History Series / TheArmstrongAndMillerShow

** In [[TheKryptonFactor The Critical Factor]], the losing contestants are brutally executed while the presenter (Miller) talks to the round's winner.

** GordonRamsay in a one-off sketch, in which he's beaten to death and served to the customers of a restaurant.

''The Armstrong and Miller Show'' is an English sketch comedy series starring the eponymous double act of Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller. The duo originally broke into British television with a series entitled simply ''Armstrong and Miller'', which ran from 1997 to 2001 on Paramount Comedy and Channel 4, whereas the newer series began six years later in 2007 and aired on BBC1. The third series of ''The Armstrong and Miller Show'' ended in December 2010.

* TheCameo: Morton Harkit (lead singer of A-Ha) of all people turns up in the Farmer's Market Song ([[DontExplainTheJoke 'cause his name rhymes with "market", geddit?]])

* Parodies of 1970s [[PublicServiceAnnouncement public information films]] [[hottip:*:Authentically presented in 4:3 aspect ratio though the rest of the series is in widescreen]] giving useless or dangerous advice.

** Several Brabbins and Fyffe sketches cut to the Test Card [[hottip:*:Test card "C" from the black and white era although the sketches are in colour]] when they start getting too filthy to broadcast. Usually this is used as a CurseCutShort, although a song beginning "[[JailBait The loveliest thing about teenage girls...]]" is cut off before it can go any further.

* {{Brownface}}: In the sketch about the pirate who misses his old lifestyle, Armstrong plays a woman of indeterminate tropical origin.

* PottyEmergency: Brabbins & Fyffe's "Train Song" (aka "Have you ever had to take a shit on a train

* RantInducingSlight: One sketch has a newly married couple heading to their new home when the wife mentions they're passing a place she used to visit with an ex-boyfriend. The husband remains silent and withdrawn [[DelayedReaction for the next fifty or so years]], before finally echoing the comment, moments before dying.

* RantInducingSlight / Delayed Reaction: One sketch has a newly married couple heading to their new home when the wife mentions they're passing a place she used to visit with an ex-boyfriend. The husband remains silent and withdrawn for the next fifty or so years, before finally echoing the comment, moments before dying.

* PottyEmergency: Brabbins & Fyffe's "Train Song" (aka "Have you ever had to take a shit on a train?")

* SocietyMarchesOn: Much to the chargrin of Pharius and Horschstadt, who much preferred the 18th century.

** StrangeSyntaxUser: Having gotten [[GoingNative so used]] to speaking French after emigrating from England, as a result, he now speaks English using both the "wrong" (reversed) syntax and uses literal translations of phrases.

** StangeSyntaxUser: Having gotten [[GoingNative so used]] to speaking French after emigrating from England, as a result, he now speaks English using both the "wrong" (reversed) syntax and uses literal translations of phrases.

** GoingNative: Which is due to him being an Englishman living in France and having gotten so used to speaking French, he now speaks using the "wrong" syntax whilst in English.

* PoirotSpeak: The main trait of the Miller character who hangs out in a Parisian café. Although a native of Reading, he has lost fluency in English since moving to France six months ago, and consequently speaks with an English accent and French syntax.
-->'''Man:''' What are you calling yourselves to yourselves?

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: The point of the Tudor-era ball sketches, in which the upper-class attendees seduce one another using very sophisticated descriptions of the extremely graphic sexual acts they would like to perform.

* DudeNotFunny: [[invoked]]Parodied in a set of sketches in series 3. A character will have a {{slapstick}} accident and, while they're trying to regain their composure, Miller will walk into view, [[BreakingTheFourthWall look into camera]] and say "this isn't actually funny. It actually happened to a friend of mine, so ..."

* A series of vox pops in which a man describes his quirks or mental illnesses, ending with "and that's why I became a teacher"

** Also, the Brabbins & Fyffe and public information film sketches all use deliberately desaturated colour.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In [[TheKryptonFactor The Critical Factor]], the losing contestants are brutally executed while the presenter (Miller) talks to the round's winner.

* APirate400YearsTooLate: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAbzVx4eOdw Parodied]] this in a sketch which involves random people getting press-ganged by the Royal Navy into joining the "South Harbour Club Patrol" after buying t-shirts reading exactly that. And if that concept isn't 18th century enough, then Somali pirates attack South Harbour... by firing audible cannon broadsides.

* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: Several Brabbins and Fyffe sketches cut to the Test Card [[hottip:*:Test card "C" from the black and white era although the sketches are in colour]] when they start getting too filthy to broadcast. Usually this is used as a CurseCutShort, although a song beginning "[[JailBait The loveliest thing about teenage girls...]]" is cut off before it can go any further.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Dimitri from the first series, a take on Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich.
** Brabbins & Fyffe too, very clearly based on Flanders & Swann.