, stabbing Jones in several rather personal areas as he does so.
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Dad's Army / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Dad's Army / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: The cast turning to the camera and toasting the real Home Guard at the end of the final episode.
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Dad's Army / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Dad's Army / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Frazer, with his Doomy Dooms of Doom pronouncements, appears to think he's a character in a horror movie. Luckily for him, he's a sitcom character.
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Dad's Army / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Dad's Army / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In the episode "Battle of the Giants", Walker mentions having made flags for both their platoon and the Eastgate platoon. They will be used at the end of a contest, in short form, whoever flies their flag first, wins. Although just a passing remark, it turns out later that Walker made both flags say "Walmington-on-Sea" so they would win whoever flew the flag first.
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Dad's Army / int_233b20c9	type	Door Judo
Dad's Army / int_233b20c9	comment	Door Judo: In "Museum Piece", the museum caretaker defeats the platoon's attempt to break down the museum door with a Battering Ram by opening the doors so they charge straight through.
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Dad's Army / int_235a2706	type	Baseball Episode
Dad's Army / int_235a2706	comment	Baseball Episode: Well, Cricket episode, Home Guard vs. ARP Wardens, with a special guest appearance by Yorkshire and England fast bowler Freddie Trueman as a ringer brought in by Hodges.
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Dad's Army / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
Dad's Army / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: Captain Mainwaring often naively harps on about the strengths of the allied forces, but quickly dismisses any positive remarks about the Nazis with "We'll have none of that talk here!" Our side displayed "British initiative!", while similar behaviour by the enemy was derided as a "typical underhand Nazi trick!"
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Dad's Army / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Dad's Army / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Sergeant Wilson. Pike and Walker also have their moments.
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Dad's Army / int_26bccc6e	type	Ash Face
Dad's Army / int_26bccc6e	comment	Ash Face: Happens to Mainwaring when he attempts to shut off the power to the lighthouse, but ends up blacking out the entire pier, in "Put That Light Out!".
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Dad's Army / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Dad's Army / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: The closing credits show the platoon double-timing it across a field towards the camera. Towards the end, at the left of screen, you can see that Godfrey is a long way behind the others.
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Dad's Army / int_27b83210	type	Hufflepuff House
Dad's Army / int_27b83210	comment	Hufflepuff House: Private Sponge 'and the others'.
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Dad's Army / int_28f852ea	type	Wholesome Crossdresser
Dad's Army / int_28f852ea	comment	Wholesome Crossdresser:
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Dad's Army / int_2cc5703c	type	Potty Emergency
Dad's Army / int_2cc5703c	comment	Private Godfrey: "Do you think I might be excused, sir?"
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Dad's Army / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Dad's Army / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Captain Mainwaring knows how to play the bagpipes. (See Sexless Marriage for the reason why.) Pike can drive a train.
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Dad's Army / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
Dad's Army / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: In "The Two-and-a-half Feathers" Jones speaks of serving under an incredibly profane sergeant (played by Arthur Lowe!) but whenever the sergeant is swearing, all the actual curses are replaced with raspberries.
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Dad's Army / int_2eeb91b2	type	The Runt at the End
Dad's Army / int_2eeb91b2	comment	The Runt at the End: Corporal Jones is always a beat behind the rest of the platoon when drilling.
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Dad's Army / int_2f226fee	type	You Didn't Ask
Dad's Army / int_2f226fee	comment	You Didn't Ask: In "All Is Safely Gathered In", the platoon helps to gather in a harvest. Mainwaring asks Sponge, a farmer, to show the others how to operate a threshing machine. Sponge says that he doesn't know how the machine works because he's a sheep farmer. When Mainwaring demands to know why Sponge never said so before, Sponge points out that Mainwaring never asked him.
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Dad's Army / int_2f62653b	type	Borrowed Catchphrase
Dad's Army / int_2f62653b	comment	Borrowed Catchphrase: In "The Lion Has Phones", an army officer demands to know why Mainwaring believes the inhabitants of a stranded German plane will surrender in two hours. Wilson, rather than explain that the reservoir the plane landed in is being filled and the Germans will be under water in two hours simply replies that "See the fact is they do not like it up them."
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Dad's Army / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Dad's Army / int_308a5ff0	comment	Mainwaring struggles to get the hang of the military's use of the 24-hour clock; Wilson regularly has to translate between 12-hour and 24-hour time for him. (In a case of Strange Minds Think Alike, they meet a Brigadier at the War Office in "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker" who has the same problem.)
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Dad's Army / int_3104d34	type	Suicide as Comedy
Dad's Army / int_3104d34	comment	Suicide as Comedy: Subverted. After Wilson hands Mainwaring the letter telling him he is no longer in charge of the platoon Wilson steps outside as it is read. A few seconds later a gunshot is heard to which Wilson blurts "My God, he's shot himself!" Fortunately it was an accident with the rifles outside and Mainwaring is instead having a more traditional Heroic BSoD.
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Dad's Army / int_318fc454	type	Meal Ticket
Dad's Army / int_318fc454	comment	Meal Ticket: There are hints that Mrs. Fox's interest in Jones is due to his ability to get extra meat for her. Even Jones has his suspicions.
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Dad's Army / int_327b5216	type	Black Market
Dad's Army / int_327b5216	comment	Black Market: Both sides of the World War 2 Black Market with the classic 'spiv' Walker selling all sorts of dodgy goods 'off the back of a truck' and the genial Jonesy quietly providing extra sausages and the like from his butcher's shop.
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Dad's Army / int_32821ceb	type	The Unintelligible
Dad's Army / int_32821ceb	comment	The Unintelligible: Ivy, Pike's occasional girlfriend.
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Dad's Army / int_38a1e0eb	comment	Foreign Cuss Word: Frazer sometimes refers to the English (especially Mainwaring) as Sassenachs, a derogatory Scots Gaelic term for the English.
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Dad's Army / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Ian Lavender is a fan of Aston Villa and chose to wear a claret and blue scarf (the club's colours) as Pike as a way of showing support for his team.
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Dad's Army / int_3b20d7f4	type	Runaway Train
Dad's Army / int_3b20d7f4	comment	Runaway Train: In "The Royal Train", the unit have to move a train out the way of another train carrying HM King George VI after the drivers mistake sleeping tablets for saccharine tablets, but they end up with a runaway train after it turns out they left the brake wheel back at the station and that the line is all downhill from that point. Cue Captain Mainwaring climbing over the train roof, the warden, vicar and verger on a handcart trying to bring them the brake wheel and then them having to go damn fast the other way after the platoon accidentally put the train into reverse.
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Dad's Army / int_3c8be88f	type	Bird-Poop Gag
Dad's Army / int_3c8be88f	comment	Bird-Poop Gag: Implied in "Getting the Bird". Walker dopes a flock of pigeons and tries to sell them to Jones as meat. However, the drugs wear off and they fly into Captain Mainwaring's office and cause chaos. As Walker and Jones try to round the birds up, Pike complains "Look what those pigeons did to my forage cap!" but Mainwaring tells him to stop complaining as he's heard it's lucky.
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Dad's Army / int_3cf44d4b	type	High-Class Glass
Dad's Army / int_3cf44d4b	comment	High-Class Glass: It's revealed that upper-class Sgt. Wilson requires a monocle because his sight is weaker in one eye than the other. Captain Mainwaring — who is middle-class, wears glasses and is ridiculously class-conscious — immediately feels threatened because of this.
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Dad's Army / int_3eb7c6b7	type	The Easy Way or the Hard Way
Dad's Army / int_3eb7c6b7	comment	The Easy Way or the Hard Way: In "A. Wilson Manager", Frazer (mistakenly believing he has been promoted to sergeant) practices what he intends to tell the platoon:
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Dad's Army / int_3fb6b526	type	Delayed Reaction
Dad's Army / int_3fb6b526	comment	Delayed Reaction: One of the best-known is in "Room at the Bottom" when Wilson gives Mainwaring Captain Bailey's message:
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Dad's Army / int_4046bf7f	type	ColonelMakepeace
Dad's Army / int_4046bf7f	comment	Colonel Makepeace: Private Sponge.
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Dad's Army / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Dad's Army / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Many are the episodes where Frazer can be heard grumbling in multiple scenes about what an incompetent buffoon Mainwaring is, only for Mainwaring to put on a display of courage, leadership, or intelligence that would do most men proud, leading Frazer to declare, "I never doubted you for a single minute!" Mainwaring, who has invariably overheard Frazer's previous complaints, generally gives him a look of quiet disbelief.
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Dad's Army / int_40d6724	type	Sound-to-Screen Adaptation
Dad's Army / int_40d6724	comment	Sound-to-Screen Adaptation: Reversed: there is an original cast radio series based on the TV episodes.
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Dad's Army / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Dad's Army / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Jones frequently gets less-common words muddled.
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Dad's Army / int_43a46119	type	Surrounded by Idiots
Dad's Army / int_43a46119	comment	Surrounded by Idiots
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Dad's Army / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
Dad's Army / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: The escapades of "No Spring for Frazer" would have been prevented if only Frazer had checked in his trouser pocket a bit sooner.
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Dad's Army / int_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
Dad's Army / int_4508b16b	comment	The Guards Must Be Crazy: In "The Deadly Attachment", in which the platoon are delegated to guard a captured German submarine crew, they do pretty well on this score. It's Hodges who falls for the old sick prisoner trick and lets the Germans get the upper hand.
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Dad's Army / int_47741ade	type	Parachute in a Tree
Dad's Army / int_47741ade	comment	Parachute in a Tree: "Time On My Hands" centres on the characters' efforts to pull down a German pilot whose parachute is caught on the town clock. Hodges finds one in "Man Hunt".
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Dad's Army / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Dad's Army / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: If anyone is going to be getting soaked to the skin, clumsily tripping over themselves or otherwise being made to look like an idiot, it's Private Pike. This was something of a justified / invoked trope, since Ian Lavender was one of the younger members of the cast and thus one of the few who was still actually capable of doing such physical comedy without potentially risking serious injury or illness. Corporal Jones also tends to get subject to a lot of physical humiliation over the course of events. Similarly to Pike, he was actually played by Clive Dunn, one of the younger actors despite the character's age, meaning he could safely be subjected to a lot more physical comedy. Hodges also suffers his fair share of misfortune, though in his case it's because he's so annoying the audience would no doubt approve.
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Dad's Army / int_486b0458	type	Draft Dodging
Dad's Army / int_486b0458	comment	Draft Dodging: Frank Pike doesn't want to evade military service, but his medical test reveals a rare blood group. He's excused from active service on the grounds that they'd have nothing to transfuse him with in the event of injury. So he stays in the Home Guard instead — except that he doesn't admit to this until after the platoon has held a fish-and-chip supper in his honour. The lost Series 2 episode "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker" was based around Walker's attempts to evade the draft. He fails, and has to join the army - but is soon discharged when he turns out to be allergic to corned beef, the only rations available.
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Dad's Army / int_499499e6	type	Written-In Absence
Dad's Army / int_499499e6	comment	Written-In Absence: Walker is absent from the season six finale "The Recruit" due to James Beck being in a coma with acute pancreatitis during its recording. His absence is explained by a note left in his place, saying he has "gone up to the smoke for a few days to do a deal" â€” this segment was hastily written into the script at the last minute by Jimmy Perry and David Croft when Beck became ill.
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Dad's Army / int_4c8d7e0b	type	Forgotten Framing Device
Dad's Army / int_4c8d7e0b	comment	Forgotten Framing Device: The first episode started in the 1960s with Captain Mainwaring addressing a Rotary Club dinner and reminiscing about his time in the Home Guard, before flashing back to the story of the founding of the platoon. This was never referred to again in the remainder of the series, possibly as its inclusion was due to Executive Meddling.
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Dad's Army / int_4e07ef21	type	Acid Reflux Nightmare
Dad's Army / int_4e07ef21	comment	Acid Reflux Nightmare: In "A Soldier's Farewell", Captain Mainwaring has a cheese-induced dream that he is Napoleon after Waterloo and Sergeant Wilson is the Duke of Wellington, among others.
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Dad's Army / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Dad's Army / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: "Mum's Army" — Mainwaring falls in love, but the woman leaves him rather than destroy his life with a scandal. This was a Shout-Out to the film Brief Encounter.
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Dad's Army / int_4f23ab52	type	Friend in the Black Market
Dad's Army / int_4f23ab52	comment	Friend in the Black Market: Walker is a textbook spiv, a fast-talking black market dealer who can get you all manner of goods that are rationed or otherwise of limited availability - everything from booze, cigarettes, and confectionery to nylons, elastic, extra ration books, and even cars - as long as you don't ask too many questions about where and how he gets them and accept that he's probably going to mark up the price. The Walmington platoon isn't the only one that depends on his ability to get luxury goods that have become scarce thanks to the war; in "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Walker", a brigadier at GHQ tells Mainwaring that Walker's ability to procure black market booze is all that keeps the Boer War veterans in his platoon on their feet.
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Dad's Army / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Dad's Army / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: In "The Making of Private Pike", Pike borrows a bank staff car to take Hodges's niece on a date to the cinema; but the car breaks down and it takes him all night to push the car back to Walmington-on-Sea. Hilarity Ensues the following day as he hopelessly tries to convince everyone that's all they were doing during the night ...
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Dad's Army / int_535156bc	type	Christmas Special
Dad's Army / int_535156bc	comment	Christmas Special: Three of 'em: 1971 - "Battle of the Giants", where the platoon is challenged to a test by the Eastgate platoon, with Hodges, The Vicar, and the Verger as judges. They seem unlikely to win and their chances worsen when Jones has a bout of malaria. 1975 - "My Brother and I", where Mainwaring's drunken brother Barry arrives in Walmington-on-Sea claiming that their father's pocket watch, held by Mainwaring, belongs to him. Mainwaring gives him the pocket watch to assuage him, but Barry gatecrashes Mainwaring's party for local dignitaries. 1976 - "The Love of Three Oranges", where the Vicar organises a bazaar to which each member of the platoon donates something. Hodges donates three oranges, rare due to wartime rationing. Mainwaring is determined to buy one of the oranges for his wife.
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Dad's Army / int_535865be	type	I Resemble That Remark!
Dad's Army / int_535865be	comment	I Resemble That Remark!: Frazer when Jones lampshades his Mad Eye expressions. Pike is not a coward. He's done ever such brave things. Even pulled dead mice out of traps.
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Dad's Army / int_54533ce6	type	Impromptu Fortress
Dad's Army / int_54533ce6	comment	Impromptu Fortress: In "The Battle of Godfrey's cottage" due to a misunderstanding Captain Mainwaring is left believing the invasion has begun, and that the majority of the platoon are out of Walmington-On-Sea. Having only Jones and Frazer (as well as Godfrey as he later discovers) to hand and realising they have no hope of repelling any invasion force on the beaches, they resort to setting up an improvised base at Godfrey's cottage due it being in a key strategic point on the main crossroads out of town, hoping they will be able to at least hold the invading Nazi's off long enough for General HQ to organise a proper counterattack (and them all openly acknowledging they will certainly die in the process). This leads to them setting up the Lewis gun out the living room's window, and resort to using Godfrey's pillows filled with crockery as makeshift sandbags.
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Dad's Army / int_54fdbff5	type	The Eeyore
Dad's Army / int_54fdbff5	comment	The Eeyore:
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Dad's Army / int_55052d8a	type	Earned Stripes
Dad's Army / int_55052d8a	comment	Earned Stripes: In "A. Wilson (Manager)?", when Sergeant Wilson is promoted to Lieutenant of the Eastgate platoon, he supposedly walks around town in officer's uniform trying to find servicemen to salute him. Due to a paperwork mix-up, every other member of the platoon (except Pike, the one responsible for the mix-up) receives a letter telling him he has been promoted to sergeant. They all show up at parade wearing sergeant's stripes and Hilarity Ensues.
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Dad's Army / int_557a31ce	type	Actual Pacifist
Dad's Army / int_557a31ce	comment	Actual Pacifist: Private Godfrey is unable to even kill a mouse he caught stealing from his pantry, and was a conscientious objector in the previous war (although he served as a medic hauling the wounded out of no man's land under fire, and was awarded a medal for extreme bravery in doing so). He is made the platoon's medic so he can still serve with them without being asked to kill anyone.note This was also Croft and Perry's way of writing around Arnold Ridley's physical frailty.
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Dad's Army / int_56264acd	type	The So-Called Coward
Dad's Army / int_56264acd	comment	The So-Called Coward: Private Godfrey in "Branded". He was a conscientious objector in World War I, but that doesn't mean he didn't participate in the war; he was a stretcher bearer rather than a soldier, and was decorated for bravery after the Battle of the Somme.note Arnold Ridley was severely wounded in said campaign and was medically discharged in 1916. Corporal Jones in "The Two and A Half Feathers". A veteran of the Sudan War claims that he was saved by a native tribesman after Jones left him out in the desert to die. The tribesman was Jones dressed in Arab robes; he remained silent about his role in order to cover up a scandalous affair the veteran was involved in.
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Dad's Army / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Dad's Army / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: In a sense; while the platoon rarely saw anything in the form of a genuine military operation, every so often the viewer was reminded that behind the bumbling Mainwaring and his men were brave soldiers fully prepared to fight and die in the defence of their homes and country if it came down to it. And none braver than Mainwaring himself, who would be the last man out of a bombed building and once faced down a desperate German prisoner with an unloaded gun. (It turned out that the German's gun was unloaded too, but he didn't know that at the time.) Typified by this exchange in "The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage", when the elements of the platoon believe an invasion is underway and elect to stay and try to delay the German advance to give the regular army time to counter-attack: Jones has a chestful of quite legitimate campaign medals, while Godfrey was decorated for bravery as a stretcher bearer in 1916.
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Dad's Army / int_577d4b8f	type	Of Corsets Funny
Dad's Army / int_577d4b8f	comment	Of Corsets Funny: In "Keep Young and Beautiful", the various members of the Home Guard are desperately attempting to look younger to avoid being transferred to the ARP. Captain Mainwaring notices that Sergeant Wilson is standing straighter than usual and it is revealed that he is wearing a girdle (or, as he refers to it, a "gentleman's abdominal support").
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Dad's Army / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Dad's Army / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Sometimes Captain Mainwaring appears sporting minor physical injuries, such as a black eye in "War Dance" for which he offers comically unconvincing explanations such as "walking into the linen cupboard door". It is strongly insinuated that these injuries are the result of domestic violence and they often seem to happen before a function or event where other women may be present, to which Elizabeth is invited but cannot attend as it would involve going out.
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Dad's Army / int_592fa231	type	Acquired Error at the Printer
Dad's Army / int_592fa231	comment	Acquired Error at the Printer: In one episode, a printer mixes up photos of Corporal Jones (intended for a recruiting poster) and an enemy agent (intended for a "Wanted!" Poster).
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Dad's Army / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Dad's Army / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Despite his hostility toward the platoon, Hodges has sided with them in times of need; in "Wake Up Walmington", as there had been no German invasion, the townspeople had grown indifferent and contemptuous toward the platoon and the wardens. To shock them out of their apathy, Captain Mainwaring and Hodges join forces and the Home Guard disguise themselves as foreign invaders to scare the town into taking the war (and them) seriously.
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Dad's Army / int_5b9b4a19	type	Almighty Mom
Dad's Army / int_5b9b4a19	comment	Almighty Mom: One thing that could derail the orderly military life of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard was Mrs. Pike storming round to complain about all the things Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson were making her son do. Private Pike, the youngest member of a platoon largely composed of elderly men too old for regular military duty, and otherwise a pampered mummy's boy was frequently excused the more arduous and dirty aspects of military service for this reason. Nobody wanted his mum coming round to complain.
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Dad's Army / int_5e965a73	type	Nice, Mean, and In-Between
Dad's Army / int_5e965a73	comment	Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The three eldest members of the Platoon, Godfrey, Frazer and Jones, fit this respectively. Godfrey is a polite, kindhearted pacifist who will only fight back if pushed far enough. Frazer is a dour, critical man who in one episode becomes a spiteful jerk. Jones is far more personable than Frazer but more willing to fight back than Godfrey.
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Dad's Army / int_5f207a1a	type	Courtroom Episode
Dad's Army / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: In "A Brush with the Law", Mainwaring is charged with showing a light and taken to court by a gleeful Hodges. When Mr. Yeatman tries to tell Hodges he's responsible, he is blackmailed into remaining silent. Walker then blackmails the judge, Colonel Square, into freeing Mainwaring due to Walker observing the light being switched on at the time he brought Square some illegal whiskey. Then Mr. Yeatman admits in court he had switched on the light.
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Dad's Army / int_60fb097	type	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
Dad's Army / int_60fb097	comment	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: In "The Test", the ARP probably could have won their cricket match against the platoon without any assistance. But Hodges is so determined to beat Mainwaring that he brings in a professional ringer and then over-confidently declares and puts Mainwaring's team in to bat, expecting his star player to bowl them all out in a few overs. But then the ringer gets injured after one ball, and the Home Guard successfully chase down the ARP's score.
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Dad's Army / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Dad's Army / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: A few one-off characters fit this trope. Drill Sgt. Gregory in "Room at the Bottom" and Captain Ramsey in "We Know Our Onions" are excellent examples. Although Ramsey turns out to be a Reasonable Authority Figure in the end.
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Dad's Army / int_64b303c0	type	Drunk with Power
Dad's Army / int_64b303c0	comment	Drunk with Power: Mainwaring and Hodges throughout the series. Frazer during his brief stint as The Tyrant Taking The Helm.
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Dad's Army / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Dad's Army / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Zigzagged. Series ran anywhere from 6 to 14 episodes. By virtue of running for a decade however, it made an unusually mighty total of 80 episodes by its end in 1977 (albeit with three early episodes believed to be lost).
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Dad's Army / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Dad's Army / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Jimmy Perry based Pike on his own background and his experiences during the war. He originally wrote the part of Private Walker for himself to play, but David Croft vetoed this on the grounds that other cast members would think Perry had taken the best part for himself.
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Dad's Army / int_66f59ad	type	Balloonacy
Dad's Army / int_66f59ad	comment	Balloonacy: In "The Day The Balloon Went Up", this happens to Mainwaring when everyone except him lets go of a stray barrage balloon. It floats away, getting him airborne. The climax of the episode involves trying to get him down.
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Dad's Army / int_6886fe24	type	Outfit Decoy
Dad's Army / int_6886fe24	comment	Outfit Decoy: Employed by a rather humiliated and annoyed Pike in "Things That Go Bump In The Night". Because aniseed on his clothes is attracting a pack of attack dogs, he is forced into removing his uniform to distract them. This allows the platoon to slip away, albeit with Pike now naked.
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Dad's Army / int_6974708f	type	It Must Be Mine!
Dad's Army / int_6974708f	comment	It Must Be Mine!: Happens in "The Love of Three Oranges" when Mainwaring is trying to buy some oranges at a charity auction from Hodges, who predictably is doing everything in his power to stop him getting them. Eventually Wilson tells Pike to buy an orange for Mainwaring, but neglects to tell the captain, resulting in Mainwaring entering a furious bidding war against himself. He eventually ends up paying ten shillings for it (when the first one sold for a couple of pence).
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Dad's Army / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
Dad's Army / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: The captured German U-Boat captain in "The Deadly Attachment" ("your name vill also go on ze list!" etc.)
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Dad's Army / int_70bdac19	type	Honest John's Dealership
Dad's Army / int_70bdac19	comment	Honest John's Dealership: Private Walker's black-market goods include plenty of items of dubious quality; in the first episode, he sells a watch to a fellow Home Guard member with the stock "waterproof, shockproof" spiel given by hundreds of dealers in stolen or counterfeit watches in film in television.
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Dad's Army / int_70c462fb	type	AB Negative
Dad's Army / int_70c462fb	comment	AB Negative: In "When You've Got to Go", Pike is finally called up to join the Royal Air Force. During a blood donation drive, he finds out that he has a very rare blood type, and the RAF later rejects him as they would not be able to give him a blood transfusion should he need one. Pike doesn't tell the rest of the platoon this until after they've held an expensive fish and chip supper to say goodbye.
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Dad's Army / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
Dad's Army / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: One of these results in Jones thinking that Mrs. Mainwaring is pregnant.
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Dad's Army / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Dad's Army / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Reverend Farthing shows signs of this; in "Time on My Hands", he tells Hodges that he got the idea to fire an arrow attached to a silk thread attached to a piece of twine attached to a rope that the stranded Home Guard can use to climb down from the Town Hall clock from a fairy story, and Hodges sneers "I expect you know all about fairies."note Actor Frank Williams said in interviews that he played Rev. Farthing as if he were in the closet.
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Dad's Army / int_76c42cce	type	Pronouncing My Name for You
Dad's Army / int_76c42cce	comment	Pronouncing My Name for You: Captain Mainwaring often has to tell people his surname is pronounced "Mannering".
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Dad's Army / int_77e73dc7	type	Food as Bribe
Dad's Army / int_77e73dc7	comment	Food as Bribe: As a butcher with access to rationed meat, Jones does this often. Hodges promises people onions (also rationed) if they agree to donate blood for the ARP, who are competing with the Home Guard in a donation drive.
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Dad's Army / int_78629e9c	type	Badass Pacifist
Dad's Army / int_78629e9c	comment	Badass Pacifist: In "Branded", it's revealed that Godfrey was a conscientious objector during World War I, causing many of his friends to regard him as a coward and lose respect for him. He earns it all back by the end of the episode and then some when it's further revealed that he applied for training as a field medic, and won medals for bravery by venturing into No Man's Land in search of wounded soldiers and carrying them on his back, under heavy fire, across the barbed wire and minefields of the Battle of the Somme, to safety. He thinks that his military medal is "too garish" for someone like him.
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Dad's Army / int_79e3e9a1	type	Decoy Hiding Place
Dad's Army / int_79e3e9a1	comment	Decoy Hiding Place: In "The Lion has Phones", a montage shows the Home Guard platoon disguising themselves as haystacks, garbage cans, and gravestones for their camouflage training. Then we see a row of milk churns lined up like the platoon, who actually turn out to be hiding behind a fake wall attached to a nearby barn.
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Dad's Army / int_7b23aecb	type	Bayonet Ya
Dad's Army / int_7b23aecb	comment	Bayonet Ya: Corporal Jones was always advocating the use of the bayonet ("They don't like it up 'em!", as he always says). Played for Laughs when they tried to adapt his van (working as a makeshift armoured car) to run on literal gas, stored in a bag attached the roof. And the order was given to point the guns upwards through the openings in said roof...
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Dad's Army / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Dad's Army / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: In "The Lion Has Phones", there is a scene in a cinema. Behind the two women in the ticket office is a poster for The Edge of the World. This is a real movie which starred John Laurie.
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Dad's Army / int_7ba4adea	type	Black Market Produce
Dad's Army / int_7ba4adea	comment	Black Market Produce: Local spiv Private Walker sometimes dealt in produce as part of his black market activities. It plays a major role in "We Know Our Onions" where he has been using Jones' van to fulfill a black market order for Warden Hodges, the greengrocer, and has half a ton of onions hidden in the back when the platoon is ordered to take part in a Home Guard efficiency test and travel there in the van, towing a Smith gun with them.
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Dad's Army / int_7e733dcd	type	Mobile Shrubbery
Dad's Army / int_7e733dcd	comment	Mobile Shrubbery: In "Don't Forget the Diver", Jones disguises himself as a tree and is pushed along a river by Frazer in a diving suit as part of a plan to capture a windmill.
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Dad's Army / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Dad's Army / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Almost every episode started with Mainwaring inspecting the troops, giving first time viewers a quick run down of the main cast.
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Dad's Army / int_80ed8406	type	Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough
Dad's Army / int_80ed8406	comment	Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough: Inverted. Captain Mainwaring is an oafish but brave amateur and Sergeant Wilson is a suave aristocrat with extensive military experience. Mainwaring's (and Wilson's) intense awareness of the class inversion was a comedy goldmine. Only in the last episode was it revealed that Wilson was indeed a genuine Regular Army Captain Smooth from the previous war. He was filling in as sergeant so that Mainwaring could be Captain if he wanted to; having been a real captain he had no intention of squabbling over who should be a Home Guard captain at his time of life.
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Dad's Army / int_815db542	type	Phony Veteran
Dad's Army / int_815db542	comment	Phony Veteran: Captain Mainwaring had a habit of exaggerating his military service:
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Dad's Army / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Dad's Army / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Ian Lavender had a lot of fun pretending to be a German officer in "Ring Dem Bells":
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Dad's Army / int_84df9a79	type	Second-Face Smoke
Dad's Army / int_84df9a79	comment	Second-Face Smoke: In "Branded", when Walker emerges from the smoke-filled shed during the fire rescue drill, he defiantly blows a huge puff of smoke straight into Hodges' face (having disobeyed Mainwaring's instructions to put out his cigarette before entering the shed) before climbing the ladder over the wall. In "The Deadly Attachment", the German U-Boat captain is smoking a cigarette and blows smoke in Mainwaring's face. Mainwaring waits until he's out of sight to cough and splutter.
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Dad's Army / int_853e45d1	type	Mistaken for Pregnant
Dad's Army / int_853e45d1	comment	Mistaken for Pregnant: Mrs. Pike in an episode that was surprisingly risquÃ© for its time. Also happened to Mrs. Mainwaring in one episode.
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Dad's Army / int_85a72ffa	type	Handcar Pursuit
Dad's Army / int_85a72ffa	comment	Handcar Pursuit: The climax of "The Royal Train" involves Hodges on a handcar chasing a runaway train with the platoon aboard, so he can throw them the widget they need to stop the train. Then they throw the train into reverse, and it becomes Hodges on a handcar fleeing a runaway train instead.
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Dad's Army / int_85abf836	type	Squirrels in My Pants
Dad's Army / int_85abf836	comment	Squirrels in My Pants: In "Room at the Bottom", Corporal Jones gets ants in his pants and, while trying to remove them, accidentally signals the platoon to advance into an ambush.
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Dad's Army / int_863a32bd	type	Small Town Rivalry
Dad's Army / int_863a32bd	comment	Small Town Rivalry: Walmington-on-Sea and Eastgate.
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Dad's Army / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Dad's Army / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In "Sgt. Wilson's Little Secret" (series 2), Mrs Pike takes in an evacuee, who appears at the end of the episode. The child is never seen or mentioned again after this episode, even during the occasional scenes that take place in the Pike household.
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Dad's Army / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Dad's Army / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: In the final episode, Corporal Jones and Mrs. Fox's wedding cake consists of several cardboard "cakes" that are dismantled to reveal a small, un-iced sponge cake. This was standard practice at wartime weddings since sugar rationing meant that a traditional wedding cake wasn't an option. Inverted, the series depicts the Home Guard as never actually having seen action. In real life, the Home Guard lost over 1000 men killed in air raids, long-range artillery bombardments of South-Eastern England from occupied France, and gun battles with the IRA who were trying to sabotage the Allied war effort in support of their Nazi allies. The Home Guard would actually engage German aircraft and V1 flying bombs with their machine guns and dedicated coastal and anti-aircraft artillery batteries, have their own bomb disposal units, and capture numerous shot-down Luftwaffe airmen, escaped prisoners of war, IRA terrorists, and saboteurs.
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Dad's Army / int_878d235d	type	Couldn't Find a Lighter
Dad's Army / int_878d235d	comment	Couldn't Find a Lighter: In "The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones", Joe Walker lights his cigarette from a flame sprouting from a leaking gaspipe without realising it.
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Dad's Army / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
Dad's Army / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: When out of uniform, Walker wore incredibly well-tailored suits.
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Dad's Army / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Dad's Army / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Mrs. Fox occasionally fills this role, although Jones didn't seem to mind her too much and they eventually embark on a romance.
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Dad's Army / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Dad's Army / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Pike endures one during "Things That Go Bump In The Night". He gets soaked with water several times, scared senseless and because the uniform he is wearing is attracting dogs, has to strip fully naked. If that's not enough, he is sent out first to check if the dogs are distracted, with his only protection being two small bags over his genitals and backside. He sums it up well:
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Dad's Army / int_89cab870	type	Tuckerisation
Dad's Army / int_89cab870	comment	Tuckerisation: The church, St. Aldhelm's, was named after a church David Croft attended in his youth.
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Dad's Army / int_8acf3a97	type	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic
Dad's Army / int_8acf3a97	comment	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic: The Animated Credits Opening shows Swastika-emblazoned arrows sweeping over western Europe (including one that gets lost for a bit), while the lone Union Jack arrow retreats back to its start point, then sticks its tail out further and pulls back across the Channel. All set to a jaunty tune about how Britain's not beaten yet. For a Genius Bonus, the moving arrows are historically accurate, charting the movements of the three German armies tasked with cutting the British army off from the French and then seeking to split it up and prevent its evacuation back to Britain. note Failed at Dunkirk - the British arrow retreating to England - but further down the coast at places like St Valery, other sizeable British forces were forced into surrender after only minimal attempts at evacuation. Only one arrow makes it back on the British side.
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Dad's Army / int_909e0a46	type	Gentlemen Rankers
Dad's Army / int_909e0a46	comment	Gentlemen Rankers: Sergeant Wilson behaves very much like a cool, calm, collected, and softly spoken officer (in contrast to the order barking martinet that was Captain Mainwaring) in his WW2 Home Guard duties, however this was eventually explained as him actually having been an officer in the First World War.
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Dad's Army / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Dad's Army / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: In "Asleep in the Deep", the platoon and Hodges have to draw lots (represented by slips of paper with crosses on them) to determine who will be the unlucky ones to lead the platoon in shifting the rubble trapping Godfrey and Walker in a bombed pumping station. When it comes to Frazer's turn to pick, Hodges rudely shoves him out of the way so he can pick instead. Naturally, the sheet of paper he picks has a cross on it. Meanwhile Mainwaring lies that his (blank) sheet of paper also has a cross, to make sure none of his men are in danger
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Dad's Army / int_90e8aa77	type	War Was Beginning
Dad's Army / int_90e8aa77	comment	War Was Beginning: The very first scene of the series takes place in 1968, as Mainwaring (who is an alderman and Chairman of the Rotary Club by this point) speaks at a function in support of the then-contemporary "I'm Backing Britain" campaign and describes how the war began and the platoon was formed.
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Dad's Army / int_93dcaaa0	type	Two Men, One Dress
Dad's Army / int_93dcaaa0	comment	Two Men, One Dress: In "Operation Kilt", Frazer and Walker attempt to use a pantomime cow to sneak up on a Highland regiment during a training exercise.
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Dad's Army / int_95265081	type	Leeroy Jenkins
Dad's Army / int_95265081	comment	Leeroy Jenkins: Corporal Jones.
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Dad's Army / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Dad's Army / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Hodges has an epic one in "Time on My Hands" after the platoon accidentally destroys some scaffolding that he and his men had taken two days to rig up in the town hall clock tower.
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Dad's Army / int_967fd9b	type	Perilous Old Fool
Dad's Army / int_967fd9b	comment	Perilous Old Fool: Corporal Jones, a veteran of three wars and probably a bigger danger to his allies than he ever could be to the enemy.
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Dad's Army / int_99244825	type	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation
Dad's Army / int_99244825	comment	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation: See here.
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Dad's Army / int_99926ad3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
Dad's Army / int_99926ad3	comment	Inter-Service Rivalry: The Home Guard vs the ARP.
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Dad's Army / int_9b030fac	type	Repeated Rehearsal Failure
Dad's Army / int_9b030fac	comment	Repeated Rehearsal Failure: In "A Brush with the Law", when Captain Mainwaring is put on trial after being accused of defying blackout restrictions, and Wilson decides it will help Mainwaring's case if all the members of the platoon give the same testimony. He tries to drill into them "On the evening of the 7th we paraded in the church hall as usual, at 9.45 we all left the hall together and Captain Mainwaring put out the light in the office", but Jones mangles it into "On the night of fourteen fifth, we paraded in the light and I put the Captain out together."
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Dad's Army / int_9b1e50bd	type	During the War
Dad's Army / int_9b1e50bd	comment	During the War: Specifically from the foundation of the Local Defense Volunteers in 1940 to somewhere in 1942.
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Dad's Army / int_9c092ab0	type	Armed Farces
Dad's Army / int_9c092ab0	comment	Armed Farces: The series is set in the British Home Guard during World War II and features an arrogant but inept platoon commander, his sensible but ignored second-in-command, and five of the men under their command, three of whom are over 60 years old, one of whom is a conniving spiv, and one of whom is a wet-nosed mummy's boy.
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Dad's Army / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Dad's Army / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Wilson is the focus of "Sgt. Wilson's Little Secret", "A. Wilson (Manager?)", "Getting the Bird", "The Honourable Man" and "The Recruit". Jones is the focus of "The Showing up of Corporal Jones", "Two and a Half Feathers", "When Did You Last See Your Money?" and "High Finance". Frazer is the focus of "A Stripe for Frazer", "No Spring for Frazer", "If the Cap Fits" and "The Miser's Hoard". Godfrey is the focus of "Branded", "All is Safely Gathered In" and "Is There Honey Still for Tea?" Pike is the focus of "War Dance", "When You've Got to Go" and "The Making of Private Pike". Walker is the focus of "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Walker".
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Dad's Army / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Dad's Army / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: Wilson exhibits some of these traits, although not as much as Mainwaring would like to think he does. Captain Square also has elements of the trope.
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Dad's Army / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
Dad's Army / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: "The Two and A Half Feathers" has Jones reminiscing about the Sudan War, with the members of the cast playing the various heroes and villains. In the flashback, Wilson is the platoon's commanding officer and Mainwaring the sergeant — inverting their usual positions.
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Dad's Army / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
Dad's Army / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: In both the radio and TV episode versions of 'The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Walker', Walker's called up to the army. Mainwaring and Wilson go to London to see an official, thinking it's a mistake. Said official is looking for walkers (i.e. people who walk for charity races) for a friend of his. You can see where this is going.
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Dad's Army / int_a06b62b7	type	Frozen in Time
Dad's Army / int_a06b62b7	comment	Frozen in Time: While running from 1968 to 1977, the series started in 1940, went through 1941, and then 1942 [due to the inclusion of American troops in the episode 'My British Buddy']. Justified, in that after 1942 it became increasingly clear that the Germans weren't going to win, Britain wasn't going to be invaded, and there was less overall need for the Home Guard.
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Dad's Army / int_a1575551	type	Living Prop
Dad's Army / int_a1575551	comment	Living Prop: The majority of the platoon — you know, the other two ranks of men?
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Dad's Army / int_a18a7c01	type	Hand-or-Object Underwear
Dad's Army / int_a18a7c01	comment	Hand-or-Object Underwear: In 'Things That Go Bump in The Night', the group get chased by a group of dogs, and split up inside a shed and up a tree. Because the aniseed on Pike's uniform is attracting the dogs, he is forced to surrender it, with a small whimper of 'Don't look'. After covering his modesty with just two small bags, he later dons a potato sack.
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Dad's Army / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Dad's Army / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Private Sponge. He tended to be an extra given some speaking lines whenever the characters needed to talk to someone outside the main cast, but he began to get more substantial roles in episodes following the death of James Beck, as his character (Walker) was written out and the writers would often need someone to fill his place. It didn't ever get to Promoted to Opening Titles status, but he's nevertheless a lot more prominent from about Series 7 onwards. The previously unnamed Private Desmond, when he joins the main characters on a mission in the episode "Sons of the Sea". This part was originally intended for Private Sponge but his actor was unavailable.
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Dad's Army / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Dad's Army / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Spoofed when Jonesy knocks out a radio-controlled secret weapon in "Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel". "I've killed it!" Somber music plays as everyone takes off their hats.
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Dad's Army / int_a6a6de9a	type	Humble Hero
Dad's Army / int_a6a6de9a	comment	Humble Hero: Godfrey, who was awarded the Military Medal for bravery as a stretcher-bearer during World War I, but doesn't wear the ribbon on his uniform as he finds it "too garish". Wilson and Frazer are, respectively, a former Army officer and a former Royal Navy cook, both of whom saw active service in WWI. Whether their lack of medal ribbons was an intentional invoking of this trope or an oversight on behalf of the costume department is unclear, but they and Godfrey all have the correct medal ribbons on their uniforms in the 2016 movie.
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Dad's Army / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Dad's Army / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: In one episode, Wilson is appointed manager of a bank in nearby Eastgate and is set to join the local home guard. His new bank is bombed soon afterwards and he returns to Walmington. In another, Private Pike finally gets his call-up papers. As this would mean the end of his involvement in the platoon, however, fortunately for the status quo it turns out he has an extremely rare blood type, meaning that he is essentially classified 4F and discharged. In "Room at the Bottom", General Headquarters realises that Mainwaring simply gave himself the rank of Captain. He's first demoted to Lieutenant and then later to Private. By the end of the episode, he's restored to Captain.
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Dad's Army / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Dad's Army / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Frazer mistreats Godfrey when he is revealed to have been a conscientious objector in WW1 and knocks Pike's cake out of his hand. At the end of the episode Frazer claims to have been on Godfrey's side all along and suffers no repercussions.
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Dad's Army / int_a7c904c3	type	America Won World War II
Dad's Army / int_a7c904c3	comment	America Won World War II: In "My British Buddy", the Walmington Home Guard are infuriated by the arrival of American troops whose attitude is that they're going to succeed where the British have failed. Matters aren't helped by the fact that the first thing the American soldiers do when they get there is try to steal the British soldiers' girlfriends, and then act very entitled and hard-done-by when they find they can't get a good drink. It all ends in a fistfight. Warden Hodges' comments didn't help the situation any either — mockingly saying that the US had joined the war quickly this time, "Two and a half years instead of three!"
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Dad's Army / int_a95fbce6	type	Mad Eye
Dad's Army / int_a95fbce6	comment	Frazer when Jones lampshades his Mad Eye expressions.
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Dad's Army / int_aa4cbf9a	type	My Local
Dad's Army / int_aa4cbf9a	comment	My Local: The Anchor.
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Dad's Army / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Dad's Army / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: Jones was known as "the Mad Bomber" in WWI due to his interesting grenade drills.
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Dad's Army / int_ac5c8d70	type	Wrong Song Gag
Dad's Army / int_ac5c8d70	comment	Wrong Song Gag: In "A Soldier's Farewell", the captain was not impressed with the soldiers' behavior of the platoon after the cinema. He has them practice standing at attention for the British National Anthem, but by mistake, Wilson plays the German National Anthem instead.
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Dad's Army / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Dad's Army / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: John Le Mesurier was cast as Wilson because, in the words of the BBC brass, "He suffers so beautifully." With the pompous Mainwaring above him and the various liabilities below him, he deals with being the Only Sane Man in the platoon with quiet sarcasm. Just to give two examples from the same scene in "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Walker" (as reconstructed in 2019): With Mainwaring waiting to inspect the platoon, Wilson gives the command (well, invitation) "Open order... march." Jones, true to form, is a second or two behind the others, and says, "I'm sorry, sir - I'm not my usual self today!" Wilson mutters, "Oh yes you are, Jones." When Walker arrives with the bad news that he's being called up for military service and must report for his medical in ten days, Mainwaring declares that the time has come for action, not words, and asks Wilson if he agrees. Wilson, well aware of how much his superior at the bank and in the platoon loves the sound of his own voice, says, "I always think it's rather a good idea to keep the words to a minimum, sir."
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Dad's Army / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Dad's Army / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Miss King, a character in the first series, was added by executives against the writers' wishes with the intention to be this. She was then dropped, and hardly anyone remembers she was ever in the show. Later on, Mrs. Pike would often take the role.
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Dad's Army / int_b0e81c37	type	A Simple Plan
Dad's Army / int_b0e81c37	comment	A Simple Plan: The Walmington-On-Sea platoon could produce a chaotic outcome to the simplest of tasks.
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Dad's Army / int_b1961af1	type	Offscreen Crash
Dad's Army / int_b1961af1	comment	Offscreen Crash: A plane noisily crashes into the reservoir in "The Lion Has Phones".
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Dad's Army / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Dad's Army / int_b2279346	comment	Retcon: Dad's Army (1971) retcons most of the first episode. Mrs. Fox's first name is initially given as Marcia, but becomes Mildred in the final episode of the show. Square is first introduced as "Corporal-Colonel Square" and later becomes Captain. Handwaved by the show's producers stating that he had simply received a promotion ("Corporal-Colonel" being an amalgamation of his current rank in the Home Guard and his previous one while in the military, Truth in Television as this was done in real life with some veterans). In the first episode, Frazer runs a philatelist's shop. In later episodes, he's an undertaker. Several minor characters' names were retconned over the course of the show. Mrs. Yeatman's name is initially given as Anthea, then Tracy and finally Beryl. Mr. Blewitt's name changed from Norman to Sidney, while Walker's recurring girlfriend was named Edith Parish in her first appearance but became Shirley in subsequent episodes.
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Dad's Army / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Dad's Army / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: Explains why Mainwaring learned the bagpipes:
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Dad's Army / int_b40f5b51	type	Secret Weapon
Dad's Army / int_b40f5b51	comment	Secret Weapon: In "Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel", the platoon are called on to stop a prototype radio-controlled mobile bomb (based on the real-life Panjandrum) that's rampaging around the countryside.
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Dad's Army / int_b54fe3ce	type	Classically-Trained Extra
Dad's Army / int_b54fe3ce	comment	Classically-Trained Extra: John Laurie as Private Frazer. The actor was somewhat bitter about being best remembered for this role rather than his theatrical work (not that this stopped him from cashing his pay cheques for the series). According to show writer Jimmy Perry, most of the background platoon members were played by retired actors or writers rather than the usual extras.
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Dad's Army / int_b62ea95	type	Doomed New Clothes
Dad's Army / int_b62ea95	comment	Doomed New Clothes: In "The Desperate Drive of Corporal Jones", Mainwaring gets a fancy new dress coat and uniform. The former gets burnt when the platoon inadvertedly use it to send smoke signals and the latter gets ruined when he has to dive on the ground.
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Dad's Army / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
Dad's Army / int_b6de94d1	comment	Miss King vanishes almost without a trace after Series 1, probably because her inclusion was purely because of Executive Meddling as it was felt that the show needed a young female character. She did appear in the 1971 movie (played by a different actress), but in the series, the only subsequent reference to her was in the Series 4 episode, "A. Wilson (Manager)?", when she is briefly mentioned by Pike in an off-hand line of dialogue in Mainwaring's office.
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Dad's Army / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Dad's Army / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Private Frazer was very fond of asserting one point of view, only to immediately switch to the opposite one when it no longer became a good idea to hold the first one. Mainwaring occasionally lectures Walker for dealing in black market goods, but is happy for Walker to supply him and the platoon with said goods. Walker usually points this out. Jones's catchphrase "Don't panic!" mainly pops up in the context of him running backwards and forwards bellowing it uselessly while beginning to panic in the middle of a crisis.
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Dad's Army / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Dad's Army / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Mainwaring lets out one in "Mum's Army". When Mrs. Gray reminds him of his position at the bank, he blurts out "Damn that bloody bank!"
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Dad's Army / int_bc80725e	type	Wedding Finale
Dad's Army / int_bc80725e	comment	Wedding Finale: The last episode "Never Too Old" featured the wedding of Corporal Jones and Mrs. Fox.
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Dad's Army / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Dad's Army / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: In "Battle of the Giants!", Mainwaring hits a balloon in mid-air with a pistol at the first attempt. Even he looks stunned.
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Dad's Army / int_be0f728	type	Shoo Out the New Guy
Dad's Army / int_be0f728	comment	Shoo Out the New Guy: Private Cheeseman (played by Talfryn Thomas) was added to the cast in Series 7 after the death of James Beck, but David Croft and Jimmy Perry thought he was "irritating without being funny", while John Laurie, who had already cornered the "eccentric Celt" role in the series, resented the number of funny lines Cheeseman was given, so he was quietly dropped for Series 8.note Although Croft claimed that he liked Cheeseman in at least one interview and dropped him mostly because of Laurie's complaints, and he and/or Perry evidently liked Talfryn Thomas enough to cast him in the Hi-de-Hi! episode "Stripes". Happened in-universe when the Vicar and the verger joined the platoon and proved such an annoying burden that everyone made sure they left again soon after.
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Dad's Army / int_be5d0950	type	Aloof Leader, Affable Subordinate
Dad's Army / int_be5d0950	comment	Aloof Leader, Affable Subordinate: Captain Mainwaring is a stiff-backed, shouting martinet, while Sergeant Wilson is far more soft-spoken and easy-going when dealing with the men. For example, if Mainwaring wants the platoon to fall in, he will bellow, "Platoon, fall in, three ranks!", while Wilson won't even raise his voice as he says, "All right chaps, would you mind just falling in now, please, three rows- er, ranks."
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Dad's Army / int_be81113b	type	Lost in Character
Dad's Army / int_be81113b	comment	Lost in Character: Pike takes it a bit too seriously when he's picked to play a German officer in a Home Guard training video. He starts affecting a German accent and declaring that "vee are ze masters now!"
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Dad's Army / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
Dad's Army / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: In "War Dance", Mainwaring showing up to the dance with a black eye from his wife is Played for Laughs. In the same episode, Pike makes a surprise announcement that he is engaged. Mrs. Pike is implied to have violently kicked him and Wilson out of the house afterwards.
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Dad's Army / int_c1771513	type	No Longer with Us
Dad's Army / int_c1771513	comment	No Longer with Us: Corporal Jones gets one regarding his mother:
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Dad's Army / int_c253090a	type	Big Blackout
Dad's Army / int_c253090a	comment	Big Blackout: The series takes place in a town located at an unspecified point on the South-Eastern English coast during World War II, at a location considered to be a prime target for German attack (either Sussex or Kent, though the platoon's cap badge indicates that Walmington is in the latter county). While a blackout was imposed across the whole of Britain during the Blitz, it was enforced particularly more severely in the regions the show is set in, as the line of the expected German invasion was also the shortest route for German bombers to take when attacking London. Draconian penalties were imposed on those who allowed even the slightest chink of light to show from outside their home; a corps of air-raid wardens was recruited to enforce the legislation and were widely hated for their petty attitude and the way they exerted the powers they had been given. This was satirised in the officious and unpleasant personality of Chief Warden Hodges, a working-class shopkeeper suddenly placed in a position of power.
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Dad's Army / int_c3286b8e	type	Uptown Girl
Dad's Army / int_c3286b8e	comment	Uptown Guy: One episode involved Pike becoming engaged to Violet Gibbons, whose mother used to be Mainwaring's cleaner. Trouble follows as the snobbish Mainwaring tries to put an end to the relationship: "The bank doesn't like THAT sort of thing, you know!" Despite Wilson's commonly-known, but universally-overlooked relationship with Mrs. Pike...
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Dad's Army / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Dad's Army / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Private Bracewell, a character who appears only in the first episode. Word of God has it that Bracewell was intended to be a recurring character but was cut because the producers felt his character was too much like Godfrey's. The second episode, "Museum Piece", has Mainwaring and Wilson briefly mention his golf club, but that's as good as Bracewell got for the rest of the series. Miss King vanishes almost without a trace after Series 1, probably because her inclusion was purely because of Executive Meddling as it was felt that the show needed a young female character. She did appear in the 1971 movie (played by a different actress), but in the series, the only subsequent reference to her was in the Series 4 episode, "A. Wilson (Manager)?", when she is briefly mentioned by Pike in an off-hand line of dialogue in Mainwaring's office. Walker's girlfriend Edith, also known as Shirley (but played by Wendy Richard regardless of what her name was), vanished from the show after Walker was Put on a Bus following James Beck's untimely death. Also happens to Private Cheeseman. The character got a mixed reception and was seen as the Replacement Scrappy in the wake of Beck's death. Word of God also stated that some of the other actors, especially John Laurie, felt that Cheeseman was getting too many laughs. He disappeared after series seven without any explanation.
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Dad's Army / int_c3c0768c	type	Soldiers at the Rear
Dad's Army / int_c3c0768c	comment	Soldiers at the Rear: Private Joe Walker's "allergy" to corned beef. Frazer proudly boasts that he was at the battle of Jutland. He was, but he was actually a cook making the shepherd's pie below decks (although a role still carrying incredible risk). Mainwaring was stationed on the Orkney Islands during the First World War. He didn't actually make it to France until the conflict was over, much to his embarrassment.
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Dad's Army / int_c4d293c4	type	Let's See YOU Do Better!
Dad's Army / int_c4d293c4	comment	Let's See YOU Do Better!: In season five's "If the Cap Fits...", Manwaring grows tired of Frazer's grumbling and puts him in charge of the platoon.
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Dad's Army / int_c5d36037	type	Big Damn Movie
Dad's Army / int_c5d36037	comment	Big Damn Movie: Dad's Army (1971) has this atmosphere to it, even though it's adapted from the early episodes.
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Dad's Army / int_c631f304	type	We Want Our Jerk Back!
Dad's Army / int_c631f304	comment	We Want Our Jerk Back!: In "Room at the Bottom", Mainwaring is demoted to private. However, without him in command, morale and discipline plummets, so the others write to GHQ asking for him to be reinstated (except Frazer, who "anonymously" recommends himself for promotion instead).
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Dad's Army / int_c64a7400	type	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
Dad's Army / int_c64a7400	comment	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Discussed by Mainwaring, who does not rate the French ("no use after lunch - all that wine and garlic is very debilitating"), and Wilson, who, being an actual veteran of WWI, does.
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Dad's Army / int_c6a9c7bd	type	Sea Mine
Dad's Army / int_c6a9c7bd	comment	Sea Mine: In "Menace from the Deep" the Walmington-on-Sea platoon is stranded on the Walmington-on-Sea Pier. The situation becomes worse when a sea mine drifts underneath the pier. When Hodges falls off the pier, the magnetic mine is attracted to his steel helmet.
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Dad's Army / int_c6b4b048	type	Dropped After the Pilot
Dad's Army / int_c6b4b048	comment	Dropped After the Pilot: The pilot episode had a character called Private Bracewell who never appeared again. Word of God says it was decided that he was too similar to Private Godfrey and dropped.
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Dad's Army / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Dad's Army / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A few episode titles were plays on film titles, for example "The Two and a Half Feathers" (to The Four Feathers).
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Dad's Army / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Dad's Army / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: Jones was one, joining the British Army as a drummer boy in 1884.
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Dad's Army / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Dad's Army / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Private Bracewell, a character who appears only in the first episode. Word of God has it that Bracewell was intended to be a recurring character but was cut because the producers felt his character was too much like Godfrey's. The second episode, "Museum Piece", has Mainwaring and Wilson briefly mention his golf club, but that's as good as Bracewell got for the rest of the series.
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Dad's Army / int_cf479cd8	type	Bomb Disposal
Dad's Army / int_cf479cd8	comment	Bomb Disposal: In "Something Nasty in the Vault", Wilson and Mainwaring find themselves in a bank vault holding an unexploded bomb that's dropped out of a German plane. True to the nature of the show, the bomb disposal expert is little help and wacky hijinks ensue.
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Dad's Army / int_cf907e37	type	Attractive Bent Species
Dad's Army / int_cf907e37	comment	Attractive Bent Species: In "Operation Kilt", Walker persuades Frazer to join him in using a pantomime cow to sneak up on a Highland regiment during a training exercise. Things do not go according to plan when a bull takes an interest. (Frazer gets the worst of it, since he is playing the back half of the cow.)
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Dad's Army / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
Dad's Army / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: Captain Mainwaring. Hodges eventually calls him "Napoleon" to irritate him. In "A Soldier's Farewell", he even literally dreams that he's Napoleon.
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Dad's Army / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
Dad's Army / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: Captain Mainwaring manages to get a block of rationed cheese as a surprise for his wife. However, when he telephones her with the good news, things don't quite go as he planned. One episode revolved around the platoon trying to find out whether a parachute that had landed in a nearby field was a British parachute (which are white) or Nazi parachute (which are cream). Unfortunately, Walker had found it and had it made up into women's lingerie to sell. Hilarity Ensues as Mainwaring visits each of Walker's customers and has to ask to see their underwear ...
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Dad's Army / int_d2d7288e	type	Bad Omen Anecdote
Dad's Army / int_d2d7288e	comment	Bad Omen Anecdote: Pike is a fan of the cinema and narrates the plots of films that relate to the platoon, even if the relationship is vague. When the film example does mirror reality, he picks scenarios which end in death. Frazer will often find the time in the various predicaments that the platoon face to observe that their potential fate is "a terrible way to die", to note that "we're doomed" when peril is awaiting them or to regale the platoon with an anecdote of a much similar experience he is aware of that ended rather bleakly for all concerned. He also has quite a line in dark, atmospheric and rather long-winded tales which start promisingly with the lure of supernatural horrors and terrors, only to ultimately prove disappointing and end rather mundanely, such as the tales of 'The Auld Empty Barn' (there was nothing in it) and his friend Jethro, who apparently fell victim to a curse that ensured certain death; Jethro indeed did die at the age of 86.
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Dad's Army / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: Each main character had at least one main catchphrase, and some developed others as the series progressed. While a more complete list can be found on the individual entries at the character page, the more well-known ones for each character were: Captain Mainwaring: "(You) stupid boy!" (directed at Pike); "I think you're getting into the realms of fantasy, Jones..." Sgt. Wilson: "Are you sure / Do you think that's wise, sir?"; "Would you mind awfully stepping this way?" Corporal Jones: "Don't panic!" (while panicking); "Permission to speak, sir?"; "They don't like it up 'em!" (referring to his bayonet); and "Sir, I should like to volunteer to be the one to... " Private Pike: "If you don't let me [do X] I'll tell Mum!" Private Frazer: "We're doomed... doomed..." [Accompanied by a mad, wild-eyed stare that would not be out of place in a Hammer Horror film] Private Godfrey: "Do you think I might be excused, sir?" Warden Hodges: "Put that light out! PUT THAT BLOODY LIGHT OUT!"; "You ruddy 'ooligans!"; "Now look 'ere, Napoleon..." [directed at Mainwaring] Aside from individual character catchphrases, at least one person would (rather officiously) declare "There is a war on, you know..." in almost every episode.
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Dad's Army / int_d32b4ca3	comment	Pantomime Animal: In "Operation Kilt", the platoon attempts to use a pantomime cow to sneak up on a Highland regiment during a training exercise. Things do not go according to plan when a bull takes an interest.
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Dad's Army / int_d40e1a9f	type	Break Out the Museum Piece
Dad's Army / int_d40e1a9f	comment	Break Out the Museum Piece: In "Museum Peace" the platoon go to the museum with the intention of taking weaponry, but do not succeed in finding anything usable. The museum's caretaker who is trying to stop them, however, makes good use of the pieces inside to stop them entering.
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Dad's Army / int_d41d2359	comment	Edible Ammunition: In "We Know Our Onions", the platoon, having failed to retrieve the cache of rubber ammunition they were supposed to use, win an initiative test by firing onions at their attackers.
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Dad's Army / int_d4f41294	comment	Aftershow: It Sticks Out Half a Mile was a radio-show attempt at making the series without Captain Mainwaring or most of the platoon. Arthur Lowe was supposed to voice his character in the show but he died after making one episode, so they built up Wilson as the main character. John Le Mesurier's death a year later effectively ended all work on the programme as a Dad's Army spinoff, and it was re-tooled for TV as High & Dry starring Bernard Cribbins as the would-be pier restorer and Richard Wilson as his reluctant financial backer.
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Dad's Army / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Mainwaring and Wilson's differences of class and methods often put them at odds with each other but they stick together nevertheless.
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Dad's Army / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: The radio series, It Sticks Out Half a Mile, broadcast between 1983-84. It centred around Hodges, Pike and Wilson teaming up to renovate the abandoned pier in a nearby seaside town. The pilot featured Mainwaring and Wilson, but Arthur Lowe died soon afterwards, and Mainwaring was replaced with Hodges. Then, when John Le Mesurier passed away after recording one series, it was decided to just put it to rest (as a direct Dad's Army Spin-Off, at least). It was later turned into an original TV series called High & Dry starring Bernard Cribbins and Richard Wilson.
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Dad's Army / int_db7efdaf	comment	Adolf Hitlarious: The theme tune, "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mister Hitler?", is a pastiche of wartime songs that treated Hitler as a joke. Viewers would be forgiven for assuming that it was an actual war song, although it was in fact written for the show.
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Dad's Army / int_dbc2a0cd	comment	Square is first introduced as "Corporal-Colonel Square" and later becomes Captain. Handwaved by the show's producers stating that he had simply received a promotion ("Corporal-Colonel" being an amalgamation of his current rank in the Home Guard and his previous one while in the military, Truth in Television as this was done in real life with some veterans).
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Dad's Army / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: It is frequently implied that Mainwaring is trapped in a loveless and unhappy marriage to Elizabeth, his unseen wife, who is domineering, neurotic and withholding of affection. For example, in "If the Cap Fits..." Mainwaring reveals he learned to play the bagpipes on his honeymoon in Scotland because "there was nothing else to do".
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Dad's Army / int_e022585	type	Television Geography
Dad's Army / int_e022585	comment	Television Geography: Walmington-on-Sea is clearly meant to be somewhere on the south coast of England. The outdoor filming was all done — inland — around Thetford in Norfolk in the east of the country, however. It is never specified quite where the fictional town is, and the clues given are contradictory. There are frequent references to Eastbourne, which is also on the same train line ("My Brother and I)", as well as to Hastings; these point to a location in East Sussex, with some suggesting that it could be based on Bexhill-on-Sea, although Bexhill has no pier. On the other hand, the platoon's cap badges clearly show the county symbol of Kent. Deal, in Kent, has been suggested since it has a pier and is next to Walmer (possibly the inspiration for the name "Walmington"). Another suggestion is the town of Wilmington in Kent. Birchington-on-Sea on the North Kent coast is another credible inspiration, especially since its neighbouring town is Westgate, a name very reminiscent of the Walmington platoon's rivals in Eastgate.
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Dad's Army / int_e0443d9a	type	Criminal DoppelgÃ¤nger
Dad's Army / int_e0443d9a	comment	Criminal DoppelgÃ¤nger: "The Face on the Poster" is based around Jones being chosen as the face of a Home Guard recruitment campaign, but his photo gets switched at the printing shop, causing his face to end up on the Wanted poster for an escaped POW instead.
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Dad's Army / int_e5128f80	comment	Separate Scene Storytelling: Technically speaking, the entire show. The very first episode begins in 1968, with Mainwaring addressing his men as part of the "I'm Backing Britain" campaign. The entire show is his fond recollection of those halcyon days...
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Dad's Army / int_e5206db8	type	Brains Versus Brawn
Dad's Army / int_e5206db8	comment	Brains Versus Brawn: The series 5 episode "Brains Versus Brawn" makes this trope the primary conflict. Jones and Walker get upset when they learn that the Training Major left out their platoon from training a new unit of commandos. Mainwaring backs the division arguing that commandos use brute force rather than cunning and intellect so they don't need training from the likes of them. This leads to Pritchard suggesting they run a training exercise competition in which the different troops have to deliver a fake bomb to the Officer-in-Charge's office. Brains win out in the end, after Walker orders for the delivery of a second fake bomb to the Officer-in-Charge's office.
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Dad's Army / int_e529d5c3	type	Torches and Pitchforks
Dad's Army / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks: Before they get their rifles, the platoon has to make do with makeshift weapons along these lines.
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Dad's Army / int_e68b72	type	The Load
Dad's Army / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: Godfrey. Jones, too, is more often a hindrance than a help.
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Dad's Army / int_e77d9cc8	comment	Tin-Can Telephone: In one episode, the platoon investigate the use of this as a form of long distance communication, only to be foiled by the verger and his hedge shears. To be fair they were only using the tins to practice proper radio procedure.
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Dad's Army / int_e7e3674	comment	Strapped to a Bomb: In a classic episode, "The Deadly Attachment", the over-age Walmington platoon are tasked with guarding the captured crew of a U-boat. The Germans try to escape and take Corporal Jones as a hostage, rigging a hand-grenade down his trousers that will explode if the Captain's wishes are not complied with. Fortunately, Sergeant Wilson has seen to it that there is only a dummy detonator in the grenade ... but only he and Pike know this.
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Dad's Army / int_e906fcc0	comment	1-Dimensional Thinking: In "The Royal Train", the Vicar, the Verger, the Mayor and Hodges are on a handcar following the home guard in a train, when the train goes into reverse. To avoid the train hitting them, they try to outrun it by reversing the handcar, rather than jumping off the handcar and out of the way.
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Dad's Army / int_e9f79e23	type	Screw the War, We're Partying
Dad's Army / int_e9f79e23	comment	Screw the War, We're Partying: Pvt. Walker — skirt-chaser and black marketeer who has avoided the draft due to a 'corned beef allergy'. Justified somewhat: "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker" (one of the three lost Series 2 episodes) did actually have Walker drafted, and discharged on medical grounds because of the apparently genuine allergy — corned beef was the only rations available!
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Dad's Army / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Dad's Army / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: The U-Boat crew's plan to take the platoon prisoner via a grenade down Jones' trousers is foiled when the Colonel notices that Jones isn't wearing his full uniform — something out of character for Mainwaring to let anyone in his platoon do and out of character for Jones himself. And then he literally spots the thread of string connecting the grenade pin to the U-Boat captain's hand.
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Dad's Army / int_ed8d9a50	comment	Cosmetic Catastrophe: In the episode "Keep Young and Beautiful," where the men must disguise themselves to look younger in order to avoid being drafted into the ARP.
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Dad's Army / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
Dad's Army / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	Anti-Climax: Frazer's story about the "old empty barn" among others note There was nothing in it - it was an empty barn, after all. Made funnier by the fact that all of Frazer's previous stories had been quite long-winded, and came to definite — and invariably dreadful — conclusions.
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Dad's Army / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Frazer. He never misses an opportunity to casually undermine his superiors and position himself for promotion. In " Room at the Bottom", when the rest of the platoon ask for Mainwaring to be reinstated, Frazer anonymously puts his own name forward to be captain. In another episode he gets to lead the platoon for a few days and relishes it. It's implied that he actually does have some command ability but is too draconian in his leadership style to be truly popular or effective, meaning that no one really minds if Mainwaring is in charge.
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Dad's Army / int_f1029720	type	Rising Water, Rising Tension
Dad's Army / int_f1029720	comment	Rising Water, Rising Tension: In "Asleep in the Deep", a bomb falls on the local pumping station as Godfrey and Walker are patrolling there, trapping them. When the platoon try to free them, they get stuck with them, and when a pipe bursts the room rapidly begins filling with water.
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Dad's Army / int_f2b9b1c0	type	Banana in the Tailpipe
Dad's Army / int_f2b9b1c0	comment	Banana in the Tailpipe: In the first episode, while having a discussion of how to take on a tank with improvised weapons, Jones suggests plugging the exhaust with spuds (potatoes). Mainwaring points out that it wouldn't work because tanks have long, thin exhaust pipes. Jones asks why they can't use long, thin spuds.
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Dad's Army / int_f485d62d	type	Battering Ram
Dad's Army / int_f485d62d	comment	Battering Ram: In "Museum Piece", the platoon uses a battering ram in an attempt to break down the doors of the museum, only to be defeated by some Door Judo by the museum caretaker.
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Dad's Army / int_f51dd9ec	type	Americans Are Cowboys
Dad's Army / int_f51dd9ec	comment	Americans Are Cowboys: In "My British Buddy", Walmington-on-Sea is hosting the first US troops on British soil, so Captain Mainwaring asks Sgt Wilson how he should greet them. Wilson suggests, "Howdy partner, put it there" while offering to shake hands. Mainwaring scoffs at this, saying he's been watching too many cowboy movies. This becomes the inevitable Brick Joke when the American captain enters and holds out his hand to Mainwaring. "Howdy partner, put it there!"
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Dad's Army / int_f68fcbc6	comment	Sealed Orders: Parodied. Captain Mainwaring is given not only sealed orders but also "Sealed Instructions for Opening Sealed Orders"; when their seal is broken, they read "Break the seal on the sealed orders and then destroy these instructions".
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Dad's Army / int_f6d73bdf	comment	Obsolete Mentor: Corporal Jones is a veteran of many wars but his love of bayonets is more often a hindrance than a help.
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Dad's Army / int_f945dff4	comment	Facepalm: Sergeant Wilson, frequently.
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Dad's Army / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: During drills, whatever the command may be - "Atten-SHUN!", "Stand at EASE!", "About TURN!", etc. - Jones will always be a second or two behind the rest of the platoon in carrying it out. Mainwaring struggles to get the hang of the military's use of the 24-hour clock; Wilson regularly has to translate between 12-hour and 24-hour time for him. (In a case of Strange Minds Think Alike, they meet a Brigadier at the War Office in "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker" who has the same problem.)
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Dad's Army / int_fabef10f	comment	Don't Explain the Joke: In "A Brush with the Law", Jones tells a story about a soldier who reports for training, and when his commanding officer tells him to choose between a Lee-Enfield and a Martini, responds "make it a martini, and go easy with the ice!" He then follows this up with a long-winded explanation of how the soldier was confusing a Martini-Henry rifle with an alcoholic drink.
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Dad's Army / int_fb4dbbf6	comment	Roll in the Hay: In "The Day the Balloon Went Up", Captain Mainwaring gets hooked on a barrage balloon and is carried across country, at one point smashing through a hay bale and startling a pair of young lovers.
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Dad's Army / int_fc9c6b00	comment	Pacifism Is Cowardice: In "Branded", Private Godfrey discloses that he is a pacifist and was a conscientious objector in World War I, only for the platoon to turn on him as a coward. It's later revealed he was decorated for bravery under fire as a medic hauling the wounded out of no-mans-land, and there is some reflection on the meaning of bravery.
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Dad's Army / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Sergeant Wilson is almost invariably polite and charming with everyone, including the men under his command, but he's more than ready to snap into action in the face of enemy threats, and at one point, he punches Hodges for being rude to Mrs. Pike. In the last episode it was even revealed that he had been an artillery captain during the First World War. Private Godfrey is even more kindly and soft-spoken than Wilson, and he was revealed as having been a conscientious objector during the First World War, but he served as an unarmed stretcher bearer, rescuing injured soldiers during the Battle of the Somme, for which he was awarded the Military Medal. Mainwaring himself does actually face up to a real German with a real gun, in the genuine (if mistaken) belief that the German is armed — and pulls it off...
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Dad's Army / int_fd649e2	comment	Fell Off the Back of a Truck: Walker's excuse for how he came by various goods is that they fell off the back of a lorry.
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Dad's Army / int_fe1e7	comment	Nuns Are Funny: Played with; while nuns themselves only very infrequently showed up (for perhaps obvious reasons), a frequent point of conversation was the point of enemy parachutists, saboteurs and Fifth Columnists disguising themselves as nunsnote this is — sort of — Truth in Television; the idea of enemy agents secretly dressing as nuns to carry out covert operations, due to the supposed impenetrability of the typical nun's habit, was popularly circulated during the early days of the invasion of Western Europe, though it was founded on very questionable evidence and is generally considered to be a myth. Similar rumours dated back to World War One.. In "The Deadly Attachment", this ends up leading to a lengthy tangent regarding the possibility of real nuns defecting by stealing a German plane and parachuting out.
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Dad's Army / int_ff24ad1d	comment	Bawdy Song: Godfrey's song about a monk, although we're only ''told'' he sang it, not what it was about. The cast's reactions are more than enough for us to guess.
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Dad's Army	hasFeature	Author Avatar / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Backported Development / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Bad Omen Anecdote / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Badass Pacifist / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Banana in the Tailpipe / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Battering Ram / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Bawdy Song / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Bayonet Ya / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Big Damn Movie / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Bird-Poop Gag / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Black Comedy Rape / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Black Market / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Black Market Produce / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Bolivian Army Ending / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Bomb Disposal / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Brains Versus Brawn / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Break Out the Museum Piece / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Brit Com / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	British Brevity / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Cast the Runner-Up / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Catchphrase Insult / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Character Outlives Actor / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Chummy Commies / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Circular Drive / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Clock Tower / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Commander Contrarian / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Cosmetic Catastrophe / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Couldn't Find a Lighter / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Creator's Pest / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Criminal DoppelgÃ¤nger / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Cultured Badass / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Custom Uniform / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Dark Fic / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Dead Hat Shot / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Decoy Hiding Place / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Did the Earth Move for You, Too? / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Don't Touch It, You Idiot! / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Doomy Dooms of Doom / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Door Judo / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Double Vision / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Drill Sergeant Nasty / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Dropped After the Pilot / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Drunk with Power / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Earned Stripes / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Edible Ammunition / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Enemies List / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Facepalm / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Feedback Rule / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Fell Off the Back of a Truck / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Firefighting Episode / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Forgotten Framing Device / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Friend in the Black Market / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Friendship on the Set / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Frozen in Time / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Gentlemen Rankers / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Hand-or-Object Underwear / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Handcar Pursuit / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Haplessly Hiding / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Hats Off to the Dead / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	He Who Must Not Be Seen / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Help, I'm Stuck! / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Henpecked Husband / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	High-Class Glass / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Home Guard / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Honest John's Dealership / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Honorary Uncle / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Hufflepuff House / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	I Can't Hear You / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	I Don't Think That's Such a Good Idea / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	I Will Fight Some More Forever / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You! / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Impromptu Fortress / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Indispensable Scoundrel / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Insatiable Newlyweds / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Inter-Service Rivalry / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Ironic Nickname / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Irony as She Is Cast / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	It Must Be Mine! / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Just Testing You / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Living Prop / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Mad Bomber / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Maiden Aunt / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Military Salute / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Mismeasurement / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Mistaken for Pregnant / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Mobile Shrubbery / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Molotov Cocktail / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Mr. Vice Guy / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Mustache Vandalism / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	No Longer with Us / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Not So Remote / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Nude-Colored Clothes / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Obsolete Mentor / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Of Corsets Funny / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	On-Set Injury / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	One-Episode Wonder / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Outfit Decoy / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Pacifism Is Cowardice / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Pantomime Animal / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Parachute in a Tree / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Perilous Old Fool / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Phony Veteran / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Pink Elephants / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Pronouncing My Name for You / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Racial Face Blindness / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Razor Floss / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Real Award, Fictional Character / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Repeated Rehearsal Failure / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Resistance Is Futile / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Retired Badass Roundup / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Rising Water, Rising Tension / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Roll in the Hay / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Runaway Train / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Sarcasm Failure / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Saved by Canon / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Screw the War, We're Partying / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Sea Mine / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Sealed Orders / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Sedgwick Speech / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Sequel in Another Medium / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Sergeant Rock / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Series of the 1970s / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Sexual Extortion / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Sharp-Dressed Man / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Shout-Out Theme Naming / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Signature Line / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	6 Is 9 / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Soldiers at the Rear / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Spin-Off / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Squirrels in My Pants / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Sticky Bomb / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Stock Punishment / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Strapped to a Bomb / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Sudden Name Change / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Surrounded by Idiots / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Team Title / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	That Nostalgia Show / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	The '40s / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	The Consigliere / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	The Danza / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	The Fixer / int_8667f7b0
TheHomeFront	seeAlso	Dad's Army
Dad's Army	hasFeature	The Napoleon / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	The Reliable One / int_8667f7b0
The River War	seeAlso	Dad's Army
Dad's Army	hasFeature	The Runt at the End / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	The Scrounger / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	The So-Called Coward / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	The Vicar / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	The Voiceless / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	This Is My Side / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Thrifty Scot / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Tin-Can Telephone / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Trapped the Wrong Target / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Two Men, One Dress / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Tyrant Takes the Helm / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Video Credits / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Wag the Director / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	War Comes Home / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	War Reenactors / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Wedding Finale / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Whole Episode Flashback / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Written-In Absence / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Wrong Line of Work / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	Wrong Song Gag / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	X on a Stick / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	You Didn't Ask / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	You Got Murder / int_8667f7b0
Dad's Army	hasFeature	You Watch Too Much X / int_8667f7b0
CuandoJuanYTulaFueronASiritinga	seeAlso	Dad's Army
Get Some In!	seeAlso	Dad's Army

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