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-> ''"Eels up inside ya, finding an entrance where they can!"''
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-> ''"Eels up inside ya, finding findin' an entrance where they can!"''
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-> ''Eels up inside ya, finding an entrance where they can''
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-> ''Eels ''"Eels up inside ya, finding an entrance where they can''can!"''
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-> ''Eels up inside your heart, finding an entrance where they can''
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-> ''Eels up inside your heart, ya, finding an entrance where they can''
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* RunForTheBorder: "Run away with me Howard! I've got a place down in Acapulco". Said by Howard's female admirer after she seemingly kills the Hitcher.
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* RunForTheBorder: "Run away with me Howard! I've got a place love nest down in Acapulco". Said by Howard's female admirer after she seemingly kills the Hitcher.
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* ExpositionCut: Lampshaded. Howard starts explaining his predicament with the Hitcher to Vince, then asks ''the camera'' to skip past this as the viewer has already seen this bit
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* ExpositionCut: Lampshaded. Howard starts explaining his predicament with the Hitcher to Vince, then asks ''the camera'' to skip past this as the viewer has already seen this bitbit.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Eleanor, a middle-aged woman played by Rich Fulcher desperately wants Howard's "love nuggets". Howard wants nothing to do with her, but is forced to sleep with her for money.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Eleanor, a middle-aged woman played by Rich Fulcher Fulcher, desperately wants Howard's "love nuggets". Howard wants nothing to do with her, but is forced to sleep with her for money.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: A middle-aged woman played by Rich Fulcher desperately wants Howard's "love nuggets". Howard wants nothing to do with her, but is forced to sleep with her for money.
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: It's unclear whether Howard's admirer, who presents as female but is played by Rich Fulcher, is supposed to be a cis woman, a trans woman, or as the Hitcher puts it, "a fellow in a dress", perhaps Bob Fossil. She uses female pronouns but is very interested in Howard's ball fondling skills. The ambiguity is of course part of the joke.
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: It's unclear whether Howard's admirer, who presents as female but is played by Rich Fulcher, is supposed to be a cis woman, a trans woman, or as the Hitcher puts it, "a fellow in a dress", perhaps Bob Fossil. She uses female pronouns but is very interested in Howard's ball fondling skills. The ambiguity is of course part of the joke.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: A Eleanor, a middle-aged woman played by Rich Fulcher desperately wants Howard's "love nuggets". Howard wants nothing to do with her, but is forced to sleep with her for money.
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: It's unclear whetherHoward's admirer, Eleanor, who presents as female but is played by Rich Fulcher, is supposed to be a cis woman, a trans woman, or as the Hitcher puts it, "a fellow geezer in a dress", perhaps Bob Fossil. She uses female pronouns but is very interested in Howard's ball fondling skills. The ambiguity is of course part of the joke.
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: It's unclear whether
* TheCavalry: Just as it looks like the Hitcher is going to kill Vince and Howard, Eleanor bursts in and shoots him. It doesn't actually kill him, but does cause a change of heart.
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* FemmeFatale: Bizarrely combined with AbhorrentAdmirer. Howard's lady admirer is a "sultry" mature woman who comes to him at his workplace and tries to seduce him, and she has a coy, euphemistic way of talking about sex that sounds noirish until a few statements ruin it. It turns out she carries a gun and proposes they RunForTheBorder after she seemingly kills a man.
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* FemmeFatale: Bizarrely combined with AbhorrentAdmirer. Eleanor, Howard's lady admirer admirer, is a "sultry" mature woman who comes to him at his workplace and tries to seduce him, and she has a coy, euphemistic way of talking about sex that sounds noirish until a few statements ruin it. It turns out she carries a gun and proposes they RunForTheBorder after she seemingly kills a man.
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-> ''Eels up inside your heart, finding an entrance where they can''
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* DancePartyEnding: The episode ends with Vince, Howard, and the Hitcher singing and dancing in an electronic remix of the Hitcher's "Eels" song.
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In "Eels", Naboo leaves the store in the care of Howard and Vince for the weekend so he and Bollo can attend Dennis' stag weekend. Howard and Vince have a competition to see who is the better salesman, which Vince wins resoundingly.
Left alone in the store, Howard is accosted by the Hitcher, who delivers his backstory and then extorts Howard for 1000 euros. Howard has to moonlight as a male prostitute to get the money, but will that save him from the Hitcher?
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!!''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' episode "Eels" contains these tropes:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: A middle-aged woman played by Rich Fulcher desperately wants Howard's "love nuggets". Howard wants nothing to do with her, but is forced to sleep with her for money.
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: It's unclear whether Howard's admirer, who presents as female but is played by Rich Fulcher, is supposed to be a cis woman, a trans woman, or as the Hitcher puts it, "a fellow in a dress", perhaps Bob Fossil. She uses female pronouns but is very interested in Howard's ball fondling skills. The ambiguity is of course part of the joke.
* AnachronismStew: Howard and Vince remix the Hitcher's creepy Victorian "Eels" song into a hip hop/techno number, which involves people in Victorian dress dancing under flashing rave lights. Lampshaded in the song:
-->"Elements of the past and the future, combining to make something not quite as good as either"
* BathroomStallGraffiti: A variant. Crude statements about Howard's sex life and his willingness to do various things for money are scrawled on the outside of the shop each day. Turns out Vince has been writing them.
* BodyHorror: The Hitcher sings a song about Eels crawling and swimming through your body. Later in the number, Howard leans in to kiss Ella, and an eel crawls out of her mouth (and it turns out she's just the Hitcher).
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Howard turns away from Vince in the middle of the conversation to stare directly into the camera and ask it to skip through his explanation. After it happens, he thanks the camera.
* ExpositionCut: Lampshaded. Howard starts explaining his predicament with the Hitcher to Vince, then asks ''the camera'' to skip past this as the viewer has already seen this bit
* FemmeFatale: Bizarrely combined with AbhorrentAdmirer. Howard's lady admirer is a "sultry" mature woman who comes to him at his workplace and tries to seduce him, and she has a coy, euphemistic way of talking about sex that sounds noirish until a few statements ruin it. It turns out she carries a gun and proposes they RunForTheBorder after she seemingly kills a man.
* HeelFaceTurn: At the end of the episode, the Hitcher decides that nobody likes his Victorian ways, and that's ok and he shouldn't be mad about it. He resolves to stop going around threatening people, and does a song and dance number with Vince and Howard.
* HiddenDepths: Shallow idiot Vince somehow manages to build a highly effective Celebrity Radar tagging device system.
* OrbitalShot: When Howard is trapped in a deranged dance inside the Hitcher's hat, the camera spins around as the background rotates behind him out of focus, giving the scene a trippy feel.
* PocketProtector: Howard's survival patch, stolen by the Hitcher, saves the Hitcher by blocking the bullets.
* RunForTheBorder: "Run away with me Howard! I've got a place down in Acapulco". Said by Howard's female admirer after she seemingly kills the Hitcher.
Left alone in the store, Howard is accosted by the Hitcher, who delivers his backstory and then extorts Howard for 1000 euros. Howard has to moonlight as a male prostitute to get the money, but will that save him from the Hitcher?
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!!''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' episode "Eels" contains these tropes:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: A middle-aged woman played by Rich Fulcher desperately wants Howard's "love nuggets". Howard wants nothing to do with her, but is forced to sleep with her for money.
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: It's unclear whether Howard's admirer, who presents as female but is played by Rich Fulcher, is supposed to be a cis woman, a trans woman, or as the Hitcher puts it, "a fellow in a dress", perhaps Bob Fossil. She uses female pronouns but is very interested in Howard's ball fondling skills. The ambiguity is of course part of the joke.
* AnachronismStew: Howard and Vince remix the Hitcher's creepy Victorian "Eels" song into a hip hop/techno number, which involves people in Victorian dress dancing under flashing rave lights. Lampshaded in the song:
-->"Elements of the past and the future, combining to make something not quite as good as either"
* BathroomStallGraffiti: A variant. Crude statements about Howard's sex life and his willingness to do various things for money are scrawled on the outside of the shop each day. Turns out Vince has been writing them.
* BodyHorror: The Hitcher sings a song about Eels crawling and swimming through your body. Later in the number, Howard leans in to kiss Ella, and an eel crawls out of her mouth (and it turns out she's just the Hitcher).
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Howard turns away from Vince in the middle of the conversation to stare directly into the camera and ask it to skip through his explanation. After it happens, he thanks the camera.
* ExpositionCut: Lampshaded. Howard starts explaining his predicament with the Hitcher to Vince, then asks ''the camera'' to skip past this as the viewer has already seen this bit
* FemmeFatale: Bizarrely combined with AbhorrentAdmirer. Howard's lady admirer is a "sultry" mature woman who comes to him at his workplace and tries to seduce him, and she has a coy, euphemistic way of talking about sex that sounds noirish until a few statements ruin it. It turns out she carries a gun and proposes they RunForTheBorder after she seemingly kills a man.
* HeelFaceTurn: At the end of the episode, the Hitcher decides that nobody likes his Victorian ways, and that's ok and he shouldn't be mad about it. He resolves to stop going around threatening people, and does a song and dance number with Vince and Howard.
* HiddenDepths: Shallow idiot Vince somehow manages to build a highly effective Celebrity Radar tagging device system.
* OrbitalShot: When Howard is trapped in a deranged dance inside the Hitcher's hat, the camera spins around as the background rotates behind him out of focus, giving the scene a trippy feel.
* PocketProtector: Howard's survival patch, stolen by the Hitcher, saves the Hitcher by blocking the bullets.
* RunForTheBorder: "Run away with me Howard! I've got a place down in Acapulco". Said by Howard's female admirer after she seemingly kills the Hitcher.
