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'''The Castle''' is a radio series first broadcast in 2007. Described as "a comedy set in the filth, grime, stench and brutality of the Middle Ages, with some nice music", it is a comedy set in an uncertain period in the Middle Ages, at the castle of Sir John Woodstock, a meek and mild mannered widower who lives with his daughter Anne (who refuses all attempts to [[ArrangedMarriage marry her off]] despite approaching the dreadful age of [[ChristmasCake eighteen]], his son Henry (who begins to speak like a [[GangstaRap Gangsta Rapper]] as the series goes on) and Anne's friend Charlotte, who is staying over whilst her parents are in Europe (and blatantly having affairs).
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'''The Castle''' is a radio series first broadcast in 2007. Described as "a comedy set in the filth, grime, stench and brutality of the Middle Ages, with some nice music", it is a comedy set in an uncertain period in the Middle Ages, at the castle of Sir John Woodstock, a meek and mild mannered widower who lives with his daughter Anne (who refuses all attempts to [[ArrangedMarriage marry her off]] despite approaching the dreadful age of [[ChristmasCake [[OldMaid eighteen]], his son Henry (who begins to speak like a [[GangstaRap Gangsta Rapper]] as the series goes on) and Anne's friend Charlotte, who is staying over whilst her parents are in Europe (and blatantly having affairs).
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* FakeUltimateHero: The Woodstocks eagerly await the arrival of Sir William De Warenne. Then they meet him.
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* FakeUltimateHero: The Woodstocks eagerly await the arrival of Sir William De Warenne.Warrenne. Then they meet him.
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-->Sir John: What do you call this thing that ''rockets up?''
-->Thomas: The ''sky stick.''
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'''Thomas''': The ''sky stick.''
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* NamesTheSame: There was a real life Sir William de Warrene.
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* NamesTheSame: There was NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Not so much famous but a real life real-life figure with Sir William de Warrene.Warrenne.
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* PutOnABus: In the first episode of the second series Sam Tree is blasted off into the sky and out of the series by a (very) experimental and (very) primitive rocket designed by Thomas. [[spoiler: He makes a brief return in the following series where he turns out to have amnesia after crash landing in France. He and Charlotte almost wd, until it turns out the dazed Sam already married a French woman.]]
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* PutOnABus: In the first episode of the second series Sam Tree is blasted off into the sky and out of the series by a (very) experimental and (very) primitive rocket designed by Thomas. [[spoiler: He makes a brief return in the following series where he turns out to have amnesia after crash landing in France. He and Charlotte almost wd, wed, until it turns out the dazed Sam already married a French woman.]]
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* {{Catchphrase}} Everytime Lady Charlotte sees Sir William she remarks "Cool codpiece!" prompting his response on the design, usually with a reference to a modern designer.
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* {{Catchphrase}} Everytime Lady Charlotte sees Sir William she remarks "Cool codpiece!" prompting his response on the design, usually with a reference to a modern designer. Charlotte also has "copy that!", usually said in response to an order from Anne to shut up, leave or at least stop being annoying.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: While the humorous AnachronismStew aspects are present from the first episode on the setting was otherwise presented as fairly mundane 'Medieval' to begin with, with the local "witch" being a cross between therapist and a con artist and Unicorn Wood not having any actual unicorns in it. The second series moved into outright fantasy with the introduction of Merlin and his very real if unreliable magical powers.
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* CharacterisationMarchesOn: In the first series Henry is basically just a geeky teenager who hero worships Sir William and desperately wants to be a knight but who speaks normally (by the standards of the series.) From series 2 on his IQ plummets and he starts talking and acting like [[DaAliGShow Ali G]].
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* CharacterisationMarchesOn: In the first series Henry is basically just a geeky teenager who hero worships Sir William and desperately wants to be a knight but who speaks normally (by the standards of the series.) From series 2 on his IQ plummets and he starts talking and acting like [[DaAliGShow [[Series/DaAliGShow Ali G]].
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* CharacterisationMarchesOn: In the first series Henry is basically just a geeky teenager who hero worships Sir William and desperately wants to be a knight but who speaks normally (by the standards of the series.) From series 2 on his IQ plummets and he starts talking and acting like [[DaAliGShow Ali G]].
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* KilledOffscreen: Between the last episode of Series 3 and the first of Series 4 [[spoiler: Merlin the magician miscasts a spell that causes him to "disappear up his fundament". Sir John notes that for a little while after they could still hear his voice before that vanished too.]] Notable in being a surprisingly dark and nasty end for a main character in a series that otherwise tends to only humiliate or slightly injure the protagonists.
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* PutOnABus: In the first episode of the second series Sam Tree is blasted off into the sky and out of the series by a (very) experimental and (very) primitive rocket designed by Thomas. [[spoiler: He makes a brief return in the following series where he turns out to have amnesia after crash landing in France. He and Charlotte almost wd, until it turns out the dazed Sam already married a French woman.]]
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* FakeUltimateHero: The Woodstocks are eagerly await the arrival of Sir William De Warenne. Then they meet him.
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* FakeUltimateHero: The Woodstocks are eagerly await the arrival of Sir William De Warenne. Then they meet him.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hidden very well, but Sir William occasionally acts (fairly) selflessly to provide assistance to Sir John, and his own BeleagueredAssistant Cardinal Duncan. Not that it often does any good.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Lady Anne is Susan Earl in Series One, Montserrat Lombard in Series Two and Three and Martha Howe-Douglas in Series Four.
** Sam Tree is Toby Ross-Bryant in the first series but is replaced by Steven Kynman later on.
** Sam Tree is Toby Ross-Bryant in the first series but is replaced by Steven Kynman later on.
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Other major characters include:
* Castle Woodstock staff Thomas the inventor and Sam Tree the dimwitted but handsome peasant (eventually replaced by Merlin, a wizard handyman)
* ... and neighbors Sir William de Warrenne (Knight Errant, Scourge of the Levant, increasingly desperate suitor to Anne) and Cardinal Duncan, a closeted homosexual and advisor to Sir William.
* Castle Woodstock staff Thomas the inventor and Sam Tree the dimwitted but handsome peasant (eventually replaced by Merlin, a wizard handyman)
* ... and neighbors Sir William de Warrenne (Knight Errant, Scourge of the Levant, increasingly desperate suitor to Anne) and Cardinal Duncan, a closeted homosexual and advisor to Sir William.
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* BlueCollarWarlock: Merlin is a wizard, but spends most of his time doing handyman jobs like putting up shelves.
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* AnachronismStew: Deliberately invoked, with characters and events being obvious references to the present day, for example the aggressive chef [[Creator/GordonRamsay Sir Gordon De Ramsay]] and the Italian knight [[Series/TheSopranos Antonio Soprano]]. Sometimes they don't bother to hide it at all and reference the figure or event directly.
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* AnachronismStew: Deliberately invoked, with characters characters, headlines and events being obvious references to the present day, for example the aggressive chef [[Creator/GordonRamsay Sir Gordon De Ramsay]] and the Italian knight [[Series/TheSopranos Antonio Soprano]]. Sometimes they don't bother to hide it at all and reference the figure or event directly.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Thomas' inventions all resemble modern devices, . Sir John will then ask for what they would call the device, prompting a
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* BaitAndSwitch: Thomas' inventions all resemble modern devices, . Sir John will then ask for what they would call the device, prompting a [[GiverOfLameNames stupid name]] in place of Sir John's reasonable one.
* DoubleEntendre: The source of about half the jokes.
* GiverOfLameNames: Thomas, in contrast to Sir John.
-->Sir John: What do you call this thing that ''rockets up?''
-->Thomas: The ''sky stick.''
-->Sir John: What do you call this thing that ''rockets up?''
-->Thomas: The ''sky stick.''
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* StealthPun: The Merc Inn.
* TakeThat: A number of encounters with the modern-day parodies end this way,
* TakeThat: A number of encounters with the modern-day parodies end this way,
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* StealthPun: The Merc Merk Inn.
* TakeThat: A number of encounters with the modern-day parodies end thisway, way.
* TakeThat: A number of encounters with the modern-day parodies end this
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* NamesTheSame: There was a real life Sir William de Warrene.
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'''The Castle''' is a radio series first broadcast in 2007. Described as "a comedy set in the filth, grime, stench and brutality of the Middle Ages, with some nice music", it is a comedy set in an uncertain period in the Middle Ages, at the castle of Sir John Woodstock, a meek and mild mannered widower who lives with his daughter Anne (who refuses all attempts to [[ArrangedMarriage marry her off]] despite approaching the dreadful age of [[ChristmasCake eighteen]], his son [[DumbassTeenageMenace Henry]] (who begins to speak like a [[GangstaRap Gangsta Rapper]] as the series goes on) and Anne's friend Charlotte, who is staying over whilst her parents are in Europe (and blatantly having affairs).
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'''The Castle''' is a radio series first broadcast in 2007. Described as "a comedy set in the filth, grime, stench and brutality of the Middle Ages, with some nice music", it is a comedy set in an uncertain period in the Middle Ages, at the castle of Sir John Woodstock, a meek and mild mannered widower who lives with his daughter Anne (who refuses all attempts to [[ArrangedMarriage marry her off]] despite approaching the dreadful age of [[ChristmasCake eighteen]], his son [[DumbassTeenageMenace Henry]] Henry (who begins to speak like a [[GangstaRap Gangsta Rapper]] as the series goes on) and Anne's friend Charlotte, who is staying over whilst her parents are in Europe (and blatantly having affairs).
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'''The Castle''' is a radio series first broadcast in 2007. Described as "a comedy set in the filth, grime, stench and brutality of the Middle Ages, with some nice music", it is a comedy set in an uncertain period in the Middle Ages, at the castle of Sir John Woodstock, a meek and mild mannered widower who lives with his
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'''The Castle''' is a radio series first broadcast in 2007. Described as "a comedy set in the filth, grime, stench and brutality of the Middle Ages, with some nice music", it is a comedy set in an uncertain period in the Middle Ages, at the castle of Sir John Woodstock, a meek and mild mannered widower who lives with his
his daughter Anne (who refuses all attempts to [[ArrangedMarriage marry her off]] despite approaching the dreadful age of [[ChristmasCake eighteen]], his son [[DumbassTeenageMenace Henry]] (who begins to speak like a [[GangstaRap Gangsta Rapper]] as the series goes on) and Anne's friend Charlotte, who is staying over whilst her parents are in Europe (and blatantly having affairs).
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* AnachronismStew: Deliberately invoked, with characters and events being obvious references to the present day, for example the aggressive chef [[Creator/GordonRamsay Sir Gordon De Ramsay]] and the Italian knight [[Series/TheSopranos Antonio Soprano]].
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* AnachronismStew: Deliberately invoked, with characters and events being obvious references to the present day, for example the aggressive chef [[Creator/GordonRamsay Sir Gordon De Ramsay]] and the Italian knight [[Series/TheSopranos Antonio Soprano]]. Sometimes they don't bother to hide it at all and reference the figure or event directly.
** In additional, all of the music is modern pop music performed on lutes, recorders and other contemporary instruments.
* BaitAndSwitch: Thomas' inventions all resemble modern devices, . Sir John will then ask for what they would call the device, prompting a
* {{Catchphrase}} Everytime Lady Charlotte sees Sir William she remarks "Cool codpiece!" prompting his response on the design, usually with a reference to a modern designer.
** Constant complainer Jedediah Wainwright interrupts every proposal at the town meeting with "That's outrageous!" which is followed by "Shut up Wainwright!" from the crowd.
** In additional, all of the music is modern pop music performed on lutes, recorders and other contemporary instruments.
* BaitAndSwitch: Thomas' inventions all resemble modern devices, . Sir John will then ask for what they would call the device, prompting a
* {{Catchphrase}} Everytime Lady Charlotte sees Sir William she remarks "Cool codpiece!" prompting his response on the design, usually with a reference to a modern designer.
** Constant complainer Jedediah Wainwright interrupts every proposal at the town meeting with "That's outrageous!" which is followed by "Shut up Wainwright!" from the crowd.
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* {{Expy}}: With his FailureKnight tendencies, MilesGlorious behaviour and [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]][[BeleaguredAssistant]], Sir William comes across as something of a 12th/13th century [[Series/Futurama Zapp Brannigan]].
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* {{Expy}}: With his FailureKnight tendencies, MilesGlorious MilesGloriosus-esque behaviour and [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]][[BeleaguredAssistant]], snarky]] assistant, Sir William comes across as something of a 12th/13th century [[Series/Futurama Zapp Brannigan]].Brannigan.
* MoralGuardians: Jedediah Wainwright, who objects to everything at town meetings with the declaration "that's outrageous!".
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* ThePowerOfLust: On more than one occasion Anne and Charlotte use this to get their own way, or cause a distraction.
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* ThePowerOfLust: On more than one occasion Anne and Charlotte use this to get their own way, or way. Notably Charlotte has her breasts artificially enhanced to cause a distraction.
* StealthPun: The Merc Inn.
* TakeThat: A number of encounters with the modern-day parodies end this way,
* TakeThat: A number of encounters with the modern-day parodies end this way,
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* VirginSuperpower: Merlin loses some of the stronger elements of his magic when [[spoiler:he sleeps with Charlotte.]]
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* VirginSuperpower: VirginPower: Merlin loses some of the stronger elements of his magic when [[spoiler:he sleeps with Charlotte.]]
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'''The Castle''' is a radio series first broadcast in 2007. Described as "a comedy set in the filth, grime, stench and brutality of the Middle Ages, with some nice music", it is a comedy set in an uncertain period in the Middle Ages, at the castle of Sir John Woodstock, a meek and mild mannered widower who lives with his
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*AnachronismStew: Deliberately invoked, with characters and events being obvious references to the present day, for example the aggressive chef [[Creator/GordonRamsay Sir Gordon De Ramsay]] and the Italian knight [[Series/TheSopranos Antonio Soprano]].
* CourtlyLove: Despite being a knight errant, Sir William has absolutely no idea how to do this.
* DumbBlonde: Averted, blonde Lady Anne is the bright one, her brunette friend Charlotte is TheDitz - though this varies from episode to episode.
* {{Expy}}: With his FailureKnight tendencies, MilesGlorious behaviour and [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]][[BeleaguredAssistant]], Sir William comes across as something of a 12th/13th century [[Series/Futurama Zapp Brannigan]].
* FakeUltimateHero: The Woodstocks are eagerly await the arrival of Sir William De Warenne. Then they meet him.
* MrFanservice: Sam Tree, the dim odd jobs man who performs his duties with no shirt on, to Anne and Charlotte's delight. When Sam [[ItMakesSenseInContext disappears on a crudely constructed rocket]], Anne's main proviso for a replacement is that he works with his shirt off.
* OnlySaneMan: Sir John and Duncan in their respective ways.
* TheOtherDarrin: Lady Anne is Susan Earl in Series One, Montserrat Lombard in Series Two and Three and Martha Howe-Douglas in Series Four.
** Sam Tree is Toby Ross-Bryant in the first series but is replaced by Steven Kynman later on.
* ThePowerOfLust: On more than one occasion Anne and Charlotte use this to get their own way, or cause a distraction.
* ReallyGetsAround: Some of Charlotte's comments certainly give off this impression...
* TransparentCloset: Cardinal Duncan, though this generally flies over other characters' heads, largely because he is SurroundedByIdiots.
* VirginSuperpower: Merlin loses some of the stronger elements of his magic when [[spoiler:he sleeps with Charlotte.]]
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*AnachronismStew: Deliberately invoked, with characters and events being obvious references to the present day, for example the aggressive chef [[Creator/GordonRamsay Sir Gordon De Ramsay]] and the Italian knight [[Series/TheSopranos Antonio Soprano]].
* CourtlyLove: Despite being a knight errant, Sir William has absolutely no idea how to do this.
* DumbBlonde: Averted, blonde Lady Anne is the bright one, her brunette friend Charlotte is TheDitz - though this varies from episode to episode.
* {{Expy}}: With his FailureKnight tendencies, MilesGlorious behaviour and [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]][[BeleaguredAssistant]], Sir William comes across as something of a 12th/13th century [[Series/Futurama Zapp Brannigan]].
* FakeUltimateHero: The Woodstocks are eagerly await the arrival of Sir William De Warenne. Then they meet him.
* MrFanservice: Sam Tree, the dim odd jobs man who performs his duties with no shirt on, to Anne and Charlotte's delight. When Sam [[ItMakesSenseInContext disappears on a crudely constructed rocket]], Anne's main proviso for a replacement is that he works with his shirt off.
* OnlySaneMan: Sir John and Duncan in their respective ways.
* TheOtherDarrin: Lady Anne is Susan Earl in Series One, Montserrat Lombard in Series Two and Three and Martha Howe-Douglas in Series Four.
** Sam Tree is Toby Ross-Bryant in the first series but is replaced by Steven Kynman later on.
* ThePowerOfLust: On more than one occasion Anne and Charlotte use this to get their own way, or cause a distraction.
* ReallyGetsAround: Some of Charlotte's comments certainly give off this impression...
* TransparentCloset: Cardinal Duncan, though this generally flies over other characters' heads, largely because he is SurroundedByIdiots.
* VirginSuperpower: Merlin loses some of the stronger elements of his magic when [[spoiler:he sleeps with Charlotte.]]
