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That Mitchell and Webb Look
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That Mitchell and Webb Look is a BBC Two Sketch Show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, best known for their characters Mark and Jeremy in the Brit Com Peep Show. It ran from 2006 to 2010. Recurring characters tend to be limited to one series, although some (such as The Surprising Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar) have run for longer. The sketches are occasionally intercut with Faux Documentary "behind-the-scenes footage" of the comedians, featuring much Lampshade Hanging and Self-Deprecation, and zig-zagging between playing up and sending up the duo's respective The Smart Guy and Manchild personas.The series was adapted from the radio show That Mitchell and Webb Sound, and the pair had previously made a short-lived TV Sketch Show called The Mitchell and Webb Situation. For ease of reference, tropes found in each series have been put into separate sections.See also Bruiser, another of Mitchell and Webb's earlier works. | |
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Facecam | |
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Facecam: "The Surprising Adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar!" | |
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Pull the Thread | |
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Pull the Thread: The poisoner's would-be victim can see right through the poisoner's feeble attempts to pull one over on him. | |
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Creator Breakdown | |
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Creator Breakdown: Invoked; one sketch involves a man bumping into a woman he once met and fell for at a party in the street, leading him to produce a keyboard and sing a song about how he fell in love with her at first sight. And then her husband shows up... and he proceeds to sing another song about how he met the husband at a different party, found him rather rude and offputting, and has no particular feelings for him at all and considers him a remote acquaintance at best, with the implication that he does this for everyone he happens to meet. | |
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Reading Ahead in the Script | |
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Reading Ahead in the Script: The series features fly-on-the-wall style sections with the actors having chats as themselves on the set. In one of them, David Mitchell points out that these are as scripted as the rest of the show, and shows Webb the script for the sketch they're in, which includes the direction "Cut to a close-up of the script. It reads: cut to a close-up of the script. It reads:..." | |
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Off-the-Shelf FX: Spoofed. The Helivet's helicopter is quite blatantly just a model helicopter. A Get Me Hennimore! sketch features a giant CG wasp that looks rather familiar. | |
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Adam Westing | |
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Adam Westing: The third Numberwang segment has writer, public speaker, and former politician Gyles Brandreth appear in "Number Corner" (which was specifically invented for this episode and doesn't appear in any other segments) to parody his frequent appearances on Countdown's "Dictionary Corner." | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Parodied in the backstage show: | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: The company in the Our Slogan Is Terrible sketch. | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Fatally so - the kid was literally embarrassed to death. | |
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HilarityEnsues | |
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Hennimore's boss is not really mean-spirited or a bad man, but he invariably gives Hennimore two simultaneous tasks with instructions so confusing that no one could possibly handle both without screwing them up in the most comedic way possible. Needless to say, Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Darker and Edgier: A lot of the sketches in Seasons Three and Four seemed to be much darker than the sketches in the first two series. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: The real estate agent who badgers a woman who works with torture victims for the the worst torture story she's ever heard asks "how bad could it be?" He finds out. What's the harm in the PM finishing his second beer? Nuclear war. | |
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Evil Sounds Deep | |
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Evil Sounds Deep: The cannibalistic creatures known only as "Them". | |
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Calvinball | |
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Calvinball: Numberwang, the maths quiz that simply everyone! Is talking about? Yes. Also the similarly-themed Wordwang and the German spinoff, Nümberwang. Parodied when it is revealed that Numberwang is decided through complicated mathematics by Colosson. In the live show, Julie somehow managed to achieve Numberwang while bantering with the host. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: The two Nazi goons who realize that their Skeleton Motif isn't quite right for the heroes of a story. The stage version adds one of them arguing that the pattern of German success in the war thus far doesn't fit with the heroes in any movie he's seen, but it does fit plenty of villains. Poor Hennimore clearly realises just how disastrous the consequences of his boss's latest set of conflicting instructions will be, and is a nervous wreck as a result. | |
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene | |
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene: This is usually a humourous Sketch Show, but the final sketch is a shockingly bleak look at the future life of Sherlock Holmes, who is suffering from dementia and is well aware of the mental degradation that he's going through. | |
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Just the Introduction to the Opposites | |
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Just the Introduction to the Opposites: A sketch where a husband and wife are arguing because he's just returned from a business trip and she finds a bra in his suitcase. She asks, mildly annoyed, if he's cheating on her, which he admits to absent-mindedly. The fight escalates as she brings in other "minor" issues such as her desire to have a baby and secret gambling addiction, all of which are attended to in the same bored-but-mildly-tetchy fashion, until she suddenly bursts into tears and he figures out what this is really about — that time he left the fridge door open and a whole quiche and some milk went bad. | |
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Incurable Cough of Death | |
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Incurable Cough of Death: Lampshaded and averted, naturally, in "The Man Who Has A Cough And It's Just A Cough And He's Fine". | |
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Gone Horribly Wrong | |
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Gone Horribly Wrong: A couple die in a car crash, and learn that due to being Virgin customers, they've been uploaded into the human digital cloud. However, as a result of a completely unfixable software glitch, they and everyone else in the cloud must spend the rest of eternity rotating in a giant pig machine. | |
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The Caper | |
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The Caper: Hons, Dons and Two Smoking MA Oxons | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: The recurring sketch "Get me Hennimore!" has the hapless titular character requested to do various tasks by his boss. These tasks always involve two objects that are never to be confused, yet look exactly the same. Naturally, the worst possible result occurs every time. | |
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Paranoia Gambit | |
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Paranoia Gambit: Colin the definitely-not-a-robot hears some of the humans discussing the (supposedly) well-disguised robots, and suggests it might be Bob. Everyone starts glaring suspiciously at him, and he's never seen after that... | |
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Villain Ball | |
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Villain Ball: Parodied in the Conspiracy sketches; when a member of the conspiracy asks why exactly they're doing this conspiracy in such a convoluted way — or why they're even bothering at all — the answer's usually along the lines of "it's just what we government types do." | |
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Calling Card | |
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Calling Card: The Identity Killer, who leaves photo identification of himself, his driver's license, his passport and, on one occasion, himself, at his crime scenes. The police have no leads for this Diabolical Mastermind. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: The sketch where the Host refuses to accept the correct answers from his contestants... before the reveal that he's got 6 months left to live and he's imprisoned the contestants on a spaceship heading into the Sun. And he's going to drag it out for as long as he can... Mitchell and Webb conspiring to stuff one of the supporting actors into a woodchipper. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: The names of the two protagonists of the buddy cop show, Busman and Christmas. | |
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Partially Civilized Animal | |
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Partially Civilized Animal: The farmer who shows up several times in series two seems to think his horse is one of these. In fact, it's just a normal animal (i.e. just a regular horse), but that doesn't stop the farmer from launching into a violent tantrum whenever the horse reacts with uncomprehending disinterest towards his various overtures. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: After several minutes trying, to no effect, to talk about the company's dire financial straits, which has ended with everyone completely sloshed, the Only Sane Man decides he's going to go to the pub. | |
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This Ain't Rocket Surgery | |
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This Ain't Rocket Surgery: A sketch has a neurosurgeon mingling at a party and boasting that what other people do "isn't exactly brain surgery". Then: | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: One sketch features a man who made one for wealth and women a decade ago, but found having every whim catered for unfulfilling. Now Satan has come to collect his soul; however, the man had taken the contract to his lawyer brother-in-law, who had added clauses such that if the man was not completely satisfied, Satan's claim on his soul was void. The man was very surprised when Satan just gave the new contract a brief skim before agreeing to the new terms. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: The two guys who work in MiniLove's Room 102 as telescreen repairmen, who just happen to be ordinary blokes dealing with lack of government funding, and the constant irritation of having to listen to the screams of agony from next door, especially since their coworkers go to extreme effort to recreate people's worst fears exactly. | |
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Padding | |
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Padding: One sketch featured a quiz show host who dragged everything out for as long as possible, interrupting or ignoring the contestant's attempts to give the right answer and repeating himself. It turns out that it's not a quiz show at all, but they're on board a spaceship headed for the Sun, the host has six months to live and he wants to drag it out as long as possible. invoked | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good is Not Nice: One sketch revolves around a man who went to the trouble of curing cancer purely so that it would free him from having to worry about any other cause. | |
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Chekhov's Boomerang | |
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Chekhov's Boomerang: Episode 5 of Series 4 has a series of "behind the scenes" sketches about the pair trying to create a serious thought-provoking ending akin to the ending of Blackadder Goes Forth. ("I think we desperately need to show maturity with something with something tacked on and mawkish. Like we care about MS ... doesn't have to be MS, just people and their relationships and their disgusting problems, like we give a shit.") This is apparently fulfilled when the episode ends with one of the cast members being killed off, fading to the message "SOD CANCER". However, Episode 6, the series finale, then ends in a desperately sad depiction of Sherlock Holmes with dementia, showing the inevitability of losing one's former glory in old age. This time, it's not played for laughs. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: Two farmers who specialise in bizarre and impractical foodstuffs discuss their final idea: Farmer Burger, specifically the farmer played by Robert Webb. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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The "elderly Sherlock Holmes" sketch goes quickly from Black Comedy to tragedy. | |
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Parodied | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2231e5b7 | comment |
Parodied in one of the Party Planners sketches, in the middle of an extended What the Hell, Hero? aimed at Bond. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_22711892 | type |
It Never Gets Any Easier | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_22711892 | comment |
It Never Gets Any Easier: Said word for word, on a knowingly badly-researched medical show, when a doctor has to... pull off a plaster. Also paraphrased in a sketch involving... a caveman cop. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_22f6000b | type |
Everybody's Dead, Dave | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_22f6000b | comment |
Everybody's Dead, Dave: Twice in the Quiz Broadcast statements - first when everyone but the main three has simply succumbed to the harsh conditions of the collapsing society, then, after being found again, when They kill everyone but Peter and the host before inexplicably disintegrating, leaving the two of them alone and extremely disturbed. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_234bd900 | type |
For Science! | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_234bd900 | comment |
For Science!: A Mad Scientist named Dr Death has created a Death Ray for the US government. Although it's actually harmless and just named after him. At the first mention of weaponising any of his inventions he begins to destroy them with a wrench. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_24321e44 | type |
Only Sane Man | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_24321e44 | comment |
A series of sketches in series 4, episode 6 revolve around an office worker who's actually Superman, and the Only Sane Man is constantly hushed down by everyone else when he tries pointing out how obvious this is. Then turned on its head when it turns out he's really not Superman... but everyone else at the office is a superhero. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2439b588 | type |
As the Good Book Says... | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2439b588 | comment |
As the Good Book Says...: One The Quiz Broadcast sketch has the Test Card Girl writing "Revelation 6 13 15" on the blackboard. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_259d5879 | type |
Anachronism Stew | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_259d5879 | comment |
Anachronism Stew: "Posh Dancing" puts conga lines and freestyle disco into Pride and Prejudice. The Caveman Pathologists. Of course, being as they are cavemen, they lack the terminology or technology to do a crime scene reconstruction, guessing that their victim was killed "some time before now", and having no way to track the killer. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_25b5600 | type |
Captain Ersatz | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_25b5600 | comment |
Captain Ersatz: Monsieur Vauron, who shows up in a few sketches, is clearly David Suchet's version of Poirot with just enough details filed off to prevent Agatha Christie's estate from showing up with lawyers. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_266e4fc7 | type |
The Perry Mason Method | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_266e4fc7 | comment |
The Perry Mason Method: Speedo, parodying American legal dramas. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_26eb6287 | type |
Funny Background Event | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_26eb6287 | comment |
Funny Background Event: The finale "Prayer and a Pint" segment has the CERN technician who'd been talking to Donny silently asking the crew if he should leave while Donny's singing, even starting to get off his seat, only to apparently be informed he has to stay. He spends the rest of the song sitting there looking awkward. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_26f68115 | type |
Art Imitates Art | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_26f68115 | comment |
Art Imitates Art: A creepy version of Test Card F is shown during breaks in the Quiz Broadcast. It features Bubbles the clown with a sad face, Carole wearing a gas mask, and depressing phrases such as "Mummy won't wake up" and "It is the mercy" written on the blackboard. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_27b83210 | type |
Hufflepuff House | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_27b83210 | comment |
Hufflepuff House: One bit has a Hufflepuff head of house (voiced by Mitchell) consoling students who have just been sorted into it due to being boring and largely irrelevant. There are also some take thats toward the idea of entrusting admissions to a hat, or having a house just for the children who are evil. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_27c09b00 | type |
Camp Straight | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_27c09b00 | comment |
Camp Straight: The party planner played by Robert Webb, who mentions being in a relationship with a woman named "Magnesia" (Yes, she's named after Magnesium), no thanks to Jeeves. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_27fdc960 | type |
Trap Door | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_27fdc960 | comment |
Later on, the fully-compliant Trap Door (complete with flashing red light, warning alarm and fencing off of the area) gives the "victim" in the chair plenty of time to escape before he can be Thrown from the Zeppelin. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_28a5213a | type |
Small Name, Big Ego | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_28a5213a | comment |
Small Name, Big Ego: Recurring character Jason, a bitchy Reality Show participant who somehow became well-known and popular enough to host a variety of make-over programmes and quiz shows despite the fact that he's clearly not cut out for even the D-grade nature of the material he's given. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_294ed981 | type |
Bilingual Bonus | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_294ed981 | comment |
Bilingual Bonus: The man who wants to make a cup of tea for everyone in Belgium tries talking to them in French. The police car in the background says 'politie' (the Dutch word for police) meaning he's in Flanders. No wonder they're ignoring the guy speaking terrible French. In one of the Didldidi adverts, the phrase "sárga olcsó dolog" appears, which is Hungarian for "cheap yellow thing". | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2a090d00 | type |
Lampshade Hanging | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2a090d00 | comment |
Lampshade Hanging: The straight party planner, on mentioning his girlfriend Magnesia, has to keep mentioning that yes, she is named after a metal (in a parody of P.G. Woodehouse characters and their unusual names). | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2a6b56f4 | type |
Rattling Off Legal | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2a6b56f4 | comment |
Rattling Off Legal: The biscuit insurance salesman rattles off a bunch of disclaimers that end in "Do not bother claiming, it's all a scam." www.TheHorrorTheHorror.com reminds viewers at the end that if they cannot cope with the harsh truth at the heart of the universe, their sanity may be at risk. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2bdae2ae | type |
Awesome, but Impractical | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2bdae2ae | comment |
Awesome, but Impractical: The doorbell replacement product, a cannon that fires small dogs at your window with a note attached to their collar. If you visit multiple people in one go, you may need to carry more than one dog. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2d043142 | type |
Entendre Failure | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2d043142 | comment |
Entendre Failure: The Bawdy 1970s hospital sketch. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2d4a6d8c | type |
Sophisticated as Hell | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2d4a6d8c | comment |
Sophisticated as Hell: A recurring sketch in one episode has several erudite and well-spoken people talking about how they would've inflicted violence on people who annoyed them in slang. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2e03fb64 | type |
Embarrassing Slide | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2e03fb64 | comment |
Embarrassing Slide: Inverted, with one sketch of Webb showing Mitchell increasingly lewd holiday photos until he caves to Webb's demand to read a dirty magazine. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2eb94abd | type |
Deadly Euphemism | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2eb94abd | comment |
Deadly Euphemism: Parodied in one of the Bond Villain sketches, when Leslie wants a detective killed but keeps using euphemisms, and his henchman, Alan, insists on clearer language. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2f226fee | type |
You Didn't Ask | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_2f226fee | comment |
You Didn't Ask: In one sketch, it turns out that if one of the French underclasses had just complained to the King of France about their terrible conditions and asked for some more rights and better treatment, the King would have been happy to comply and the entire French Revolution could have been avoided. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_306b9de9 | type |
Electric Torture | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_306b9de9 | comment |
Electric Torture: One of the contestants on the Remain Indoors quiz show is taken away to be "voltage-calmed". | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_306dece3 | type |
Office Golf | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_306dece3 | comment |
Office Golf: One of the Hennimore sketch mix-ups involves a set of golf clubs and a drinks cabinet in the shape of a set of golf clubs. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_309b8806 | type |
Cursed with Awesome | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_309b8806 | comment |
Cursed with Awesome: Parodied: Biscuit telekinesis can ruin your life. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_30c40e9a | type |
Deconstructor Fleet | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_30c40e9a | comment |
Deconstructor Fleet: Just try to count the number of tropes this show parodies, subverts, deconstructs or otherwise plays with. Often examples of Don't Explain the Sketch being scathingly accurate and funny. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_313d7228 | type |
Previously on… | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_313d7228 | comment |
Previously on…: Series 4 opens up with a montage of out-of-context clips from past episodes set to a serious, dramatic musical score. Of course, since this is a sketch show, none of the clips have any bearing on anything that happens in the premier. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_3149c4b0 | type |
It Will Never Catch On | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_3149c4b0 | comment |
It Will Never Catch On: A cook at a medieval feast trying to introduce a new side dish of "some-leaves-and-a-carrot-chopped-up-very-small". It gets him shot by his boss. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_319e4a2f | type |
Even Evil Has Standards | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_319e4a2f | comment |
Even Evil Has Standards: General Drayfox is quite disturbed to hear that the superhero Captain Todger is in jail for statutory rape and is greatly appalled by his politically incorrect ways. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_31d55275 | type |
Tuxedo and Martini | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_31d55275 | comment |
Tuxedo and Martini: Parodied with 'Agent Suave'. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_31da1e24 | type |
Shipper on Deck | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_31da1e24 | comment |
Shipper on Deck: A (sort-of) meta example; the producer and new writer in the Preston and Loader sketch are determined to turn what was previously a gritty detective show into what is basically their personal gay Slash Fic by having Preston and Loader make out with each other in every scene. One of the actors objects to this, but it turns out that the other actor also ships the two. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_334e48a1 | type |
After the End | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_334e48a1 | comment |
After the End: The Quiz Broadcast takes place after "The Event" which caused The End of the World as We Know It. (Remain indoors) | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_33affa42 | type |
Government Agency of Fiction | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_33affa42 | comment |
Government Agency of Fiction: The Ministry of Things Which Are Apparently True, the people whose job it is to spread pointless rumours that only make sense if you don't think about it for more than five seconds. Thanks to budget cuts, they're forced to merge with the Department of Things Which Are Suddenly Everywhere. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_34e3784f | type |
Please, Don't Leave Me | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_34e3784f | comment |
Please, Don't Leave Me: Ginger to Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar when he is "poisoned" by a cloud of gas (read: candyfloss). | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_34f8042a | type |
Gratuitous French | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_34f8042a | comment |
Gratuitous French: The Agent Suave sketch, being set in a Monaco-esque casino offering a selection of country fete games, has such treats as "Frappez le Rat". Monsieur Garnier, who for whatever reason is a Northern-accented sort, always refers to laboratories as "laboratoire". | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_3517000d | type |
Mad Scientist | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_3517000d | comment |
Mad Scientist: Subverted with Professor Death, who doesn't want his Giant Death Ray, Armoured Scorpion of Death, or Doom Melon used for military applications. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_352def2a | type |
Burn the Witch! | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_352def2a | comment |
Burn the Witch!: Open-mic night at The Little Inn Before the Turn-Off to Castle Dracula goes horribly wrong when the winner is a Roma woman. The rest of the peasants don't take it well. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_355007c3 | type |
Brilliant, but Lazy | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_355007c3 | comment |
Brilliant, but Lazy: The man who cured cancer purely to avoid being nagged for donations from charity cold callers. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_35b241c0 | type |
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_35b241c0 | comment |
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Usually averted, as the cast have a handle on many regional dialects, as well as Mitchell and cast member James Bachman being quite good at affecting American accents. Parodied with a sketch set in the American Deep South: The 'behind-the-scenes' footage beforehand shows Webb trying and failing to put on a convincing American south accent. The duo play the sketch entirely with their normal voices until Sarah Hadland, playing Webb's wife, comes on at the end to deliver her one line in an appallingly bad accent; Webb, breaking character within the sketch, reminds her 'we said we weren't doing the voices.' | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_35fb9016 | type |
Gratuitous German | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_35fb9016 | comment |
Gratuitous German: Das ist Nümberwang! Even better; they referenced the JFK "I am a jelly doughnut" legendnote i.e. referring to Simon and Julie as literally being food rather than residents of Frankfurt(er) and Hamburg(er), and Simon got a photo of David Hasselhoff as a prize. Turns out that the German is surprisingly good. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_366f3185 | type |
Book Burning | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_366f3185 | comment |
Book Burning: One sketch claims this is what supermarket chain Tesco does with the books it doesn't give away as a charity, followed by a long discussion on it between the two men doing the burning in the first place on how convoluted and pointless the whole system is. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_36fa3e83 | type |
Garnishing the Story | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_36fa3e83 | comment |
Garnishing the Story: Directly invoked by the "trailer" for the Academy Award winning "Godzillas In the Mist". | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_37d94ed9 | type |
Agony of the Feet | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_37d94ed9 | comment |
Agony of the Feet: One sketch has a man abducted by a lost tribe that lives in his local garden centre, who tell him he can leave... if he makes it through a gravel path barefoot. He doesn't. | |
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Short-Lived Leadership | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_3842ff26 | comment |
Short-Lived Leadership: One sketch has admiral Karl Dönitz become the Führer note he actually became President, the title of Führer was split again between President and Chancellor after Adolf Hitler commits suicide. He immediately starts going on about the projects he wants to work on such as an autobahn, but his aides bring him back to reality by providing him with the essentials of what he'll need for his stay in power: General Eisenhower's phone number and how to say "We surrender" in English. | |
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Born in the Wrong Century | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_38b48685 | comment |
Born in the Wrong Century: One sketch has a brilliant Renaissance inventor who can apparently see the future (but only indistinctly) and keeps on inventing things which he sees can be useful someday (like a computer mouse) while he can't quite understand how. | |
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Zeerust | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_393ec3f9 | comment |
Zeerust: The iMac G3 and Clamshell iBook used in the abovementioned Seinfeldian Conversation, looking back on the show from the present day. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_39684516 | type |
Kill the Ones You Love | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_39684516 | comment |
Kill the Ones You Love: At the end of the "Avocado Bathroom" sketch, the husband kills his (pregnant) wife because she's revealed that she not only doesn't mind an avocado bathroom, but quite likes it. | |
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Epunymous Title | |
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Epunymous Title: Comedy Duos Fish & Chip and Pin & Cushion split up to form Chip & Pin... but Fish & Cushion end up being more successful. And even get the gig to promote the Chip & PIN system. | |
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Namesake Gag | |
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Namesake Gag: The Giant Death Ray is in fact a Steampunk barcode reader invented by Dr Death. | |
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Instant Turn-Off | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_3b2ee7b6 | comment |
Instant Turn-Off: In the "Agent Suave" sketch, before his climactic attempt at "Whack the Rat", a beautiful Bond Girl seductively offers to kiss Suave's whacker to bring him luck in a kind of "blow on the dice before rolling Craps" deal. However, she ends up practically fellating the object, which just serves to gross Suave out since his whacker is now covered in saliva. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: One of the reasons the "Hennimore" sketches were fairly unpopular compared to the others is that they (with one exception) all follow the same pattern - Hennimore will always screw up the assignment because of the boss's orders and be yelled at for it. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: A decidedly grim one in "The Event", as featured in the Quiz Broadcast sketches. The only people who know what happened are "Them", if the test card is any indication. Also, whatever happened to one of their contestants on a show we don't get to see. The area is cordoned off, and the host is reasonably certain that whatever it was, they stopped it. In a less apocalyptic example, we don't learn the specific details of the story that the woman who works with torture victims eventually tells to the real estate agent badgering her about it while he's showing her around a house, but from the horrified way he reacts it's apparently not very nice. Subverted with the banana dance that Webb proposes. Mitchell switches off the camera before watching it. It switches back on to Webb completely out of breath with an empty banana peel in his hand and Mitchell's opinion that it was shit. We get to see the actual dance (banana costume and all) when the credits roll. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: The lead scientist in the virus research lab, who gives one of his underlings AIDS just so he'll be motivated to cure it. | |
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Skewed Priorities | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_3d2c6d30 | comment |
Skewed Priorities: One sketch features a woman who isn't too bothered about her husband's infidelity but can never forgive him for leaving the fridge door open, causing a quiche and some milk to spoil. In the sketch where a man starts chloroforming people for being irritating, the first time he does so, the hostess of his party acts like he's just made an annoying faux pas, rather than drugging someone. | |
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Take That, Audience! | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_3ea462d7 | comment |
Take That, Audience!: At least those obsessed with finding any Easter Egg possible, as Mitchell is sitting for 5 minutes doing nothing but scratching his face once on loop for a DVD background. | |
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Going Native | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_3ebc57ac | comment |
Going Native: In a garden centre. | |
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Make It Look Like an Accident | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_3f0b2f50 | comment |
Make It Look Like an Accident: Parodied in the sketch about the Government Conspiracy to kill Princess Diana: Then ultimately subverted; | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_3f39fd36 | type |
Credits Pushback | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_3f39fd36 | comment |
Credits Pushback: Mercilessly savaged in series 4, episode 5, when a back-stage sketch has Mitchell and Webb discussing how this would impact their Drama Bomb Finale, especially regarding the bastard from Dave. | |
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First-Name Basis | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_4023b8c8 | comment |
First-Name Basis: The final sketch of the show, which features Dr. Watson visiting an aging, senile Sherlock Holmes in a nursing home, Holmes addresses Watson as "John" in his final speech, where he admits that he knows his mind has gone, but he can not do anything about it. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_40bb59d0 | type |
Blatant Lies | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_40bb59d0 | comment |
Blatant Lies: One sketch revolves around a "veterinary hospital", whose charges of pheasants, chicken and lamb tend to suffer terrible, tragic accidents, like getting their heads cut off, or their shoulders, or the "incinerator" cooking them. Tragic, delicious accidents. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_40d6724 | type |
Sound-to-Screen Adaptation | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_40d6724 | comment |
Sound-to-Screen Adaptation: Adapted from Radio 4's That Mitchell And Webb Sound. Many of the sketches in the television show are adapted word for word from the radio version. | |
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Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_40ff3c3b | comment |
Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains: Invoked and Played for Laughs (naturally) in "Evil Voice". Once the murderer is revealed, in between shots she suddenly gets better hair, "evil lipstick", and a tighter, shorter, cleavagey-er version of her dress. | |
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Broken Tears | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_4128bc77 | comment |
Broken Tears: The end result of a composer for the BBC Proms talking to a ditzy modern TV show host, who knows nothing about music, composing, or what she's supposed to be interviewing him about. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_41435fc2 | type |
Pie in the Face | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_41435fc2 | comment |
Pie in the Face: During the live show, the final round of Numberwang was played using custard tarts. Every time a contestant achieved "Numberflan," they had to smash a tart into their own face. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_420c50b7 | comment |
A.I. Is a Crapshoot: During the "history of Numberwang" sketch, it is revealed that Colosson, the Numberwang robot, has gone insane and wants to destroy everything that isn't Numberwang. | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_43a045de | comment |
Dropped a Bridge on Him: Played for Laughs in ''Coverage Of People Who Are Ill In Hospital Receiving Treatment", where a patient the host had been talking to a moment before has suffered what the host dubs "a bit of a cock-up" and died. | |
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World's Most Beautiful Woman | |
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World's Most Beautiful Woman: In one sketch, a groom (Webb) at a wedding reception calls his bride the most beautiful woman in the world. When the Literal-Minded best man (Mitchell) has to give a speech, he objects to that description, and doesn't understand what the audience is upset about. | |
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_43b154c9 | comment |
Not Even Bothering with the Accent: The Ku Klux Klan founder and his costume designer speak in Mitchell and Webb's natural accents. Subverted and lampshaded when the costumer's wife enters and speaks with a southern American accent, to which the costumer replies, "We said we're not doing the accents." In a sketch about American government officials contemplating faking the Moon landing in 1968, Mitchell, Webb, and Sarah Hadland all speak in British accents. | |
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Ask a Stupid Question... | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_443f9d8a | comment |
Ask a Stupid Question...: During a discussion between several Channel 4 executives, one asks if Simon Schama, the host of the then-recent Story of the Jews, was Jewish. Another executive takes him to task for this. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_469e3e2f | type |
In-Universe | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_469e3e2f | comment |
The "Dinner Party Guests" sketches play this for laughs In-Universe, revealing why people such as James Bond, Scooby and Shaggy and Mahatma Gandhi would be a nightmare at a party, whilst Adolf Hitler would be a delight. They also suggest that Scrappy-Doo would be a charming guest, if a little bit impetuous ("but I think you can forgive that of a talking dog"). | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_46d7e20a | type |
Sustained Misunderstanding | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_46d7e20a | comment |
Sustained Misunderstanding: The whole "Vectron" thing started because one guy lost his plectrum, and it all somehow got massively out of control. Once they realise this, the military leaders decide they miss it. The rich man who assumed his butler was his lover, and that "butler" was his name. For forty years. He's incredibly embarrassed to find out the truth, and that his constantly annoyed drunkard of a maid was his wife. | |
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You Do NOT Want to Know | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_47198ac4 | comment |
You Do Not Want To Know: The torture counsellor and her husband both warn the real estate agent he doesn't want to hear "the worst torture" she's ever heard of. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Julie in the Numberwang sketches, who was almost always declared the loser of the game and was made to suffer various indignities such as having a paper bag placed over her head, being stuffed into a cardboard box, and getting whacked on the head repeatedly with a frying pan. The only time she won (outside of the lone Numberwang radio sketch) was when there was a sudden death round, and the first person to die won. That's Numberwang! for you. In fact, in their live show, the host started verbally abusing Julie in the last round and showing blatant favouritism towards Simon. | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_48b9731f | comment |
Paper-Thin Disguise: A series of sketches in series 4, episode 6 revolve around an office worker who's actually Superman, and the Only Sane Man is constantly hushed down by everyone else when he tries pointing out how obvious this is. Then turned on its head when it turns out he's really not Superman... but everyone else at the office is a superhero. The school that's actually a pub, on account of pub licensing being tediously complex, whereas school licensing is incredibly easy. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_4a3e547f | comment |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the final Little Old Lady Job Justification sketch, Mitchell and Webb themselves are the interviewees, and at one point they admit that they tend to write themselves the best sketches and lines and give the lesser ones to their co-stars. One of the little old ladies, with uncharacteristic sharpness, snaps that this isn't very nice of them. In this sketch the little old ladies are, of course, played by Olivia Colman and James Bachman, their co-stars. | |
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Credits Gag | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_4af55b78 | comment |
Credits Gag: The last sketch of series 4 is Mitchell and Webb getting summoned up before the Old Ladies, and deciding to open up a little shop of their own. The credits then roll, with the normal credits replaced with everyone's jobs in the little shop. | |
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Snipe Hunt | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_4ce37dd1 | comment |
Snipe Hunt: Brown's Orthopedic Supplies sends the work experience kid through the Stargate on one of these. Their boss chews them out, because while it is pretty funny, the kid's been missing for three days now. | |
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Clueless Mystery | |
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Clueless Mystery: In-universe. Vauron is frustrated after seven days of investigating to find he has no evidence, only realising who the culprit was when they did "the Evil Voice". | |
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Everybody Knew Already | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_4d0372b | comment |
Everybody Knew Already: The "Working from Home" sketch revolves around a man who has recently started his own home business receiving tips from another home worker on how to resist the compulsion to masturbate whenever he feels like it, and bemoans that it's getting harder to keep that from his wife in light of the business not making progress. When their wives return to the conversation, the men play it off as the more experienced man giving business tips to the less experienced one... at which point the latter's wife cheerfully pipes up with "You should tell him how to rein in all the wanking! That's what I'd be doing if I was at home alone all day. | |
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Motive Rant | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_4d044580 | comment |
Motive Rant: The 'evil voice'. Further parodied after the murderer shoots herself, when Poirot accidentally provokes one about someone defecating in his en suite. | |
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Downer Ending | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: Played with in the "Sod Cancer" sketch, and played straight with Sherlock Holmes suffering with dementia at the end of season four. With a Credits Gag — "Meditation" from the opera Thais by Jules Massenet instead of the normal theme song. The Quiz Broadcasts. Sheila is killed, and mostly eaten. They get inside and attack, killing everyone but the presenter and Pete before disintegrating, leaving the two men alone. | |
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Rambling Old Man Monologue | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_4e6cb27f | comment |
Rambling Old Man Monologue: Anything the snooker commentators say that isn't "That's a bad miss." | |
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Wham Line | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: "I know, John. I do know." "Yes... they used to be... us." "On my spaceship, heading... inexorably... into the heart of the sun." | |
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Lazy Bum | |
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Lazy Bum: The Lazy Writers, whose usual excuse for not doing any research goes along the lines of "we were given the chance to do some research, but couldn't be bothered", usually because it conflicts with their holiday plans. | |
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First-Name Ultimatum | |
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Last Name Ultimatum: HENNIMOOOOOORRREE!!! | |
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Seinfeldian Conversation | |
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Seinfeldian Conversation: A pair of writers talk about religions, fairytales and the human reproductive system as though coming up with these things is the job they're doing. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: Played for extremely dark laughs with "I Want To Be A Celebrity Centaur", where celebrities have their torsos grafted onto horse bodies. Complications quickly ensue, such as the bodies suffering organ rejection, or catching horse diseases and requiring the celebrities to be put down. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: One sketch featured a man who shot anybody who made a grammatical mistake dead. In fairness, he does apply it equally — he shoots himself when it is pointed out to him he made a grammatical mistakenote Though he fails to notice an earlier mistake he made: he referred to HHH as an acronym, when it's actually an initialism. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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Crazy-Prepared: The creators of Colosson figured sooner or later it would try to take over the world, and built it with a failsafe mechanism that it would shut down if shown a picture of a chicken. Tragically, the documentary narrator confronted by an escaped Colosson, despite having foreseen this might happen, did not have a picture of a chicken. | |
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Kill the Poor | |
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Kill the Poor: One sketch was based around contemplating this as an easy solution to revitalizing the economy. Though it's played with, since the Minister suggesting it is forced to irritably clarify whether it would work or not he has no intention of actually doing it; he just wants to make sure they've literally contemplated all possible solutions. | |
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Bond One-Liner | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_51640e80 | comment |
Bond One-Liner: Parodied in one of the Party Planners sketches, in the middle of an extended What the Hell, Hero? aimed at Bond. The "Agent Suave" sketch reveals that all of the titular superspy's quips and Double Entendres come from a pair of lazy comedy writers sitting in a van outside reading from a book called '1001 Super Spy Jokes'. They're also providing this service for the villain. This backfires on them. | |
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Self-Disposing Villain | |
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Self-Disposing Villain: At the end of the 'evil voice' sketch (see Exasperated Perp). | |
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Calling Your Orgasms | |
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Calling Your Orgasms: "Now we know! NOW WE KNOW!" | |
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Not Using the "Z" Word | |
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Not Using the "Z" Word: Them. | |
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Nobody Poops | |
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Nobody Poops: In one sketch, a film director complains: "No one goes for a piss in Star Wars, you can watch the whole of Ghostbusters and no-one brushes their teeth, and in Lost in Translation, nothing happens. At all." In the director's own film, The Gathering People, a cabinet meeting about the outbreak of World War II is interrupted when one of the ministers has to go to the bathroom. | |
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AlternateCharacterInterpretation | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_54f999c | comment |
Alternate Character Interpretation: In-universe with the Party Hosts again, who think Bertie Wooster is alright, but have nothing but scorn for the creepy, haughty, controlling Jeeves and his complicated plans for fixing relationships, which almost always seem to involve throwing dogs in lakes. The police interview the uncle of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, asking why he left his nephew alone in an area known for wolf attacks, especially when he'd cried wolf already, and questioning how he could have heard the boy's final pleas for help but not the noise of a vicious wolf attack. | |
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Improbable Infant Survival | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_550754dc | comment |
Improbable Infant Survival: Referenced in The Quiz Broadcast when the host asks the contestants what they wished they had learned prior to The Event. | |
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Just Think of the Potential! | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_5517f7a5 | comment |
Just Think of the Potential!: Professor Death made a Giant Death Ray and an Armoured Scorpion of Death for peaceful purposes, damnit! | |
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Politically Incorrect Hero | |
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Politically Incorrect Hero: Captain Todger, whose emblem is a crude drawing of a penis and was in prison for statutory rape, much to Drayfox's horror. | |
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Service Sector Stereotypes | |
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Service Sector Stereotypes: The Posh Waiter (cousin to the Scary Tailor and the Bad Vicar) | |
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Artistic License – History | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_56515a39 | comment |
Artistic License – History: The skit in which Admiral Dönitz learns he's now the Führer. In reality, beyond Dönitz already being well-aware that Germany was at the point of collapse, he was actually appointed President as Hitler refused to let anyone become Führer after him. | |
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Theory of Narrative Causality | |
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Theory of Narrative Causality: The radio version of the "Are we the Baddies?" sketch has the worried Nazi officer begin to realise that the course of the war has begun to resemble the plot of every single Underdogs Never Lose film ever (with the Allies in the role of 'underdogs'), and that he's never actually seen a film where the good guys start off strong, have a few setbacks, but then win anyway: | |
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Heävy Mëtal Ümlaut | |
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Heävy Mëtal Ümlaut: Some of the numbers on the board on Das ist Nümberwang! have umlauts. | |
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BreakingLecture | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_57ceb8f6 | comment |
Breaking Lecture: In a behind-the-scenes sketch, David unleashes one of these on Robert when he plans to send a rude letter to a friend. It's enough to reduce Robert to tears. The man in the "Talent Dredge" sketch unleashes one of a failed contestant, For the Evulz. | |
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Letting the Air out of the Band | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_58db779e | comment |
Letting the Air out of the Band: Happens in the bawdy 1970s hospital when Dr Asquith fails to use innuendo. | |
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Tiebreaker Round | |
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Tiebreaker Round: Ties are broken in Numberwang via literal sudden death. First one to die wins. One edition of The Quiz Broadcast goes to a sudden death round, at which point one of the contestants immediately keels over. If he were on Numberwang, that would've been a victory, but The Quiz Broadcast evidently operates under different rules. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: Officer Dibble is called up by his superior for wasting time pursuing Top Cat, who has committed no greater crime than being a nuisance, to the detriment of his other policing duties. | |
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Government Conspiracy | |
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Government Conspiracy: Parodied in a series of sketches which deconstruct conspiracy theories around Roswell, the Moon landing and Princess Diana's death, lampshading the inherent ludicrousness of them by having a trio of government spooks play them perfectly straight. In the Roswell sketch, even the agents seem unsure how the conspiracy benefits anyone: | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: The workers of Room 101 are absurdly dedicated to making sure the room contains a person's worst fears, even if it's something like a whale with the victim's childhood teacher's face on it, which is time consuming and a logistical nightmare (plus the difficulty of getting the mask to stay on). | |
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Big Brother Is Watching | |
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Big Brother Is Watching: Runs into a problem for some MiniLov workers, when someone's telescreen gets busted. One of them informs someone that the couple will have to watch each other. Then it turns out their partner has already been taken in, so she'll have to watch herself. | |
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Brown Note | |
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Brown Note: "I've got a Red Tuba that makes you shit yourself!" From the same sketch, the eponymous green clarinet also makes you sing embarrassing truths to the tune of "I Saw Three Ships". | |
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Nature Adores a Virgin | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_5dd7c88e | comment |
One sketch featured famous explorers naming their discoveries with totally irrelevant names- Walter Raleigh coming up with Virginia to honor Queen Elizabeth, Columbus naming them the West Indies despite them (supposedly) being in the east, and the vast and unconquerable expanse of Austrailia bringing to mind South Wales. | |
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Alternative Character Interpretation | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_5e7163c9 | comment |
Alternative Character Interpretation: The "Dinner Party Guests" sketches play this for laughs In-Universe, revealing why people such as James Bond, Scooby and Shaggy and Mahatma Gandhi would be a nightmare at a party, whilst Adolf Hitler would be a delight. They also suggest that Scrappy-Doo would be a charming guest, if a little bit impetuous ("but I think you can forgive that of a talking dog"). Also applies to the scarecrow sketch. Even the Blue Peter garden gets this, in a sketch which reveals that every TV show has its own private garden, not just Blue Peter; there's apparently an unwritten rule that you shouldn't show off the gardens on television, and the Blue Peter team are considered very uncouth for doing so. | |
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Bullet-Proof Fashion Plate | |
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Bulletproof Fashion Plate: The host of The Quiz Broadcast (remain indoors) starts out looking remarkably well groomed, all things considering — and then progressively unravels as things get worse and worse. | |
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Germans Love David Hasselhoff | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_5fddf001 | comment |
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Invoked In-Universe in the German Numberwang sketch, in which Simon is handed an autographed picture of Hasselhoff upon winning. | |
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Zombie Apocalypse | |
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Zombie Apocalypse: In the later installments of "The Quiz Broadcast," the survivors (who'd been whittled by scarcity and disease down to the host, Peter, and Sheila) are found by soldiers fighting "Them," cannibals who, according to the Couch Gag, know what caused The Event. | |
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Story-Breaker Team-Up | |
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Story-Breaker Team-Up: Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit are a parody of this trope. As stated by their theme song, one can summon angels, and the other... rides a BMX. The theme song even provides the page quote for the trope. | |
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Pædo Hunt | |
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Pædo Hunt: Among the embarrassing truths the Green Clarinet Man is forced to reveal is that he's not allowed near local schools. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: Sheila on the Quiz Broadcast becomes increasingly unhinged as things get steadily worse, until she's "voltage-cured", which destroys what little sanity she had left. | |
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Politically Correct Villain | |
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Politically Correct Villain: General Drayfox wants to rule the world and will turn people to stone for opposing him, but is very supportive of multiculturalism and gender equality. | |
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BadassNormal | |
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The BMX Bandit. (Also counts as an example of the warrior side of the Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards issue). | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses | |
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Viewers Are Geniuses: Many of the sketches are surprisingly intellectual or reference obscure material - how many comedy shows would get away with making a sketch about Karl Dönitz? | |
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Euphemism Buster | |
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Euphemism Buster: During the Channel 4 exec sketch, the exec played by Robert Webb tries dancing around what David Starkey said about certain peoples in regard to the London riots of 2011. A slightly ditzier executive cheerfully points out Starkey called them "the blacks". | |
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Non-Indicative Name | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6509bb9f | comment |
Nonindicative Name: One sketch featured famous explorers naming their discoveries with totally irrelevant names- Walter Raleigh coming up with Virginia to honor Queen Elizabeth, Columbus naming them the West Indies despite them (supposedly) being in the east, and the vast and unconquerable expanse of Austrailia bringing to mind South Wales. Professor Death's inventions like the Giant Death Ray are simply peaceful devices that happen to be named after him. | |
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Law of Disproportionate Response | |
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Law of Disproportionate Response: Demonstrated in this sketch about a couple arguing. | |
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Gargle Blaster | |
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Gargle Blaster: When the host of "A Prayer and a Pint" ends up in Tehran under the misapprehension that it's in Iraq, he's given a pint of pure ethanol mixed with caramel for colour since alcoholic beverages aren't legal in Iran and has to cough and wheeze his way through the hymn. | |
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Thrown from the Zeppelin | |
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Thrown from the Zeppelin: It saw this action denied by a lack of No OSHA Compliance. After several minutes of flashing lights, a safety rail being placed around him, and a voice announcing "Trap door number four is about to open, please vacate the area" he got up and left. | |
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Hilariously Abusive Childhood | |
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Hilariously Abusive Childhood: A series of sketches revolve around Pinocchio driving his father to madness with his unthinking sabotage, ruining the man's life and driving off potential dates, all the while oblivious to his father's attempts to get rid of or just kill him. All of which is played for laughs. | |
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Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_69cce3dc | comment |
Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: The wedding planner who gets called up before the Old Ladies, as she realises her job is entirely redundant. | |
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The Simple Life is Simple | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6a3d66f6 | comment |
The Simple Life is Simple: Parodied with a recurring sketch featuring a guy under the impression that farming is a super-secret Get-Rich-Quick Scheme he's sharing with the audience. "You know sheep? A bit woolly? It's WOOL! Pull it off, sell it... fuckin' grows back again! You CANNOT lose!" | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: For a given value of "jerkass" given who we're discussing, and taking into account it's from their perspective. In the "Are We The Baddies?" sketch one of the Nazi officers, when discussing his concerns over the prominent use of skulls in Nazi iconography and the less-than-positive connotations this has, admits that he's been having doubts about the cause since listening to Allied propaganda. The other officer immediately retorts that obviously the Allies are going to frame Germany in as negative a light as possible, to which the first counters by pointing out that, while this might indeed be the case, the Allies didn't also have design privileges over Nazi uniforms. | |
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The Reveal | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
"On my spaceship, heading... inexorably... into the heart of the sun." | |
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Serious Business | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6b35bdff | comment |
One of the behind-the-scenes sketches has David and Robert get into an argument about cheese that gets progressively heated, eventually turning into a shouting match. This involves David at one point screaming at Robert "You've got a lot of anger! A LOT OF ANGER!!!" | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6b8c8d72 | type |
Our Slogan Is Terrible | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6b8c8d72 | comment |
Our Slogan Is Terrible: One sketch involves a business whose entire purpose is to supply people with "hand-holding accompanying phrases." A problem comes up when the slogans suggested aren't acceptable. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Discussed in one Behind the Scenes sketch, where David Mitchell starts wondering about this, calling himself the "Myth Child" and annoying the rest of the cast. Speedo's name comes from the fact that, for reasons known only to himself, he wears incredibly tight speedos. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6ce0245d | type |
Promoted to Scapegoat | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6ce0245d | comment |
Promoted to Scapegoat: Karl Dönitz is thrilled to learn that he's been named the next Führer after the death of Adolf Hitler. Unfortunately, his underlings have to patiently explain that this means less that he gets to implement his various ideas about pensions, autobahns, and the housing shortage and more that he gets to call General Eisenhower and surrender to the Allies. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6cf80934 | type |
Big Word Shout | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6cf80934 | comment |
Big Word Shout: "HENNIMOOOOORE!" | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6ddc33 | type |
Drama Bomb Finale | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6ddc33 | comment |
When discussing making a Drama Bomb Finale, Mitchell asks Webb if he means doing something like "kill Adric, roll the credits in silence". | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6fba77ef | type |
Moon-Landing Hoax | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6fba77ef | comment |
Moon-Landing Hoax: In one of a series of Conspiracy Theory sketches, a shady government office plans to fake the moon landings. When they realize that no one will be fooled unless they really do build a massive rocket, and they'll have the cost of film crews and catering on top of that, they decide that it'll be cheaper just to pop to the moon and fake the footage there. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6feda19d | type |
Skeleton Motif | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_6feda19d | comment |
Skeleton Motif: Discussed in a sketch wherein two Nazi SS soldiers begin to notice that they're wearing uniforms with skulls on them. The junior one points out that he can't really think of any positive symbolism for a skull, and meekly asks if they're the baddies. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_701243b8 | type |
Comical Overreacting | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_701243b8 | comment |
Comical Overreacting: While discussing how to make a Blackadder Goes Forth-style Downer Ending, the duo discover the tea urn is empty and a new one will take five minutes. Cue Platoon-esque slow-mo Skyward Scream. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7043a964 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7043a964 | comment |
Grammar Nazi: A boss who shoots his staff dead when they make errors. Ironically, his misuse of the word "acronym" goes unnoticednote He refers to someone shortening "Healthy Homes Hospitals" to "HHH" as an acronym, when it's actually an initialism, since each letter is pronounced separately, like The BBC or ATM, whereas an acronym is when they are pronounced as a word, like scuba or NATO. He ends up shooting himself for getting the plural of "ignoramus" wrong though. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7135b0a4 | type |
Typecasting | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7135b0a4 | comment |
Typecasting:invoked a sketch where a ship captain was being interviewed by a detective had David Mitchell playing both roles - when Webb storms on set to complain about it, Mitchell replies "captains and detectives are my thing". And then Robert Webb announces he will have a sex scene with another Robert Webb in drag, justifying it with "I am much sexier than you." | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_72856b70 | type |
Godzilla Threshold | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_72856b70 | comment |
Godzilla Threshold: On the Quiz Broadcast, the viewer is constantly reminded to Remain Indoors. However, the fact that they got in is bad enough for the host to tell the viewers to go outside. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_734632b0 | type |
Noble Bigot | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_734632b0 | comment |
Noble Bigot: Of all people, Jesus is called out on this for his racist attitude to Samaritans. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_77f92f08 | type |
Home and Garden | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_77f92f08 | comment |
Home and Garden: Parodied in the sketch "Coverage Of People Buying A House And Then Living In It". The titular show is clearly supposed to be in the vein of British versions like Location Location Location, with all the Mundane Made Awesome that is usually involved... except that everyone involved in the show has clearly realised just how teeth-grindingly mundane the process actually is and so cannot be bothered to actually inject the awesome. The result is two clearly rather bored men who cannot hide their disinterest and mild resentment at having to make a television on the process of buying a house and fixing it up a bit, and so rush through everything in as quick a dull monotone as can be gotten away with. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7870735b | type |
From Bad to Worse | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7870735b | comment |
Immediately after, we're shown Webb approaching Mitchell (who was the one wearing said burqa) to have a discussion as to whether it could be considered offensive. It goes From Bad to Worse when Mitchell removes the outfit only to be sporting (mild) blackface. And not for any show-related reason - apparently David Mitchell just feels more comfortable when in blackface. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them! | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_78c5ce7e | comment |
Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: The man who shoots workers for grammatical errors growls that since it's his company, he'll do what he likes. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_78c895c8 | type |
Amusing Injuries | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_78c895c8 | comment |
Amusing Injuries: One sketch has two actors playing Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson doing this to one another, starting with hitting one another on the head with a pipe, moving up to Webb's character smashing a carafe over Mitchell's head, then to somehow breaking one another's limbs, ending with Webb's character knocking Holmes to the ground on stage, and kicking him repeatedly. | |
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Gretzky Has the Ball | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_78c9ebbf | comment |
Gretzky Has the Ball: The cricket version. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7962aeec | type |
Relax-o-Vision | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7962aeec | comment |
Relax-o-Vision: A fourteen-hour long video showing scenes of the English countryside, vicars walking across fields, crosswords being filled in and then covered with jam, all to sap the will of the humans fighting their robot overlords. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7ae52fff | type |
Hollywood Magnetism | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7ae52fff | comment |
Hollywood Magnetism: Subverted. Superhero MagnetaMan claims that he has power over all metal, but when pressed on this, admits he only has power over ferrous metals. He just says all metal because it sounds cooler. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7c0bfb83 | type |
Obviously Evil | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7c0bfb83 | comment |
Obviously Evil Poirot always knows when he's identified the murderer when they start doing the "evil voice", among other things... | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7c63d3de | type |
Questionable Casting | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7c63d3de | comment |
Questionable Casting: An in-universe example; when bitterly griping about the success of legendary snooker pro Steve Davis, Ted and Peter are absolutely flabbergasted to learn that he's been selected to be the commentator for the BBC's coverage of... the Winter Olympics Ice-Dancing. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7ce3bb6d | type |
Breathless Non Sequitur | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7ce3bb6d | comment |
Breathless Non Sequitur: A man who's just gotten a job as a TV weatherman is given a rundown of his first day's schedule; showing him around, getting him in front of the camera, doing a few practice runs, paying homage to the all-knowing weather god, and then lunch. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7cfeef98 | type |
Narrative Filigree | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7cfeef98 | comment |
Narrative Filigree: Parodied by the "realistic director" sketch. His films include Sometimes Fires Go Out and The Man Who Has A Cough And It's Just A Cough And He's Fine. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7d0ffcc0 | type |
Single Substance Manipulation | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7d0ffcc0 | comment |
Single Substance Manipulation: There's a sketch about a man with telekinetic powers that only work on biscuits. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7d218606 | type |
Rapid-Fire Comedy | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7d218606 | comment |
Rapid-Fire Comedy: The two Posh Jaws sketches don't last a minute between them. Aside from them two there's Polite Taxi Driver and Rude Gandhi. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: How the Incredibly Intimidating And Aristocratic Person Who Still Unaccountably Sells Clothes justifies being horrible to his customers: Also, the "Little Date" man, who gives these to women, reducing them to tears so they'll go out with him to feel better. A series 4 sketch has a man at a party unleash one of these on an irritatingly smug man who thinks he has "people skills". | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7df2b942 | type |
Moving the Goalposts | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7df2b942 | comment |
Moving the Goalposts: The UN, faced with its growing inability to fight international terrorism, decided to refocus its efforts on a more achievable goal: fighting the international threat of Bill Oddie. A creepy director talks an actor into doing a nude scene, supposedly just for the purposes of voyeurism, but on the day of the shoot it's turned into an S&M scene instead, complete with popcorn-eating spectators. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7e472269 | type |
Obsolete Occupation | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7e472269 | comment |
Obsolete Occupation: One sketch featured a stone chiseler worried about the upcoming Bronze Age. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7e74d66f | type |
Politically Correct History | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7e74d66f | comment |
Politically Correct History: Subverted with the Lucentio sketches. The lords get fed up of their king passing jobs off to the useless Lucentio, and just ask the king to have sex with him already. The lord that does this admits that, as far as they're concerned, this does mean he'll go to Hell, but that's "long term". | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7eebe99c | type |
The Alcoholic | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7eebe99c | comment |
The Alcoholic: One-shot character Hugh walks into the corner shop seemingly intending to buy a loaf of bread, an apple, and a newspaper. Suddenly complaining of a "perishing thirst," he adds two cans of 10% lager, and then realises he unfortunately doesn't have enough for the first three things. The reactions of the owner suggest that Hugh performs the same routine pretty much every morning. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7f84552e | type |
Tin-Can Robot | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_7f84552e | comment |
Tin-Can Robot Cheezoid, given that he was actually built out of a hoover. In the They Look Like Us Now sketch, this is what the "infiltrating" robots actually look like. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_80b5924 | type |
Left Hanging | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_80b5924 | comment |
Left Hanging: Due to the series ending, we never learn if Colin's crewmates figure out he's a robot. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_8124e7a6 | type |
Sudden Downer Ending | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_8124e7a6 | comment |
Sudden Downer Ending: The very last episode of the last series ends with a surprisingly touching sketch about a senile Sherlock Holmes, who reveals he knows all too well what is happening to him. For a show built around frequently insincere, cynical Black Comedy and Surreal Humour, to have a moment of genuine pathos cap the series off works surprisingly well. Consider also that this is a Sketch Comedy we're talking about, not a Sitcom. It is rare - if not unprecedented - to see sketch comedy showrunners decide to finish off their run with a moment of genuine drama. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_83a903f6 | type |
Stepford Smiler | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_83a903f6 | comment |
Stepford Smiler: All the contestants and the host of the Quiz Broadcast are this, being on a quiz show taking place in a bunker After the End but consistently putting on a cheery façade for the viewers ("if, indeed, there are any viewers left"). It slips on occasion when they remember aspects of "The Event", or when the host delivers a message to Them, begging Them to leave the survivors alone. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_8409a385 | type |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_8409a385 | comment |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Parodied in the 'Mad Scientist' sketch, where the Giant Death Ray is aptly named... but not for the reason the President of the United States and the head of the US Army think, which prompts this reaction when they discover it's not quite as lethal as they expected: In the second Numberwang, Simon is wearing a shirt that says "I AM FROM SPACE." Webb introduces him as "Simon, who is from space." | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_8560c16f | type |
Fatal Family Photo | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_8560c16f | comment |
Fatal Family Photo: Poor James Bachman's fate is sealed in the penultimate episode of Season 4 when he turns up happily showing off a photo of him and his girlfriend. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_85bfd195 | type |
They Look Like Us Now | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_85bfd195 | comment |
In the They Look Like Us Now sketch, this is what the "infiltrating" robots actually look like. | |
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Lethal Eatery | |
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Lethal Eatery: The sketches about "Didldidi", a bargain supermarket parodying Aldi and Lidl, which sells food long past its sell-by date or that is clearly not fit for human consumption. | |
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Stating the Simple Solution | |
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Stating the Simple Solution: After a man shoots several of his employees dead for grammatical errors, the last man standing asks why he didn't just sack them, if it bothered him so much. The boss is actually taken aback, and admits he'd never thought of that. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Telekinesis. Which only works on biscuits. And no, Jaffa Cakes are not true biscuits. | |
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Drinking Game | |
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Drinking Game: A company makes it official policy for employees to take a drink whenever certain phrases are said, like for example, "merger" (wa-hey! *chug*). The Only Sane Man of the company tries to point out this is probably the reason they've wound up needing an actual merger (wa-hey! *chug*) in the first place. | |
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Go Mad from the Revelation | |
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Go Mad from the Revelation: The fine people at "TheHorrorTheHorror.Com" help those with anxiety problems by showing their customers the bleak truth at the heart of the universe, which consolidates all their various worries into one twenty-four hour burst of existential terror. | |
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Eye Catch | |
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_8a41380f | comment |
The announcer talking over the Quiz Broadcast Eyecatch mentions "our new topical entertainment show Mock the Event, which may offend viewers who were affected by The Event." | |
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Reed Richards Is Useless | |
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Reed Richards Is Useless: Monsieur Garnier (who is inexplicably a North-of-England mill owner rather than a French guy) suppresses the invention of a cure for Alzheimer's and a perpetual motion machine because he doesn't want his scientists to get distracted from hair products. Also, whoever built a sentient supercomputer and used it to determine what is, or is not, Numberwang. | |
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Our Zombies Are Different | |
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Our Zombies Are Different: "Them", from the Quiz Broadcast. It's never made clear if these cannibalistic former humans are zombies or just atrocious mutants, but they are unquestionably terrifying. | |
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Harmless Villain | |
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Harmless Villain: The poisoning sketch revolves around a man attempting to murder another with poison but becoming increasingly transparent with his attempts until finally... | |
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Third-Person Person | |
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Third-Person Person: In one sketch, Julius Caesar is instructed to talk about himself in this way, which leads to a great deal of confusion. | |
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Overshadowed by Awesome | |
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Overshadowed by Awesome: Deliciously exaggerated in the sketches about the Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit duo. | |
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By-the-Book Cop | |
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By-the-Book Cop: Parodied in one sketch, with one police officer who's fanatically by-the-book and extremely in-your-face about it when his superior calls him in because he's completely inefficient: | |
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SpecialEffectsFailure | |
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Special Effects Failure: Invoked with the Helivets, a parody of action-emergency shows. The helicopter is clearly a remote control toy. | |
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Ancient Conspiracy | |
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Ancient Conspiracy: An episode presents a trailer for The Number Wang Code, where we learn that all numbers are part of a conspiracy. Also, the above-mentioned Inebriati (or Knights Tippler), a select cabal of people who have shaped the world for the better for centuries, all on the principle that "everything is much, much easier if you're ever-so-slightly drunk." Being completely drunk, however... | |
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Cargo Cult | |
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Cargo Cult: By the halfway point of series 4, the cast and crew of the Quiz Broadcast have taken to worshipping the regulations, Sheila especially. | |
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Overly Long Name | |
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Overly Long Name: "Footage of People Where One Person Wants To Live In One Country, And The Other Wants To Live In Another Who Have Perversely Decided Not To Get a Divorce Buying A House". | |
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Superpower Lottery | |
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Superpower Lottery: Angel Summoner and the BMX Bandit. | |
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Saying Sound Effects Out Loud | |
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Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: The aforementioned barmen fool their customers (and each other) by simply saying "rumble rumble, earthquake!" or "beep, beep, beep." | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: The feckless, lazy and xenophobic staff of Brown's Orthopaedic Supplies keep misusing the Stargate that happens to be in their office to dispose of rubbish and otherwise play mean jokes on the aliens on the other side, much to their manager's frustration. However, in the final sketch, it turns out the aliens have had enough of this and have started throwing everything back. With hyper-velocity. | |
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Apocalypse How | |
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A decidedly grim one in "The Event", as featured in the Quiz Broadcast sketches. The only people who know what happened are "Them", if the test card is any indication. Also, whatever happened to one of their contestants on a show we don't get to see. The area is cordoned off, and the host is reasonably certain that whatever it was, they stopped it. | |
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Sinister Minister | |
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Sinister Minister: "We're back." "Who?" "The incredibly horrible and twisted people who are still unaccountably vicars." (the full sketch is here) | |
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Shaped Like Itself | |
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Shaped Like Itself: "Who's the Winner", which is all about being... the winner, and the guest's plans for winning are "be the winner". Failure to do so is ascribed to not being the winner. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: One of Those Wacky Nazis is starting to think that maybe they are the bad guys. "Hans... are we the baddies?" "It's just all these skulls, good guys don't wear skulls do they?" | |
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Moral Guardians | |
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Moral Guardians: Mrs. Patricia Wilberforce, of the Mrs. Patricia Wilberforce Hour, acts as one, for Deliberate Values Dissonance. One show we see has her bringing a woman who became pregnant after being sexually assaulted during the blackout into the studio just so the audience can boo and hiss at her. | |
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On the Next | |
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On the Next: The "Gift Shop Sketch" sketch makes fun of excessive previewing (to the point of revealing the entire story) and recapping of TV shows. | |
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As You Know | |
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As You Know: Frequently played for laughs in the radio version. In later series, a minor Running Gag is for one character to sum up information that everyone present already knows, and then say something like "I like to occasionally remind myself what's been going on. It's realistic." Some of these characters also like to point out the obvious just in case they're in a situation where they can't be seen, such as a radio comedy sketch. | |
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Master of Illusion | |
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Master of Illusion: Two barmen who can make people believe something is happening just by making the proper sounds. | |
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Gambit Roulette | |
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Gambit Roulette: Parodied with lashings of Sarcasm Mode in a sketch ridiculing the conspiracy theory that Princess Diana's death in a high-speed crash was set up by the royal family; | |
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Unproblematic Prostitution | |
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Unproblematic Prostitution: "My Shags as a Whore", naturally, since it's a send-up of another show that's guilty of this. | |
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Oop North | |
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Monsieur Garnier (who is inexplicably a North-of-England mill owner rather than a French guy) suppresses the invention of a cure for Alzheimer's and a perpetual motion machine because he doesn't want his scientists to get distracted from hair products. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
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A Day in the Limelight: Played with and parodied in the stage show The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb, where James Bachman and Abigail Burdess take the stage to "fill in the gaps" when Mitchell and Webb are doing costume shifts. They treat the situation as if they've got their own show, even singing their own theme song. | |
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This Is Reality | |
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This Is Reality: The premise for the skit featuring Moneypenny's friends. Similarly done in their Kitchen Nightmares parody, where the beleaguered restaurant owner tearfully exclaims that the host is just a better cook than he is. In the Evil Genius sketch, the villain has a hard time communicating with his minions since they are having trouble following his euphemisms. When he tries to establish false doors and trap doors, the builder bluntly tells him that they have to remodel the entire room since the desired plan has a lot of health and safety violations. With the changes in place, the genius's plans go wrong since his victims are given plenty of time to escape. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
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This Is Gonna Suck: The Channel 4 execs, when their attempt to make a knock-off of "Story of the Jews" gets only one applicant — David Starkey, who wants to make it "The Story of The Blacks"note for context: David Starkey is a fairly infamous conservative-leaning historian who made several racially-charged comments concerning the London riots of 2011 specifically and the effects of non-white immigration on Britain in general. In short, he's the kind of person who has strong views about "Those People" and a documentary about the Black experience from his perspective would be the kind of thing that would make any self-respecting TV executive very nervous. The "Man's Hour" host has this when he tries talking to his guest, who is a typical bloke and refuses to talk about how he felt about watching a film. He quickly mutters "it's happening again", before trying to get the conversation to continue. | |
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Studio Audience | |
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Studio Audience: Sketches which are not shot on location are filmed in front of a live studio audience. They even appear in one "behind-the-scenes" sketch, and in another, Mark Evans playing the part of David Mitchell's chiropractor descends from the audience to complain at a sketch depicting him. | |
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Who's on First? | |
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Who's on First?: Used in the sketch skewering the people who pick music to go with idents. The Cesar sketch. By the end of it, no-one's sure who's who. | |
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Protagonist Journey to Villain | |
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Protagonist Journey to Villain: The Green Clarinet sketch follows Alan; initially, he uses the clarinet that reveals embarrassing truths only on his Bad Boss and an annoying racist woman who pushes ahead of him in a queue. However, he's soon using it to extort free meals from people and abusing it, even turning it against the person who gave it to him. Luckily, the last person he tries blackmailing has a red tuba that makes you shit yourself. | |
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Heartwarming Moments / Sugar Wiki | |
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Heartwarming Moments: Parodied and Invoked with "Sod Cancer!" | |
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It's Probably Nothing | |
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It's Probably Nothing: The "Everything is Fine" sketch has the mayor of a flooded Shrewsbury releasing a statement on how everything is okay, except all the water everywhere, which he assumes will go away after a while. | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
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Overly Long Gag: The cash register shop sketch, followed by the almost exactly identical doorbell shop sketch. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: An elitist composer is forced to deal with the end result of his hubris after coming up with the idea of the Doctor Who Proms, when he has an interview with a ditzy young host who doesn't know a thing about music. | |
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Techno Babble | |
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Technobabble: Parodied by "Now he's poorly from too much electric" | |
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | |
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Get Me Hennimore! | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: Peter, one of the contestants on Quiz Broadcast, is blind. | |
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Confusing Multiple Negatives | |
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Confusing Multiple Negatives: Used by the creepy director to reassure a man he's filming that his penis won't appear on film. The guy buys it. | |
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Standard Snippet | |
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Standard Snippet: Adagio for Strings, played over a slow-motion reaction to discovering that they're out of tea. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The "elderly Sherlock Holmes" sketch goes quickly from Black Comedy to tragedy. More humorously, a series of sketches in the fourth season involved Robert Webb and Abigail Burdess as a pair of new parents who swerve suddenly between happily cooing over their baby daughter (played by their actual daughter) and viciously hissing abuse towards each other right in front of her. The Quiz Broadcast sketches, especially the later ones, can cause these. | |
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I Want My Jet Pack | |
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I Want My Jetpack: Both the attitude, and the concept of jetpacks, are spoofed in-universe here. | |
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Year Inside, Hour Outside | |
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Year Inside, Hour Outside: Spoofed in the Narnia sketch. | |
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Scandalgate | |
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Scandalgate: Rob refers to the original scandal as "Watergategate" on the grounds that, otherwise, what would you call a scandal about water? | |
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Humble Hero | |
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Humble Hero: In the "Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit" sketch, Angel Summoner is a genuinely modest fellow who just wants BMX Bandit to feel useful and included, and is scrupulous about trying to share the credit equally with him. It's just unfortunate that BMX Bandit's rather limited skill-set is fundamentally overshadowed by his ability to summon a horde of celestial super-beings at will. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: One episode has the explorers discussing the name of the new land they've discovered (The West Indies, Virginia, New South Wales), and Webb's character questioning the captain's choice of name, only to be bullied down when the captain pulls rank. By the fourth... | |
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Umpteenth Customer | |
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Umpteenth Customer: Parodied; the three eccentric businessmen offer a prize for the millionth visitor to their website, and are confused to find that he completely ignores all the banner ads and pop-ups telling him what he's won. | |
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Mood Dissonance | |
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Mood Dissonance: The "elderly Sherlock Holmes" sketch, in which Holmes' obvious mental deterioration — and Watson's equally obvious desperation to pretend for his sake that nothing is wrong — is played for laughs... until Holmes, in a moment of lucidity, reveals he knows only too well what's happening to him. | |
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Toilet Seat Divorce | |
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Toilet Seat Divorce: Played for laughs in the sketch where a married couple have a mildly-tetchy-but-otherwise-bored bickering match about his infidelity with a work colleague, their incompatible desires for a child and her crippling gambling addiction, before the husband figures out the wife is really just dancing around the actual problem — the time he left the fridge door open and a quiche had to be thrown out, along with some milk. This is treated as a major betrayal which almost destroyed their marriage. Thankfully, however, they manage to settle matters and end up having a good little giggle over the fact that he didn't wear a condom while having his affair and has likely got his colleague pregnant. | |
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Separated by a Common Language | |
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Separated by a Common Language: A may-or-may-not-be intentional version with the Party Hosts, who scoff at Shaggy from Scooby-Doo for calling himself that as a "hollow sexual boast." Certainly rude in England where "shag" is a crude term for having sex, but in America, "shaggy" just means "scruffy." | |
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Red Eyes, Take Warning | |
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Red Eyes, Take Warning: The cannibalistic "Them" in the Event sketches have glowing red eyes. | |
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Haughty Help | |
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Haughty Help: Featured in the sketches "The incredibly posh people who are still unaccountably waiters", and "The incredibly aristocratic and intimidating people who still unaccountably sell clothes". | |
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The Backstage Sketch | |
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The Backstage Sketch: The show frequently featured the stars lounging around on set in-between takes. One particularly memorable instance lampshades how the supposedly documentary-esque content of these sketches was in fact just as scripted as the rest of the show. | |
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Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids | |
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Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Colosson, the robot with the job of determining whether or not something is Numberwang, was given mobility and laser cannons. This was apparently the result of the scientists who were creating him wondering late in development whether he could be used for the war effort. Because this didn't change what they used him for, it achieved nothing but creating a problem when he decides to take over the world. Maybe he was designed by Doctor Death? He does have trouble spotting the Potential Applications of laser cannon... | |
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Scare 'Em Straight | |
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Scare 'Em Straight: "If your children get dirt on them, they'll explode." (PROBABLY!) | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: During "What Not To Look Like", the two bitchy presenters have one where their quest shows up in a burqa. Immediately after, we're shown Webb approaching Mitchell (who was the one wearing said burqa) to have a discussion as to whether it could be considered offensive. It goes From Bad to Worse when Mitchell removes the outfit only to be sporting (mild) blackface. And not for any show-related reason - apparently David Mitchell just feels more comfortable when in blackface. During a snooker commentary, one of them declares it's actually Christmas. The other then realises it's Christmas, and runs out the door. In one Get Me Hennimore! sketch, Hennimore imagines the results of the instructions Mr. Boss is giving him (though we never hear what the exact instructions are) and knows that things are going to end badly, as usual. His face gets more and more distressed as the sketch goes on. Unusually for a Hennimore sketch, things go just fine and no problems occur... until the nuclear warhead detonates. During the Quiz Broadcast when the Host realises that "They" have gotten in. In the "War on Bill Oddie" sketch, the British Foreign Secretary is not prepared for the suggestion that Bill Oddie, after being made the subject of an international military action when the world realised that going after Al-Qaeda was "too difficult", might actually seek refuge with Al-Qaeda. | |
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For the Evulz | |
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For the Evulz: The health secretary behind the kat-kat and kid-kat foodstuffs/spate of dead kids and cats admits when asked that his reasons for doing so are simply because he prefers dogs. | |
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Caustic Critic | |
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Caustic Critic: Played for laughs in "Hole in the Ring", in which Z-list celebrity host Jason is clearly supposed to sneer at the hapless contestants of the game show with biting Deadpan Snarker sarcasm in "Anne Robinson on The Weakest Link" style, but the effect is undermined by his utter lack of wit to the point where he somehow loses an argument with a contestant who doesn't even realise he's in one: | |
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All for Nothing | |
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All for Nothing: The host of Coverage of People Who Want to Buy A House spends over a month looking for suitable locations for his guests, one of whom wants to live in Dorking, the other in the Bahamas, only for them to be unable to compromise, wasting everyone's time. Then they bought a house in Dorking anyway. | |
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Fish out of Water | |
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"Fishmonger out of Watermonger" mocks every aspect of Reality Shows like Faking It, with a fishmonger trying to produce a reality show in 2 days. "Tim has just five minutes to come up with his arbitrary deadline". His end result is also apparently good enough for Channel 5, but not good enough for Dave. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: "That's Numberwang!" and "Let's rotate the board!" for Numberwang; "Hello, good evening and remain indoors!" for The Quiz Broadcast. Also "Oh, and that's a bad miss" for Ted during the snooker radio commentator sketches. Worth noting that their most notable catchphrases are usually set right at the start of the sketch, rather than having them as the 'pay-off' at the end. This is due to the show's origins on radio, where a catchphrase at the beginning would let the audience know which characters they were listening to right away. "Henni-MORE!" The News live broadcast: "What's your reckon?" The Posh Waiter, Scary Vicar and Intimidating Tailor all introduced themselves in a similar fashion: Not to mention during the Waiter/Vicar/Tailor's rant, he mentions that he and those he worked with saw Webb's character the last time he visited, and they "thought you were a dick/turd". | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Sarah Hadland. Take note of her appearance in the Quiz Broadcast sketches as "Sheila" and then in season 4's "Dog Poker" and "Reports Mode" sketches. | |
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Maximum Fun Chamber | |
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Maximum Fun Chamber: "Come on, what's the worst torture story you've got?" | |
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Sapient Tank | |
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Sapient Tank: Subverted in that The Giant Death Scorpion was designed with peaceful, if bizarre, intentions. | |
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419 Scam | |
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419 Scam: The three billionaires, who really do want to randomly give their MASSIVE YACHTS to the owners of specially-preselected telephone numbers but fail to realise how much they resemble scam artists. | |
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Sickly Green Glow | |
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Sickly Green Glow: The plutonium in the "Cash 4 Plutonium" sketch. | |
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Playing Cyrano | |
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Playing Cyrano: A sketch revolved around Cyrano himself popping up to help a man woo a woman in the modern day. However, the man in question is a sensitive, good-natured fellow and the woman is, well, a slapper. Cyrano's advice is to be brash and offensive, and downright insulting, which the man in question takes only grudgingly — but it works perfectly. As the scene progresses, he realizes that he has absolutely no interest in going out with a woman who actually likes being treated that way. Cyrano convinces him to go on anyway, since at least he can sleep with her tonight. Eventually, the man refuses to continue, but Cyrano keeps shouting out the lines for him, and jams a bag of cocaine into his hands, which the girl mistakes for his continued efforts and she drags him inside. | |
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Misery Poker | |
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Misery Poker: Inverted in a sketch in which a paediatric consultant tries ever so hard to be sympathetic to his boyfriend's problems at his own job as an ice cream taster, despite the boyfriend's insistence that his job "somehow feels... less important than taking care of terminally ill children." | |
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No OSHA Compliance | |
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No OSHA Compliance: Deconstructed with the Evil Genius trying to persuade a contractor to disregard the impracticalities of his plans. Later on, the fully-compliant Trap Door (complete with flashing red light, warning alarm and fencing off of the area) gives the "victim" in the chair plenty of time to escape before he can be Thrown from the Zeppelin. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: During the "History of the Blacks" sketch, Alan Carr passes on Channel 4's initial offer to make "the Story of the Gays" on the grounds it's "too frivolous". The execs concede he's got a point. | |
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Epic Fail | |
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Epic Fail: BBC Radio 4's "Man's Hour", an intended counterpart to "Women's Hour". Regrettably, due in part to the choice of guest, the show barely lasts five minutes before the host has an emotional breakdown, and the BBC cancel the show. At the beginning and end of the sketch, it's made clear this isn't the first time the Beeb tried this format and failed. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: The "Yogurt" sketch is one to Yakult and the like, pointing out it's just yogurt. The two farmers discussing their weird meats mention trying to get their pigs to laugh by making them watch things like Friends or Mr. Bean, only to get no reaction from the pigs. According to the farmers, the pigs understood it, they just didn't like it. One sketch in a episode pretending to have audience interaction tells viewers to down at least three cans of the nearest cheap spirit they can find before The Archers comes on next, to make it more tolerable. The "Story of the Gays" sketch has several aimed at historian David Starkey, who is most well-known for his tendency to say rather... controversial things about non-white people. The "Womanhood Test" has many, including ones at "Sex in the City". A behind the scenes sketch depicting David Mitchell interacting with a fan of a particular sketch (and who wants more of it) has one towards comedians who repeat their jokes. | |
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Classically-Trained Extra | |
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Classically-Trained Extra: One sketch shown on the BBC website has Mark Evans briefly tearing up as he mentions that despite being an award-winning writer, he ends up playing such roles as "Man With Leaflet". | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: The man in the "Jump Off A Cliff" and "Swim With A Shark" sketches, who falls for Barry Crisp's sales-pitch both times. | |
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Amoral Attorney | |
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Amoral Attorney: The Inebriati sketch has Webb's character exclaim, "Yes! I got that guy off that vicious sex murder, even though he obviously did it!" There's also "Speedo", a hybrid of House and Shark, a former defence barrister now working prosecution. When asked why he defended known rapists, he replied: | |
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The Bet | |
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A sketch about a comedian making a cup of tea for everyone in Belgium as the result of a bet, and as a result writing a bestselling book about his exploits, was a dig at comedians who did similarly unlikely things supposedly as the result of bets, such as Tony Hawks (played the entire Moldovan football team at tennis, hitchhiked round Ireland with a fridge) David Gorman (flew around the world meeting people called Dave Gorman), and Danny Wallace (spent a year saying yes to everything). | |
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Political Overcorrectness | |
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Political Overcorrectness: Skewing the Beeb's need to be impartial on all matters, when even people's enjoyment of the weather cannot go without the BBC getting in someone to offer counter-opinions. And then when the host gets a man's name wrong and is rebuked with "I think I know my own name"... | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: One of the behind-the-scenes sketches has David and Robert get into an argument about cheese that gets progressively heated, eventually turning into a shouting match. This involves David at one point screaming at Robert "You've got a lot of anger! A LOT OF ANGER!!!" The real estate agent who insensitively badgers a woman who works with torture victims for "the worst torture story you've ever had", once she finally breaks down and tells him one off-screen, angrily denounces her for her callousness over taking an afternoon off to look for a house. The fourth series begins with Mitchell and Webb apologising to the viewers for all the humour and filth featured throughout the series. Then... The Incredibly Scary Vicar browbeats the two visitors to his church for their lack of spirituality to the point of eventually chasing them away, screaming at them with a crucifix as if he were trying to expel demons. When they eventually flee, however, he complains that they didn't leave any money for the church upkeep. After brainstorming ideas for their Drama Bomb Finale, Mitchell and Webb conclude that the ideas they've got are too contrived. Then, they go to get some coffee, and have a slow-motion breakdown to being told there's no hot water. | |
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Eleventy Zillion | |
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Eleventy Zillion: Parodied in a Numberwang skit involving "imaginary numbers." The contestants offer "twentington" and "frilve hundred and neeb" as their numbers, followed by "shinty-six." The host then stops the contestant and says, "Oh, I'm afraid shinty-six is a real number. As in the popular phrase, 'I only have shinty-six days left to live.'" Behind him, a board displays the number shinty-six (fifty-six with a reversed five). (Given the nature of the Numberwang board, we could have been looking at frilve hundred and neeb, or even Nova Scotia, for all we know.) | |
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DidNotThinkThisThrough | |
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Did Not Think This Through: One episode features a mock-PSA from an organisation wanting to set free bears who had been driven mad through being forced to dance in Eastern Europe. Unfortunately, they apparently didn't have any plans beyond just setting the bears free, leading to a sequence of other appeals from the increasingly alarmed presenter for help to deal with the ensuing rampage and aftermath. The farmers dealing in exotic meats once tried "Gay Beef". A problem with producing more quickly became apparent. | |
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Five-Token Band | |
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Five-Token Band: "Let me introduce you to my team, Disabled Ethnic, Teenage Poofter and Woman. Don't talk to them, they're just here to tick boxes!" | |
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Magical Defibrillator | |
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Magical Defibrillator: "Nurse, fetch me the electric paddles that can make you better if you're really sick but can make you sort of ill if you're fine!" Moments later: "Oh no... he was fine. And now he's poorly from too much electric." | |
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By "No", I Mean "Yes" | |
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By "No", I Mean "Yes": The "goblins" in the Narnian Accounting sketch, when questioned by the office worker about whether she's just being reassigned. The first two deny it, but the third admits that, yes, it's true. | |
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Overused Running Gag | |
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A behind the scenes sketch depicting David Mitchell interacting with a fan of a particular sketch (and who wants more of it) has one towards comedians who repeat their jokes. | |
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Lost Common Knowledge | |
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Lost Common Knowledge: After The Event, a great deal of knowledge has been lost, so much so that the presenter cannot identify traffic cones, clocks, tombstones, Eric Morecambe, spices, water, or hope. It is implied that one of The Event's side effects is severe memory loss. | |
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Circular Reasoning | |
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Circular Reasoning: The justification for keeping aliens a secret in the Roswell Conspiracy sketch. | |
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Robot War | |
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Parodied in a Robot War sketch. Robots have infiltrated the base, and are supposedly indistinguishable from humans. Cut to a particularly clunky robot (who could conceivably be Cheezoid Mk 9), who is absolutely not humanoid. He even makes toast | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: From the Numberwang board game skit: "No, Timmy, because that would be shit." It looks like a polite, family-friendly scene at first, which is why it qualifies. Mr. Darcy of all people gets a good one when he finally gets sick of Caroline Bingley. A literal example from the "Mrs Patricia Wilberforce Programme" sketch: And an entire sketch that revolves around a series of these: "Linden Trees Smell Of Cum". (Combined with Truth in Television, yet; in bloom, they absolutely do. It's quite striking.) The Avocado Bathroom sketch has the host reveal his problem via a bleeped swear. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: A writer has severe difficulty with the word "and", something of a problem with the English language. Sadly, for one Mr. Ampersand, there's no workaround. | |
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Tragic Dream | |
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Tragic Dream: Mercilessly lampshaded in "Talent Dredge" sketch, where Robert delivers a lengthy putdown to contestants who apply for talent shows, who try to excuse their lack of obvious talent by claiming they gave it their "heart and soul" instead. | |
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Exasperated Perp | |
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Exasperated Perp: Parodied with regard to Poirot, who admits that he only knows the murderer for sure when they "do the evil voice". When the murderer shoots herself, he remarks, "It is better zis way. Some courts, zey do not accept ze Evil Voice as evidence." | |
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Germanic Efficiency | |
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Germanic Efficiency: Parodied in Reports Mode - a Bavarian entertainment show centring around graphs and charts, even featuring a break from all those reports so we can take a look at how the show is doing in terms of efficiency. | |
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That Makes Me Feel Angry | |
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That Makes Me Feel Angry: Spoofed in the "yogurt" advert, where the narrator says a random woman has eaten some yogurt, and now feels incredibly excited. Cue a woman saying exactly that. | |
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CrazyHomelessPerson | |
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Crazy Homeless Person: Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar and Ginger. | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment: The guys in Room 102 start to think people have gotten wise to Ingsoc's torture methods, since a lot of people getting dragged into Room 101 are now claiming they're terrified of sex. The tip off? They've stopped yelling "do it to Julia!" and start yelling "do it to me." One of the workers figures that while there are people who have a legit fear of sex, four or five of them a week is just a little suspicious. | |
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Childless Dystopia | |
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Childless Dystopia: The post-apocalyptic gameshow recurring sketch has a "contestant" say that one of the things she regrets from before "The Event" was not learning more about keeping children alive, prompting the host to say that life would certainly be different if even some of the children survived. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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The Ku Klux Klan founder and his costume designer speak in Mitchell and Webb's natural accents. Subverted and lampshaded when the costumer's wife enters and speaks with a southern American accent, to which the costumer replies, "We said we're not doing the accents." | |
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Dull Surprise | |
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Dull Surprise: Invoked with the "Coverage of People [performing action]" sketches. At one point a guest on "Coverage of People Having Sex" makes a lewd joke and is scolded for it by the presenter. | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name: In-Universe "I advise you to march in step with the rest of the white-bathroom loving nation — REMEMBER, LIKE RACISM!" The Civil War reenactment sketch depicts a group of reenactors who grow bored of Roundheads VS Cavaliers and switch to "the government forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo" VS "rebel militiamen representing Sudanese tribal interests" — in Black Face. They subsequently come to the conclusion that it is indeed racist when the "battle" begins with Webb's character yelling, "I AM GOING TO KILL YOU WITH THIS BIG MACHETE" in a horrible fake accent. When Jesus tells the story of the Good Samaritan, the Apostles get on his case for implying that a Samaritan being good is so strange that it's worth a whole story and thus revealing his own anti-Samaritan prejudice. ("Me and my wife went on holiday to Samaria last year, and they were lovely people!") | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Professor Death every time one of his inventions is proposed for a military application. | |
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Really Dead Montage | |
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Really Dead Montage: James Bachman (he wasn't, either in real life or in-show) in a parody of Drama Bomb Finales. | |
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Ho Yay | |
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Ho Yay: Invoked in one sketch about a new producer and writer who take over Preston and Loader, a mystery series about a Detective Inspector and his partner, and quickly turn it into a gay romance between the two main characters. They insist to the two actors that they're just "bringing out the subtext". One of them disagrees. The other one doesn't. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: In the final "Angel Summoner & BMX Bandit" sketch, after complaints from BMX Bandit on how unequal their partnership is, Angel Summoner finally agrees to step back and give BMX Bandit his chance to shine... right as the duo encounter a situation risky enough (namely, 30 ruthless, nervous terrorists armed to the teeth with assault weapons in a building rigged to blow, separated from the heroes by a 70 meter jump) that BMX Bandit suddenly quite likes the idea of letting the angels do the heavy lifting this time. | |
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo | |
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: The revolving table. A murderer's worst enemy. | |
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Couch Gag | |
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Couch Gag: The two homeless people in the closing credits. | |
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Insignificant Anniversary | |
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Insignificant Anniversary: One of the Numberwang sketches started like this: | |
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Felony Misdemeanor | |
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Felony Misdemeanor: In a 'behind the scenes' conversation discussing Drama Bomb Finales, Mood Whiplash and Tonight, Someone Dies, Mitchell and Webb reserve their greatest venom for announcers who talk over the credits. Played for laughs the Our Slogan Is Terrible sketch, where despite being neither "death camp evil" nor "serial killer evil", the company has attracted actual serial killers to work for them because their brand of "being paid through the nose for nothing of any value" evil is both more profitable and reaches more people than serial murder. | |
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Insane Troll Logic | |
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Insane Troll Logic: As a result of an idiotic executive's meddling, the inverted version of Rebecca has everyone unfavourably comparing Rebecca to the second Mrs. DeWinters, even though they've no idea who she is or what she looks like, much to Rebecca's increasing confusion. | |
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Human Sacrifice | |
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Human Sacrifice: The all-knowing weather god is given sacrifices, but the new guy is assured it's usually small animals. Very rarely humans. Only a few human babies. | |
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Offscreen Teleportation | |
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Offscreen Teleportation: Parodied in the Inebriati sketch. "Were you just hiding behind that pillar?" | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The poisoning sketch is a parody of Suspicion, a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in the 40s. | |
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iProduct | |
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iProduct: The iReckon, which helpfully delivers all the thoughts you'll ever need from now 'till death. | |
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Juxtaposition Gag | |
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Juxtaposition Gag: The Quiz Broadcast and Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar are both versions of this. | |
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Description Cut | |
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Description Cut: Invoked and lampshaded when Mitchell and Webb discuss which cast member they should kill. Robert suggests Mark Evans, only for David to say that he's so obscure they'd probably have to cut to him just to remind viewers who he was. Sure enough, the scene does indeed cut to Mark having a coffee, complete with a name tag on him. | |
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Magic Music | |
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Magic Music: The Green Clarinet and the aforementioned Red Tuba. In the former case, it makes people reveal embarrassing personal things by singing them when playing. Meanwhile, when blown, the latter makes you shit yourself. | |
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Bitter Wedding Speech | |
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Bitter Wedding Speech: A sketch has a well-intentioned best man screwing up a wedding speech and disparaging the wedding, though the groom is surprisingly fine with it after it's finished. It's not bitter in the ordinary sense, just pedantic about how it's all just So Okay, It's Average and not literally the most beautiful/lavish/etc. in the world. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: One of the "Little Old Lady Job Justification Hearings" sketches sees Mitchell and Webb themselves get very politely grilled on how worthwhile it is for two men in their mid-thirties to be dressing up and doing silly voices for a living. | |
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Toxic Friend Influence | |
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Toxic Friend Influence: Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar is clearly one to Ginger. In one episode we discover that Ginger's real name is Guy Reilly, and he has a wife and daughter, both of whom he lost and seemingly forgot about due to his drinking. When an accident causes him to temporarily recover from his alcoholism, he settles into a stable job, only to be tricked into drinking an ale by Sir Digby, immediately returning back to his life as a tramp just as he was about to reunite with his family. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The poisoning sketch. | |
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"Eureka!" Moment | |
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"Eureka!" Moment: Parodied in the History of Numberwang sketch, where Professor Bertrand Russell, who's spent several hours trying to work out whether he could sit on his chair, finally realises out how exactly one can tell whether something is or is not in fact numberwang... by looking at a jug on his desk. He then smashes the jug to prevent anyone from copying him. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: The farmer's reaction to everything he learns about working on a farm. | |
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Cool Old Lady | |
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Cool Old Lady: The old dears who are in charge of the "Old Lady Job Justification Hearings". It is impossible to listen to those sketches without wishing they were in charge of the world. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Discussed by the people who make terrible slogans, with one suggesting that they have in fact become the victims of their own success. The boss isn't too happy with this. | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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"I advise you to march in step with the rest of the white-bathroom loving nation — REMEMBER, LIKE RACISM!" | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoolander: Sir Digby Chicken Caesar. "You mean, you detect the dread hand of my nemesis' arch-rival, Viscount von Sausagerolls?" "No, I can smell sausage rolls!" | |
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Comes Great Responsibility | |
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Comes Great Responsibility: The Green Clarinet. Subverted when the Enigmatic Empowering Entity comes to claim the clarinet back for misuse, as the owner just uses the clarinet to embarrass him into running away in floods of tears. Played straight again when he meets the guy with the Red Tuba. | |
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Indecisive Parody | |
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Indecisive Parody: Obviously, they couldn't end the episode where they heartily take the piss out of Sudden Downer Ending with a genuine example, so they parody it instead. The next episode ends with a proper one, with an elderly Sherlock Holmes descending into dementia. | |
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Race Lift | |
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Race Lift: Parodied when Speedo's original actor dies of a heart attack during filming and is replaced by a black actor with no story changes to account for this. This wouldn't be a problem in itself if the story in question wasn't entirely about a black client not wanting to take the white Speedo as his lawyer. | |
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The Other Darrin | |
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The Other Darrin: invoked Played for laughs with Speedo, in which the actor playing the white main character died, only to be replaced by an black actor. The (fictional) writers were too lazy to rewrite the scripts, resulting in the now black Speedo telling a young black client he knows he doesn't want a "big white guy in a suit" like him defending him. Played for laughs again in the stage adaptation, The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb. While the televised Numberwang sketches always had Simon and Julie played by Paterson Joseph and Olivia Colman, two fairly well known actors, the stage show had to use James Bachman and Abigail Burdess instead. The change was Lampshaded in the sketch itself: | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: A man and a woman crash and die due to the woman texting while learning to drive on a dual carriage-way, and take it all blithely in stride. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The two Nazi goons when they realise they are in fact the villains of World War 2. | |
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Stock Puzzle | |
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Stock Puzzle: Mitchell gives Webb a brainteaser that becomes a bizarre mashup of a Fox-Chicken-Grain Puzzle, the Monty Hall Problem and Knights and Knaves. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: See Playing Cyrano below. | |
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It's Been Done | |
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It's Been Done: Parodied with a possible inversion in the 'two writers' Seinfeldian Conversation sketch; the two writers seem to be setting one of these up, but from the way they eagerly begin to start typing once the 'original' idea has come together, it's suggested that they are either amazingly sheltered or that they're the ones who came up with the idea in the first place. Played straight in the final episode, where all their ideas get this response. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
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Contrived Coincidence: Played for Laughs. In the Diana Assassination sketch, the agents come up with the plan to get a driver slightly drunk, and hope that he'll both crash, that Diana won't wear a seatbelt, and that she'll die. Just as they're about to put the plan into action, it all just happens by accident. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: "They" are mentioned on the test card a few skits before they appear. | |
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Acting for Two | |
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Acting for Two:invoked Played with. In a sketch Mitchell plays both the captain of a cruise liner and a Poirot-esque detective who are on screen at the same time. Webb angrily enters the set, and demands a role, to which both(!) of the Mitchells answer that David is best at detective and captain kind of roles. As Webb retorts that it is just a bad excuse for Mitchell to fulfill his narcissistic fantasies, another Webb (in drag) enters the set and tells the first Webb that he is ready for their sex-scene. | |
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What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway? | |
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What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Telekinesis. Which only works on biscuits. And no, Jaffa Cakes are not true biscuits. The BMX Bandit. (Also counts as an example of the warrior side of the Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards issue). | |
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Piano Drop | |
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Piano Drop: A man has a piano fall on him, and then is surprised to find he previously agreed to leave his body to evil, and now someone's come to collect. Apparently it happens a lot in the evil organ donation line of work. | |
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Continuity Snarl | |
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Continuity Snarl: In series 2, it's stated that Numberwang has been running since the 50s without stop (aside from Colosson trying to take over the world, of course), but in a series 3 sketch, an executive in the modern day claims to be talking to the inventors of Numberwang. Of course, the executive quickly turns out to be mad (he did say that he had a large part of his brain burned out by a hot wire when he became an executive), so he could be wrong, and, well... it is Numberwang. | |
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Black Comedy Animal Cruelty | |
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Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: Battery farm penguins. The farmers insist they love being crammed a hundred in a shed at a time. Not to mention the whale blowhole, and the farmers admit that, in this case, it is cruel to just throw away the mutilated whale. Doesn't stop them doing it. | |
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Broken Record | |
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Broken Record: Sheila, a contestant on the Quiz Broadcast (remain indoors), becomes incapable of saying anything other than "yes" after being voltage-calmed. It gets her shot by the guards when the host makes a joke about Them. | |
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Manchild | |
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Manchild: Colin, in the office co-owners sketches. He's a hostage negotiator who refuses to actually leave his office, on account of not liking being outside, he shows little to no regard for the hostages' safety, making snide comments when sent a finger by the kidnapper, and during football season acts like a typical obnoxious football fan. | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Robert Webb, in several of the behind-the-scenes sketches. The special guest star sketch in particular is a good showcase. | |
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Godwin's Law | |
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Godwin's Law: Comes up as two debaters compare each other to Stalin and Hitler respectively. | |
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Ridiculously Human Robots | |
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Ridiculously Human Robots: Parodied in a Robot War sketch. Robots have infiltrated the base, and are supposedly indistinguishable from humans. Cut to a particularly clunky robot (who could conceivably be Cheezoid Mk 9), who is absolutely not humanoid. He even makes toast Cheezoid itself, a robot built for the purpose of determining what something smells like, was inexplicably given sentience that eventually led it to attempt suicide as a result of its incompetence at its intended function. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: The Swedish euthanasia clinic workers don't see it as committing assisted suicide, they see it as "quitting while you're ahead". | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: Done in the Dosh 4 Gold and Cash 4 Plutonium skits: | |
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Accidental Truth | |
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Accidental Truth: One of the Ministry of Things Which are Apparently True ran into trouble when he tried spreading a rumour that was apparently true about Trident*the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent, namely that it doesn't really exist, only to be blocked at the highest level. | |
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Blackface | |
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The Civil War reenactment sketch depicts a group of reenactors who grow bored of Roundheads VS Cavaliers and switch to "the government forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo" VS "rebel militiamen representing Sudanese tribal interests" — in Black Face. They subsequently come to the conclusion that it is indeed racist when the "battle" begins with Webb's character yelling, "I AM GOING TO KILL YOU WITH THIS BIG MACHETE" in a horrible fake accent. | |
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Space Whale Aesop | |
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Mitchell and Webb themselves during the Behind-The-Scenes skits, where they decide in order to create a meaningful message, they are going to kill off one of the cast. Cue them setting their sights on uber-cheerful James Bachman. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Numberwang's "Sudden Death" round. | |
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Sissy Villain | |
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Sissy Villain: Leslie, a parody of Bond villains, is a Diabolical Mastermind evil genius with very effeminate mannerisms and constantly talks in an uncomfortably seductive tone of voice. A Euphemism Buster by one of his minions leaves no doubt whatsoever. | |
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Bad Export for You | |
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Bad Export for You: Parodied in the behind-the-scenes of Numberwang special, which showed several international adaptations of Numberwang. The American version has the host say "Yes, that is a number." invoked | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: The man abducted by garden centre natives is apparently sacrificed to their god in the Shed of Destiny, only to wake up in his own house with his wife and doctor assuring him he'd just had bad food poisoning. Except he's still got the squirrel god's marking on his chest. One sketch has David Mitchell being informed he's married to Keeley Hawes, much to his surprise, even more so when she actually turns up to confirm it. Then Robert Webb decides he'll go flying. | |
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Fictional Board Game | |
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Fictional Board Game: There's a commercial for "Numberwang: The Board Game" in one episode, which included a 37-volume rulebook listing what was and was not Numberwang. Each individual volume is as thick as a dictionary. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Most of the "behind the scenes" sketches portray Robert Webb as one, like in one instance guilt-tripping David into wearing a shirt that makes him look gay, simply to claim he's not homophobic after making some homophobic remarks sometime before, and bluntly dismissing an upset Mitchell's concerns that this would ruin any future attempts at romance. | |
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Silent Credits | |
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Silent Credits: Discussed between Mitchell and Webb in the second-to-last episode. Implemented in the final episode, which foregoes the typical end music. | |
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Period Piece, Modern Language | |
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Period Piece, Modern Language: Parodied in a sketch in which a caveman crime scene investigator (whose most advanced technology is a rock) describes something as "a double-edged sword", then states that he has no idea what that phrase actually means. | |
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Appeal to Obscurity | |
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Appeal to Obscurity: In the "Community Support vs Real Police", sketches the police officer mercilessly pours scorn on the hapless PCSO he's partnered with, but arguably the cruellest jibe is this: | |
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Men Buy from Mars, Women Buy from Venus | |
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Men Buy from Mars, Women Buy from Venus: Utterly destroyed. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The "Flankel Pat" system for finding lost objects can be used to find books, scissors, keys, and earthquake survivors. | |
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Mundane Utility | |
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Mundane Utility: One sketch on That Mitchell And Webb Sound has a boss telling his employees off for using the Stargate as a supply cupboard and somewhere to take cigarette breaks. | |
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Joke of the Butt | |
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Joke of the Butt: "The Boy With an Arse for a Face" | |
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Deadline News | |
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Deadline News: The news reporters who keep at their stations even as giant alien war machines destroy the station around them. | |
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Never Say "Die" | |
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Never Say "Die": Parodied in one of the evil genius skits. "This is gonna be 'Let's hope Professor Ritson meets with a little accident,' all over again! We spent nine months hoping that Professor Ritson would meet with an accident before Leslie made it clear it was an accident we were supposed to make happen! | |
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Mix-and-Match Critters | |
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Mix-and-Match Critters: The niche meat farmers considered lamb-crabs, but realised that the benefits of six boneless legs would be overshadowed by the aggressiveness. | |
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You Bastard! | |
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You Bastard!: The "Holmes with dementia" sketch goes from funny if very dark humor to the sudden realization that the audience has been laughing at the heartbreaking wreck of a brilliant mind. | |
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Murder Is the Best Solution | |
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Murder Is the Best Solution: One sketch has a man murdering people at a dinner just for mildly annoying him. Most of the guests don't make it to the end of their starters. | |
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Complexity Addiction | |
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Complexity Addiction: The Party Planners discussing Jeeves and his laboriously overcomplicated plans for solving relationship problems. The one with girlfriend troubles mentions that instead of following Jeeves' plan, five minutes talk with Magnesia was all he needed. | |
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Historical Re-Creation | |
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Historical Re-Creation: The Early 1990s House, where you have to cope with 28k dialup. | |
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Doomy Dooms of Doom | |
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Doomy Dooms of Doom: ZE DOOM MELON! ... which still requires some work. | |
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Name and Name | |
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Name and Name | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: The host of Gardener's Question Time fails to notice the questions being asked of the panel are completely inane and unrelated to gardening at all, like who they'd kill in a garden. When the Only Sane Man is asked a question about a plant with strange mould on it, the host stops him from answering at all because the question pertains to a houseplant and not to a garden. When the questioner tries to rephrase her question, he shoots in down because "we don't deal in hypotheticals". | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: The incredibly intimidating and aristocratic tailor played by Mitchell may be a colossal asshole but in the end, he still does want to help Webb's character look good. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Episode 2 of series 3 begins with a company who makes banal hand-holding phrases. The first sketch with Captain Todger has a prominent police banner with one of those phrases (Police - "The People Who Arrest People"). One of the sketches in series 4 revolves around the supermarket Didlididi and its suspicious "produce". One of these can be seen in the food supplies in the same episode's Quiz Broadcast. In series 4 episode 5, the 'backstage' sketches talk about the idea of ending the show in an emotionally affecting way, but ultimately determine that the announcer would just talk over the credits and ruin the mood. In the next episode, the last of the series, the final sketch is a genuine Tear Jerker featuring an elderly Sherlock Holmes... and the announcer doesn't talk over the credits. | |
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Grail in the Garbage | |
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Grail in the Garbage: A recurring sketch involves a man at a garage sale casually selling incredibly valuable artifacts for a low price. The Holy Grail itself, for instance, was sold for five pounds, as having already gained eternal life from drinking it, he sees no reason to keep it around. Then there's the wardrobe that's the entrance to Narnia, as now that he has a garden at his new house, he doesn't really need the extra space. | |
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Buffy Speak | |
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Buffy Speak: Several shows written by the lazy writers contain examples, not done out of wit or humour, just because they couldn't be bothered finding out the right terminology. | |
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Innocently Insensitive | |
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Innocently Insensitive: The host of Prayer and a Pint seems to have no idea just how hideously offensive what he's saying can be. The end result is guests sitting there looking horrifically awkward as he sings. | |
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Talking Is a Free Action | |
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Talking Is a Free Action: BMX Bandit and Angel Summoner have a long conversation as the former apparently is performing a bike trick. It's this that clues BMX Bandit in on the fact that Angel Summoner has invisible angels helping him, much to his upset. | |
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