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* InformedAttribute: Parodied with the "[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome LASER DISPLAY BOARD]]" (sometimes extra words suggesting technical brilliance are added into the description) which allegedly informs the studio audience of whatever the secret is, as the Mystery Voice does for the listeners at home. Of course, like Samantha it's entirely fictional, and there's an audience laugh when the secret turns out to be written on an ordinary cue card.

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* InformedAttribute: Parodied with the "[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome LASER DISPLAY BOARD]]" (sometimes extra words suggesting technical brilliance are added into the description) which allegedly informs the studio audience of whatever the secret is, as the Mystery Voice does for the listeners at home. Of course, like Samantha it's entirely fictional, and there's an audience laugh when the secret turns out to be written on an ordinary cue card.card which the show producer runs across the stage with.
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* ArtifactTitle: The title was originally meant to echo ''ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'', but since ''Clue'' has outlived its parent show by decades, a lot more people know about ''Clue'' than ''ISIRTA''. Also, the subtitle "the antidote to panel games" doesn't make as much sense now as it used to -- back when it was created, there were way more 'serious' panel games on the BBC, rather than the generally comic tone of those played nowadays. Graeme once jokingly suggested to change it to "the template for panel games".


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* ShoutOut: In spades, especially the ''Songbook'', ''Film Club'' or ''Book Club'' rounds, which revolve around making puns about popular films. Then there are rounds like ''No Budget'', which are about modifying book, film, or TV titles to reflect their, well, lack of budget.
-->'''Graeme:''' ''[[NightOfTheLivingDead Night Of The Dead Dead]]''.
-->'''Tim:''' ''[[GuysAndDolls Guy And Doll]]''.
-->'''Barry:''' ''[[{{Titanic}} Titanic 2]]''.
-->'''Jeremy:''' ''LittleHouseOnThePrairie.''
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-->''Dear Mr. Nick,\\
I'm on the train.\\
Yours sincerely, Mrs. Trellis

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-->''Dear Mr. Nick,\\
I'm
Nick,''\\
''I'm
on the train.\\
Yours
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''Yours
sincerely, Mrs. TrellisTrellis''
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mrs. Trellis of North Wales, who writes many letters, e-mails, texts and so on to the show under the mistaken belief that she's writing to another show, always confusing the chairman for some other programme host. Usually, these messages make some amount of sense. Sometimes, they're just...weird.
-->''Dear Mr. Nick,\\
I'm on the train.\\
Yours sincerely, Mrs. Trellis


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** Often in ''Sound Charades'', when the guessing team have figured the charade out, they'll name something humorously out of the blue.
-->'''Graeme:''' A boy called Harry...who's doing something naughty.
-->'''Barry:''' Or dirty.
-->'''Graeme:''' Ah, yes. ''Dirty Potter''!


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** In a round of ''Sound Charades'', Tim and Jeremy illustrated ''TheSopranos'' by putting on high-pitched soprano voices and talking like typical gangsters, excessive swearing and all. The swearing was all bleeped out in the broadcast version, which Barry predicted -- afterward, he quipped "You'll bleep with the fishes!"
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-->'''Barry:''' ''(singing Charles Aznavour's "She") She may be the song that summer sings,''\\
''May be the children autumn brings,''\\
''May be a hundred different things--''
-->'''Tim:''' I love you, Barry.
-->'''Barry:''' ''(laughing)'' ''Within the measure of a day...''
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Yes, on radio. Occassionally on ''Pick-Up Song'', the panellists who aren't singing will banter, joke, make comments or otherwise fool around in the background, aiming to get the singer to crack up.
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** This was lampshaded heavily in one episode. Right after Humph has said "And points mean prizes", he pauses, then comments on how ridiculous that is, since he hasn't given a point since ''1976''. "I mean...what do points mean?" "PRIZES!" "''Shut up!''"
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*** One person saying 'and' or 'yet' in Letter Writing, the two-man version of Cheddar Gorge.


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* ScareEmStraight: In one round of ''Closed Quotes'', the quotes were taken from [=PSA=]s. A few of them were so [[{{Narm}} hilariously horrifying]] that the panellists burst out laughing when the real answers were shown.
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*** In the introduction to Cheddar Gorge, Humph would sometimes define the noise made by the klaxon horn. "If I decide that a full stop has been reached, you'll hear this...''(honk)''...as I prod a baby elephant with a stick."
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*** Also to punctuate that a round had gone on too long, Barry sometimes mentioned that he had black hair when they started.

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-->'''Barry:''' Something incredible on thirty-fourth street. Something you would hardly believe on thirty-fourth street...I find all this incredibly offensive, incidentally...



---> '''Graeme:''' ''`Course'' you are, Mr Cryer, now if you could just blow into this tube..

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---> '''Graeme:''' ''`Course'' '''Course'' you are, Mr Cryer, now if you could just blow into this tube..tube...
** In one episode, Humph mentions that Barry proposed to his wife in a pub and, gripped with the romance of the moment, even got ''up'' on one knee.

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** Barry is also a terrible offender, and is particularly noticeable due to his loud, distinctive laugh.



* DoubleEntendre: More than you can shake a "stick" at.


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** One of the many features of the internet-linked liquid-crystal laser display board is to confuse the listeners at home who haven't been to a recording, and to make them wonder why the audience laugh when the title is displayed.


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** Barry tended to react to these with either "dear oh dear..." or loud, raucous laughter, depending on how good he was at keeping a straight face at the moment.


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** In one round of ''Closed Quotes'', the quotes came from an interview with {{Ozzy Osbourne}}. Humph censored the more explicit words by honking his horn.
-->As for Simon Cowell, I think he's a ''(honk)''ing ''(honk)''hole.
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* InformedAttribute: Parodied with the "[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome LASER DISPLAY BOARD]]" (sometimes extra words suggesting technical brilliance are added into the description) which allegedly informs the studio audience of whatever the secret is, as the Mystery Voice does for the listeners at home. Of course, like Samantha it's entirely fictional, and there's an audience laugh when the secret turns out to be written on an ordinary cue card.

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* ShapedLikeItself: Once Graeme finished the saying "If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing..." with "isn't it?"

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* ShapedLikeItself: Once Graeme finished the saying From a round of Complete Quotes that used proverbs and sayings:
--> '''Humph:'''
"If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing..." with "isn't "
--> '''Graeme:''' "...isn't
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** Another example, from a round of ''Complete Quotes'':
---> '''Humph:''' "I'm Henry the Eighth, I am, I am..."
---> '''Graeme:''' ''`Course'' you are, Mr Cryer, now if you could just blow into this tube..
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* TheAlcoholic: What everyone believes Barry to be. In one round of ''Sound Charades'', Tim and Jeremy do the title ''MiracleOnThirtyFourthStreet'' with this:
-->'''Jeremy:''' Where are we?
-->'''Tim:''' Somewhere between...thirty-third and thirty-fifth street.
-->'''Jeremy:''' Oh, there's a pub along here. Fancy a drink, Barry? ...Cryer, that is?
-->'''Tim:''' No, no, not for me, thanks.


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* DeadpanSnarker: ''Humph.'' His entire persona was that of a bored old man who was baffled and annoyed by the entire show and everyone who was on it.
-->'''Humph:''' In "Hunt The Slipper", I'll sit with my eyes closed while the slipper is passed around behind the teams' backs. After a few seconds of slipper-passing, I shall call out "slipper search on", and then I'll open my eyes. Obviously I shall have no idea where the slipper is, but the teams should keep passing the slipper around secretly, and I shall have to guess who's holding the slipper and challenge them by pointing and calling out "slipper holder". ''(beat)'' ...I'm seventy-eight, for Christ's sake.
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** In ''Uxbridge English Dictionary'', Barry will occassionally say a word ending in '-ish' or '-y', and define it as 'rather like [word]'. (Such as "Vanish: Rather like a van.")
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Added a running gag. If the addition of the official site at the top spoils the description, feel free to remove it.

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In 2012, the show's official site was launched, which can be found [[http://www.isihac.net/ here]].


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** In games like ''Just A Minim'' and ''Word For Word'' where challenges are allowed, Humph would occassionally accept a challenge, then let the subject go to anyone except the person who had challenged.
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** If Colin ever speaks up, someone will usually respond with either "Sorry, who are you?" or "You keep out of this".


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** Whenever Humph was particularly inattentive, Barry would respond by treating him as a senile old man. ("The visitors are coming in a minute! ...Put your trousers on!")
*** This once combined with the 'gig in Hull' gag, when the teams had just finished a round with no reaction from Humph. Barry yelled "We've finished, Humph! We'll go for a walk on the seafront later!", to which Humph responded "I've just left for next Thursday's gig in Hull."
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The episodes have been removed from the Internet Archive (a while ago, actually)



[[http://www.archive.org/details/ImSorryIHaventAClue You can listen to early episodes on the Internet Archive.]]
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* MorePopularSpinOff: ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'' ran for eight years. ''ImSorryIHaventAClue'' started in 1972 [[LongRunners and is still going]].

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* MorePopularSpinOff: ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'' ran for eight years. ''ImSorryIHaventAClue'' ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue'' started in 1972 [[LongRunners and is still going]].
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* ThriftyScot: Hamish and Dougal. Many listeners don't realise that their starting CatchPhrase "You'll have had your tea?" is a stereotypical Scots phrase with the subtext that "...because I'm certainly not spending money to feed you if you say no".

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-->'''Tim:''' Mr. and Mrs. [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Pythonsflyingcircus]]... ''(loud crowd cheer)'' ...and their son...Arthur!

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-->'''Tim:''' --->'''Tim:''' Mr. and Mrs. [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Pythonsflyingcircus]]... ''(loud crowd cheer)'' ...and their son...Arthur!



* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: IIRC, in one episode, Barry buzzed in to ask if an action wasn't in complete violation of the rules. Humph removed some of his marks for not knowing the rules, and Barry buzzed in again, stating that he knew the rules ''now'' and could he have his marks back please. Humph gave them back, but removed them again for interrupting.



* CreepyMonotone / DullSurprise: Humph sometimes used this for laughs, such as giving the teams praise in a wooden tone that suggested he was wearily reading out a prescripted line. Probably the best example is when he used Anne Robinson's catchphrase in a round parodying ''TheWeakestLink'' but without any of the viciousness:

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* CreepyMonotone / DullSurprise: CreepyMonotone[=/=]DullSurprise: Humph sometimes used this for laughs, such as giving the teams praise in a wooden tone that suggested he was wearily reading out a prescripted line. Probably the best example is when he used Anne Robinson's catchphrase in a round parodying ''TheWeakestLink'' but without any of the viciousness:



-->'''Humph:''' Points mean prizes, what do points mean?
-->'''Audience:''' PRIZES!
-->'''Humph:''' ''(hissing) Shut up.''
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: IIRC, in one episode, Barry buzzed in to ask if an action wasn't in complete violation of the rules. Humph removed some of his marks for not knowing the rules, and Barry buzzed in again, stating that he knew the rules ''now'' and could he have his marks back please. Humph gave them back, but removed them again for interrupting.

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-->'''Humph:''' --->'''Humph:''' Points mean prizes, what do points mean?
-->'''Audience:''' --->'''Audience:''' PRIZES!
-->'''Humph:''' --->'''Humph:''' ''(hissing) Shut up.''
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: IIRC, in one episode, Barry buzzed in to ask if an action wasn't in complete violation of the rules. Humph removed some of his marks for not knowing the rules, and Barry buzzed in again, stating that he knew the rules ''now'' and could he have his marks back please. Humph gave them back, but removed them again for interrupting.
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* TheVoiceless: Samantha, and her occasional replacements Monica and Sven.
** Who are all entirely fictional, existing only as DoubleEntendre fodder:
--> "As is customary, Samantha spent some time down in the gramophone library earlier, fetching the hit singles she's chosen. She's become quite friendly with the two elderly archivists, Jack and Arthur. They've recently gone part-time, so Samantha's come to a working arrangement -- she does the paperwork, Arthur gets her 45s out and Jack's off all afternoon."
** Colin Sell is also voiceless insofar as he has no microphone and can't return any of the endless shots taken at him. (Occasionally he says something loud enough to be heard in the background or communicates via the piano, like falling on the keyboard in response to being "killed".)
*** In ''Christmas Clue'' he played the part of Cratchit but, as the character is too poor to buy a microphone, he's still only barely audible.
*** He got a couple of properly audible lines in the Hogmanay Special of spin-off show ''Hamish & Dougal'' when he played himself (with Humph as the Laird's butler, Lyttleton)
--> Colin: I'm Colin Sell, you ordered a pianist?
--> Humph: Yes. Where is he?


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* TheVoiceless: Samantha, and her occasional replacements Monica and Sven.
** Who are all entirely fictional, existing only as DoubleEntendre fodder:
--> "As is customary, Samantha spent some time down in the gramophone library earlier, fetching the hit singles she's chosen. She's become quite friendly with the two elderly archivists, Jack and Arthur. They've recently gone part-time, so Samantha's come to a working arrangement -- she does the paperwork, Arthur gets her 45s out and Jack's off all afternoon."
** Colin Sell is also voiceless insofar as he has no microphone and can't return any of the endless shots taken at him. (Occasionally he says something loud enough to be heard in the background or communicates via the piano, like falling on the keyboard in response to being "killed".)
*** In ''Christmas Clue'' he played the part of Cratchit but, as the character is too poor to buy a microphone, he's still only barely audible.
*** He got a couple of properly audible lines in the Hogmanay Special of spin-off show ''Hamish & Dougal'' when he played himself (with Humph as the Laird's butler, Lyttleton)
--> Colin: I'm Colin Sell, you ordered a pianist?
--> Humph: Yes. Where is he?
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** Most notable is the "[[JustAMinute Just A Minim]]" round, where they have to sing a well-known song without hesitation, repetition, or deviation -- needless to say, the songs are deliberately chosen to make this hard, ''Old [=McDonald=] Had A Farm'' being one hilarious example. Since Jack Dee took over as host, the parody has extended to Jack channelling ''JustAMinute'' chairman Nicholas Parsons' effusive hosting style.

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** Most notable is the "[[JustAMinute "[[Radio/JustAMinute Just A Minim]]" round, where they have to sing a well-known song without hesitation, repetition, or deviation -- needless to say, the songs are deliberately chosen to make this hard, ''Old [=McDonald=] Had A Farm'' being one hilarious example. Since Jack Dee took over as host, the parody has extended to Jack channelling ''JustAMinute'' chairman Nicholas Parsons' effusive hosting style.



* ArchEnemy: Humph has Nicholas Parsons, the bright and cheerful host of ''JustAMinute''.

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* ArchEnemy: Humph has Nicholas Parsons, the bright and cheerful host of ''JustAMinute''.''Radio/JustAMinute''.
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** On some occasions, there is no radar full stop. A late-90s episode broadcast the phrase "Holy shit!" completely uncensored, even on the Sunday lunchtime repeat.
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PanelGame (according to the introduction, "the antidote to panel games") broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and the "classic radio" station BBC 7. Born in 1972, it was something of a continuation of the SketchShow ''[[Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again]]'' (which was also the origin of ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' and ''TheGoodies''). The main difference was that, as a panel game, they didn't need to write any scripts.

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PanelGame (according to the introduction, "the antidote to panel games") broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and the "classic radio" station BBC 7. Born in 1972, it was something of a continuation of the SketchShow ''[[Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again]]'' (which was also the origin of ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' and ''TheGoodies'').''Series/TheGoodies''). The main difference was that, as a panel game, they didn't need to write any scripts.



* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''[[Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'', and in some ways to ''TheGoodies''.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''[[Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'', and in some ways to ''TheGoodies''.''Series/TheGoodies''.
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PanelGame (according to the introduction, "the antidote to panel games") broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and the "classic radio" station BBC 7. Born in 1972, it was something of a continuation of the SketchShow ''[[ImSorryIllReadThatAgain I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again]]'' (which was also the origin of ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' and ''TheGoodies''). The main difference was that, as a panel game, they didn't need to write any scripts.

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PanelGame (according to the introduction, "the antidote to panel games") broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and the "classic radio" station BBC 7. Born in 1972, it was something of a continuation of the SketchShow ''[[ImSorryIllReadThatAgain ''[[Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again]]'' (which was also the origin of ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' and ''TheGoodies''). The main difference was that, as a panel game, they didn't need to write any scripts.



* MorePopularSpinOff: ''ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'' ran for eight years. ''ImSorryIHaventAClue'' started in 1972 [[LongRunners and is still going]].

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* MorePopularSpinOff: ''ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'' ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'' ran for eight years. ''ImSorryIHaventAClue'' started in 1972 [[LongRunners and is still going]].



* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''[[ImSorryIllReadThatAgain I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'', and in some ways to ''TheGoodies''.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''[[ImSorryIllReadThatAgain ''[[Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'', and in some ways to ''TheGoodies''.



** This concept originated with ''[[ImSorryIllReadThatAgain I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again]]''.

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** This concept originated with ''[[ImSorryIllReadThatAgain ''[[Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again]]''.
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** And sometimes the panellists:
-->[''In the Mystery Illness round, Barry's complaint is that he is turning into Ricky Gervais'']
-->'''Graeme''': He was alright until he left ''TheOffice'', then something weird happened...
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: A frequent source of humour (as in ''Celebrity What's My Line?'', where a celebrity is introduced and the panellists have to guess what they do for a living).
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* ChristmasEpisode: 2003's ''[[AChristmasCarol I'm Sorry I Haven't a Christmas Carol]]'' and 2007's ''[[AliceInWonderland Humph in Wonderland]]'', which cast the regulars and guests in retellings of the respective stories that managed to shoehorn in as many of the usual games as possible. There have also been several Christmas-themed editions of the "regular" show.

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