History Series / ThatMitchellAndWebbLook

* ShortLivedLeadership: One sketch has admiral Karl Donitz become the Fuhrer after Hitler commits suicide. He immediately starts going on about the projects he wants to work on such as an autobahn, but his aides bring him back to reality by providing him with the essentials of what he'll need for his stay in power: General Eisenhower's phone number and how to say "We surrender" in English.

** The Civil War reenactment sketch depicts a group of reenactors who grow bored of Roundheads VS Cavaliers and switch to "the government forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo" VS "rebel militiamen representing Sudanese tribal interests" -- in BlackFace.

:: [[spoiler:They subsequently come to the conclusion that it is indeed racist when the "battle" begins with Webb's character yelling, "I AM GOING TO KILL YOU WITH THIS BIG MACHETE" in a horrible fake accent.]]

*** He does, however, then say that he was only joking. It's just his wicked sense of hu-mor.

*** [[spoiler:They subsequently come to the conclusion that it is indeed racist when the "battle" begins with Webb's character yelling, "I AM GOING TO KILL YOU WITH THIS BIG MACHETE" in a horrible fake accent.]]

* FictionalBoardGame: There's a commercial for "Numberwang: The Board Game" in one episode, which included an encyclopedia-sized manual listing what was and was not Numberwang.

* LostCommonKnowledge: After The Event, a great deal of knowledge has been lost, so much so that the presenter cannot identify traffic cones, clocks, tombstones, Eric Morecambe, spices, ''water'', or ''[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers hope]]''. It is implied that one of The Event's side effects is severe memory loss.

---> '''David Mitchell''': People will happily eat the same meal over and over again; the same doesn't apply with jokes! That's why Jamie Oliver has got more money than Creator/MirandaHart!

* SnipeHunt: Brown's Orthpedic Supplies sends the work experience kid through the Stargate on one of these. Their boss chews them out, because while it is pretty funny, the kid's been missing for three days now.

** One sketch features a woman who isn't too bothered about her husband's infidelity but can never forgive him for leaving the fridge door open.

* InstantTurnOff: In the "Agent Suave" sketch, before his climactic attempt at "[[ItMakesSenseInContext Whack the Rat]]", a beautiful Bond Girl seductively offers to kiss Agent Suave's whacker in a "kiss the dice" style deal. However, she ends up practically fellating the object, which just ends up grossing Suave out since his whacker is now covered in saliva.
-->'''Suave:''' ... '''''Uggggggh.'''''

* EverybodyKnewAlready: The "Working from Home" sketch revolves around a man who has recently started his own home business receiving tips from another home worker on how to resist the compulsion to masturbate whenever he feels like it, and bemoans that it's getting harder to keep that from his wife in light of the business not making progress. When their wives return to the conversation, the men play it off as the more experienced man giving business tips to the less experienced one... at which point the latter's wife cheerfully pipes up with "You should tell him how to rein in all the wanking! That's what ''I'd'' be doing if I was at home alone all day."
%%* EvilIsSexy: A woman in a Christie-esque detective drama gets progressively better hair and make-up, and more cleavage, as she confesses to murder. This is, [[DeconstructorFleet of course]], lampshaded and invoked.
-->'''Freddie:''' Have her tits just got bigger?\\
'''Vauron:''' Zis can happen.

* MsFanservice[=/=]SheCleansUpNicely: Sarah Hadland. Take note of her appearance in the Quiz Broadcast sketches as "Sheila" and then in season 4's "Dog Poker" and "Reports Mode" sketches. She also plays the Agatha Christie villainess in the EvilIsSexy example

** Series/{{Poirot}} always knows when he's identified the murderer when they start doing the "evil voice", [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking among]] [[EvilIsSexy other]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9iQ1yU5Ops things]]...

* EvilIsSexy: In-universe, when the superhero Magneta Man tries explaining to his girlfriend who he is, while she's a little more focused on his descriptions of his archnemesis, former male underwear model Dr. Optimax, who apparently is ''very'' rich...

* HumbleHero: In the "Angel Summoner and [=BMX=] Bandit" sketch, Angel Summoner is a genuinely modest fellow who just wants [=BMX=] Bandit to feel useful and included. It's just unfortunate that [=BMX=] Bandit's rather limited skill-set is fundamentally overshadowed by his ability to summon a horde of celestial super-beings at will.