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Highly surreal and bawdy [[Sketch Comedy]] / [[Britcom]], starring Englishman Matt Berry (aka [[Memetic Mutation/Advertising|George the Volcano]]) and American Rich Fulcher. Each episode has one plot focusing on them as a pair of well-to-do hangmen at a gentleman's club, as well as various sketches of tangential relevance and canonicity. To add to the confusion, almost every character has the same name as their actor, so it's difficult to tell which Matt it is you're watching, but the show is funny enough that you don't care.

 

 

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* [[The Ace]]: Matt is better than Rich at everything. When he's not around Rich, though, he can be just as much a [[The Chew Toy|Chew Toy]] as anyone.

* [[British Brevity]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]:

** Rich:

"[[Calling Your Bathroom Breaks|I gotta piss.]]" }}

** Matt:

"[[Et Tu, Brute?|After all I've done for him!]]" }}

* [[The Chew Toy]]: On Matt's quest to get his silver cowboy boots back from the cleaners, he is brutally beaten by store attendants, including a man from [[Oop North]], a [[Camp Gay]] black man who [[I Know Karate|knows martial arts]], and a [[Violent Glaswegian]].

** Rich is also an example, as in the episode where he goes blind.

* [[The Jeeves]]: Ken, Wormwood

* [[Jerkass]]: Essentially everybody, but particularly Rich's brother

'''Rich''': Yeah, well this guy is King Pricko. Of Pricksburg, Cockachusetts. }}

* [[Large Ham]]: Matt Berry

* [[Looping Lines]]: Deliberately invoked, and deliberately terrible.

* [[Nipple-and-Dimed]]: Nipples, either male or female, are not uncommon.

* [[Running Gag]]: Quite a few. One particularly delightful one is that Matt will be hitting on a beautiful woman, often carrying something for her, when she will mention her boyfriend, causing him to matter-of-factly announce "Fuck you!", drop whatever he was carrying, and leave.

** A subtler one is the frequent references to rabbits, particularly when being eaten.

* [["On the Next..."]]: "In the Snuff Box next time..."

* [[Shout-Out]]: Rich is given a birthday present by Ricky from {{the office]]."

* [[Status Quo Game Show]]: Rich and Matt go on a quiz show. It doesn't go well. Mostly because they didn't prepare in the slightest.

* [[Take That]]: At the beginning of the first episode:

'''Rich''': Oh, it's just an old song... }}

* [[Time Travel]]: [[Once an Episode]], Rich goes through a door marked "1888", which takes him to [[Victorian London]] where he meets the club's founder and Matt's great-uncle, Sir Charles Berry, who gives him advice and showers him in prostitutes. Sir Charles is subtly intended to be {{spoiler|[[Jack the Ripper]]}}.

* [[Tomato Surprise]]: The identity of Matt's father

* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "Effin' and a-jeffin'", for swearing

'''Alan Ford''': 'Course I did. I'm a fucking priest, ain't I? }}

 

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