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The Two Ronnies
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A pair of British comedians (by their own insistence not a double act), whose work involved both solo and pair sketches, often feeling like a comedy troupe that just so happened to only have two people in it. Their show on the BBC (The Two Ronnies), while most famous for their sketches, was a variety show that also featured music, dancing and the occasional other comedian, running from 1971 to 1987.Consisted of: Ronnie Barker. Also did Porridge (as the lead prisoner) and Open All Hours (as Arkwright, the stammering shop owner - the series also features a young David Jason) before retiring to run an antique store. Ronnie Corbett. A short guy (who would make jokes about it), who also starred in Sorry! and frequently appeared on panel shows like Have I Got News for You.Most of the humour was based on wordplay, with sketches built around Spoonerisms, puns, homophones, mondegreens and similar. The show had many writers: in a fairly famous background story, one of the more celebrated writers was the mysterious Gerald Wiley, whom no one had ever met. In fact, it was Barker himself submitting material under an assumed name as he wanted it to be judged on merit and not get preferential treatment. He once even rejected one of his own scripts and declared, after a poorly-receieved Wiley sketch, that "Wiley has let us down here!" Eventually, he confessed to the production team (who didn't believe him).Once per Episode, each of the Ronnies would get a solo showcase. Ronnie B., who was never comfortable performing as himself, would portray an unusual character, often as a "mad spokesman", or played people making an appeal for the most ridiculous causes. Ronnie C., who was more naturally garrulous, would always give one of his famous "chair monologues", which consisted of him telling a long rambling story to the audience from an armchair, always taking jabs at the producer and/or his wife. Often these were based around a joke which, if told straight, would not be very funny — the hilarity came from the roundabout and tangential way he got to the punchline.The most famous Two Ronnies sketches have to be: "Four Candles". A shopkeeper serially misunderstands his customer reading out a shopping list. "No, I said fork 'andles! 'Andles for forks!" "Mastermind". A close impersonation of the Quiz Show Mastermind, with Corbett as a contestant who specialises in "Answering the question before last." His misaligned answers get funnier and funnier as the sketch proceeds.Most series included a serial, in full costume and with drama-series quality props (not that that was very high quality on the BBC in those days). The most (in)famous was The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town, written by Spike Milligan ("and a Gentleman"). A close second would be The Worm That Turned, featuring a women-ruled England. Also popular were the stories of the down-and-out sleuths Piggy Malone and Charley Farley, a mix between Sherlock Holmes and the typical cop shows of the 70s.Barker retired in 1987, but made on-and-off appearances with his short buddy. They also reunited in 2005 to do The Two Ronnies Sketchbook, a compilation of their best-known skits. Unfortunately, Barker died in October of that year at 76 (the Christmas edition was taped a few months before, being a literal example of Christmas in July), while Corbett continued to work in television and radio before passing away in 2016 at the age of 85. Naturally, four candles instead of two were displayed at their respective memorial services. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: "Norman Barrel" for Barry Norman. | |
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Cannot Tell a Joke | |
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Cannot Tell a Joke: The basis of Ronnie Corbett's "chair" act was that of a man attempting to tell a straightforward joke but getting caught up in digressions; the twist being that these were funnier than the actual joke. | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg: From the "Taxidermist" sketch: "You have stuffed and mounted thirty-four perfectly healthy people with a perfect right to live, and a double-glazing salesman." | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: At the end of "The Bogle of Bog Fell", the narrator addresses the camera: | |
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Alcohol-Induced Idiocy | |
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Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: The "Round of Drinks" sketch. A guest at a party (Ronnie B.) tries to order a complicated round of drinks for seven other people, most of whom he doesn't know very well, but keeps scrambling it in new ways with every gin and tonic he guzzles down. To cap it off, the bartender is so Crazy-Prepared that he has every single item on hand to fill the guest's final, hopelessly mangled order. | |
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Feghoot | |
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Feghoot: A common gag in the "news stories" intro and outro. | |
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Always Someone Better | |
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Always Someone Better: Miss Marple is this for Hercule Poirot, in "The Teddy Bear Who Knew Too Much". | |
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Masochist's Meal | |
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Masochist's Meal: Ronnie Barker's "Indian Cookery" monologue contains several asides about the dire effects his recipes may have on the unprepared. | |
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In the Name of the Moon | |
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In the Name of the Moon: Policemen appear contractually obliged to shout "'Ere! I want a word with you!" before chasing anybody. By the time they've shouted it, the Phantom has invariably made his escape. | |
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Limerick | |
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Limerick: The dialogue in the "Limerick Clinic" sketch combines to form a series of limericks. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: From a half-hour programme in the series "Six Dates with Barker". Here's a clip from the original. | |
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Bedsheet Ghost | |
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Bedsheet Ghost: One turns up in the Piggy/Charley serial "Stop! You're Killing Me!", haunting the graveyard at dead of night. Charley's response is to build a device to blow the bedsheet off it from below. The first person to trigger it is a young woman in a short skirt, the second is the local vicar, and the third is their landlord in a nightshirt. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: "Elizabeth A-ha" is set in the court of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603); the opening song has her singing about Charles II (1630-1685) as if he was her predecessor. | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: The Home Secretary, whose voice has a built-in echo. | |
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Narrative Profanity Filter | |
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Narrative Profanity Filter: Ronnie Barker's "Nell of the Yukon" contains this verse: | |
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Can't You Read the Sign? | |
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Can't You Read the Sign?: One sketch includes a sign saying "Do Not Throw Stones at This Notice". | |
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One Scene, Two Monologues | |
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One Scene, Two Monologues: One of their best known sketches, Crossed Lines, is a variation on this trope — Corbett and Barker play two very different characters both talking on pay phones in a supermarket. They are having totally unconnected conversations with different (unseen) people on the other end, but they take turns to speak and they seem to be having a surreal conversation with each other. Another, similar sketch has the two sitting side by side on a train, each talking to the person on their other side (one about his marriage, the other about his garden). Again, the two monologues combine to form a single incongruous conversation. | |
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Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption | |
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Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: Although not using interruptions per se, the "Mastermind" sketch is perhaps the ultimate in cleverly using this trope. "Crossed Lines" is a more literal version of the gag, with two people at payphones, whose halves of their conversations are "unintentionally" funny together. | |
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Doom Magnet | |
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Doom Magnet: Doctor Death, in the sketch of the same name, who is cheerfully oblivious as the deaths pile up around him. | |
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Raiders of the Lost Parody | |
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Raiders of the Lost Parody: A sketch entitled "Raiders of the Lost Auk". | |
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Sherlock Scan | |
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Sherlock Scan: Double-subverted in "The Teddy Bear Who Knew Too Much" — Poirot deduces from a handbag that its owner is an overweight bald woman called Hide who wipes her nose on her sleeve. The handbag's owner promptly arrives, and turns out to be a slender brunette by the name of Agnes Pomfrit. At the end of the scene, Agnes mentions that she inherited the bag from her great-aunt, an overweight bald woman called Hide who wiped her nose on her sleeve. | |
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Wardrobe Malfunction | |
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Wardrobe Malfunction: In the second episode of "Hampton Wick", Madeline Smith's low-cut dress slips a bit too low and exposes more than it ought. It seems no-one noticed it before the show was broadcast. | |
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Body Double | |
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Body Double: For Queen Victoria — six large, moustached policemen are put in dresses and told to pose as her. | |
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Hurricane of Euphemisms | |
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Hurricane of Euphemisms. One sketch featured Ronnie Corbett attempting to find out where the toilet is without saying the word toilet and using every conceivable euphemism. | |
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Blowing a Raspberry | |
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Blowing a Raspberry: The Phantom's raspberries are treated as a lethal threat. Perhaps the supreme example is when the Prime Minister and the leaders of the Commonwealth are meeting to discuss the threat of the Phantom. Who drops in uninvited, and blows a raspberry at them that's powerful enough to make the Queen's portrait blush and bring the chandelier down. | |
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Driving a Desk | |
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Driving a Desk: The backdrop while the policemen are in their carriage starts off as Stock Footage of a Victorian street, and then becomes Stock Footage of monkeys. | |
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Bested by the Inexperienced | |
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Bested by the Inexperienced: In one sketch Ronnie Corbett's character, a squash champion, is incensed that Ronnie Barker's character, a newbie so clueless he can't even get the name of the game right, has effortlessly beaten him. | |
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Run for the Border | |
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Run for the Border: Two downtrodden men, Janet and Betty, aim to flee the domination of this fierce feminist state for the macho mining sanctuary of a country called Wales. | |
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Author Appeal | |
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Author Appeal: It's clear from the scripts Ronnie Barker wrote that he was fond of the female behind, hence the profusion of panty shots and ladies in tight shorts. | |
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Inconsistent Spelling | |
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Inconsistent Spelling: Is Piggy Malone's colleague called Charlie or Charley? "Stop! You're Killing Me" uses 'Charlie'; the other serials use "Charley". | |
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Gargle Blaster | |
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Gargle Blaster: From "I'd Like to Have Another" by Jehoshaphat and Jones: | |
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Ironic Nickname | |
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Ironic Nickname: Some of the Country and Western singers they portrayed — "Big Jim" Jehosophat was played by Corbett, and "Lightweight" Louie Danvers by Barker. | |
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Lady Land | |
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Lady Land: The setting, a dictatorship of female supremacists. | |
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Covered in Gunge | |
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Dinner Order Flub | |
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Dinner Order Flub: Levelled up as the basis for the "Mongolian Restaurant" sketch. Typical comment / response: Ronnie C.: "That's disgusting", Ronnie B. holding up two hands: "That's a lot of gusting". In "Band of Slaves" Piggy and Charley are given a card, with instructions to show it at a Chinese restaurant. The staff interpret it as a food order, and return with a trolley laden with dishes. | |
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Phrase Catcher | |
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Phrase Catcher: When Queen Victoria gets mentioned, the caption 'GOD BLESS HER' tends to appear on screen. | |
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Offer Void in Nebraska | |
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Offer Void in Nebraska: One episode of the serial "Death Can Be Fatal" opened with a recap of the previous episode, then added "Except for viewers in Scotland, where the story goes like this:" and repeated the recap with everybody wearing traditional Highland dress. This was a reference to BBC Scotland's annoying habit of pre-empting network programmes with (usually inferior) local content. | |
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ShoutOutToShakespeare | |
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Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Inverted in one sketch, a faux-Shakespearean scene in which captions interpret the lines as references to contemporary TV shows. | |
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"Psycho" Shower Murder Parody | |
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"Psycho" Shower Murder Parody: In the serial "Done to Death", the protagonists are in the shower when a scary, looming silhouette is seen... and then revealed to be a stuffed gorilla on which they have hung the bath towels. | |
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Dress-Up Episode | |
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Dress-Up Episode: The Two Ronnies' Old-Fashioned Christmas Mystery is set in 1874. Consequently the hosts and the numerous guest acts perform in Victorian costume; there are also 1870s versions of Piggy Malone and Charlie Farley, to investigate the mystery. | |
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Motor Mouth | |
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Motor Mouth: When introducing film clips, Norman Barrel (Barker) keeps up a continuous flow of verbiage, repeatedly backstepping to qualify his previous remarks. In the "Ice Cream Parlour" sketch, the shopkeeper (Barker) is twice asked what kinds of ice cream are available. Each time, he reels off a completely different list of two dozen or so flavors at a steadily increasing tempo. | |
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Accent Interest | |
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Accent Interest: In the Piggy / Charley serial "Band of Slaves", the intrepid duo visit a Chinese restaurant in Madeira, and find their waitress speaks English with a Liverpool accent. Curious, Piggy says "You're not from round these parts, are you?"; she retorts "No, China." Bonus points here - the term "china" can also mean "friend" (one of the more commonly known Cockney Rhyming Slang terms - China = china plate = mate) | |
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Napoleon Delusion | |
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Napoleon Delusion: Inspector Corner and Sergeant Bowles both end up in an asylum, dressed as Napoleon. | |
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Signing-Off Catchphrase | |
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Signing-Off Catchphrase: See Catchphrase. | |
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Disorganized Outline Speech | |
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Disorganized Outline Speech: Ronnie Corbett's chair monologues often take this form, basically turning every sentence of a short joke into a Disorganized Outline Speech that wanders off onto tangents before eventually coming back to the plot of the joke. | |
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Horror Host | |
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Horror Host: Ronnie Barker as the Laird of Cockahoopie Castle, introducing "The Bogle of Bog Fell". | |
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Victorian London | |
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Victorian London: The setting. | |
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Hot Gypsy Woman | |
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Hot Gypsy Woman: Lucy Lee in the serial "Stop! You're Killing Me!" is a sultry temptress, played by Kate O'Mara. | |
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Cross-Cast Role | |
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Crosscast Role: The duo would frequently play female characters. Subverted in their parody of Jason King, where Ronnie Barker appears to be playing a Butch Lesbian, but the character is later revealed as a man Disguised in Drag. | |
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Falling Chandelier of Doom | |
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Falling Chandelier of Doom | |
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The End... Or Is It? | |
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The End... Or Is It?: The closing narration: "The Phantom was dead... or was he?" Another raspberry indicates that no, he wasn't. | |
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Tongue Twister | |
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Tongue Twister: Barker's "Anti-Shoddy Goods Committee" monologue. | |
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Long Speech Tea Time | |
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Long Speech Tea Time: While an old lady who claims to be the Phantom's mother is telling her story, Inspector Corner leaves her in his office, walks to the pub and buys himself a drink — though he still manages to ask her questions while doing this. | |
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Who's on First? | |
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Who's on First?: the Yokels are called Arthur Watt and Leonard Right. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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For Inconvenience, Press "1" | |
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For Inconvenience, Press "1": A variant: Ronnie Corbett finds his doctor has been replaced by a computer. | |
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Non-Human Head | |
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Non-Human Head: One sketch showed a man seeing a doctor, who has been replaced by a video system, and has trouble with the silly instructions and system failures until he starts banging on the door demanding to see a real doctor... who may be this trope, as he enters the room speaking in the same manner as the video doctor, with the hollowed-out shell of a TV over his head. | |
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Barbershop Quartets Are Funny | |
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Barbershop Quartets Are Funny: One of their musical finales (written by Barker) is a barbershop quartet set in a barber's shop, with the four barbers / musicians inflicting slapstick gags on their customers. | |
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My Card | |
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My Card: The Phantom's cards have no writing, only a picture of a raspberry (no name since "modesty forbids it", and no address, because he is "never at home"). | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: Queen Victoria seems to think the fiend terrorising London is the "Phantom Gooseberry Sucker". | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: The Mastermind sketch contains several: | |
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Word, Schmord! | |
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Word, Schmord!: In a few sketches, such as "Magnus, Schmagnus" (said Magnus being portrayed by John Cleese). | |
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Gay Euphemism | |
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Gay Euphemism: In the serial "Death can be Fatal" (which is a James Bond spoof) Piggy and Charley are at MI6 headquarters. Piggy asks a gentleman "Are you 'Q'?"; the man takes this to be a euphemism for 'queer' and replies "Yes - are you?" | |
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Underwear Flag | |
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Underwear Flag: In the serial "Death Can Be Fatal", the protagonists' bungling results in the hotel's flag getting swapped for a pair of knickers, which, to the pompous under-manager's horror, get run up the flagpole before anyone realizes. | |
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A Bloody Mess | |
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A Bloody Mess: Raspberry juice, in the graveyard scene. | |
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Couch Gag | |
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Couch Gag: The Parody Names in the opening credits are different each week. | |
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Offscreen Teleportation | |
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Offscreen Teleportation: Played for laughs in their parody of Colditz: while in Hauptmann Ulrich's office, Carter is able to hide in the wardrobe, and then the filing cabinet, as long as the camera isn't on him. | |
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Smith of the Yard | |
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Smith of the Yard: Ronnie Corbett as Inspector Corner of the Yard. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The serial was written by Spike Milligan, and was heavy on The Goon Show references and humour. The opening credits describe the serial as a Chopper Films production. | |
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Obvious Stunt Double | |
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Obvious Stunt Double: Played for laughs in one retraux film where Ronnie Barker plays "Arthur Halliday, the Vagabond Lover" — a 1930s music-hall performer. Halliday is shown in closeup while all he's doing is singing, but each time he performs a physical stunt the camera cuts to a much wider shot. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: Incessant gags about Corbett's height or lack thereof. Similarly, there are plenty of gags about Barker's weight. A huge part of Corbett's 'chair' monologues — "I get so little fan-mail that my letter box has healed up" | |
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Unsatisfiable Customer | |
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Unsatisfiable Customer: Ronnie C. plays this role in the "Sweet Shop" routine, slowly driving the proprietor (Ronnie B.) crazy with one ridiculous request after another. | |
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Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion | |
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Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: The show had far too many to list them all. Particularly memorable is "up Cat, Polecat"; one of their Jehosophat and Jones songs: | |
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Foreign Queasine | |
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Foreign Queasine: In the Chinese restaurant in "Band of Slaves", the special is boiled squid and baby snails, cooked with nettles and goat's milk. | |
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SwearJar | |
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Swear Jar: The Swearbox Sketch. | |
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Bizarre Taste in Food | |
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Bizarre Taste in Food: The "Ice Cream Parlour" sketch. A customer (Ronnie C.) drives the shopkeeper (Ronnie B.) to distraction by asking for ice cream flavors that are more typical of crisps ("potato chips" in the US) — cheese and onion, smoky bacon, salt and vinegar, and so on. He turns it around at the end by asking for a packet of raspberry ripple crisps, earning himself a Frying Pan of Doom upside the head. | |
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Girls with Moustaches | |
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Girls with Moustaches: The newspaper boy in episode 1 is played by a woman in a false moustache. | |
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures | |
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures: "One Long Pong" tends to change between referencing China and Japan at will. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: Too many to list, calling body parts by physical characteristics were commonplace, ie wobblers, bouncers and danglers among others. | |
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Finishing Each Other's Sentences | |
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Finishing Each Other's Sentences: One recurring sketch was Barker's character trying to do this to Corbett's character (as he paused a lot trying to think of the right word) but getting it inappropriately wrong. | |
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With Lyrics | |
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With Lyrics: They did this to the jazz number "In the Mood". | |
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Big Guy, Little Guy | |
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Big Guy, Little Guy: Ronnie B. was much taller than Ronnie C. Notably, Ronnie B. was of average height while Ronnie C. was incredibly short. (Officially, 4 feet 11 and 3/4 inches.) | |
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The Show Must Go Wrong | |
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The Show Must Go Wrong: One sketch is an amateur dramatic society's performance of a play called "Weekend in Mayfair". It includes a wobbly set, the cast continually tripping over bits of the scenery or getting stuck in doorways, one of the main cast members being absent and replaced by the local butcher (Barker) who agreed to read the part at an hour's notice, and a little dog getting onto the stage and running wildly about. | |
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Disaster Dominoes | |
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Disaster Dominoes: Subverted in their Hercule Poirot parody "Murder is Served". The Bultitudes' guests die in what looks like an unlikely chain of freak accidents, but Poirot announces that it's actually a Rube Goldberg-esque death trap arranged by Mrs Bultitude, and has her arrested. He's right about it being arranged deliberately, but Mrs Bultitude wasn't the guilty party and he knows it. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: The Raspberry Blower is essentially a comedic version of Bela Lugosi's Dracula, by way of Jack the Ripper. | |
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Unbuilt Trope | |
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Unbuilt Trope: They did a parody of Star Trek in 1973, only a few years after the original series ended, and a parody of Star Wars soon after the first film came out. Because of this, these parodies lack most of the "cliché" jokes that have built up in stock parodies of these franchises over the years. | |
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Food and Body Comparison | |
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Food and Body Comparison: In one The Two Ronnies sketch, the Ronnies are at a restaurant, and playing a game to associate things their fellow diners are saying with food items. At one point, they see a man played by Ian Richardson talking about a girl with... he makes hand gestures to indicate. They both immediately associate his gestures with "Dumplings!" | |
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The Exit Is That Way | |
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The Exit Is That Way: Near the end of the "Doctor Death" sketch: | |
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Rhymes on a Dime | |
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Rhymes on a Dime: Barker's "Anti-Shoddy Goods Committee" speech. | |
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Gallows Humor | |
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Gallows Humor: In the Christmas episode of 'Sketchbook', Ronnie Barker joked that his dressing room was still full of young women — only they were now cardiac nurses rather than groupies. He died of heart failure before the episode aired. | |
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Answer Cut | |
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Answer Cut: Subverted in their parody of The Onedin Line. Onedin realises he doesn't know the name of the fleet's newest ship. Cut to Onedin and Baines on the quayside. Baines answers "Saucy Sue," and the two have a conversation about her characteristics and handling. At the end of the conversation, it's finally revealed that they've been talking about a scantily-clad young woman by the name of Sue, and the ship's name is actually Dependable. | |
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Goofy Buckteeth | |
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Goofy Buckteeth: In one party sketch, Ronnie Corbett plays a man with massive buck teeth and a posh accent called Gavin, while Ronnie Barker plays a Jerkass who decides to come over and make fun of him for his teeth, and his voice, and his behaviour, just because he's bored. He comes to regret it, though, after he finds out that Gavin has a much more attractive wife, and his own wife then comes to read him the riot act for leaving her alone all evening. | |
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