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* [[Cats Are Mean]] - Cat enthusiast Dougall Siepp is a scary guy.
* [[Caught With Your Pants Down]] - Parodied and inverted. Harvey Denton has a peculiar paranoia about walking in on his nephew, Benjamin, and has an entire, [[Spit Take]]-inducing collection of [[Unusual Euphemism|Unusual Euphemisms]] ready. There has never been any concrete evidence of Benjamin actually masturbating.
* [[Celebrity Paradox]] - Mick McNamara claims that an episode of Tom Baker-era ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' was filmed at the Stump Hole caverns. So why does Mick, and approximately one third of the town, look exactly like that guy who played Dr. Lazarus in "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S3 E6 The Lazarus Experiment|The Lazarus Experiment]]" and wrote the episode "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S2 E7 The Idiots Lantern|The Idiot's Lantern]]"? And why does another third of the town so greatly resemble the guy who played Strackman Lux in "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 E8 Silence in The Library|Silence in the Library]]" and "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 E9 Forest of the Dead|Forest of the Dead]]?" And why {{spoiler|does Dougal Siepp so greatly resemble the Ninth Doctor?}}
* [[Characterization Marches On]] - In Series 2, Herr Lipp was essentially a creep and a sociopath; in the Christmas Special, though still a nasty pederast, he at least shows some compassion and sacrifices himself to save Matthew. By the time we get to the Movie, he is a kind and caring guy (even his turn to violence is intended to save the locals from what he believes to be endless misery) who is incidentally campy, a far cry from the selfish date-rapist he originally was.
* [[Cheshire Cat Grin]] - Hilary Briss gives these a lot.
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* [[Dumb Is Good]] - Tubbs is shown to be not entirely responsible for the crimes she commits with Edward, because she is obviously mentally unsound. It's probably genetic.
* [[Easily Forgiven]] - In the stage show, {{spoiler|Tubbs is forgiven by [[God]] and welcomed into the Kingdom of Swansea (long story), but Edward has to go to Hell.}}
* [[Emotionally Tongue -Tied]] - Harvey Denton refuses to say "The F word", which is, of course, {{spoiler|"frog"}}.
* [[Erotic Asphyxiation]] - {{spoiler|[[Gone Horribly Wrong|Goes horribly wrong]] and everybody involved dies.}}
* [[Evil Hand]] - {{spoiler|Turns out to be [[Heroic Sacrifice|good]]}}.
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* [[Serial Killer]] - The Tattsyrups
* [[She Is All Grown Up]] - In the wrongest way possible.
* [[Shout -Out]]
** [[Mark Gatiss]] based his performance of Mr. Chinnery on [[Peter Davison]]'s as Tristan Farnan in the BBC production of ''[[All Creatures Great and Small (TV)|All Creatures Great and Small]]''.
** In episode two of Season 1 ''The Road To Royston Vasey,'' two construction workers visit the Local Shop and end up being abducted by Tubbs and Edward. Their names? [[Diamonds Are Forever (Film)|Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd.]]
** "Royston Vasey" is the real name of comedian Roy "Chubby" Brown, who appears in a [[Cameo]] as [[Actor Allusion|the mayor]]. The mayor's name is Larry Vaughn, which is also the name of the mayor in ''[[Jaws (Film)|Jaws]]''. Recursive [[Shout -Out]]!
* [[Show Within a Show]] - The plays of the Legz Akimbo theatre troupe...
** [[Stylistic Suck]] - ...are awful.
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* [[Redemption Equals Death]] - {{spoiler|Poor Hilary}}
* [[Road Apples]] - "Edward, I've made a little brown fish!"
* [[Shout -Out]] - "The League of Gentlemen? [[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen|Extraordinary!]]"
** Also, Mr. Pea looks a ''lot'' like [[Vincent Price]] in ''[[Witchfinder General]]''.
** The king thanks the guys for saving him from a "[[Doctor Who (TV)|deadly assassin]]".
*** The two maids who secretly mother/daughter/employer/men are a reference to the film "The Maids".
** The King's Evil is pretty much a parody of every film Ken Russell made in the seventies and eighties.
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