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''Monkey Dust'' is a British, edgy [[Dead Baby Comedy]], animated TV show comprising of short sketches of recurring characters. It showed between 2003-2005.

* Omar, Abdul and Shafiq, the incompetent terrorists: A group of British born Muslims intent on bringing death to the infidels and to the decadent west. However the young bombers seem more interested in sports and TV programs than blowing themselves up.

* The Classically Trained Actor: An everyday man called Guy who has the monotone voice and speech of a voice-over or a phone-answering-machine (even while having sex, being drunk, or angry). He usually does voiceovers too, but is often forced to do mini-cabbing because of financial reasons. He is married, and has two friends, one who does [[Sugar Bowl]] voiceovers in children's shows, and an old guy who does suspense-voices, like the ''"It was his destiny..."'' voice-over in western movies.

'' '''"Guy":''' I, am, a, real, fucking, person.'' }}

* The [[Paedo Hunt|Paedofinder]] General: A parody of The Witchfinder General where a man dressed in a cloak and a pointy hat goes around convicting potential paedophiles on little grounds and with no authority. Often a [[Take That]] against the British media, especially the tabloids.

* [[America Wins the War]]: Seen with the parodies of Hollywood films.

* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Described by Ivan Dobsky as why he said 'he dunnit'.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: The Tony Blair segments in Series 3, where he makes various outrageous promises, on the lines of "A fluffy kitten for every small child, with a pink bow. Named Mittens. ... Everyone's neighbors to be Tom and Barbara, out of ''[[The Good Life]]'' ... The blind to see and the lame to walk ... Pubs that stay open after eleven."

* [[Art Shift]]: Several different animation companies worked on different sketches so the [[Art Style]] shifts with each new sketch.

* [[Britain Is Only London]] Subverted and parodied by the sketch Curtisland, which mocks films like Notting Hill and Bridget Jones' Diary for presenting hyper idealised images of Britain.

** Also parodied in the "Essex Man/London Man" sketches, where two identical men argue over the respective merits of Essex and London. The joke is that due to London "overspill" into neighbouring Essex, most of the UK considers them to be pretty much part of a whole.

* [[Conspicuous CGI]]

* [[Crapsack World]] The scenes where Clive slowly walks home through the decaying streets of modern Britain are so monumentally depressing they make the most cheerful of viewers suicidal.

* [[Gorn]]

* [[Harmless Villain]]: Omar, Abdul and Shafiq, the incompetent terrorists

** The "Classically Trained Actor" is voiced by Peter Dickson, AKA The E4 Man. Crikey!

* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Only series 1 is available on DVD so other methods have to be employed to watch the other series.

* [[Toon Physics]]: [[Deconstructed]] with Noodles, who is used for animal experimentation. The ultimate deconstruction comes in his last appearance where he {{spoiler|graphically crushes the chief scientist's head, killing him and orphaning his children}}.

* [[Uncle Tomfoolery]]: "Mister Skatey", from the film version of Ivan Dobsky's life.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: The London/Essex guys. We see them sharing a bed in the Nocturne for [[S 2 E 1]].

* [[X In Space]]: Some of the running-gags are taken here--the cab-driver in Series 2 ''literally'' goes to the third moon of Jupiter.

 

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