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* LowerClassLout: ''The Yob'' sees a music producer undergo a transformation into a football hooligan. He becomes a crude, violent, drunken, racist thug.
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* SpitTake: A woman does this in ''The Yob'' when the protagonist asks a waiter to get her moist.
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Mayall and Edmonsdon's characters from ''Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door'', who go from drunken louts to attempted murderers.
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** The titular ''Susie'' is an unfaithful wife, a negligent mother, an apathetic teacher and an all-round selfish bitch.
** Mayall and Edmonsdon's characters from ''Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door'', who go from drunken louts toattempted murderers.
** The titular ''Susie'' is an unfaithful wife, a negligent mother, an apathetic teacher and an all-round selfish bitch.
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* CacophonyCoverUp: Mr. Jolly of ''Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door'' hacks his victims to death with a meat cleaver while playing classic Music/TomJones tunes to drown their cries.
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* {{Fingore}}: In ''Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door'', Mr. Lovebucket cuts one of his henchman's fingers off with shears for writing "Mr. Lovebucket is a wanker" on the window of his car.
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* OrphanedPunchline: This joke Mayall tells in ''Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door'':
-->And she said, "Well, I don't think you're a fishmonger. I think you've done a plop in the wrong lavatory".
-->And she said, "Well, I don't think you're a fishmonger. I think you've done a plop in the wrong lavatory".
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** ''The Strike'' has a joke where Creator/CharlesBronson plays Ken Livingstone in a film about the TLC. Sure enough, this was followed up in ''GLC: The Carnage Continues''.
** ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' brings back Bonehead and Foyle from ''The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel''.
** ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' brings back Bonehead and Foyle from ''The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel''.
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Led to the feature films ''The Supergrass'', ''Eat The Rich'', ''The Pope Must Die'' and ''Churchill: The Hollywood Years''.
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Led to the feature film ''Eat The Rich'' about, well, [[EatTheRich eating the rich]].
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Led to the feature film films ''The Supergrass'', ''Eat The Rich'' about, well, [[EatTheRich eating the rich]].
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** ''The Bullshitters: Roll on the Gunbarrel'' portrays Creator/MartinShaw as a pretentious luvvie. Keith Allen and Peter Richardson were annoyed at how he'd view ''Series/TheProfessionals'' as beneath him.
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** ''The Bullshitters: Roll on Out the Gunbarrel'' portrays Creator/MartinShaw as a pretentious luvvie. Keith Allen and Peter Richardson were annoyed at how he'd view ''Series/TheProfessionals'' as beneath him.
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** ''The Bullshitters: Roll on the Gunbarrel'' portrays Creator/MartinShaw as a pretentious luvvie. Keith Allen and Peter Richardson were annoyed at how he'd view ''Series/TheProfessionals'' as beneath him.
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** ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' is a mostly loving parody of the various cliches of 1970s detective shows (mainly the meandering plots interspersed with lots of pointless car chases, shooting and people shouting "Guv!" at each other). It'sless affectionate towards 1990s detective shows; the 1970s shows might be hokey, but they don't put people to sleep.
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** ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' is a mostly loving parody of the various cliches of 1970s detective shows (mainly the meandering plots interspersed with lots of pointless car chases, shooting and people shouting "Guv!" at each other). It'sless It's less affectionate towards 1990s detective shows; the 1970s shows might be hokey, but they don't put people to sleep.
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* PopStarComposer: Music/KateBush wrote and performed the instrumental score and theme song to ''GLC: The Carnage Continues''. Said theme song is a parody of the ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' theme, only it's about Ken Livingston.
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* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Eddie Monsoon of ''Eddie Monsoon – A Life?''. A drunken, drug-addicted, self-destructive television presenter who is interviewed while in rehab. His star has fallen so badly that when he interviews random people in the street, none of them even know who he is (the sole exception being his uncle).
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** ''Bad News Tour'' was followed by ''More Bad News''.
** The special ''Four Men in a Car'' was followed two years later by ''Four Men in a Plane''.
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** In ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'', the most effective detective turns out to be the Jason King {{expy}}, whose technique is to drive around at random sipping claret, yet always manages to end up in exactly the right place to solve the mystery.
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** In ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'', the most effective detective turns out to be the Jason King Series/JasonKing {{expy}}, whose technique is to drive around at random sipping claret, yet always manages to end up in exactly the right place to solve the mystery.
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%%* ThisIsReality -- Lampshaded in ''Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown''
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Many episodes. Not a good programme for emetophobes.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Many episodes. Not a good programme for emetophobes.
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* {{Yellowface}}: ''War'' has Creator/RobbieColtrane as a Japanese businessman-cum-prison warden named Harry Kiri in a parody of ''Series/{{Tenko}}'''s Major Yamauchi if he were a capitalist.
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* LuckBasedSearch:
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* AbandonedArea: Parodied in "Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown" when our heroes find the Docklands are being redeveloped.
-->'''Bonehead''': Where's all the wasteland and the disused factories, Foyle?
-->'''Foyle''': Where's all the rusty girders?
-->'''Bonehead''': Dammit, there's no puddles to run through!
-->'''Bonehead''': Where's all the wasteland and the disused factories, Foyle?
-->'''Foyle''': Where's all the rusty girders?
-->'''Bonehead''': Dammit, there's no puddles to run through!
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** ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' is a mostly loving parody of the various cliches of 1970s detective shows (mainly the meandering plots interspersed with lots of pointless car chases, shooting and people shouting "Guv!" at each other). It's [[TakeThat less affectionate]] It'sless affectionate towards 1990s detective shows; the 1970s shows might be hokey, but they don't put people to sleep.
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* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord -- In ''Space Virgins From The Planet Sex'' the kidnapped earthmen are informed that they will not be referred to as sex slaves, although until every woman aboard the ship is pregnant they will be forced to have sex with those who have yet to conceive.
* BlahBlahBlah -- ''Five Go Mad In Dorset'' features several scenes where characters walk past the members of the Famous Five muttering "Blah blah blah, stolen plans, blah blah blah, missing scientist, blah blah blah," and so forth, with only the "important" parts of the conversation breaking through the endless "blah blah blah".
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord -- In ''Space Virgins From The Planet Sex'' the kidnapped earthmen are informed that they will not be referred to as sex slaves, although until every woman aboard the ship is pregnant they will be forced to have sex with those who have yet to conceive.
* BlahBlahBlah -- ''Five Go Mad In Dorset'' features several scenes where characters walk past the members of the Famous Five muttering "Blah blah blah, stolen plans, blah blah blah, missing scientist, blah blah blah," and so forth, with only the "important" parts of the conversation breaking through the endless "blah blah blah".
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*BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord -- BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: In ''Space Virgins From The Planet Sex'' the kidnapped earthmen are informed that they will not be referred to as sex slaves, although until every woman aboard the ship is pregnant they will be forced to have sex with those who have yet to conceive.
*BlahBlahBlah -- BlahBlahBlah: ''Five Go Mad In Dorset'' features several scenes where characters walk past the members of the Famous Five muttering "Blah blah blah, stolen plans, blah blah blah, missing scientist, blah blah blah," and so forth, with only the "important" parts of the conversation breaking through the endless "blah blah blah".
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%%* FakeOutFadeOut -- ''Consuela''
%%* FluffyTheTerrible -- Jayne and Mr Lovebucket in ''Mr Jolly Lives Next Door''
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* DreadfulMusician: All the members of Bad News: Vim (vocals and lead guitar), Den (rhythm guitar), Spider (drums), and Collin (bass) are individually examples of this, as well as the band being self described as "the worst rock and roll band in the world". There were two episodes made about them and they also released an album, which was mostly the band bickering and included one and a half takes of the worst version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" as well as some deliberately awful original songs.
* DyingDream: ''Les
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* ExactEavesdropping: In ''Five Go Mad In
%%* FakeOutFadeOut -- ''Consuela''
%%* FluffyTheTerrible -- Jayne and Mr Lovebucket in
* FakeOutFadeOut: ''Consuela''. Happy ending, credits roll, needle zip, more stuff, sad ending, credits roll.
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* IllTakeTwoBeersToo: With steaks in ''A Fistful of Travellers' Checks''.
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* IllTakeTwoBeersToo: With steaks in ''A Fistful of Travellers' Checks''.Checks'' does it with steaks. One of the cowboy wannabes orders two steaks and his friend immediately also orders two steaks in an attempt to out-macho him. This escalates until they are ordering ten steaks apiece.
* JustPlaneWrong: In ''Four Men in a Plane'', our heroes take off for the middle east in a four-engined airliner, but when they land it's only got two engines. It's not the plane of the title, by the way — that is a single-engined light aircraft.
* LuckBasedSearch:
** In ''Five Go Mad In Dorset'', the titular protagonists open a concealed door by yanking three times on a random tree-branch.
** In ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'', the most effective detective turns out to be the Jason King {{expy}}, whose technique is to drive around at random sipping claret, yet always manages to end up in exactly the right place to solve the mystery.
** In ''Five Go Mad In Dorset'', the titular protagonists open a concealed door by yanking three times on a random tree-branch.
** In ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'', the most effective detective turns out to be the Jason King {{expy}}, whose technique is to drive around at random sipping claret, yet always manages to end up in exactly the right place to solve the mystery.
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* NonchalantDodge: From ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'':
-->'''[[Series/{{Spender}} Spanker]]:''' What are you going to do about it, old man?\\
-->'''[[Series/JasonKing Jason Bentley]]:''' Well first I'm going to lean this way... ''[dodges punch]'' lean that way... ''[dodges punch]'' have a glass of wine... ''[elbows Spanker as he drinks]'' and then scratch my knee. ''[knees him in groin]''
* NotAfraidToDie: In ''Oxford'', the gun-toting bad guy is confronted by a group of elderly professors who aren't afraid to die because they're all over 60.
* RealDreamsAreWeirder: From ''Didn't You Kill My Brother?'':
-->I had a dream, my friends, oh yes, I had a dream — then suddenly my dream changed, and I was standing in a swimming pool full of small brown puppies — and each of the puppies had the face of a 19th-century politician — and then one of the puppies, that had the face of Lord Palmerston, suddenly started screaming at me, "Where's the spoons, where's the spoons, where's the bloody spoons?"
-->...Any questions?
-->I had a dream, my friends, oh yes, I had a dream — then suddenly my dream changed, and I was standing in a swimming pool full of small brown puppies — and each of the puppies had the face of a 19th-century politician — and then one of the puppies, that had the face of Lord Palmerston, suddenly started screaming at me, "Where's the spoons, where's the spoons, where's the bloody spoons?"
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-->'''Cafe Owner''': Aw, come on guys. Ten steaks each? Are you joking?
-->'''Miguel''': Do we look like comedians?
-->''Cafe Owner exhales wordlessly.''
-->'''Carlos''': What do you call a man with his ding-a-ling in a piece of melon?
-->''Cafe Owner: I don't know.''
-->'''Carlos''': Christopher.
-->''Miguel laughs raucously. No-one else reacts.''
-->'''Carlos''': See what I mean? Now get the steaks amigo!
* SoundtrackDissonance: In ''Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door'', the eponymous and misnamed Mr. Jolly was a hit man who would invite his victims to his flat and then play upbeat Music/TomJones records very loudly — to drown out the sound of their screams.
* StudioChatter: Bad News' debut album ''Bad News'' has more of this and HilariousOuttakes than finished music.
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** ''The Hunt for Tony Blair'' is pretty [[AffectionateParody affectionate]] to the old 1950s-1960s style {{Film Noir}}s it parodies, but is not particularly affectionate towards UsefulNotes/TonyBlair himself.
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** ''The Hunt for Tony Blair'' is pretty [[AffectionateParody affectionate]] affectionate to the old 1950s-1960s style {{Film Noir}}s it parodies, but is not particularly affectionate towards UsefulNotes/TonyBlair himself.himself.
* TeleporterAccident: ''The Yob'' parodies ''Film/TheFly1986'' by having a scientist accidentally merged with a soccer hooligan. Also, at the end of the episode, a macho stud ends up with the lower body of a tomcat.
* TeleporterAccident: ''The Yob'' parodies ''Film/TheFly1986'' by having a scientist accidentally merged with a soccer hooligan. Also, at the end of the episode, a macho stud ends up with the lower body of a tomcat.
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* PolarOppositeTwins: In ''Didn't You Kill My Brother?'', Sterling and Carl Moss are in many ways parodies of opposing political positions - opportunistic capitalism and idealistic socialism. The rehabilitated, self-educated Carl is community-focused and wants to build a better world, whereas his unrepentant criminal brother Sterling is simply interested in profit.
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* AffectionateParody -- ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' is a mostly loving parody of the various cliches of 1970s detective shows (mainly the meandering plots interspersed with lots of pointless car chases, shooting and people shouting "Guv!" at each other). It's [[TakeThat less affectionate]] towards 1990s detective shows; the 1970s shows might be hokey, but they don't put people to sleep.
* AuthorAppeal -- Several episodes written by Adrian Edmondson feature his long-term work partner Rik Mayall in various stages of makeup and femininity, a trope often seen in their other works.
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* AffectionateParody -- AffectionateParody:
** ''Five Go Mad in Dorset'' was such a spot-on parody of ''Literature/TheFamousFive'' that Creator/EnidBlyton's estate loved it.
** ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' is a mostly loving parody of the various cliches of 1970s detective shows (mainly the meandering plots interspersed with lots of pointless car chases, shooting and people shouting "Guv!" at each other). It's [[TakeThat less affectionate]] towards 1990s detective shows; the 1970s shows might be hokey, but they don't put people to sleep.
*AuthorAppeal -- AuthorAppeal: Several episodes written by Adrian Edmondson feature his long-term work partner Rik Mayall in various stages of makeup and femininity, a trope often seen in their other works.
** ''Five Go Mad in Dorset'' was such a spot-on parody of ''Literature/TheFamousFive'' that Creator/EnidBlyton's estate loved it.
** ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' is a mostly loving parody of the various cliches of 1970s detective shows (mainly the meandering plots interspersed with lots of pointless car chases, shooting and people shouting "Guv!" at each other). It's [[TakeThat less affectionate]] towards 1990s detective shows; the 1970s shows might be hokey, but they don't put people to sleep.
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* DealWithTheDevil -- In ''Demonella'' the devil (Jennifer Saunders) offers a record producer success, power and fame in exchange for [[spoiler: his mother's recipe for chicken soup]].
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* DealWithTheDevil -- DealWithTheDevil: In ''Demonella'' the devil (Jennifer Saunders) offers a record producer success, power and fame in exchange for [[spoiler: his mother's recipe for chicken soup]].soup]].
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The Creator/EnidBlyton ''[[Literature/TheFamousFive Famous Five]]'' parodies lampoon the racist, sexist, and classist elements in the original works, such as having the Five mock a black baggage handler ("That man looks foreign!" "Yes, I expect his name's Golliwog!") and comment on how the villains are thick-lipped and bearded or have lower-class accents.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The Creator/EnidBlyton ''[[Literature/TheFamousFive Famous Five]]'' parodies lampoon the racist, sexist, and classist elements in the original works, such as having the Five mock a black baggage handler ("That man looks foreign!" "Yes, I expect his name's Golliwog!") and comment on how the villains are thick-lipped and bearded or have lower-class accents.
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* HistoricalRecreation -- ''Summer School'' is an early send-up of the genre. The premise for the title institution is an attempt at historical recreation of a Stone Age/Bronze Age settlement that ends disastrously when one of the students is mistaken for having died and an attempt to burn his body on a funeral pyre leads the entire settlement to be burned to the ground.
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* HistoricalRecreation -- HistoricalRecreation: ''Summer School'' is an early send-up of the genre. The premise for the title institution is an attempt at historical recreation of a Stone Age/Bronze Age settlement that ends disastrously when one of the students is mistaken for having died and an attempt to burn his body on a funeral pyre leads the entire settlement to be burned to the ground.
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* IllTakeTwoBeersToo -- With steaks in ''A Fistful of Travellers' Checks''.
* ImprobableAimingSkills -- Spoofed in ''Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown'', when the Seventies TV detective's aiming skills stop working because he's shooting at a Nineties TV detective who uses different conventions.
* LeftItIn -- In ''More Bad News'', Vim/Alan breaks the fourth wall and threatens to sue the producers if they leave in a particularly embarrassing item about him. Unfortunately for him he later gets beaten up and left in a coma, so the item stays in.
* ImprobableAimingSkills -- Spoofed in ''Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown'', when the Seventies TV detective's aiming skills stop working because he's shooting at a Nineties TV detective who uses different conventions.
* LeftItIn -- In ''More Bad News'', Vim/Alan breaks the fourth wall and threatens to sue the producers if they leave in a particularly embarrassing item about him. Unfortunately for him he later gets beaten up and left in a coma, so the item stays in.
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* IllTakeTwoBeersToo -- IllTakeTwoBeersToo: With steaks in ''A Fistful of Travellers' Checks''.
*ImprobableAimingSkills -- ImprobableAimingSkills: Spoofed in ''Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown'', when the Seventies TV detective's aiming skills stop working because he's shooting at a Nineties TV detective who uses different conventions.
*LeftItIn -- LeftItIn: In ''More Bad News'', Vim/Alan breaks the fourth wall and threatens to sue the producers if they leave in a particularly embarrassing item about him. Unfortunately for him he later gets beaten up and left in a coma, so the item stays in.
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** ''Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase'' parodies ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', as well as other psychological thrillers based around insane serial killers, by contrasting the flashy, glamourised Hollywood take on a serial killer with the squalid reality of a deeply disturbed man who genuinely needs help.
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A series of 39 short British TV comedy films, mostly produced in the 1980s and early 1990s but running intermittently until 2011. A retrospective was produced in 2005. The programmes were originally shown on Channel 4 (the first aired on the channel's opening night), though one season aired on Creator/TheBBC and the most recent episode appeared on Gold.
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A series of 39 short British TV comedy films, mostly produced in the 1980s and early 1990s but running intermittently until 2011.2016. A retrospective was produced in 2005. The programmes were originally shown on Channel 4 (the first aired on the channel's opening night), though one season aired on Creator/TheBBC and the most recent episode appeared on Gold.
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* {{Oxbridge}}: Parodied in "Oxford" -- specifically, the "hotbed of espionage recruitment" aspect of the colleges. At the end, the bad guy is defeated by a bunch of non-espionage affiliated dons and academics who are bit bloody fed up with their prestigious academic cloister constantly being disrupted and brought into disgrace by all the MI6 and CIA and KGB types using it to recruit spies.
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* {{Oxbridge}}: Parodied in "Oxford" -- specifically, the "hotbed of espionage recruitment" aspect of the colleges. At the end, the bad guy is defeated by a bunch of non-espionage affiliated dons and academics who are bit bloody fed up with their prestigious academic cloister constantly being disrupted and brought into disgrace by all the MI6 and CIA and KGB types using it to recruit spies.
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* BiasSteamroller -- ''Bad News Tour'' was well-reviewed in the UK press but one magazine in particular, ''Smash Hits'', compared it favourably to another Rock {{Mockumentary}} which had come out the same year, which the magazine criticised as an over-hyped Hollywood mess which relied on an "outdated idea of what bands like this are like". However, the reputation of ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' has [[VindicatedByHistory survived]] the anti-Hollywood bias of the reviewer from ''Smash Hits''.
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The core cast was a group of alternative comedians including Creator/RikMayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Creator/DawnFrench, Creator/JenniferSaunders, Peter Richardson, Creator/RobbieColtrane, and Keith Allen. As a result, a lot of the episodes were heavily satirical in nature.
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The core cast was a group of alternative comedians including Creator/RikMayall, Adrian Edmondson, Creator/AdrianEdmondson, Nigel Planer, Creator/DawnFrench, Creator/JenniferSaunders, Peter Richardson, Creator/RobbieColtrane, and Keith Allen. As a result, a lot of the episodes were heavily satirical in nature.