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''Count Arthur Strong'' is a television adaptation of Steve Delaney's long-running character, an ageing, perpetually unemployed variety act. It ran for three series, between 2013 and 2017, and exists in a separate continuity from ''Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!'' and the stage shows. It was created and written by Creator/SteveDelaney and Creator/GrahamLinehan and directed by the latter.
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''Count Arthur Strong'' is a television adaptation of Steve Delaney's long-running character, an ageing, perpetually unemployed variety act. It ran for three series, between 2013 and 2017, and exists in a separate continuity from ''Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!'' and the stage shows. It was created and written by Creator/SteveDelaney Delaney and Creator/GrahamLinehan and directed by the latter.
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Count Arthur Strong is a music hall performer who's never had much success. He spends his days hanging out at his local cafe with his friends and remembering bygone success that didn't actually happen -- and getting on the owner's nerves in the process. One day he's approached by Michael Baker, who's writing a book about his father, who used to be Arthur's double-act partner. Sensing an opportunity to spread word about his act and attract new employment, Arthur pulls Michael into all sorts of misadventures with the promise of useful anecdotes.
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Count Arthur Strong is a music hall performer who's never had much success. He spends his days hanging out at his local cafe with his friends and remembering bygone success that didn't actually happen -- and getting on the owner's nerves in the process. One day he's approached by Michael Baker, Baker (Creator/RoryKinnear), who's writing a book about his father, who used to be Arthur's double-act partner. Sensing an opportunity to spread word about his act and attract new employment, Arthur pulls Michael into all sorts of misadventures with the promise of useful anecdotes.
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* Crossover: In one episode Arthur wants to reconcile with a former member of a band in his youth, and travels to Sheffield and it's [[John Shuttleworth]]!
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'''Michael''': I know more than you do, I tell you that! Someone casting you as a doctor, let me tell you what that is! [[QuestionableCasting That is mis-casting!]] You're more of a crazy gravedigger! Or a village idiot! What you're not is someone who anyone might mistake for a person of authority, like a doctor! You can't act, Arthur! ''You can't act!''\\
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'''Michael''': I know more than you do, I tell you that! Someone casting you as a doctor, let me tell you what that is! [[QuestionableCasting [[invoked]][[QuestionableCasting That is mis-casting!]] You're more of a crazy gravedigger! Or a village idiot! What you're not is someone who anyone might mistake for a person of authority, like a doctor! You can't act, Arthur! ''You can't act!''\\
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'''Michael''': I know more than you do, I tell you that! Someone casting you as a doctor, let me tell you what that is! [[WTHCastingAgency That is mis-casting!]] You're more of a crazy gravedigger! Or a village idiot! What you're not is someone who anyone might mistake for a person of authority, like a doctor! You can't act, Arthur! ''You can't act!''\\
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'''Michael''': I know more than you do, I tell you that! Someone casting you as a doctor, let me tell you what that is! [[WTHCastingAgency [[QuestionableCasting That is mis-casting!]] You're more of a crazy gravedigger! Or a village idiot! What you're not is someone who anyone might mistake for a person of authority, like a doctor! You can't act, Arthur! ''You can't act!''\\
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''Count Arthur Strong'' is a television adaptation of Steve Delaney's long-running character, an ageing, perpetually unemployed variety act. It ran for three series, between 2013 and 2017, and exists in a separate continuity from ''Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!'' and the stage shows.
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''Count Arthur Strong'' is a television adaptation of Steve Delaney's long-running character, an ageing, perpetually unemployed variety act. It ran for three series, between 2013 and 2017, and exists in a separate continuity from ''Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!'' and the stage shows. \n It was created and written by Creator/SteveDelaney and Creator/GrahamLinehan and directed by the latter.
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'''Arthur''': Oh, dear, eh? (laughs helplessly for a few seconds) ({{Beat}}) AndThenWhat
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'''Arthur''': Oh, dear, eh? (laughs helplessly for a few seconds) ({{Beat}}) AndThenWhatAndThenWhat
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* FightBellHijinks: Early on in the episode, Arthur mentions how [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass he used to be a boxer in his youth]], but suffered from a case of CripplingOverspecialization, in that he had to defeat his opponent in a OneHitKO the moment the bell rang, otherwise he'd lose. At the same time, Bulent, the irascible cafe owner, mentions that he's thinking of getting a bell installed so he can keep the attention of his customers and staff. [[ChekhovsGag Both of these become important later on]], when Arthur ends up [[ItMakesSenseInContext running for parliament to get rid of imaginary roadworks noise]]. The leader of the opposition comes into Bulent's cafe [[PhotoOpWithTheDog for a photo shoot with Arthur]], then [[TemptingFate suggests taking a photo where they look like they're both squaring off for a bout]]. As soon as both men take up their poses, Bulent shows off his new bell to the customers by ringing it. The moment the bell goes off, [[ReflexiveResponse Arthur immediately punches his opponent down]], thereby ruining any chance he had of becoming a politician.
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* EmbarrassingHospitalGown: In "Doctor Two", Michael is in a hospital, wearing a gown, and about to be anesthetized so the doctors can find out whether he got rabies from having his [[{{Fingore}} hand bitten]] by a dog earlier that day. Initially, he starts to relax under the anesthetic, only to have an OhCrap reaction upon seeing that one of his doctors is actually [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Arthur]] wearing a white lab coat, having somehow [[BavarianFireDrill tricked the hospital staff into thinking he's one of them]] (despite Michael earlier stating that Arthur's such a bad actor, he'd never be able to do this). Michael, who has become increasingly paranoid that Arthur is a HarbingerOfImpendingDoom, starts screaming unintelligibly that the man in glasses is not a doctor, and stagger-lurches off his bed and tries wrestling Arthur out of the room, at which point Arthur becomes just as horrified when his hands end up behind Michael and he realizes "[[LargeHam HELP ME! HE'S NOT WEARING ANY UNDERPANTS!]]" By the end of the episode, Arthur mutters that [[BrainBleach he can't stop thinking about Michael's bottom now]] (just like he [[BrickJoke also couldn't stop thinking]] about [[BareBottomedMonkey monkeys' bottoms]] earlier throughout the episode).
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* FingerSnappingStreetGang: Parodied in a flashback to Arthur's youth, when he and his friends in the Greenwich Mean Gang (a gang of GreaserDelinquents) walk down one side of an alley snapping their fingers. On the other side appear a gang of [[StreetUrchin Victorain street urchins]] straight out of ''Literature/OliverTwist'', also snapping their fingers. [[InterestingSituationDuel Greasers and urchins end up fighting one another]].
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''Count Arthur Strong'' is a television adaptation of Steve Delaney's long-running character, an ageing, perpetually unemployed variety act. It exists in a separate continuity from ''Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!'' and the stage shows.
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''Count Arthur Strong'' is a television adaptation of Steve Delaney's long-running character, an ageing, perpetually unemployed variety act. It ran for three series, between 2013 and 2017, and exists in a separate continuity from ''Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!'' and the stage shows.
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''Count Arthur Strong'' is a television adaptation of Steve Delaney's long-running character, an ageing, perpetually unemployed variety act.
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''Count Arthur Strong'' is a television adaptation of Steve Delaney's long-running character, an ageing, perpetually unemployed variety act.
act. It exists in a separate continuity from ''Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!'' and the stage shows.
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2013 [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] sitcom based on Steve Delaney's Count Arthur Strong character, an aging variety performer. Although debuting to disappointing ratings, the series has proven to be something of a SleeperHit and the third series was promoted to a primetime slot.
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* TookALevelInCheerfulness: [[spoiler:After Katya dies]] and Arthur stops frequenting the cafe, Bulent(traditionally the GrumpyBear of the cast) becomes a lot more energetic and cheerful, in a way that disturbs Michael. This is both PlayedForLaughs and PlayedForDrama when Bulent comes clean to Sinem about why he's doing this:
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* TookALevelInCheerfulness: [[spoiler:After Katya dies]] and Arthur stops frequenting the cafe, Bulent(traditionally the GrumpyBear grump of the cast) becomes a lot more energetic and cheerful, in a way that disturbs Michael. This is both PlayedForLaughs and PlayedForDrama when Bulent comes clean to Sinem about why he's doing this:
