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[[File:Tvtropestitleimage.jpg|frame|This happens a lot... Artwork by [[All Manner of Bad|Alex Claw]] ]]
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The basic setting is that the ragbag crew of the MES AH.com travel between parallel Earth [[Alternate Universe|Alternate Universes]], or timelines, exploring them for no better reason than to find booze and porn. Occasionally these timelines are serious, plausible scenarios, but more commonly they are jokey, unrealistic, magical or parodic situations, such as alternate Earths overrun by psychopathic lesbians or Charlton Heston film characters.
The show's main influences include ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', ''[[Discworld]]'' and ''[[Sliders]]''. It has, oddly, "outlived" many real TV shows, having recently{{when}} begun its fifth season with over 120 episodes produced.
New episodes of the Series are published on the main AH.com site, viewable only by members, but the
Has a [[Alternate History: The Series/Characters|character page]].
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* [[Author Avatar]] : Most of the authors of episodes are also characters on the ship. Some of them write themselves in a balanced way or don't mention their own character much at all. Rather more are subject to [[Mary Sue]] syndrome, or as it is known on the Board, Characterwank.
* [[Berserk Button]] : Several characters have these, most notably Flocculencio's tendency to go [[Ax Crazy]] whenever anyone mentions the name of his nemesis Justin Pickard.
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* [[Big No]]: after the crew saves the Multiverse in "Hair Today, Gotterdammerung Tomorrow", Doctor What asks Leo to bring the ship to an universe where all men are dead and all women are desperate for sex. Leo reveals that, due to the emergency they were in, he had to dump the data, including the address to that universe. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Cue the Big No]].
* [[Britain Is Only London]] : Even though some of the writers are British, for a while the only episodes set in Britain were by non-Britons, thus leading to this being played straight.
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* [[2-D Space]] : Averted quite well in the space battles depicted. Of course it helps that the special effects budget consists of the reader's imagination.
* [[Unobtainium]] : Used as the actual name of the fuel that the Shift drive runs on, lampshaded mercilessly. Usually to be found in asteroid field mazes haunted by an entire race of psychopathic Pac-Men.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]] : Although ordinary swearwords are used liberally, occasionally "fenk" shows up, possibly because "''[[Battlestar Galactica
* [[Villain Episode]]: The "Counterfactual" miniseries and the later episode "Whatever Happened to the CF.netters?"
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Pretty much everyone on the AH.com, but particular vitriolic pairings are Flocculencio and Michael, Psychomeltdown and Michael, and Matt and Weapon M.
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