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* [[Actor Allusion]]: In one Season 4 episode, Sam has a dream that he's gone to Hell for refusing to take a side. Satan turns out to [[Old Harry's Game
* [[And Call Him George]]: Joshua, frequently. Often with animals much larger than normal for the trope.
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Sergeant McGurk, who has less that 50% of his original body. Including only one nostril.
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* [[Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough]]: Brimshaw and McGurk.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Deconstructed. Sam suggests he could be a comic troubador, with the "comical catchy phrase" "Gadzooks! Here comes the harbourmaster!"
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'''Sam''': Not yet. It ''becomes'' funny after it's repeated thousands of times. And soon [[Memetic Mutation|everyone's saying]] "Gadzooks! Here comes the harbourmaster!"<br />
'''McGurk''': And that's funny, is it? I must be drunker than I thought. }}
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* [[General Ripper]]: General Venables in Season 1.
* [[Gentle Giant]]: Joshua.
* [[Girl
* [[Gratuitous French]]: In one episode, Joshua attempts to sound sophisticated by adding gratuitous French expressions to his speech, despite having no idea what any of them mean (and thus invariably using them inappropriately). When Sam points this out, Joshua responds that everybody knows French is just decorative and it doesn't matter what the words ''mean'' -- and anyway, he doesn't know what most words in English mean either, and he's never let that stop him.
* [[Handicapped Badass]]: McGurk.
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* [[Missing Mom]]: Elizabeth Oliphant. And as far as Sam is concerned, she should have ''stayed'' missing.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Three different actresses played Mary Oliphant and two played Cora.
* [[Parody Episode]]: Season 3 included "A Kiss Is Just A Kiss", in which Sam [[Casablanca|turned the shop into a bar for all the Prussian mercenaries in town, only to encounter a long-lost girlfriend]] and "Somewhere Over The Rainbow", in which Mary [[The Wizard of Oz (
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: When Elizabeth and Agnes are told the bathhouse doesn't allow women, they respond by buying it.
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Every scene with Brimshaw and Mary. Unless it's [[Kiss Kiss Slap]].
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