History Recap / InsideNo9S7E6WiseOwl

* HardTruthAesop: The [[AnAesop moral]] works like this in two ways. Wise Owl is portrayed as giving parents and children alike "hard lessons" about the dangers of the real world. However, TheReveal is that in fact, these attitudes about external dangers (namely StrangerDanger) are generally myths that hide the fact that people closest to children are often their biggest dangers, specifically their parents.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Wise Owl's catchphrase was "Twit-you."

* BlackComedyPetDeath: Ronnie's pathetic attempt at stuffing the neighbor's dead cat.

* BlackComedyPetDeath: Ronnie's pathetic attempt at stuffing the neighbor's dead cat.

** Wilf attended an event with "Ray Brooks, Nigel from ''Pipkins'', and one of [[Series/{{Rainbow}} the Bungles]]", and mentions that he was once in a play with Jeff Holland (of ''Series/HiDeHi'' fame.)

* DisguisedHorrorStory: The animated segments start off as pastiches of the (themselves often rather unsettling) low-fi animated public safety campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s, in which children would be warned of the dangers of electricity and [[StrangerDanger strangers]] often with the help of some kind of friendly mascot. But they become increasingly sinister and disturbing in content as Ronnie starts to realise more about his past.

* DisguisedHorrorShow: The animated segments start off as pastiches of the (themselves often rather unsettling) low-fi animated public safety campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s, in which children would be warned of the dangers of electricity and [[StrangerDanger strangers]] often with the help of some kind of friendly mascot. But they become increasingly sinister and disturbing in content as Ronnie starts to realise more about his past.

* ABirthdayNotABreak: Joanne was killed in a fire on her sixth birthday.

* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Despite Wilf being the star of a public safety campaign, his own daughter wasn't taught not to play with matches.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Wilf is so self-centered that he happily ruined his son's life in order to save his own career by telling everyone he came home to find his house burning down, and heroically saved Ronnie. It's actually his fault the fire started in the first place. He is so wrapped up in himself that he doesn't even remember when Joanne's birthday was, and only ever talks about her death in terms of how it affected his own selfish interests.

* GloryHound: Wilf told everyone he came home to find his house burning down, and heroically saved Ronnie. It's actually his fault the fire started in the first place.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Wilf is so self-centered that he happily ruined his son's life in order to save his own career. He is so wrapped up in himself that he doesn't even remember when Joanne's birthday was, and only ever talks about her death in terms of how it affected his own selfish interests.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: After Ronnie does a horrifyingly bad job of trying to taxidermy a neighbour's bunny, the neighbour threatens to report him to the police and says the real owner of the house is a man in his seventies setting up for the later reveal that Wilf is Wise Owl.

* ScreamDiscretionShot: Joanne's death is portrayed in an animated sequence where Wise Owl watches the house burn from outside as she is screaming.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: After Ronnie does a horrifyingly bad job of trying to taxidermy a neighbour's bunny, the neighbour threatens to report him to the police and says the real owner of the house is a man in his seventies
setting up for the later reveal that Wilf is Wise Owl.