History Series / OnTheBuses

* CatchPhrase: Blakey's "I 'ate you, Butler!"

* NoAccountingForTaste: Olive and Arthur are a brilliantly ghastly combination.

* HaveAGayOldTime: "There's always gay life on the buses/make sure you leave your bird at home".

%%* HaveAGayOldTime: "There's always gay life on the buses/make sure you leave your bird at home".

%%* {{Housewife}}: Stan's mum, a totally archetypal British 1950s housewife with a scarf perpetually over her hair.

%%* LoveableRogue: Jack and Stan

%%* RunningGag: The show attempts to depict Arthur's operation as this.
%%* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Jack Harper's catchphrase might as well be "As shop steward. I can do whatever the 'ell I bleedin' want".

* TheMovie: Actually three - ''On the Buses'' (1971), ''Mutiny on the Buses'' (1972), and ''Holiday on the Buses'' (1973). The first movie is notable for being the most successful film that Hammer Film Productions ever made. Yes, [[Film/HammerHorror that Hammer]].

Seventies Britcom centred on workers of the Luxton & District Traction Company. The main characters are Stan Butler (Creator/RegVarney), a bus driver, and his best mate and conductor, Jack Harper (Bob Grant). Their arch-nemesis is pen-pushing bureaucrat bus inspector Cyril "Blakey" Blake (Creator/StephenLewis). Recurring characters include Stan's mum Mabel (Cicely Courtneidge, then Creator/DorisHare), sister Olive Rudge (Creator/AnnaKaren) and brother-in-law Arthur (Creator/MichaelRobbins). Olive and Arthur are unhappily married, which is often joked about. Seventy-four episodes were made from 1969 to 1973. Three spinoff films were also made between 1971 and 1973.

Seventies Britcom centred on workers of the Luxton & District Traction Company. The main characters are Stan Butler (Reg Varney), a bus driver, and his best mate and conductor, Jack Harper (Bob Grant). Their arch-nemesis is pen-pushing bureaucrat bus inspector Cyril "Blakey" Blake (Creator/StephenLewis). Recurring characters include Stan's mum Mabel (Cicely Courtneidge, then Creator/DorisHare), sister Olive Rudge (Creator/AnnaKaren) and brother-in-law Arthur (Creator/MichaelRobbins). Olive and Arthur are unhappily married, which is often joked about. Seventy-four episodes were made from 1969 to 1973. Three spinoff films were also made between 1971 and 1973.

* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: Inspector Cyril Blake; sure there's the odd derogatory comment, but for the most part, he's the most progressive character on the show.

* {{Retool}}: Necessitated by Creator/MichaelRobbins and later Reg Varney leaving the show. The premise changed to allow Olive a job at the depot and Blake to move in with her and Mrs Butler.

* WrittenInAbsence: Reg Varney left the series in the final season, after "Goodbye Stan", so he isn't in the last six episodes. His absence was explained by Stan moving to the Midlands, to work in a bus manufacturing factory.

Seventies Britcom centred on workers of the Luxton & District Traction Company. The main characters are Stan Butler (Reg Varney), a bus driver, and his best mate and conductor, Jack Harper (Bob Grant). Their arch-nemesis is pen-pushing bureaucrat bus inspector Cyril "Blakey" Blake (Creator/StephenLewis). Recurring characters include Stan's mum Mabel (Cicely Courtneidge, then Creator/DorisHare), sister Olive Rudge (Creator/AnnaKaren) and brother-in-law Arthur (Creator/MichaelRobbins). Olive and Arthur are unhappily married, which is often joked about. Seventy-four episodes were made from 1969 to 1973. Three spinoff films were also made.

Seventies Britcom centred on workers of the Luxton & District Traction Company. The main characters are Stan Butler (Reg Varney), a bus driver, and his best mate and conductor, Jack Harper (Bob Grant). Their arch-nemesis is pen-pushing bureaucrat bus inspector Cyril "Blakey" Blake (Creator/StephenLewis). Recurring characters include Stan's mum Mabel (Cicely Courtneidge, then Creator/DorisHare), sister Olive Rudge (Creator/AnnaKaren) and brother-in-law Arthur (Michael Robbins). Olive and Arthur are unhappily married, which is often joked about. Seventy-four episodes were made from 1969 to 1973. Three spinoff films were also made.

* {{Retool}}: Necessitated by Michael Robbins and later Reg Varney leaving the show. The premise changed to allow Olive a job at the depot and Blake to move in with her and Mrs Butler.

Seventies Britcom centred on workers of the Luxton & District Traction Company. The main characters are Stan Butler (Reg Varney), a bus driver, and his best mate and conductor, Jack Harper (Bob Grant). Their arch-nemesis is pen-pushing bureaucrat bus inspector Cyril "Blakey" Blake (Stephen Lewis). Recurring characters include Stan's mum Mabel (Cicely Courtneidge, then Creator/DorisHare), sister Olive Rudge (Creator/AnnaKaren) and brother-in-law Arthur (Michael Robbins). Olive and Arthur are unhappily married, which is often joked about. Seventy-four episodes were made from 1969 to 1973. Three spinoff films were also made.

Seventies Britcom centred on workers of the Luxton & District Traction Company. The main characters are Stan Butler (Reg Varney), a bus driver, and his best mate and conductor, Jack Harper (Bob Grant). Their arch-nemesis is pen-pushing bureaucrat bus inspector Cyril "Blakey" Blake (Stephen Lewis). Recurring characters include Stan's mum Mabel (Cicely Courtneidge, then Doris Hare), sister Olive Rudge (Creator/AnnaKaren) and brother-in-law Arthur (Michael Robbins). Olive and Arthur are unhappily married, which is often joked about. Seventy-four episodes were made from 1969 to 1973. Three spinoff films were also made.

Seventies Britcom centred on workers of the Luxton & District Traction Company. The main characters are Stan Butler, a bus driver, and his best mate and conductor, Jack Harper. Their arch-nemesis is pen-pushing bureaucrat bus inspector Cyril "Blakey" Blake. Recurring characters include Stan's mum, sister Olive and brother-in-law Arthur. Olive and Arthur are unhappily married, which is often joked about. Seventy-four episodes were made from 1969 to 1973. Three spinoff films were also made.

* BeautyInversion: Olive was presented as frumpy and uncaring of her appearance, though in real life Anna Karen had been a model and dancer prior to the series. When she showcased her natural look during a magazine shoot in the 1970s, viewers were shocked at just how different she appeared from her character.

* PutOnABus: [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Rather amusingly for Tropers,]] Stan leaves the series for OopNorth, on the grounds that bus drivers make more money there, thus he literally was put on a bus.

* ComicBookAdaptation: ''Look-In'' (a magazine aimed at children) serialized the series between 1971 and 1974. Notably, the show's raunchy style of humour was toned down, due to the fact that it was aimed at a younger audience.

* TheChewToy: Poor Olive, destined to be dumped on and have fat jokes told about her, despite being played by an ex-model, who also appeared in a nudie cutie and several ''Film/CarryOn'' films. (One fan site uses the phrase "the delectable Olive" to describe her.)

* KarmaHoudini: For the most part, Stan and Jack always seem to get away with almost everything they do. Up to and including, at least one count of theft per series, defiling a cemetery, attempted benefit fraud, getting otherwise innocent co-workers fired by association, stopping the equality act in its tracks... Essentially doing everything but their actual jobs.

%%* NaughtyByNight: Well, Olive would like to be, but Arthur has other ideas...
%%* NoAccountingForTaste: Olive and Arthur are a brilliantly ghastly combination.

* ProtagonistCentredMorality: Stan and Jack are depicted as the protagonists and the show plays on the idea that they are in the right. Despite the fact that they preform several illegal, or unquestionably morally wrong actions. Casual dialogue in the seventh series opener insinuates that they're willing to go so far as to defraud a divorce hearing.

* ShotgunWedding: For all intents and purposes, the reason why Arthur married Olive in the first place after a BedmateReveal.

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* HaveAGayOldTime: "There's always gay life on the buses/make sure you leave your bird at home".
* {{Housewife}}: Stan's mum, a totally archetypal British 1950s housewife with a scarf perpetually over her hair

* LoveableRogue: Jack and Stan

* NaughtyByNight: Well, Olive would like to be, but Arthur has other ideas...
* NoAccountingForTaste: Olive and Arthur are a brilliantly ghastly combination.

* RunningGag: The show attempts to depict Arthur's operation as this.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Jack Harper's catchphrase might as well be "As shop steward. I can do whatever the 'ell I bleedin' want".

* KarmaHoudini: For the most part, Stan and Jack always seem to get away with almost everything they do. Up to and including, atleast one count of theft per series, Purgery, deflying a cemetary, attempted benifit fraud, getting otherwise innocent co-workers fired by association, stoping the equality act in it's tracks... Essentially doing everything but their actual jobs.

* ShotgunWedding: For all intents and purpouses, the reason why Arthur married Olive in the first place after a BedmateReveal.

* StayInTheKitchen: Olive and Mrs Butler. Subverted in the final series when Olive is forced to get a job at the depo to maintain the double income household after Arthur Leaves.

* Retool: Nessecitated by Micheal Robbins and later Reg Varney leaving the show. The Premise changed to allow Olive a job at the depo and Blake to move in with her and Mrs Butler.

* ShipTease: One episode depicts a drunk Stan attempting to snog both Blakey and Jack, Within five minutes of each other.
** Boarders on HoYay: In series seven, when as part of a joke, Jack explicitly kisses Stan's cheek.
* ShotgunWedding: AndNowYouMustMarryMe: For all intents and purpouses, the reason why Arthur married olive in the firstplace after a BedmateReveal:

* KarmaHoudini: For the most part, Stan and Jack get away with almost everything they do. No matter how wrong.

** Boarders on HoYay: In series seven, when Jack explicitly kisses Stan's cheek.