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* TWordEuphemism: attempted by Paddy in "The Post-Xmas Sales", but it goes somewhat awry:
-->'''Paddy:''' Now you are under strict instructions Darren not to mention the P-word around your sister.
-->'''Darren:''' ...Penis?
-->'''Paddy:''' No, puppy!
-->'''Anne:''' ''[offscreen]'' I WANT A PUPPY!
-->'''Paddy:''' [[NeverMyFault Ah, now look what you're after doing Darren!]]
-->'''Paddy:''' Now you are under strict instructions Darren not to mention the P-word around your sister.
-->'''Darren:''' ...Penis?
-->'''Paddy:''' No, puppy!
-->'''Anne:''' ''[offscreen]'' I WANT A PUPPY!
-->'''Paddy:''' [[NeverMyFault Ah, now look what you're after doing Darren!]]
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* VolleyingInsults: in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rH3-jOIXR4 Insults]]", naturally, between two friends who've recently fallen out over one of them getting a promotion instead of the other. Also FloweryInsults.
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* StereotypeReactionGag: from "Regional Accent Discrimination":
-->'''Hog:''' ''[[[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents West Country accent]]]'' Regional accent discrimination is still at a record high. Only last week, five different people assumed I were a gardener. Now, turns out I am a gardener, but that's by the by.
-->'''Hog:''' ''[[[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents West Country accent]]]'' Regional accent discrimination is still at a record high. Only last week, five different people assumed I were a gardener. Now, turns out I am a gardener, but that's by the by.
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* BerserkButton:
** Foil in “Christmas Party 2012”. He receives presents from Arms and Hog, and promptly loses his shit after its revealed that it’s the cymbal from their live act and tickets to their own gig.
** Also Edward the PR expert from "Regional Accent Discrimination", who despite being from Dublin has long since lost his Irish accent thanks to years of training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. But being accused of '[[CategoryTraitor turning [his] back on [his] own people]]' is enough to send him back to [[FightingIrish his roots]].
** Foil in “Christmas Party 2012”. He receives presents from Arms and Hog, and promptly loses his shit after its revealed that it’s the cymbal from their live act and tickets to their own gig.
** Also Edward the PR expert from "Regional Accent Discrimination", who despite being from Dublin has long since lost his Irish accent thanks to years of training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. But being accused of '[[CategoryTraitor turning [his] back on [his] own people]]' is enough to send him back to [[FightingIrish his roots]].
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* BadInfluencer: Influencer Dad, naturally.
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* NoWrongAnswersExceptThatOne: a CatchPhrase of The Snob.
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* BerserkButton: BerserkButton:
** Foil in “Christmas Party 2012”. He receives presents from Arms and Hog, and promptly loses his shit after its revealed that it’s thesymbol cymbal from their live act and tickets to their own gig.gig.
** Also Edward the PR expert from "Regional Accent Discrimination", who despite being from Dublin has long since lost his Irish accent thanks to years of training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. But being accused of '[[CategoryTraitor turning [his] back on [his] own people]]' is enough to send him back to [[FightingIrish his roots]].
** Foil in “Christmas Party 2012”. He receives presents from Arms and Hog, and promptly loses his shit after its revealed that it’s the
** Also Edward the PR expert from "Regional Accent Discrimination", who despite being from Dublin has long since lost his Irish accent thanks to years of training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. But being accused of '[[CategoryTraitor turning [his] back on [his] own people]]' is enough to send him back to [[FightingIrish his roots]].
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* LesserStar: Invoked in "Vaccines Throw a Party", in regards to the Pfizer-[=BioNTech=] vaccine:
-->'''Moderna:''' It's like Music/{{U2}}, you know, everyone knows Bono and then there are... the other guys.
-->'''[=BioNTech=]:''' [[GratuitousGerman Nein, nein,]] it's more like [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Simon und Garfunkel]], you know, even Stevens.
-->'''Moderna:''' Yeah yeah, Pfizer is Music/PaulSimon and you... You're Garfunkel.
-->'''[=BioNTech=]:''' [[PrecisionFStrike F*ck you]].
-->'''Moderna:''' It's like Music/{{U2}}, you know, everyone knows Bono and then there are... the other guys.
-->'''[=BioNTech=]:''' [[GratuitousGerman Nein, nein,]] it's more like [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Simon und Garfunkel]], you know, even Stevens.
-->'''Moderna:''' Yeah yeah, Pfizer is Music/PaulSimon and you... You're Garfunkel.
-->'''[=BioNTech=]:''' [[PrecisionFStrike F*ck you]].
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* WhosOnFirst: from "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id9W8jqjTaE Vaccines Throw a Party]]":
-->'''Sputnik:''' ''[waving to someone at the door]'' Bye-bye, see you never!
-->'''Pfizer:''' Who was at the door?
-->'''Sputnik:''' I know, I sent them away.
-->'''Pfizer:''' No but who was there?
-->'''Sputnik:''' Exactly, so I sent them away.
-->'''Pfizer:''' ''Who'' was there?!
-->'''Sputnik:''' I know WHO was there, they didn't recognise me, so I sent them away!
-->'''[=AstraZeneca=]:''' I think he means the W-H-O?
-->'''Sputnik:''' Yes!
-->'''Pfizer:''' [[OhCrap Oh, for the love of...]] ''[rushing out the door]'' No no, it's okay, come back!
-->'''Sputnik:''' ''[waving to someone at the door]'' Bye-bye, see you never!
-->'''Pfizer:''' Who was at the door?
-->'''Sputnik:''' I know, I sent them away.
-->'''Pfizer:''' No but who was there?
-->'''Sputnik:''' Exactly, so I sent them away.
-->'''Pfizer:''' ''Who'' was there?!
-->'''Sputnik:''' I know WHO was there, they didn't recognise me, so I sent them away!
-->'''[=AstraZeneca=]:''' I think he means the W-H-O?
-->'''Sputnik:''' Yes!
-->'''Pfizer:''' [[OhCrap Oh, for the love of...]] ''[rushing out the door]'' No no, it's okay, come back!
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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH25DnNe8J0 Confessing Your Sins to Your Fitness Instructor]], which features, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9CV-aQ45VE Never Take an Irish Person Literally]]". [[DeadpanSnarker Terminally sarcastic]] Irishman + LiteralMinded European = HilarityEnsues.
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* SceneryPorn: Parodied in "An Irish Film":
-->'''Voice Over:''' An Irish Film: it's [[PeriodPiece old]]. It's [[TrueArtIsAngsty sad]]. And there's lots of unnecessary scenic shots in there [[EnforcedTrope for the Irish tourist board]].
-->'''Voice Over:''' An Irish Film: it's [[PeriodPiece old]]. It's [[TrueArtIsAngsty sad]]. And there's lots of unnecessary scenic shots in there [[EnforcedTrope for the Irish tourist board]].
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* AccentuateTheNegative: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uIy100tZd0 The English Football Press]]" who are quick to emphasise what a total disaster England's World Cup campaign is, before England have even played a match. [[spoiler:Except in the theoretical scenario where England actually win the world cup, in which case [[HypocriticalHumour they say they were]] "[[BlatantLies with you every step of the way]]."]]
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* {{Confessional}}: Naturally it crops up a few times:
** in "Quarantine Catholic Confession", Father O'Flaherty has to zoom his penitents from home using a sieve and a breadboard as a makeshift booth. [[spoiler:He ends up accidentally streaming a confession of a murder to his entire congregation]].
** The love interest played by Hog in "An Irish Film" is seen in one at the end of the trailer, despite the character [[ChristianityIsCatholic previously being established as a Protestant]].[[note]]However given she and Foil's character were also StarCrossedLovers, one can assume she [[ConvertingForLove Converted For Love]].[[/note]]
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH25DnNe8J0 Confessing Your Sins to Your Fitness Instructor]], which features, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
** in "Quarantine Catholic Confession", Father O'Flaherty has to zoom his penitents from home using a sieve and a breadboard as a makeshift booth. [[spoiler:He ends up accidentally streaming a confession of a murder to his entire congregation]].
** The love interest played by Hog in "An Irish Film" is seen in one at the end of the trailer, despite the character [[ChristianityIsCatholic previously being established as a Protestant]].[[note]]However given she and Foil's character were also StarCrossedLovers, one can assume she [[ConvertingForLove Converted For Love]].[[/note]]
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH25DnNe8J0 Confessing Your Sins to Your Fitness Instructor]], which features, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
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* IncrediblyLongNote: Hog in "Three Drunken Monks", managing to stretch the word 'sorry' out for [[https://youtu.be/rJ_YP3oGrBo?t=134 a good thirty five seconds]].
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* TomatoInTheMirror: The end of "Sandcastles", where it's revealed that Jason, Foil's character's son, is himself [[spoiler:made of sand]].
* ViolentGlaswegian: Defied, albeit [[IResembleThatRemark perhaps not all that convincingly]], by Foil's Glaswegian character in "Regional Accent Discrimation":
-->''It's an absolute disgrace, I'm sick and tired of this discrimination! People keep thinking I'm aggressive! I'M NOT AGGRESSIVE! '''[[AlwaysCamp I'M AN AROMATHERAPIST]]!'''''
* ViolentGlaswegian: Defied, albeit [[IResembleThatRemark perhaps not all that convincingly]], by Foil's Glaswegian character in "Regional Accent Discrimation":
-->''It's an absolute disgrace, I'm sick and tired of this discrimination! People keep thinking I'm aggressive! I'M NOT AGGRESSIVE! '''[[AlwaysCamp I'M AN AROMATHERAPIST]]!'''''
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* CorruptTheCutie: Kevin, Mrs. Geraghty's grandson. He goes from being oblivious to or appalled by his grandma's immoral behaviour in their early sketches, to enabling it and using it for his own ends in the later ones.
* TheFlapper: [[UsefulNotes/TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]] is portrayed as one in "Decades Throw a Party", complete with TwentiesBobHaircut.
* HaveAGayOldTime: Played with in "Decades Throw a Party", as [[UsefulNotes/TheNewTens 2010s]] fails to find it as hilarious as UsefulNotes/TheNineties:
-->'''1920s:''' Let's drink, dance, and be gay!
-->'''1990s:''' ''[[[HehHehYouSaidX snickers]]]''
-->'''2010s:''' Oh grow up, would you?
-->'''1920s:''' Let's drink, dance, and be gay!
-->'''1990s:''' ''[[[HehHehYouSaidX snickers]]]''
-->'''2010s:''' Oh grow up, would you?
* IncompatibleOrientation:
** Played for laughs in "First Dates (Most Shocking Revelations)":
--->'''Kevin:''' Well I'm a teacher, and I enjoy rock climbing. What about you?
--->'''Joe:''' I'm a massive time waster. I have been for years, even before I was married.
--->'''Kevin:''' You're married?!
--->'''Joe:''' ''[gesturing at his wedding ring]'' She's my rock.
--->'''Kevin:''' You're not even gay?!?!
** Also how the mother in "Excuses" sees through one of her son's excuses, that he got [[TeacherStudentRomance his history teacher]] pregnant: "She's a lesbian!"
** Played for laughs in "First Dates (Most Shocking Revelations)":
--->'''Kevin:''' Well I'm a teacher, and I enjoy rock climbing. What about you?
--->'''Joe:''' I'm a massive time waster. I have been for years, even before I was married.
--->'''Kevin:''' You're married?!
--->'''Joe:''' ''[gesturing at his wedding ring]'' She's my rock.
--->'''Kevin:''' You're not even gay?!?!
** Also how the mother in "Excuses" sees through one of her son's excuses, that he got [[TeacherStudentRomance his history teacher]] pregnant: "She's a lesbian!"
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: from "Companies Throw a Party", [=PornHub=] tries to get Dr. Pepper to investigate a suspicious rash he has, much to his confusion:
-->'''Dr. Pepper:''' I make cherry cola? I'm not a medical doctor.
-->'''[=PornHub=]:''' Fine, be like that, I'll just ask [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Oetker Dr. Oetker]].
-->'''Dr. Pepper:''' I make cherry cola? I'm not a medical doctor.
-->'''[=PornHub=]:''' Fine, be like that, I'll just ask [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Oetker Dr. Oetker]].
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* ParentalIncest: a [[CrossesTheLineTwice particularly disturbing]] example from "The Baby Head Clamp", from a father who has already put his baby daughter through the process:
-->'''Father:''' Well neither my wife or I is particularly good-looking, so we were worried our daughter would be the same. But now she's only eighteen months old, and already onto her second boyfriend. I tell ya, were I twenty years younger...
-->'''Interviewer:''' And if you weren't her father?
-->'''Father:''' Hmm?
-->'''Father:''' Well neither my wife or I is particularly good-looking, so we were worried our daughter would be the same. But now she's only eighteen months old, and already onto her second boyfriend. I tell ya, were I twenty years younger...
-->'''Interviewer:''' And if you weren't her father?
-->'''Father:''' Hmm?
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* ParentalIncest: a ParentalIncest:
** A [[CrossesTheLineTwice particularly disturbing]] example from "The Baby Head Clamp", from a father who has already put his baby daughter through the process:
-->'''Father:''' --->'''Father:''' Well neither my wife or I is particularly good-looking, so we were worried our daughter would be the same. But now she's only eighteen months old, and already onto her second boyfriend. I tell ya, were I twenty years younger...
-->'''Interviewer:''' --->'''Interviewer:''' And if you weren't her father?
-->'''Father:''' Hmm?--->'''Father:''' Hmm?
** One of the couples in "First Dates", overlapping with SurpriseIncest: the man confesses he never knew his birth parents, only for the woman he's on a date with to reveal [[LukeIAmYourFather she is his mother]]. She agrees to see him again so long as he finishes his homework.
** A [[CrossesTheLineTwice particularly disturbing]] example from "The Baby Head Clamp", from a father who has already put his baby daughter through the process:
** One of the couples in "First Dates", overlapping with SurpriseIncest: the man confesses he never knew his birth parents, only for the woman he's on a date with to reveal [[LukeIAmYourFather she is his mother]]. She agrees to see him again so long as he finishes his homework.
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-->'''Therapist:''' No, that's not what he's saying at all! He's saying he doesn't want a social media manger he wants a father, and he needs a safe and structured space to develop as a person, and not have his most vulnerable, intimate details plastered all over the internet for your repulsive narcissistic fantasies, gratification, '''you total freak.'''
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Anne Flanagan, often:
** In "Parents Teach You How to Drive", she goes from telling Oisin to ignore the driver repeatedly honking behind them to storming out of the car to "give him a piece of my mind" in a split second.
** In "When Parents Walk in on You Watching TV" she refuses to let Oisin watch ''Series/NormalPeople'' because of the sex scenes (while suggesting he read [[{{Irony}} a book by that Irish author]], Creator/SallyRooney [[{{Irony}} instead]]), but when she accidentally starts watching it herself she gets deeply emotionally invested. Oisin is understandably annoyed.
** In "Parents Teach You How to Drive", she goes from telling Oisin to ignore the driver repeatedly honking behind them to storming out of the car to "give him a piece of my mind" in a split second.
** In "When Parents Walk in on You Watching TV" she refuses to let Oisin watch ''Series/NormalPeople'' because of the sex scenes (while suggesting he read [[{{Irony}} a book by that Irish author]], Creator/SallyRooney [[{{Irony}} instead]]), but when she accidentally starts watching it herself she gets deeply emotionally invested. Oisin is understandably annoyed.
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-->'''Interviewer:''' And if she wasn't your daughter?
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-->'''Father:''' Well neither my wife or I is particularly good-looking, so we were worried our daughter would be the same. But now she's only eighteen months old, and already onto her second boyfriend. I tell ya, I've had a look and, were I twenty years younger...
-->'''Interviewer:''' And ifshe wasn't your daughter?you weren't her father?
-->'''Interviewer:''' And if
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* PerformanceArtist: La Bullshat, of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOuQEyz4itc Interview With Foil and La Bullshat]]".
* PerformanceArtist: La Bullshat, of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOuQEyz4itc Interview With Foil and La Bullshat]]".
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-->'''[[{{Jerkass}} Ulysses Bretherington]]:''' Face it Elizabeth, your seventeen, you're past your peak. I'm forty-three, I'm in my prime.
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* LoveDodecahedron: in "Will Northern Ireland and Ireland Get Back Together?", where the relations between the [[UsefulNotes/BritainVersusTheUK constituent countries of the UK]], the Republic of Ireland, and the European Union are portrayed as a set of overlapping current or former polyamorous relationships as displayed on a [[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]] or Jeremy Kyle-esque show. It gets convoluted quickly.
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** In "Alcohol Goes to Therapy", Alcohol describes his former friend Kevin, who he used to "meet up everyday, all day long" but who [[RecoveredAddict hasn't spoken to him in years]] ever since Alcohol "cost him his job and his family."
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* OnlySaneMan: Darren[[note]]usually the name he's given, although he is on at least one occasion called "Tom" instead[[/note]], the son played by Hog in the [=McCormack=] sketches.
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* RageBreakingPoint: Arms' therapist character is usually very composed, but gets pushed over the edge by the Influencer Dad's utter obliviousness toward his son's needs. See TheReasonYouSuckSpeech below.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: from "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhVT3G8vJRg An Influencer Dad Goes to Family Therapy]]", when the Influencer Dad decides his son Alexei's desire for more independence means he actually wants to start his own channel, their therapist loses it:
-->'''Therapist:''' No, that's not what he's saying at all! He's saying he doesn't want a social media manger he wants a father, and he needs a safe and structured space to develop as a person, and not have his most vulnerable, intimate details plastered all over the internet for your repulsive narcissistic fantasies, '''you total freak.'''
-->'''Therapist:''' No, that's not what he's saying at all! He's saying he doesn't want a social media manger he wants a father, and he needs a safe and structured space to develop as a person, and not have his most vulnerable, intimate details plastered all over the internet for your repulsive narcissistic fantasies, '''you total freak.'''
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* TheShrink: A recurring character played by Arms. Somewhere between the "awesome" and "well-meaning but ineffective" variants: he generally comes across as very put together and competent, but he never seems to get far with his very dysfunctional clients.
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* KissingCousins:
** From "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQgGJZ-Rxz8&ab_channel=FoilArmsandHog Anxious! The Board Game]]", one of the chance cards is simply "You are attracted to your cousin." Although certain commenters have noted with bemusement it's apparently only worth two points.
** Also in "Parents When You Get Dumped," when Anne is trying to reassure Oisin that there is "plenty more trout in the Shannon":
--->'''Oisin:''' Yeah, like who?
--->'''Anne:''' Well, Mrs. O'Toole's daughter always had a soft spot for you.
--->'''Oisin:''' She's my cousin.
--->'''Anne:''' ...[[DownplayedTrope Third cousin]]. ''[beat]'' We're a small island nation Oisin...
** From "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQgGJZ-Rxz8&ab_channel=FoilArmsandHog Anxious! The Board Game]]", one of the chance cards is simply "You are attracted to your cousin." Although certain commenters have noted with bemusement it's apparently only worth two points.
** Also in "Parents When You Get Dumped," when Anne is trying to reassure Oisin that there is "plenty more trout in the Shannon":
--->'''Oisin:''' Yeah, like who?
--->'''Anne:''' Well, Mrs. O'Toole's daughter always had a soft spot for you.
--->'''Oisin:''' She's my cousin.
--->'''Anne:''' ...[[DownplayedTrope Third cousin]]. ''[beat]'' We're a small island nation Oisin...
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* YouJustRuinedTheShot: taken to MindScrew extents in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSuOyDZb0E One Man Play]]".
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** The brother played by Foil in the [=McCormack=] sketches (who seemingly gets a new name in every appearance) is never seen without a can of Guinness in hand.
* AnthropomorphizedAnatomy: in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrji7a_J6UY The Parts of the Body Hold a Meeting]]", portrayed as a business meeting.
* TheCameo: Anne and Oisin at the end of "An English Period Drama", to demonstrate it "keeping teenagers from the living room for generations":
-->'''Anne:''' God, the ballgowns are beautiful.
-->'''Oisin:''' Urgh! ''[gets up and leaves]''
-->'''Anne:''' God, the ballgowns are beautiful.
-->'''Oisin:''' Urgh! ''[gets up and leaves]''
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* CostumeDrama: Parodied in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50WOU0IHW84 An English Period Drama]]". Featuring love, class division, a local vicar, a visiting doctor, colonialism, boring dancing...
* {{Crossdresser}}: In “Post Festival Make-Up Tutorial” all three are decked out in make-up such as mascara, foundationand . . .and... [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Darth Maul face paint]].
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "Cancelling a Gym Membership," which is apparently just like ''[[SeriousBusiness trying to leave]]'' ''[[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles the IRA]]''.
* DoubleStandard: PlayedForLaughs in "An English Period Drama":
-->'''[[{{Jerkass}} Ulysses Bretherington]]:''' Face it Elizabeth, your seventeen, you're past your peak. I'm forty-three, I'm in my prime.
* DoubleStandard: PlayedForLaughs in "An English Period Drama":
-->'''[[{{Jerkass}} Ulysses Bretherington]]:''' Face it Elizabeth, your seventeen, you're past your peak. I'm forty-three, I'm in my prime.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: in "Cancelling a Gym Membership", while Foil and Arms are engaging in HamToHamCombat in their most outrageous Northern Irish accents, Hog can be seen in the background [[MoodDissonance casually doing cardio in a flashy pink shirt]].
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* HereditaryHomosexuality: In "Coming Out", a man repeatedly tries to come out to his family over the course of twenty years, but every time gets upstaged by his brother. [[spoiler:At the end, turns out the brother is gay. And their granny.]]
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* HereditaryHomosexuality: In "Coming Out", a man repeatedly tries to come out to his family over the course of twenty years, but every time gets upstaged by his brother. [[spoiler:At the end, turns out the brother is gay. And As is their granny.]]
* JobMindsetInertia: Tiernan Callaghan, who uses his newsreader voice and mannerisms in all situations, including [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REboboHMqB4 interviewing for other jobs]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixI6HFy6Qco on a date]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKPFoRq05UE giving a best man speech]].
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** All of the Word Play sketches (for example "Word Play Hotel", "Word Play Barber") which exist to squeeze as many puns in a few minutes as possible.
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** The Business Dudes sketches as well fit as many jokes and puns in as possible, although they tend to be less focused and more risque than the Word Play ones.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Elizabeth Scornington in "An English Period Drama" is proposed marriage by local wealthy {{Jerkass}} Ulysses Bretherington, but is actually in love with the family gardener, Geoffrey.
** The Business Dudes sketches as well fit as many jokes and puns in as possible, although they tend to be less focused and more risque than the Word Play ones.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Elizabeth Scornington in "An English Period Drama" is proposed marriage by local wealthy {{Jerkass}} Ulysses Bretherington, but is actually in love with the family gardener, Geoffrey.
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-->'''Host:''' Well that's about all we have time for, we've had a lot of people interrup-
-->'''End Card:''' ''DOOMDAH!''
-->'''Host:''' Excuse me, I didn't interrupt you!
* IrishPriest: Several. For example, Father O'Flaherty from "Quarantine Catholic Confession."
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* {{Luvvies}}: Richard Chandley III from "The Military Capture an Actor", the archetypical luvvie actor.
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* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Gerald and Stephen, respectively, from the "How to Be a Lad" sketches (as well as others).
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* SkewedPriorities: Well, maybe not skewed exactly, but still unexpected. In "Quarantine Catholic Confession", the priest is far more concerned with his parishioner possibly breaching [[[UsefulNotes/COVID19]] lockdown restrictions than any more traditional sins, such as alcohol abuse, idleness, adultery, etc. [[spoiler:Until the parishioner reveals he killed a man, which, socially distanced or not, is still a major sin.]]
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* SkewedPriorities: Well, maybe not skewed exactly, but still unexpected. In "Quarantine Catholic Confession", the priest is far more concerned with his parishioner possibly breaching [[[UsefulNotes/COVID19]] [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic lockdown restrictions restrictions]] than any more traditional sins, such as alcohol abuse, idleness, adultery, etc. [[spoiler:Until the parishioner reveals he killed a man, which, socially distanced or not, is still a major sin.]]
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* DoWrongRight: in "How to Make the Perfect Protest Sign", a farmer complains about an animal rights activist's 'Meat is Murder' sign... because he's drawn a dairy cow on it.
-->'''Farmer:''' Now you've drawn what looks like a Friesian cow, but that'd be a milking cow, you'd never send that to slaughter. I would use maybe a Charolais or an Aberdeen Angus.
-->'''Farmer:''' Now you've drawn what looks like a Friesian cow, but that'd be a milking cow, you'd never send that to slaughter. I would use maybe a Charolais or an Aberdeen Angus.
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* SkewedPriorities: Well, maybe not skewed exactly, but still unexpected. In "Quarantine Catholic Confession", the priest is far more concerned with his parishioner possibly breaching [[[UsefulNotes/COVID19]] lockdown restrictions than any more traditional sins, such as alcohol abuse, idleness, adultery, etc. [[spoiler:Until the parishioner reveals he killed a man, which, socially distanced or not, is still a major sin.]]
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* AccentDepundent: one of the puns in "The Word Play Restaurant" doesn't really work outside an Irish accent that pronounces "sides" synonymous with "scythes."
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* OddNameOut: the trio's real names, which are Sean Finegan, Sean Flanagan, and... Conor [=McKenna=].
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* PaintingTheMedium: used as a source of puns in the Pun Barber:
-->'''Word Play Guy:''' Oh, I know what I want to get now. A tight crop.
-->'''Barber:''' So, something like...
-->''[gestures around Word Play Guy's face with his hands, the shot cropping tightly around Word Play Guy's face as he does so]''
-->'''Word Play Guy:''' A little less?
-->''[Barber moves his hands wider, widening the shot again]''
-->'''Word Play Guy:''' Yeah, that's starting to look good now. Could I also get a fade?
-->''[screen starts to FadeToBlack]''
-->'''Word Play Guy:''' Oh, I know what I want to get now. A tight crop.
-->'''Barber:''' So, something like...
-->''[gestures around Word Play Guy's face with his hands, the shot cropping tightly around Word Play Guy's face as he does so]''
-->'''Word Play Guy:''' A little less?
-->''[Barber moves his hands wider, widening the shot again]''
-->'''Word Play Guy:''' Yeah, that's starting to look good now. Could I also get a fade?
-->''[screen starts to FadeToBlack]''
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Foil, Arms and Hog are an Irish
Comedy trio consisting of Sean Finegan, Conor [=McKenna=] and Sean Flanagan. They do in house comedy sketches for their [[https://www.youtube.com/user/foilarmsandhog/featured YouTube]] and [[https://www.facebook.com/foilarmsandhog/ Facebook]] pages, and have gone on a number of successful tours both within and outside Ireland over the last eight years.
Comedy trio consisting of Sean Finegan, Conor [=McKenna=] and Sean Flanagan. They do in house comedy sketches for their [[https://www.youtube.com/user/foilarmsandhog/featured YouTube]] and [[https://www.facebook.com/foilarmsandhog/ Facebook]] pages, and have gone on a number of successful tours both within and outside Ireland over the last eight years.
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Foil, Arms and Hog are an Irish
Irish Comedy trio consisting of Sean Finegan, Conor [=McKenna=] and Sean Flanagan. They do in house comedy sketches for their [[https://www.youtube.com/user/foilarmsandhog/featured YouTube]] and [[https://www.facebook.com/foilarmsandhog/ Facebook]] pages, and have gone on a number of successful tours both within and outside Ireland over the last eight years.
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* TheAlcoholic: Everyone in “An Irish Intervention”, except main character Séan.
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* TheAlcoholic: TheAlcoholic:
** Everyone in “An Irish Intervention”, except main characterSéan.Séan.
** Michael the Driving Instructor, who inevitably spends every sketch [[DrowningMySorrows Drowning His Sorrows]] over his many, many traumatic experiences.
** Everyone in “An Irish Intervention”, except main character
** Michael the Driving Instructor, who inevitably spends every sketch [[DrowningMySorrows Drowning His Sorrows]] over his many, many traumatic experiences.
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* DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas: Discussed in "When the Weather Ruins Everything", in which the failure for it to snow on Christmas Day is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything treated like]] [[TheLoinsSleepTonight another sort of lack of performance]]:
-->'''Weather:''' There's an expectation on me there to perform on the day, based on this Hollywood romantic idea ... I can't just turn it on, I need certain conditions, certain [[{{Pun}} atmosphere]].
-->'''Weather:''' There's an expectation on me there to perform on the day, based on this Hollywood romantic idea ... I can't just turn it on, I need certain conditions, certain [[{{Pun}} atmosphere]].
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* DublinSkanger: parodied with the "Hard Lads", who try to be these, but whose crimes never pass the PokeThePoodle level.
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* ParentalIncest: a [[CrossesTheLineTwice particularly disturbing]] example from "The Baby Head Clamp", from a father who has already put his baby daughter through the process:
-->'''Father:''' Well neither my wife or I is particularly good-looking, so we were worried our daughter would be the same. But now she's only eighteen months old, and already onto her second boyfriend. I tell ya, I've had a look and, were I twenty years younger...
-->'''Interviewer:''' And if she wasn't your daughter?
-->'''Father:''' Hmm?
-->'''Father:''' Well neither my wife or I is particularly good-looking, so we were worried our daughter would be the same. But now she's only eighteen months old, and already onto her second boyfriend. I tell ya, I've had a look and, were I twenty years younger...
-->'''Interviewer:''' And if she wasn't your daughter?
-->'''Father:''' Hmm?
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: From the end of "The Word Play Clothes Shop":
-->'''Customer:''' ''[holding a fur coat]'' Excuse me, [[FurAndLoathing is this]] [[ItsFakeFurItsFine real]]?!
-->'''Shop Assistant:''' Oh no, none of this is real. It's not even a real shop.
-->''[cut to a wider shot revealing the rest of the set, microphones, and Foil reading his script off-camera]''
-->'''Shop Assistant:''' It's a [=YouTube=] video.
-->'''Customer:''' ''[holding a fur coat]'' Excuse me, [[FurAndLoathing is this]] [[ItsFakeFurItsFine real]]?!
-->'''Shop Assistant:''' Oh no, none of this is real. It's not even a real shop.
-->''[cut to a wider shot revealing the rest of the set, microphones, and Foil reading his script off-camera]''
-->'''Shop Assistant:''' It's a [=YouTube=] video.
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* HourglassPlot: Anne and Oisin toward the end of "Isolating With Your Parents", after Oisin has spent all day doing Anne's chores, while she believes she has Coronavirus:
-->'''Oisin:''' Mother of god, can I not get a moment's peace? I haven't sat down all day. I am up to high-do. You'd need [[{{Catchphrase}} the patience of a saint]]. Now, have you coughed since this morning?
-->'''Anne:''' No I haven't.
-->'''Oisin:''' Do you have a temperature?
-->'''Anne:''' No.
-->'''Oisin:''' A tightness of the chest, difficulty breathing?
-->'''Anne:''' ''[sounding increasingly sullen]'' No.
-->'''Oisin:''' ''[sounding increasingly shrill]'' Any loss of smell or taste?
-->'''Anne:''' No.
-->'''Oisin:''' Are you feeling tired, loss of energy?
-->'''Anne:''' No.
-->'''Oisin:''' ''[slipping fully into Anne's voice]'' Well then there is nothing wrong with you young lady so get out of that bed and get down here this instant!
-->'''Anne:''' OH! YOU ARE SO ANNOYING!
-->'''Oisin:''' Mother of god, can I not get a moment's peace? I haven't sat down all day. I am up to high-do. You'd need [[{{Catchphrase}} the patience of a saint]]. Now, have you coughed since this morning?
-->'''Anne:''' No I haven't.
-->'''Oisin:''' Do you have a temperature?
-->'''Anne:''' No.
-->'''Oisin:''' A tightness of the chest, difficulty breathing?
-->'''Anne:''' ''[sounding increasingly sullen]'' No.
-->'''Oisin:''' ''[sounding increasingly shrill]'' Any loss of smell or taste?
-->'''Anne:''' No.
-->'''Oisin:''' Are you feeling tired, loss of energy?
-->'''Anne:''' No.
-->'''Oisin:''' ''[slipping fully into Anne's voice]'' Well then there is nothing wrong with you young lady so get out of that bed and get down here this instant!
-->'''Anne:''' OH! YOU ARE SO ANNOYING!
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** The two "Bouncers on a Blind Date", [[spoiler:although one of them turns out to be BiTheWay at the end]].
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** From "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zLroelPLBw Life Hacks]]", the suggestion for being tired of your girlfriend not wanting to watch football is to get a boyfriend instead. Cue two men enthusiastically watching the football, then [[SmoochOfVictory making out in celebration]] when their team scores a goal.
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3f6Yuo4nys The Chairheads]]", played for laughs because the prejudiced Father is a man with a chair for a head, upset his daughter is dating a "roundhead".
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3f6Yuo4nys The Chairheads]]", played for laughs because the prejudiced Father father is a man with a chair for a head, upset his daughter is dating a "roundhead".
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* EvilOldFolks: Mrs. Geraghty from the [=Visiting/Putting] Up With Gran sketches, whose crimes range from pickpocketing her grandson to stabbing a nurse in the leg with a knitting needle. [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain She's also prejudiced against one of her grandsons for living with another man, and another for having married a Romanian]].
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* EvilOldFolks: Mrs. Geraghty from the [=Visiting/Putting] [=Visiting/Putting=] Up With Gran sketches, whose crimes range from pickpocketing her grandson to stabbing a nurse in the leg with a knitting needle. [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain She's also prejudiced against one of her grandsons for living with another man, and another for having married a Romanian]].
