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* PlankGag: Used with frequency.

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* PlankGag: Used with frequency. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv1FBqFOTLQ For example,]] Benny carrying a plank is easily distracted by pretty ladies, with predictable results.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Sketches where the husband gets picked in his wife are very common. Up to and including {{Dracula}}.

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* HenpeckedHusband: Sketches where the husband gets picked in on by his wife are very common. Up to and including {{Dracula}}.



* HornyVikings: Parodied in "Heroes Through The Ages" sketch where Benny takes off the horns of the helmet to reveal one is a bottle and another one is a cup. While his sidekick takes off the helmet to reveal he has actual horns.

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* HornyVikings: Parodied in a "Heroes Through The the Ages" sketch where Benny takes off the horns of the helmet to reveal one is a bottle and another one is a cup. While his sidekick takes off the helmet to reveal he has actual horns.

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* HenpeckedHusband: Very common. Up to and including {{Dracula}}.

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* HenpeckedHusband: Very Sketches where the husband gets picked in his wife are very common. Up to and including {{Dracula}}.


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* HornyVikings: Parodied in "Heroes Through The Ages" sketch where Benny takes off the horns of the helmet to reveal one is a bottle and another one is a cup. While his sidekick takes off the helmet to reveal he has actual horns.
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* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Most of the time when Benny or someone else on the show paws at a woman (or she is convinced they just have), they gets belted for it. Lechery is frequently indulged in and just as frequently punished on this show. This kind of thing was Hill's go-to defense when people accused the show of sexism.

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* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Most of the time when Benny or someone else on the show paws at a woman (or she is convinced they just have), they gets get belted for it. Lechery is frequently indulged in and just as frequently punished on this show. This kind of thing was Hill's go-to defense when people accused the show of sexism.



* EdibleBludgeon: The song "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)" features a fight between Ernie and his rival Two-Ton Ted who drives the bakers van using wares from their vans. Ernie is killed by rock cake underneath his heart followed by stale pork pie in the eye.

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* EdibleBludgeon: The song "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)" features a fight between Ernie and his rival Two-Ton Ted who drives the bakers baker's van using wares from their vans. Ernie is killed by rock cake underneath his heart followed by stale pork pie in the eye.



* GivingThemTheStrip: An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUOe_hLg7Bo ending chase scene]] has Benny as an escaped prison inmate evading two bobbies by striping of the jacket and trousers of his InstitutionalApparel. Finding new clothes to replace them proves problematic, however.

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* GivingThemTheStrip: An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUOe_hLg7Bo ending chase scene]] has Benny as an escaped prison inmate evading two bobbies by striping of stripping off the jacket and trousers of his InstitutionalApparel. Finding new clothes to replace them proves problematic, however.

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