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'''Barker:''' And it's "Goodnight" from him.<br />
'''Both:''' Goodnight. }}
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* [[Disorganised Outline Speech]]: Ronnie Corbett's chair monologues often take this form, basically turning every sentence of a short joke into a [[Disorganised Outline Speech]] that wanders off onto tangents before eventually coming back to the plot of the joke.
* [[Dueling Shows]] (With ''[[Morecambe and Wise]]'')
* [[Finishing Each
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] (A LOT)
* [[I Thought It Meant]]: The basis of the ''Four Candles'' sketch.
* [[Lady Land]]: One of their drama segments is set in a dystopic fascist England ruled by female supremacists. They have to escape over the border to Wales, aided by--of course--[[Eek!
* [[Offer Void in Nebraska]]: One episode of the serial "Death Can Be Fatal" opened with a recap of the previous episode, then added "Except for viewers in Scotland, where the story goes like this:" and repeated the recap with everybody wearing traditional Highland dress.
** This was a reference to BBC Scotland's annoying habit of pre-empting network programmes with (usually inferior) local content.
* [[One Scene, Two Monologues]]: One of their best known sketches is a variation on this trope--Corbett and Barker play two very different characters both talking on pay phones in a supermarket. They are having totally unconnected conversations with different (unseen) people on the other end, but they take turns to speak and they seem to be having a surreal conversation with each other.
* [[Self
* [[Swear Jar]]: The Swearbox Sketch.
* [[Unbuilt Trope]]: They did a parody of ''[[Star Trek]]'' in 1973, only a few years after the original series ended, and a parody of ''[[Star Wars]]'' soon after the first film came out. Because of this, these parodies lack most of the 'cliché' jokes that have built up in [[Stock Parody|stock parodies]] of these franchises over the years.
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