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[[File:WardrobeMalfunction.png|link=Wardrobe Malfunction|frame|That pinging sound was a career being launched.]]
An excellent example of a [[Universal Adaptor Cast]], the ''
Each ''[[Carry On]]'' actor tended to specialize in a particular type of role. Thus Kenneth Williams would usually play a snide, haughty character who would easily be outraged, Joan Sims started out playing young and desirable women then moved to older and less-desirable women, Charles Hawtrey would be naive and effete, Sid James played lecherous, leering Cockneys ([[The Danza|often named "Sid"]]), and so on. Each ''[[Carry On]]'' film would find a different situation to put these types in. Sometimes a normal everyday setting (a hospital setting was used four times), sometimes a well-known historical period or a parody of a specific film genre. Once in a while an actor would play different from their usual type, such as Kenneth Williams playing the Mayor in ''Carry On Cowboy'' with a [[Fake American]] accent instead of in the voice and style usually associated with Kenneth Williams.
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In addition to the films, the group made four Christmas specials for British television (in 1969, 1970, 1972 and 1973), and there were three live stage shows. There were also two television series called ''Carry On Laughing''; the first in 1975 consisted of spoofs of period pieces (King Arthur legends, ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda]]'', various historical events, etc.); the second from 1981-1983 consisted of clips from the films.
Not to be confused with the [[Funny Animal]] [[Web Comic]] of the same title. Has nothing to do with the posters that exhort people to "Keep Calm and Carry On".
{{examples|Carry On films with their own trope pages include:}}
* ''[[Don't Lose Your Head]]''
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'''Note:''' If/when pages are created for each of the works in the franchise, please move the relevant tropes from here to the new pages.
* [[Ambiguous Gender]] - Dr. Crow, the head of STENCH in ''Carry On Spying'', is part of a race of new superhumans embodying the strengths of both men and women while not being wholly one or the other. (The character was played by Judith Furse, but affecting a deep, almost tenor voice.)
* [[Anachronism Stew]] - A staple of the "historical" films, always for [[Rule of Funny|purely humorous purposes.]] Just as an example, irrespective of the era in which the films were set, Charles Hawtrey's characters always wore "granny glasses".
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