History NightmareFuel / TheLeagueOfGentlemen

* The local veterinary surgeon Matthew Chinnery, a kind-hearted animal lover cursed to accidentally kill any innocent creature he interacts with, usually in shockingly brutal or explosive fashions. For the sheer amount of no-limits BlackComedy on display, he has been an enduring favourite since the very first episode, but for both casual viewers and even hardened fans, many of his sketches are extremely tense and cringeworthy to sit through in the worst possible ways. Examples of Chinnery's unintentional cruelty throughout the franchise include euthanizing a farmer's perfectly healthy via lethal injection, oxygenating a tortoise until it erupts like a rocket out of its own shell, and gorily exploding an over-bloated hedgehog. So for many, Chinnery has become the true TheDreaded of the series, even above the likes of Papa Lazarou.

* The local veterinary surgeon Matthew Chinnery, a kind-hearted animal lover cursed to accidentally kill any animal he interacts with, usually in painfully brutal or explosive fashions. For the sheer amount of no-limits BlackComedy on display, he has been an enduring favourite since the very first episode, but for both casual viewers and even hardened fans, many of his sketches are extremely tense and cringeworthy to sit through in the worst possible ways. Examples of Chinnery's unintentional cruelty throughout the franchise include euthanizing a farmer's perfectly healthy via lethal injection, oxygenating a tortoise until it erupts like a rocket out of its own shell, and gorily exploding an over-bloated hedgehog. So for many, Chinnery has become the true TheDreaded of the series, even above the likes of Papa Lazarou.

* The local veterinary surgeon Matthew Chinnery, a kind-hearted animal lover cursed to accidentally kill any animal he interacts with, usually in painfully brutal or explosive fashions. For the sheer amount of no-limits BlackComedy on display, he has been an enduring favourite since the very first episode, but for both casual viewers and even hardened fans, many of his sketches are extremely tense and cringeworthy to watch in the worst possible ways. Examples of Chinnery's unintentional cruelty throughout the franchise include euthanizing a farmer's perfectly healthy via lethal injection, oxygenating a tortoise until it erupts like a rocket out of its own shell, and gorily exploding an over-bloated hedgehog. So for many, Chinnery has become the true TheDreaded of the series, even above the likes of Papa Lazarou.

* The local veterinary surgeon Matthew Chinnery, a kind-hearted animal lover cursed to accidentally kill any animal he interacts with, usually in brutal or explosive fashions. For the sheer amount of BlackComedy on display, he is an enduring favourite since the very first episode, but for both casual viewers and even hardened fans, many of his sketches are extremely cringeworthy to watch in the worst possible ways. Examples of Chinnery's unintentional cruelty throughout the franchise include euthanizing a farmer's perfectly healthy via lethal injection, oxygenating a tortoise until it erupts like a rocket out of its own shell, and gorily exploding an over-bloated hedgehog. So for many, Chinnery has become the true TheDreaded of the series, even above the likes of Papa Lazarou.

* Pop is probably the most unnerving character in the whole series. A violent, perverted Greek drunkard who abuses his two sons, sexually harrassess the girlfriend of his older son Al, goes out of his way to frighten the two tennants he has staying in a flat he owns and even films the people in that flat without their knowledge. He returns in the 2017 series after being away for over a decade to find that Al and his wife have told their two daughters that Pop died. He's back to his old creepy ways with his own granddaughters, giving them skimpy underwear as "gifts" while Al can only standby and do nothing out of fear for his father. This makes it hard to feel sorry for Pop when his other son [[spoiler: Richie murders him when the two finally meet again.]]

* The ChristmasSpecial also manages to turn Herr Lipp (normally a mid case of ParanoiaFuel) into a full-on terror, mostly through excellent camera work. Plus there was the creepy, masked {{cult}} and the Victorian curse. Who ever thought shadow puppets of a monkey screwing an elephant could be so scary?

* The Nosebleed Plague. Even Papa Lazarou was creeped out by that.

Often considered one of the creepiest {{Sit Com}}s ever made, ''TheLeagueOfGentlemen'' is rife with examples. Spoilers below.

--> '''[[spoiler:Papa Lazarou]]'''[[spoiler: It's a wife mine now!]]

--> '''[[spoiler:Papa Lazarou''' It's a wife mine now!]]

* According to [[BigDamnMovie the movie]], if at any point you stop writing about a fictional world, [[spoiler:it is destroyed by a fiery hail of meteors--so, essentially, any time a series ends you're dooming not just your leads but dozens of incidental characters and extras, to say nothing of the countless people who ''implicitly'' populate the work's world, all of whom actually exist on another plane.
* "[[spoiler:We didn't cut their faces off]]!"]]

--> '''[[spoiler:Papa Lazarou]]''' It's a wife mine now!

* The photobooth from the 2017 series. Everyone who goes in there vanishes down some sort of shaft once they have their picture taken. It's in the last episode that we finally lear what it is:

* "[[spoiler:We didn't cut their faces off]]!"]]

* [[spoiler:"We didn't cut their faces off!"]] ]]

* [[spoiler:"We didn't cut their faces off!"]]]]

* According to [[BigDamnMovie the movie]], if at any point you stop writing about a fictional world, [[spoiler:it is destroyed by a fiery hail of meteors--so, essentially, any time a series ends you're dooming not just your leads but dozens of incidental characters and extras, to say nothing of the countless people who ''implicitly'' populate the work's world, all of whom actually exist on another plane.]]

* Papa Lazarou. Everything about him. [[BadSanta Especially]] in the ChristmasSpecial. He didn't wind up as the page image for the NightmareFuel/LiveActionTV page for nothing.

* Papa Lazarou. Everything about him. [[BadSanta Especially]] in the ChristmasSpecial. He didn't wind up as the page image for the NightmareFuel Live-Action TV page for nothing.

* Edward and Tubbs, a pair of {{Gonk incredibly hideous}}, [[VillainousIncest incestuous]] CorruptHick {{Serial Killer}}s, as well as the implied metamorphosis of their son from a normal human being into a [[BerthaInTheAttic monstrous ogre-like creature that lives in the attic]]. Not something you expect to see on a SitCom.

* Edward and Tubbs, a pair of [[Gonk incredibly hideous]], [[VillainousIncest incestuous]] CorruptHick {{Serial Killer}}s, as well as the implied metamorphosis of their son from a normal human being into a [[BerthaInTheAttic monstrous ogre-like creature that lives in the attic]]. Not something you expect to see on a SitCom.

* Edward and Tubbs, a pair of incredibly hideous, [[VillainousIncest incestuous]] CorruptHick {{Serial Killer}}s, as well as the implied metamorphosis of their son from a normal human being into a [[BerthaInTheAttic monstrous ogre-like creature that lives in the attic]]. Not something you expect to see on a SitCom.

* '''THE ENTIRE DAMN SHOW!!!!'''

* Papa Lazarou. Everything about him. [[BadSanta Especially]] in the ChristmasSpecial.

* Evidently, if at any point you stop writing about a fictional world, [[spoiler:it is destroyed by a fiery hail of meteors--so, essentially, any time a series ends you're dooming not just your leads but dozens of incidental characters and extras, to say nothing of the countless people who ''implicitly'' populate the work's world, all of whom actually exist on another plane.]]

* Evidently, if at any point you stop writing about a fictional world, [[spoiler:it is destroyed by a fiery hail of meteors.]]

* The scene in the second series where Pauline and Ross wrestle features a moment where Pauline forces Ross onto a table and tries to stab him with a pen, all with a terrifyingly feral look on her face. This was immediately followed by Ross biting down on her breast ''hard'' with a sickening ''crunch!''