History Series / TheComicStripPresents

%%* BlackComedyRape: Specifically, DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale.

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Mayall and Edmonsdon's characters from ''Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door'', who go from drunken louts to attempted murderers.

%%* BolivianArmyEnding -- ''A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques''

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''GLC: The Carnage Continues'' is one to ''The Strike'' in that they both involve events in British politics being done as Hollywood movies.

Led to the feature films ''The Supergrass'', ''Eat The Rich'', ''The Pope Must Die'' and ''Churchill: The Hollywood Years''.

Led to the feature film ''Eat The Rich'' about, well, [[EatTheRich eating the rich]].

** ''The Bullshitters: Roll on the Gunbarrel'' portrays Creator/MartinShaw as a pretentious luvvie. Keith Allen and Peter Richardson were annoyed at how he'd view ''Series/TheProfessionals'' as beneath him.

** ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' is a mostly loving parody of the various cliches of 1970s detective shows (mainly the meandering plots interspersed with lots of pointless car chases, shooting and people shouting "Guv!" at each other). It'sless affectionate towards 1990s detective shows; the 1970s shows might be hokey, but they don't put people to sleep.

%%* ShirtlessScene -- ''The Bullshitters'', ''Five Go Mad In Dorset''

%%* DeliberatelyMonochrome: ''The Beat Generation'', ''The Hunt for Tony Blair''

** In ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'', the most effective detective turns out to be the Jason King {{expy}}, whose technique is to drive around at random sipping claret, yet always manages to end up in exactly the right place to solve the mystery.

%%* ThisIsReality -- Lampshaded in ''Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown''
%%* TransformationTrauma
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Many episodes. Not a good programme for emetophobes.

* LuckBasedSearch:

** ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' is a mostly loving parody of the various cliches of 1970s detective shows (mainly the meandering plots interspersed with lots of pointless car chases, shooting and people shouting "Guv!" at each other). It's [[TakeThat less affectionate]] towards 1990s detective shows; the 1970s shows might be hokey, but they don't put people to sleep.

%%* BlackComedyRape -- Specifically, DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale.
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord -- In ''Space Virgins From The Planet Sex'' the kidnapped earthmen are informed that they will not be referred to as sex slaves, although until every woman aboard the ship is pregnant they will be forced to have sex with those who have yet to conceive.
* BlahBlahBlah -- ''Five Go Mad In Dorset'' features several scenes where characters walk past the members of the Famous Five muttering "Blah blah blah, stolen plans, blah blah blah, missing scientist, blah blah blah," and so forth, with only the "important" parts of the conversation breaking through the endless "blah blah blah".

* CensorshipBySpelling -- In ''The Beat Generation'':

%%* TheDanza

%%* DyingDream -- [[spoiler: ''Les Dogs'']]
%%* ExactEavesdropping -- ''Five Go Mad In Dorset''
%%* FakeOutFadeOut -- ''Consuela''
%%* FluffyTheTerrible -- Jayne and Mr Lovebucket in ''Mr Jolly Lives Next Door''

* IllTakeTwoBeersToo: With steaks in ''A Fistful of Travellers' Checks''.

%%* MistakenMessage -- ''Mr Jolly Lives Next Door''
%%* {{Mockumentary}}

%%* MysteryMagnet -- Complained about in ''Five Go Mad in Dorset''

%%* SoundtrackDissonance

** ''The Hunt for Tony Blair'' is pretty [[AffectionateParody affectionate]] to the old 1950s-1960s style {{Film Noir}}s it parodies, but is not particularly affectionate towards UsefulNotes/TonyBlair himself.

* AffectionateParody -- ''Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' is a mostly loving parody of the various cliches of 1970s detective shows (mainly the meandering plots interspersed with lots of pointless car chases, shooting and people shouting "Guv!" at each other). It's [[TakeThat less affectionate]] towards 1990s detective shows; the 1970s shows might be hokey, but they don't put people to sleep.
* AuthorAppeal -- Several episodes written by Adrian Edmondson feature his long-term work partner Rik Mayall in various stages of makeup and femininity, a trope often seen in their other works.

* ContrivedCoincidence

* DealWithTheDevil -- In ''Demonella'' the devil (Jennifer Saunders) offers a record producer success, power and fame in exchange for [[spoiler: his mother's recipe for chicken soup]].

* HistoricalRecreation -- ''Summer School'' is an early send-up of the genre. The premise for the title institution is an attempt at historical recreation of a Stone Age/Bronze Age settlement that ends disastrously when one of the students is mistaken for having died and an attempt to burn his body on a funeral pyre leads the entire settlement to be burned to the ground.

* IllTakeTwoBeersToo -- With steaks in ''A Fistful of Travellers' Checks''.
* ImprobableAimingSkills -- Spoofed in ''Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown'', when the Seventies TV detective's aiming skills stop working because he's shooting at a Nineties TV detective who uses different conventions.
* LeftItIn -- In ''More Bad News'', Vim/Alan breaks the fourth wall and threatens to sue the producers if they leave in a particularly embarrassing item about him. Unfortunately for him he later gets beaten up and left in a coma, so the item stays in.

** ''Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase'' parodies ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', as well as other psychological thrillers based around insane serial killers, by contrasting the flashy, glamourised Hollywood take on a serial killer with the squalid reality of a deeply disturbed man who genuinely needs help.

A series of 39 short British TV comedy films, mostly produced in the 1980s and early 1990s but running intermittently until 2011. A retrospective was produced in 2005. The programmes were originally shown on Channel 4 (the first aired on the channel's opening night), though one season aired on Creator/TheBBC and the most recent episode appeared on Gold.

%%* CardboardBoxes -- Spoofed in ''The Bullshitters''.

* {{Oxbridge}}: Parodied in "Oxford" -- specifically, the "hotbed of espionage recruitment" aspect of the colleges. At the end, the bad guy is defeated by a bunch of non-espionage affiliated dons and academics who are bit bloody fed up with their prestigious academic cloister constantly being disrupted and brought into disgrace by all the MI6 and CIA and KGB types using it to recruit spies.

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* BiasSteamroller -- ''Bad News Tour'' was well-reviewed in the UK press but one magazine in particular, ''Smash Hits'', compared it favourably to another Rock {{Mockumentary}} which had come out the same year, which the magazine criticised as an over-hyped Hollywood mess which relied on an "outdated idea of what bands like this are like". However, the reputation of ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' has [[VindicatedByHistory survived]] the anti-Hollywood bias of the reviewer from ''Smash Hits''.

The core cast was a group of alternative comedians including Creator/RikMayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Creator/DawnFrench, Creator/JenniferSaunders, Peter Richardson, Creator/RobbieColtrane, and Keith Allen. As a result, a lot of the episodes were heavily satirical in nature.