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{{quote|''"We're not having 'An Idiot Abroad!' It's 'Karl Pilkington's Seven Wonders.' I've been through a load of shit here - you're sat there giving them bloody shit titles."''|'''''Karl'''''}}
{{quote|''“[[Comedic Sociopathy|There's nothing funnier than Karl in a corner, being poked by a stick.]] I am that stick”''|'''''[[Ricky
''[[An Idiot Abroad]]'' is a travel series starring [[The Ricky Gervais Show|Karl
The working title for the first season was "Karl Pilkington's Seven Wonders", and involved Karl traveling to the seven wonders of the world - The Great Wall of China ("It goes on for miles, but so does the M6"), Christ the Redeemer in Brazil ("It's like a big pylon"), Macchu Picchu in Peru (he never made it), Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Taj Mahal in India, Petra in Jordan, and the Great Pyramids in Egypt ("It’s like a game of Jenga that’s got out of hand").
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* [[Amusing
* [[
* [[Body
** One of the yoga practitioners Karl meets in India ''wraps his junk around a cane, ties it in a knot, and proceeds to perform yoga with it.'' Covered by the [[Censor
** The 'Elephant Baba' - so called because of the deformity of his face, which, naturally, resembles an elephant, at least to some degree. He seems like a perfectly nice chap, however.
** During the second season while in Thailand, Karl ends up visiting a medical museum. It's ''loaded'' with this.
* [[Butt
** This trope becomes almost literal in the Season 2 finale when Ricky and Steve finally badger Karl into getting his prostate checked, on camera.
* [[Call Back]]:
** When Karl is asked to confess sins by a Chinese fortune teller, he confesses to stealing Mars bars from his old boss - a story he told on ''[[The Ricky Gervais Show]].''
** In the second season's Trans-Siberian Railway episode, Karl gets told the end of the line is in Beijing and he is going there. Karl then talks about how much he hated the first time he went there, back in Season 1.
* [[Camp
* [[Catch
** Karl:
*** "I'm not having this. You can fuck right off."
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** Stephen: "It's not a holiday"
** Ricky: ''(insane laughter)''
* [[Character
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]:
** Karl himself.
** The mad woman in the tribal village in Peru.
* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: What Karl thinks the rest of the world is like.
* [[Comedic
{{quote|'''Karl''': "Why?"
'''Ricky''' [[It Amused Me|"Because it's funny."]] }}
** Amusingly, Karl finds this the most relaxing part of the trip.
* [[Deadpan
* [[
* [[Everything's Better with
* [[Foreign
** Karl feels this way about people eating insects and chicken fetuses in China.
** He feels this way about the camel's penis and balls but doesn't seem to have disliked it, just what it is.
** The tequila worm he eats in Mexico.
** The traditional sushi he's offered in Japan. Karl does this a lot.
* [[Hilarity
* [[I Ate What?]]: In Cairo-- camel's testicle and penis. In China, frog.
* [[Idiot
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: At one point Karl claims there are fish so transparent, they're not even sure they exist.
* [[Insistent
* [[Israelis With Infrared
* [[
* [[Little People Are Surreal]]: In Season 2 Karl visits a Chinese "dwarf village" where dwarves live in little mushroom houses and put on shows for tourists. He calls his friend [[Warwick
* [[Masked
* [[Mundane
* [[New Age Retro
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: Karl complains at one point that Leprechauns prefer to be called Gnomes. Ricky howls with laughter.
* [[Product
* ''[[Robinson
* [[Sadist Show]]: [[The Office|Ricky
* [[Shout-
* [[Tastes Like
* [[
* [[Unusually Uninteresting
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: In China in Season 2, Karl visits a village for midgets and dwarves, which is proportional to their size. When he calls up [[Warwick
* [[Writer
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