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* [[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.
* [[Black Comedy]]: A lot of the sketches are pretty dark.
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Spoofed in a sketch where Chaka Khan is battling with The Bee Gees in [[The Wild West]] - [[Makes Just
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Mark Heap's circus training, lots of conversations in [[Gratuitous French]], plus a few musical interludes.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Florence Nightingale, the Lady with the Fucking Lamp
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** There's also film about the war-weary French soldier reminiscing about his teenage love for Une Grande Pomme de Terre (i.e. a large potato), who was stolen away from him by his best friend.
* [[Limited Animation]]: Used intentionally in the Stareout sketches, which were mostly composed of a few static frames, with commentators breathlessly extolling what an exciting match it was.
* [[No, You Hang Up First]]: Between a surgeon and his consultant... during the middle of an operation. It doesn't end well for the patient.
* [[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.
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* [[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]].
* [[Rule of Personification Conservation]]: Generally ignored in favour of [[Rule of Funny]]. A surprising amount of sketches would play out as drama if all the characters were human.
* [[Shout
* [[Smug Snake]]: Pegg's womanising studio executive, who just happens to pick up the [[Idiot Ball]] whenever he tries to open a door.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Parodied in one sketch where an editor is finishing up the final cut of a movie. Soundtrack for the funeral scene where a boy and his father are weeping over the grave of their wife/mother? ''Rocking all Over the World'' by Status Quo. The ''live'' version, not studio.
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* [[Talking Animal]]: A theatre-loving dog and a French tortoise, among others.
** Also inverted, in a strange way. A number of sketches feature people inexplicably behaving like animals, such as a herd of jockeys being stalked by The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: A lot of the sketches revolve around people taking quite unusual things (such as someone's girlfriend turning out to be a mermaid and a man being stalked ''[[Terminator]]''-style by the Tin Man from ''[[The Wizard of Oz (
* [[We Can Rebuild Him]]: Used in a spoof of [[
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