History Series / SamsonEnGert

* FurryConfusion: Consistently avoided throughout the franchise. Although Samson has been in contact with lots of animals through the years, no other dog has ever appeared alongside Samson to avoid confusion with the fact that Samson is, obviously unlike real dogs, able to talk and no one in the franchise's universe seems to consider it unusual. The only other dog that the franchise mentions is Samson's girlfriend Bobientje, but she is [[TheGhost never seen]] (apart from a non-speaking cameo in a music video) and is otherwise somewhat implied to be similar to Samson.

* LimitedWardrobe: All of the main characters wore the same outfit in every episode. It was initially [[AvertedTrope averted]] with Gert, but from season 9 on he also got into this trope.

* OneMillionBC: The song ''Joebadoebadoe'' takes place in this kind of setting.
* OnlySaneMan: Gert regularly fits this description.

On November 2019, Gert announced that he is leaving the series. Studio 100 decided to create a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnDBh1f3TR8 special farewell song]] sung by the titular duo. In December 2019, Samson got a new companion named "Marie" and the show was retitled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYG-p5pi10o "Samson & Marie".]]

** The parental bonuses were taken UpToEleven in the Farewell Concerts of Samson en Gert in 2019 and 2022, of which they also organised late evening shows that were ''specifically'' targeted at nostalgic adults. In these specific shows, most sketches were purposefully spiced up with all kinds of DemographicallyInappropriateHumour, verging into the territories of SelfParody.

* An additional running gag is that people always tend to knock on Samson and Gert's door while one of them is in the middle of a sentence, which frequently causes confusion in the conversation.
* In early episodes, Samson and Gert would frequently be called up by local snack bar owner Fred Kroket on the most inappropriate moments, only to ask them if they would be interested in buying mayonnaise and pickles. Not even in five-liter jars.

* EditedForSyndication: All older episodes of the show from before around 1998 have undergone this for the reruns.

* ParentalBonus: Not so much in the television series, but the live shows have always tended to include little gags that are meant to amuse the parents that accompany the children in the audience. The occurance of these gags has however clearly increased in later shows, mostly from those of the late 2010's on, in which the cast and crew have begun to deliberately sneak in content that isn't really targeted at children (mostly [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar subtle]] [[DoubleEntendre double entendres]], LampshadeHanging and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall self-referential jokes]]). This tendency can be explained by the fact that the cast en crew of the franchise are pretty much aware that most parents who take their children to the shows in the 2010's, have likely grown up with the franchise themselves in the 1990's, and thus pretty much enjoy the characters from their youth being involved in some ironic 'adult' humour.

* ParentalBonus: Not so much in the television series, but the live shows have always tended to include little gags that are meant to amuse the parents that accompany the children in the audience. The occurance of these gags has however clearly increased in later shows, mostly from those of the late 2010's on, in which the cast and crew have begun to deliberately sneak in content that isn't really targeted at children (mostly [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sexual innuendos]], LampshadeHanging and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall subtle self-mockery]]). This tendency can be explained by the fact that the cast en crew of the franchise are pretty much aware that most parents who take their children to the shows in the 2010's, have likely grown up with the franchise themselves in the 1990's, and thus pretty much enjoy the characters from their youth being involved in some ironic 'adult' humour.

* ParentalBonus: Not so much in the television series, but the live shows have always tended to include little gags that are meant to amuse the parents that accompany the children in the audience. The occurance of these gags has however clearly increased in later shows, mostly from those of the late 2010's on, in which the cast and crew have begun to deliberately sneak in content that isn't really targeted at children (mostly [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sexual innuendos]], LampshadeHanging and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall subtle self-mockery]]). This tendency can be explained by the fact that the cast en crew of the franchise are pretty much aware that most parents who take their children to the shows in the 2010's, have likely grown up with the franchise themselves in the 1990's, and thus pretty much enjoy the characters from their youth being involved in some ironic gags that are targeted specifically at them.

* ParentalBonus: Not so much in the television series, but the live shows have always tended to include little gags that are meant to amuse the parents that accompany the children in the audience. The occurance of these gags has however clearly increased in later shows, mostly from those of the late 2010's on, in which the cast and crew have begun to deliberately sneak in content that isn't really targeted at children (mostly [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sexual innuendos]], LampshadeHanging and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall subtle self-mockery]]). This tendency can be explained by the fact that the cast en crew of the franchise are pretty much aware that most parents who come to the show with their children in the 2010's, have likely grown up with the show themselves in the 1990's, and thus pretty much enjoy the characters from their youth doing some more ironic and adult stuff too.

* ParentalBonus: Something that is increasingly prevalent in the later live shows, in which the cast and crew have begun to deliberately sneak in content that is specifically meant for parents and older audiences to enjoy (mostly [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sexual innuendos]] and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall subtle self-mockery]]). The increasing occurance of these kind of humour in the live shows of the 2010's, has mostly to do with the fact that those shows increasingly began to attract people who grew up with the show in the 90's and now came to the shows with their own children.

The program quickly became an enormous success, which was increased once the show was broadcast in the Netherlands. It was also dubbed in French. It became a huge CashCowFranchise with aggressive merchandising which spawned {{Creator/Studio100}}, one of the largest European entertainment companies. Samson's name has lead to comic strips, bread, clothing, toys, a magazine, films, Christmas shows, [=CDs=], [=DVDs=] and even an amusement park.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The series has made a habit of never properly writing characters who leave the series out, but rather leaves them OutOfFocus without a proper explanation as to why they never appear again. Main characters like Miranda, Jeannine, Octaaf and Frieda Kroket did still got mentioned in the dialogue for now and then, which essentially demoted them to TheGhost, but others are almost never spoken from again. are of the series, but just leaving them OutOfFocus.Whenever a character is written out of the series, there's never a proper explanation given as to why they don't appear in the series any more. They just disappear and are never mentioned again.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Whenever a character is written out of the series, there's never a proper explanation given as to why they don't appear in the series any more. They just disappear and are never mentioned again.
** There are a few subverted cases, though. Miranda, Octaaf's daughter, still gets mentioned in his catchphrase: ...Mijn Miranda zegt dat ook altijd... (...That's what my Miranda always says...)
** Joop Mengelmoes, Samson en Gert's first neighbour, also disappeared after a few seasons and was never seen or mentioned again. This became subverted in the 2017 summer series, in which Joop's brother Jaap Mengelmoes appears.

* CharacterOutlivesActor: In december 2003, Ann Petersen, the actress who played Jeannine, died. Jeannine herself is still implied to be alive in-unverse however, as some dialogue referring to her seems to indicate. There have been numerous tributes to the character in subsequent live shows and video clips, most notably in the Christmas show of 2003-2004, [[RealitySubtext as a way to commemorate Petersen]].