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[[The Seventies|1970s]] British [[
Based on ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'', itself based on the Roman comedies of Plautus and Terence, which were in turn based on the Greek New Comedy of Menander.
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* [[Acting for Two]]: One episode centres around an assassination attempt on Caesar - who coincidentally looks exactly like Lurcio, Naturally, Frankie Howerd does not miss a single opportunity to lampshade this and is constantly stepping out of character to comment on his own incredibly acting skills in playing two different characters.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Lurcio/Howerd's asides to the audience.
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: Several, most enduringly "Titter ye not", as Lurcio would admonish the audience after another [[Double Entendre]].
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Frankie Howerd would constantly upbraid the audience for the dirty spin they would put on supposedly perfectly innocent lines.
* [[Galley Slave]]: In The Movie, Frankie has a [[Have We Met?]]? moment with another slave. He doesn't recognize the other guy at first, and the other guy only realizes when he sees the back of his head. He sat behind him in the galley, so that's all he saw of him for all those years, but he would recognize the back of that bonce ''anywhere'' after that.
* [[The Movie]]: Which replaced nearly all of the cast, barring Frankie Howard, with different actors.
* [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|Rocks, Lava and Ash Fall, Everyone Dies]]: The Movie may well be the only seventies British comedy that ends by killing the entire cast. And in the manner that you'd expect as well, given the title.
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