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* [[Keeping Secrets Sucks]]: People sometimes ask Roy what he talked about on camera with ''other'' characters. He tries, but usually fails, to keep mum about it on the (mostly unarticulated) grounds that it would be improper behavior for a documentary filmmaker.

* [[Military Alphabet]]: At one point in "The Police Officer," Roy Mallard finds himself alone next to an unconscious policeman. He tries to use the officer's radio while applying his own unique notion of the military alphabet:

* [[Narrating the Obvious]]: * One of Roy's staples. Sometimes his narration uses ''exactly'' the same words that his interview subjects use seconds later (though of course the narration was ''added'' long after the people spoke those words.)

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Strangely, Roy comes across as this in his interviews (if not his narration), which is most apparent when he asks a completely sensible question that the subject finds an incredible way of misinterpreting. In the episode The Vicar, when the vicar's wife tells him that she lost her virginity with a Tom Jones record playing, Roy asks, "Which one?" Her response: "You only get one."