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''Big Train'' was a surreal and somewhat deranged BBC sketch show, devised by Arthur Matthews and Graham Linehan (of [[Father Ted]] fame), starring something of a British comedy supergroup: Simon Pegg, Mark Heap, Kevin Eldon, Julia Davis and Amelia Bullmore, amongst others, as well as several prominent comedy writers. It delighted in leftfield takes on standard comedy fare in a similar vein to [[Monty Python]], ridiculous pop-culture parodies as well as some fairly uniquely off-the-wall fantasist humour. It ran for two series in 1998 and 2002.

 

* [[Animal Testing]]: Inverted in a series of sketches about a man who has second thoughts about his impossible-to-get-out-of situations.

* [[Announcer Chatter]]: Spoofed in the commentary for the World Stareout Championship, a recurring animation from the first series.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: One of Mark Heap's, who interprets everything as a slight about not being married, and cuts off the end of his own finger with a cigar cutter.

* [[Obviously Evil]]: Tim the Evil Hypnotist, who appears to have walked straight out of a 1920's movie. Subverted in that he does exactly what his patient wants, except with an echoing "[[Evil Laugh|BWAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! It worked!]]" at the end of the session.

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: One of the Cavaliers, prior to a pitched battle.

* [[Pantomime Animal]]: A pet dog the size of (and quite obviously played by) a man. One of the few animals in the series ''not'' to talk

* [[Production Posse]]: All of the actors in the first series with the exception of Pegg would go on to work on the even more deranged [[Jam]], which was Big Train with the blackness of the comedy turned [[Up to Eleven]].