The Navy Lark: Difference between revisions

* [[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]].

* [[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.

{{quote|'''Cmdr Weatherby''' (trying to buy an airline ticket to the Digital Islands):"''"I'd like a return ticket-t-t-t-t-t-ticket-t-t-t-t-t to the Digital-Digital-Digital I-mbrI-mbrI-mbrI-tidley-I-tidley-I, the Digital-mbrDigital-mbr-Digital-mbrI-tidley-tidley-mbro-mbro-mbro to hell with the Digital Islands, I'll go to Jersey''".|'''The Admiral'''(explaining Weatherby's job): "''No wonder he's head of security. By the time he finished telling secrets to a foreign power they'd be out of date!''"}}

** Then, there was [[Talking to Himself|CPO Pertwee]] doing a spot-on impression of Weatherby singing in the tub. After attempting to get, repeatedly through the first few words of 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," he ends with "oh, to Hell with it -- I've lost the soap!"

** Later in the run they would try to do the same with Mister Phillips, but he accidentally got on a Forbodian ship and was kidnapped leading to a [[Pity the Kidnapper]] plot as he managed to sink half their fleet with his navigation and Troutbridge was forced to accept him back.

* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]] - How Povey ended up in charge of the ''Troutbridge'' mob to start with, and it almost happens to all of the cast at some point.

* [[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...<br />

(pause for laughter and applause)<br />

'''The Master:''' [[Minor Insult Meltdown|You watch it, clever boy. Just you watch it, if you want to live.]] }}

** Toward the beginning, they would refer to having seen the latest ''[[Carry On]]'' movie (e.g. ''Carry On Caveman'') with that stupid blond with the mustache.

* [[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]].

** 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.