History Series / MaxAndPaddysRoadToNowhere

* AcceptableTargets: In-universe, when Max and Paddy pull up to cut down a speed camera, passers-by salute and cheer them.

%%* ItsAllAboutMe: Both Max and Paddy are prone to this.

%%* ScaryBlackMan: Raymond The Bastard.
%%* SceneryCensor: At the end of Episode Four. See FanDisservice.

%%* SecondLove: The Wolfster for Tina.
%%* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Max and Paddy.

* HoneyTrap: Tracey and Sharon, the girls that Max and Paddy take home in Episode One after going out dressed as sailors. [[spoiler: They're better known as the Belgrano Sisters ( "on account of all the sailors that have gone down on them"]]) and their MO is to pick up sailors in nightclubs, [[SlippingAMickey drug them]], and rob them blind.]]

* LargeHam: Mix Bustin, as played by {{Music/Slade Noddy Holder}}

** In Episode Six, [[spoiler: Max and Paddy are being sternly warned about potentially becoming repeat offenders due to associating themselves with Billy the Butcher. However, the police chief admits that they were instrumental in ensuring Billy's arrest. Max suddenly sees camera footage of him and Paddy cutting down a speed camera and tossing it into a bush. By the time the police chief notices it, the boys have bailed.]]

* TheRealSpoofbusters: Parodied with Mick Bustin', a Brummie car repairman with a Ghostbusters-themed garage shop, played by Noddie Holder of Music/Slade.

* LargeHam: Mix Bustin, as played by [[Music/Slade Noddy Holder]].

* PrisonRape: Mentioned a number of times by Paddy [[spoiler: when he and Max are in prison.]] They do get cornered by local DepravedHomosexual Raymond the Bastard in the showers, after dropping soap, but [[SubvertedTrope he doesn't rape them]]. He just forces Max to shake his hand. [[Squick The same hand he's just lathered shampoo onto his groin with.]]

** A RunningGag in the first episode is an African family camped near the motorhome catching Max and Paddy in seemingly compromising positions. The first few while Paddy is teaching Max to dance and pick up women; and the last when they hear an angry rant from Max after Paddy accidentally wakes up him while having ADateWithRosiePalms.

** A variant of this happens at the end of the same episode after Max and Paddy finally get some speakers for their TV and Paddy puts on his [[ParallelPornTitles "Charlie's Anals"]] DVD. Though Paddy [[ADateWithRosiePalms doesn't get very far]] before the volume wakes Max up.

* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** Paddy tries to have one at the end of the first episode but the volume of the TV wakes up Max who is less than pleased. Elsewhere Paddy's love of pornography is mentioned quite frequently.
** In a deleted scene from the first episode, Paddy walks in on Max having some..."private time" in the toilet with his (Paddy's) copy of Razzle.
--->'''Max:''' Man has needs.\\
'''Paddy:''' Man has lock on door.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: [[AxCrazy Billy the Butcher]] is introduced beating a pizza delivery man up with a bin for bringing him the wrong delivery. [[DescriptionCut And this is after Max has mentioned him "softening up" in recent years.]]

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: An example that is both romantic and non-romantic at the same time. [[spoiler: Max decides not to tell his long lost son Daniel that he is his real father; allowing Daniel, Tina, and Kevin (Tina's husband and an old friend of Max who believes he is Daniel's father) to remain a happy family.]]

* MessyPig: Played with by the pig Max and Paddy end up buying from a mad farmer. It doesn't leave that much poo on the floor of their motorhome, but it farts. [[GassHole A lot.]] Doesn't take long before they try selling it.

** Also Max and Paddy in Episode Four when [[spoiler: a news report about them set up by Brian is seen one of the prison's TV; blowing their persona of rich gangsters and revealing to Raymond The Bastard that they have been lying to him.]]

* AbsenteeActor: Jerry and Ray Von do not appear in the Phoenix Nights sections of the show with Marc Park ['That Peter Kay Thing'] taking over as Les Alanos' singer.

* ButtMonkey: Gypsy Joe in the first episode. The entire male staff of the Phoenix Club in Episode 4, stripped nude and sprayed with disinfectant.