History Series / TheTwoRonnies

-->What is the name of the directory of [[BlueBlood the Peerage?]]
-->The study of old fossils.

-->Who is the Archbishop of Canterbury?

-->Erm...Er...Pass. [Piss (piss artist)]
-->What is the make of London busses?

-->In 1892, Brandon Thomas wrote a long-running English farce, what was it?

-->Correct. Complete the following quotation (siren goes) I started, so I'll finish. Complete the following quotation about [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Mrs. Thatcher]]: "Her heart may be in the right place but her - "

* BellyDancer: In the serial "Death Can Be Fatal", one is performing at a nightclub that Piggy and Charley are investigating. Piggy finds her an unwelcome distraction, and when they decide to leave he says "I've had a bellyful of this place."

* BigGuyLittleGuy: Ronnie B. was much taller than Ronnie C. Notably, Ronnie B. was of average height while Ronnie C. was incredibly short.

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* WardrobeMalfunction: In the second episode of "Hampton Wick", Madeline Smith's low-cut dress [[http://snuffboxfilms.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/two-ronnies-and-madeline-smiths-nipple.html slips a bit too low]] and exposes more than it ought. It seems no-one noticed it before the show was broadcast.

Most of the humour was based on wordplay, with sketches built around {{Spoonerism}}s, {{pun}}s, [[FunWithHomophones homophones]], [[MondegreenGag mondegreens]] and similar. The show had many writers: in a fairly famous background story, one of the more celebrated writers was the mysterious Gerald Wiley, who was eventually revealed to the production team to be Ronnie Barker himself submitting material under an assumed name to avoid it getting preferential treatment (he once even rejected one of his own scripts).

A long-running mystery on the show was the identity of one of their regular scriptwriters, Gerald Wiley, whom no one had ever met. In fact, it was Barker himself. He submitted scripts under false names as he wanted them to be judged on merit and not picked just because he had written them.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is Piggy Malone's colleague called Charlie or Charley? "Stop! You're Killing Me" uses 'Charlie'; the other serials use "Charley".

* AcceptableTargets: Invoked with the sketches about yokels, on the assumption that nobody wants to admit that ''they'' are a yokel.

-->[[IncompetenceIncorporated British Leyland.]]

-->British Leyland.

* GayEuphemism: In the serial "Death can be Fatal" (which is a Franchise/JamesBond spoof) Piggy and Charley are at MI6 headquarters. Piggy asks a gentleman "Are you 'Q'?"; the man takes this to be a euphemism for 'queer' and replies "Yes - are you?"