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Mock the Week

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Mock the Week	label	Mock the Week
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Mock the Week	comment	Mock the Week is a British Panel Game that aired from 2005 to 2022. It is BBC2's equivalent of Have I Got News for You, with strong influence from Whose Line Is It Anyway? (which isn't surprising, considering they were created by the same people). It involves only comedians and is hosted by Dara Ã“ Briain, an Irish comedian.The show's only regular panellist was Hugh Dennis, who had been with the show from beginning to end; other former regulars are Andy Parsons (series 3-14), Chris Addison (series 10-12), Russell Howard (series 4-9, left to star in his own show Russell Howard's Good News), Frankie Boyle (series 1-7) and Rory Bremner (series 1 and 2). There were also many semi-regular guests (Parsons, Howard, and Addison were among them before being promoted to regulars), including Maisie Adam, Angela Barnes (who was made a regular panellist for the final series), Ed Byrne, Rhys James, Milton Jones and Glenn Moore.It was announced in August 2022 that the show would be ending following its 21st series, which aired in September and October of that year.
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Mock the Week / int_110a7d7	type	Finale Season
Mock the Week / int_110a7d7	comment	Finale Season: Series 21 was announced to be the final season in August 2022 (ahead of its premiere later the same year).
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Mock the Week / int_11734fc0	type	Mission Control Is Off Its Meds
Mock the Week / int_11734fc0	comment	Mission Control Is Off Its Meds: ...except when he decides to join in.
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Mock the Week / int_120d0e3f	type	Adam Westing
Mock the Week / int_120d0e3f	comment	For his third appearance, however (which was when he recently won Wimbledon in 2016), they've been actually very kind—with him even joining in for the banter even while in the audience with his wife. In fact, the series has tended to be good-natured towards him since 2014, especially since he's a well-established fan of the show.
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Mock the Week / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
Mock the Week / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: "What the Queen didn't say in her Christmas speech":
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Mock the Week / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Mock the Week / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: Hugh Dennis is the only current panellist without a background in stand-up comedy; he is a remnant of the show's original premise as a topical version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, with more rounds focused on impressions. To take it to almost its logical conclusion, he is also the sole remaining regular panellist.
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Mock the Week / int_14180452	type	Instantly Proven Wrong
Mock the Week / int_14180452	comment	Discussed in a series 16 episode. Kerry Godliman tries to say that only male politicians have two first names as a full name, citing Nick Timothy as an example. She is Instantly Proven Wrong by Dara who points out Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the UK at the time of broadcast.
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Mock the Week / int_148e222c	type	Crosses the Line Twice
Mock the Week / int_148e222c	comment	The common reaction to a Milton Jones pun that Crosses the Line Twice is to perform a Head Desk.
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Mock the Week / int_15184afb	type	This Loser Is You
Mock the Week / int_15184afb	comment	This Loser Is You: Touched on every now and then.
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Mock the Week / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Mock the Week / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: One segment had to be relegated to an outtakes special. The producers should have known better than to ask a bunch of comedians not to make jokes about David Blunkett's blindness. One of the rounds in Scenes We'd Like to See was "Unlikely Things for Andy Murray to Think"... while Andy Murray was in the studio audience. Series 15 episode 11 has John Robins and Sara Pascoe — who were dating in real life — appear on the panel together. Cue lots of jokes about their relationship from John and Sara themselves, as well as the rest of the panel. For instance, John was given the topic of home life during Spinning The News, which lead to James Acaster opening his routine with "speaking of the cinema, Sara Pascoe's an idiot".
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Mock the Week / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Mock the Week / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: By its very nature.
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Mock the Week / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
Mock the Week / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: Surprisingly common. Rejected Questions from this Year's Exams Famous Last Words In the Series 6 Christmas episode, Frankie impersonates "bad teenage pandas who are spoiling the park for the little baby pandas." Things You Wouldn't Hear in a Science Documentary Bad Ways for Gordon Brown to Address The Nation In a game of "If This Is The Answer, What Is The Question?" when the answer is "5p": In an outtake, Frankie and Andy exchanged 'Your mum' insults. In another "If This Is The Answer, What Is The Question?" game, the answer is "328 billion": In Season 14, about a ruling that an additional 5p will be charged for shoppers who didn't bring their own bag: In Season 16, during a round of Scenes We'd Like to See where the topic is "Things you wouldn't hear in a nature show": Later in the same season, "Things A News Reporter Would Never Say":
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Mock the Week / int_1759af2f	type	Feghoot
Mock the Week / int_1759af2f	comment	Feghoot: From "Things You Wouldn't Hear on the Radio"
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Mock the Week / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Mock the Week / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Several times in the Too Hot for TV DVDs the panelists remark that they know none of the material is going to survive the edit. The panel randomly mention programmes being aired late at night with signing. Dara then spends some time 'interacting' with an imaginary signer in the corner of the screen.
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Mock the Week / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Mock the Week / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Unlikely Lines To Hear On A Survival Program:
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Mock the Week / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Mock the Week / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Dropping the rounds that focused on impressions (due to Rory Bremner leaving the show) shifted the series to a more simple cross between a panel show and stand-up comedy.
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Mock the Week / int_187228e0	type	Bridal Carry
Mock the Week / int_187228e0	comment	Bridal Carry You bet your ass he can!
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Mock the Week / int_19add21f	type	Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Mock the Week / int_19add21f	comment	Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Season 15 is off to a rocktastic start when Dara passes some new plastic pound notes to everyone for specimen purposes - and barely a minute later Ed Gamble has ripped one in half. Amusingly, the tail end of season 15 has another example when Dara gets to play with a Nerf Tri-Strike dart rifle, and starts shooting the other panelists - by the time they get to "Scenes We'd Like To See", the bolt handle has somehow come off in Dara's hand.note Though it could just be the result of not bolting both sides of the charging handle all the way in, a common mistake.
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Mock the Week / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
Mock the Week / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: Discussed (but obviously averted) in Series 15 Episode 5, after Dara coughs halfway through a question. He immediately remarks "I hope I don't die!"
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Mock the Week / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Mock the Week / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Russell Howard. In the post-Russell era, Chris Addison. Ed Byrne too.
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Mock the Week / int_1c3f7219	type	The Roast
Mock the Week / int_1c3f7219	comment	The Roast: The show basically turns into this whenever Andy Murray shows up. When he won Wimbledon for the second time, one of the rounds was them making jokes at his expense.
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Mock the Week / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Mock the Week / int_1c5002bc	comment	Despite being touted as "the classy one", Hugh Dennis sometimes slips into this:
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Mock the Week / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Mock the Week / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Dara and Ed Byrne, who have been best friends for years. More recently, Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan when they're on together. The two have become such good friends that they're now wound up started their own show together.
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Mock the Week / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
Mock the Week / int_1cf11f13	comment	No Sympathy: Dara is usually at the receiving end of it. Most hilariously, the Konnie Huq and the big head incident.
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Mock the Week / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
Mock the Week / int_1dea3034	comment	Cool Shades: James Acaster brings out a pair of these for one episode, and subsequently calls himself "cool James" with them on. "Cool James" appears again in that episode's promotional picture◊.
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Mock the Week / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Mock the Week / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Dara and Ed, in both the show and real life.
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Mock the Week / int_1e5df5	type	Heh Heh, You Said "X"
Mock the Week / int_1e5df5	comment	Heh Heh, You Said "X": During a round of "Unlikely Things For a Continuity Announcer to Say":
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Mock the Week / int_1e679bd0	type	The Quisling
Mock the Week / int_1e679bd0	comment	The Quisling: One child sent in a drawing of the studio being attacked by Daleks, with Frankie on the Daleks' side!
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Mock the Week / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Mock the Week / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Andy Parsons gives a great one for "Unlikely Things to Hear on a TV Talent Show": Hugh gives another one for "Things You Wouldn't Hear at a School Assembly": On that very subject, Hugh gave this in another round of "Unlikely Lines To Hear on a TV Talent Show": Dara gets one in during the episode where Hugh went on a massive rant about oblique French jams and how the UK can easily manufacture its own jam, which turned into a Running Gag at Hugh's expense, well before a story about the dismantling of a NASA satellite, another nail in the coffin of the world's most important space program:
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Mock the Week / int_200c8312	type	Alternate Company Equivalent
Mock the Week / int_200c8312	comment	Alternate Company Equivalent: Not really alternate company, per se, but Mock the Week is to BBC2 what Have I Got News for You is to BBC1.
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Mock the Week / int_20af79d3	type	Oral Fixation
Mock the Week / int_20af79d3	comment	Oral Fixation: Chris Addison and pens.
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Mock the Week / int_217a1adf	type	I Love the Dead
Mock the Week / int_217a1adf	comment	I Love the Dead: "Unlikely Lines From a TV Detective Show":
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Mock the Week / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Mock the Week / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Ed Byrne during â€œThings That Would Change the Mood at a Dinner Partyâ€� Implied by Ed again when they redo the subject.
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Mock the Week / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Mock the Week / int_222dc873	comment	It didn't last two minutes, as the topic led into the joke quoted in Black Comedy.
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Mock the Week / int_22581cd3	type	Girly Run
Mock the Week / int_22581cd3	comment	Girly Run: When Spinning the News brings up the subject of "driving", the Camp Gay Tom Allen trots up to the mike: "Things an Athletics Commentator Would Never Say":
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Mock the Week / int_227f74e1	type	Hollywood Tourette's
Mock the Week / int_227f74e1	comment	Hollywood Tourette's: If Tourette's Syndrome is mentioned during "Scenes We'd Like to See", the panelist who mentioned it will often swear as a punchline.
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Mock the Week / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
Mock the Week / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: Played for laughs in the series 15 Christmas special, when Dara "kills" the rest of the panel by handing them "poisoned" coal sweets to try.
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Mock the Week / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Mock the Week / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Hugh, relatively, if only because he tends to give out the proper answers once enough jokes have been told. Dara as well. Watch his desperate attempts to keep the rest of the panel (mostly Frankie) in line during the game where the producers don't want them to make any jokes about Blunkett being blind. Andy is relatively sane, giving the answers as well.
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Mock the Week / int_2479b6c0	type	Your Television Hates You
Mock the Week / int_2479b6c0	comment	Your Television Hates You: Invoked when they do "Strange Things to hear from a Continuity Announcer" for Scenes We'd Like to See:
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Mock the Week / int_251bbe0e	type	Genre Blindness
Mock the Week / int_251bbe0e	comment	Genre Blindness: In one episode, Dara showed the players a recent news article on a report suggesting that people with larger heads were less susceptible to Alzheimer's... which had referred to him as an example of someone with a 'big head', even putting a picture of him (with the caption 'EXTRA LARGE') next to the article. When the players started teasing him about it mercilessly, he said that he expected sympathy.
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Mock the Week / int_2547b359	type	Real Dreams are Weirder
Mock the Week / int_2547b359	comment	Real Dreams are Weirder: Invoked by Milton, when the subject is "Unlikely Things to Hear on a History Documentary":
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Mock the Week / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Mock the Week / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Prince Philip in his newsreel appearances:
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Mock the Week / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Mock the Week / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The most obvious one would be Scenes We'd Like To See, which started out as Scenes From A Hat on Whose Line, expanded from a one-act-per-suggestion affair to eight or ten, allowing them to milk a mere two suggestions for an entire stretch. You'd be forgiven for thinking there were two Jimmy Savilles in the UK, considering Hugh's wildly different take from Steve Frost's.
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Mock the Week / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Mock the Week / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Dara has a few, e.g. "... at this stage", "... of some description". Once you notice them you'll start hearing them all the time. He also, erm, has a tendency to, eh, pause in the middle of sentences. And often gives a long "ehh" after a sentence, especially a joke. As well as sometimes adding, "Ah, sorry" when he thinks he's digressed from the original topic. Andy Parsons has a lot of these, although there's a chance he intentionally does it as part of his act: "Didn't they/he/she/it?", beginning questions with "Is it in fact...", starting his standups with "Now!", etc. Prefaces most punchlines with "and you're thinking..." His habit of doing this is even lampshaded whenever Russell impersonates him. Andy's voice having a tendency to go slightly higher on the second-to-last word of a sentence. Often flanderised whenever someone does an impression of him, where it becomes every other word instead.
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Mock the Week / int_26d2817c	type	Russian Reversal
Mock the Week / int_26d2817c	comment	Russian Reversal: Hugh pulled a surprisingly clever one-off in "Unlikely Things to Hear in the Police Station":
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Mock the Week / int_27c09b00	type	Camp Straight
Mock the Week / int_27c09b00	comment	Camp Straight: Guest panelist Hal Cruttendon.
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Mock the Week / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
Mock the Week / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: As much a target of the players' humor as used by them. While discussing a Viagra fraud case in which the perpetrators had been arrested, Russell Howard noted he'd seen it on the news and that the anchors started riffing on it:
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Mock the Week / int_29e6dc40	type	HypocriticalHumour
Mock the Week / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: Frequently lampshaded, such as when Chris notes how can they seriously mock Ed Milliband for being too geeky?
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Mock the Week / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Mock the Week / int_2a090d00	comment	Others have lampshaded some of Dennis' gags, such as when Frankie said in a "Scenes We'd Like To See" segment titled "What You Didn't Hear At Live Earth" stating "Live Earth, sponsored by PowerGen." On one occasion, when Frankie made a "Showaddywaddy" joke, Hugh pretended to be offended. A particularly-specific one originated from Newsreel when Hugh's "portrayal" of Prince Charles as an addled senile takes an interesting direction when Charles starts sampling some cheese. Future "portrayals" of Charles would involve random mentions of cheese for no reason. This goes on so much that in the opening for Series 12 and 13, one of the mock newspapers included the headline "CHARLES INVENTS CHEESE POWERED PHONE." In the series that began in June 2011, Hugh weekly riffs on the same joke that the name of Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, sounds like a German person saying "step-ladder". Brought back briefly four years later when Blatter was in the news again after resigning as FIFA president. "Dara Ã“ Briain: we work, so he doesn't have to."
Mock the Week / int_2a090d00	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_2a090d00	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_2a090d00
Mock the Week / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
Mock the Week / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: "Unlikely Things To Hear On a History Documentary":
Mock the Week / int_2b14367f	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_2b14367f	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_2b14367f
Mock the Week / int_2d409194	type	Unsettling Gender-Reveal
Mock the Week / int_2d409194	comment	Unsettling Gender-Reveal: "Unlikely Things to Hear from a Sports Commentator":
Mock the Week / int_2d409194	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_2d409194	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_2d409194
Mock the Week / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Mock the Week / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell Dara studied mathematics and theoretical physics at university and is often the one to correct maths errors and demonstrate his knowledge during discussions about the CERN super-collider. Hugh Dennis, with his posh accent, often gets these moments: (From Scenes We'd Like To See: Unlikely Personal Ads) James Acaster seems to be following Hugh's lead here. In series 17, Hugh reads Danny Dyer's angry, profanity-laced rant about Brexit in a lofty, serious tone while the hymn "Jerusalem" plays in the background.
Mock the Week / int_2d4a6d8c	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_2d4a6d8c	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_2d4a6d8c
Mock the Week / int_2dd5f4bc	type	RosesAreRed
Mock the Week / int_2dd5f4bc	comment	Roses Are Red: Whenever "Unlikely Greeting Cards" appears for "Scenes We'd Like To See", there is inevitably a cavalcade of these: "Unlikely Things To Read In a Valentine's Day Card" "Unlikely Letters to TV Channels'' And from Season 14:
Mock the Week / int_2dd5f4bc	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_2dd5f4bc	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_2dd5f4bc
Mock the Week / int_2fb61faa	type	Statuesque Stunner
Mock the Week / int_2fb61faa	comment	Statuesque Stunner: Ellie Taylor stands at 5 foot 11 and still wears heels.
Mock the Week / int_2fb61faa	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_2fb61faa	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_2fb61faa
Mock the Week / int_301476a3	type	Car Meets House
Mock the Week / int_301476a3	comment	Car Meets House: "Worst Things to Hear Over a Tannoy" "Weird Things to See On a Roadsign" (Downplayed case) "Unlikely Things to Get Through your Letterbox"
Mock the Week / int_301476a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_301476a3	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_301476a3
Mock the Week / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Mock the Week / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: "Insignificant Sausage-Muncher"? Also, "The Butt-Muncher." Doubly subverted in one episode, in which Dara notes that Theresa May is apparently nicknamed "Submarine". He and Josh Widdicombe disagree on the meaningnote Dara claims it's because she pops up randomly during meetings, Josh claims it's because she "disappears under the waves" during crises, but both agree that it actually sounds like a pretty badass nickname. Then Hugh Dennis, of all people, points out that submarines are always full of seamen. James Acaster's superhero identity "The Pummeller".
Mock the Week / int_317629db	featureApplicability	-0.3
Mock the Week / int_317629db	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_317629db
Mock the Week / int_31aba995	type	Self-Abuse
Mock the Week / int_31aba995	comment	Self-Abuse: Parodied by Hugh, when the subject is "Unlikely Things to Hear in a TV Charity Show":
Mock the Week / int_31aba995	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_31aba995	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_31aba995
Mock the Week / int_31c87ac	type	I Call Him "Mister Happy"
Mock the Week / int_31c87ac	comment	I Call Him "Mister Happy": In a blooper reel, Russell tells us that Hugh refers to his as "Mister Dennis", which then becomes a Running Gag. Lampshaded by Ed Byrne in a "Spinning the News" round discussing parenting:
Mock the Week / int_31c87ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_31c87ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_31c87ac
Mock the Week / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Mock the Week / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Played for Laughs. The panel ships Dara/Brian Cox (much to Ed Byrne's anger).
Mock the Week / int_31da1e24	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_31da1e24	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_31da1e24
Mock the Week / int_3297cfbb	type	Evolving Credits
Mock the Week / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: A subtle variant: the spoof headlines in the opening are updated with time. Although that shot of David Beckham receiving a medal has been there all the time, with a different caption.
Mock the Week / int_3297cfbb	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_3297cfbb	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_3297cfbb
Mock the Week / int_340575a7	type	Girl on Girl Is Hot
Mock the Week / int_340575a7	comment	Girl on Girl Is Hot: "Unlikely Lines from a Superhero Movie":
Mock the Week / int_340575a7	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_340575a7	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_340575a7
Mock the Week / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Mock the Week / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Bordering on a literal interpretation when Scenes We'd Like to See does "Unlikely Things to Hear at the Vet":
Mock the Week / int_34dcfc96	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_34dcfc96	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_34dcfc96
Mock the Week / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Mock the Week / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: When Frankie Boyle or the rare foul-mouthed guest gets revved up...
Mock the Week / int_35a858b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_35a858b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_35a858b3
Mock the Week / int_35fb9016	type	Gratuitous German
Mock the Week / int_35fb9016	comment	Gratuitous German: Via Chris Addison.
Mock the Week / int_35fb9016	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_35fb9016	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_35fb9016
Mock the Week / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Mock the Week / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: It's the last genre of show you'd expect to have one, but John Robins and Sara Pascoe really were together when they recorded an episode together in series 15 - barely a minute after this is revealed, Hugh and Ed Gamble start acting like they already were.
Mock the Week / int_36135fb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_36135fb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_36135fb0
Mock the Week / int_3684532f	type	Never Heard That One Before
Mock the Week / int_3684532f	comment	Never Heard That One Before: Greg Davies has a brief rant on the tedious jokes he gets from everyone because of his height.note At 6'8"/203cm, it's almost impossible to find someone on British TV taller than he is without delving into professional sports or a book of world records.
Mock the Week / int_3684532f	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_3684532f	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_3684532f
Mock the Week / int_36ed3e1e	type	Ascended Meme
Mock the Week / int_36ed3e1e	comment	Ascended Meme: Under "Weird Things To See On A Roadsign"...
Mock the Week / int_36ed3e1e	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_36ed3e1e	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_36ed3e1e
Mock the Week / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
Mock the Week / int_37499c8	comment	Andy Parsons' use of "shit" for a punchline Once an Episode.
Mock the Week / int_37499c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_37499c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_37499c8
Mock the Week / int_38e4b69d	type	Mister Seahorse
Mock the Week / int_38e4b69d	comment	Mister Seahorse:
Mock the Week / int_38e4b69d	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_38e4b69d	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_38e4b69d
Mock the Week / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Mock the Week / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: invoked In-Universe example for "Things You Wouldn't Hear On A Kids TV Show": Ever since the Robot Wars reboot aired, with Dara in the helm, the show has been added to the list of things that the cast use to poke fun at him. Dara has joined in occasionally, referring to Hugh Dennis as "Sir Killalot" and joking about him getting flipped over. Similarly, whenever "Things you wouldn't hear on a science show" is the category, performers usually poke fun at just how many of these types of shows Dara hosts. In season 19, "Spinning the News" hands Nigel Ng the topic of food, and Nigel immediately focuses on how Westerners handle rice, which alludes to his popular "Uncle Roger" video about Westerners attempting to make Asian fried rice.
Mock the Week / int_392372f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_392372f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_392372f9
Mock the Week / int_3a153596	type	Dead Guy Puppet
Mock the Week / int_3a153596	comment	Dead Guy Puppet: Joked about. "Hello, I'm Ming Campbell. I am not dead, nor am I being operated by a pulley system". Also joked about in Series 15 Episode 5 after Andy Murray's second Wimbledon victory: Josh Widdicombe remarked that for the first two sets of the final, he'd been wondering whether Ivan Lendl was actually alive, or whether they'd "pulled a Weekend at Bernie's".
Mock the Week / int_3a153596	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_3a153596	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_3a153596
Mock the Week / int_3a88a563	type	Vocal Dissonance
Mock the Week / int_3a88a563	comment	Vocal Dissonance: Hugh's idea of Camilla Parker Bowles' voice in "Newsreel" is Nolan!Batman on five a day.
Mock the Week / int_3a88a563	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_3a88a563	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_3a88a563
Mock the Week / int_3aa61d8e	type	TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight
Mock the Week / int_3aa61d8e	comment	The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: On some occasions, somebody has given a joke answer in the "If This is the Answer..." round only to discover that it was, in fact, correct. In S14 E5, when asked what doctors have been asking people not to do:
Mock the Week / int_3aa61d8e	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_3aa61d8e	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_3aa61d8e
Mock the Week / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
Mock the Week / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall: Dara often takes a moment to consider what the subjects of their jokes would think of them. For example, after Frankie mused on Rebecca Adlington's love life, Dara imagined her arriving back from the Olympics (where she won two gold medals in swimming, one in world record time) going "Ooh, I haven't seen Mock The Week in four weeks! I wonder who they're tearing into—oh. Oh." This piece, in itself, saw the show get shouted at by the BBC Trust.
Mock the Week / int_3b4f620a	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_3b4f620a	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_3b4f620a
Mock the Week / int_3b5fcbb7	type	Artifact of Doom
Mock the Week / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Artifact of Doom: After Russell Kane made a fairly audacious joke, the others joke that it's because he was sitting in Frankie's old chair.
Mock the Week / int_3b5fcbb7	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_3b5fcbb7	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_3b5fcbb7
Mock the Week / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
Mock the Week / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: On the case of former Russian spies suddenly getting poisoned in the UK:
Mock the Week / int_3c7022ce	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_3c7022ce	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_3c7022ce
Mock the Week / int_3eecf8f	type	Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Mock the Week / int_3eecf8f	comment	Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?: "Unlikely Lines From A Thriller"
Mock the Week / int_3eecf8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_3eecf8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_3eecf8f
Mock the Week / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Mock the Week / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: The answers to the Picture of the Week round are invariably this, and usually given by Hugh Dennis.
Mock the Week / int_3eee0728	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_3eee0728	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_3eee0728
Mock the Week / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
Mock the Week / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: More so than Whose Line, with "Spinning The News" and "Scenes We'd Like To See" marking the middle- and end-points of the show. Subverted by "Headline News" and "If This Is The Answer, What Is The Question?", which take turns starting the show.
Mock the Week / int_3f1aadeb	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_3f1aadeb
Mock the Week / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Mock the Week / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: Their theory that the moral behind "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is that Reindeer are incredibly shallow.
Mock the Week / int_401d4116	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_401d4116	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_401d4116
Mock the Week / int_4345806d	type	Black Comedy Burst
Mock the Week / int_4345806d	comment	In a case of Black Comedy Burst, it's Milton Jones who comes up with this answer for If This Is The Answer...?:
Mock the Week / int_4345806d	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_4345806d	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_4345806d
Mock the Week / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Mock the Week / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Frankie Boyle and Andy Parsons both missed what would have been their final episodes; Frankie because he was taken ill shortly before the recording, and Andy for no stated reason.
Mock the Week / int_43a045de	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_43a045de	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_43a045de
Mock the Week / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Mock the Week / int_43b154c9	comment	Dara is well known for breaking into an impression and speaking from the topical person or character's point of view (accuracy of impression optional).
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Mock the Week / int_43b154c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_43b154c9
Mock the Week / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
Mock the Week / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Played for laughs in the finale when Dara has a go at the "Wheel of News" round, only for his topic to come up as "Job Loss". Understandably less than enthused, he asks for another spin of the wheel... and then, when the other contestants protest this, claims that this was always an option and they could have always asked for another spin rather than have to improvise a stand-up set for a topic they knew nothing about. (Of course, given that the resulting topics that Dara subsequently lands on are "Seeking New Employment" and "Retirement", it clearly isn't.)
Mock the Week / int_44989f6f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Mock the Week / int_45a559cf	type	Wardrobe Malfunction
Mock the Week / int_45a559cf	comment	Wardrobe Malfunction: You'll hear jokes about this any time "Scenes We'd Like to See" does "Unlikely lines from a Sports Commentator." Sometimes twice.
Mock the Week / int_45a559cf	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_45a559cf	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_45a559cf
Mock the Week / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Mock the Week / int_469e3e2f	comment	invoked In-Universe example for "Things You Wouldn't Hear On A Kids TV Show":
Mock the Week / int_469e3e2f	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_469e3e2f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Mock the Week / int_47b542f1	type	Ouija Board
Mock the Week / int_47b542f1	comment	Ouija Board: One of the "Unlikely Lines From A Horror Movie" suggestions imagines an unorthodox attempt at it.
Mock the Week / int_47b542f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_47b542f1	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_47b542f1
Mock the Week / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Mock the Week / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Dara is always the butt of someone's joke, many of which revolve around his (supposedly) oversized head and the fact that he doesn't stand up during the show. In Series 13, Episode 2, Dara came out to make Hugh's team stand behind a dissolving foam line during "Unlikely Things to Hear at the World Cup" after four straight jokes, then did a mamba. Andy was amused, saying it was the first time in years anyone had seen Dara's legs. Series 12, Episode 2 ended with "Things You Wouldn't Hear in a Science Documentary". Dara O'Briain has presented several such documentaries, prompting Miles Jupp and Chris Addison to both take pot-shots at him. Dara declared that neither team would be receiving any points for that round. Series 14, Episode 4 revisited the joke - except this time it went completely Off the Rails and turned into a whole stream of jokes at Dara's expense. Sometimes it's Ireland that gets the brunt of the joke. In one Scenes, after Andy Parsons made a disparaging remark about Ireland, Dara pre-emptively buzzed him for the rest of the round. In Series 17 Episode 2, "Unlikely things to Hear at the World Cup"...the first few were, of course, various riffs on the fact that Ireland wasn't there. Even with the fact that there were at least half a dozen teams that would have been better targets (including two former World Cup champions and the United States).
Mock the Week / int_47fea76b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Mock the Week / int_498ddf27	type	Psycho Party Member
Mock the Week / int_498ddf27	comment	Psycho Party Member: Milton Jones is the comedian equivalent.
Mock the Week / int_498ddf27	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_498ddf27	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_498ddf27
Mock the Week / int_4a87e664	type	Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List
Mock the Week / int_4a87e664	comment	Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List: "Rejected Lines from Movies":
Mock the Week / int_4a87e664	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_4a87e664	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_4a87e664
Mock the Week / int_4aa62032	type	Scully Box
Mock the Week / int_4aa62032	comment	Scully Box: invoked One Clip Show revealed that Josh Widdicombe, that little guy who keeps getting mistaken for a Hobbit, sits on an additional cushion. A later clip show for season 16 revealed that it went much further than that...
Mock the Week / int_4aa62032	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_4aa62032	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_4aa62032
Mock the Week / int_4c2aa31	type	Historical Longevity Joke
Mock the Week / int_4c2aa31	comment	Historical Longevity Joke: Bruce Forsyth used to be the regular subject of these - until his passing in 2017 made it a lot less funny. (For context, he's been on tv since the 1950s.) On an episode during the 2020 US presidential election, Ed Gamble opined that Joe Biden would be the better president to deal with the COVID crisis because of his previous experience with pandemics: having lived through typhoid and whatever killed the dinosaurs.
Mock the Week / int_4c2aa31	featureApplicability	1.0
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Mock the Week / int_4c9d2176	type	Formerly Fat
Mock the Week / int_4c9d2176	comment	Formerly Fat: Ed Gamble - it all happened long before he joined up, but it's come up a few times.
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Mock the Week / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Mock the Week / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first four series have a lot of this; a very different tone due to the different regulars and a different choice of guests, Dara's opening stand-up, everybody playing the 'Spinning the News' round, more categories in "Scenes We'd Like to See"... Not to mention the focus on Rory Bremner's impressions, which completely disappeared once he left after two series. In the first few series, the "Scenes We'd Like to See" would have some tenuous connection to the news (i.e. in the week where Tony Blair's plane was forced to land due to difficulties, the subject was "Unsettling Things to Hear from the Cockpit of a Plane"). This was dropped quite quickly.
Mock the Week / int_4f4372e9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Mock the Week / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
Mock the Week / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Angela Barnes outright claimed to be "a slag" one time. And then she settled down, after which...
Mock the Week / int_4f62bde6	featureApplicability	1.0
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Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_4f62bde6
Mock the Week / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
Mock the Week / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Greg Davies is over half a metre taller than Lucy Porter. When both guest-starred together, they cuddled at the Spinning News round. They also had a joint entry for "Unlikely Lines from a Fantasy Film", with Davies hugging her and saying "This will never work, Frodo."
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Mock the Week / int_4fc0aaa7	type	Makes Just as Much Sense in Context
Mock the Week / int_4fc0aaa7	comment	James Acaster has a bad habit of doing this during Spinning the News. When he was given the subject of "Britain", he talked about wanting to be Mexican; when given "Adventure", he spent the whole time talking about cheese slicing.
Mock the Week / int_4fc0aaa7	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_4fc0aaa7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Mock the Week / int_4fdd0d29	type	Place Worse Than Death
Mock the Week / int_4fdd0d29	comment	Place Worse Than Death: Bracknell, Swindon, Croydon, Middlesbrough, Tyne, Ewtree... Typically the entire country of Scotland gets this treatment. More often than not, it's Frankie taking shots at it.
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Mock the Week / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Mock the Week / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: Discussed during the discussion on alternative fuels, where Andy mentions the stories about trying to make cars run on waste (the answer for â€œIf This is the Answer, What is the Question?â€� that day was â€œCheese, Wine and Rubbishâ€�), and suggests that they could make cars that run on oneâ€™s own excrement, before predicting this would make for something interesting at the roadside:
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Mock the Week / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
Mock the Week / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Rob Beckett often gives off this impression, such as when he thought the word "Machiavellian" was referring to Shakespeare, before admitting he'd previously thought it was a type of nut.
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Mock the Week / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Mock the Week / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: In the outtakes, one Headliner was a picture of David Cameron with CSIP. Frankie's answer is "Cunt Seen in Photo". Also, one of his answers to "Bad Ways for Gordon Brown to Address the Nation" was "If you thought Tony Blair was a cunt, watch this". One of Russell's deleted answers to "Unlikely Small Ads" was a sweary parrot that said the word cunt. Implied in this entry for "Things you wouldn't hear on a property program":
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Mock the Week / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Mock the Week / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: In one round of "Scenes We'd Like to See", on things you wouldn't hear in a history documentary, Hugh makes a joke about Cromwell and Charles I politely talking about the health of the latter's parents and the weather, for the punchline "it was civil war". By the time of the English Civil War, both of Charles I's parents were dead — not that it exactly detracts from the joke.
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Mock the Week / int_56aeebd0	type	Old-Fashioned Fruit Stomping
Mock the Week / int_56aeebd0	comment	Old-Fashioned Fruit Stomping: During a round of Scene We'd Like to See, the topic is "Things You Wouldn't Hear on a Cookery Show":
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Mock the Week / int_582d75de	type	Self-Demonstrating Article
Mock the Week / int_582d75de	comment	Self-Demonstrating Article:
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Mock the Week / int_5860c090	type	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis
Mock the Week / int_5860c090	comment	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: James Acaster and Sara Pascoe tend to dig at each other so often that you'd swear they were the ones in a relationship before they brought John Robins back on. Miles Jupp and Chris Addison for Dara, particularly Miles, who once managed to get in a zinger at Dara in pretty much every section of the episode. Other notable nemeses are Rhys James/Ed Gamble and Romesh Ranganathan/Josh Widdicombe, although as time went by Romesh and Josh turned into something more like Vitriolic Best Buds.
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Mock the Week / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
Mock the Week / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean:
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Mock the Week / int_5924f471	type	Together We Are X
Mock the Week / int_5924f471	comment	Together We Are X: In one episode, Andy Parson parodies this trope:
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Mock the Week / int_5a24baf5	type	Sinister Nudity
Mock the Week / int_5a24baf5	comment	Sinister Nudity: Discussed to a worrying degree when legal restrictions on defending a home against intruders were under discussion. Certain panel members decided the best way to confront a burglar was naked, and... a little too happy to see them. Specifically, with an erection at half-mast. Not a full erection: that was deemed "too weird."
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Mock the Week / int_5a59b3a1	type	Hulk Speak
Mock the Week / int_5a59b3a1	comment	Hulk Speak: Milton, during "Things You Wouldn't Hear in a School Assembly."
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Mock the Week / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
Mock the Week / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: Ed Gamble on the subject of health: Russell used the old "man-eating-squid" joke in a cruise-themed Scenes We'd Like to See. "After that, he's having chips." He also did the "bear-left" joke in a satnav-themed Scene: "And over on the right, squirrel!" In regards to a case of English and French fishermen getting into a row over the rights to fish for scallops: In regards to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau: Lampshaded when Nish Kumar mentions being at an event he remembered roughly as the British-Asian Small Businessman Benefit: Nish gets involved in one again when Rhys jokes that the difference between an Asian (elephant) and an African elephant â€œis that one is an elephant.â€�
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Mock the Week / int_5b0a8d6a	type	Racial Face Blindness
Mock the Week / int_5b0a8d6a	comment	The apparent Racial Face Blindness surrounding Nish and Romesh.
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Mock the Week / int_5c554458	type	Dumb Jock
Mock the Week / int_5c554458	comment	Dumb Jock: They regularly depict footballer Wayne Rooney as such. One round of Between the Lines featured Hugh pretending to be David Beckham and rolling with this trope.
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Mock the Week / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Mock the Week / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Most of their jokes about former Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell, and later Bruce Forsyth. For example, this gem from "Unlikely Things to Hear in a Science Documentary":
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Mock the Week / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
Mock the Week / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: Despite being touted as "the classy one", Hugh Dennis sometimes slips into this: Hugh again when "Scenes We'd Like to See" does cooking shows. Hugh when the subject is "Things You Wouldn't Hear on a News Programme": James Acaster on unlikely things for the continuity announcer to say: Olga Koch on "Things You Wouldn't Hear in a History Documentaryâ€�: Ed Byrne on â€œUnlikely Things to Hear At a Wedding or Funeralâ€�
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Mock the Week / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Mock the Week / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: In comparison to other Panel Games, the show is probably the biggest offender, since all four recurring panelists (out of six) are male and the host is as well and has never featured more than one female comedian on the same panel; out of 51 guests to appear on the show, 16 have been women. Although starting with the thirteenth series, a woman has been on every show per the new BBC policies. It also gets joked about in an "If This Is the Answer" round: It isn't until the 22 June 2017 episode (S16E03) when the panel featured two women (Angela Barnes and Kerry Godliman) on the panel, and it won't be until the 17 June 2021 episode (S20E06) when exactly half the panel is comprised of women (Angela Barnes, Evelyn Mok, and Maisie Adam).
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Mock the Week / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Mock the Week / int_60eac4ba	comment	Series 14, Episode 4 revisited the joke - except this time it went completely Off the Rails and turned into a whole stream of jokes at Dara's expense.
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Mock the Week / int_6197e7cb	type	Police Brutality Gambit
Mock the Week / int_6197e7cb	comment	Police Brutality Gambit: The following Milton Jones joke currently provides the page quote.
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Mock the Week / int_61c7d589	type	Bigger Is Better in Bed
Mock the Week / int_61c7d589	comment	Bigger Is Better in Bed: This exchange between Dara and Hugh: In a later episode, Hugh mentions that in Iceland, people have patronyms instead of surnames, and since his father's name was John, if he was Icelandic, his name would be "Hugh Johnson".
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Mock the Week / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Mock the Week / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Hugh Dennis is prone to staring at the camera in a rather disturbing manner. Parodied in an episode by James Acaster who turned to one side, turned back around with his eyes furrowed, and said, "You're gonna die!" Hugh did the same thing except for an open-mouthed smile and the others commented that that was scarier than an actual glare.
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Mock the Week / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Mock the Week / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: In Series 15 Episode 1 a fly was briefly visible on top of Dara's head while he laughed at one of Hugh's jokes. Lampshaded in the following episode, with Dara mentioning the sheer number of people on Twitter who'd screen-capped the moment and sent it to him, completely ignoring the rest of the episode's content in favour of that one moment. Later, during "If This Is The Answer, What Is The Question", a toy spider can be seen briefly on top of Dara's head while he's laughing at one of Hugh's jokes.
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Mock the Week / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
Mock the Week / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: Dara mocks one when Frankie claims he lost weight on the Irish version of "I'm a Celebrity" set during the potato famine. Dara had to struggle to avoid this in the uncensored outtakes — thanks to a very well-timed joke from Frankie Boyle.
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Mock the Week / int_692c48c4	type	Navel-Deep Neckline
Mock the Week / int_692c48c4	comment	Navel-Deep Neckline: A male example: Chris Addison doesn't seem to know how the top four buttons on any of his shirts work.
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Mock the Week / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
Mock the Week / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: Lampshaded by Andy in "Commercials That Never Made It To Air".
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Mock the Week / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
Mock the Week / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: From one of the "Unlikely Things to Hear Over a Tannoy" segments.
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Mock the Week / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Mock the Week / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Dara mentions that during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, he casually gave the score for the Ireland match on Twitter, which was also happening that night. Cue him getting a flood of angry replies: Dara gets the bad end of this again, after deriding the technical challenge of The Great British Bake Off:
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Mock the Week / int_6bea999c	type	Radio Voice
Mock the Week / int_6bea999c	comment	Radio Voice: Parodied for "Worst Things To Hear Over A Tannoy Announcement"
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Mock the Week / int_6cdc784f	type	You No Take Candle
Mock the Week / int_6cdc784f	comment	You No Take Candle: Used occasionally to make digs at rural Britons.
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Mock the Week / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Mock the Week / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: None of the performers, just jokes played for laughs. Example:
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Mock the Week / int_6d5ab39e	type	Fractured Fairy Tale
Mock the Week / int_6d5ab39e	comment	Fractured Fairy Tale: According to James Acaster, Pinocchio came to life after being possessed by the devil, went around telling lies, and was burned to death for it.
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Mock the Week / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Mock the Week / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Parodied in "Lines You'd Never Hear In A James Bond Film":
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Mock the Week / int_6d7fb55	type	Fake Brit
Mock the Week / int_6d7fb55	comment	Fake Brit: Frankie Boyle whenever he does an English accent. Becomes hilarious when you realise that despite his English accent sounding absolutely nothing like him, Frankie was always chosen to be the one to play Tony Blair. Perhaps they were operating on the logic that since Tony Blair was born in Scotland, why not send a Scotsman to play him?
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Mock the Week / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
Mock the Week / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Dara once brought up the fact a newspaper article about people with bigger heads are unlikely to get Alzheimer's which the paper decided to depict with a picture of his head. The group take it in turns to mercilessly riff on the subject of "Dara's Big Head" for nearly five minutes, with Chris noting that when Dara revealed a weakness in front of a bunch of comedians, honestly, what did he think would happen? Jokes have been made about Dara's head ever since. Dara also never forgot that Ed Byrne wasn't picked on the episode of the British version of Blind Date in which he participated.
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Mock the Week / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Mock the Week / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	At some point the guys realised that any random mentions of Christmas would wind up in the Christmas Episode Clip Show. Cue lots of excessive season's greetings midseason.
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Mock the Week / int_6f064059	type	The Points Mean Nothing
Mock the Week / int_6f064059	comment	The Points Mean Nothing: In fact, they only seem to be mentioned at all to keep up the pretense that it's a quiz show. Don't expect to ever hear how many points a team has. One memorable example was an episode in Series 2 where Dara awarded the points to a team that had not participated in the round at all. Another one where Dara stated that he didn't base the points on who was funniest, it was all random and told the viewers to stop writing in complaining. In an episode shortly after the 2010 World Cup, Dara let a stuffed-toy version of Paul the Psychic Octopus declare the winning team. In a 2012 episode, Andy Murray (who'd been defeated in the Wimbledon Men's Singles final earlier that week) was declared the winner, as he was sitting in the audience. He was declared the winner again in a 2016 episode, after winning his second Wimbledon title, and even given a small trophy.
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Mock the Week / int_702bebaf	type	Un-Evil Laugh
Mock the Week / int_702bebaf	comment	Un Evil Laugh: Dara's got a good one.
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Mock the Week / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
Mock the Week / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Of a sort, invoked by the production team. After Dara had previously been compared to a sausage costume, complete with a side-by-side comparison shot, he was later compared to the character on the back of the Megabus. After the obligatory side-by-side (which included a yellow hat they'd actually given Dara) the production team went to the extra step of comparing Dara to the sausage costume with the Megabus hat edited onto it.
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Mock the Week / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Mock the Week / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Tom Allen. The bald head and facial hair REALLY sell it.
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Mock the Week / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Mock the Week / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Russell Howard and Chris Addison both missed the autumn halves of their last series due to filming commitments elsewhere (Russell because of Russell Howard's Good News, Chris because of a sitcom role), with the stated intention to return the following year. However, they did not do so and were quietly confirmed to have permanently left the show sometime later.
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Mock the Week / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Mock the Week / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Romesh, Romesh, Romesh. Tom Allen hits this note sometimes, too. From "Unlikely Things to Hear in a School Assembly":
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Mock the Week / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
Mock the Week / int_7815ba15	comment	Frankie Boyle — Kerry Katona's fertility and apparent penchant for cheap fatty food, Scottish savagery or primitivism, Fern Britton's weight problems and Adrian Chiles' physical appearance. This last one was Running Gagged when Frankie was unable to make the recording of the last episode of Series 7, with Russell suggesting that Chiles "had finally got him".
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Mock the Week / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
Mock the Week / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: Frankie Boyle is the comedian equivalent.
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Mock the Week / int_7ac5c1de	type	Unishment
Mock the Week / int_7ac5c1de	comment	Unishment: A story in Series 17 involves one of Jeremy Corbyn's closest aides Andrew Murray being banned from entering Ukraine, due to being supposedly too pro-Vladimir Putin. Hugh points out that Murray had never been to Ukraine and had no interest in going there. "It's not going to affect his life much, is it? It's like me being banned from Chessington World of Adventures. It's not really going to make a great deal of difference." Hugh then spends the rest of the episode worrying that he may have just got himself banned from Chessington World of Adventures.
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Mock the Week / int_7b2118c5	type	Bait-and-Switch Comparison
Mock the Week / int_7b2118c5	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comparison: "What a Rugby Commentator Would Never Say": During a discussion on the escalating tensions between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un:
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Mock the Week / int_7fe66618	type	You Can See That, Right?
Mock the Week / int_7fe66618	comment	You Can See That, Right?: During the season 14 episode when Dara mentions using "Sirtaki (aka Zorba's March)" as a form of psychological warfare when negotiating a bailout:
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Mock the Week / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Mock the Week / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Frankie cracks a smile at Andy's rejected exam question "If Sally buys three oranges and two apples, how far south of Scotland is she?" During "Commercials That Never Made It to Air", Chris makes a bald joke at Andy ("Do you suffer from dull, lifeless hair? Don't worry, Andy Parsons'll buy it off you"). Andy gives a "challenge accepted" reaction and responds with a dig at Chris' Direct Line adverts that leaves Chris laughing. Seann Walsh almost doubles over laughing after a Take That! from Josh Widdicombe while suggesting "Unlikely things to hear at Christmas time". After Milton and Rachel Parris make direct digs at Nish Kumar in "Scenes We'd Like to See", the camera always cuts over to show Nish Kumar laughing the hardest at it.
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Mock the Week / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Mock the Week / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Frankie summons Memnok the High Elf to buy gifts for the regulars, Dara gets an avatar for his soul to enter upon death, Hugh gets a box in which to store the souls of his enemies, Russel gets a sword that belonged to a rabid monkey, and Andy gets Â£110.
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Mock the Week / int_80d2d71c	type	Air Quotes
Mock the Week / int_80d2d71c	comment	Air Quotes: The stand-up challenge of S07E09 gives us the following: Stewart again in a later season:
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Mock the Week / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
Mock the Week / int_816a4e80	comment	Star Wars is a favourite among the guys and Dara in particular.
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Mock the Week / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Mock the Week / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Ed Byrne. And then: And finally:
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Mock the Week / int_82f14228	type	Slash Fic
Mock the Week / int_82f14228	comment	Slash Fic: Referenced — there's apparently slash of Hugh and Frankie — and (of course) mocked. Frankie was quite offended that his pubes were described as ginger, and when Hugh raised his arms in victory after being informed of his starring role said: "I don't know why you're doing that, Hugh, because you're the receiver."
Mock the Week / int_82f14228	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_82f14228	featureConfidence	1.0
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Mock the Week / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Mock the Week / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Larry Dean, with a strong Scottish brogue worthy of Frankie Boyle, was apparently surprised when he had to bring it up himself before anyone realized it.
Mock the Week / int_83b44e80	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_83b44e80	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_83b44e80
Mock the Week / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Mock the Week / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Tom Allen combined this with Entertainingly Wrong when the panellists were discussing the scene from Love Actually where Hugh Grant as the Prime Minister is knocking on doors looking for Martine McCutcheon's character, wrongly assuming that as soon as he finds her he flashes cue cards at her. While such a cue-card-flashing scene does take place in Love Actually, the actual actors in that scene were Keira Knightley and a pre-Walking-Dead Andrew Lincoln, which was pointed out to Tom.
Mock the Week / int_83cef301	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_83cef301	featureConfidence	1.0
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Mock the Week / int_83ea0763	type	Rouge Angles of Satin
Mock the Week / int_83ea0763	comment	Many episodes have running gags that everyone gets in on that last the length of the episode but don't carry over (for example, "nuts on the road" and "the racist door"). Some do carry over for a bit, like Andy Parsons's "Dyslexic Weekly", which involves interpreting the abbreviation in Headline News as a typo. The most (in)famous was "anal lube", which everyone kept bringing back knowing full well it would never make the broadcast.
Mock the Week / int_83ea0763	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_83ea0763	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_83ea0763
Mock the Week / int_8426d2ac	type	Inherently Funny Words
Mock the Week / int_8426d2ac	comment	Inherently Funny Words: Hugh used to get a lot of mileage out of his Jimmy Saville impression and the band name Showaddywaddy. On "Unlikely Film Trailers":
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Mock the Week / int_8426d2ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_8426d2ac
Mock the Week / int_847257ff	type	My Biological Clock Is Ticking
Mock the Week / int_847257ff	comment	My Biological Clock Is Ticking: "Bad Things to Say on a First Date"
Mock the Week / int_847257ff	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_847257ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_847257ff
Mock the Week / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Mock the Week / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The first game played in the first episode was a round called "Inside the Mind Of...", where the panelists had to guess what the voices in somebody's head were saying - in that episode's case, George Bush. The round was never played beyond that first episode.
Mock the Week / int_863fa679	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_863fa679	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_863fa679
Mock the Week / int_872b9e12	type	Chained to a Railway
Mock the Week / int_872b9e12	comment	Chained to a Railway: Discussed in one episode, where Dara thought that the villains who did that sort of thing would be amongst the people most affected by the train cancellations that saw only 1 in 500 London Midland trains running at the weekend.
Mock the Week / int_872b9e12	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_872b9e12	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_872b9e12
Mock the Week / int_876a0cf0	type	Joke and Receive
Mock the Week / int_876a0cf0	comment	Joke and Receive: Between Dara and Josh in one episode: In the 2016 Christmas episode:
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Mock the Week / int_876a0cf0	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_876a0cf0
Mock the Week / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Mock the Week / int_8797239c	comment	Nish gets involved in one again when Rhys jokes that the difference between an Asian (elephant) and an African elephant â€œis that one is an elephant.â€�
Mock the Week / int_8797239c	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_8797239c	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_8797239c
Mock the Week / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Mock the Week / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Dara attempts an English accent in one episode which generates this response from the other panellists. Milton's first attempt at a Scottish accent (while imitating Andy Murray) is so bad that Dara admonishes him for it. His next attempts are... somewhat better.
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Mock the Week / int_884c48a6	type	Non-Answer
Mock the Week / int_884c48a6	comment	Non-Answer: One season 7 episode has Dara criticising David Cameron on this.
Mock the Week / int_884c48a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_884c48a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_884c48a6
Mock the Week / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
Mock the Week / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: When the show was broadcast the week of England's final World Cup group match, which determined whether or not they'd go through to the knockout stage, the show was filmed on Tuesday, the match played on Wednesday and the show broadcast on Thursday, Dara expressing worry about the resulting "time paradox". At some point the guys realised that any random mentions of Christmas would wind up in the Christmas Episode Clip Show. Cue lots of excessive season's greetings midseason. Often, they'll reference the fact that the audience is probably watching reruns on Dave sometime in the future. Usually, it's accompanied by one of the panelists speaking directly to the people watching in the future.
Mock the Week / int_884e513b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Mock the Week / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
Mock the Week / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name With An S: One of the standup bits has Sara Pascoe mentioning that half her messages have been unwittingly sent to a 'Sarah Pascoe', who's been acting as her 'complaints department'.
Mock the Week / int_89a17726	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_89a17726	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_89a17726
Mock the Week / int_8a58bb81	type	Meta Guy
Mock the Week / int_8a58bb81	comment	Meta Guy: Parodied by Miles Jupp in a "Picture of the Week" round where, after a few suggestions of what the people in the photo might be saying, he always said, "Perhaps they're not speaking at all".
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Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_8a58bb81
Mock the Week / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Mock the Week / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: From one "If This Is the Answer What is the Question":
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Mock the Week / int_8b68d9a7	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_8b68d9a7
Mock the Week / int_8cb66c2f	type	Who Murdered the Asshole
Mock the Week / int_8cb66c2f	comment	Who Murdered the Asshole: A recurring topic on "Scenes We'd Like to See" is "Lines you wouldn't hear in a TV detective show", where this trope gets played for comedy:
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Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_8cb66c2f
Mock the Week / int_92fa14	type	Our Lawyers Advised This Trope
Mock the Week / int_92fa14	comment	Our Lawyers Advised This Trope: Subverted on at least one occasion, when Eamonn Holmes had threatened legal action against the BBC over jokes made about his weight and the show immediately turned it into a running gag.
Mock the Week / int_92fa14	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Mock the Week / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Mock the Week / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: Nish Kumar, James Acaster, and Zoe Lyons all made appearances during Series 21 after departing from the series on a regular basis.
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Mock the Week / int_936581e6	type	TastesLikeFeet
Mock the Week / int_936581e6	comment	Tastes Like Feet: Also from the coal sweets incident above:
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Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_936581e6
Mock the Week / int_939a84fa	type	Embarrassing Tattoo
Mock the Week / int_939a84fa	comment	Embarrassing Tattoo: While discussing the Chinese introducing anal swabs to test for COVID-19, a shot of the instruction sheet issued with the swab kit flashes up briefly on the screen. Dara then says that he didn't show it for longer because he doesn't want people to learn his tattoo actually means "anal swab".
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Mock the Week / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Mock the Week / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Dara. A lot of the cut material which airs in compilations/DVD extras shows him vainly trying to steer the panel away from an offensive joke and then giving up and riffing on it himself. Perhaps one of the funniest examples is the David Blunkett incident. Dara tries valiantly to get the panel to not make jokes about Blunkett involving his blindness as per the producers' orders. Naturally, they don't comply. Finally, after many good laughs are had, Dara gives in and makes a joke of his own.
Mock the Week / int_96b89043	featureApplicability	1.0
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Mock the Week / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Mock the Week / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Referenced: Sophie Duker (who is black) imagined a subversion of this during one "Unlikely Lines from a Horror Film" round.
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Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_9788e2b1
Mock the Week / int_99156d7e	type	Head Desk
Mock the Week / int_99156d7e	comment	Head Desk: Hugh does one whenever he mentions anything boring, such as when he admitted he knew a bit of trivia about the Royal Family, or after he explains the meaning of the term "Machiavellian" to Rob Beckett.
Mock the Week / int_99156d7e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_99156d7e
Mock the Week / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
Mock the Week / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: Russell's habit of picking the microphone up during the "Scenes We Like To See" round. Noticeable in that this actually becomes memetic, as no one ever seems to pick up the microphone until after Russell does. In fact, the first time he does it, he actually asks if it's okay to take it before he does. After saying a punchline, Hugh's eyes often dart back and forth as if he's reading a very fast teleprompter. After playing Spinning The News, Milton tends to end his set by throwing both hands in the air and then running back to where he'd been standing. During "Scenes We'd Like to See," Gary will usually give a little nod after his joke like he's thanking the audience for their laughter. Andy also does this, and then sometimes rises up slightly onto the balls of his feet before dropping back down and striding back to his spot.
Mock the Week / int_9ae8eea9	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_9ae8eea9	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_9ae8eea9
Mock the Week / int_9b57f005	type	AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle
Mock the Week / int_9b57f005	comment	Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: One outtake showed Rory Bremner as George W Bush with Greg Proops as his aide, taking a telephone call from Tony Blair. The aide has to remind Bush of Blair's nationality: "He's from Great Britain, sir."
Mock the Week / int_9b57f005	featureApplicability	1.0
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Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_9b57f005
Mock the Week / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Mock the Week / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	In fact, Milton's Cloud Cuckoo Lander nature is lampshaded in an outtakes episode.
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Mock the Week / int_9f240209	type	Gag Dub
Mock the Week / int_9f240209	comment	Gag Dub: "Newsreel".
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Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_9f240209
Mock the Week / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
Mock the Week / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: Andy Parsons talks about money, then explains who runs China:
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Mock the Week / int_9f8a12d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_9f8a12d7
Mock the Week / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Mock the Week / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: During a round of "If This is the Answer, What is the Question?", when given the answer "63 years", Milton asked "Is it, how long can I keep this up?" and started clapping like a seal. He kept this up for about 20-30 seconds, with the audience laughing for the entire duration until Milton finally asked Dara to press the buzzer so he could stop. "Spinning the News" in season 16 episode 8. Tom Allen's bit is mostly what he calls "a teacher having a nervous breakdown before our very eyes", by having to go through one lesson after another while trying to keep what he claims is "3 to 5 million kids" under control. It's easily the only thing in that episode longer than Ellie's legs. Another one from Milton in a round of "If This is the Answer, What is the Question?"; the answer is "49 years". Milton responds "What's the world record for staying under a desk that I'm gonna break now" and dives under the desk. Dara has to spend quite some time trying to coax him back out.
Mock the Week / int_a188ac4b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_a188ac4b
Mock the Week / int_a280f130	type	Take This Job and Shove It
Mock the Week / int_a280f130	comment	Take This Job and Shove It: When Scenes We'd Like To See does newscasters:
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Mock the Week / int_a4a43fd	type	Saw a Woman in Half
Mock the Week / int_a4a43fd	comment	Saw a Woman in Half: "Unlikely Things to Hear on a TV Talent Show"
Mock the Week / int_a4a43fd	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_a4a43fd	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_a4a43fd
Mock the Week / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
Mock the Week / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: A list of ways naked people can be funny. Of course, it comes up normally during all the other suggestions.
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Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_a58e5ad7
Mock the Week / int_a5d0261b	type	In a Worldâ€¦
Mock the Week / int_a5d0261b	comment	In a Worldâ€¦: Parodied by Ed Gamble during a round of "Unlikely Film Trailers", complete with Don LaFontaine impression:
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Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_a5d0261b
Mock the Week / int_a62e50b8	type	Scandalgate
Mock the Week / int_a62e50b8	comment	Scandalgate: Hugh Dennis made a joke about this, calling a scandal about tapping the phones of celebrities "stargate" and one about a politician's husband buying pornography "masturgate."
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Mock the Week / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Mock the Week / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Several of the regulars started out as guests before being promoted to a regular role, including Andy Parsons, Russell Howard, and later Chris Addison.
Mock the Week / int_a65288e2	featureApplicability	1.0
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Mock the Week / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Mock the Week / int_a6cda066	comment	Interestingly, it took him three tries before he could get it all out.
Mock the Week / int_a6cda066	featureApplicability	1.0
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Mock the Week / int_a6ff7243	type	Hates Being Touched
Mock the Week / int_a6ff7243	comment	Hates Being Touched: Invoked.
Mock the Week / int_a6ff7243	featureApplicability	1.0
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Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_a6ff7243
Mock the Week / int_a7f99c1f	type	Two First Names
Mock the Week / int_a7f99c1f	comment	Two First Names: Hugh Dennis, Russell Howard, Stewart Francis, Katherine Ryan... Discussed in a series 16 episode. Kerry Godliman tries to say that only male politicians have two first names as a full name, citing Nick Timothy as an example. She is Instantly Proven Wrong by Dara who points out Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the UK at the time of broadcast.
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Mock the Week / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
Mock the Week / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language: Imagine an American's reaction to Russell asking a crew member if he had a "fag" in school.note It means he had an underclassman who acted as a servant.
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Mock the Week / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
Mock the Week / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: The Covid Briefing Rap. Interestingly, it took him three tries before he could get it all out.
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Mock the Week / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
Mock the Week / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: Discussed and subverted in one round of "Spinning The News". James Acaster claimed that he drank punch alone in his room as there was no danger of it getting spiked ("unless it's Fun-Time Thursday"). He then described an occasion where his friend had gone to a pub bathroom, leaving his pint unsupervised, and James had proceeded to take the pint and... walk around the room using it to propose toasts to things that his friend disagrees with. When Romesh used this humor in a "Scenes We'd Like to See", the audience reacted poorly, but he recovered by exasperatedly pointing out that it was a fictional character expressing the view, not him.
Mock the Week / int_ab8e26e2	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Mock the Week / int_ab940e63	type	Robo Speak
Mock the Week / int_ab940e63	comment	Robo Speak: Parodied by Hugh, "Things You Wouldn't Hear Your Sat-Nav Say":
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Mock the Week / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
Mock the Week / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: Due to taking place in the same year (2017 AD for the record) as North Korea's increased nuclear testing and shouting contests with Donald Trump, the Clip Show of season 16 starts with Dara acting like it's one of these.
Mock the Week / int_ad22fa80	featureApplicability	1.0
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Mock the Week / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Mock the Week / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Many, but particularly Hugh Dennis. Romesh Ranganathan also seems to have this shtick, with a much more downbeat personality than anyone else on the panel. He almost never cracks a smile.
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Mock the Week / int_ae50ca8f	type	Stage Names
Mock the Week / int_ae50ca8f	comment	Stage Names: Mocked by Ed Byrne. From his comments to Dara, it seems the two rib each other with this, Ed saying that Dara's surname (pronounced "O'Bree-en") is actually the commonplace "O'Brien":
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Mock the Week / int_af2547c9	type	Informed Flaw
Mock the Week / int_af2547c9	comment	Informed Flaw: After a newspaper article claimed that Dara has a GIANT head, the guys began to riff on this, claiming Dara's head is so massive, it can curve space and that the logo is actually a small planet that got pulled into orbit around him.
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Mock the Week / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Mock the Week / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: One "If This is the Answer What is the Question" brings up just a number 6.
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Mock the Week / int_aff1ee2e	type	Small Reference Pools
Mock the Week / int_aff1ee2e	comment	Small Reference Pools: Often subverted. Usually, Russell Howard will bring up a speculative fiction fandom, only for everyone else to get in an opinion on it, showing they are at least slightly versed. (There are sometimes even groups of fans in the audience.) An excellent example was when he discussed being in line for the last Harry Potter novel; they asked if he dressed up as one of the characters. When he said he hadn't, they continued that he'd missed a great opportunity to show up as someone else: "I'm sorry! I am Darth Vader! I wear this to all these kinds of things!" Russell finished by noting he should have dressed as a Sith Lord, waited in line all night, and when he got to the counter said "The Da Vinci Code, please." Played straight an awful lot of the time, such as in almost the entire segment here where they reference precisely three fantasy works, each of which have all recently been turned into movies and are incredibly popular in mainstream media anyway. Hugh Dennis mentioned "the god Imhotep" a couple of times... not only was Imhotep a high priest and not a god, but so was the real Imhotep in history. Apparently he was made a deity only two thousand years after he died, and this comes from The Other Wiki, but still, he is a god now. This answer that James Acaster gave during If This Is The Answer...:
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Mock the Week / int_b21ddb6b	type	Content Warnings
Mock the Week / int_b21ddb6b	comment	Content Warnings: Parodied by Hugh, "Unlikely Lines to Hear in a TV Show": Parodied by Frankie Boyle as well during "What a Television Announcer is Unlikely to Say": Yet again by Hugh with the same subject:
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Mock the Week / int_b2283870	type	Retool
Mock the Week / int_b2283870	comment	Retool: As with many other series, the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic forced changes to the studio, with glass screens placed between individual presenters and most of the audience communicating virtually.
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Mock the Week / int_b486877f	type	Squick
Mock the Week / int_b486877f	comment	The same episode also made a running gag out of David Cameron's alleged illicit relations with a dead pig, with the contestants bringing it up at literally every opportunity (including the aforementioned "Scenes We'd Like To See" round, which started with two such jokes in a row).
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Mock the Week / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Mock the Week / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Each episode consists of the opening credits, about 27 minutes of this, and three minutes of jokes that aren't attacks on anyone or anything sprinkled throughout, then the ending credits. And considering the opening credits are mock newspaper or internet articles making fun of a large number of politicians/celebrities anyway, not even they are exempt. In one season 12 episode, Hugh (the last remaining original regular) took the show to task for repeating some of the "Scenes We'd Like To See" topics. Also plenty of jabs at TV station "Dave" for constantly repeating the show.
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Mock the Week / int_b54fe3ce	type	Classically-Trained Extra
Mock the Week / int_b54fe3ce	comment	Classically-Trained Extra: Invoked by Ed Byrne when the subject is "Things you wouldn't hear on a Kids' TV show": Also invoked by Frankie Boyle:
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Mock the Week / int_b5c47a93	type	A Degree in Useless
Mock the Week / int_b5c47a93	comment	A Degree in Useless: There were several jokes about media studies being this.
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Mock the Week / int_b7f082b6	type	Logical Fallacies
Mock the Week / int_b7f082b6	comment	Logical Fallacies:
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Mock the Week / int_b871de85	type	Annoying Laugh
Mock the Week / int_b871de85	comment	Annoying Laugh: The Series 8 outtakes featured a woman in the audience constantly interrupting a round of Scenes We'd Like To See with this, leading to a rare Out of Character moment for Milton.
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Mock the Week / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Mock the Week / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: One of the few suggestions for this round to actually mock a general fantasy trope rather than making the usual Harry Potter / The Lord of the Rings gags;
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Mock the Week / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Mock the Week / int_ba236071	comment	It Makes Sense in Context: Hilariously, it's Frankie of all people wonders how on earth did a political discussion end up with Hugh talking about something completely different while Russell tells Dara that "No one bites my balls!"
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Mock the Week / int_ba94e7ad	type	Low Count Gag
Mock the Week / int_ba94e7ad	comment	Low Count Gag: When the subject is "Things You Wouldn't Hear During An Election Campaign":
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Mock the Week / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Mock the Week / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Andy Parsons' use of "shit" for a punchline Once an Episode. From one of the "Unlikely Small Ads" prompts:
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Mock the Week / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Mock the Week / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Hugh's one is telling him that foreign jam is better than British jam.
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Mock the Week / int_bf8a2be2	type	Isn't It Ironic?
Mock the Week / int_bf8a2be2	comment	Isn't It Ironic?: "Unlikely Lines From a War Film":
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Mock the Week / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Mock the Week / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: An unintentional one happens in series 14 when one of the overhead lightbulbs break.
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Mock the Week / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Mock the Week / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: The premise of "Headline News". One Clip Show brings up an article warning parents about the acronyms in teen texting:
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Mock the Week / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Mock the Week / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Dara, after waking up next to Hugh in the All Just a Dream ending of the final episode.
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Mock the Week / int_c312bb2d	type	Too Hot for TV
Mock the Week / int_c312bb2d	comment	Too Hot for TV: The DVDs are named Too Hot for TV and are largely material which The BBC considered inappropriate for TV. There are now three such DVDs, each running for about three hours.
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Mock the Week / int_c325f125	type	Ho Yay
Mock the Week / int_c325f125	comment	Ho Yay: Invoked: Bad Things To Say On A First Date. Ed Gamble and Nish Kumar unintentionally invoked this in the publicity photo for series 16 episode 2◊. They have since intentionally ran with the joke for each◊ subsequent◊ appearance◊.
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Mock the Week / int_c335b301	type	Cute Little Fangs
Mock the Week / int_c335b301	comment	Cute Little Fangs: Look closely, Dara has them. Gary Delaney too, in the rare cases when something can make him laugh out loud.
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Mock the Week / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Mock the Week / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: In one of Dara's early series monologues when discussing immigration: In the final episode, Hugh notes that despite being having been cancelled (in large part, it was alleged, because BBC higher-ups wanted to appease the Conservatives given how frequently they were targets on the show), given the precarious nature of Liz Truss's government it was entirely possible that the show would still somehow manage to last longer than her term as Prime Minister. In fact, she had indeed announced her resignation the very day before the episode aired (though the episode was recorded some days prior, and her successor wasn't appointed until the week after).
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Mock the Week / int_c37a7fd9	type	No, You
Mock the Week / int_c37a7fd9	comment	No, You: When Scenes We'd Like to See does railway announcements:
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Mock the Week / int_c3ef97d6	type	Second Verse Curse
Mock the Week / int_c3ef97d6	comment	Second Verse Curse: Invoked: invoked
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Mock the Week / int_c3fbac64	type	Bestiality Is Depraved
Mock the Week / int_c3fbac64	comment	Bestiality Is Depraved: One Spinning The News routine involves Frankie saying that if he had to have sex with animals he'd choose an owl or a kitten — the former because you could theoretically always maintain eye contact, the latter because you'd at least want to cuddle it afterwards. This is after joking that he had sex with an orangutan while blindfolded, thinking that she was a Geordie.
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Mock the Week / int_c52ac939	type	Helium Speech
Mock the Week / int_c52ac939	comment	Helium Speech: When the subject is "Things You Wouldn't Hear On A Science Documentary": Naturally invoked/discussed in a round where they talked about a potential future helium shortage, and Hugh suddenly started speaking in a squeaky, high-pitched voice.
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Mock the Week / int_c64a7400	type	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
Mock the Week / int_c64a7400	comment	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: "Things You'd Never Hear a French Person Say":
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Mock the Week / int_c66245e9	type	Inconvenient Summons
Mock the Week / int_c66245e9	comment	Inconvenient Summons: Prince Charles receives one in one skit. From ham.
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Mock the Week / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Mock the Week / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Quite literally. Andy Parsons yelling "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!", with a large portion of the audience yelling the last part with him. Star Wars is a favourite among the guys and Dara in particular. Batman gets brought up whenever a superhero gag is called for.
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Mock the Week / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Mock the Week / int_c9597a03	comment	Series 15 episode 11 has John Robins and Sara Pascoe — who were dating in real life — appear on the panel together. Cue lots of jokes about their relationship from John and Sara themselves, as well as the rest of the panel. For instance, John was given the topic of home life during Spinning The News, which lead to James Acaster opening his routine with "speaking of the cinema, Sara Pascoe's an idiot".
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Mock the Week / int_cb0743c0	type	Lame Pun Reaction
Mock the Week / int_cb0743c0	comment	Lame Pun Reaction: The panelists often give this reaction to their own puns. Ed Byrne in particular is a serial offender, as can be seen below: Gary Delaney cracks up at the end of some of his puns as if he's aware of just how lame they are. The common reaction to a Milton Jones pun that Crosses the Line Twice is to perform a Head Desk. In series 18 episode 5, when the performers are making jokes about how Donald Trump misspelled the Prince of Wales as the Prince of Whales in a tweet: In series 19 episode 7 when the subject is "Unlikely Things to Hear on a Property Show", Hugh makes this joke: "John has always wanted to convert a lighthouse, but the project has been on and off for years." Ed Byrne responds with shouting: "Get out, get out!"
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Mock the Week / int_cb96e519	type	Show Stopper
Mock the Week / int_cb96e519	comment	Show Stopper: As mentioned under Running Gag, every so often someone will come up with something so hilarious during "Scenes We'd Like To See" that the next person to come up to the mic decides they simply can't top it and just walks off without saying anything. And then there was this from Milton Jones, during a round of "Things You Wouldn't Hear On A Cooking Show":
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Mock the Week / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Mock the Week / int_cdd835ce	comment	When Romesh used this humor in a "Scenes We'd Like to See", the audience reacted poorly, but he recovered by exasperatedly pointing out that it was a fictional character expressing the view, not him.
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Mock the Week / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
Mock the Week / int_ce104b8e	comment	In one episode Milton pulls a carrot randomly out of his pocket. Andy Parsons once commented, "It's hard to tell which week Milton is mocking sometimes, isn't it?"
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Mock the Week / int_ce1d78bc	type	Foreign Queasine
Mock the Week / int_ce1d78bc	comment	Foreign Queasine: We see an actual one in the season 15 Christmas Episode - Italian carbone dolce, using the myth about Santa Claus leaving coal in the stockings of bad children, and making actual edible candy that looks like coal, made from two types of sugar and eggs, and needs a hammer and safety goggles to prepare.
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Mock the Week / int_cec8b87a	type	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
Mock the Week / int_cec8b87a	comment	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Regarding the economic downturn in Greece, the news reportedly stated that tourists should bring additional money, whereupon one panelist points out that maybe your passport would be a more important item. Ed Byrne gets to indulge himself in 15x10 after Dara points out that winning leadership of a party like the Labour party is the equivalent of winning the technical challenge in The Great British Bake Off, by bringing up that he actually won that title.
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Mock the Week / int_d0692227	type	Spooky Photographs
Mock the Week / int_d0692227	comment	Spooky Photographs: Easily one of Milton's darker moments, when "Picture of the Week" shows Jeremy Corbyn alongside his Labour party members.
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Mock the Week / int_d11f72d1	type	Left the Background Music On
Mock the Week / int_d11f72d1	comment	Left The Back Ground Music On: According to one Clip Show, they had to re-shoot one intro when the camera caught Dara dancing to the Real Song Theme Tune.
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Mock the Week / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
Mock the Week / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: Nathan Caton in one "Spinning the News": A beautiful one from Russell in an earlier season:
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Mock the Week / int_d2fe0360	type	Earpiece Conversation
Mock the Week / int_d2fe0360	comment	Earpiece Conversation: Whenever the guests (or just Frankie) end up getting too out of control, cue Dara trying to calm everyone down since the producers are literally screaming down the earpiece at him... Mission Control Is Off Its Meds: ...except when he decides to join in.
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Mock the Week / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Mock the Week / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Happened to Josh Widdicombe in Series 13 after making a quip about Dara's baldness when Dara complained about an over-exposed anti-dandruff shampoo advert that played during the 2014 World Cup coverage. Unfortunately for Josh, he hadn't quite taken into account how this might backfire on him:
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Mock the Week / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
Mock the Week / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: When Scenes We'd Like to See does "Unlikely Things to Hear on the Radio": It also comes up when they do romance novels. Thanks, Fifty Shades of Grey. A surprisingly deep cut from Frankie Boyle, during an "unlikely sports commentary" prompt:
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Mock the Week / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Mock the Week / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Frankie Boyle, frequently. And, on another occasion: As noted on the page, for Frankie it's not "Refuge" so much as "Home". It's so prevalent that, when Russell Kane guested in a post-Boyle episode and made a... fairly audacious joke, Dara's only reaction was "...that's the chair Frankie sat in, isn't it?"
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Mock the Week / int_d4b34379	type	Lightbulb Joke
Mock the Week / int_d4b34379	comment	Lightbulb Joke: From "Unlikely Things To Hear In A Sci-Fi Movie" segment. From an 'If This Is the Answer, What Is the Question' segment.
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Mock the Week / int_d4d775c9	type	My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad
Mock the Week / int_d4d775c9	comment	My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad: Mentioned by Frankie when he talks about gay adoption:
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Mock the Week / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
Mock the Week / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: They can get pretty creative with this. "Spinning the News" brings up the topic of "courage", leading to Rhys James' account of his least courageous moment: Sometimes it can happen twice in a row: "Unlikely Things to Hear in Court" "Unlikely Lines From a TV Detective Show"
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Mock the Week / int_d72edeb0	type	Fake Guest Star
Mock the Week / int_d72edeb0	comment	Fake Guest Star: Despite appearing in every episode, Hugh Dennis was not offically considered a regular panellist until the fifth episode of series 1. Similarly, from Series 3 onwards Andy Parsons was only considered a "frequent guest" and was credited as a guest panellist despite appearing in every episode, and Russell Howard got a similar deal in Series 4 — it was not until Series 5 that both were officially considered regulars.
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Mock the Week / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Mock the Week / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Dara and Ed are good friends, but that doesn't stop them from making fun of each other. For instance, when Ed is upset about getting only one joke in a "Scenes We'd Like To See" setup:
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Mock the Week / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Mock the Week / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "A Proper Think". Thanks to the news of two MPs (one male and one female) missing the UK's vote on whether to authorise a military strike on Syria because of another discussion, Andy Parsons had a perfect extract from a DVD that would never sell:
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Mock the Week / int_d939ad92	type	Audience Participation Failure
Mock the Week / int_d939ad92	comment	Audience Participation Failure: Icelandic comedian Ari Eldjarn once attempted to demonstrate an Icelandic crowd clapping exercise. The audience didn't catch on to the idea that they were supposed to clap when he did. Lampshaded by Dara when he quips "Here's a clue: watch for his hands and then clap; not when the mood struck you!"
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Mock the Week / int_daead778	type	Tear Off Your Face
Mock the Week / int_daead778	comment	Tear Off Your Face: During a "Things You Wouldn't Hear From a Weather Forecaster" round:
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Mock the Week / int_db1ab4b1	type	Just a Stupid Accent
Mock the Week / int_db1ab4b1	comment	Just a Stupid Accent: Mocked by Hugh in the segment "Lines You Wouldn't Hear In a War Film":
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Mock the Week / int_db52f2ff	type	Surprise Pregnancy
Mock the Week / int_db52f2ff	comment	Surprise Pregnancy: Holly Walsh - who is visibly pregnant - gives this line in "Unlikely Agony Aunt Letters".
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Mock the Week / int_db99b292	type	Mondegreen Gag
Mock the Week / int_db99b292	comment	Mondegreen Gag: Guest player Adam is relating a story about his late gran mistaking the Christmas carol "Deck The Halls" to be "Dick The Horse". As Adam's uncle apparently improvised the first line of "Dick The Horse"; later, after she's passed on, Granddad had her tombstone engraved with a horse. Milton also did one during an "Unlikely things to hear in court" session:
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Mock the Week / int_dc335a04	type	Ear Worm
Mock the Week / int_dc335a04	comment	Ear Worm: Invoked in one Season 14 episode with that one Greek song that starts out slowly and then gradually gets faster... They ended up playing it on four separate occasions, and neither the performers nor the audience seemed to get tired of it.
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Mock the Week / int_dd26fd14	type	Man of a Thousand Voices
Mock the Week / int_dd26fd14	comment	Man of a Thousand Voices: Hugh Dennis during the Newsreel round.
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Mock the Week / int_de4d1d28	type	Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?
Mock the Week / int_de4d1d28	comment	Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?: Frequently in the two rounds where the player has to guess the answer, they will get closer to the answer before somebody sends it steering off into the ridiculous again.
Mock the Week / int_de4d1d28	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_de4d1d28	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_de4d1d28
Mock the Week / int_de9fd393	type	Piano Drop
Mock the Week / int_de9fd393	comment	Piano Drop: They did a "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" segment where this came up.
Mock the Week / int_de9fd393	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_de9fd393	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_de9fd393
Mock the Week / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Mock the Week / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze:
Mock the Week / int_dfb71617	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_dfb71617	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_dfb71617
Mock the Week / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
Mock the Week / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Russell Howard leads the charge: Some of the new guys too - Rob Beckett would be the biggest offender.
Mock the Week / int_e150c4c7	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_e150c4c7	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_e150c4c7
Mock the Week / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Mock the Week / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em
Mock the Week / int_e16cd24e	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_e16cd24e	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_e16cd24e
Mock the Week / int_e18a3c59	type	Hilarious Outtakes
Mock the Week / int_e18a3c59	comment	Hilarious Outtakes: Usually Once a Season, as part of the Clip Show.
Mock the Week / int_e18a3c59	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_e18a3c59	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_e18a3c59
Mock the Week / int_e1f4de4e	type	Common Knowledge
Mock the Week / int_e1f4de4e	comment	Common Knowledgeinvoked: When "Scenes We'd Like to See" does "Unlikely Things to Hear in Political Discussion":
Mock the Week / int_e1f4de4e	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_e1f4de4e	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_e1f4de4e
Mock the Week / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Mock the Week / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: Milton Jones, frequently.
Mock the Week / int_e2a41c3b	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_e2a41c3b	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_e2a41c3b
Mock the Week / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Mock the Week / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay:
Mock the Week / int_e34400ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_e34400ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_e34400ab
Mock the Week / int_e399c1dd	type	Manly Gay
Mock the Week / int_e399c1dd	comment	Manly Gay: Most rugby players, according to Frankie.
Mock the Week / int_e399c1dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_e399c1dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_e399c1dd
Mock the Week / int_e407c52e	type	Double Subversion
Mock the Week / int_e407c52e	comment	Doubly subverted in one episode, in which Dara notes that Theresa May is apparently nicknamed "Submarine". He and Josh Widdicombe disagree on the meaningnote Dara claims it's because she pops up randomly during meetings, Josh claims it's because she "disappears under the waves" during crises, but both agree that it actually sounds like a pretty badass nickname. Then Hugh Dennis, of all people, points out that submarines are always full of seamen.
Mock the Week / int_e407c52e	featureApplicability	-0.3
Mock the Week / int_e407c52e	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_e407c52e
Mock the Week / int_e409de66	type	Manipulative Editing
Mock the Week / int_e409de66	comment	Manipulative Editing: A common complaint from those who've attended recordings is that the televised edit is heavily biased in favour of the regulars, meaning that a guest can appear very quiet as much more of their contributions were left on the cutting room floor. This has arguably lessened in recent series since the guests have slowly begun to outnumber the regulars, and by Series 15 there were five guest panellists and only one regular (Hugh).
Mock the Week / int_e409de66	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_e409de66	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_e409de66
Mock the Week / int_e5406b1b	type	Beat
Mock the Week / int_e5406b1b	comment	In recent series, when faced with the Picture Quiz, Hugh Dennis will increasingly often answer the question "What's happening here" with "That... is (famous person in the photo)" without any context as to what is happening in the picture or why it's related to the week's news.
Mock the Week / int_e5406b1b	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_e5406b1b	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_e5406b1b
Mock the Week / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Mock the Week / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Al Murray's "Voice of the Silent Majority" character in the Question Time round bears an uncanny similarity to his usual Pub Landlord persona. For the Whose Line fans, Frankie for Greg Proops, Hugh for Ryan Stiles, Andy for Colin Mochrie, and Russell for Chip Esten. Of course, Greg Proops has made some appearances on Mock the Week as well, as has Clive Anderson. And it's not hard to see that both shows were produced by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson. James Acaster's trademark offbeat humor and clipped delivery make him a sort of bizarre love child of Hugh Dennis and Milton Jones.
Mock the Week / int_e5421161	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_e5421161	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_e5421161
Mock the Week / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Mock the Week / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial "Unlikely Small Ads" "Bad Things For a By-election Candidate To Say" Spinning the News: Sometimes Tom Allen follows up things he says with the words "not a euphemism!"
Mock the Week / int_e624f0e8	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_e624f0e8	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_e624f0e8
Mock the Week / int_e6c88e42	type	Old Shame
Mock the Week / int_e6c88e42	comment	Old Shame: Miles Jupp occasionally treats his breakthrough role on kids' show Balamory in this way.
Mock the Week / int_e6c88e42	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_e6c88e42	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_e6c88e42
Mock the Week / int_e8ca5cb3	type	Freudian Slip
Mock the Week / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: When "Scenes We'd Like to See" takes on continuity announcer again.
Mock the Week / int_e8ca5cb3	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_e8ca5cb3	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_e8ca5cb3
Mock the Week / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Mock the Week / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: James Acaster in one Spinning the News:
Mock the Week / int_e9e35e8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_e9e35e8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_e9e35e8f
Mock the Week / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Mock the Week / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: The final episode ends with a Newhart parody, with Dara waking up and talking about his horrible dream of hosting a topical panel show for seventeen years, only to find Hugh in bed next to him.
Mock the Week / int_ea85d6ea	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_ea85d6ea	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_ea85d6ea
Mock the Week / int_ee4347b9	type	Euphemistic Names
Mock the Week / int_ee4347b9	comment	Euphemistic Names: "Lines You'd Never Hear in a James Bond Film":
Mock the Week / int_ee4347b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_ee4347b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_ee4347b9
Mock the Week / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Mock the Week / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: To date, we've had Ed Byrne and Ed Gamble, Andy Parsons and Andi Osho, and even Russell Howard and Russell Kane. One time they deliberately bring on Ed Byrne and Ed Gamble, and then put them against each other for "Spinning the News":
Mock the Week / int_ee7a60e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_ee7a60e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_ee7a60e9
Mock the Week / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
Mock the Week / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	Anti-Climax: Provided by Seann Walsh twice. [Unlikely Lines To Hear In A Disaster Movie] [Unlikely Things To Hear In A Superhero Movie] Greg Davies did one as well with "Deleted lines from a Fantasy Film":
Mock the Week / int_eeb4a5eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_eeb4a5eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_eeb4a5eb
Mock the Week / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
Mock the Week / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: From "Unlikely Small Ads": From "Bad Things to Hear from Your New Neighbour": Practically enforced with the prompt "Unlikely Things to Hear at a Wedding or Funeral."
Mock the Week / int_eef90616	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_eef90616	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_eef90616
Mock the Week / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Mock the Week / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Unlikely Lines in Doctor Who:
Mock the Week / int_eff83d77	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_eff83d77	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_eff83d77
Mock the Week / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
Mock the Week / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: Andy Parsons. Frankie Boyle and Hugh Dennis (and on occasion, Russell Howard) have also done this.
Mock the Week / int_f15c2859	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_f15c2859	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_f15c2859
Mock the Week / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Mock the Week / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Used by Hugh Dennis before he name-drops and parodies another trope:
Mock the Week / int_f1d3f0c9	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_f1d3f0c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_f1d3f0c9
Mock the Week / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
Mock the Week / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: Later subverted in another round of "What A TV Chef Would Never Say": Later subverted even further by Russell as he impersonated her, moving his arms like they were her knockers.
Mock the Week / int_f23ad6de	featureApplicability	-0.3
Mock the Week / int_f23ad6de	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_f23ad6de
Mock the Week / int_f247d841	type	Intoxication Ensues
Mock the Week / int_f247d841	comment	Ed Byrne's idea of an unlikely cooking show: "Cooking When Pissed", which proved astoundingly popular. Ed apparently goes three-for-three the next season, with his idea of a nature documentary from the producers of "Let's X Out Of Y" and "Cooking When Pissed".
Mock the Week / int_f247d841	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_f247d841	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_f247d841
Mock the Week / int_f2875814	type	Incredibly Lame Fun
Mock the Week / int_f2875814	comment	Incredibly Lame Fun: Instead of Grand Theft Auto V, Ed Byrne was playing Farming Simulator 2013. Apparently, he found it quite engaging. Received a Call-Back in season 16 when Ed was strangely enthralled by the process of clearing an incredulous fat blockage found in the sewers, before revealing that he'd done just that with his own house's drainage.
Mock the Week / int_f2875814	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_f2875814	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_f2875814
Mock the Week / int_f288cf3	type	Innocent Innuendo
Mock the Week / int_f288cf3	comment	Innocent Innuendo:
Mock the Week / int_f288cf3	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_f288cf3	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_f288cf3
Mock the Week / int_f46fb603	type	Pungeon Master
Mock the Week / int_f46fb603	comment	Pungeon Master: Stewart Francis (see Ensemble Dark Horse on the YMMV page) has adopted this as his personal style — and pulls it off flawlessly. Milton Jones has a similar schtick, as does Gary Delaney. Greg Davies is very adept at this during 'Scenes We'd Like to See', although it isn't his only style.
Mock the Week / int_f46fb603	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_f46fb603	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_f46fb603
Mock the Week / int_f4d00fb0	type	Deadline News
Mock the Week / int_f4d00fb0	comment	Deadline News: Parodied by Hugh, "Things you wouldn't hear on a News Programme": Invoked when they do "Unlikely Things to Hear on the Radio":
Mock the Week / int_f4d00fb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_f4d00fb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_f4d00fb0
Mock the Week / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Mock the Week / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: Icelandic comedian Ari Eldjarn recites a football match between his country and England wherein the England crowd started cheering "You're just a shit shop in London!" They ended up losing the match 2-1 and the manager resigned as a result.
Mock the Week / int_f6f2ff1	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_f6f2ff1	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_f6f2ff1
Mock the Week / int_f93d8d52	type	Girlfriend in Canada
Mock the Week / int_f93d8d52	comment	Girlfriend in Canada: During a round of "If this is the answer, what is the question?", the answer was "A million a week". One of Rhys James' questions was:
Mock the Week / int_f93d8d52	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_f93d8d52	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_f93d8d52
Mock the Week / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Mock the Week / int_f9f2c33	comment	Dara gets one in during the episode where Hugh went on a massive rant about oblique French jams and how the UK can easily manufacture its own jam, which turned into a Running Gag at Hugh's expense, well before a story about the dismantling of a NASA satellite, another nail in the coffin of the world's most important space program:
Mock the Week / int_f9f2c33	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_f9f2c33	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_f9f2c33
Mock the Week / int_fabef10f	type	Don't Explain the Joke
Mock the Week / int_fabef10f	comment	Don't Explain the Joke:
Mock the Week / int_fabef10f	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_fabef10f	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_fabef10f
Mock the Week / int_fb17af62	type	Rhymes on a Dime
Mock the Week / int_fb17af62	comment	Rhymes on a Dime: Glenn Moore can do this like a boss.
Mock the Week / int_fb17af62	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_fb17af62	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_fb17af62
Mock the Week / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Mock the Week / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Dara jokes about Ed Milliband not seeing the glaring flaw in his plan to make people stop seeing him as a geek... by proudly announcing to the world that one of his supporters is none other than Patrick Stewart himself! James Acaster has a bad habit of doing this during Spinning the News. When he was given the subject of "Britain", he talked about wanting to be Mexican; when given "Adventure", he spent the whole time talking about cheese slicing. Elis James once joked about joining a boxing club, in which he seemingly learned nothing but skipping (a common warm-up for boxers). He pondered what use skipping could possibly be in a combat situation.
Mock the Week / int_fbd285b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_fbd285b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_fbd285b7
Mock the Week / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Mock the Week / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: "Rejected Questions From This Year's Exams": Later:
Mock the Week / int_fc151e9d	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_fc151e9d	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_fc151e9d
Mock the Week / int_fdb3b2b5	type	Lady Drunk
Mock the Week / int_fdb3b2b5	comment	Lady Drunk: Zoe Lyons, who constantly has a mild slur to her words.
Mock the Week / int_fdb3b2b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_fdb3b2b5	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_fdb3b2b5
Mock the Week / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Mock the Week / int_fe0330fb	comment	In the series that began in June 2011, Hugh weekly riffs on the same joke that the name of Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, sounds like a German person saying "step-ladder". Brought back briefly four years later when Blatter was in the news again after resigning as FIFA president.
Mock the Week / int_fe0330fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_fe0330fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_fe0330fb
Mock the Week / int_fea27091	type	Buffy Speak
Mock the Week / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: On "Ill-advised Things to Say in Court":
Mock the Week / int_fea27091	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_fea27091	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_fea27091
Mock the Week / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Mock the Week / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: When a question came up after Andy Murray lost to Roger Federer, Dara quickly let the panelists know that Andy Murray was in the audience. The audience stood up and clapped, as did Dara and the panelists, and the jokes were notably less stinging than usual. At the end of the episode, Dara declared Andy Murray as the winner. When Andy Murray went to a second taping, though, he was confronted with "Unlikely Things for Andy Murray to Think." For his third appearance, however (which was when he recently won Wimbledon in 2016), they've been actually very kind—with him even joining in for the banter even while in the audience with his wife. In fact, the series has tended to be good-natured towards him since 2014, especially since he's a well-established fan of the show.
Mock the Week / int_ff7f34c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Mock the Week / int_ff7f34c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mock the Week / int_ff7f34c5
Mock the Week / int_name	type	ItemName
Mock the Week / int_name	comment
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Mock the Week	hasFeature	A Rare Sentence / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Accent Depundent / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Advertising by Association / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Air Quotes / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Aliens Speaking English / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	All Germans Are Nazis / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Ambiguous Syntax / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	And There Was Much Rejoicing / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Anti-Humor / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Apathetic Teacher / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Autopsy Snack Time / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Bicep Kiss / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Black Dude Dies First / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Bridal Carry / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	British Humour / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Burning the Flag / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	But We Used a Condom! / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Butt Biter / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Cheek Copy / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Ching Chong / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Christmas in July / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Consulting Mister Puppet / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Dead Guy Puppet / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Deface of the Moon / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Diseased Name / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Does This Make Me Look Fat? / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Dug Too Deep / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Embarrassing Tattoo / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Escalating Punchline / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Euphemistic Names / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Father, I Want to Marry My Brother / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Finale Credits / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	First Time in the Sun / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Flexibility Equals Sex Ability / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Full-Frontal Assault / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Girl-Show Ghetto / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Girlfriend in Canada / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Girls with Moustaches / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Guns vs. Swords / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Hair Flip / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Hand on Womb / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	"Help! Help! Trapped in Title Factory!" / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Here Comes the Science / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Historical Longevity Joke / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Hurricane of Puns / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	I Am X, Son of Y / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	I Call Him "Mister Happy" / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	I Can't Feel My Legs! / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	I Like My X Like I Like My Y / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	I'm Standing Right Here / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Improv / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Inherently Funny Words / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Joke and Receive / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Just a Stupid Accent / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Kent Brockman News / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Knee-capping / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Knocking on Heathens' Door / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	"L" Is for "Dyslexia" / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Lamaze Class / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Late Pregnancy Realization / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Left It In / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Lightbulb Joke / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mathematician's Answer / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Media Scaremongering / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Misery Lit / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Miss Conception / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Mondegreen Gag / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Monkeys on a Typewriter / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	My Friends... and Zoidberg / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	News Parody / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	NO INDOOR VOICE / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Oh, Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us! / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Old-Fashioned Fruit Stomping / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Oop North / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Oscar Bait / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Our Product Sucks / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Out with a Bang / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Panel Game / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Parody of Evolution / int_9d189394
PeterMandelson	seeAlso	Mock the Week
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Place Worse Than Death / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Real Song Theme Tune / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Really 17 Years Old / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Rhetorical Question Blunder / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Ridiculous Exchange Rates / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Rule 34 â€“ Creator Reactions / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Sarcasm Failure / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Satire / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Sawed-Off Shotgun / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Scandalgate / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Scoring Points / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Shoe Phone / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Silent Credits / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Sinister Nudity / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Sleeps in the Nude / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	The One with... / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	The Points Mean Nothing / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	This Is a Work of Fiction / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	This Is Not a Drill / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Ticket-Line Campout / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Together We Are X / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Too Hot for TV / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Tractor Beam / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Train Problem / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Translate the Loanwords, Too / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Un-Evil Laugh / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Vulgar Humor / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	We Meet Again / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	What Did I Do Last Night? / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Wine Is Classy / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	You Can Panic Now / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	You Meddling Kids / int_9d189394
Mock the Week	hasFeature	Saw a Woman in Half / int_9d189394

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