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* CreatorCameo: Sellers, Secombe and Milligan all exist as themselves within the Goon universe in addition to playing the parts, such as in "The Man Who Never Was" where the narrator mentions their real-life postings during World War II, and in "Scradje" where both Secombe and Milligan explode.
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** Referring to 'a photograph of...', 'a cardboard cutout of...', 'a mental picture of...' etc. as though it's the same as the real thing.
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** Referring to 'a photograph of...', 'a cardboard cutout of...', 'a mental picture of...' etc. as though it's the same as the real thing. In "The Jet Propelled Guided [=NAAFI=]", both Grytpype and Moriarty stow away aboard a plane by climbing through a photograph of a hole in the fuselage, which they then have to throw away so they don't fall out.
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* AskAStupidQuestion: Early on in "Scradje", Grytpype-Thynne and Moriarty turn up to the British Medical Council and (after an incomprehensible sob story from Moriarty) start collecting money. After they (and Max Geldray) are finished...
-->'''Seagoon:''' You didn't say what this collection was for.\\
'''Grytpype:''' Money.
-->'''Seagoon:''' You didn't say what this collection was for.\\
'''Grytpype:''' Money.
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* ZanyScheme
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* ZanySchemeZanyScheme: A recurring episode "plot" revolved around Grytpype-Thynne and Moriarty coming up with one of these in order to obtain money.
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* InadvertentEntranceCue: Some episodes have a character saying something like "Only an idiot would do something like that!", immediately followed by a cheerful greeting from Eccles.
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* InadvertentEntranceCue: Some episodes have a character saying something like "Only an idiot would do something like that!", immediately followed by a cheerful greeting from Eccles. This gag quite possiby had its apotheosis in "The String Robberies" when lighthouse keeper Bloodnok gets a knock on the door in the middle of a raging storm. He says "only an idiot would be out in this weather", and opens the door to find a sizeable choir of Eccles-es singing "Good King Wenceslas".
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'''Greenslade:''' [[LampshadeHanging And on that beautifly enunicated rubbish...]]
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'''Greenslade:''' [[LampshadeHanging And on that beautifly beautifully enunicated rubbish...]]
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* DeterioratesIntoGibberish: Frequently used. For example, in "The Call of the West":
-->'''Greenslade:''' It is 1867 and dead on time. The harbour of Boston is a hive of inactivity, as English immigrants bring their shattered bank accounts to the New World. Alongside is the Good Ship Venus: The pling plang toof, nobitty nibbitty noo, pleta omnivorous plethora, pletty plom plom tartity to to tooee, fit plor tong tang tit putt putt...
-->'''Greenslade:''' It is 1867 and dead on time. The harbour of Boston is a hive of inactivity, as English immigrants bring their shattered bank accounts to the New World. Alongside is the Good Ship Venus: The pling plang toof, nobitty nibbitty noo, pleta omnivorous plethora, pletty plom plom tartity to to tooee, fit plor tong tang tit putt putt...
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* DeterioratesIntoGibberish: Frequently used. used.
** For example, in "The Call of the West":
-->'''Greenslade:''' --->'''Greenslade:''' It is 1867 and dead on time. The harbour of Boston is a hive of inactivity, as English immigrants bring their shattered bank accounts to the New World. Alongside is the Good Ship Venus: The pling plang toof, nobitty nibbitty noo, pleta omnivorous plethora, pletty plom plom tartity to to tooee, fit plor tong tang tit putt putt...putt...
** Multiple times in succession in "The Great Spon Plague":
--->'''Moriarty:''' You mean [long string of gibberish]?\\
'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' You have it in a nutshell.\\
'''Moriarty:''' But how do you know people are going to start catching the Spon Plague, Grytpype?\\
'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' Just leave that to me. I have certain arglers on the [more gibberish]...\\
'''Greenslade:''' [[LampshadeHanging And on that beautifly enunicated rubbish...]]
** For example, in "The Call of the West":
** Multiple times in succession in "The Great Spon Plague":
--->'''Moriarty:''' You mean [long string of gibberish]?\\
'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' You have it in a nutshell.\\
'''Moriarty:''' But how do you know people are going to start catching the Spon Plague, Grytpype?\\
'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' Just leave that to me. I have certain arglers on the [more gibberish]...\\
'''Greenslade:''' [[LampshadeHanging And on that beautifly enunicated rubbish...]]
*** A sharper jab occurs in "The Man Who Never Was", when a German spy declares that he's seeking political asylum and Bloodnok directs him to get on a bus to the House of Commons, the finest political asylum he knows.
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'''Scotsman:''' ''[Bagpipes under]'' I've heard nae such a lot o' rubbish since I left the House of Commons. Scradje indeed! If you think I'd believe one word of that... ''[His boots explode.]'' Aaargh! ''[Bagpipes run down and stop]''
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'''Scotsman:''' ''[Bagpipes under]'' I've heard nae such a lot o' rubbish since I left the House of Commons. Scradje indeed! If you think I'd believe one word of that... ''[His boots explode.''[He explodes.]'' Aaargh! ''[Bagpipes run down and stop]''
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** Eccles and Bluebottle
** Moriarty and Grytpype-Thynne
** Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister
** Lalkaka and Banerjee where the most prominent example from among the minor characters.
** Moriarty and Grytpype-Thynne
** Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister
** Lalkaka and Banerjee where the most prominent example from among the minor characters.
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** Eccles and Bluebottle
Bluebottle.
** Moriarty andGrytpype-Thynne
Grytpype-Thynne.
** Henry Crun and MinnieBannister
Bannister.
** Lalkaka and Banerjeewhere were the most prominent example from among the minor characters.
** Moriarty and
** Henry Crun and Minnie
** Lalkaka and Banerjee
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** They were fond of this gag, but they did seem to know when to cut it off:
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** They were fond of this gag, but they did seem to know when to cut it off:off, as shown in "The Great International Christmas Pudding":
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* WorseWithContext: A common style of joke. One example:
-->'''Neddie:''' How did you know he was dead?\\
'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' He's been lying on his back for three days.\\
'''Neddie:''' That doesn't mean a man's dead.\\
'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' In this case it did. <{{beat}}> He was on the bottom of the lake.
-->'''Neddie:''' How did you know he was dead?\\
'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' He's been lying on his back for three days.\\
'''Neddie:''' That doesn't mean a man's dead.\\
'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' In this case it did. <{{beat}}> He was on the bottom of the lake.
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* QuackDoctor:
* In "The Call of the West", Bloodnok appears as a seller of 'thunder pills' in Dodge City. Having seen what they do to an unfortunate volunteer, the townspeople are quick to declare him a quack and chase him out of town.
* In "The Call of the West", Bloodnok appears as a seller of 'thunder pills' in Dodge City. Having seen what they do to an unfortunate volunteer, the townspeople are quick to declare him a quack and chase him out of town.
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* QuackDoctor:
*QuackDoctor: In "The Call of the West", Bloodnok appears as a seller of 'thunder pills' in Dodge City. Having seen what they do to an unfortunate volunteer, the townspeople are quick to declare him a quack and chase him out of town.
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* QuackDoctor:
* In "The Call of the West", Bloodnok appears as a seller of 'thunder pills' in Dodge City. Having seen what they do to an unfortunate volunteer, the townspeople are quick to declare him a quack and chase him out of town.
* In "The Call of the West", Bloodnok appears as a seller of 'thunder pills' in Dodge City. Having seen what they do to an unfortunate volunteer, the townspeople are quick to declare him a quack and chase him out of town.
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* AffectionateParody: Among the stories that could qualify as this are "Shangri-La Again" (''Film/LostHorizon''), "1985" (''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''), "The Scarlet Capsule" (''Series/QuatermassAndThePit''), "The African Incident" (''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai''), "The Man who Never Was" (''Film/TheManWhoNeverWas''), "The Fear of Wages" (''Film/TheWagesOfFear''), "Dishonoured" and "Dishonoured Again" (''Dishonored''), "Under Two Floorboards" (not ''Literature/UnderTwoFlags'' -- actually it's their version of ''Literature/BeauGeste''), "King Solomon's Mines" (''Literature/KingSolomonsMines''), "Six Charlies in Search of an Author" (''Six Characters in Search of an Author'') and the various takes on RobinHood done as Christmas episodes.
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* AffectionateParody: Among the stories that could qualify as this are "Shangri-La Again" (''Film/LostHorizon''), "1985" (''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''), "The Scarlet Capsule" (''Series/QuatermassAndThePit''), "The African Incident" (''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai''), "The Man who Never Was" (''Film/TheManWhoNeverWas''), "The Fear of Wages" (''Film/TheWagesOfFear''), "Dishonoured" and "Dishonoured Again" (''Dishonored''), "Under Two Floorboards" (not ''Literature/UnderTwoFlags'' -- actually it's their version of ''Literature/BeauGeste''), "King Solomon's Mines" (''Literature/KingSolomonsMines''), "Six Charlies in Search of an Author" (''Six Characters in Search of an Author'') and the various takes on RobinHood Myth/RobinHood done as Christmas episodes.
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* MesACrowd: Eccles did this at least twice:
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* MesACrowd: Eccles did this at least twice:three times:
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** In "The Terrible Revenge of Fred Fu-Manchu", Seagoon orders Eccles to form into a squad of four, which he does. (Seagoon comments "Let's see them do that on television!". When the episode was later adapted for the Telegoons, it did indeed show Eccles becoming four identical Eccleses).
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The best-known example was "The Sinking of Westminster Pier", which was written by Milligan and substituted for "The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street" at the last minute after the real Westminster Pier sank. Other examples include "The Treasure of Loch Lomond" (inspired by the Duke of Argyll's attempts to salvage treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon) and "The Case of the Missing CD Plates" (a Peruvian diplomat threw a piano out of a window, damaging a parked car, and claimed diplomatic immunity when asked to pay for the damage).
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* ItWasHereISwear: Spoofed in "Forog". When Neddie Seagoon brings the authorities to the building containing the proof of his wild story, the entire building is gone. The authorities subsequently inform him that they've been unable to find any evidence that the building was ever there, or that the people he claims to have been working for ever existed. When Neddie insists that his story is true "or my name isn't Neddie Seagoon", they add that they haven't been able to find any evidence that Neddie Seagoon exists, either...
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** In "The Secret Escritoire", Bloodnok runs into trouble with a Malayan customs officer after the officer finds Eccles in Bloodnok's case, and is told to pay the idiot's tax - $20 alive or $3 dead. Bloodnok hands Eccles a pistol and tells him to do the decent thing. Eccles takes it, quietly says goodbye... [[SubvertedTrope and shoots the customs officer]].
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: While talking to Seagoon in "Napoleon's Piano", Peter Sellers drops from Grytpype-Thynne into Flowerdew mid-sentence for no apparent reason.
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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: OohMeAccentsSlipping:
** While talking to Seagoon in "Napoleon's Piano", Peter Sellers drops from Grytpype-Thynne into Flowerdew mid-sentence for no apparentreason.reason.
** Secombe usually only ever played Seagoon. When he plays other characters, well...
-->'''Malayan Customs Officer''': ''[played by Secombe with a very bad accent]'' Please. What have you got in this 80-ton case?\\
'''Bloodnok''': Nothing, [[BreakingTheFourthWall little Malayan customs officer played very badly by Harry Secombe]].
** While talking to Seagoon in "Napoleon's Piano", Peter Sellers drops from Grytpype-Thynne into Flowerdew mid-sentence for no apparent
** Secombe usually only ever played Seagoon. When he plays other characters, well...
-->'''Malayan Customs Officer''': ''[played by Secombe with a very bad accent]'' Please. What have you got in this 80-ton case?\\
'''Bloodnok''': Nothing, [[BreakingTheFourthWall little Malayan customs officer played very badly by Harry Secombe]].
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The occasional appearance from bit-part soldier character Hugh Jampton.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Said out loud, it sounds like 'huge Hampton', with 'Hampton Wick' being UsefulNotes/CockneyRhymingSlang for 'dick'.[[/labelnote]]
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* NoEnding: Just one example: "The Great String Robbery" ends with Seagoon being informed that the entire show has been "all in your mind, you know". In wild panic, he screams for help, demanding to know "[[WhoWritesThisCrap Who Wrote This Script?]]".
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* NoEnding: Just one example: "The Great String Robbery" ends with Seagoon being informed that the entire show has been "all in your mind, you know". (In the course of pursuing justice, he, Bloodnok and Bluebottle have ended up in Henry and Minnie's nonexistent cellar.) In wild panic, he screams for help, demanding to know "[[WhoWritesThisCrap Who Wrote This Script?]]".
* PianoDrop: In multiple episodes. Seagoon spends a significant portion of "The Case of the Missing CD Plates" trapped underneath one.
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* RunningGag: Many.
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* RunningGag: Many. There's usually at least one that is exclusive to a particular episode.
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** The show got a lot of mileage out of a stock record of a donkey with massive flatulence, usually applied to Bloodnok.
** Nobody can ever pronounce 'in the name of the law' correctly on their first go.
** Nobody can ever pronounce 'in the name of the law' correctly on their first go.
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** Whenever a scene is set in parliament or amongst some other official body, expect this in spades. In particular for the former, there's usually a lot of dithering about not getting anything done, along with various members chiming in 'Well done!' and 'Hear hear!' at inappropriate spots indicating that they aren't actually listening to what's being said.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Quite often, considering that most of the time [[IdiotHero Seagoon]] isn't savvy enough to mentally outwit Grytpype-Thynne and Moriarty.
** Whenever Seagoon states his name in ''The Dreaded Lurgi''.
** In a segment replacing Ray Ellington's usual slot in ''The Tuscan Salami Scandal'' (as he was participating in strike action), Secombe runs a faux radio request show, with one of the requests being a soldier asking for a record of his sergeant falling down a manhole. Several minutes later, Bluebottle falls down it because nobody put the cover back on.
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* TheBusCameBack: An American character, Captain Slokum (voiced by Sellers), frequently appeared in the early series, but then disappeared for several years before returning for a prominent role in "The Call of the West".
* ByNoIMeanYes: In "The Spon Plague", there's a running gag of characters saying a word, and following it with "pronounced" and then the word again in a silly voice. Until Grytpype asks a taxi driver for the fare, and gets the reply: "That's four and six, pronounced -- ten bob."
* CallBack: There were several, especially when the cast ad-libbed. A notable example was in the episode immediately following "The Mysterious Punch up the Conker", when Seagoon made a ridiculous and long-winded joke, culminating in some awful singing, and Grytpype remarked "You'll get a punch up the conk for this."
* ByNoIMeanYes: In "The Spon Plague", there's a running gag of characters saying a word, and following it with "pronounced" and then the word again in a silly voice. Until Grytpype asks a taxi driver for the fare, and gets the reply: "That's four and six, pronounced -- ten bob."
* CallBack: There were several, especially when the cast ad-libbed. A notable example was in the episode immediately following "The Mysterious Punch up the Conker", when Seagoon made a ridiculous and long-winded joke, culminating in some awful singing, and Grytpype remarked "You'll get a punch up the conk for this."
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* TheBusCameBack: An American character, Captain Slokum (voiced by Sellers), frequently appeared in the early series, but then disappeared for several years before returning for a prominent role in "The Call of the West".
* ByNoIMeanYes: In "The Spon Plague", there's a running gag of characters saying a word, and following it with "pronounced" and then the word again in a silly voice. Until Grytpype asks a taxi driver for the fare, and gets the reply: "That's four and six, pronounced -- ten bob."
* CallBack: There were several, especially when the cast ad-libbed. A notable example was in the episode immediately following "The Mysterious Punch up the Conker", when Seagoon made a ridiculous and long-winded joke, culminating in some awful singing, and Grytpype remarked "You'll get a punch up the conk for this."
* ByNoIMeanYes: In "The Spon Plague", there's a running gag of characters saying a word, and following it with "pronounced" and then the word again in a silly voice. Until Grytpype asks a taxi driver for the fare, and gets the reply: "That's four and six, pronounced -- ten bob."
* CallBack: There were several, especially when the cast ad-libbed. A notable example was in the episode immediately following "The Mysterious Punch up the Conker", when Seagoon made a ridiculous and long-winded joke, culminating in some awful singing, and Grytpype remarked "You'll get a punch up the conk for this."
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* HereWeGoAgain: At the beginning of ''The Case of the Missing CD Plates'', Seagoon gets run over by a steamroller driven by Moriarty, ambassador to the country of Titicaca, but can't sue him as Moriarty has diplomatic immunity. After the bulk of the story takes place and Seagoon is ordered to pay several thousand pounds in costs, he decides to take petty revenge by going to Titicaca, getting run over by a steamroller there, and sueing for it... unfortunately the steamroller he picks just happens to be driven by Bloodnok, the British ambassador to Titicaca, who ''also'' has diplomatic immunity.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: The cast members would frequently dash backstage for brandy while the musical interludes were going on.
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* AsideComment: Frequently made, which the characters mostly just treated as normal dialogue anyway.
-->'''Seagoon:''' Little does he know that I heard him say that...
-->'''Seagoon:''' Little does he know that I heard him say that...
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* GenreSavvy: Bluebottle knows that his role is to be introduced at a later point in an episode and leave it by being deaded, usually by an explosion, so in some episodes he starts taking steps to ensure his own survival. In "Under Two Floorboards", he exploits Grytpype-Thynne's plot by staying home while everybody else (and the story) is elsewhere. It doesn't help, and eventually he's resigned to pulling the pin on a grenade that Eccles has just handed him because he knows it's his role.
-->'''Bluebottle:''' Oh well. I had a good long run this week. Stands to one side and pulls pin out.\\
''[explosion]''
** Then he survives anyway by landing on top of Greenslade.
-->'''Bluebottle:''' Oh well. I had a good long run this week. Stands to one side and pulls pin out.\\
''[explosion]''
** Then he survives anyway by landing on top of Greenslade.
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Renamed to Sexy Sweater Girl. "A character wearing sweater" is not a trope.
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* SweaterGirl: Referenced in ''The Mighty Wurlitzer'', where Moriarty swears "By the great sweaters of Sabrina!"
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** Grytpype-Thynne and Moriarty enter a room. However, until it's pointed out to them, they're unaware that Seagoon and the others have just turned the room upside down so the water flooding it could drain out through the hole in the ceiling.
-->'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' Curse this law of gravity! Who passed it?\\
'''Seagoon:''' Sir Isaac Newton.\\
'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' I'll get him for this!
-->'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' Curse this law of gravity! Who passed it?\\
'''Seagoon:''' Sir Isaac Newton.\\
'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' I'll get him for this!
