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The Armstrong and Miller Show

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The Armstrong and Miller Show	comment	The Armstrong and Miller Show is an English sketch comedy series starring the eponymous double act of Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller. The duo originally broke into British television with a series entitled simply Armstrong and Miller, which ran from 1997 to 2001 on Paramount Comedy and Channel 4, whereas the newer series began six years later in 2007 and aired on BBC1. The third series of The Armstrong and Miller Show ended in December 2010. A fourth was planned but neither Armstrong nor Miller could find the time it would take to make it.Comparisons to That Mitchell and Webb Look are inevitable, as both shows starred a double act, ran during similar time periods, and were slightly renamed versions of earlier sketch shows (Mitchell and Webb were both, in fact, writers on the earlier Armstrong and Miller). In contrast to Mitchell and Webb, however, Armstrong and Miller do not have readily apparent character archetypes (layman/boffin, straight man/indignant man, et cetera).Famous Running Gags from the series include: A pair of WWII RAF pilots who speak like modern teenagers (Isn't it? Standard.) Striding Man, who evidently has a need for a great deal of unimportant information. "Origin Of" stories depicting cavemen who invent or discover modern ideas such as job interviews and acceptance speeches. Several sketches in which a man has a perfectly amicable conversation with several people, wishes them goodbye, leans over a desk microphone, and says in his best Bond villain voice, "[[KILL THEM]]". Brabbins & Fyffe, a parody of Flanders and Swann. A series of vox pops in which a man describes his quirks or mental illnesses, ending with "and that's why I became a teacher." Parodies of 1970s public information films note Authentically presented in 4:3 aspect ratio although the rest of the series is in widescreen giving useless or dangerous advice. "Enlightenment, with Dennis Lincoln-Park", in which Miller plays a TV historian who has been entrusted to view some rare and precious object... despite the fact that he is horrifically accident-prone.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Dimitri from the first series, a take on Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich. Brabbins & Fyffe, very clearly based on Flanders and Swann. Gordon Ramsay in a one-off sketch, in which he's beaten to death and served to the customers of a restaurant. The Hairy Bikers in a series of sketches in which their middle-class inclinations keep getting the better of their attempt to demonstrate food found in the wild.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_12b6fe15	type	Walk and Talk
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_12b6fe15	comment	Walk and Talk: A recurring sketch features a man striding purposefully down endless corridors, The West Wing style, while underlings duck in and out delivering him assorted pointless trivia.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: Played utterly straight in the Nude Practice sketches, which consisted of completely straight versions of country vet dramas in which the only comedy element was that both Armstrong and Miller went about their serious large animal veterinarian practice entirely naked, with genitals concealed by newspapers, teapots etc. Continued to be played straight when Sarah Alexander's character Roberta joined the practice, subverting her obvious role as Ms. Fanservice, up until the moment that her character gained the trust of a local farmer — at which point this trope was spectacularly averted.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_18e2980	type	Poirot Speak
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_18e2980	comment	Poirot Speak: The main trait of the Miller character who hangs out in a Parisian cafÃ©. Although a native of Reading, he has lost fluency in English since moving to France six months ago, and consequently speaks with an English accent and French syntax. Later taken up to eleven when he meets a fellow Brit who has lived in Germany for two months:
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: Parodied in a sketch with Armstrong as a man who's terrified that everyone he meets is drunk, as if he's in a zombie movie and everyone keeps turning into zombies—including his wife (Sarah Alexander), who he leaves alone for two minutes and when he comes back she woozily confesses "Sorry, Jeff, I'm completely twatted." He makes it to Miller's house and Miller invites him in for tea, but then Armstrong sees empty bottles of booze concealed everywhere and makes off. When he gets home, there's a knock at the door and he opens it—to find his wife and a policeman, who arrests him for public drunkenness. He realises that he was the only one who was drunk the entire time. As his wife and the policeman lead him away, he passes a small boy who says "I see pissed people all the time."
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Morten Harket (lead singer of A Ha) of all people turns up in the Farmer's Market Song ('cause his name rhymes with "market", geddit?) Their Comic Relief sketches include a cameo by David Mitchell (Actor) and Robert Webb ("Kill them!"), and another by Geoffrey Palmer as a senior RAF officer, who manages to set our heroes straight on a couple of points by lapsing into their vernacular.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: In one sketch, a man who's been taking certain pills he ordered off the internet receives a giant statue of a rooster. Also overlaps with Stealth Pun, because it's never actually described as a huge cock.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: The basis of the "Frank Dad" sketches, in which a young boy asks typical questions of his father ("Why did you and mum split up?", "Why did Gran die?" etc) and left stunned by the harsh answers ("It was all your fault", "Her alcoholism", respectively, etc).
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: In "How Many Hats?", Benjamin Graham, played by Miller, who is the only person involved who appears to realise the inanity of trying to guess how many hats are being worn by a person sitting in plain view just a few feet away from the contestants. The others eventually attempt to physically silence him when he points it out.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: In The Critical Factor, the losing contestants are brutally executed while the presenter (Miller) talks to the round's winner. Fyffe is often seen drinking or taking drugs while Brabbins introduces their songs. This is the entire point of the "exam proctor" sketches.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_2ae7bc4b	type	Captain Oblivious
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_2ae7bc4b	comment	Captain Oblivious: Roger, who walks in on his wife and his boss before or after they have sex — or in an otherwise-compromising position — and he always manages to be convinced that nothing is going on between the two of them.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_2cc5703c	type	Potty Emergency
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_2cc5703c	comment	Potty Emergency: Brabbins & Fyffe's "Train Song" (aka "Have you ever had to take a shit on a train?")
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_32976084	comment	The poor sod in the Dandylions sketches; he only asks for a little help, which inevitably starts a brawl that ends with him being thrown out a window.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_33e78383	type	A Pirate 400 Years Too Late
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_33e78383	comment	A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: Parodied this in a sketch which involves random people getting press-ganged by the Royal Navy into joining the "South Harbour Club Patrol" after buying t-shirts reading exactly that. And if that concept isn't 18th century enough, then Somali pirates attack South Harbour... by firing audible cannon broadsides. In series 3, an actual pirate in the stereotypical style is now living the life of a middle-class house husband. He longs to return to the old life, but his wife is insistent that he doesn't.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_342f0ffa	type	Discriminate and Switch
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_342f0ffa	comment	Discriminate and Switch: The couple whose elderly German and English grandparents meet for the first time, are set up as ex-military and begin bickering over the war, only to forgive each other and agree to let the past rest. It's when the topic switches to who was more responsible for the breakup of Katie Price and Peter Andre's marriage that the fistfight breaks out.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Anything and everything that Dimitri says by way of explaining the torture he has had done to his enemies. In one sketch a man is being brutalised in the very next room, whose screams are dismissed out of hand.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_47fea76b	comment	Declan, the Butt-Monkey of the Striding Man sketches, is the one who escorts him from the building after he's fired.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: Every episode ends with one, typically the finale to a sketch already shown in the episode. In the last episode of the first series, for example, a producer turns the "Kill them" line on the two stars after the wrap-up for the series.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_4acee1ed	type	Fish out of Temporal Water
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_4acee1ed	comment	Fish out of Temporal Water: A common setup; The WWII pilots A Victorian pianist shocking his employer's guests by playing racy modern songs. A Picky Eater worrying about his nut allergies and yeast intolerance at a Tudor feast. Pharius and Horschstadt, two centuries-old vampires utterly confused by the modern world.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: invokedThe point of a series of sketches in which couples describe their relationship to the camera. They end with one of them saying something which would ruin relationships normally, such as one partner being described as a managing director, and the other as a Nazi sympathiser.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_5345de5	type	Strange-Syntax Speaker
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_5345de5	comment	Strange-Syntax Speaker: Having gotten so used to speaking French after emigrating from England, as a result, he now speaks English using both the "wrong" (reversed) syntax and uses literal translations of phrases.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Subverted only due to Curse Cut Short in the form of the censor at the end of the foreigners' song in an early Brabbins and Fyffe sketch.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_5c9fdc8d	type	Inventing the Wheel
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_5c9fdc8d	comment	Inventing the Wheel: Played For Laughs. In "The Origin Of ..." sketches, there are plenty of cavemen but they don't invent the wheel. Instead, they invent things like small talk, unusual baby names and hairdressing. It's as much a joke about modern life as it is about the cavemen.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: Andrew in "Nude Practice" finishes every phone conversation by barking "BYE!" down the phone.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_5d7cfc66	type	The Jeeves
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_5d7cfc66	comment	The Jeeves: In a parody of Jeeves and Wooster, Mr Stafford is a bigot who acts with criminal disregard for others, and then asks for his butler Veal's help sorting out the mess. Veal is horrified.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_5dc04c4e	type	Brownface
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_5dc04c4e	comment	Brownface: In the sketch about the pirate who misses his old lifestyle, Armstrong plays a woman of unspecified tropical origin.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: In one of the "Enlightenment" sketches. Not from surprise, but because Lincoln-Park has just drunk some foul-tasting home-made communion wine. Unfortunately he does so in front of some candles, and the ignited alcohol incinerates a priceless holy relic.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: In one sketch, a supervillain is behind a shop that sells pots at their full price while claiming that they are half price. Disgusted by this diabolical scheme, his former partner says that he is "the closest thing to pure evil I've ever seen."
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_736d2538	type	Religious Vampire
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_736d2538	comment	Religious Vampire: In one Pharius and Horschstadt sketch, the girls they are trying to seduce talk them into joining a group of evangelical Christians.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: A Geordie window cleaner gives an extremely well-informed monologue consisting of sensible ideas for solving various major crises facing the world, such as climate change or terrorism, before finishing with "but what do I know?"
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_74b5724e	type	We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_74b5724e	comment	We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: Several Brabbins and Fyffe sketches cut to the Test Card note Test card "C" from the black and white era although the sketches are in colour when they start getting too filthy to broadcast. Usually this is used as a Curse Cut Short, although a song beginning "The loveliest thing about teenage girls..." is cut off before it can go any further. "How Many Hats" ends this way when the panellists start attacking their fourth (Miller) for calling them out on the ridiculously obvious/pointless nature of the game. The announcer cuts to a period-accurate picture of Princess Margaret.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Miller tends to play these roles in sketches.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_77922c8c	comment	Batter Up!: The final losing contestant in the gameshow The Critical Factor is bludgeoned to death with one of these (while simultaneously being suffocated with a plastic bag over his head).
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_78270847	comment	Several Brabbins and Fyffe sketches cut to the Test Card note Test card "C" from the black and white era although the sketches are in colour when they start getting too filthy to broadcast. Usually this is used as a Curse Cut Short, although a song beginning "The loveliest thing about teenage girls..." is cut off before it can go any further.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_89399ea2	type	Fake Nationality
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_89399ea2	comment	Fake Nationality: In-Universe with a pair of decorators who pretend to be Polish and act like stereotypical immigrants, claiming to each other after the customer has gone that there's no other way they could find work.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_8f7f2c6a	type	National Stereotypes
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_8f7f2c6a	comment	National Stereotypes: Brabbins and Fyffe's "Foreigners".
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Guaranteed to happen whenever Miller's Man with a Ponytail reveals his particular style of coiffure.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_9629d473	type	Vulgar Humor
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_9629d473	comment	Vulgar Humor: Played with. The dentist from the first series is the sketch that produces the most Squick of the number that the two do, discussing highly disgusting activities or very graphic sexual practices in great detail. However, the humour doesn't come from the vulgarity, it comes from Miller's expressions and the fact that the dentist has his fingers in the patient's mouth the whole time. Brabbins & Fyffe, being a filthier take on Flanders & Swann, is another Played With example. They're incredibly dirty but their songs remain very classy and witty. Before they're hit with the impromptu censor, anyway.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: The Geordie window cleaner.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: One of the losing contestants in The Critical Factor is executed by being knocked out, having petrol poured all over him, and a match struck.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The fountain that appears in the title card of the Enlightenment sketches is actually the final artifact destroyed by Lincoln-Park.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_9f2a5122	type	How Do You Say
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_9f2a5122	comment	How Do You Say: Used by the man in the Parisian cafÃ© when he speaks to British tourists. Strange-Syntax Speaker: Having gotten so used to speaking French after emigrating from England, as a result, he now speaks English using both the "wrong" (reversed) syntax and uses literal translations of phrases.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: Played for laughs, obviously. A pair of old-fashioned vampires try to get virgin blood as if they're "on the pull" but are often beaten or outwitted by modern Twilight-inspired vampires.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_a5e77a67	comment	The Cat Came Back: Jilted Jim, the lonely man who keeps bothering the same couple on their honeymoon.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: The boss in the secret agent sketches. Despite regularly impeding his agentsâ€™ work and acting more like a jolly uncle than a hardened intelligence agent, he is demonstrated in one sketch to be a good marksman, cool under fire, and generally much more capable than previous sketches had shown.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_aac4eeae	comment	Same Language Dub: The "Origin Of" sketches are all dubbed over because they were shot near an airport and there was nothing that could be done to avoid the sound of planes taking off and landing.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The reaction of one contestant (played by Armstrong) to the fact losing challenges in the Critical Factor means death.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_b486877f	comment	Played with. The dentist from the first series is the sketch that produces the most Squick of the number that the two do, discussing highly disgusting activities or very graphic sexual practices in great detail. However, the humour doesn't come from the vulgarity, it comes from Miller's expressions and the fact that the dentist has his fingers in the patient's mouth the whole time.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The name of the hapless Dennis Lincoln-Park appears to be that to Linkin Park.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_b6b6355f	comment	Politeness Judo: Jim takes advantage of the honeymooning couple's politeness and sympathy in order to leech their time (and alcohol).
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: A science-fiction sketch set on board a Star Trek-esque ship. The joke is that the characters and place names (though not those of entire species/cultures) all sound like ordinary English names, such as the leader of a race of aliens being called "Ian Nolan".
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_c819533b	comment	In another oneoff sketch, a Scottish football pundit, tired of the others making fun of his problems with alcohol, finally snaps and gives them an epic dressing down over their own demons...and then realises they're still being broadcast on live TV.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: invokedParodied in a set of sketches in series 3. A character will have a slapstick accident and, while they're trying to regain their composure, Miller will walk into view, look into camera and say "This isn't funny, but it actually happened to a friend of mine, so ..."
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: The RAF pilots sketches. Isn't it. Also, the Brabbins & Fyffe and public information film sketches all use deliberately desaturated colour.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_d3d2d6	comment	Classical Movie Vampire: Pharius and (particularly) Horschstadt are two vampires of the old school, trying and failing to adapt their techniques to the modern world.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_e313b4e7	comment	Manchild: The bored exam invigilator whose antics to amuse himself include pretending to be a ninja who rips off a student's head and kicks it about like a football.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_e71db2e	comment	Depraved Kids' Show Host: Three children's TV presenters who are publicly humiliated for their inappropriate behaviour, and have to apologise and explain their actions to their audience in child-friendly language. The descriptions in the official YouTube channel suggests that these characters are a parody of Blue Peter. The sketch performed for Red Nose Day 2011 explicitly referred to Blue Peter, as does the DVD release (episode 1 of series 2 only). It appears these sketches are based loosely on the sacking of presenter Richard Bacon and subsequent on-air explanation offered to its child audience.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: the "Enlightenment" sketches.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_edfacbac	comment	Covert Pervert: Fyffe, apparently. He and Brabbins don't bother hiding the fact that the reason for his umpiring a group of young female tennis players is not actually his love for the game.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: The point of the Regency-era ball sketches, in which the upper-class attendees seduce one another using very sophisticated descriptions of the extremely graphic sexual acts they would like to perform.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: "...I accidentally bit him on the nose. Quite hard." "Kill them." Miranda and Pru starting a fight in Dandylions Cafe, which always ends with the same guy getting thrown out of the window. In addition, the identically-dressed customers played by the same actors always get beaten up in the same way: Karen Hayley (in the grey jacket) always gets punched in the stomach, Jim Howick (in the woolly hat) always gets his face bashed off the counter and is always the guy who gets thrown through the window, and Lucy Montgomery (in the dark blue jacket) always gets food dumped on her head. In one episode, Miller grabs Montgomery and plunges her head into a saucepan full of soup. "Shit...I forgot to put the bins out." [singsong] "Can you lend me twenty euros?" "And it is of course, absolutely priceless" [said before Dennis Lincoln-Park destroys yet another valuable artefact]
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Declan, the Butt-Monkey of the Striding Man sketches, is the one who escorts him from the building after he's fired. Gordon Ramsay's staff beat him to death in response to his endless criticism in a one-off sketch. In another oneoff sketch, a Scottish football pundit, tired of the others making fun of his problems with alcohol, finally snaps and gives them an epic dressing down over their own demons...and then realises they're still being broadcast on live TV.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: The "kill them" sketches. Plus Miranda and Pru, the owners of Dandylion's cafe in the first series, who are perfectly pleasant (in a bitchy sort of way) when talking to each other, but every sketch ends with them attacking the customers. The head of MI6 is a Benevolent Boss who likes to take his team of spies bowling. He is also a crack shot and will cheerily remind subordinates to get some rest while putting a bullet in an arms dealer's chest.
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The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: As noted in the DVD extras, the team took great pains to ensure that their period-sketches were accurate. In "How Many Hats" this extended as far as working out exactly what year this show would have taken place in, and finding a period-appropriate picture of Princess Margaret for the ending.
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