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* [[During the War]]
* [[The Eeyore]]: Private Frazer: "we're [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|dooooooooomed!]]"
* [[Enlistment-Ending Minor Malaise]]: While most of the cast are relegated to the Home Guard for clear cases of being too old for military service, its younger members are in the Home Guard instead of the army due to examples of this trope. Joe Walker is allergic to ration staple corned beef (though [[Lost Episode|the loss in a BBC archive purge]] of its debut episode ''The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker'' and his Black Marketeer stats give many the impression it's fake) while Frank Pike has a [[AB Negative|rare blood type]].
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Worried that the sitcom would be criticised for ridiculing the Home Guard, the producer insisted on adding an opening scene to the first episode. It shows Mainwaring, in 1968, giving a speech at a formal dinner in which he explains how he and his men 'backed Britain' in 1940. It is utterly redundant. Thankfully it didn't succeed in sinking the show.
* [[Face Palm]]: Sergeant Wilson, frequently.
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** The pilot featured Mainwaring and Wilson. Arthur Lowe died soon afterwards hence Mainwarring being replaced with Hodges. Then, when John Le Mesurier passed away after recording one series, it was decided to just put it to rest (as a direct ''[[Dad's Army|Dads Army]]'' [[Spin-Off]], at least).
* [[Squirrels in My Pants]]: In "Room at the Bottom", Corporal Jones gets ants in his pants and, while trying to remove them, accidentally signals the platoon to advance into an ambush.
* [[Suddenly Always Knew That]]: Played for laughs in the series 5 episode "If the cap fits...". A superior officer confuses Manwaring with Fraser, which leads to Manwaring being asked to play the bagpipes (an [[Informed Ability]] of Fraser's) at an event. Fraser offers to take his place, but Manwaring turns him down, explaining that he learned to play on his honeymoon - and proceeds to play perfectly.
* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]
{{quote|"You know, Wilson, over the years that I've come to know the members of the platoon, I've become quite fond of them. But I can't help feeling sometimes, that I'm in charge of a bunch of idiots."}}
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