Mongrels: Difference between revisions

* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Destiny somewhat fits the bill, though she's not very good at the 'pretending to be nice' part.

* [[British Brevity]]: Though at eight episodes a series it's over by two episodes as opposed to the usual six but under US season lengths by a lot.

* [[Busby Berkeley Number]]: The show has one [[Once an Episode]]. Subverted once though, when Nelson attempts to sing a love song to Destiny and she walks off as the number begins.

{{quote| '''Nelson''':"[[Leaning On the Fourth Wall|But...it's this week's song]]!"}}

{{quote| '''Vince:'''"Did you just call me a c***?"}}

* [[Cats Have Nine Lives]]: Parodied in the third episode

* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]:

{{quote|'''Partially-Seen Familiar-Sounding Fox:''' 6 Million Dead! Not a single gas chamber!<br />

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Kali, and sometimes Nelson and Destiny.

* [[Deadly Doctor]]: Tim the German Badger attends to the medical needs of the surrounding animals. He also appears to be a [[Serial Killer]].

** And Vince claimed that the "circle stroke" was only the ''second'' gayest thing he'd seen Nelson (aka the [[Wholesome Crossdresser|"Divine Miss Vulpine"]]) do in the last 10 days. Though Nelson's also the least depraved member of the cast, [[Bi the Way|so he'd just be bi]].

** {{spoiler|Archie the stud Afghan hound, how he got rabies}}

*** [[Situational Sexuality|What happens on the island, stays on the island]]

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Double subverted in episode 10. Basically, a cyclist runs over Kali's dinner (a badger, if you're interested), and she swears to get revenge upon him. She builds it up to be something huge and then... it turns out that she merely crapped on his seat. However, about five seconds later, the bicycle explodes - it turns out that Kali had planted a bomb there all along.

** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]]/parodied in Episode 3, with petting as an equivalent of sex.

{{quote| '''Nelson''': We are being stroked day in, day out, whether we consent to it or not! How could it be any worse?!<br />

'''Marion''': Well, we could literally be being forced into having sex with people.<br />

'''Nelson''': Oh, that's right, you just blow the whole subtext! }}

* [[Easy Evangelism]]: Deano the dove in the second episode manages to convert Marion and Vince to Christianity with little trouble.

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: {{spoiler|Vince}} certainly acts like a puppydog around his...[[Berserk Button|until someone insults her]]

* [[Gold Digger]]: In the episode "Nelson and the Human", Destiny marries an old, mean-spirited and half-blind dog for his squeaky toy pig.

* [[Guy On Guy Is Hot]]: Kali seems very interested in [[Ho Yay|what happened between Nelson and Vince]] when they were stuck on the island.

* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]: Kali

* [[Hollywood Tourettes]]: Vince claims such in the second episode of series 2 {{spoiler|except when singing karaoke}}.

* [[Jerkass]]: Pretty much everyone at some point or another - the most consistent Jerkasses are Destiny, Kali and Vince. This can sometimes be taken [[Complete Monster|even further]] based on [[Rule of Funny]].

* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: More often than not for the songs. Examples include Nelson's "Breaking Up Is Such a Faff", a [[Meat Loaf]]-style power ballad about how he hates his wife but is too lazy to divorce her, and Rob's sensitive ballad about wanting to murder [[Justin Bieber (Music)|Justin Bieber]].

{{quote| ''Nelson: "Before we start, do you have any brittle bones I should know about?"''<br />

''Eileen: "No." (They proceed to get dirty)'' }}

* [[Mercy Kill]] / [[Dying As Yourself]]: Parodied in the Rabies episode when Nelson asks Marion to kill him if he goes mad but Marion's a bit too keen to kill.

** In Season 2, a terminally ill beagle asks Nelson to mercy kill him. {{spoiler|Surprisingly, Nelson actually succeeds.}}

** Also when Kali kills a delivery boy with a bomb and experiences genuine remorse when she finds out he had a family.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: It's probably not a coincidence that Kali is named for the Hindu goddess of destruction.

* [[Non Indicative Title]]: None of the main characters are actually mongrels.

** The episode "Kali and the Urinary Infection" is about pretty much everything other than the aforementioned illness. This gets lampshaded.

* [[One Shot Character]]: Buttercup is central to Marion's story in episode three, but is never seen again after this (although her [[You Look Familiar|puppet gets recycled in episode eight]])

** Sandra as well, though her disappearance makes sense because she was killed at the end of the epsiode.

{{quote| '''Destiny''': "This isn't a training montage, it's a trip to the opticians set to music!"}}

* [[Twin Threesome Fantasy]]: Presumably the subject of Nelson's erotic short story.

{{quote| ''Marion: "It would seem, that we got drunk, and fell asleep in a rubbish barge, on the Thames"''}}

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Nelson, also known as The Divine Miss Vulpine