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In [[West Germany|Germany of the 1950s and 1960s]], a [[Edgar Wallace Films
The dualogy deals with the [[Scotland Yard]] inspectors Very Long (Pastewka) and Even Longer (Kalkofe), who are trying to arrest a masked super-criminal known as the Wixxer.
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Sir John. While he does show interest in prostitutes, he also sculpts phalli in his spare time and seems to have gay friends.
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: The Earl of Cockwood, although he only got the title by marriage. {{spoiler|Also Victoria Dickham in the second movie.}}
* [[Art Shift]]: Everything is black and white in [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Autopsy Snack Time]]: The coroner Dr. Brinkman lets his little son (plus a bunch of other kids) have a ''birthday party'' in the morgue.
* [[Bedlam House]]: The Bates Hospital
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* [[Creator Provincialism]]: Although the story takes place in England, some jokes, most likely due to [[Rule of Funny|Reasons Of Funny]], are quite German-specific. (Even Longer attended the Bundesjugendspiele??)
* [[Da Chief]]: Sir John is a [[The Ditz|rather ditzy]] version of this.
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]: Bicycles and ''stair lifts'' can also be Pintos!
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|After killing the original Wixxer, Longer's old partner Rather Short decides to abandon his dull life as policeman in order to become the new Wixxer.}}
* [[Fake Brit]]: Almost everyone is a German actor/actress playing an Englishman or -woman (while speaking accent-free Standard German). A notable exception is Butler Hudson, played by the British Chris Howland. In one scene, Inspector Long comments Hudson's [[Not Even Bothering
* [[Fake Kill Scare]] {{spoiler|Rather Short fakes himself}} '' {{spoiler|being blown up!}}''
* [[German Dialects]]: The Dubinskys, being stereotypical East Germans, speak with the appropriate Saxon accent. Also, Hatler has the [[Black Speech|notorious accent]] of his [[Adolf Hitler|historical doppelgänger]].
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* [[Parody Commercial]]: For annoying gag ring tones, useless SMS dating services and overprized mail-order CD collections.
* [[Pocket Protector]]: Very Long, Lord Dickham, and presumably other Scotland Yard employees wear a can of tomato soup in their breast pockets, just for that purpose.
* [[Punny Name]]: Almost everyone. See [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]. A special mention goes to Harry Smearlap in the first movie. The character is a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Klaus Kinski]]'s parts in the original Wallace movies. His aliases, as mentioned by Even Longer: [[Klaus Kinski|Laus Linski]], [[Fitzcarraldo
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: That's how many of the gags work.
* [[Retraux]]: Basically the reason why Blackwhite Castle and St. Vokuhila are in this movies (most scenes there are in black & white, like the early Edgar Wallace movies).
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* [[Scotland Yard]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: Besides the old Edgar Wallace movies, allusions to many other films abound:
** When {{spoiler|Very Long is shot}} and Even Longer remembers how close they were together, all scenes with Indians are exact copies of corresponding scenes from the German adaptation of ''[[
** Hard to spot, but just listen to the [[Das Boot|few tacts of music]] that plays when special agent Inge Lenzen gets out of the miniature submarine.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Adolf Hitler's doppelgänger singing "My Way" by Paul Anka. Compounds with [[Lyrical Dissonance]].
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