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* AwfulWeddedLife: Charlie and Stella are a husband and wife with a tempestuous relationship. They have grown to hate each other and quarrel endlessly, using unwilling third parties as mediators. These include their daughter's boyfriend Tony, a waiter, and a baby.
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* CelebrityParadox: Mick [=McNamara=] claims that an episode of Creator/TomBaker-era ''Series/DoctorWho'' was filmed at the Stump Hole caverns. So why does Mick, and approximately one third of the town, look exactly like that guy who played Dr. Lazarus in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment "The Lazarus Experiment"]] and wrote the episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern "The Idiot's Lantern"]]? And why does another third of the town so greatly resemble the guy who played Strackman Lux in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary "Silence in the Library"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead "Forest of the Dead"]]? And why [[spoiler:does Dougal Siepp so greatly resemble the Ninth Doctor?]] And why does the final third of the town look like the guy who played Rassmussen in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E9SleepNoMore "Sleep No More"]]?
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* CelebrityParadox: Mick [=McNamara=] claims that an episode Les [=McQueen=] mentions Roy "Chubby" Brown's cover of Creator/TomBaker-era ''Series/DoctorWho'' was filmed at the Stump Hole caverns. So why does Mick, and approximately one third of the town, look exactly like that guy who played Dr. Lazarus in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment "The Lazarus Experiment"]] and wrote the episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern "The Idiot's Lantern"]]? And why does another third of the town so greatly resemble the guy who played Strackman Lux in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary "Silence "Alice". Chubby appeared in the Library"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead "Forest of second season as the Dead"]]? And why [[spoiler:does Dougal Siepp so greatly resemble the Ninth Doctor?]] And why does the final third Mayor of the town look like the guy who played Rassmussen in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E9SleepNoMore "Sleep No More"]]?Royston Vasey (which was named after his real name).
* TheGamblingAddict: Stella spends money on scratchcards and slot machines. In the second live show, it is revealed that her daughter Julie died ten years ago - she drowned in the bath when Stella went to check the lottery numbers instead of looking after her ("It was a Rollover..." Stella cries).
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Judith Buckle describes herself as the [[FemmeFatale "glamourous mistress"]] of Alvin Steele, and seems to think she's a character in a FilmNoir. She is, of course, a character in a horror comedy, and calling her a PlainJane would probably be an insult to [[PlainJane Plain Janes]].
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Judith Buckle describes herself as the [[FemmeFatale "glamourous mistress"]] of Alvin Steele, and seems to think she's a character in a FilmNoir. She is, of course, a character in a horror comedy, and calling her a PlainJane would probably be an insult to [[PlainJane Plain Janes]].{{Plain Jane}}s.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The Dentons have a "nude day," which they claim is the first Monday of every month. They cast aside all clothing and go about their daily duties—including going to the supermarket, the newsagent's, and the post office, totally naked. When Benjamin walks in on them naked, they force him to strip off as well and answer the door naked. Benjamin surprises the caller and brings him back to the living room, where Harvey and Val are dressed and Benjamin is humiliated.
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** The red balloon in the final series is an homage to ''Film/DontLookNow''. It culmintates in a parody of ''Film/AmericanBeauty''.
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* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks: Parodied with Mr. Lisgoe and [[SurroundedByIdiots his incompetent collectors.]]
* FakeBand: Glam Rockers Creme Brulee, who supposedly were second in the Song for UK heats for the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest.
* FantasticDrug: The meat served by Hilary Briss definitely serves as an analogue to a drug, including the obsessive behaviour and the nosebleeds but despite all suggestions that bring to mind a certain source, the writers have denied it, claiming that there is nothing more mundane than cannibalism and that the truth is so much worse... Which makes one wonder what the hell is he providing, unicorn meat?
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: A rather dark take appears with Pop's two put-upon sons Al and Richie. Richie is the foolish one and it leads to him being disowned by his own father for a very small screw-up (getting a few chocolate bars stolen). Al the ostensibly responsible one, has been actually conditioned to be subservient to his father and deludedly worship him which leads to Pop ruining his life even further.
* ForgottenBirthday: Mike and Brian try and pull this on Geoff. It doesn't end well.
* ForgottenBirthday: Mike and Brian try and pull this on Geoff. It doesn't end well.
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* ForgottenBirthday: Mike and Brian try and pull this on Geoff. It doesn't end well.
* FunnyForeigner: Herr Lipp unwittingly says things that make him sound like a pedophile, which is ultimately revealed to be true. Things like "You are still erect" to mean "You are still awake".
* GayBestFriend: Rather bitterly deconstructed with self-declared FagHag Trish. She blithely describes her gay friends in this manner, while they — usually played by the openly-gay Mark Gatiss — roll their eyes and try to sneak away while she's not looking. The stage show takes this a step further, with a purely dramatic scene of Gatiss' character breaking up with his boyfriend over an infidelity, before she shows up to talk about how gay men can all sleep with each other with no consequences. Gatiss snaps, delivering a pretty excellent TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* GayBestFriend: Rather bitterly deconstructed with self-declared FagHag Trish. She blithely describes her gay friends in this manner, while they — usually played by the openly-gay Mark Gatiss — roll their eyes and try to sneak away while she's not looking. The stage show takes this a step further, with a purely dramatic scene of Gatiss' character breaking up with his boyfriend over an infidelity, before she shows up to talk about how gay men can all sleep with each other with no consequences. Gatiss snaps, delivering a pretty excellent TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* HappyEndingMassage: Charlie starts work at a massage parlor (with a [supposedly] hot blonde woman as a front to improve business) and learns that all of his customers expected these. Still, a customer is a customer...
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* HeroicComedicSociopath: Hilary becomes one of these in the movie. He's on the same side as Geoff and Herr Lip who themselves qualify to a certain extent in their background at least, but he's still an amoral killer.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: "that Merrill." Frequently mentioned by Vinnie and Reenie, but never actually appears.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: "that Merrill." Frequently mentioned by Vinnie and Reenie, but never actually appears.
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* HeroicComedicSociopath: Hilary becomes one of these HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: Deconstructed in the movie. He's on ChristmasSpecial, which dealt with the same side as Geoff UnfortunateImplications of equating gay people with bloodsucking vampires.
-->I am not a vampire! I am just a queen.
* HazmatSuit: Parodied when a team wear hazmat suits to examine "The Beast of Royston Vasey." First Mr Chinnery throws up in his suit andHerr Lip who themselves qualify then, after a ''Series/TheXFiles'' style autopsy, the Beast is revealed to a certain extent in their background at least, but he's still an amoral killer.
be several missing zoo animals, stitched together.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen:"that "That Merrill." Frequently mentioned by Vinnie and Reenie, but never actually appears.
-->I am not a vampire! I am just a queen.
* HazmatSuit: Parodied when a team wear hazmat suits to examine "The Beast of Royston Vasey." First Mr Chinnery throws up in his suit and
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* HillbillyHorrors: Even though it takes place in a town in rural England, the series is mostly this, especially Edward and Tubbs.
* HomeNudist: One sketch had Harvey and Val celebrating "Nude Day" by spending the day at home naked.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: One day a mysterious carnival named Papa Lazarou's circus dropped to Royston Vasey. It consisted of various freaks of mysterious origins including a giant, a bearded woman and three depraved dwarfs. The ringmaster himself was grinning knowing that it was his time once again to spirit away his preferred victims among the townsfolk, to have a secret feast of his own while the carnival lights would blind the people to anything else other than the feast of the funfair. It sounds like a standard dark-fantasy story and would be one if [[spoiler:it wasn't for the uncanny and dark nature of the Royston Vasey citizens which out-freaks all the carnival employees including Papa Lazarou himself so badly that they decide to pack up their stuff at the very first night and ride away]].
* HorrifyingTheHorror: One day a mysterious carnival named Papa Lazarou's circus dropped to Royston Vasey. It consisted of various freaks of mysterious origins including a giant, a bearded woman and three depraved dwarfs. The ringmaster himself was grinning knowing that it was his time once again to spirit away his preferred victims among the townsfolk, to have a secret feast of his own while the carnival lights would blind the people to anything else other than the feast of the funfair. It sounds like a standard dark-fantasy story and would be one if [[spoiler:it wasn't for the uncanny and dark nature of the Royston Vasey citizens which out-freaks all the carnival employees including Papa Lazarou himself so badly that they decide to pack up their stuff at the very first night and ride away]].
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* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: "You're my wife now!"
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* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: "You're Papa Lazarou is known for this, to the point where he collects wives and his Catchphrase is:
-->"You're my wife now!"
-->"You're my wife now!"
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: When Pauline is described as a "psychotic fifty year-old lesbian," she only objects to one of those accusations. ("I'm forty-eight!") [[spoiler: Although it turns out she's bisexual.]]
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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: When Pauline is described as a "psychotic fifty year-old lesbian," she only objects to one of those accusations. ("I'm forty-eight!") [[spoiler: Although it turns out she's bisexual.]]
* KindlyVet: Subverted with a transparent Mr. Chinnery, who couldn't be more kindly but turns every attempt at treating an animal into a gruesome and usually fatal EpicFail. Eventually revealed to be the result of an ancient curse on his ancestor. Which is easily fulfilled through his failure to think things through and pay attention to his surroundings.
* KitschCollection: "Do not touch the precious things of the shop!"
* KneelBeforeZod: Pauline (in an exercise in magazine-selling) demands that Ross beg her. This becomes an IronicEcho when he gets her fired, and then offers to help her get her job back if she begs him.
* KnuckleTattos: Bernice gets these tattoos around the beginning of the second season.
* KitschCollection: "Do not touch the precious things of the shop!"
* KneelBeforeZod: Pauline (in an exercise in magazine-selling) demands that Ross beg her. This becomes an IronicEcho when he gets her fired, and then offers to help her get her job back if she begs him.
* KnuckleTattos: Bernice gets these tattoos around the beginning of the second season.
* LaughTrack: The series ditched the laugh track after series 2. (The original Radio series had a live studio audience.)
* LaughablyEvil: All of the villains. There are very few shows that could make a pair of incestuous CorruptHick {{Serial Killer}}s hilarious.
* LaughablyEvil: All of the villains. There are very few shows that could make a pair of incestuous CorruptHick {{Serial Killer}}s hilarious.
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* LaughablyEvil: All of the villainous characters. It is a comedy, after all.
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* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks: Parodied with Mr. Lisgoe and [[SurroundedByIdiots his incompetent collectors.]]
* LooksLikeOrlok: The true form of the vampire in the ChristmasSpecial. Herr Lip also gets to recreate Orlok's famous [[ShadowDiscretionSHot staircase scene]].
* LooksLikeOrlok: The true form of the vampire in the ChristmasSpecial. Herr Lip also gets to recreate Orlok's famous [[ShadowDiscretionSHot staircase scene]].
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* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks: Parodied with LoanShark: Mr. Lisgoe and [[SurroundedByIdiots his incompetent collectors.]]
collectors in the third season.
* LooksLikeOrlok: The true form of the vampire in the ChristmasSpecial. Herr Lip also gets to recreate Orlok's famous[[ShadowDiscretionSHot [[ShadowDiscretionShot staircase scene]].scene]].
* MadwomanInTheAttic: Parodied with David, inbred son of corrupt hicks Edward and Tubbs Tattsyrup. They keep him in the attic.
* LooksLikeOrlok: The true form of the vampire in the ChristmasSpecial. Herr Lip also gets to recreate Orlok's famous
* MadwomanInTheAttic: Parodied with David, inbred son of corrupt hicks Edward and Tubbs Tattsyrup. They keep him in the attic.
* MonsterMisogyny: Papa Lazarou goes after women to make into his "wives". In a bit of a twist, though, all of the women are over 50, and he's just as dangerous towards men if they come across his path. Also, due to the format of the show, almost all the women are played by men in drag.
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* MysteryMeat: Hilary Briss' "special stuff", the contents of which [[TakeOurWordForIt are never explained.]]
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* MysteryMeat: Played for black laughs. Hilary Briss' "special stuff", Briss has a special meat available for a list of select customers. The meat is highly addictive and of highly suspicious provenance and, in the contents of which [[TakeOurWordForIt are never explained.]]second series, apparently causes death via fatal nosebleeding. WordOfGod, however, states that it's ''not'' human flesh. It's far, ''far'' worse.
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** Geoff preps himself to go onstage in the same manner as [[Film/RagingBull Jake LaMotta]].
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Harvey Denton has a bizarre paranoia about walking into the living room to find his nephew, Benjamin, "shaking the hot, white coconuts from the tree of love", "conducting himself in a solo symphony", or engaged in any other of a slew of UnusualEuphemisms.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Harvey Denton has a bizarre paranoia about walking into the living room to find his nephew, Benjamin, "shaking the hot, white coconuts from the tree of love", "conducting himself in a solo symphony", or engaged in any other of a slew of UnusualEuphemisms.{{Unusual Euphemism}}s.
** Herr Lipp's segment in the ChristmasSpecial is full of homages to ''Film/Noseratu''.
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* JerkAss: Ollie Plimsoles
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** During Mr. Chinnery's ancestor arriving to Royston Vasey, [[Film/TheRailwayChildren we see some children waving at the train]].
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** Ross' apartment is based on [[Film/AmericanPsycho Patrick Bateman's]].
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** The townspeople burning down the local shop at the end of series two is a parody of the climax of ''Film/Frankenstein1931''.
-->'''Edward''': [[Film/BrideOfFrankenstein We belong local]].
-->'''Edward''': [[Film/BrideOfFrankenstein We belong local]].
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* RecursiveCrossdressing: Pauline (Steve Pemberton in drag) attends a GenderBender Costume Party dressed as Charlie Chaplin.
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** The series two finale has Mr. Chinnery attempting to help a boy and his kestrel in a {{parody}} of ''Film/{{Kes}}''.
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* BaaBomb: Various animals inadvertently explode at the hands of the hapless James Herriot Expy vet. These range from a cow to a hamster.
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* BaaBomb: Various animals inadvertently explode at the hands of the hapless James Herriot Expy vet.Mr. Chinnery. These range from a cow to a hamster.
* CorruptHick: Tubbs and Edward Tattsyrup, an implicitly incestuous couple of serial killers who run the Local Shop.
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* CreepyTwins: Chloe and Radclyffe Denton, who also fulfil...
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* CorruptHick: Edward and Tubbs Tattsyrup who also supply some BrotherSisterIncest
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* CorruptHick: Edward CreepyTwins: The twins who leave a man tied to a scarecrow, so they have someone to talk to. Their names are Chloe and Tubbs Tattsyrup who also supply some BrotherSisterIncestRadclyffe Denton, they are implied to have PsychicPowers and OffscreenTeleportation, and they are deceptively monstrous.
* DeathIsDramatic: Ultimately subverted with Edward and Tubbs, who get a properly dramatic death scene, but then it turns out that they're not dead. While leaving town, they are suddenly killed by a train.
** Also averted with Harvey and Val. It's ambiguous whether they even die, although considering where they were left, suffocation seems likely.
** Another aversion would be the death of Vinnie, which comes right out of nowhere. Mostly killed off so that Reece Shearsmith could spend the rest of the episode playing Keith Drop, and another character...
** Also averted with Harvey and Val. It's ambiguous whether they even die, although considering where they were left, suffocation seems likely.
** Another aversion would be the death of Vinnie, which comes right out of nowhere. Mostly killed off so that Reece Shearsmith could spend the rest of the episode playing Keith Drop, and another character...
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* DirtyOldMan: Pop
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* EldritchLocation: Welcome to Royston Vasey sounds like a decent sign. '''You'll never leave''' is a much more accurate subtitle.
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* EasySexChange: Partly averted for comedy effect when Barbara of Babs' Cabs is a trans woman who is some years into the process ("I've only been on the hormone treatments eighteen months. Me nipples are like bullets.") and dresses and presents as a woman, and is referred to and treated as a woman by all the other inhabitants of Royston Vasey, but still speaks with a deep, growly voice and has excessively hairy arms is to all intents and purposes clearly still physically very much a man. She describes in some wince-inducing detail the surgery she's going to be getting. ''Later'' events put Babs clearly in the realm of this trope, however, when she gets pregnant and delivers twins.
* EccentricTownsfolk: Played with. The people of Royston Vasey are certainly eccentric, but very, very far from harmless.
* EldritchLocation: Welcome to RoystonVasey sounds like a decent sign. '''You'll Vasey, you'll never leave''' is a much more leave. A very accurate subtitle.claim given that half of the population rather than just being grotesque, half-insane freaks of nature, also spit at the laws of nature and have something inexplicably supernatural about them. The sheer concentration of weirdness makes the place suspect on its own as well.
* EccentricTownsfolk: Played with. The people of Royston Vasey are certainly eccentric, but very, very far from harmless.
* EldritchLocation: Welcome to Royston
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* EroticAsphyxiation: [[spoiler: Naturally [[GoneHorriblyWrong it goes horribly wrong]] and everybody involved dies.]]
* EvilHand: [[spoiler: Inverted. Turns out to be [[HeroicSacrifice good]] and takes matters into its own hands to force its new yielder to help people]].
* EvilHand: [[spoiler: Inverted. Turns out to be [[HeroicSacrifice good]] and takes matters into its own hands to force its new yielder to help people]].
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* EnemyToAllLivingThings: Mr. Mathew Chinnery is a completely accidental version of this. He's not evil; he's just incredibly accident-prone, due to an ancestral curse.
* EroticAsphyxiation:[[spoiler: Naturally [[GoneHorriblyWrong it goes horribly wrong]] Went Horribly Wrong at a fetish party, when the emcee suffered a fatal heart attack and everybody involved dies.]]
was unable to release everyone. And none of them lived.
* EvilHand:[[spoiler: Inverted. Turns out PlayedForLaughs when the uncouth, one-armed joke shop owner gets an arm transplant. It belonged to be [[HeroicSacrifice good]] a nun, and takes matters is much nicer than he is. [[spoiler:It even prompts him into its own hands to force its new yielder to help people]].a HeroicSacrifice]].
* EvilOldFolks: Tubbs and Edward, who torture and sometimes kill any non-locals who intrude on their shop.
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* EvilOldFolks: Tubbs and Edward, who torture and sometimes kill any non-locals who intrude on their shop.
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* AfraidOfBlood: Papa Lazarou is so freaked at one point, ''he runs out of his own show''. Granted, it's probably ''nosebleeds'' which he's probably never encountered before, rather than the actual sight of blood.
* BBCQuarry: {{Parodied}} in "Stump Hole Caverns" in a one-shot sketch on The League of Gentlemen:
-->'''Tour Guide''': Back then you couldn't move down here for Cybermen. In fact, I remember one incident where Tom Baker sprained his ankle on that rock there. Which just goes to show how easily accidents happen...
* BaaBomb: Various animals inadvertently explode at the hands of the hapless James Herriot Expy vet. These range from a cow to a hamster.
* BadBadActing: Pam Doove, who became TheUnintelligible whenever it was time for her to speak a single, easy line. Played with in that in-universe her unintelligible phrase becomes a popular meme, her advert is actually filmed and broadcast and, in the minds of the writers according to the DVDCommentary, she becomes a famous actress and wins an Oscar.
-->'''Tour Guide''': Back then you couldn't move down here for Cybermen. In fact, I remember one incident where Tom Baker sprained his ankle on that rock there. Which just goes to show how easily accidents happen...
* BaaBomb: Various animals inadvertently explode at the hands of the hapless James Herriot Expy vet. These range from a cow to a hamster.
* BadBadActing: Pam Doove, who became TheUnintelligible whenever it was time for her to speak a single, easy line. Played with in that in-universe her unintelligible phrase becomes a popular meme, her advert is actually filmed and broadcast and, in the minds of the writers according to the DVDCommentary, she becomes a famous actress and wins an Oscar.
* BeserkerTears: Chloe (or Radcliffe) talking about her father Harvey Denton: "You wouldn't want to make him angry. I once saw him beat a man until both he and the man were crying."
* BestialityIsDepraved: The Tattsyrup family are said to have a bit of pig in their ancestry (which turns up in their noses), and Hilary Briss is married to a cow. The extent of their relationship is unclear.
** A Local Book For Local People makes it somewhat clearer.
* BestialityIsDepraved: The Tattsyrup family are said to have a bit of pig in their ancestry (which turns up in their noses), and Hilary Briss is married to a cow. The extent of their relationship is unclear.
** A Local Book For Local People makes it somewhat clearer.
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* BrotherChuck: None of the Dentons appear in Season 3. We can assume that Benjamin finally escaped from Royston Vasey, but the fate of Val and Harvey is left vague. [[spoiler:The 2017 specials show that they did get out of the cell, but Harvey died some time later.]]
* TheButcher: Hilary Briss, a literal butcher who sells some kind of very illegal and hideously immoral "special stuff".
* TheButcher: Hilary Briss, a literal butcher who sells some kind of very illegal and hideously immoral "special stuff".
* {{Blackface}}: The very creepy Papa Lazarou is a subversion. [[spoiler:That's what he really looks like]].
* BrotherChuck: None of the Dentons appear in Season 3. We can assume that Benjamin finally escaped from Royston Vasey, but the fate of Val and Harvey is left vague. [[spoiler:The 2017 specials show that they did get out of the cell, but Harvey died some time later.]]
* BrotherChuck: None of the Dentons appear in Season 3. We can assume that Benjamin finally escaped from Royston Vasey, but the fate of Val and Harvey is left vague. [[spoiler:The 2017 specials show that they did get out of the cell, but Harvey died some time later.]]
* TheButcher: Hilary Briss, a literal butcher who sells some kind of very illegal and hideously immoral "special stuff".
* CampbellCountry: Royston Vasey is... odd. Initially a comedy, the sense that the town is just a mask for insanity, evil and genuinely disturbing horror grows as the series progresses.
* CastFullOfWriters: The writing credit read "The Cast and Jeremy Dyson", and it's roughly that literal—beyond crowd scenes and the occasional woman, you'd be hard-pressed to find a single character not played by series writers Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton or Reece Shearsmith.
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* CelebrityParadox: Mick [=McNamara=] claims that an episode of Tom Baker-era ''Series/DoctorWho'' was filmed at the Stump Hole caverns. So why does Mick, and approximately one third of the town, look exactly like that guy who played Dr. Lazarus in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment "The Lazarus Experiment"]] and wrote the episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern "The Idiot's Lantern"]]? And why does another third of the town so greatly resemble the guy who played Strackman Lux in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary "Silence in the Library"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead "Forest of the Dead"]]? And why [[spoiler:does Dougal Siepp so greatly resemble the Ninth Doctor?]] And why does the final third of the town look like the guy who played Rassmussen in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E9SleepNoMore "Sleep No More"]]?
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* CelebrityParadox: Mick [=McNamara=] claims that an episode of Tom Baker-era Creator/TomBaker-era ''Series/DoctorWho'' was filmed at the Stump Hole caverns. So why does Mick, and approximately one third of the town, look exactly like that guy who played Dr. Lazarus in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment "The Lazarus Experiment"]] and wrote the episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern "The Idiot's Lantern"]]? And why does another third of the town so greatly resemble the guy who played Strackman Lux in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary "Silence in the Library"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead "Forest of the Dead"]]? And why [[spoiler:does Dougal Siepp so greatly resemble the Ninth Doctor?]] And why does the final third of the town look like the guy who played Rassmussen in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E9SleepNoMore "Sleep No More"]]?
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* CircusOfFear: Papa Lazarou's circus. Though it doesn't have much effect in circus might qualify as a subversion. While Papa Lazarou's appearance is pure NightmareFuel and he spends all his spare time kidnapping women ("You're my wife now!") Royston Vasey, and eventually Vasey is already so full of freaks that the ''circus'' circus soon flees in terror because terror, as the ''town'' town is too weird.weird even for them.
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* {{Expy}}: Creator/MarkGatiss based his performance of Mr. Chinnery on Creator/PeterDavison's as Tristan Farnan in the BBC production of ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall''.
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** Creator/MarkGatiss based his performance of Mr. Chinnery on Creator/PeterDavison's as Tristan Farnan in the BBC production of ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall''.
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** The king thanks the guys for saving him from a "[[Series/DoctorWho deadly assassin]]".
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** The king thanks the guys for saving him from a "[[Series/DoctorWho "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin deadly assassin]]".
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** The King's Evil is pretty much a parody of every film Ken Russell made in the seventies and eighties.
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** The ''The King's Evil Evil'' is pretty much a parody of every film Ken Russell Creator/KenRussell made in the seventies and eighties.
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* SpecialGuest: David Warner (a.k.a. [[Film/TimeBandits Evil]], a.k.a. [[Film/{{Tron}} Dillinger/Sark/MCP]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Ra's al Ghul]], a.k.a. [[VideoGame/BaldursGate Jon Irenicus]], a.k.a. [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Lord Downey]], a.k.a. [[WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}} The Lobe]]) as Mr. Pea.
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* SpecialGuest: David Warner Creator/DavidWarner (a.k.a. [[Film/TimeBandits Evil]], a.k.a. [[Film/{{Tron}} Dillinger/Sark/MCP]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Ra's al Ghul]], a.k.a. [[VideoGame/BaldursGate Jon Irenicus]], a.k.a. [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Lord Downey]], a.k.a. [[WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}} The Lobe]]) as Mr. Pea.
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* The short lived band started by guitarist [[Music/KingCrimson Robert Fripp]] that, through some excessively odd reason, share many qualities with this show...
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* The short lived band started by guitarist [[Music/KingCrimson Robert Fripp]] that, through some excessively odd reason, share shares many qualities with this show...
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*SynchronousEpisodes: Each episode of series three takes place at around the same time, each ending with a van accident taking place. Each episode is focused mainly on a specific character, and ultimately ends with what they were doing when the accident took place, thus allowing the viewers to see a bit more of the accident each episode, until finally showing the accident from all perspectives in the finale.
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* The mystery novel ''Literature/TheLeagueOfFrightenedMen'' by Creator/RexStout, part of the Literature/NeroWolfe series -- which, since it was published in 1935, clearly didn't take its name from either of the above.
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* The mystery novel ''Literature/TheLeagueOfFrightenedMen'' a mystery novel by Creator/RexStout, Creator/RexStout which forms part of the Literature/NeroWolfe series -- which, since it was published in 1935, clearly didn't take its name from either of the above.
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* The mystery novel ''Literature/TheLeagueOfFrightenedMen'' by Creator/RexStout, part of the Literature/NeroWolfe series -- which, since it was published in 1935, clearly didn't take its name from either of the above.
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* ADeathInTheLimeLight: [[spoiler:Lance Longthorne, a previously one episode character, has almost an entire episode of his own in season 3, in which he gains a new arm that is still controlled by its deceased previous owner. Said arm eventually motivates him to perform a HeroicSacrifice.]]
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*WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Happens in the finale of Season 3, but only for the characters who were featured in the main Road Accident storyline. A remix of the main theme entitled "While There's Still Time" plays during this.
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** Pauline Campbell-Jones: "Okey-cokey! Pig in a pokey!"
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** Pauline Campbell-Jones: "Okey-cokey! Pig in a pokey!"pokey!", "Dole-scum!", "Piss off, Ross!"
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** Edward and Tubbs unexpectedly form a CultOfPersonality in the anniversary specials after Tubbs accidentally airs a hostage video. Following the literal media circus that descends upon Royston Vasey in the wake of the hostage negotiation, crowds of protesters gather around the inbred couple's derelict apartment block, with many fans wearing celotape to hold their noses up in imitation of the duo's piggish deformity. The media inevitably turn the whole thing into a political drama, which Edward is all too keen to exploit for his xenophobic messages.
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* NotSoDifferent: Ross's similarities to Pauline are highlighted in Series 3. As it turns out, he too loathes destitute welfare-leaches like Mickey and goes so far as to almost [[BorrowedCatchphrase borrows]] Pauline's "dole-scum" catchphrase at one point before stopping himself. Ross even blackmails Pauline into a hate-fuck.
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* NotSoDifferent: Ross's similarities to Pauline are highlighted in Series 3. As it turns out, he too loathes destitute welfare-leaches like Mickey and goes so far as to almost [[BorrowedCatchphrase borrows]] borrow]] Pauline's "dole-scum" catchphrase at one point before stopping himself. Ross even blackmails Pauline into a hate-fuck.
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** Les finally gets a true happy ending in the anniversary specials, in which it is revealed that he has an intense cult fanbase in an obscure Slavic nation. While he's hesitant to get back into the "shit business" after years of false hope, we last see him running to the train station in full rockstar gear to meet his adoring groupies.
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** Les finally gets a true happy ending in the anniversary specials, in which it is revealed specials. Upon being introduced to the internet, he discovers that he has an intense cult fanbase in an obscure Slavic nation. While he's hesitant to get back into the "shit business" after years of false hope, we last see him running to the train station in full rockstar gear to meet his adoring groupies.
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* NotSoDifferent: Ross's similarities to Pauline are highlighted in Series 3. As it turns out, he too loathes destitute welfare-leaches like Mickey and goes so far as to almost [[BorrowedCatchphrase borrows]] Pauline's "dole-scum" catchphrase at one point before stopping himself. Ross even blackmails Pauline into a hate-fuck.
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* OutsideGenreFoe: In the anniversary specials, [[Creator/DavidMorrissey David Morrissey's]] character, Chapman, is a humourless, hard-boiled hostage negotiator straight out of a mono-titular ITV1 procedural, making his confrontations with the ridiculous yet insidious Edward and Tubbs all the more hilarious.
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* OutsideGenreFoe: In the anniversary specials, [[Creator/DavidMorrissey David Morrissey's]] character, Chapman, is a humourless, hard-boiled hostage negotiator straight out of a mono-titular ITV1 [=ITV1=] procedural, making his confrontations with the ridiculous yet insidious Edward and Tubbs all the more hilarious.
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** Les finally gets a true happy ending in the anniversary specials, in which it is revealed that he has an intense cult fanbase in an obscure Slavic nation. While he's hesitant to get back into the "shit business" after years of false hope, we last see him running to the train station in full rockstar gear to meet his adoring groupies.
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* {{Canon Discontinuity}}: The three part 2017 anniversary special appears to ignore the third series and will instead follow on from series 2.
** Possibly subverted or averted: in the first episode, [[spoiler:Geoff mentions having flashbacks to "being stuck in that elephant"]].
** Possibly subverted or averted: in the first episode, [[spoiler:Geoff mentions having flashbacks to "being stuck in that elephant"]].
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* OutsideGenreFoe: In the anniversary specials, [[Creator/DavidMorrissey David Morrissey's]] character, Chapman, is a humourless, hard-boiled hostage negotiator straight out of a mono-titular ITV1 procedural, making his confrontations with the ridiculous yet insidious Edward and Tubbs all the more hilarious.
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** In the anniversary series [[spoiler:Pauline]] is killed by [[spoiler:Geoff]] in a case of mistaken identity.
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** In the anniversary series [[spoiler:Pauline]] is killed by [[spoiler:Geoff]] in a case of mistaken identity.identity however in the Live Again shows [[spoiler:it is revealed that Pauline faked her death and dementia as part of an insurance scam]].
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* CrapsackWorld: Royston Vasey is the sort of city where stealing wheels from bicycles and wheelchairs (with people on them) are an everyday occurence, where lost, old people can be left to die and rot in rooftops, and where noone bats an eye at job ads for organ stealing or at public toilets where people drown.
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* BrotherChuck: None of the Dentons appear in Season 3. We can assume that Benjamin finally escaped from Royston Vasey, but the fate of Val and Harvey is left vague.
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* BrotherChuck: None of the Dentons appear in Season 3. We can assume that Benjamin finally escaped from Royston Vasey, but the fate of Val and Harvey is left vague. [[spoiler:The 2017 specials show that they did get out of the cell, but Harvey died some time later.]]
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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: The animals in Papa Lazarou's circus, who are really the cells of his human victims.]] They do scream, actually, but no one can hear them...
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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: The animals in Papa Lazarou's circus, who are really the cells of his human victims.]] They do scream, actually, but no one can hear them... although [[spoiler:[[TheBusCameBack as of the 2017 specials, they seem to have managed to escape]].]]
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* TheresNoBInMovie: [[MeaningfulName Meaningfully named]] Harry Portrait and Ally Welles, who are obsessed with horror movies. However, some of the films they watch are quite good, such as ''Film/TheShining'', ''Film/{{Alien}}'', and Stephen Loncraine's version of ''Film/RichardIII'', starring Sir Ian [=McKellen=]. As long as it has killin's, they're happy.
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* TheUnintelligible: Pam Doove is like this, but only while [[BadBadActing acting]].
** Or (in the 2017 series) when reading the Sandbox/ShippingForecast!
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist
** Or (in the 2017 series) when reading the Sandbox/ShippingForecast!
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* UnabashedBMovieFan: [[MeaningfulName Meaningfully named]] Harry Portrait and Ally Welles, who are obsessed with horror movies. However, some of the films they watch are quite good, such as ''Film/TheShining'', ''Film/{{Alien}}'', and Stephen Loncraine's version of ''Film/RichardIII'', starring Sir Ian [=McKellen=]. As long as it has killin's, they're happy.
* TheUnintelligible: Pam Doove is like this, but only while [[BadBadActingacting]].
**acting]]. Or (in the 2017 series) when reading the Sandbox/ShippingForecast!
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* ShowWithinAShow: Steve Pemberton is working on a screenplay for a new movie, ''The King's Evil'', about a plot to assassinate William III (played by Bernard Hill, aka [[TheLordOfTheRings Théoden]].) Naturally, [[SugarWiki/FictionIdentityPostulate it's just as real as Royston Vasey.]]
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* ShowWithinAShow: Steve Pemberton is working on a screenplay for a new movie, ''The King's Evil'', about a plot to assassinate William III (played by Bernard Hill, aka [[TheLordOfTheRings [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Théoden]].) Naturally, [[SugarWiki/FictionIdentityPostulate it's just as real as Royston Vasey.]]
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** Val and Harvey seemed to regard Benjamin a bit of a nuisance (at least where Harvey's personal space is concerned) initially and it wasn't entirely clear if they used the chores they forced on him as a subtle excuse to keep him there or if they just felt entitled to his services and wanted to control and take the most ouf of him. By Series 2, they were doing [[EvilPlan everything they could]] to keep him in Royston Vasey, losing all subtleness in the meantime and making clear that the former was the case.
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** Val and Harvey seemed to regard Benjamin as a bit of a nuisance (at least where Harvey's personal space is concerned) initially and it wasn't entirely clear if they used the chores they forced on him as a subtle excuse to keep him there or if they just felt entitled to his services and wanted to control and take the most ouf of him. By Series 2, they were doing [[EvilPlan everything they could]] to keep him in Royston Vasey, losing all subtleness in the meantime and making clear that the former was the case.
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* PunnyName: Ok Herr Lipp may not have a harelip but his mouth is nonetheless the most deformed feature of his.
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* PunnyName: Ok the grotesque Herr Lipp may not have a harelip but his mouth is still nonetheless the most deformed distinguishing (by which one means deformed) feature of his.
