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'''''A Scare at Bedtime''''' was an Irish Urban Legends/Horror show originally broadcast on [[{{Main/RTE}} RTÉ Two]] (called 'Network 2' at the time). It was created after RTÉ commissioned for something to fill the ten minute gap just before the eleven (at night) o'clock news created by the shortness of the show before.

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'''''A Scare at Bedtime''''' was an Irish Urban Legends/Horror show originally broadcast on [[{{Main/RTE}} [[Creator/{{RTE}} RTÉ Two]] (called 'Network 2' at the time). It was created after RTÉ commissioned for something to fill the ten minute gap just before the eleven (at night) o'clock news created by the shortness of the show before.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The character of Podge originated on an Irish {{RTE}} children's show, ''The Den''. The humour and stories in ''A Scare at Bedtime'' are considerably more adult and sex-themed.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: The character of Podge originated on an Irish {{RTE}} Creator/{{RTE}} children's show, ''The Den''. The humour and stories in ''A Scare at Bedtime'' are considerably more adult and sex-themed.



--> '''Podge:''' ''You scuttering arse-ache''

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--> '''Podge:''' ''You You scuttering arse-ache''arse-ache!
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Each episode concerned the two elderly puppet identical twin brothers [[UsefulNotes/IrishNames Padraig]] [[Literature/TheFourGospels Judas]] 'Podge' [[TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed O'Leprocy]] and Rodraig {{Film/Spartacus}} 'Rodge' O'Leprocy who live alone in a creepy old [[BedlamHouse former insane asylum]], Ballydung Manor (''pictured to the right''). Also living with them is an insane old nurse they call 'Granny' who is dating the devil and practicing black magic; and their diseased cat Pox.

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Each episode concerned the two elderly puppet identical twin brothers [[UsefulNotes/IrishNames Padraig]] [[Literature/TheFourGospels Judas]] 'Podge' [[TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed O'Leprocy]] and Rodraig {{Film/Spartacus}} 'Rodge' O'Leprocy who live alone in a creepy old [[BedlamHouse former insane asylum]], Ballydung Manor (''pictured to the right''). Also living with them is an insane old nurse they call 'Granny' who is dating [[{{Satan}} the devil devil]] and practicing black magic; and their diseased cat Pox.
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Each episode concerned the two elderly puppet identical twin brothers [[UsefulNotes/IrishNames Padraig]] {{Literature/TheFourGospels Judas}} 'Podge' [[TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed O'Leprocy]] and Rodraig {{Film/Spartacus}} 'Rodge' O'Leprocy who live alone in a creepy old [[BedlamHouse former insane asylum]], Ballydung Manor (''pictured to the right''). Also living with them is an insane old nurse they call 'Granny' who is dating the devil and practicing black magic; and their diseased cat Pox.

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Each episode concerned the two elderly puppet identical twin brothers [[UsefulNotes/IrishNames Padraig]] {{Literature/TheFourGospels Judas}} [[Literature/TheFourGospels Judas]] 'Podge' [[TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed O'Leprocy]] and Rodraig {{Film/Spartacus}} 'Rodge' O'Leprocy who live alone in a creepy old [[BedlamHouse former insane asylum]], Ballydung Manor (''pictured to the right''). Also living with them is an insane old nurse they call 'Granny' who is dating the devil and practicing black magic; and their diseased cat Pox.
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Each episode concerned the two elderly puppet identical twin brothers Padraig Judas 'Podge' O'Leprocy and Rodraig Spartacus 'Rodge' O'Leprocy who live alone in a creepy old [[BedlamHouse former insane asylum]], Ballydung Manor (''pictured to the right''). Also living with them is an insane old nurse they call 'Granny' who is dating the devil and practicing black magic; and their diseased cat Pox.

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Each episode concerned the two elderly puppet identical twin brothers Padraig Judas [[UsefulNotes/IrishNames Padraig]] {{Literature/TheFourGospels Judas}} 'Podge' O'Leprocy [[TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed O'Leprocy]] and Rodraig Spartacus {{Film/Spartacus}} 'Rodge' O'Leprocy who live alone in a creepy old [[BedlamHouse former insane asylum]], Ballydung Manor (''pictured to the right''). Also living with them is an insane old nurse they call 'Granny' who is dating the devil and practicing black magic; and their diseased cat Pox.
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* MadwomanInTheAttic: 'Granny'.
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* PhoneCallFromTheDead: Gabby Natter receives one from her dead husband Jim in 'Dead Ringer'.
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* OurBansheesAreLouder: The episode 'Banshee', unsurprisingly.
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* FloweryInsults: Podge is particularly creative in insulting his brother.
--> '''Podge:''' ''You scuttering arse-ache''
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* BuriedAlive: Henry Madden in 'Lazybones'.
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* BedlamHouse: Ballydung Manor, a very old former insane asylum in the middle of nowhere. ''Perfect'' for the kind of stories Podge tells, though.

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* AbandonedHospital / BedlamHouse: Ballydung Manor, a very old former insane asylum in the middle of nowhere. ''Perfect'' for the kind of stories Podge tells, though.
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* PunnyName: Almost all of Podge's characters and their hometowns have humourous, sex-based names. Examples include Cormac McAnus, Proinsias Ní Crotch and Fionnula FitzGibblet.

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* PunnyName: Almost all of Podge's characters and their hometowns have humourous, sex-based names. Examples include Cormac McAnus, [=McAnus=], Proinsias Ní Crotch and Fionnula FitzGibblet.[=FitzGibblet=].
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* PunnyName: Almost all of Podge's characters and their hometowns have humourous, sex-based names. Examples include Cormac McAnus, Proinsias Ní Crotch and Fionnula FitzGibblet.
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* PunBasedTitle: Its title is a parody of ''A Prayer at Bedtime'', a religious programme shown at night on sister channel RTÉ One.

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* PunBasedTitle: Its title is a parody of ''A Prayer at Bedtime'', a religious programme shown at night on sister channel RTÉ One.One that is about as far away as possible in content to ''this'' one.
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* PunBasedTitle: Its title is a parody of ''A Prayer at Bedtime'', a religious programme shown at night on sister channel RTÉ One.
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* UrbanLegends: Most of the stories Podge tells are well-known urban legends worldwide, adapted into Ireland.
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'''''A Scare at Bedtime''''' was a short Urban Legends/Horror Irish show originally broadcast on [[{{Main/RTE}} RTÉ Two]] (called 'Network 2' at the time). It was created after RTÉ commissioned for something to fill the ten minute gap just before the eleven (at night) o'clock news created by the shortness of the show before.

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'''''A Scare at Bedtime''''' was a short an Irish Urban Legends/Horror Irish show originally broadcast on [[{{Main/RTE}} RTÉ Two]] (called 'Network 2' at the time). It was created after RTÉ commissioned for something to fill the ten minute gap just before the eleven (at night) o'clock news created by the shortness of the show before.
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'''''A Scare at Bedtime''''' was a short Urban Legends/Horror Irish show originally broadcast on [[{{Main/RTE}} RTÉ Two]](called 'Network 2' at the time). It was created after RTÉ commissioned for something to fill the ten minute gap just before the eleven (at night) o'clock news created by the shortness of the show before.

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'''''A Scare at Bedtime''''' was a short Urban Legends/Horror Irish show originally broadcast on [[{{Main/RTE}} RTÉ Two]](called Two]] (called 'Network 2' at the time). It was created after RTÉ commissioned for something to fill the ten minute gap just before the eleven (at night) o'clock news created by the shortness of the show before.
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'''''A Scare at Bedtime''''' was a short Urban Legends/Horror Irish show originally broadcast on {{Main/RTE RTÉ Two}}(called 'Network 2' at the time). It was created after RTÉ commissioned for something to fill the ten minute gap just before the eleven (at night) o'clock news created by the shortness of the show before.

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'''''A Scare at Bedtime''''' was a short Urban Legends/Horror Irish show originally broadcast on {{Main/RTE [[{{Main/RTE}} RTÉ Two}}(called Two]](called 'Network 2' at the time). It was created after RTÉ commissioned for something to fill the ten minute gap just before the eleven (at night) o'clock news created by the shortness of the show before.
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'''''A Scare at Bedtime''''' was a short Urban Legends/Horror Irish show originally broadcast on {{Main/RTE}} Two (called 'Network 2' at the time). It was created after RTÉ commissioned for something to fill the ten minute gap just before the eleven (at night) o'clock news created by the shortness of the show before.

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'''''A Scare at Bedtime''''' was a short Urban Legends/Horror Irish show originally broadcast on {{Main/RTE}} Two (called {{Main/RTE RTÉ Two}}(called 'Network 2' at the time). It was created after RTÉ commissioned for something to fill the ten minute gap just before the eleven (at night) o'clock news created by the shortness of the show before.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The character of Podge originated on an Irish {{RTE}} children's show, ''The Den''. The humour and stories in ''A Scare at Bedtime'' are considerably more adult and sex-themed.
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* HandPuppet: Podge and Rodge.
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A related talk show, hosted by the two brothers, ''The Podge and Rodge Show'', ran between 2006 and 2010.
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Each episode concerned the two elderly puppet identical twin brothers Padraig Judas 'Podge' O'Leprocy and Rodraig Spartacus 'Rodge' O'Leprocy who live alone in a creepy old [[BedlamHouse former insane asylum]], Ballydung Manor (''pictured to the right''. Also living with them is an insane old nurse they call 'Granny' who is dating the devil and practicing black magic; and their diseased cat Pox.

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Each episode concerned the two elderly puppet identical twin brothers Padraig Judas 'Podge' O'Leprocy and Rodraig Spartacus 'Rodge' O'Leprocy who live alone in a creepy old [[BedlamHouse former insane asylum]], Ballydung Manor (''pictured to the right''.right''). Also living with them is an insane old nurse they call 'Granny' who is dating the devil and practicing black magic; and their diseased cat Pox.
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Each episode concerned the two elderly puppet identical twin brothers Padraig Judas 'Podge' O'Leprocy and Rodraig Spartacus 'Rodge' O'Leprocy who live alone in a creepy old [[BedlamHouse former insane asylum]], Ballydung Manor. Also living with them is an insane old nurse they call 'Granny' who is dating the devil and practicing black magic; and their diseased cat Pox.

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Each episode concerned the two elderly puppet identical twin brothers Padraig Judas 'Podge' O'Leprocy and Rodraig Spartacus 'Rodge' O'Leprocy who live alone in a creepy old [[BedlamHouse former insane asylum]], Ballydung Manor.Manor (''pictured to the right''. Also living with them is an insane old nurse they call 'Granny' who is dating the devil and practicing black magic; and their diseased cat Pox.
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* BedlamHouse: Ballydung Manor, a very old former insane asylum in the middle of nowhere. ''Perfect'' for the kind of stories Podge tells, though.
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* StrictlyFormule: In each episode, the two brothers are in bed together or at the kitchen table in later series; Podge tells a horror story to warn Rodge off something he had done that day or something with Rodge had mentioned.

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* StrictlyFormule: StrictlyFormula: In each episode, the two brothers are in bed together or at the kitchen table in later series; Podge tells a horror story to warn Rodge off something he had done that day or something with Rodge had mentioned.

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'''''A Scare at Bedtime''''' was a short Irish show originally broadcast on {{Main/RTE}} Two (called 'Network 2' at the time).

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'''''A Scare at Bedtime''''' was a short Urban Legends/Horror Irish show originally broadcast on {{Main/RTE}} Two (called 'Network 2' at the time).
time). It was created after RTÉ commissioned for something to fill the ten minute gap just before the eleven (at night) o'clock news created by the shortness of the show before.

Each episode concerned the two elderly puppet identical twin brothers Padraig Judas 'Podge' O'Leprocy and Rodraig Spartacus 'Rodge' O'Leprocy who live alone in a creepy old [[BedlamHouse former insane asylum]], Ballydung Manor. Also living with them is an insane old nurse they call 'Granny' who is dating the devil and practicing black magic; and their diseased cat Pox.

It ran for 150 episodes between 1997 and 2006.



* Trope: Example.

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* Trope: Example.
StrictlyFormule: In each episode, the two brothers are in bed together or at the kitchen table in later series; Podge tells a horror story to warn Rodge off something he had done that day or something with Rodge had mentioned.
** Rodge always interrupts Podge's stories, talking about sex or masturbation.
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'''''A Scare at Bedtime''''' was a short Irish show originally broadcast on {{Main/RTE}} Two (called 'Network 2' at the time).

!!''A Scare at Bedtime'' provides examples of:

* Trope: Example.

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