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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Part of the reason the series failed was due to the fact that it was considered by audiences to be both too childish but also too smutty.

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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Part of the reason the series failed was due to the fact that because it was considered by audiences to be both too childish but also too smutty.



** A society photographer in the final episode was played by Frank Williams, who would later be best known for playing TheVicar in ''Series/DadsArmy''.

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** A society photographer in the final episode was played by Frank Williams, Creator/FrankWilliams, who would later be best known for playing TheVicar in ''Series/DadsArmy''.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: The "giant" human effects were dodgy even by 1969's standards, as there were numerous imperfections visible onscreen.
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** A society photographer in the final episode was played by Frank Williams, who would later be best known for playing TheVicar in ''Series/DadsArmy''.
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* {{Padding}}: "Human Beans Have Parties" (which focuses on the gnomes throwing a party) has a lengthy sequence in the middle about the gnomes playing hide and seek that adds nothing to the plot.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Part of the reason the series failed was due to the fact that it was considered by audiences to be both too childish but also too smutty.
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** A gnome in "Human Beans Have Parties" was played by Creator/JackHaig, who would later be best known for playing the first [=LeClerc=] in ''Series/AlloAllo''.
** A gnome in the final episode was played by Creator/NigelHawthorne, who would later be best known for playing Sir Humphrey Appleby in ''Series/YesMinister''.
* ValuesDissonance: Big looks down on the Empire Gnomes, dismissing them as "plastic Chinese twits", while none of the Empire Gnomes were actually played by Chinese actors, but mostly white actors using broad, offensive accents.
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