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** In "The Girl with the Liquid Face", Nebulous orders the launch of the K.E.N.T. submarine 'Blingray', whose launch is ordered in a manner similar to the introduction of ''[[Series/Stingray1964 Stingray]]''.
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* EmbarrassingFirstName: Professor Nebulous's first name is [[spoiler:Boffo]].
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* EvilTwin: One episode introduced Nebulous's evil twin brother, Professor ''Spiffo'' Nebulous, who looks almost exactly like the Nebulous we know except that he's fatter and lost both thumbs in a "freak Game Boy accident".
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** Ultimately Klrnch yields, but won't give him a justification.
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** Ultimately Klrnch Klench yields, but won't give him a justification.
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** Nebulous has a 'sonic crowbar'. He uses it exclusively as a blunt instrument.
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** Nebulous has a 'sonic crowbar'. He uses it exclusively as a blunt instrument. He also has several sonic screws.
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** Ultimately Klrnch yields, but won't give him a justification.
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** Such is the nature of his appearance that the animated pilot only ever showed his scanners looking out rather than any character looking at him.
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** While [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] is known as "The Oncoming Storm", Nebulous is merely "The Oncoming Drizzle".
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** While [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] is known as "The Oncoming Storm", Nebulous is merely "The Oncoming Drizzle". The episode which refers to this coincidentally features Creator/DavidTennant as the special guest villain.
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* BodyHorror - While it is left ambiguous exactly how much of Harry's original body is left after the original accident, it clearly isn't a pleasant physical appearance for any of the concerned parties.
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** Over the course of the series, Harry has stated that he has lost his chin, mouth, nose, eyes (with his optical scanners apparently processing the information and presenting it as a pie chart for some reason), hands (he initially claimed to retain one but more recently stated that he only has a mechanical grabber), feelings, toes (all ten, which he now keeps in a jar), both legs, upper lip (although he retains the lower one), heart, fingers, nerves, head (Although Nebulous notes that Harry retains most of his head), brain (replaced with a chip that apparently causes him headaches), back (although he does have a hunch), arse (he mentioned that he has rented one from an unidentified source), spleen, heart, eyeteeth and normal teeth; the only thing he definitely still has is an inner ear that is now an outer ear on his neck.
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* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: K.E.N.T.'s cover is that they're a laundry. Much to Professor Nebulous's annoyance, their sponsors in the Government seem more inclined to buy equipment for the laundry than for eco-troubleshooting operations.
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* ButtMonkey: Although Professor Nebulous has prevented potential invasions and neutralized major threats (accidentally or intentionally), elsewhere, he can't catch a break. No one will ever forget his destruction of the Isle of Wight, and he is constantly reminded that he will NEVER live it down. This is why his fortunes are often extremely low, he's frequently obstructed from attaining better resources, and his department is given a shoestring (no, aglet) budget.
** When Professor Nebulous encounters an alternate dimension version of himself, he discovers that the alternate Professor had also destroyed the Isle of Wight, but ''he became phenomenally popular and esteemed because of it.'' That has to be a blow to the ego.
** When Professor Nebulous encounters an alternate dimension version of himself, he discovers that the alternate Professor had also destroyed the Isle of Wight, but ''he became phenomenally popular and esteemed because of it.'' That has to be a blow to the ego.
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* TheCameo - Creator/PeterDavison as Professor Diplodocus. Kate O'Mara (who played the Rani) as the Lindaviduals.
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* TheCameo - Creator/PeterDavison as Professor Diplodocus. Kate O'Mara (who played the Rani) as the Lindaviduals. Creator/DavidTennant as MadScientist Dr. Beep.
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* DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery: Oh, ''Harry''. One especially clear moment is when he goes into the future to a time when there are no humans, just body parts with mouths. They are all very happy with their situations, but consider him the most perfect human being they have ever seen, and they even worship him. Harry is completely unable to deal with this and when he returns to the present informs Paula that the lesson he learned was that 'the secret to true happiness is having a completely perfect body'.
* NoIndoorVoice - Harry is fitted with a voice synthesiser which is constantly too loud, even on its quietest setting.
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** "Destiny of the Destinoyd" combines ''Series/DoctorWho'' stories "The Moonbase" (a multinational team of people stuck on a moonbase full of dangerous equipment) and "Image of the Fendahl" (a ghost EldritchAbomination that makes people commit suicide).
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** Nebulous has a 'sonic crowbar'. He uses it exclusively as a blunt instrument.
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* EvilCripple: Harry is a played with variation in that he's not particularly evil - he does betray Nebulous to try and cook the world with a miniature sun at one point, but is really just bitter and annoying.
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* RoboSpeak - Parodied a couple of times:
** Harry has a robotic voice synthesiser that he constantly has turned up far too loud (while the electronic treatment is different, the line delivery is reminiscent of the Daleks from ''Doctor Who''). Everyone around him finds this extremely irritating but feels bad complaining due to his extensive disabilities that force him to use an artificial voice in the first place.
** Dr Clench in "The Man Who Polished The Sun" has a RobotMe "mandroid" plant in a maximum security prism. He speaks with an obvious electronic effect on his voice but everyone is fooled by it.
** Harry has a robotic voice synthesiser that he constantly has turned up far too loud (while the electronic treatment is different, the line delivery is reminiscent of the Daleks from ''Doctor Who''). Everyone around him finds this extremely irritating but feels bad complaining due to his extensive disabilities that force him to use an artificial voice in the first place.
** Dr Clench in "The Man Who Polished The Sun" has a RobotMe "mandroid" plant in a maximum security prism. He speaks with an obvious electronic effect on his voice but everyone is fooled by it.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: Due to audio drama being what it is, the hints of what exactly the hideously mutilated Harry must look like and which parts of his body may still exist get more and more outrageous.
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* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY - Professor Diplodocus. Everyone calls him "Di-PLOD-o-cus." He insists that it's "DI-plo-DOCus". After this correction, K.E.N.T. struggle to pronounce his name right, Nebulous usually flubbing it slightly whenever he says it and Paula calling him things like "Professor Triceratops".
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* NoEndorHolocaust - spoofed in "The Deptford Wives" when Nebulous decides to blow up the whole island with a nuclear device, killing Professor Diplodocus to save the world. Paula and Rory dedicate the final scene to casually speculating that the infrastructure of the island meant it must have had at least five hundred innocent employees who were just doing their jobs who surely also must have been killed, to which Nebulous insists that it was only the professor and there ''was minimal loss of life''.
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** "The Buzzing" has a revolution-fixated MadScientist named Taron who has a delusional belief that he is somehow an insect (referencing Taren, a revolution-fixated MadScientist from the ''Doctor Who'' story "The Robots of Death" who has a delusional belief that he is somehow a robot). The same episode offhandedly mentions the head of the UN having the first name "Mavic" (referencing PresidentEvil ''Who'' villain Mavic Chen from "The Daleks' Master Plan").
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** "The Buzzing" has a an insect revolution-fixated MadScientist named Taron who has a delusional belief that he is somehow an insect (referencing Taren, a robot revolution-fixated MadScientist from the ''Doctor Who'' story "The Robots of Death" who has a delusional belief that he is somehow a robot). The same episode offhandedly mentions the head of the UN having the first name "Mavic" (referencing PresidentEvil ''Who'' villain Mavic Chen from "The Daleks' Master Plan").
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** Harry: "UNLIKE YOU, PROFESSOR, I NO LONGER HAVE THE LUXURY OF A [body part]."
* ChalkOutline - Paula attempts to draw one, makes one of the legs too long, and 'just makes the other one longer to match'.
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* ShoutOut - While [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] is known as "The Oncoming Storm", Nebulous is merely "The Oncoming Drizzle".
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** While [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] is known as "The Oncoming Storm", Nebulous is merely "The OncomingDrizzle".Drizzle".
** "The Buzzing" has a revolution-fixated MadScientist named Taron who has a delusional belief that he is somehow an insect (referencing Taren, a revolution-fixated MadScientist from the ''Doctor Who'' story "The Robots of Death" who has a delusional belief that he is somehow a robot). The same episode offhandedly mentions the head of the UN having the first name "Mavic" (referencing PresidentEvil ''Who'' villain Mavic Chen from "The Daleks' Master Plan").
** While [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] is known as "The Oncoming Storm", Nebulous is merely "The Oncoming
** "The Buzzing" has a revolution-fixated MadScientist named Taron who has a delusional belief that he is somehow an insect (referencing Taren, a revolution-fixated MadScientist from the ''Doctor Who'' story "The Robots of Death" who has a delusional belief that he is somehow a robot). The same episode offhandedly mentions the head of the UN having the first name "Mavic" (referencing PresidentEvil ''Who'' villain Mavic Chen from "The Daleks' Master Plan").
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* WholePlotReference - the episode "The Lovely Invasion" is a very close parody of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E3TheClawsOfAxos The Claws of Axos]].
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** The episode "The Lovely Invasion" is a very close parody of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E3TheClawsOfAxos The Claws ofAxos]].Axos]].
** "The Deptford Wives" is a mashup of ''Film/JurassicPark'' and ''Film/TheStepfordWives''.
** The episode "The Lovely Invasion" is a very close parody of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E3TheClawsOfAxos The Claws of
** "The Deptford Wives" is a mashup of ''Film/JurassicPark'' and ''Film/TheStepfordWives''.
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* MeatVersusVeggies - taken to extremes, parodying the fact that there were more than a couple of ''Series/DoctorWho'' stories [[AuthorTract promoting vegetarianism obsessively]].
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* {{Expy}}: The Worserons at the end of "The Lovely Invasion" are described as 'an amphibious race that used to walk the Earth at the time of the dinosaurs, roused from centuries of hibernation by mining work in East Anglia', a description extremely similar to that of the Silurians in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
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* MissingEpisode - Parodied in the liner notes for the first series, which claims that there were at least 11 series of ''Nebulous'', but almost all the episodes were lost. Many of the examples given are spoofs of famous ''Series/DoctorWho'' episodes - many of which are themselves missing.
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* MissingEpisode (in universe) - Parodied in the liner notes for the first series, which claims that there were at least 11 series of ''Nebulous'', but almost all the episodes were lost. Many of the examples given are spoofs of famous ''Series/DoctorWho'' episodes - many of which are themselves missing.
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** For our non-british readers: L.O.U.G.H.B.O.R.O.U.G.H is supposed to be said 'Loftburrow' the same as the English town of the same name. Paula thinks you say it as it's written - Loogahboroogah.
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** For our non-british readers: L.O.U.G.H.B.O.R.O.U.G.H is supposed to be said 'Loftburrow' 'Luffburrah' the same as the English town of the same name. Paula thinks you say it as it's written - Loogahboroogah.
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* FlashBackBackBack - Nebulous has frequent flashbacks to his childhood, triggered by variants of the word "Clown".
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Imagine ''Series/DoctorWho'' starring an underfunded ObstructiveBureaucrat, and you have ''Nebulous'': a BBC Radio 4 AfterTheEnd comedy series which parodies much of British Science Fiction, in particular ''{{Quatermass}}'' and the aforementioned ''Series/DoctorWho''. ''Nebulous'' follows the adventures of Professor Nebulous, leader of K.E.N.T.: the Key Environmental Non-judgemental Taskforce, which just happens to be based in a London launderette. K.E.N.T. is tasked with picking up the pieces after an environmental disaster known as "The Withering": a CosyCatastrophe that has led to the extinction of vegetarians, tarts and white dog-doings. The series exists almost solely to [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] SpeculativeFictionTropes, and many episodes are [[AffectionateParody Affectionate Parodies]] of other shows.
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Imagine ''Series/DoctorWho'' starring an underfunded ObstructiveBureaucrat, and you have ''Nebulous'': a BBC Radio 4 AfterTheEnd comedy series which parodies much of British Science Fiction, in particular ''{{Quatermass}}'' ''Franchise/{{Quatermass}}'' and the aforementioned ''Series/DoctorWho''. ''Nebulous'' follows the adventures of Professor Nebulous, leader of K.E.N.T.: the Key Environmental Non-judgemental Taskforce, which just happens to be based in a London launderette. K.E.N.T. is tasked with picking up the pieces after an environmental disaster known as "The Withering": a CosyCatastrophe that has led to the extinction of vegetarians, tarts and white dog-doings. The series exists almost solely to [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] SpeculativeFictionTropes, and many episodes are [[AffectionateParody Affectionate Parodies]] of other shows.
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** For our non-british readers: L.O.U.G.H.B.O.R.O.U.G.H is supposed to be said 'Loftburrow' the same as the English town of the same name. Paula thinks you say it as it's written - Loogahboroogah.
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** In fact she is somewhat beyond blatant, frequently disrobing, placing his hand on her and molesting him while unconscious.
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'''Harry''': [[ThisIsSparta NOOOOOOOOOOOO! THAAAAAAAAAAANK! YOOOOOOOOU!]]
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