History YMMV / ABitOfFryAndLaurie

* AcceptableTargets: Estate agents, Noel Edmunds, and UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch all get put through the ringer.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie dedicated books they wrote later simply to "m'colleague."

* TheWoobie: One first-season sketch sees Laurie as a university teacher who can't elicit any reaction from his students. Any reaction at all--every single question, suggestion, etc. that he poses to the class is met with an icy indifference, with the students' only statement coming in the form of a message written on the chalkboard at the outset: "You barstad [sic]". Throughout it all, Laurie maintains a faltering, overly eager StepfordSmiler act, praising the students for their tacitly negative responses to his questions and berating himself for leading the class astray with trivial theories. So pitiable is the character, in fact, that you can hear the audience going "Awww..." when the professor finally sees himself out.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Many, many sketches involving psychiatrists or institutionalization can seem a bit disturbing in light of Fry's mental problems in TheNineties, as well as the later diagnosis of the pair's mental illnesses (Fry has bipolar disorder, while Laurie has severe clinical depression).

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Hugh's "America" song is frequently shared every July 4th in America.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Hugh's "America" song is frequently shared every July 4th in America. Possibly also a case of MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales.

* TheWoobie: One first-season sketch sees Laurie as a university teacher who can't elicit any reaction from his students. Any reaction at all--every single question, suggestion, etc. that he poses to the class is met with an icy indifference, with the students' only statement coming in the form of a message written on the chalkboard at the outset: "You barstad [sic]". Throughout it all, Laurie maintains a faltering, overly eager StepfordSmiler act, praising the students for their tacitly negative responses to his questions and berating himself for leading the class astray with trivial theories. It's such a woobie role that when the professor finally sees himself out, Laurie was aww'd off set by the pitying audience.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Hugh's "America" song is frequently shared every July 4th in America.

* GermansLoveDavidHasseloff: Hugh's "America" song is frequently shared every July 4th in America.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Many, many sketches involving psychiatrists or institutionalization can seem a bit disturbing in light of Fry's mental problems in TheNineties, as well as the later diagnosis of the pair's mental illnesses (Fry has "Bipolar Disorder", Laurie has "severe Clinical Depression".)

%%* HoYay:

* TearJerker: "How do I like it? I like it the way Tony Merchison used to make it." *sniff*
* TheWoobie: One first-season sketch sees Laurie as a university teacher who can't elicit any reaction from his students. Any reaction at all -- every single question, suggestion, etc. that he poses to the class is met with an icy indifference, with the students' only statement coming in the form of a message written on the chalkboard at the outset: "You barstad [sic]". Throughout it all, Laurie maintains a faltering, overly eager StepfordSmiler act, praising the students for their tacitly negative responses to his questions and berating himself for leading the class astray with trivial theories. It's such a woobie role that when the professor finally sees himself out, Laurie was aww'd off set by the pitying audience.

* AcceptableTargets: Estate agents. And UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch.

* HilariousInHindsight: A sketch in the first season has Fry deliver a throwaway line that he's no judge of poetry because "I'm an English professor, not a homosexual". As of 1995, he ''is'' out as a homosexual, which turns what was once a racy and potentially offensive joke into a case of NWordPrivileges.
** Also, the "information" sketch. It's a sketch about the World Wide Web. From 1989. Even more amusingly, Stephen Fry character plays an apparently search-engine-like entity - a few years later, his [[JeevesAndWooster Jeeves]] character would turn up as the logo of [[http://www.ask.com a real-life search engine]].
* HoYay: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lUX0Wr90X8 Do I need to say more?]]
* TearJerker: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN03KaNp80o&feature=related "How do I like it? I like it the way Tony Merchison used to make it."]] *sniff*

* AcceptableTargets: Estate agents. And RupertMurdoch.

* HilariousInHindsight: A sketch in the first season has Fry deliver a throwaway line that he's no judge of poetry because "I'm an English professor, not a homosexual". As of 1995, he ''is'' out as a homosexual, which turns what was once a racy and potentially offensive joke into a case of NWordPriveleges.

* HilariousInHindsight: An sketch in the first season has Fry deliver a throwaway line that he's no judge of poetry because "I'm an English professor, not a homosexual". As of 1995, he ''is'' out as a homosexual, which turns what was once a racy and potentially offensive joke into a case of NWordPriveleges.

** Also, the "information" sketch. It's a sketch about the World Wide Web. From 1989. Even more amusingly, Stephen Fry character plays an apparently search-engine-like entity - a few years later, his [[{{Jeeves}} JeevesAndWooster]] character would turn up as the logo of [[http://www.ask.com a real-life search engine]].

** Also, the "information" sketch. It's a sketch about the World Wide Web. From 1989. Even more amusingly, Stephen Fry character plays an apparently search-engine-like entity - a few years later, his [[{{Jeeves}} JeevesAndWooster]] character would turn up as the logo of the real-life serach engine [[www.ask.com]].

** Also, the "information" sketch. It's a sketch about the World Wide Web. From 1989. Even more amusingly, Stephen Fry character plays an apparently search-engine-like entity - a few years later, his [[Jeeves JeevesAndWooster]] character would turn up as the logo of the real-life serach engine www.ask.com.

** Also, the "Information" sketch. It's a sketch about the World Wide Web. From 1989.

* AcceptableTargets: Estate agents.

* HilariousInHindsight: An sketch in the first season has Fry deliver a throwaway line that he's no judge of poetry because "I'm an English professor, not a homosexual". As of 1995, he ''is'' a homosexual, which turns what was once a racy and potentially offensive joke into a case of NWordPriveledges.

* TearJerker: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN03KaNp80o&feature=related "How do I like it? I like it the way Tony Merchison used to make it."]] *sniff*

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Many, many sketches involving psychiatrists or institutionalization can seem a bit disturbing in light of Fry's mental problems in TheNineties, as well as the later diagnosis of the pair's mental illnesses[[hottip:*:Fry has "Bipolar Disorder", Laurie has "severe Clinical Depression".]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Many, many sketches involving psychiatrists or institutionalization become a bit disturbing in light of Fry's mental problems in TheNineties.