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Cornley's first entry for ''Play of the Week'' is a ChristmasEpisode based around Belle, a young girl whose wishing for help at Christmas causes Santa himself to pay a visit to cheer her up. But even with his help, Belle remains unhappy, until her feuding parents make up, showing [[TrueMeaningOfChristmas a message about the true meaning of Christmas.]]
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Cornley's first entry performance (depending on who you ask) for ''Play of the Week'' is a ChristmasEpisode based around Belle, a young girl whose wishing for help at Christmas causes Santa himself to pay a visit to cheer her up. But even with his help, Belle remains unhappy, until her feuding parents make up, showing [[TrueMeaningOfChristmas a message about the true meaning of Christmas.]]
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: After discovering the sherry is genuine, Robert keeps taking "just another nip" until he is almost completely incapacitated.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: After discovering the sherry is genuine, Robert keeps taking "just another takes "one more nip" and breaks the dispenser on the bottle, so he keeps quaffing sherry in a panic to keep it from running all over the counter until he is almost completely incapacitated.Sandra marches over and flips the bottle over. He spends the rest of the play weaving and slurring and breaking character.
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* TruckDriversGearChange: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]]; the song that Vanessa sings goes through three key changes, leading to her unsubtly trying to signal the backstage crew to pitch it back down while attempting to match the current key. It gets so high she ends up shrieking the last note of the song.
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* BrickJoke: When Dennis interrupts Chris to ask what noise a reindeer makes, Chris snaps "clearly a matter for rehearsals, Dennis!" Guess what Dennis says when he plays Rudolph?
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* BrickJoke: When Dennis interrupts Chris to ask what noise a reindeer makes, makes before the start of the show, Chris snaps "clearly a matter for rehearsals, Dennis!" Guess what Dennis says when he plays Rudolph?
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Cornley's first entry for "Play of the Week" is a ChristmasEpisode based around Belle, a young girl whose wishing for help at Christmas causes Santa himself to pay a visit to cheer her up. But even with his help, Belle remains unhappy, until her feuding parents make up, showing [[TrueMeaningOfChristmas a message about the true meaning of Christmas.]]
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Cornley's first entry for "Play ''Play of the Week" Week'' is a ChristmasEpisode based around Belle, a young girl whose wishing for help at Christmas causes Santa himself to pay a visit to cheer her up. But even with his help, Belle remains unhappy, until her feuding parents make up, showing [[TrueMeaningOfChristmas a message about the true meaning of Christmas.]]
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* TheGrinch: Robert appears to have some somewhat sour opinions on Christmas, at least when he's drunk (having broken up with Denise, his wife or girlfriend, apparently hasn't helped), which he starts expressing a lot more freely the drunker he gets. Which is doubly unfortunate as he's supposed to be playing Santa.
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* InVinoVeritas: Robert is apparently something of a nasty drunk, and the many "nips" of sherry he has end up loosening his tongue; he becomes a lot more willing to vocally make dismissive comments about the performances of his fellow actors (especially Chris), the overall quality of the play they're performing, and his somewhat sour feelings on the Christmas season overall.
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* VocalRangeExceeded: The backing track to Vanessa's solo is accidentally pitched up several octaves, leading to her having to practically scream the last few lines.
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* VocalRangeExceeded: The backing track to Vanessa's solo is accidentally pitched up several octaves, leading to her having to practically scream the last few lines.lines (though, in reality, Bryony Corrigan's superb vocal range forced them to ramp up the joke far beyond what was originally intended to get the desired effect).
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* IntoxicationEnsues: Due to the dispenser being broken, Robert keeps taking shots of sherry, as the entire bottle drains out.
-->'''Robert''': ''(worriedly as his lucidness immediately begins to vanish)'' That ''really'' was one too many nips.
-->'''Robert''': ''(worriedly as his lucidness immediately begins to vanish)'' That ''really'' was one too many nips.
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* AlmostOutOfOxygen: Towards the end, the enclosed Jonathan semi-cheerfully announces that he has almost ran out of air.
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* SexSells: For a Christmas elf in a children's play, Sandra certainly ramps up the sex factor wherever possible.
* {{Snowlems}}: Chris plays the Snowy Old Snowman, but his costume gets snagged in the toy machine and he ends up stuck in his pants.
* {{Snowlems}}: Chris plays the Snowy Old Snowman, but his costume gets snagged in the toy machine and he ends up stuck in his pants.
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* LivesInAVan: A drunken Robert reveals his wife/girlfriend left him to live in his car, though he admits it isn't so bad as said car is a Honda Civic.
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* BrickJoke: When Dennis interrupts Chris to ask what noise a reindeer makes, Chris snaps "clearly a matter for rehearsals, Dennis!" Guess what Dennis says when he plays Rudolph?
* DawsonCasting: In-universe, Vanessa, a woman in her late 20s, plays the pre-teen Belle. A drunken Robert [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this.]]
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Robert drunkenly bellows his song, after snatching the microphone from the actor who was dubbing him.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Robert shamelessly plugs his book whilst giving presents to the children.
* LargeHam: Quite the Ham already, the sherry just makes Robert worse.
* LivesInAVan: A drunken Robert reveals his wife/girlfriend left him to live in his car, though he admits it isn't so bad as said car is a HondaCivic.Civic.
* RunningGag: Following his Jacob Marley having difficulty getting into Scrooge's room in Film/AChristmasCarolGoesWrong, Jonathan begins to have difficulty getting onstage or completing his performance, this time getting stuck up the chimney.
* UnDuet: Of a sorts; due to Jonathan being stuck up the chimney, we can still hear his muffled half of "We're Nistle and Nostle", but Sandra has to do all the choreography by herself (including falls and catches.)
* VocalRangeExceeded: The backing track to Vanessa's solo is accidentally pitched up several octaves, leading to her having to practically scream the last few lines.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: On several occasions, Robert remarks that the original script is not "(Chris') best work" and later gives up with his dialogue as "none of this play makes any sense."
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* DawsonCasting: In-universe, Vanessa, a woman in her late 20s, plays the pre-teen Belle. A drunken Robert [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this.]]
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Robert drunkenly bellows his song, after snatching the microphone from the actor who was dubbing him.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Robert shamelessly plugs his book whilst giving presents to the children.
* LargeHam: Quite the Ham already, the sherry just makes Robert worse.
* LivesInAVan: A drunken Robert reveals his wife/girlfriend left him to live in his car, though he admits it isn't so bad as said car is a Honda
* RunningGag: Following his Jacob Marley having difficulty getting into Scrooge's room in Film/AChristmasCarolGoesWrong, Jonathan begins to have difficulty getting onstage or completing his performance, this time getting stuck up the chimney.
* UnDuet: Of a sorts; due to Jonathan being stuck up the chimney, we can still hear his muffled half of "We're Nistle and Nostle", but Sandra has to do all the choreography by herself (including falls and catches.)
* VocalRangeExceeded: The backing track to Vanessa's solo is accidentally pitched up several octaves, leading to her having to practically scream the last few lines.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: On several occasions, Robert remarks that the original script is not "(Chris') best work" and later gives up with his dialogue as "none of this play makes any sense."
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'''Season 1, Episode 1''':
!The Spirit of Christmas
Cornley's first entry for "Play of the Week" is a ChristmasEpisode based around Belle, a young girl whose wishing for help at Christmas causes Santa himself to pay a visit to cheer her up. But even with his help, Belle remains unhappy, until her feuding parents make up, showing [[TrueMeaningOfChristmas a message about the true meaning of Christmas.]]
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During the actual performance, things go wrong from the start, when Robert (as Santa) has a bad experience with [[NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals several children who have been brought in to meet Santa.]] The props department mix up the food with the Christmas decorations, cast member Jonathan [[RunningGag gets stuck in the chimney]] and Robert [[IntoxicationEnsues gets hammered on sherry.]]
!!Tropes
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: After discovering the sherry is genuine, Robert keeps taking "just another nip" until he is almost completely incapacitated.
* BadSanta: Unintentionally in the play within a play, but Robert's intoxication causes him to become increasingly rude to the cast and audience.
* LivesInAVan: A drunken Robert reveals his wife/girlfriend left him to live in his car, though he admits it isn't so bad as said car is a Honda Civic.
!The Spirit of Christmas
Cornley's first entry for "Play of the Week" is a ChristmasEpisode based around Belle, a young girl whose wishing for help at Christmas causes Santa himself to pay a visit to cheer her up. But even with his help, Belle remains unhappy, until her feuding parents make up, showing [[TrueMeaningOfChristmas a message about the true meaning of Christmas.]]
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During the actual performance, things go wrong from the start, when Robert (as Santa) has a bad experience with [[NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals several children who have been brought in to meet Santa.]] The props department mix up the food with the Christmas decorations, cast member Jonathan [[RunningGag gets stuck in the chimney]] and Robert [[IntoxicationEnsues gets hammered on sherry.]]
!!Tropes
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: After discovering the sherry is genuine, Robert keeps taking "just another nip" until he is almost completely incapacitated.
* BadSanta: Unintentionally in the play within a play, but Robert's intoxication causes him to become increasingly rude to the cast and audience.
* LivesInAVan: A drunken Robert reveals his wife/girlfriend left him to live in his car, though he admits it isn't so bad as said car is a Honda Civic.
