History Theatre / NoisesOff

* BadBadActing: Poppy and Timothy when they're forced to cover for other actors, which is not surprising since they're stagehands, not actors. Timothy's FakeBrit accent in the 1992 film is ''hilariously'' pathetic.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In the film, during the third act, every American actor is so flustered they lose the FakeBrit accent they'd been using.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In the film, the action is moved to America, with the added joke that everyone other than Brooke and Selsdon are played by American actors, using blatantly phony English accents that range from acceptable to cartoonish to barely present.

* BadBadActing: Poppy and Timothy when they're forced to cover for other actors, which is not surprising since they're stagehands, not actors.

* BadBadActing: Varying degrees of this are on display out on the stage.

Written by Michael Frayn (who among other things also wrote the screenplay for the Creator/JohnCleese movie ''Film/{{Clockwise}}''). A film version was released in 1992, directed by Creator/PeterBogdanovich and featuring an all-star cast headed by Creator/MichaelCaine as Lloyd the director, with Creator/CarolBurnett, Creator/ChristopherReeve, Creator/DenholmElliott, Creator/JohnRitter, Creator/MariluHenner, and Creator/NicolletteSheridan as the cast of ''Nothing On'' and Creator/JulieHagerty and Mark Linn-Baker as the overworked backstage crew. Marty Kaplan's screenplay adds a FramingDevice about ''Nothing On'' going to Broadway, and is presented as a flashback as Lloyd describes what a nightmare the show has been; it also gives the plot an actual happy ending.

* FakeBrit: InUniverse in the 1992 film, all of the actors save Selsdon as Americans putting on British accents.

* ExhaustedEyebags: Dallas verbally abuses and horribly and appallingly works stage manager Timothy Allgood to the point of a complete and total collapse, endangering his health, all to whip the mess of a production of "Nothing On" into a coherent presentation. Poor Timothy ... he hasn't slept in nearly two days, yet is shouted at and belittled to the point of dehumanization when he is told to repair props that won't work and that he had better be ready to understudy several actors in an instant -- which is basically himself.

* {{Kayfabe}}: All productions will have the theater program be about "Nothing On", not "Noises Off". It's also mandatory that the program have as many references to sardines as possible.

* LingerieScene: Brooke spends the vast majority of the play in her underwear. Her character Vicki disrobes to bra, panties and garter early in the first act of "Nothing On" and stays that way through the act (except when she covers up with a sheet). Since we only ever see the first act, the only time she is NOT in her skivvies is waiting backstage before the show in Act 2 or when she and Garry enter in the very first scene.

Written by Michael Frayn (who among other things also wrote the screenplay for the Creator/JohnCleese movie ''Film/{{Clockwise}}''). A film version was released in 1992, directed by Creator/PeterBogdanovich and featuring an all-star cast headed by Creator/MichaelCaine as Lloyd the director, with Creator/CarolBurnett, Creator/ChristopherReeve, Creator/DenholmElliott, Creator/JohnRitter, Creator/MariluHenner, and Creator/NicolletteSheridan as the cast of ''Nothing On'' and Creator/JulieHagerty and Mark Linn-Baker as the overworked backstage crew. It adds a FramingDevice about the show going to Broadway, and is presented as a flashback as Lloyd describes what a nightmare the show has been; it also gives the plot an actual happy ending.

Written by Michael Frayn (who among other things also wrote the screenplay for the Creator/JohnCleese movie ''Film/{{Clockwise}}''). A film version was released in 1992, directed by Creator/PeterBogdanovich and featuring an all-star cast headed by Creator/MichaelCaine as Lloyd the director, with Creator/CarolBurnett, Creator/ChristopherReeve, Creator/DenholmElliott, Creator/JohnRitter, Creator/MariluHenner, and Creator/NicolletteSheridan as the cast of ''Nothing On'' and Creator/JulieHagerty and Mark Linn-Baker as the overworked backstage crew. It adds a wrapper about the show going to Broadway, and is presented as a flashback as Lloyd describes what a nightmare the show has been; it also gives the plot an actual happy ending.

Written by Michael Frayn (who among other things also wrote the screenplay for the Creator/JohnCleese movie ''Film/{{Clockwise}}''). A film version was released in 1992, directed by Creator/PeterBogdanovich and featuring an all-star cast headed by Creator/MichaelCaine as Lloyd the director, with Creator/CarolBurnett, Creator/ChristopherReeve, Creator/DenholmElliott, Creator/JohnRitter, Creator/MariluHenner, and Creator/NicolletteSheridan as the cast of ''Nothing On'' and Creator/JulieHagerty and Marc Linn-Baker as the overworked backstage crew. It adds a wrapper about the show going to Broadway, and is presented as a flashback as Lloyd describes what a nightmare the show has been; it also gives the plot an actual happy ending.

* AccidentalInnuendo: Roger is ''extremely'' interested in getting it on with Vicki, that the horndog keeps making innuendo because he can't help himself. [[invoked]]

* SayMyName: A third of Lloyd's dialog seems to be him screaming, "'''POP-''PY''!'''"

** At one point, Freddie, after seeing Belinda pick up a fire axe to break down a locked door, inadvertently shouts [[BigOMG "OH GOOD LORD ABOVE!"[[note]]"OH MY GOD!!!" in the film[[/note]]]]... precisely on cue -- because he's performed the role so many times that he reflexively says the line.

** At one point, Freddie, after seeing Belinda pick up a fire axe to break down a locked door, inadvertently shouts [[BigOMG "OH GOOD LORD ABOVE!"]]... precisely on cue -- because he's performed the role so many times that he reflexively says the line.

* WatsonianVersusDoylist: Freddie is such a method actor, he needs a motivation for everything. The director and his co-stars tell him it's because the jokes later in the play will have no sense without certain things happening, and that he also plays the Sheik because it's part of a joke. Because Freddie's deeply depressed from a recent divorce, Lloyd gives up and gives him a Watsonian reason for why his character is doing anything and why he looks exactly like the Sheik.

* WatsonianVersusDoylist: Freddie is such a method actor, he needs a motivation for everything. The director and his co-stars tell him it's because the jokes later in the play will have no sense without certain things happening, and that he also plays the Sheik because it's part of a joke. Because of a recent divorce, Lloyd gives up and gives him a Watsonian reason for why his character is doing anything and why he looks exactly like the Sheik.

* WatsonianVersusDoylist: Freddie is such a method actor, he needs a motivation for everything. The director and his co-stars tell him it's because the jokes later in the play will have no sense. Because of a recent divorce, Lloyd gives up and gives him a Watsonian reason for why his character is doing anything and why he looks exactly like the Sheik.

* WatsonianVersusDoylist: Freddie is such a method actor, he needs a motivation for everything. The director and his co-stars tell him it's because the jokes later in the play will have no sense. Because of a recent divorce, Lloyd gives up and gives him a Watsonian reason for why his character is doing anything and why he looks exactly like the Shiek.