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* [[Cryptid Episode]]: In one episode, the ''Troutbridge'' crew is reassigned to find the Loch Ness Monster.
* [[The Danza]] - All three of the central characters have the same names as the actors who played them.
* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]] - Vice-Admiral 'Burbly' Burwasher who used to deliver all of his stream-of-consciousness internal monologues out loud, apparently completely unaware that he was doing it.
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] - C.P.O. Bull in the episode set during Phillip's naval training. Well at least according to Phillip's recollection anyway..
* [[The Drunken Sailor]] - Several, but star example is Vice-Admiral Prout whose liver can be used to sole and heel boots.
* [[Eagle Land]] - Any visiting American character ended up here. Usually with only barely authentic American accents.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]] - "The Lad", the only member of ''Troutbridge'''s engineering crew who actually knows how the ship runs.
* [[Executive Meddling]] - It was decided halfway through the run that forces based humour had had its day and that the series would therefore be [[Retool|Retooled]] to be set in a tv studio and called The TV Lark. A few episodes were recorded before sanity prevailed and the whole ghastly thing became [[Canon Discontinuity]].
** The official [[Retcon]] in the last episode of ''The TV Lark'' showed it to be a particularly ambitious scheme by CPO Pertwee.
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* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] - Number One was a frequent dealer of these. It was a [[Running Gag]] that he'd laugh at his own joke, and in everyone else there'd be an awkward silence.
* [[Insane Admiral]] - Too many to count, although Admiral Ffontbittocks can be disturbingly sane on occasion.
* [[Interactive Narrator]] and [[Lemony Narrator]] - in one episode having the cast abandon the story to go look at the narrator's dirty calendar.
** Not dirty, but a "Saucy Lillian Gish" calendar.
*** [[Don't Explain the Joke|For those who may not know]], [[wikipedia:Lilian Gish|Lillian Gish]] was an actress whose heyday was in the 1910s and '20s.
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* [[Land of My Fathers and Their Sheep]] - Goldstein who joined the Royal Navy to work his passage to Swansea. In one episode, Goldstein is accidentally promoted to Admiral. His first official act is to take the ship to Wales to show off to his family and friends -- at least till Pertwee and Murray tire of parading around Swansea and let slip that the ship runs on oil burners, not coal burners. [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|His fiercely proud-of-the-coal-industry Welsh family nearly disowns him]].
* [[Large Ham]] - Everyone, frequently leading to [[Ham-to-Ham Combat]].
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]] - Frequently. The characters often interacted at the beginning of the show, with the show's announcer, interrupting him during the show's introduction. One episode has the characters engage in an [[Overly Long Gag]] wondering if they can pick up ''The Navy Lark'' on the radio, with Sub-Lieutenant Phillips and CPO Pertwee remarking on the quality of the characters of "The silly-ass Sub-Lieutenant" and scheming CPO, respectively.
* [[Lethal Chef]] - Johnson's attempt at pie making produced some very convincing substitutes for limpet mines.
* [[Lighthouse Point]] - One episode had Pertwee becoming a lighthouse keeper to try and become a smuggler.
* [[Limited Advancement Opportunities]] - Averted and played straight. Certain characters are introduced at the same rank they finished with (CPO Pertwee, Sub-Lieutenant Phillips), but others such as Commander, then Captain, then Commodore Povey and The Second Number One Lieutenant, then Lt Cmdr, then Commander Murray rise up the ranks as much as they would in the real navy. Notice however that the two straight examples of this trope are a petty crook and a cretin, respectively; who'd ''want'' to promote them?
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* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] - Later in the run, they nearly all turned up [[Once an Episode]].
* [[Long Runner]]
* [[The Master (trope)|The Master]] - a recurring oriental/FuManchu villain. Funnily enough, The Master was played by Jon Pertwee, who would star in [[Doctor Who|another show]] with an archvillain called "The Master"...
** Of course [[The Master (trope)|The Master]] had a [[Distaff Counterpart]] in the form of the imaginatively named [[The Mistress]] (played by Heather Chasen with an equally OTT accent), although the character was actually a case of The [[Dragon Lady]].
* [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]] - CPO Pertwee's less-than-helpful Chinsese phrasebook.
* [[Noisy Shut Up]] - A bickering meeting of [[Mad Brass]] is brought to silence by the shout of "SHUT UP or I'll lock up the Gin".
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* [[The Remnant]] - See [[Those Wacky Nazis]] below.
* [[Servile Snarker]] - Goldstein towards the bridge crew and WRN Chasen towards nearly anyone of higher rank than her.
* [[Shout-Out]] - After Jon Pertwee hit it even bigger [[Doctor Who|on television]] jokes like the following appeared:
{{quote|'''Phillips:''' I've got the solution. I saw it in a film once. There was this doctor...
'''The Master''' (played by Pertwee): [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|Who]]?<br />
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* [[Teeth-Clenched Teamwork]] - Whenever the crew and Povey are forced to work together.
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]] - Sub-Lieutenant Phillips whistling the show's theme music as a "Ditty" he'd picked up somewhere. He's promptly told to stop it by the rest of the cast as it [[Biting the Hand Humor|sounds silly and annoying]].
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]] - Literally, in one episode, as ''Troutbridge'' manages to capture a straggler U-Boat from [[World War Two]], with [[Hilarity Ensues|hijinks]] and [[Gratuitous German|poor German]] [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign|accents]] abounding. Please note, the episode was set in and aired in 1960...
** They'd been convinced the war was still on and were being resupplied by (what they thought was) a Dutch Nazi-Sympathiser...called [[The Clan|Pertwee]].
* [[True Companions]] - Once Murray joined they started hanging together no matter what Povey and the Admiralty threw at them, Price was more willing to let Phillips and Pertwee take the fall for their misdeeds.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: CPO Pertwee had a habit-t-t-t of ''rolling'' his 't's, either when nervous or mocking.
** Also, there was Commander Ignatius Aloysius Atchuson, who suffered from a tendency to sneeze himself through his sentences.
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