History Series / TheArmyGame

* ReassignedToAntartica: Sgt. Snudge would sometimes threaten to send the misfits of Hut 29 to some unpleasant overseas posting, such as Singapore. TimeMarchesOn and that no longer sounds the threat it once was.

* DeadPetSketch: In "Snudge's Budgie'', the boys from Hut 29 attempt to replace Snudge's pet budgerigar with a lookalike after Bootsie lets the original one escape. They might have got away with it if their replacement 'male' budgie hadn't [[YourTomCatIsPregnant laid an egg]].

* YourTomCatIsPregnant: In "Snudge's Budgie'', the boys from Hut 29 attempt to [[DeadPetSketch replace Snudge's pet budgerigar with a lookalike after Bootsie lets the original one escape]]. They might have got away with it if their replacement 'male' budgie hadn't laid an egg.

* TrashOfTheTitans: Hut 29 gets like this in its worst moments. In "Enter a Dark Stranger", there are branches and vines growing through the windows and along the wall; piles of dirt of the floor; and Bootsie has a pile of rubbish, including bones and old tyre, in his bed.

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* ArmchairMilitary: Brigadier Stubbs, who is Captain Pockett's superior officer, is a pompous Colonel Blimp type who appears to have been in the military since UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne. Fortunately, commanding the Surplus Ordnance Department at Nether Hopping, Staffordshire, it is unlikely he will ever have to send men into battle.

* TheMovie: 1958's ''I Only Arsked!'', directed by Montgomery Tully and made by Creator/HammerFilms. In it, slapstick ensues when the inept army recruits from Hut 29 are transferred to a post in the Middle East.

* StrangeSalute: When Dooley joins Hut 29, Flogger attempts to convince him that he is a special rank of 'Corporal-Captain', and that Dooley needs to give him a special salute that includes patting his head and waving his hand in front of his face. Dooley adopts the new salute, but is actually playing along for a joke of his own.

* SoldiersAtTheRear: The show is about a group of conscripts stationed at the Surplus Ordnance Depot at Nether Hopping. The are all very keen to see out their National Service while avoiding anything remotely military and making a little cash on the side.

The show cenres on a group of National Service army conscripts who are based in Hut 29 at the Surplus Ordnance Depot, Nether Hopping, Staffordshire. The sitcom follows the antics of the privates, who are determined to dodge work and create some amusement out of a situation they'd rather not be in, and the attempts of their superior officers to stop the fun and keep the showers clean.

* CurCardPause: Ted Lune, as Pvt. Len Bone, would often read out a letter from his mother. The letter relied heavily on all different kinds of reading-out-loud tropes, and invariably finished with an inversion of this particular one; for example, "Mrs Jones next door has bought six pigs. She keeps them in the back yard and there's an awful smell from your loving mother." This was based on a popular bit from his stand-up routines (see Radio below).

* GoodLuckCharm: In "Snudge and Jimmy O'Goblin", Dooley buys a good luck charm called Jimmy O'Goblin. After Snudge confiscates, he experiences a run of good luck, so Hut 29 embark on scheme to make Snudge believe that he is cursed so he will get rid of Jimmy O'Goblin so Dooley can reclaim it.

* DrillSergeantNasty: Initially Company Sgt Major (CSM) Percy Bullimore, played by Creator/WilliamHartnell, was the bane of Hut 29's army life. Later Bullimore was replaced by Bill Fraser's Sgt Claude Snudge.

The show cenres on a group of National Service army conscripts who are based in Hut 29 at the Surplus Ordnance Depot, Nether Hopping, Staffordshire. The sitcom follows the antics of the privates, who are determined to dodge work and create some amusement out of a situation they'd rather not be in, and the attempts of their superior officers to stop the fun and keep the showers clean.