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* HenpeckedHusband: Povey, completely under the thumb of his overbearing wife Ramona.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Povey, Povey is completely under the thumb of his overbearing wife Ramona.wife, Ramona. He does all the housework, has to ask permission to go out, and even must beg for pocket money as she controls the family purse.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: C.P.O. Bull in the episode set during Phillip's naval training. Well at least according to Phillip's recollection anyway..
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* DrillSergeantNasty: C.P.O. Bull in the episode set during Phillip's naval training. Well at least according to Phillip's recollection anyway..anyway.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Phillips is incompetent as a navigation officer and always sends ''Troutbridge'' colliding into every obstacle that can be found.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Phillips is incompetent as a navigation officer and always sends ''Troutbridge'' colliding into every obstacle that can be found.
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* ServileSnarker: Goldstein towards the bridge crew and WRN Chasen towards nearly anyone of higher rank than her.
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* ServileSnarker: ServileSnarker:
** Leading Seaman Goldsteintowards makes a point of snidely pointing out every mistake the bridge crew make and talking endlessly of how Wales is superior to England to the majority-English senior staff.
** WRN Chasentowards nearly anyone takes delight in pointing out the idiocy of higher rank than her.the Royal Navy to everyone senior to her, especially Povey, whom she directly reports to.
** Leading Seaman Goldstein
** WRN Chasen
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* SpeechImpediment: CPO Pertwee often trips over his words, resulting in extended sequences where he stutters until he can think of a simpler synonym. Also, most secondary characters also played by Creator/JonPertwee had comical stutters.
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A radio comedy produced by Creator/TheBBC which ran from 1959 to 1977 starring Creator/LesliePhillips, Stephen Murray, Creator/JonPertwee, Richard Caldicott, Ronnie Barker, Heather Chasen, Tenniel Evans and loads of others. ''The Navy Lark'' followed the adventures of the Royal Navy's least wanted crew on HMS ''Troutbridge'' [[note]]A Type 15 Frigate, a take off of the real life H.M.S. Troubridge with whom it shared its pennant number, F09[[/note]] as scheming Commander (promoted over the course of the series to Commodore) Povey tried to dump them overboard and they tried to avoid life on civvy street. Generally these were interspersed with CPO Pertwee's doomed-to-failure get-rich-quick schemes and Sub-Lieutenant Phillips' equally doomed attempts to chase down WRN Chasen.
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A radio comedy produced by Creator/TheBBC which ran from 1959 to 1977 starring Creator/LesliePhillips, Stephen Murray, Creator/JonPertwee, Richard Caldicott, Ronnie Barker, Creator/RonnieBarker, Heather Chasen, Tenniel Evans and loads of others. ''The Navy Lark'' followed the adventures of the Royal Navy's least wanted crew on HMS ''Troutbridge'' [[note]]A Type 15 Frigate, a take off of the real life H.M.S. Troubridge with whom it shared its pennant number, F09[[/note]] as scheming Commander (promoted over the course of the series to Commodore) Povey tried to dump them overboard and they tried to avoid life on civvy street. Generally these were interspersed with CPO Pertwee's doomed-to-failure get-rich-quick schemes and Sub-Lieutenant Phillips' equally doomed attempts to chase down WRN Chasen.
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* TheDrunkenSailor: Several, but star example is Vice-Admiral Prout whose liver can be used to sole and heel boots.
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* TheDrunkenSailor: Several, but star example is Vice-Admiral Prout whose liver can be used to sole and heel boots. Another good example is "The Multiple Mines" where Johnson and Goldstein's drunken antics kickstart the episode's plot [[note]] they decide it's a great idea to chuck a old decommissioned mine used as a coinbox for the Royal Lifeboat Service into the ocean while plastered. This sets up a forced hunt by ''Troutbridge'' for the box, which turns up a ''real'' mine that was just floating in the ocean...[[/note]].
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* ReadTheMapUpsideDown: One of the many, ''many'', navigational blunders involving Sub-Lt Phillips involved him reading the map upside down, backwards, or in some cases entirely fictional maps, although it is highlighted by the other cast members that him reading it the right way up would [[NoSenseOfDirection hardly make a difference]].
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--> '''Phillips:''' [[invoked]][[WhatAnIdiot Exactly.]] Now, that's another interesting word, "Exactly"...
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--> '''Phillips:''' [[invoked]][[WhatAnIdiot Exactly.]] Exactly. Now, that's another interesting word, "Exactly"...
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** Then, there was [[TalkingToHimself CPO Pertwee]] doing a spot-on impression of Weatherby singing in the tub. After attempting to get, repeatedly through the first few words of 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," he ends with "oh, to Hell with it -- I've lost the soap!"[[invoked]]
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** Then, there was [[TalkingToHimself CPO Pertwee]] Pertwee doing a spot-on impression of Weatherby singing in the tub. After attempting to get, repeatedly through the first few words of 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," he ends with "oh, to Hell with it -- I've lost the soap!"[[invoked]]
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* WrongWire: Happens when the crew of ''HMS Troutbridge'' is attempting to defuse the self-destruct mechanism on an American satellite. Fortunately, the first time this happens it turns out that what they have retrieved is not the satellite but a marker buoy. The second time, however...
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** Becomes slightly HilariousInHindsight after the revelation that the first limpet mines made for the British military actually used [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/53/a4376153.shtml a specific variety of candy for their fuses]]...
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** Becomes slightly HilariousInHindsight [[invoked]]HilariousInHindsight after the revelation that the first limpet mines made for the British military actually used [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/53/a4376153.shtml a specific variety of candy for their fuses]]...
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* RefugeInAudacity: Pertwee's plans usually end up revolving around this to varying degrees. For instance, he once got Commander Povey to believe he was really selling the ''Troutbridge'' to derail Povey's plans to get the entire crew ReassignedToAntarctica [[note]]The reason was that due to a clerical error, the Royal Navy had no actual record that ''Troutbridge'' existed. Therefore with no ship, Povey reasoned that he could get the entire crew of thorns in his side reassigned to whatever far-flung hellhole was the furthest distance from him.[[/note]]. When Povey's plans to throw the book at Pertwee failed (since the ship wasn't ''techically'' Navy property at the time, Pertwee couldn't be charged with selling a warship), he decided to outbid everyone at auction, an auction otherwise completely composed of [[TheClan Pertwee's relatives]]. Povey won, and then found out what he'd ''actually'' bought: The "veteran, ex-naval vessel" in the advertisement was actually an old ricketty tug owned by Pertwee's [[UpToEleven even more larcenous uncle]], who demanded Povey pay up. When he refused, Pertwee had him over the barrel because not paying lawful debts was conduct unbecoming an officer!
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* RefugeInAudacity: Pertwee's plans usually end up revolving around this to varying degrees. For instance, he once got Commander Povey to believe he was really selling the ''Troutbridge'' to derail Povey's plans to get the entire crew ReassignedToAntarctica [[note]]The reason was that due to a clerical error, the Royal Navy had no actual record that ''Troutbridge'' existed. Therefore with no ship, Povey reasoned that he could get the entire crew of thorns in his side reassigned to whatever far-flung hellhole was the furthest distance from him.[[/note]]. When Povey's plans to throw the book at Pertwee failed (since the ship wasn't ''techically'' Navy property at the time, Pertwee couldn't be charged with selling a warship), he decided to outbid everyone at auction, an auction otherwise completely composed of [[TheClan Pertwee's relatives]]. Povey won, and then found out what he'd ''actually'' bought: The "veteran, ex-naval vessel" in the advertisement was actually an old ricketty tug owned by Pertwee's [[UpToEleven even more larcenous uncle]], uncle, who demanded Povey pay up. When he refused, Pertwee had him over the barrel because not paying lawful debts was conduct unbecoming an officer!
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* RefugeInAudacity: Pertwee's plans usually end up revolving around this to varying degrees. For instance, he once got Commander Povey to believe he was really selling the ''Troutbridge'' to derail Povey's plans to get the entire crew ReassignedToAntarctica [[note]]The reason was that due to a clerical error, the Royal Navy had no actual record that ''Troutbridge'' existed. Therefore with no ship, Povey reasoned that he could get the entire crew of thorns in his side reassigned to whatever far-flung hellhole was the furthest distance from him.[[/note]]. When Povey's plans to throw the book at Pertwee failed (since the ship wasn't ''techically'' Navy property at the time, Pertwee couldn't be charged with selling a warship), he decided to [[WhatAnIdiot outbid everyone at auction]], an auction otherwise completely composed of [[TheClan Pertwee's relatives]]. Povey won, and then found out what he'd ''actually'' bought: The "veteran, ex-naval vessel" in the advertisement was actually an old ricketty tug owned by Pertwee's [[UpToEleven even more larcenous uncle]], who demanded Povey pay up. When he refused, Pertwee had him over the barrel because not paying lawful debts was conduct unbecoming an officer!
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* RefugeInAudacity: Pertwee's plans usually end up revolving around this to varying degrees. For instance, he once got Commander Povey to believe he was really selling the ''Troutbridge'' to derail Povey's plans to get the entire crew ReassignedToAntarctica [[note]]The reason was that due to a clerical error, the Royal Navy had no actual record that ''Troutbridge'' existed. Therefore with no ship, Povey reasoned that he could get the entire crew of thorns in his side reassigned to whatever far-flung hellhole was the furthest distance from him.[[/note]]. When Povey's plans to throw the book at Pertwee failed (since the ship wasn't ''techically'' Navy property at the time, Pertwee couldn't be charged with selling a warship), he decided to [[WhatAnIdiot outbid everyone at auction]], auction, an auction otherwise completely composed of [[TheClan Pertwee's relatives]]. Povey won, and then found out what he'd ''actually'' bought: The "veteran, ex-naval vessel" in the advertisement was actually an old ricketty tug owned by Pertwee's [[UpToEleven even more larcenous uncle]], who demanded Povey pay up. When he refused, Pertwee had him over the barrel because not paying lawful debts was conduct unbecoming an officer!
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Later in the run, they nearly all turned up OncePerEpisode.
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* {{Ashface}}: In the episode "Refitting Ebenezer Pertwee", the funnel of Uncle Ebenezer's tug falls off, leading him to getting a face full of soot and being referred to as "A [[MinstrelShows Tennessee Minstrel]]". Later in the episode the tug blasts CPO Pertwee in the face, leading to him being referred to as "[[{{Blackface}} Sambo]]".
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!!CPO Pertwee put in an indent for the following Tropes (which [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial will not end up being sold at his cousin's surplus store in a few days]]:
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!!CPO Pertwee put in an indent for the following Tropes (which [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial will not end up being sold at his cousin's surplus store in a few days]]:
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* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Sub-Lieutenant Phillips whistling the show's theme music as a "Ditty" he'd picked up somewhere. He's promptly told to stop it by the rest of the cast as it [[BitingTheHandHumor sounds silly and annoying]].
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* ThemeTuneCameo: Sub-Lieutenant Phillips whistling the show's theme music as a "Ditty" he'd picked up somewhere. He's promptly told to stop it by the rest of the cast as it [[BitingTheHandHumor sounds silly and annoying]].
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** Sub-Lieutenant Phillips' "Left hand down a bit", CPO Pertwee's "'''''Everybody down!!'''''", and Able/Leading Seaman Goldstein's "Starboard lookout here, Able Seaman Goldstein chatting".
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** Sub-Lieutenant Phillips' "Left hand down a bit", CPO Pertwee's "'''''Everybody down!!'''''", and "Belt up!" and Able/Leading Seaman Goldstein's "Starboard lookout here, Able Seaman Goldstein chatting".
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cross-wicking
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* ReminderFailure: Seaman "Fatso" Johnson once went around for an episode with a bit of string tied around his finger, unfortunately he couldn't remember tying it there so all it did was remind him he had forgotten something (at the end of the episode it was revealed: It was to remind him to buy string).
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* StringOnFingerReminder: Seaman "Fatso" Johnson once went around for an episode with a bit of string tied around his finger, unfortunately he couldn't remember tying it there so all it did was remind him he had forgotten something (at the end of the episode it was revealed: It was to remind him to buy string).
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* CoverupPurchase: C.P.O. Pertwee has to get Number One a luxury chair that he really isn't entitled to, and decides the best way to do it is by indenting for a large quantity of them because the only time he indents for a single anything is when it is a battleship. Ultimately it fails because everyone else up the supply chain has the same idea, and by time the request reaches the naval supplier it has multiplied into every single luxury chair in the Royal Navy.
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* HornySailors: One of the stock plots is Sub-lieutenant Phillips' romantic pursuit of WRNS Heather Chasen. He's also not opposed to a bit of freelance womanising and innuendo if some other female is around.
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* HonestJohnsDealership: CPO Pertwee can sell anything from a can of beans to a battleship. Often without the previous owner knowing. Would have had a minor SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome by requisitioning all the Royal Navy's higher-class chairs to resell -- if Povey hadn't caught on.
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* HonestJohnsDealership: CPO Pertwee can sell anything from a can of beans to a battleship. Often without the previous owner knowing. Would have had a minor SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome by By requisitioning all the Royal Navy's higher-class chairs to resell -- if Povey hadn't caught on.
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** According to [[Creator/JonPertwee Jon Pertwee's]] autobiography, the film production company wouldn't employ Dennis Price for the film because of his {{s|traightGay}}exuality. Because of this, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Pertwee refused to do the film without Price]].
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** According to [[Creator/JonPertwee Jon Pertwee's]] autobiography, the film production company wouldn't employ Dennis Price for the film because of his {{s|traightGay}}exuality. Because of this, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Pertwee refused to do the film without Price]].Price.
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* AnnoyingLaugh:
** Commander Bracewell, who typically delivered bad news to Captain Povey, had a variety of annoying laughs, ranging from the tauntingly mocking to the loud and goofy.
** In-show at least: people have this reaction to Mr. Murray's laugh, too
** Commander Bracewell, who typically delivered bad news to Captain Povey, had a variety of annoying laughs, ranging from the tauntingly mocking to the loud and goofy.
** In-show at least: people have this reaction to Mr. Murray's laugh, too
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** In-show at least:AnnoyingLaugh: In show, people have this reaction to Mr. Murray's laugh, toolaugh.
** Commander Bracewell, who typically delivered bad news to Captain Povey, had a variety of annoying laughs, ranging from the tauntingly mocking to the loud and goofy.
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