History Series / ThankGodYoureHere

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Two comedic examples

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Several contestants have tried this: on one occasion, Frank Woodley ran off the set while playing a ships captain in the middle of a crisis. He received a Dishonourable Mention from Tom for this one.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the very first episode, no less. In the group sketch that closes out the show, the performers are depicted as an entertainment group for children. When they are asked if they've obtained police checks Frank Woodley throws away his prop and walks right out of the scene. No one is able to stop him (since the co-performers are too far away), he doesn't return, and [[RefugeInAudacity he wins the episode]].

The show returned to Network Ten for a fifth series in August 2023, now hosted by Celia Pacquola.

** Rebal Wilson's use of the phrase "bush-pig".

--> '''Tom Gleisner:''' "I'm afraid though that I'm going to have to take points off for heavy breathing on one of our models."
--> '''Hamish Blake:''' "It was for science."

-->(when asked about his sex life) I think it's brilliant, personally. Shame my wife isn't involved.

** Another Frank Woodley one had him pretending to me a Shaolin monk-esque figure, who alternated between a mock Chinese accent to an Indian and then and a German one.

* RevolutionariesWhoDontDoAnything: In one sketch, Bob Franklin found himself thrust into the role of a revolutionary leader. While his followers where certainly ready to act, Bob himself kept sidetracking the uprising with all sorts of irrelevancies and general reluctance to do anything.

-->'''Police Officer''': Psychiatric analysis suggests he may be suffering from Copenhagen syndrome - what's that mean?\\
'''Angus Sampson''': (as a police negotiator) You boys down the precinct probably know that one as (makes "he's crazy" gestures beside head) 'a bit spakko'..."

* AffectionateParody: 90% of sketches, covering everything from ''Franchise/StarTrek'' to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The guests provide something of a snapshot of the Australian comedy scene (with a side order of radio and TV) of the mid-Noughties. Some of the sketches are relatively universal things (mostly the history skits) but others are things like parodies of the ABC program ''The New Inventors'' (which was cancelled in 2011).

** The '[[CarMeetsHouse Car Meets Third Storey Flat]]' starts with Hamish Blake crawling the door of a wrecked car embedded in a lounge room wall to be greeted with "Thank God you're alive!"

** For the producers: Creating scenarios for [[LoveableSexManiac Josh Lawson]] which don't give him the slightest opportunity to fondle and hit on female co-performers.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the very first episode, no less. In the group sketch that closes out the show, the performers are depicted as an entertainment group for children. When they are asked if they've obtained police checks he throws away his prop and walks right out of the scene. No one is able to stop him (since the co-performers are too far away), he doesn't return, and [[RefugeInAudacity he wins the episode]].

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the very first episode, no less. In the group sketch that closes out the show, the performers are depicted as an entertainment group for children. When they are asked if they've obtained police checks he throws away his prop and walks right out of the scene. No one is able to stop him (since the co-performers are too far away), he doesn't return, and [[RefugeInAudacity ''he wins the episode'']].

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the very first episode, no less. In the group sketch that closes out the show, the performers are depicted as an entertainment group for children. When they are asked if they've obtained police checks he throws away his prop and walks right out of the scene. No one is able to stop him (since the co-performers are behind desks), he doesn't return, and [[RefugeInAudacity ''he wins the episode'']].

** Another Frank Woodley one had him pretending to me a Shaolin monk-esque figure, who alternated between a mock Chinese accent and a German one.

* [[CarMeetsHouse Car Meets Third Storey Flat]]

* MeanCharacterNiceActor; Some of the guests relish being more than a little mean during their performances. When the skit is over and they can break character, they usually apologise to anyone they insulted for a joke.