History Series / HarryHillsTVBurp

* ValuesDissonance: [[invoked.]] The subject of a joke in the ''TV Burp Book'', which mentions that the first-ever children's TV show was a puppet show called "[[UnfortunateImplications Jive the Monkey]]", and apparently "all copies were believed to have been wiped".

** [[invoked]]A couple of shows, most notably ''Series/EastEnders',' also referenced the "FIIIIIIGHT" catchphrase at one point.

** When [[Series/TheXFactor Simon Cowell]] chose a song from the movie ''Film/Gummo'' for Movie Night, everyone displayed absolute confusion since they've never heard of it so Harry went and described the plot of the movie in less than a minute. Even funnier, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummo he read, word-for-word, the synopsis on the film's Wikipedia page]].

* ActorAllusion: [[invoked]] Harry enjoys doing this to recognisable actors in different media. Notable examples are constantly referring to Creator/PatrickStewart as [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Jean-Luc Pickard]], and calling [[Series/EastEnders Nana Moon's]] boyfriend "the bloke off ''Series/{{Lovejoy}}''".

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[[caption-width-right:300:"[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer I'm not making it up]], [[WhatWereYouThinking it's a real show]]."]]

[[caption-width-right:3o0:"[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer I'm not making it up]], [[WhatWereYouThinking it's a real show]]."]]

[[caption-width-right:3o0:"[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer I'm not making it up]], [[WhatWereYouThinking it's a real show]]."]]->''[[ItsTheOnlyWay There's only one way to find out]] - [[LetsYouAndHimFight FIIIGHT!]]''

->''[[ItsTheOnlyWay There's only one way to find out]] - [[LetsYouAndHimFight FIIIGHT!]]''

** This is also used to point out something from another show that ''wasn't'' a gag, but still remained Overly Long, such as the prizes in TheGadgetShow's phone in competition.

* CriticalAnnoyance: A common gag as he gets progressively more irritated with someone on a programme getting something consistently wrong in a series of clips before snapping. For example, in ''Series/TheApprentice'' someone dressed up as a glove mascot for a company kept introducing himself as "Mr Glove" when it was supposed to be "Mr G. Love", and after correcting him several times with increasing annoyance, Harry [[BreakingTheFourthWall bursts into the original scene and starts beating him while yelling "IT'S NOT MR GLOVE, IT'S]] ''[[BreakingTheReviewersWall MR G. LOVE!"]]''.

-->'''Harry Hill''': Hi, Andrew. It's me, Harry. ''[shouting]'' Just stop eating biscuits! Just stop eating 'em! Stop eating biccy-wic, biccy-wic, bic-wic-wiccy-wic, biccy-wiccy-wiccy-wiccy-wic-wic-wics, Kitkat, Kitkat, Toffee Crisp, Toffee Crisp, Toffee Toffee Toffee Toffee Cri...

** The first four seasons can be considered this due to aiming at an older audience than a family friendly audience.

** One time in season 5, this occurs:

* ValuesDissonance: [[invoked]] The subject of a joke in the ''TV Burp Book'', which mentions that the first-ever children's TV show was a puppet show called "[[UnfortunateImplications Jive the Monkey]]". "All copies are believed to have been wiped."

** The first two seasons were aired on Thursdays on a late-night slot and was aimed at an older audience can be considered this as the show became more popular when it moved to Saturdays on an evening slot and becoming aimed at a family-friendly audience in its fourth season after a one-season stint on Fridays for season three.

-->'''Freaky Eaters Narrator''': For the last 25 years, Andrew Forster has eaten nothing but biscuits.
-->'''Harry Hill''': ''[completely deadpan]'' Biscuits. Yeah I've stopped doing the silly voices now, because it's actually quite a serious condition.

-->'''Harry Hill''': Hi, Andrew. It's me, Harry. ''[shouting]'' Just stop eating biscuits! Just stop eating them! Just stop eating biccy-wic, biccy-wic, bic-wic-wiccy-wic, Kitkat, Kitkat, Toffee Crisp, Toffee Crisp, Toffee Toffee Toffee Toffee Cri...

-->'''Freaky Eaters Narrator''': For the last ten years, Simon has eaten nothing but biscuits.

-->''[later, after watching Simon's family giving him messages of support]''
-->'''Harry Hill''': Hi, Simon. ''[shouting]'' Just stop eating biscuits! Just stop eating them! Just stop eating biccy-wic, biccy-wic, bic-wic-wiccy-wic, Kitkat, Kitkat, Toffee Crisp, Toffee Crisp, Toffee Toffee Toffee Toffee...

* ParrotExposition: The famous "cataracts" and "ear cataracts" sketches. It was about Val from ''{{Emmerdale}}'' finding out she has cataracts and all of the characters who are there at the reveal repeat the word "cataracts?" over and over again. Later she's accused by a man for getting upset over a misunderstanding and she asks if her ears have cataracts as well. Both times Harry asks "[ear] cataracts?" and telephones somebody which starts a chain of characters or presenters repeating the word(s).

-->--'''Girl on Eastenders''': If they had a fight, who would win, God or Santa?
-->--'''Harry Hill''': ''[sarcastically]'' Hmm, if only there were a way to out. ''[aside glance]'' The harder you try, Eastenders, the less likely you are to get your fight featured, all right?

'''Girl on Eastenders''': If they had a fight, who would win, God or Santa?
'''Harry Hill''': ''[sarcastically]'' Hmm, if only there were a way to out. ''[aside glance]'' The harder you try, Eastenders, the less likely you are to get your fight featured, all right?

->'''Girl on Eastenders''': If they had a fight, who would win, God or Santa?
->'''Harry Hill''': ''[sarcastically]'' Hmm, if only there were a way to out. ''[aside glance]'' The harder you try, Eastenders, the less likely you are to get your fight featured, all right?

* MutuallyFictional:
** An episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'' had a photofit picture of a suspect dubbed "Harry Hill" due to its resemblance to Harry -- then the incident was used as the basis for a sketch on TV Burp...
** A couple of shows, most notably ''Series/EastEnders',' also referenced the "FIIIIIIGHT" catchphrase at one point.

* TheOtherDarrin: Lampshaded in two episodes where the character of [[Series/TheXFactor Wagbo]] is portrayed by a different actor. He then returns. And forms a tag-team with the Other Wagbo.

* TheStinger - Since the 2009 series, an out of context clip from a random show is played before the Avalon Television logo.

* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: The "fight" segments often feature two bizarrely unconnected people or things, like a shark and a toaster, or [[Series/EastEnders Phil Mitchell]] and [[Series/NoelsHouseParty Mr Blobby]]...

** One could potentially extend that to include Peter the Knitted Duck from the series 9 in-programme "show" "The K Factor" (an AffectionateParody of TheXFactor featuring knitted things). Peter's even [[http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=296427219705&start=10&hash=bbe3c8eaed3cb9b9d5ead8c7c0861b2b#!/group.php?gid=296427219705&ref=ts got his own FB fan group]]!

* TheOtherDarrin: Lampshaded in two episodes where the character of [[TheXFactor Wagbo]] is portrayed by a different actor. He then returns. And forms a tag-team with the Other Wagbo.

-->'''Harry Hill''': Hi Simon. ''[shouting]'' Just stop eating biscuits! Just stop eating them! Just stop eating biccy-wic, biccy-wic, bic-wic-wiccy-wic, Kitkat, Kitkat, Toffee Crisp, Toffee Crisp, Toffee Toffee Toffee Toffee...

* ForeignRemake - An Australian version, hosted by Ed Kavalee broadcast in 2009.

''[[ItsTheOnlyWay There's only one way to find out]] - [[LetsYouAndHimFight FIIIGHT!]]''

* OverlyLongGag: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTHw0lM7O0Q Ear cataracts?]], as mentioned above and many others like watching an old extra walk across a room.

''Cataracts?''

The United Kingdom's answer to ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' and/or TheSoup. The series ran from 2001 to 2012. Comedian Harry Hill went through television programmes that had been shown that week, often {{Soap Opera}}s or one-shot documentaries, and lampoons them - for weak acting, bad writing, or general [=WTF=]-factor. It's a highly AffectionateParody, though, with lots of silly facial expressions, cuddly Radio 4 innuendo and episode-long {{Running Gag}}s. OnceAnEpisode, two characters, concepts or something which Hill finds particularly notable would have a slapstick fight on stage.

* AccidentalInnuendo: Frequently pointed out.
* AdamWesting

* MythologyGag: A Fight between a fake coyote and a fake badger from a wildlife programme elicits a "Come on, Mr Badger- for the parade is in but half an hour!", a CallBack to his old ChannelFour show.