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* LogoJoke: Kenny loved to mess around with the Thames skyline logo. Sometimes he would have it play again in slow-motion, and on occasions the show ended with reversed footage of Kenny tearing through a paper wall with the Thames logo emblazoned on it. One time, a version where the skyline was replaced with GagBoobs was seen!
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* LogoJoke: Kenny loved to mess around with the Thames skyline logo. Sometimes he would have it play again in slow-motion, and on occasions the show ended with reversed footage of Kenny tearing through a paper wall with the Thames logo emblazoned on it. One time, a version where the skyline was replaced with GagBoobs giant breasts was seen!
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''The Kenny Everett Video Show'' is a comedy variety series produced by Creator/{{ITV}} (then Thames Television). It ran over four seasons from 1978 to 1981, the last season seeing the show re-titled ''The Kenny Everett Video Cassette''.
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''The Kenny Everett Video Show'' is a comedy variety series produced by Creator/{{ITV}} (then Thames Television).Creator/ThamesTelevision, part of Creator/{{ITV}} . It ran over four seasons from 1978 to 1981, the last season seeing the show re-titled ''The Kenny Everett Video Cassette''.
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->''"Let's push the button marked 'idiot' and see what comes out."''
''The Kenny Everett Video Show'' is a comedy variety series produced by Creator/{{ITV}} (then Thames Television). It ran over four seasons from 1978 to 1981, the last season seeing the show re-titled ''The Kenny Everett Video Cassette''.
Originally it was a showcase of musical performances, either by the songs' artists—including Music/TheRollingStones, Music/ThePolice, Music/TinaTurner, Music/ThePretenders and Music/DavidBowie—or as backing for FanService dance troupe Hot Gossip. Radio DJ Kenny Everett provided humorous links between the acts, either as himself or as various characters. As the show progressed, the focus moved to Everett's comedy, with the musical numbers becoming less frequent. A number of musical guests, such as Music/EltonJohn, Music/CliffRichard, Music/RodStewart and David Essex, would also participate in some of the comedy sketches.
Regular characters and segments include:
* Sid Snot, an aging, leather-clad rocker-turned-hoodlum.
* Marcel Wave, a French Casanova.
* Angry of Mayfair, a snarling, bad-tempered, conservative moral crusader who utterly despises Everett.
* Captain Kremmen, an AnimatedAdaptation of Everett's radio sci-fi serial, produced by Creator/CosgroveHall.
* A {{Cowboy}}/[[TheGunslinger Gunslinger]] in a Western-style saloon.
* Spod, a FlyingFace alien from the planet Thnnn.
* A talking baby with HeliumSpeech.
* Brother Lee Love, an gospel choir leader with outsized hands.
* Star Quiz, a segment designed to bring celebrities onto the show and humiliate them.
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!! The following trope list contains...''naughty bits!''
* AmbiguousSyntax: Kenny announces that one episode will close with Katie Boyle stripping. She proceeds to strip Kenny, who doesn't object for long.
* AnimatedActor: The cartoon version of Captain Kremmen closely resembles Kenny.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: Sid Snot finks Elton John should be buried in Westminster Abbey. '''''Now!'''''
* BarSlide: The cowboy never does catch the drinks—or, on one occasion, the literal Pink Lady—slid his way.
* BodyHorror: The Mud Men, slaves of the Thargoidians. They've been toiling in radioactive mud mines for so long that their own bodies have turned to mud.
* BrickJoke:
** Kenny throws a ball up in the air and it doesn't come down...until the end of the episode, decking him as he's about to reveal the Secret of Life.
** In one commercial bumper, Kenny takes a camera backstage to give viewers a behind-the-scenes view of the show. The end of the episode sees him roughed up by Lord Thames' goons as punishment.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: When a group of Mud Men assembles, we see six of them with letters on their backs spelling "MUDMEN".
* CameraAbuse:
** Angry of Mayfair regularly thrashes the camera with his umbrella.
** Sid Snot gets into the act, painting the screen black or heaving a custard pie at it.
* CharacterTic: Sid Snot flipping cigarettes up into his mouth, where they almost never stay.
* CongestionSpeak: Foonman, one of Kremmen's crew, has a chronically congested voice ("duh giadnt badnadna").
* CouchGag: Each Season Two episode would end with Kenny's attempt to reveal the Secret of Life being thwarted in some way.
* CoveredInGunge: The inevitable fate of the contestants in "Star Quiz" (Kenny even calls the substance "gunge") and its one-off predecessor, "Who Do You Goo?"
* DetachableLowerHalf: One commercial bumper has Kenny's lower half rip itself off at the waist and walk off, leaving the rest of him to fall screaming into the unknown.
* DumbassDJ: The first season intro calls Kenny a "bird-brained disc jockey".
* EffeminateVoice: Tinsel Man, especially in the {{CSO}} scenes.
* EverythingIsAnInstrument: A group of bobbies play "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz Over the Rainbow]]" on police sirens.
* EyeScream: Carla incapacitates a Thargoidian with a well-aimed mud pie.
* FingerPokeOfDoom: Kenny unleashes a devastating new unarmed combat technique - Finger Power!
* TheGhost: Lord Thames, unseen head honcho of the network.
* GoYeHeroesGoAndDie: Kremmen's talk to his crew as they prepare to face the giant banana.
-->'''Kremmen''': This assignment will test us to our utmost limits.\\
'''Crew''': Yes Captain.\\
'''Kremmen''': It's perhaps our most dangerous mission ever, men.\\
'''Crew''': Yes Captain.\\
'''Kremmen''': Anyone want to back out?\\
'''Crew''': [[RuleOfThree Yes Captain]].\\
'''Kremmen''': IllPretendIDidntHearThat.
* HilariousOuttakes: A few make it into the show proper. The commercial for Follicle hair restorer consists mostly of blown takes.
-->'''Kenny''': Bum! The last ''([[SoundEffectBleep bleep]])''-ing word.
* HypocriticalHumour: Angry of Mayfair rails against "pansies" and other scourges of decent society...while wearing women's underwear.
* IResembleThatRemark: Sid Snot doesn't get why his new bird says he's bleedin' uncouth.
* LastNoteNightmare: ''"So let's have fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun,'' '''[[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand FUN!]]'''"
* {{Leitmotif}}: Several characters.
** Sid Snot has the ''Series/PeterGunn'' theme.
** The surfer has "Fun Fun Fun" by Music/TheBeachBoys.
* MirrorRoutine: David Essex and Marcel Wave. It ends with the former punching the latter out.
* MyLittlePanzer: Action Yob, a toy [[MerchandisingTheMonster modeled after Sid Snot]]. Wind it up, and it [[UseYourHead headbutts]] you. Or, as Sid sneakily tells Marcel Wave, it [[{{Pun}} gives you a nut]].
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Angry of Mayfair storms on, snarls "Hello! Bangs camera!", then slinks off when he realises his mistake.
* ReplacedTheThemeTune: Each season uses a different title sequence, bearing little to no resemblance to the others.
* SaveTheVillain: The giant banana receives an emergency operation after Kremmen's ship blasts it. It survives, but might remain a cabbage.
* SimpletonVoice: Kremmen, when he is zapped with an intelligence-draining ray. "I will not submit!"
* SitcomArchNemesis:
** Several characters mock the host but Angry of Mayfair hates him with a passion. He drives the phone-in campaign to pay Everett's ransom so that the kidnappers won't [[YouCanKeepHer send him back]].
** Wonder Tart exists primarily to talk smack about Carla behind her back.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Gort, leader of the Thargoidians, appears in one scene sitting sideways on his throne with his legs dangling over one arm.
* SpareBodyParts:
** Extra Knee, as advertised in one commercial.
** The Thargoidians have at least three faces, which appear to be synchronised with each other.
* StopTrick: Billy the Dancing Bucket's routine.
* StronglyWordedLetter: Angry of Mayfair caricatures the author of one, down to his anonym.
* SunglassesAtNight: Sid Snot is never seen without them.
* SynchroVox: Billy the Dancing Bucket speaks with Kenny's mouth.
* TakingYouWithMe: Non-lethal version. After losing at "Star Quiz" Creator/BillyConnolly seizes Kenny so that the gunge drops on them both.
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: The recorded instructions for Music/TheBeeGees kit, a couple of times.
--> '''Tape''': Take one pill from bottle A.\\
''[User grabs another bottle]''\\
'''Tape''': Not that one! Bottle A, you waste of space.
* TrrrillingRrrs: Dr Gitfinger ("It's coming over the horrrRRRrrrRRRrizon").
* TheUnreveal:
** The Secret of Life, unless you subscribe to Sid Snot's view [[note]]Bit of aggro, knuckle sandwich, [[UseYourHead mouthful of dandruff]], chat up a tasty bit, and away on the toes[[/note]].
** One episode has a contest asking viewers to guess the identity of a masked singer. Next episode, Kenny says three viewers answered correctly, but identifies neither the singer nor the contestants who got it right.
* UnwinnableByDesign: "Star Quiz". Contestants get three questions worth ten points each, but to win they need thirty-one points, and to guess a completely random secret word (e.g. "theodolite", "anathema") for which they are given no clues.
* VerbalTic: Everett and a number of his characters often call things "[thing]y-poos", and describe people and objects as "[adjective]y-poo".
* WhiteVoidRoom: Most sketches take place in one.
* WingdingEyes: Gitfinger's glasses often display various images and symbols.
* YouCanKeepHer: Inverted. Kenny is kidnapped and if a ransom isn't paid, he'll be sent back. The money is raised and delivered but the kidnappers send him back anyway.
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-> ''"The secret of life is-'' [URRK!]"
''The Kenny Everett Video Show'' is a comedy variety series produced by Creator/{{ITV}} (then Thames Television). It ran over four seasons from 1978 to 1981, the last season seeing the show re-titled ''The Kenny Everett Video Cassette''.
Originally it was a showcase of musical performances, either by the songs' artists—including Music/TheRollingStones, Music/ThePolice, Music/TinaTurner, Music/ThePretenders and Music/DavidBowie—or as backing for FanService dance troupe Hot Gossip. Radio DJ Kenny Everett provided humorous links between the acts, either as himself or as various characters. As the show progressed, the focus moved to Everett's comedy, with the musical numbers becoming less frequent. A number of musical guests, such as Music/EltonJohn, Music/CliffRichard, Music/RodStewart and David Essex, would also participate in some of the comedy sketches.
Regular characters and segments include:
* Sid Snot, an aging, leather-clad rocker-turned-hoodlum.
* Marcel Wave, a French Casanova.
* Angry of Mayfair, a snarling, bad-tempered, conservative moral crusader who utterly despises Everett.
* Captain Kremmen, an AnimatedAdaptation of Everett's radio sci-fi serial, produced by Creator/CosgroveHall.
* A {{Cowboy}}/[[TheGunslinger Gunslinger]] in a Western-style saloon.
* Spod, a FlyingFace alien from the planet Thnnn.
* A talking baby with HeliumSpeech.
* Brother Lee Love, an gospel choir leader with outsized hands.
* Star Quiz, a segment designed to bring celebrities onto the show and humiliate them.
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!! The following trope list contains...''naughty bits!''
* AmbiguousSyntax: Kenny announces that one episode will close with Katie Boyle stripping. She proceeds to strip Kenny, who doesn't object for long.
* AnimatedActor: The cartoon version of Captain Kremmen closely resembles Kenny.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: Sid Snot finks Elton John should be buried in Westminster Abbey. '''''Now!'''''
* BarSlide: The cowboy never does catch the drinks—or, on one occasion, the literal Pink Lady—slid his way.
* BodyHorror: The Mud Men, slaves of the Thargoidians. They've been toiling in radioactive mud mines for so long that their own bodies have turned to mud.
* BrickJoke:
** Kenny throws a ball up in the air and it doesn't come down...until the end of the episode, decking him as he's about to reveal the Secret of Life.
** In one commercial bumper, Kenny takes a camera backstage to give viewers a behind-the-scenes view of the show. The end of the episode sees him roughed up by Lord Thames' goons as punishment.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: When a group of Mud Men assembles, we see six of them with letters on their backs spelling "MUDMEN".
* CameraAbuse:
** Angry of Mayfair regularly thrashes the camera with his umbrella.
** Sid Snot gets into the act, painting the screen black or heaving a custard pie at it.
* CharacterTic: Sid Snot flipping cigarettes up into his mouth, where they almost never stay.
* CongestionSpeak: Foonman, one of Kremmen's crew, has a chronically congested voice ("duh giadnt badnadna").
* CouchGag: Each Season Two episode would end with Kenny's attempt to reveal the Secret of Life being thwarted in some way.
* CoveredInGunge: The inevitable fate of the contestants in "Star Quiz" (Kenny even calls the substance "gunge") and its one-off predecessor, "Who Do You Goo?"
* DetachableLowerHalf: One commercial bumper has Kenny's lower half rip itself off at the waist and walk off, leaving the rest of him to fall screaming into the unknown.
* DumbassDJ: The first season intro calls Kenny a "bird-brained disc jockey".
* EffeminateVoice: Tinsel Man, especially in the {{CSO}} scenes.
* EverythingIsAnInstrument: A group of bobbies play "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz Over the Rainbow]]" on police sirens.
* EyeScream: Carla incapacitates a Thargoidian with a well-aimed mud pie.
* FingerPokeOfDoom: Kenny unleashes a devastating new unarmed combat technique - Finger Power!
* TheGhost: Lord Thames, unseen head honcho of the network.
* GoYeHeroesGoAndDie: Kremmen's talk to his crew as they prepare to face the giant banana.
-->'''Kremmen''': This assignment will test us to our utmost limits.\\
'''Crew''': Yes Captain.\\
'''Kremmen''': It's perhaps our most dangerous mission ever, men.\\
'''Crew''': Yes Captain.\\
'''Kremmen''': Anyone want to back out?\\
'''Crew''': [[RuleOfThree Yes Captain]].\\
'''Kremmen''': IllPretendIDidntHearThat.
* HilariousOuttakes: A few make it into the show proper. The commercial for Follicle hair restorer consists mostly of blown takes.
-->'''Kenny''': Bum! The last ''([[SoundEffectBleep bleep]])''-ing word.
* HypocriticalHumour: Angry of Mayfair rails against "pansies" and other scourges of decent society...while wearing women's underwear.
* IResembleThatRemark: Sid Snot doesn't get why his new bird says he's bleedin' uncouth.
* LastNoteNightmare: ''"So let's have fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun,'' '''[[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand FUN!]]'''"
* {{Leitmotif}}: Several characters.
** Sid Snot has the ''Series/PeterGunn'' theme.
** The surfer has "Fun Fun Fun" by Music/TheBeachBoys.
* MirrorRoutine: David Essex and Marcel Wave. It ends with the former punching the latter out.
* MyLittlePanzer: Action Yob, a toy [[MerchandisingTheMonster modeled after Sid Snot]]. Wind it up, and it [[UseYourHead headbutts]] you. Or, as Sid sneakily tells Marcel Wave, it [[{{Pun}} gives you a nut]].
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Angry of Mayfair storms on, snarls "Hello! Bangs camera!", then slinks off when he realises his mistake.
* ReplacedTheThemeTune: Each season uses a different title sequence, bearing little to no resemblance to the others.
* SaveTheVillain: The giant banana receives an emergency operation after Kremmen's ship blasts it. It survives, but might remain a cabbage.
* SimpletonVoice: Kremmen, when he is zapped with an intelligence-draining ray. "I will not submit!"
* SitcomArchNemesis:
** Several characters mock the host but Angry of Mayfair hates him with a passion. He drives the phone-in campaign to pay Everett's ransom so that the kidnappers won't [[YouCanKeepHer send him back]].
** Wonder Tart exists primarily to talk smack about Carla behind her back.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Gort, leader of the Thargoidians, appears in one scene sitting sideways on his throne with his legs dangling over one arm.
* SpareBodyParts:
** Extra Knee, as advertised in one commercial.
** The Thargoidians have at least three faces, which appear to be synchronised with each other.
* StopTrick: Billy the Dancing Bucket's routine.
* StronglyWordedLetter: Angry of Mayfair caricatures the author of one, down to his anonym.
* SunglassesAtNight: Sid Snot is never seen without them.
* SynchroVox: Billy the Dancing Bucket speaks with Kenny's mouth.
* TakingYouWithMe: Non-lethal version. After losing at "Star Quiz" Creator/BillyConnolly seizes Kenny so that the gunge drops on them both.
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: The recorded instructions for Music/TheBeeGees kit, a couple of times.
--> '''Tape''': Take one pill from bottle A.\\
''[User grabs another bottle]''\\
'''Tape''': Not that one! Bottle A, you waste of space.
* TrrrillingRrrs: Dr Gitfinger ("It's coming over the horrrRRRrrrRRRrizon").
* TheUnreveal:
** The Secret of Life, unless you subscribe to Sid Snot's view [[note]]Bit of aggro, knuckle sandwich, [[UseYourHead mouthful of dandruff]], chat up a tasty bit, and away on the toes[[/note]].
** One episode has a contest asking viewers to guess the identity of a masked singer. Next episode, Kenny says three viewers answered correctly, but identifies neither the singer nor the contestants who got it right.
* UnwinnableByDesign: "Star Quiz". Contestants get three questions worth ten points each, but to win they need thirty-one points, and to guess a completely random secret word (e.g. "theodolite", "anathema") for which they are given no clues.
* VerbalTic: Everett and a number of his characters often call things "[thing]y-poos", and describe people and objects as "[adjective]y-poo".
* WhiteVoidRoom: Most sketches take place in one.
* WingdingEyes: Gitfinger's glasses often display various images and symbols.
* YouCanKeepHer: Inverted. Kenny is kidnapped and if a ransom isn't paid, he'll be sent back. The money is raised and delivered but the kidnappers send him back anyway.
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-> ''"The secret of life is-'' [URRK!]"
