History Series / TheLeagueOfGentlemen

** Live at Drury Lane: [[spoiler: Les Mcqueen is electrocuted by a microphone during his first solo act, but as the live shows are flexibly canon, this skit is ignored in the Anniversary specials.]]

-->'''Mick McNamara''': 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...

-->'''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...

** Live at Drury Lane: [[spoiler: Les McQueen is electrocuted by a microphone during his first solo act, but as the live shows are flexibly canon, this skit is ignored in the Anniversary specials.]]

** Series 3: [[spoiler: Lance Longthorne, The joke shop owner is killed when his new arm jumps in the way to save Pauline from a crashing van. ]]

** Anniversary special: [[spoiler: Pauline is murdered by Geoff, in a bodged assassination on Cheryl when he goes to the wrong house. Pop is also killed by one of his abused sons and Uncle Harvey also dies of ill health, Val and the twins resurrect him temporarily but in the end let him go when he's too annoying with cleaning.]]

* 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 {{Unusual Euphemism}}s.

* 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.]]

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: The Book of Wives

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Mama Lazarou is not seen after series 2. Neither are the Dentons.

* The short lived band started by guitarist [[Music/KingCrimson Robert Fripp]] that, through some excessively odd reason, shares many qualities with this show...

* CorruptHick: Tubbs and Edward Tattsyrup, an implicitly incestuous couple of serial killers who run the Local Shop.

* LaughablyEvil: All of the villains. There are very few shows that could make a pair of incestuous CorruptHick {{Serial Killer}}s hilarious.

* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: Deconstructed in the ChristmasSpecial, which dealt with the UnfortunateImplications of equating gay people with bloodsucking vampires.

* {{Corpsing}}: Shearsmith, with Pauline, during the live show.

** Herr Lipp's segment in the ChristmasSpecial is full of homages to ''Film/{{Noseratu}}'', while Solutions Inc. are a parody of ''Film/EyesWideShut''.

** Herr Lipp's segment in the ChristmasSpecial is full of homages to ''Film/{{Noseratu]]'', while Solutions Inc. are a parody of ''Film/EyesWideShut''.

* AdultFear: Even though Papa Lazarou is completely outlandish, like most of the characters, the terror he invokes is very real. The possibility that someone could so easily take away a family member without prompt or cause is terrifying. Best demonstrated in the third season with Brian who's looking for his missing wife.

* BiggusDickus: "Geoff Tipps, a clever man with a big cock, [[DeusExMachina comes in and stops the king from being killed]]. He is a Hero. His cock is big."

* TheMovie

* AwfulWeddedLife: Charlie and Stella Hull

* AnimalMotifs: Harvey Denton is obsessed with toads, and collects them. He also greatly resembles one, and the interior of the Denton home has a sort of a dull green colour scheme, like a lily pond.
** Similarly, Edward and Tubbs Tattsyrup (pictured above) both have piggy noses and live in filth. Tubbs has also been seen breastfeeding a piglet.

* RealityEnsues: After Ross gets Pauline fired as a restart officer, she ends up working in a burger bar with Mickey and gets revenge on Ross by spitting in and contaminating his burger with Mickey's help. The CCTV catches them at it and they're ''both'' fired.

* AuthorExistenceFailure:[[invoked]] A major plot point.

* 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 borrow]] Pauline's "dole-scum" catchphrase at one point before stopping himself. Ross even blackmails Pauline into a hate-fuck.

* HumanResources: The obvious assumption as to the identity of Hilary's "special stuff", although the creators have {{Jossed}} this, pointing out they would never come up with something so unoriginal. It's something even worse...

* ChristmasSpecial, complete with BadSanta

* Hate Sink:
** Pop is Without doubt the most loathsome character in the show, a depraved, abusive, sleazy, disgusting man with none of the amusing quirks of Royston Vasey's other residents. You could argue his lvoe for his son is a redeeming feture but even that is questionable. He also beats and Disowns his Son for a Minor Reason, In the Aniverssary special he's worse. [[AssholeVicitim Luckaly he gets stabbed good by the son he disowened and none of the family seems to mind that much.]]
** Cathy Carter-Smith dispite her short screantime she shows herself as Pauline minus any remeeding quilites even more abusive that she was and pretty much everone hates her.
** Harvey Denton while unlike Pop is a genuinly loving father and husband but realy thats about it for redeeming feutures the rest of of his characterisitcs show him as an uptight, authoritarian, paranoid closed-midned arrgonat jerk who horribly abuses and impriosons his nephew (Who he once even locks out of the house for being up late)

* {{Malaproper}}: Herr Lip, who keeps making not-so-InnocentInnuendo

* YourCheatingHeart: Alvin Steele, Stella Hull, TheUnseen Linda Plimsole

* 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."

* CasanovaWannabe: Pop

* CelebrityIsOverrated: Les [=McQueen=] tries loudly to claim [[ICouldaBeenAContender his failure to become a pop star]] doesn't upset him, saying [[CelebrityIsOverrated "It's a shit business.]] [[BlatantLies I'm glad I'm out of it."]] No-one is fooled.

** Herr Lipp's segment in the ChristmasSpecial is full of homages to ''Film/Noseratu'', while Solutions Inc. are a parody of ''Film/EyesWideShut''.

* KnuckleTattos: Bernice gets these tattoos around the beginning of the second season.

** Herr Lipp's segment in the ChristmasSpecial is full of homages to ''Film/Noseratu''.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Series/{{Psychoville}}'', several years later.

* StageMom: Noel and Nancy Glass

* TakeOurWordForIt: We never find out what is in Hilary Briss's "special stuff". His surname [[MeaningfulName may be a clue...]]