Harry Hill's TV Burp/YMMV

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• Acceptable Targets: Norwich. Although this was more of a My Friends and Zoidberg gag after it was listed after several more glamorous global cities as being at risk on Eleventh Hour.
• And the Fandom Rejoiced: In regards to the most recent series, fans were pleased to see Harry focus more on TV and less on gimmicks like the previous series. Not to mean that the Running Gags and characters have been abandoned completely, just that they're used more sparingly.
  • Indeed, the appearances of those gags and characters have made the fandom rejoice even more now!
• Non Sequitur Scene: The show has elements of this all the time, but there are also some that stand out, such as the occasional Running Gag of Harry and a guest marching around the desk accompanied by music and two versions of the Queen Vic bust from Eastenders.
  • Harry also likes to subvert or deconstruct this for humour—he will set up a BLAM, then try to carry on as though nothing had happened, but real life intervenes and elements from the BLAM keep interrupting him (such as actors involved in a BLAM sketch walking away behind him throughout the next segment as he tries to carry on).
• Ear Worm: "I love to play my bongos in the morrr-ning!"
  • "It's quite popular on the funky house scene."
  • "Amanda Lamb! Amanda Lamb! Everybody loves Amanda Lamb!"
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: In series 3, Harry made fun of ex-footballer George Best's alcoholism, claiming his favourite foods were "red wine in a white wine sauce" and "ale and ale pie". Little over a year after the broadcast of that episode, Best would die from a kidney infection brought on by overdrinking.
  • And let's not forget Harry mocking Jane Goody's turn on Celebrity Wife Swap.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the first episode of season 3, Harry joked that by 2006, Tony Blair would still be Prime Minister, Jordan and Peter Andre would have had their third child, and Pat from Eastenders would be back at law school. Hey, as Meatloaf once said, "Two out of three ain't bad".
• Memetic Mutation: "There's only one way to find out...FIIIGGHHHT!"
  • Self-parodied, to an extent, when said phrase was used in an episode of Eastenders in a conversation preceding a fight. Probably an intentional Shout-Out on the part of the 'Enders scriptwriters.
• Narm Charm: The whole show runs this.
  • A surprisingly poignant example was the last musical number. It is mostly one of those things that Makes Sense in Context.
• Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: The "fight" segments often feature two bizarrely unconnected people or things, like a shark and a toaster, or Phil Mitchell and Mr Blobby...
• Values Dissonance: the subject of a joke in the TV Burp Book, which mentions that the first ever children's TV show was a puppet show called "Jive the Monkey". "All copies are believed to have been wiped."