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The League of Gentlemen
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British Sketch Comedy/Sitcom, with a very dark tone of humour, and plenty of horror trappings.Set in the town of Royston Vasey (or Spent, in the original radio version), the show focuses on the very strange lives of the inhabitants: their warped obsessions, quirks and relationships. Also notable in that almost all characters are played by one of only three actors: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, and Mark Gatiss. (Fourth musketeer Jeremy Dyson is part of the writing team, and is occasionally seen in cameos.)The show ran from 1999 to 2002, which included three series and a Christmas Special. It also had two live shows in 2001 and 2006 respectively, as well as a feature length movie in 2005. A fourth series consisting of three episodes aired in December 2017, in order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of when the show originally debuted on BBC Radio in 1997.Came forty-first in Britains Best Sitcom.Not to be confused with; The League of Gentlemen, a classic Caper movie from 1960, after which the show's four creators were collectively named. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which also took its name from the above film. The League of Frightened Men a mystery novel by Rex Stout which forms part of the Nero Wolfe series — which, since it was published in 1935, clearly didn't take its name from either of the above. The short lived band started by guitarist Robert Fripp that, through some excessively odd reason, shares many qualities with this show... | |
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The Gambling Addict | |
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The Gambling Addict: Stella spends money on scratchcards and slot machines. In the second live show, it is revealed that her daughter Julie died ten years ago - she drowned in the bath when Stella went to check the lottery numbers instead of looking after her ("It was a Rollover..." Stella cries). | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Series 2: Numerous casualties of the 'special stuff' pandemic including Mayor Vaughan, and David is also burnt to death by a mob. Tubbs and Edward are burnt too but they get better. Live at Drury Lane: Les McQueen is electrocuted by a microphone during his first solo act, but as the live shows are flexibly canon, this skit is ignored in the Anniversary specials. Series 3: Lance Longthorne, The joke shop owner is killed when his new arm jumps in the way to save Pauline from a crashing van, as well as Vinnie Wythenshaw getting impaled while chasing one of the charity shop's carrier bags. Apocalypse: Hilary Briss is killed by Doctor Pea, a character that escapes from the movie-within-a-movie 'The King's Evil's' Anniversary special: Pauline is murdered by Geoff, in a bodged assassination on Cheryl when he goes to the wrong house, but "The League of Gentlemen LIVE Again" reveals Pauline survived and just played along as part of her insurance scheme. Pop is also killed by one of his abused sons and Uncle Harvey also dies of ill health, Val and the twins resurrect him temporarily but in the end let him go when he's too annoying with cleaning. | |
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Erotic Asphyxiation | |
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Erotic Asphyxiation: Went Horribly Wrong at a fetish party, when the emcee suffered a fatal heart attack and was unable to release everyone. And none of them lived. | |
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Fat Idiot | |
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Fat Idiot: Barry Baggs, the debt collector. Also a Big Eater. In the live show "The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You", his idiot status is subverted—and may even have been Obfuscating Stupidity—when he outwits and (in the epilogue) replaces his boss. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: In the Christmas Special, Matthew Parker's denouncement of Herr Lip as a vampire uses the phrase "I know what you are! You're trying to turn me into one of you!" Lip, who isn't a vampire ("I am just a queen!"), is understandably hurt by this. | |
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Such A Lovely Noun: "Perhaps you should have paid more attention to her. I know I did." | |
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Feghoot | |
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Feghoot: Pretty much all of the 2017 series is a build-up to one joke: "It's a wife mine now!" | |
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Emotionally Tongue-Tied | |
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Emotionally Tongue-Tied: Harvey Denton refuses to say "The F word", which is, of course, "frog". | |
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Naked on Arrival | |
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Naked on Arrival: Val Denton at the beginning of the anniversary series, because it's "Nude Day". She's actually naked on the train to Royston Vasey with Benjamin (who thankfully isn't), and all the way to the house. | |
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Grotesque Gallery | |
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Grotesque Gallery: Because almost all of the characters are played by the same three actors, a variety of prosthetics are used, some of which are profoundly hideous. Of particular note are Edward, Tubbs, Iris, Harvey, Bernice, Mickey, Vinnie & Reenie, Ally, and Herr Lipp. | |
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The Cameo | |
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"Royston Vasey" is the real name of comedian Roy "Chubby" Brown, who appears in a cameo as the mayor. The mayor's name is Larry Vaughn, which is also the name of the mayor in Jaws. Recursive Shout-Out! | |
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The Ghost | |
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"Our Julie", Charlie and Stella Hull's daughter is The Ghost. She's at college or otherwise out every time we see the Hulls. The trope becomes even more justified in the second live show, where it is revealed that she drowned in the bath, ten years previously. | |
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The Spook | |
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The Spook: Papa Lazarou. | |
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The Twink | |
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The Twink: In Season 2, Herr Lip has a crush on a not-quite-legal schoolboy named Justin Smart. In the Christmas Special, he has a similiar crush on a boy named Matthew Parker. | |
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The Vicar | |
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The Vicar: Bernice Woodall, the world's meanest clergywoman. One imagines there are not many Church of England vicars who have told a parishoner to "piss off home". On Christmas Eve. When said parishioner was in tears. | |
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The Voice | |
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David Tattsyrup becomes a The Voice variant after Tubbs and Edward take him back in. | |
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Looks Like Orlok | |
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Looks Like Orlok: The true form of the vampire in the Christmas Special. Herr Lip also gets to recreate Orlok's famous staircase scene. | |
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Neat Freak | |
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Neat Freak: Val and Harvey Denton. | |
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Take Our Word for It | |
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Take Our Word for It: We never find out what is in Hilary Briss' "special stuff". His surname may be a clue... | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Judith Buckle describes herself as the "glamourous mistress" of Alvin Steele, and seems to think she's a character in a Film Noir. She is, of course, a character in a horror comedy, and calling her a Plain Jane would probably be an insult to Plain Janes. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Justa Dream: Seemingly implied at the end of the film, although immediately falls into Gainax Ending as mentioned below. | |
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I Love the Dead | |
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I Love the Dead: Mortician Owen Fallowfield puts a bit too much of himself into his work. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Royston Vasey is the sort of city where stealing wheels from bicycles and wheelchairs (with people on them) are an everyday occurence, where lost, old people can be left to die and rot in rooftops, and where noone bats an eye at job ads for organ stealing or at public toilets where people drown. | |
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Laugh Track | |
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Laugh Track: The series ditched the laugh track after series 2. (The original Radio series had a live studio audience.) | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Benjamin Denton is the only sane man in the Denton home. Ross is the only sane man at the Job Centre, although he goes nuts in Season 3. | |
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Generation Xerox | |
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Generation Xerox: In The Christmas Special, we see a bit of Royston Vasey in the 1890s, including Victorian versions of Harvey, Barbara, Chinnery, Pauline, Mickey, and Ross | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Dirty Old Man: Pop is not only perverted but also extremely violent when provoked which means he can force himself upon his son's girlfriend right in front of him and get away with it. | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: David Warner (a.k.a. Evil, a.k.a. Dillinger/Sark/MCP, Ra's al Ghul, a.k.a. Jon Irenicus, a.k.a. Lord Downey, a.k.a. The Lobe) as Mr. Pea. | |
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Hufflepuff House | |
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Hufflepuff House: The non-League members of Pauline's Restart group. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Dialogue between Herr Lipp, Lotte and Justin at the climax of Lipp's attempts to seduce the schoolboy. Lotte tries to warn Justin about Lipp in German: | |
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Stage Mom | |
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Stage Mom: Nancy and Noel Glass, husband and wife and parents to Casey, whom they enter regularly into beauty pageants despite her reluctance. While Casey is polite and quiet, her overbearing parents are stuck-up and rude, rejoicing as a child competing against their daughter falls and bursts into tears before taking the credit for their daughter's ensuing win. Casey is seen by her parents solely as a means of self-glorification and thus is neglected, at one point being nearly left behind in a car park after her inebriated parents drive off, returning for her as an afterthought. They appear in one episode in Series 3. | |
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HypocriticalHumour | |
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Hypocritical Humour: Ollie tells an audience that he is not going to patronize them, because they aren't children. He then proceeds to explain what "patronizing" means in very... uh, condescending tones. Also, after Chris Frost outlines his Knight Templar security guard policies to a group of recruits, a lot of merchandise falls out of his sleeve. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: Each character more or less only has one outfit, so you can tell them apart. | |
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Outside-Genre Foe | |
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Outside-Genre Foe: In the anniversary specials, David Morrissey's character, Chapman, is a humourless, hard-boiled hostage negotiator straight out of a mono-titular ITV1 procedural, making his confrontations with the ridiculous yet insidious Edward and Tubbs all the more hilarious. | |
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Fantastic Drug | |
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Fantastic Drug: The meat served by Hilary Briss definitely serves as an analogue to a drug, including the obsessive behaviour and the nosebleeds but despite all suggestions that bring to mind a certain source, the writers have denied it, claiming that there is nothing more mundane than cannibalism and that the truth is so much worse... Which makes one wonder what the hell is he providing, unicorn meat? | |
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She Is All Grown Up | |
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She Is All Grown Up: In the wrongest way possible. | |
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Gender Bender | |
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Gender Bender: Barbara the transgender cab driver. | |
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Enemy to All Living Things | |
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Enemy to All Living Things: Mr. Mathew Chinnery is a completely accidental version of this. He's not evil; he's just incredibly accident-prone, due to an ancestral curse. | |
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Hospital Hottie | |
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Hospital Hottie: One of the few times an actual woman appeared on the show was when Al brought home a nurse named Patricia as a date. Unfortunately, Pop ruined everything by loudly talking about how great the film version of Watership Down is, discussing porn, and trying to steal Patricia. | |
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The Unintelligible | |
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The Unintelligible: Pam Doove is like this, but only while acting. Or (in the 2017 series) when reading the Shipping Forecast! | |
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Eccentric Townsfolk | |
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Eccentric Townsfolk: Played with. The people of Royston Vasey are certainly eccentric, but very, very far from harmless. | |
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TrailersAlwaysLie | |
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Trailers Always Lie: The trailer gives Edward and Tubbs top billing, uses their catchphrase as a tagline, and mostly shows clips with them in. The pair appear in all of two scenes. | |
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Dinner and a Show | |
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Dinner and a Show: Does anyone in Royston Vasey eat a meal without an argument? If so, we've never seen it. | |
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Not a Mask | |
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Not a Mask: Papa Lazarou's face. That's his natural skintone. | |
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Comic Trio | |
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Comic Trio: Most of the characters are divided into groups of three, mirroring the actors themselves. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: Geoff stops being a one-note character and becomes The Hero. Herr Lip, however, is outraged that his character is so predictable. | |
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No Fourth Wall | |
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No Fourth Wall: The main plot has characters escaping Royston Vasey to prevent the writers from cancelling the show. | |
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Baa-Bomb | |
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Baa-Bomb: Various animals inadvertently explode at the hands of Mr. Chinnery. These range from a cow to a hamster. | |
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Unabashed B-Movie Fan | |
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Unabashed B-Movie Fan: Meaningfully named Harry Portrait and Ally Welles, who are obsessed with horror movies. However, some of the films they watch are quite good, such as The Shining, Alien, and Stephen Loncraine's version of Richard III, starring Sir Ian McKellen. As long as it has killin's, they're happy. | |
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Adaptational Heroism | |
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Adaptational Heroism: Applies to the three protagonist Herr Lipp, Hilary Briss and Geoff Tipps who are in no way as antagonistic as they were in the main series. Herr Lipp's extremely perverted and possibly paedophilic traits are removed, and Geoff's short fuse and homicidal traits are not present and he is instead presented as bumbling. Although now depicted as short tempered Hilary Briss embraces his heroism during the third act in order to save the town. | |
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Hillbilly Horrors | |
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Hillbilly Horrors: Even though it takes place in a town in rural England, the series is mostly this, especially Edward and Tubbs. | |
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Chess with Death | |
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Chess with Death: The stage show has a man gambling his soul against an ambiguously diabolical figure. However, the devil figure doesn't want to play chess; he wants to play "Go Johnny Go Go Go Go". | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Manipulative Bastard: Edward convinces Tubbs that there is no world beyond the local shop, and even turns her own son against her just to make her stay with him. | |
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Sound-to-Screen Adaptation | |
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Sound-to-Screen Adaptation | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: ...are awful. | |
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Malaproper | |
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Malaproper: Herr Lip, who keeps making not-so-Innocent Innuendo. | |
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Funny Foreigner | |
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Funny Foreigner: Herr Lipp unwittingly says things that make him sound like a pedophile, which is ultimately revealed to be true. Things like "You are still erect" to mean "You are still awake". | |
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Catchphrase Interruptus | |
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Papa Lazarou: "You're my wife now!" and "Hello Dave!" The former has been subject to Catch Phrase Interruptus. In the 2017 series "You're my wife now" is parodied. Papa Lazarou has trapped numerous women - including Tubbs! - in an underground cave. "It's a wife mine now!" | |
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Attractive Bent-Gender | |
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Attractive Bent-Gender: Reece actually looks pretty good as Judee Levinson, Stella Hull and Olive Kilshaw. Not to mention Mark Gatiss as Val Denton and Gina Beasley. | |
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Alternate Continuity | |
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Alternate Continuity: Has been confirmed in interviews to be set in it's own continuity separate from the television series, although some [[Broad Strokes]] are applied when it comes to relation to the main series. The events of the film are in no way referenced to when the show returned for the three-part anniversary specials in 2017. | |
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Transparent Closet | |
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Transparent Closet: Herr Lip reveals to Justin that "I am a queen." Justin pretends to be astounded out of politeness. | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Characterization Marches On: In Series 2, Herr Lipp was essentially a creep and a sociopath; in the Christmas Special, though still a nasty pederast, he at least shows some compassion and sacrifices himself to save Matthew. By the time we get to the Movie, he is a kind and caring guy (even his turn to violence is intended to save the locals from what he believes to be endless misery) who is incidentally campy, a far cry from the selfish date-rapist he originally was. Val and Harvey seemed to regard Benjamin as a bit of a nuisance (at least where Harvey's personal space is concerned) initially and it wasn't entirely clear if they used the chores they forced on him as a subtle excuse to keep him there or if they just felt entitled to his services and wanted to control and take the most ouf of him. By Series 2, they were doing everything they could to keep him in Royston Vasey, losing all subtleness in the meantime and making clear that the former was the case. | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise: Except even the audience is fooled, due to Economy Casting. We know that the two characters are played by the same actor, but we think nothing of it. | |
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Cheshire Cat Grin | |
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Cheshire Cat Grin: Hilary Briss gives these a lot often as a non-verbal way of communicating to other knowing individuals in front of third parties that his meat has something to do with what transpires. | |
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Urine Trouble | |
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Urine Trouble: Tubbs is able to power a van with her urine. | |
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Throwing Your Sword Always Works | |
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Throwing Your Bardiche Always Works | |
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Synchronous Episodes | |
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Synchronous Episodes: Each episode of series three takes place at around the same time, each ending with a van accident taking place. Each episode is focused mainly on a specific character, and ultimately ends with what they were doing when the accident took place, thus allowing the viewers to see a bit more of the accident each episode, until finally showing the accident from all perspectives in the finale. | |
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Christmas Special | |
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Herr Lipp's segment in the Christmas Special is full of homages to Nosferatu, while Solutions Inc. are a parody of Eyes Wide Shut. | |
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Happy Ending Override | |
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Happy Ending Override: At the end of the original series, the previously unfunny and miserable Geoff managed to finally find happiness when he was able to tell jokes to his close friends and was shown to finally be satisfied. However come the 2017 specials 15 years later, he was shown to have regressed back to his own ways and is as cynical and miserable as ever, and still at the bottom of the food chain compared to those around him. This is even more depressing if you consider aspects of the 2005 movie as canon, in which Geoff was (accidentally) responsible for saving Royston Vasey and giving the characters free will. | |
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Speaking Simlish | |
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Speaking Simlish: The gibberish language Papa Lazarou sometimes speaks. When other characters play along by babbling, he somehow understands them. | |
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Knuckle Tattoos | |
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Knuckle Tattoos: Bernice gets these tattoos around the beginning of the second season. | |
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Mystery Meat | |
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Mystery Meat: Played for black laughs. Hilary Briss has a special meat available for a list of select customers. The meat is highly addictive and of highly suspicious provenance and, in the second series, apparently causes death via fatal nosebleeding. Word of God, however, states that it's not human flesh. It's far, far worse. | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Pauline and Ross | |
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Cats Are Mean | |
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Cats Are Mean: A variation that invokes this without cats themselves being mean. Cat enthusiast Dougall Siepp is a scary guy. | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: A rather dark take appears with Pop's two put-upon sons Al and Richie. Richie is the foolish one and it leads to him being disowned by his own father for a very small screw-up (getting a few chocolate bars stolen). Al the ostensibly responsible one, has been actually conditioned to be subservient to his father and deludedly worship him which leads to Pop ruining his life even further. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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Enemy Mine: Geoff and Herr Lip are forced to work with Hilary, Tubbs, Edward, and Papa Lazarou. | |
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SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror | |
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Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror | |
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Bad Santa | |
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Bad Santa: You can't get much worse than Papa Lazarou as Father Christmas. | |
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Really 700 Years Old | |
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Really 700 Years Old: Papa Lazarou. Hilary Briss describes himself in Season 1 as having spanned "great oceans of time." | |
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Have You Told Anyone Else? | |
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Have You Told Anyone Else?: Subverted in the Job Center storyline, when Ross admits no one else knows about his report on Pauline, even adding that all the information is within a single folder he has right there—but Pauline accepts defeat anyway. In the original radio series, this trope was played straight, but the writers gave it a more creative spin for the TV version. | |
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Parental Incest | |
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Parental Incest: Hinted at with "a son as well as daughters"/"a daughter as well as sons" in series two. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Hilary Briss | |
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I Take Offense to That Last One | |
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I Take Offense to That Last One: When Pauline is described as a "psychotic fifty year-old lesbian," she only objects to one of those accusations. ("I'm forty-eight!") Although it turns out she's bisexual. | |
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Cult of Personality | |
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Edward and Tubbs unexpectedly form a Cult of Personality in the anniversary specials after Tubbs accidentally airs a hostage video. Following the literal media circus that descends upon Royston Vasey in the wake of the hostage negotiation, crowds of protesters gather around the inbred couple's derelict apartment block, with many fans wearing celotape to hold their noses up in imitation of the duo's piggish deformity. The media inevitably turn the whole thing into a political drama, which Edward is all too keen to exploit for his xenophobic messages. | |
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Caught with Your Pants Down | |
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Caught with Your Pants Down: Parodied and inverted. Harvey Denton has a peculiar paranoia about walking in on his nephew, Benjamin, and has an entire, Spit Take-inducing collection of Unusual Euphemisms ready. There has never been any concrete evidence of Benjamin actually masturbating. | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble: Within The League of Gentlemen themselves, Mark Gatiss (the most flamboyant performances) is considered sanguine, Steve Pemberton (the biggest range) choleric, Reece Shearsmith (has some of the darker and more sinister roles) melancholic, and Jeremy Dyson (the only non-actor in the troupe) phlegmatic. On the whole however, all of them try all these different roles. | |
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Gag Penis | |
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Gag Penis: "Geoff Tipps, a clever man with a big cock, comes in and stops the king from being killed. He is a Hero. His cock is big." | |
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Circus of Fear | |
The League of Gentlemen / int_685a6461 | comment |
Circus of Fear: Papa Lazarou's circus might qualify as a subversion. While Papa Lazarou's appearance is pure Nightmare Fuel and he spends all his spare time kidnapping women ("You're my wife now!") Royston Vasey is already so full of freaks that the circus soon flees in terror, as the town is too weird even for them. | |
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ADeathInTheLimeLight | |
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A Death In The Lime Light: Lance Longthorne, a previously one episode character, has almost an entire episode of his own in season 3, in which he gains a new arm that is still controlled by its deceased previous owner. Said arm eventually motivates him to perform a Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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Recursive Crossdressing | |
The League of Gentlemen / int_69c5fb9e | comment |
Recursive Crossdressing: Pauline (Steve Pemberton in drag) attends a Gender Bender Costume Party dressed as Charlie Chaplin. | |
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The Reveal | |
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The Reveal: The biggest would probably be the one in the series finale. Keith Drop has an interesting secret. Pulled again in the Anniversary Specials that Papa Lazourou is pulling the strings of the mayor and is responsible for Royston's Vasey's boundary changes and the land being sold for fracking. He's essentially took the town. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: The Denton's hygene rules. | |
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Trapped in TV Land | |
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Trapped in TV Land: The League members at the end | |
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Berserker Tears | |
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Berserker Tears: Chloe (or Radcliffe) talking about her father Harvey Denton: "You wouldn't want to make him angry. I once saw him beat a man until both he and the man were crying." | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Ernest Foot is always "putting his foot in his mouth", so to speak, and Henry Portrait is obsessed with slasher movies. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: Ok the grotesque Herr Lipp may not have a harelip but his mouth is still nonetheless the most distinguishing (by which one means deformed) feature of his. | |
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Fake Band | |
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Fake Band: Glam Rockers Creme Brulee, who supposedly were second in the Song for UK heats for the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest. | |
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Full-Name Ultimatum | |
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Full-Name Ultimatum: "Don't you do it, Hilary Briss!" | |
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Heroic Comedic Sociopath | |
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Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Hilary becomes one of these. He's on the same side as Geoff and Herr Lip who themselves qualify to a certain extent in their background at least, but he's still an amoral killer. | |
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Family-Friendly Stripper | |
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Family-Friendly Stripper: Flaps In Your Lap, Royston Vasey's 'premier exotic dance centre'. | |
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Camp Gay | |
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Camp Gay: Herr Lip, Keith Drop. | |
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Big Bad Ensemble | |
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Big Bad Ensemble: Between the writers who are depicted as unlikable, causing the apocalypse out of ignorance and later Dr Pea who serves as another Big Bad. | |
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Forgotten Birthday | |
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Forgotten Birthday: Mike and Brian try and pull this on Geoff. It doesn't end well. | |
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Serial Killer | |
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Serial Killer: The Tattsyrups | |
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Kneel Before Zod | |
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Kneel Before Zod: Pauline (in an exercise in magazine-selling) demands that Ross beg her. This becomes an Ironic Echo when he gets her fired, and then offers to help her get her job back if she begs him. | |
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Exposition of Immortality | |
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Exposition of Immortality: When Papa Lazarou is going through his Book of Wives in Season Three, some of the photos are clearly old, sepia ones that heavily imply that he's a lot older than he appears. There are more on the wall of his room, too. | |
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Horrifying the Horror | |
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Horrifying the Horror: One day a mysterious carnival named Papa Lazarou's circus dropped to Royston Vasey. It consisted of various freaks of mysterious origins including a giant, a bearded woman and three depraved dwarfs. The ringmaster himself was grinning knowing that it was his time once again to spirit away his preferred victims among the townsfolk, to have a secret feast of his own while the carnival lights would blind the people to anything else other than the feast of the funfair. It sounds like a standard dark-fantasy story and would be one if it wasn't for the uncanny and dark nature of the Royston Vasey citizens which out-freaks all the carnival employees including Papa Lazarou himself so badly that they decide to pack up their stuff at the very first night and ride away. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
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Celebrity Paradox: Les McQueen mentions Roy "Chubby" Brown's cover of "Alice". Chubby appeared in the second season as the Mayor of Royston Vasey (which was named after his real name). | |
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Laughably Evil | |
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Laughably Evil: All of the villains. There are very few shows that could make a pair of incestuous redneck Serial Killers hilarious. | |
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Revenge Is a Dish Best Served | |
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Revenge Is a Dish Best Served: Subverted. After Ross gets Pauline fired as a restart officer, she ends up working in a burger bar with Mickey and gets revenge on Ross by spitting in and contaminating his burger with Mickey's help. The CCTV catches them at it and they're both fired. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
The League of Gentlemen / int_82accf22 | comment |
Gainax Ending: Jeremy Dyson is revealed to be alive and in hospital at the end of the film, with the implication that (at least a majority) of the events of the movie was just a dream. Although everyone in the world is revealed to have tails, a callback to a pitch he made to Reece Shearsmith over the phone at the beginning of the movie in which he wanted a plotline in which the Royston Vasey characters have tails. The film just ends there, with no explanation if the movie's events did happen or if Dyson is trapped in some other reality. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
The League of Gentlemen / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Mama Lazarou is not seen after series 2. Neither are the Dentons (although they are brought back in the anniversary specials in 2017). Justin's fate after series two is not revealed after being buried alive by Herr Lipp. Lipp briefly resurfaces in the 2017 anniversary specials (presumably taking place two decades later) in which he remarks he has returned to dig up some old friends. A file also shows Justin is still missing, and while logic dictates he should be dead at this point nothing is certain when it comes to the bizarreness of the show's universe. | |
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World of Ham | |
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World of Ham | |
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BBC Quarry | |
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BBC Quarry: Parodied in "Stump Hole Caverns" in a one-shot sketch on The League of Gentlemen: | |
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Refugee from TV Land | |
The League of Gentlemen / int_8ba5e417 | comment |
Refugee from TV Land Trapped in TV Land: The League members at the end | |
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Hazmat Suit | |
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Hazmat Suit: Parodied when a team wear hazmat suits to examine "The Beast of Royston Vasey." First Mr Chinnery throws up in his suit and then, after a The X-Files style autopsy, the Beast is revealed to be several missing zoo animals, stitched together. | |
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No Dead Body Poops | |
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No Dead Body Poops: Then again, considering the nature of the film, it's probably for the best. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: after awful restart officer Pauline is sacked, she has to sit through restart sessions of her own, with an even worse one. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Monster Clown: Papa Lazarou has some fairly clownish trappings, and runs a Circus of Fear. | |
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Little People Are Surreal | |
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Little People Are Surreal: Papa Lazarou's circus. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: The series has many interjecting plots with almost every one of them having a person who fills this role. Some plots are more arc-based however with a villain's choices affecting the grander scale of things making them this for the whole town of Royston Vasey. Series One: Edward is the dominant one of the Local Shop Killers. Edward and Tubbs make the Beast of Royston Vasey by kidnapping the animals from the roundabout zoo in order to prevent the new road that will connect the town to the outside world from being built, kill Benjamin's friend and later kidnap him. Series 2: Hilary Briss who distributes the special stuff that turns Royston Vasey into chaos was up to his insidious ways from the first series but was out of focus until the Nosebleed Plague in the second series. Ironically said chaos happens without his scheming or even desire. Series 3: The van crashing is the force that affects all the stories. Seriously though since the stories are independent the closest to this appears in the final episode and is none other than Papa Lazarou whose twisted plans are finally revealed to the audience. Anniversary Specials: The frackers responsible for Royston Vasey's boundary being changed and causing a protest mob. It's Papa Lazarou behind it who has created a 'wife mine' and implied to be the one who forced Mayor Bernice to approve of the fracking spot. | |
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Kindly Vet | |
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Kindly Vet: Subverted with a transparent Mr. Chinnery, who couldn't be more kindly but turns every attempt at treating an animal into a gruesome and usually fatal Epic Fail. Eventually revealed to be the result of an ancient curse on his ancestor. Which is easily fulfilled through his failure to think things through and pay attention to his surroundings. | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone: The end of Season 3 has, among other things, Geoff Tipps finally able to make people laugh. Similarly, the stage show gives Les McQueen a successful solo career, but then he gets electrocuted to death by a microphone before he can sing a word. Les finally gets a true happy ending in the anniversary specials. Upon being introduced to the internet, he discovers that he has an intense cult fanbase in an obscure Slavic nation. While he's hesitant to get back into the "shit business" after years of false hope, we last see him running to the train station in full rockstar gear to meet his adoring groupies. | |
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Home Nudist | |
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Home Nudist: One sketch had Harvey and Val celebrating "Nude Day" by spending the day at home naked. | |
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Oop North | |
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Oop North Parodied in Live at Drury Lane with Legz Akimbo's openly exploitative foray into grown-up theatre. | |
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Dumb Is Good | |
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Dumb Is Good: Tubbs is shown to be not entirely responsible for the crimes she commits with Edward, because she is obviously mentally unsound. It's probably genetic. Mickey. | |
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Dr. Jerk | |
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Dr. Jerk: Dr Ira Carlton is a GP who works in Royston Vasey, and a particularly unsympathetic one. If a patient's illness cannot be remedied by pills or medicines from a chemist, he refuses to treat them unless they buy his time by playing party games at his house. He has a habit of crunching Polo mints without sucking them. Dr Carlton is emphatic with his patients that "we'll do things PROPERLY". One of his patients is the tearful Mrs Beasley, who also visits the Charity Shop in Series 2. If the patients appear to demonstrate traits often ascribed to hypochondriacs, he orders them to "go out would you!". | |
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Death by Cameo | |
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Death by Cameo: Michael Sheen, OBE as Jeremy Dyson. | |
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Eldritch Location | |
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Eldritch Location: Welcome to Royston Vasey, you'll never leave. A very accurate claim given that half of the population rather than just being grotesque, half-insane freaks of nature, also spit at the laws of nature and have something inexplicably supernatural about them. The sheer concentration of weirdness makes the place suspect on its own as well. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
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A Day in the Limelight: Most episodes of Season 3 focus on previously-minor characters. | |
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Depraved Homosexual | |
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Depraved Homosexual: Herr Lipp is a spoof of this trope. | |
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Idyllic English Village | |
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Idyllic English Village: Royston Vasey is a satirical take on this, a nasty little town where all kinds of sinister doings occur. | |
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Fag Hag | |
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Fag Hag: Deconstructed with Tish, who unintentionally offends the hell out of all her fairly Straight Gay friends. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: At the end of Season 2 Hilary Briss escapes to the Caribbean. During Season 3, a newspaper headline can be seen declaring "Mysterious Nosebleed Outbreak In Carribean!" which implies that he either has very rich provisions or that his suppliers are that well-connected. Either way the meat circle is repeated. Papa Lazarou makes off with Rev. Bernice in the Christmas special. The season three premiere's poster gag is "Have You Seen Our Vicar?" | |
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Kitsch Collection | |
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Kitsch Collection: "Do not touch the precious things of the shop!" | |
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Campbell Country | |
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Campbell Country: Royston Vasey is... odd. Initially a comedy, the sense that the town is just a mask for insanity, evil and genuinely disturbing horror grows as the series progresses. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: Edward frequently references The Wicker Man (1973), and Chloe & Radclyffe obviously parody The Shining. Papa Lazarou's introductory episode features a few quotes from Freaks, and Geoff's subplot in Season 2 parodied Deliverance. In fact, at least one horror movie gets referenced per episode. While stocktaking, Tubbs produces candles. Although she says there are "twelvety", there are in fact four. Herr Lipp's segment in the Christmas Special is full of homages to Nosferatu, while Solutions Inc. are a parody of Eyes Wide Shut. The red balloon in the final series is an homage to Don't Look Now. It culmintates in a parody of American Beauty. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Val Denton, after conspiring to have Benjamin possessed by the evil spirit of Harvey, is filled with remorse at the result and undoes the spell. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: Mr. Pea pulls out the eyes of one of Shearsmith's characters. | |
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AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks | |
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All Devouring Black Hole Loan Sharks: Parodied with Mr. Lisgoe and his incompetent collectors. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The ending of the Christmas special. | |
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Naked People Are Funny | |
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Naked People Are Funny: The Dentons have a "nude day," which they claim is the first Monday of every month. They cast aside all clothing and go about their daily duties—including going to the supermarket, the newsagent's, and the post office, totally naked. When Benjamin walks in on them naked, they force him to strip off as well and answer the door naked. Benjamin surprises the caller and brings him back to the living room, where Harvey and Val are dressed and Benjamin is humiliated. | |
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As Himself | |
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As Himself: The League all appear as themselves with the exception of Jeremy Dyson who is played by Michael Sheen. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Papa Lazarou, unless one takes the live show in which Edward blows up his wife mine as canon. Hilary Briss escapes, but is eventually killed in The Movie, though for different reasons. | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity: Papa Lazarou uses this frequently, calling people by the wrong name and flat-out ignoring what people say to him. This is his way of confusing them enough to hand over their personal items (which can sometimes overlap with marriage). | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: The animals in Papa Lazarou's circus, who are really the cells of his human victims. They do scream, actually, but no one can hear them... although as of the 2017 specials, they seem to have managed to escape. | |
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Death Is Dramatic | |
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Death Is Dramatic: Ultimately subverted with Edward and Tubbs, who get a properly dramatic death scene, but then it turns out that they're not dead. While leaving town, they are suddenly killed by a train. Also averted with Harvey and Val. It's ambiguous whether they even die, although considering where they were left, suffocation seems likely. Another aversion would be the death of Vinnie, which comes right out of nowhere. Mostly killed off so that Reece Shearsmith could spend the rest of the episode playing Keith Drop, and another character... | |
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Parody | |
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The series two finale has Mr. Chinnery attempting to help a boy and his kestrel in a parody of Kes. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Tubbs: "Are you local?" Edward "Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting? We'll have no trouble here!" Both of the above: "This is a local shop, for local people. There's nothing for you here!" Papa Lazarou: "You're my wife now!" and "Hello Dave!" The former has been subject to Catch Phrase Interruptus. In the 2017 series "You're my wife now" is parodied. Papa Lazarou has trapped numerous women - including Tubbs! - in an underground cave. "It's a wife mine now!" Pauline Campbell-Jones: "Okey-cokey! Pig in a pokey!", "Dole-scum!", "Piss off, Ross!" Geoff: "You always knew I had this gun!" Pop: "Call me Pop!" Les: "It's a shit business. Glad I'm out of it." Ernest Foot: "Was it something I said?" Christopher Frost: "Chalk 'em up!" Alvin: "Home is the hunter!" Harvey: "In this house, we (completely absurd rule)." Even when his ghost possesses Benjamin in the anniversary series. "In this house, we don't die!" Lance: "Stag night, is it?" and "Jesus, some people ain't got no sense of humor." Vinnie and Reenie have several: "No need to be rude, Dear!", "That Merril.", "Do you want a bag with that?" and "It's good stuff(, it is)!". | |
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Town with a Dark Secret | |
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Town with a Dark Secret: Several secrets. | |
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All Up to You | |
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All Up to You: "You're the hero, Geoff." | |
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Have You Tried Not Being a Monster? | |
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Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?: Deconstructed in the Christmas Special, which dealt with the problems of equating gay people with bloodsucking vampires. | |
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Easy Sex Change | |
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Easy Sex Change: Partly averted for comedy effect when Barbara of Babs' Cabs is a trans woman who is some years into the process ("I've only been on the hormone treatments eighteen months. Me nipples are like bullets.") and dresses and presents as a woman, and is referred to and treated as a woman by all the other inhabitants of Royston Vasey, but still speaks with a deep, growly voice and has excessively hairy arms is to all intents and purposes clearly still physically very much a man. She describes in some wince-inducing detail the surgery she's going to be getting. Later events put Babs clearly in the realm of this trope, however, when she gets pregnant and delivers twins. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Basically the premise of the "crime-fighting supercar" skit. A villager opens to door of a portable lavatory to find it full of water, which washes out a drowned body. Once the flood subsides, he enters the lavatory.. Later in the show we see lots of bodies, and people still using the loo. | |
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Noodle Implements | |
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Noodle Implements: The "Special Stuff" that butcher Hilary Briss sells. It's never revealed what type of meat it is (although Word of God has confirmed that it isn't human meat because the writers thought that was too mundane) but it is clearly immoral, illegal, highly addictive and prone to cause fatal nosebleeds if overindulged in. | |
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Eleventy Zillion | |
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Eleventy Zillion: Someone really should tell Tubbs "twelvty" isn't a number, because Edward isn't going to. | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Happens in the finale of Season 3, but only for the characters who were featured in the main Road Accident storyline. A remix of the main theme entitled "While There's Still Time" plays during this. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: Chloe & Radclyffe. | |
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Mirror Character | |
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Mirror Character: Ross's similarities to Pauline are highlighted in Series 3. As it turns out, he too loathes destitute welfare-leaches like Mickey and goes so far as to almost borrow Pauline's "dole-scum" catchphrase at one point before stopping himself. Ross even blackmails Pauline into a hate-fuck. | |
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Celebrity Is Overrated | |
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Celebrity Is Overrated: Les McQueen tries loudly to claim his failure to become a pop star doesn't upset him, saying "It's a shit business. I'm glad I'm out of it." No-one is fooled. | |
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Tyrant Takes the Helm | |
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Tyrant Takes the Helm: Cathy Carter-Smith, who is even crueller to the jobseekers than Pauline was. | |
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Knight Templar | |
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Also, after Chris Frost outlines his Knight Templar security guard policies to a group of recruits, a lot of merchandise falls out of his sleeve. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: "Yeah... cunt." | |
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Afraid of Blood | |
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Afraid of Blood: Papa Lazarou is so freaked at one point, he runs out of his own show. Granted, it's probably nosebleeds which he's probably never encountered before, rather than the actual sight of blood. | |
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Slasher Smile | |
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Slasher Smile: Papa Lazarou and Edward, on occasion. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: There are quite a lot of (very odd) people in Royston Vasey who have a blissful relationship with their (even odder) spouse. Edward & Tubbs, and Val & Harvey stand out. | |
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I Have You Now, My Pretty | |
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I Have You Now, My Pretty: Papa Lazarou is known for this, to the point where he collects wives and his Catchphrase is: | |
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Tomato Surprise | |
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Tomato Surprise: Iris and Mrs. Levinson are actually mother and daughter. The stage show ups the ante by revealing that they're really father and son. | |
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Monster Misogyny | |
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Monster Misogyny: Papa Lazarou goes after women to make into his "wives". In a bit of a twist, though, all of the women are over 50, and he's just as dangerous towards men if they come across his path. Also, due to the format of the show, almost all the women are played by men in drag. | |
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Show Within a Show | |
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Show Within a Show: Steve Pemberton is working on a screenplay for a new movie, The King's Evil, about a plot to assassinate William III (played by Bernard Hill, aka Théoden.) Naturally, it's just as real as Royston Vasey. The King's Evil itself is an example of The Dung Ages. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: In the 2017 series Barbara has become very militant, hates the acronym LGBT, and instead suggests ACRONYM - Actively Considering Reassignment Or Not Yet Madeuptheirmind. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: None of the Dentons appear in Season 3. We can assume that Benjamin finally escaped from Royston Vasey, but the fate of Val and Harvey is left vague. The 2017 specials show that they did get out of the cell, but Harvey died sometime later. | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved: The Tattsyrup family are said to have a bit of pig in their ancestry (which turns up in their noses), and Hilary Briss is married to a cow. The extent of their relationship is unclear. A Local Book For Local People makes it somewhat clearer. | |
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We Can Rule Together | |
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We Can Rule Together: Mr. Pea invites Hilary Briss to join him in the King's Evil setting. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain: Any scenes with Chinnery. | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: Mr. Matthew Chinnery, the worst vet ever. Alvin Steele, the world's most boring swinger. | |
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Felony Misdemeanor | |
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Felony Misdemeanor: Pop disowns his son Richie for failing to prevent a handful of Maverick bars from being stolen from the news stand. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: Tubbs torturing the construction men while dancing around nude "The Road to Royston Vasey." The Denton's Nude Day. Barbara in a wedding dress that exposes her backside. | |
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The Butcher | |
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The Butcher: Hilary Briss, a literal butcher who sells some kind of very illegal and hideously immoral "special stuff". | |
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Cast Full of Writers | |
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Cast Full of Writers: The writing credit read "The Cast and Jeremy Dyson", and it's roughly that literal—beyond crowd scenes and the occasional woman, you'd be hard-pressed to find a single character not played by series writers Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton or Reece Shearsmith. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "The League of Gentlemen? Extraordinary!" Also, Mr. Pea looks a lot like Vincent Price in Witchfinder General. The king thanks the guys for saving him from a "deadly assassin". The two maids who secretly mother/daughter/employer/men are a reference to the film "The Maids". The King's Evil is pretty much a parody of every film Ken Russell made in the seventies and eighties. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: The Christmas Special reveals that Rev. Bernice is so cynical and hateful because when she was a little girl, Papa Lazarou kidnapped her mother while dressed as Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. | |
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Bitter Wedding Speech | |
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Bitter Wedding Speech: Bad idea choosing Geoff as your best man, Mike... | |
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Madwoman in the Attic | |
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Madwoman in the Attic: Parodied with David, inbred son of corrupt hicks Edward and Tubbs Tattsyrup. They keep him in the attic. | |
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Glory Days | |
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Glory Days: Les McQueen constantly bothers other aspiring musicians he meets, boring them with tales of a now outdated and unfashionable music era. When they politely (or in some cases impolitely) ask him to leave them alone, he does so, stating sadly (as if he is trying to convince himself of it, rather than convince whoever he is talking to): "It's a shit business; I'm glad I'm out of it." | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
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Killed Off for Real: Doubly subverted with the Tattsyrups, who appear to be killed at the end of Season 2, but are revealed to have survived at the beginning of Season 3, only to die again, for real this time. Triply! They return for the movie as well, and presumably survive (it's not made clear) In the anniversary series they are discovered squatting in a condemned block of flats (in room 9, no less!). In the anniversary series Pauline is killed by Geoff in a case of mistaken identity however in the Live Again shows it is revealed that Pauline faked her death and dementia as part of an insurance scam. Also in the anniversary series, Pop is terminated with extreme prejudice. Ditto; Harvey was already dead at the beginning of the series, but his ghost briefly took possession of Benjamin before being driven out. | |
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Incoming Ham | |
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Incoming Ham: Both Edward and Pauline must announce their presence every time they enter a room. | |
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Nightmare Face | |
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Nightmare Face: Papa Lazarou, full stop. There's a reason he is the image for the Live-Action TV page. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: The entire Job Centre plot thread. Includes Internal Affairs, The Mole, Heel–Face Turn, Becoming the Mask, and other things you'd expect to see in a spy movie. Except it's about an unemployment office. | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss: Pauline's love life. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Harvey—or rather hoist by his own pet toad. | |
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Psychotic Smirk | |
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Psychotic Smirk: Hilary Briss does this from time to time. | |
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You Are Not Ready | |
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You Are Not Ready: Hilary Briss' house special. | |
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Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job | |
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Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: Les McQueen, former rythm guitarist of Creme Brulee, who now works in the hospital laundry, longing for the old days when he would walk into a Royston Vasey urinal and heads would turn. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: Harvey Denton has a wide variety of euphemisms for masturbation. | |
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Happy-Ending Massage | |
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Happy-Ending Massage: Charlie starts work at a massage parlor (with a [supposedly] hot blonde woman as a front to improve business) and learns that all of his customers expected these. Still, a customer is a customer... | |
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You Can't Go Home Again | |
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You Can't Go Home Again: Invoked by Val at the end of the anniversary series. Probably refers not just to Benjamin but the cast as well. | |
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Lamarck Was Right | |
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Lamarck Was Right: Mr. Chinnery inherits his ancestor's curse. | |
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Acting for Two | |
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Acting for Two:invoked There's one scene where Geoff, Edward, and Papa Lazarou all discuss the fact that they are played by the same actor. | |
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Kubrick Stare | |
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Kubrick Stare: Both Hilary and Papa Lazarou give these a lot. | |
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Awful Wedded Life | |
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Awful Wedded Life: Charlie and Stella are a husband and wife with a tempestuous relationship. They have grown to hate each other and quarrel endlessly, using unwilling third parties as mediators. These include their daughter's boyfriend Tony, a waiter, and a baby. | |
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The Dung Ages | |
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The King's Evil itself is an example of The Dung Ages. | |
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Gay Best Friend | |
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Gay Best Friend: Rather bitterly deconstructed with self-declared Fag Hag Trish. She blithely describes her gay friends in this manner, while they — usually played by the openly-gay Mark Gatiss — roll their eyes and try to sneak away while she's not looking. The stage show takes this a step further, with a purely dramatic scene of Gatiss' character breaking up with his boyfriend over an infidelity, before she shows up to talk about how gay men can all sleep with each other with no consequences. Gatiss snaps, delivering a pretty excellent "The Reason You Suck" Speech. | |
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Friend to All Living Things | |
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Friend to All Living Things: Subverted with kindly, accident-prone vet Mr. Chinnery. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: Harvey Denton is obsessed with toads, and collects them. He also greatly resembles one, and the interior of the Denton home has a sort of a dull green colour scheme, like a lily pond. Edward and Tubbs Tattsyrup both have piggy noses and live in filth. Tubbs has also been seen breastfeeding a piglet. Mr. Kenny Harris' love of dogs goes far beyond a gimmick for his cinema, in fact, it's so intense that it makes the Denton's toad obsession look negligible by contrast. | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Mickey, who is clearly mentally disabled. | |
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Morality Pet | |
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Morality Pet: Mickey for Pauline. | |
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Scary Scarecrows | |
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Scary Scarecrows | |
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Torches and Pitchforks | |
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Torches and Pitchforks: An angry mob burns down the Local Shop at the end of the second season. | |
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He Who Must Not Be Seen | |
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He Who Must Not Be Seen: "That Merrill." Frequently mentioned by Vinnie and Reenie, but never actually appears. David Tattsyrup becomes a The Voice variant after Tubbs and Edward take him back in. "Our Julie", Charlie and Stella Hull's daughter is The Ghost. She's at college or otherwise out every time we see the Hulls. The trope becomes even more justified in the second live show, where it is revealed that she drowned in the bath, ten years previously. | |
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Cult | |
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Cult: Solutions, Inc. in the Christmas Special. Edward and Tubbs unexpectedly form a Cult of Personality in the anniversary specials after Tubbs accidentally airs a hostage video. Following the literal media circus that descends upon Royston Vasey in the wake of the hostage negotiation, crowds of protesters gather around the inbred couple's derelict apartment block, with many fans wearing celotape to hold their noses up in imitation of the duo's piggish deformity. The media inevitably turn the whole thing into a political drama, which Edward is all too keen to exploit for his xenophobic messages. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Mark Gatiss based his performance of Mr. Chinnery on Peter Davison's as Tristan Farnan in the BBC production of All Creatures Great And Small. | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: "We didn't burn him!" "I didn't force her!" In the 2017 specials: "We didn't cut their faces off!" | |
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Blackface | |
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Blackface: The very creepy Papa Lazarou is a subversion. That's what he really looks like. | |
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Freudian Slip | |
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Freudian Slip: Ollie Plimsoles' wife, Linda, has left him for another woman. And he will never let you forget it, no matter how he tries. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Ollie Plimsoles | |
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Evil Old Folks | |
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Evil Old Folks: Tubbs and Edward, who torture and sometimes kill any non-locals who intrude on their shop. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The monster in The King's Evil requires contributions from the three men who sought its creation. | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
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Redemption Equals Death: Poor Hilary | |
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Bad "Bad Acting" | |
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Bad "Bad Acting": Pam Doove, who became The Unintelligible whenever it was time for her to speak a single, easy line. Played with in that in-universe her unintelligible phrase becomes a popular meme, her advert is actually filmed and broadcast and, in the minds of the writers according to the DVD Commentary, she becomes a famous actress and wins an Oscar. | |
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Innocent Innuendo | |
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Innocent Innuendo: One scene starts as though Benjamin is being forced to perform oral sex on Harvey. It turns out he's just cleaning a scrub-brush. Another episode has one woman afraid that her doctor is trying to extort sex out of her in exchange for treatment. It turns out that he instead wants to force her to play party games. In a creepy way, though. | |
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Evil Hand | |
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Evil Hand: Played for Laughs when the uncouth, one-armed joke shop owner gets an arm transplant. It belonged to a nun, and is much nicer than he is. It even prompts him into a Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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Evil Plan | |
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Evil Plan: Papa Lazarou's rather complicated machinations involving trapping people's souls inside circus animals. You'd think it would just be easier to just...get some ordinary circus animals. Presumably he does it For the Evulz. | |
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Too Much Information | |
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Too Much Information: Much of Barbara's shtick is telling people all the details of her operation. Similiarly, Iris tells a few too many things about her and Ron's sex life. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: In the stage show, Tubbs is forgiven by God and welcomed into the Kingdom of Swansea (long story), but Edward has to go to Hell. | |
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SorryILeftTheBGMOn | |
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Sorry, I Left the BGM On: Used as a Running Gag when the League theme music is repeatedly revealed to be mobile phone ringtones. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: Ross. Though as the 'girl' in question is Pauline, you couldn't really accuse him of being ungentlemanly. | |
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Creepy Twins | |
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Creepy Twins: The twins who leave a man tied to a scarecrow, so they have someone to talk to. Their names are Chloe and Radclyffe Denton, they are implied to have Psychic Powers and Offscreen Teleportation, and they are deceptively monstrous. | |
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Old, New, Borrowed and Blue | |
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Old, New, Borrowed and Blue: Tubbs and Edward have an interesting local variation on this... | |
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Buried Alive | |
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Buried Alive: The fate of Justin Smart, although he is given a funnel through which to breathe. | |
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Road Apples | |
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Road Apples: "Edward, I've made a little brown fish!" | |
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Loan Shark | |
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Loan Shark: Mr. Lisgoe and his incompetent collectors in the third season. | |
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