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* [[Life of the Party]]: Repeat contributor Paul "[[Insistent Terminology|The Party Animal]]" Parker. Stephen and Ricky are convinced that it's an [[Informed Ability]].
* [[Literal Change of Heart]]: Played with when Karl mistakenly thinks it's possible to replace a heart with a pacemaker.
* [[Literal -Minded]]: Most of Karl's misunderstandings and [[Insane Troll Logic|bizarre logical interpretations]] appear to stem from the fact that he is incredibly (and for Ricky and Steve, at least, infuriatingly at times) literal-minded and practical-minded, to the extent that he [[Sidetracked by the Analogy|doesn't appear to understand basic analogies at all]] and tends to over-think even the most simple questions to the point where he's at times unable to answer them. For example, the phrase "throwing stones in glass houses" absolutely baffled him to the point where he was asking what kind of special people live in glass houses.
* [[Lost Episode]]: The first 8 or so episodes from XFM Series 1 (2001- 2002), which featured Karl's first appearances, are missing from the XFM archives and are not in circulation anywhere. Likewise, apart from a few compilation tapes and two full episodes, most of the original 1998 series has vanished into the ether.
* [[Ludd Was Right]]: Karl's stance on most new technology: for example, dismissing travelers who use sat-navs <ref>Referred to a GPS across the pond</ref> as "lazy." This does not go unchallenged by Steve and Ricky who imagine Karl giving a hard time to Columbus for using a compass or -- a ''boat.''
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* [[Troperiffic]]: Seriously, notice how many of these tropes are about Karl.
* [[Twin Threesome Fantasy]]: Karl doesn't understand it. Why would you want two of the same woman?
* [[Undesirable Prize Letdown]]: A staple of the XFM shows, where the games and features that Karl devised featured mostly incredibly mediocre prizes, such as albums that no-one wanted or VHS copies of films that were already out on DVD or generally stuff that most people hadn't heard of (probably because they were so bad).
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: To the point that it provides quite a lot of unintentional comedy, with frequent mentions of popular in the day bands such as The Darkness, mobile phones being new-fangled, cassetee and VHS tapes as prizes, the choice of music played on the show itself and frequent mentions of the Internet being new and complicated being the prime examples.
* [[Unlucky Everydude]]: Steve.
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