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** The Victorian-era Historical Paramedics tend to get distracted from their patient whenever their "fabulous!" top hats are mentioned.

* [[Bad News, Irrelevant News]]: In response to a Greek athlete's disappointment that his prize for winning the Isthmian Games is a crown of celery.

'''Reporter:''' The good news is that I just bought this delicious Greek dip. ''[Dips celery stick in said dip]'' [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Now that is rich.]] ''[Athlete [[Death Glare|Death Glares]]]''. }}

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Played with in a sketch in which a softspoken monk manages to bring the Viking assault on his monastery to a dead halt simply by asking what on ''earth'' they're doing there, which completely baffles them -- for about a minute. "Oh yeah, 'cos violence is fun!". Cue the monk's running for his life.

* [[Didn't Think This Through]]: The sheepish conclusion of a Scots raiding party, after their attempt to take advantage of the plague-weakened English leads to... wait for it... the introduction of plague into Scotland.

** Also, the main reason why the French lost the battle of Agincourt.

'''2nd French soldier:''' We probably should have thought this through a little better... }}

* [[Disguised in Drag]]: Used in a 'Putrid Pirates' sketch about tricks they used to entice ships close enough to attack (since a shipful of women wouldn't be perceived as a threat).

** There's also the wink and lip-bite George II gives the camera (and repeats in the the Prom special) while singing the line "I was the bad one..." Not to mention George I singing about how ladies "would do anything for me, or I'd have their husbands killed..." with a big eyebrow raise on "anything".

** Also from the Prom special, the inset sketch involving a royal lineup to use the public loo features this little experiment in just how much you can get away with by claiming historical accuracy:

** Apparently, the Cash My Sin number (a riff on the medieval Church requirement that you pay to keep out of purgatory) is [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|0800-I've Been Naughty.]] Dang.

** Also the [[Snakes on a Plane|Snakes on a Ship/Elephants on a Plain]] sketches, in which the word "Carthaginian" is substituted for... [[Cluster F-Bomb|another word.]]

** The visual for this moment in the 'Burke & Hare' song is kept tastefully vague, but:

''[peeks under sheet]'' Ooh! It's a he! }}

** The 'Victorian Eastenders' sketch involves a father berating his 'sixteenth daughter'. Her name? Chastity.

** "Do you know, if I'm honest, I'd rather just do the funnies. Couldn't we get a badger or something in for the sad bits?"

* [[Moral Guardians]]: A feature of the 'Slimy Stuarts' sketches especially, thanks to the Cavalier/Roundhead conflict. The show is characteristically unsubtle about which side it's on, as per a sketch in which Oliver Cromwell has his relatives arrested for simply showing up at his door to wish him Happy Christmas.

Would be miserable as sin, only ''sinning's not allowed!'' }}

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Go on, just try to find one clip on [[YouTube]] with [[Pretty Boy|Mathew Baynton]] in it that doesn't have comments gushing over how 'fit' (British for 'gorgeous') Mat is. Larry Rickard, one of the writers/performers, has also referred to costar Ben Willbond as 'mum candy' in [http://fuckyeahhorriblehistories.tumblr.com/post/2992581549/montague-foselpeck-witchfindersdirect-omg one of his tweets] -- and of course, Rickard himself and Jim Howick get their share of this as well. It's all become something of a behind-the-scenes [[Running Gag]].

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Most obviously with the "I'M A SHOUTY MAN!" mock-adverts. Other notable sketches include one with Caligula: "THINK YOU'RE BIGGER THAN ME?!".

** Jim as the host on the Historical Masterchef segments. After Mat, as an Aztec chef, tells him what a Howler Monkey is, this ensues:

'''Aztec''': [[Deadpan Snarker|It's one of them]]. }}

* [[No Kill Like Overkill]]: Again, the SHOUTY MAN. Also, the conclusion to a song about Victorian inventions... did you know they invented dynamite during that era?

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Played with to heighten the absurdity of historical cliches -- most notably during the 'Savage Stone Age' segments, in which the performers routinely switch from subliterate grunts to perfect English without missing a beat.

** Also used to great effect during a 'Putrid Pirates' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwn5K89dE5c sketch] featuring the notorious Captain Black Bart listing off his rules to the new recruits. He starts off in bog-standard 'Arrr, me mateys!' mode... right up until "Rule One: Fighting!":

** During the Dick Turpin song, sung otherwise with an assumed accent, the words "that's lame" are in the actor's normal voice.

* [[Parental Bonus]]: Basically the entire thing, although see of course [[Parent Service]].

* [[Warrior Poet]]: [[Discussed Trope|Invoked by,]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|of all people,]] [[Dr. Seuss|Erik the Viking.]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrBnIoONit0 Who speaks only in rhyme].

* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]: Combined with [[Medium Awareness]]:

''(stops at a body sprawled out on a nearbly chopping block)''<br />

...and this is the man who wrote that joke. }}

* [[Who's on First?]]: Deployed shamelessly in a sketch about rebel leader Wat Tyler. "So, what's our leader's name?" "Yes."

** Also in the Victorian names sketch.

'''Toilet''': No, that's Evil over there. }}

* [[The Wonka]]: [[Motor Mouth]] Bob Hale seems like your typical [[Cloudcuckoolander]] if it wasn't for the fact that everything he says is true.

** Similarly, the "Historical Paramedics" sketches, although their patients rarely die -- presumably because the HPs are forced to flee the scene too quickly to avoid the present-day EMS.

* [[Yet Another Stupid Death]]: As it's sung by [[The Grim Reaper|Death]]:

 

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