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* TheDanza: Chris Morris as Chris Morris.
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* BackseatDriver: Alan Partridge, in the bit where he's being driven around a course by rally driver Susie Herper (Rebecca Front), with a big helping of patronising male chauvinism. Her driving soon reduces him to pants-wetting terror.
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* FelonyMisdemeanor: Type 3, when UK prime minister John Major and Queen Elizabeth 2 have a fight. Chris summons Crisis Correspondent Spartacus Mills (Steve Coogan):
-->'''Chris''': Spartacus, this is huge history happening, isn't it?
-->'''Spartacus''': [[ShapedLikeItself It's bigger than that, Chris, it's large.]] I mean, if you've got a history book at home, take it out, throw it in the bin, it's '''worthless'''. The history books, now, will have to be rewritten.
-->'''Chris''': What will they say?
-->'''Spartacus''': They'll quite simply say "John Major punched the Queen". Everything else will be a footnote.
-->'''Chris''': We're pushed for time, can you sum it up in a word?
-->'''Spartacus''': No.
-->'''Chris''': A sound?
-->'''Spartacus''': ''Wooaaaaauuuuhh''.
-->'''Chris''': Spartacus, this is huge history happening, isn't it?
-->'''Spartacus''': [[ShapedLikeItself It's bigger than that, Chris, it's large.]] I mean, if you've got a history book at home, take it out, throw it in the bin, it's '''worthless'''. The history books, now, will have to be rewritten.
-->'''Chris''': What will they say?
-->'''Spartacus''': They'll quite simply say "John Major punched the Queen". Everything else will be a footnote.
-->'''Chris''': We're pushed for time, can you sum it up in a word?
-->'''Spartacus''': No.
-->'''Chris''': A sound?
-->'''Spartacus''': ''Wooaaaaauuuuhh''.
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* ShoutOut: Gratuitously offensive sitcom ''[[ShowWithinAShow Them Next Door]]'' is a clear homage to ''Series/LoveThyNeighbour'' with the rampant racism turned UpToEleven.
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* ShoutOut: Gratuitously offensive sitcom ''[[ShowWithinAShow Them Next Door]]'' is a clear homage to ''Series/LoveThyNeighbour'' with the rampant racism turned UpToEleven.up to eleven.
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Despite its acclaim, the show is still best known for bringing Creator/SteveCoogan's Alan Partridge, the socially inept sports presenter, to TV; he later appeared in a number of spin-off projects, the most well-known of which are ''Series/KnowingMeKnowingYouWithAlanPartridge'' and ''Series/ImAlanPartridge''. It was followed by ''Series/BrassEye'', a pseudo-spinoff written entirely by Morris that used some of the same characters but this time punctured the PrimeTimeNews format.
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Despite its acclaim, the show is still best known for bringing Creator/SteveCoogan's Alan Partridge, Franchise/AlanPartridge, the socially inept sports presenter, to TV; he later appeared in a number of spin-off projects, the most well-known of which are ''Series/KnowingMeKnowingYouWithAlanPartridge'' and ''Series/ImAlanPartridge''. It was followed by ''Series/BrassEye'', a pseudo-spinoff written entirely by Morris that used some of the same characters but this time punctured the PrimeTimeNews format.
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The brainchild of a number of British comedians including Creator/ChrisMorris and Creator/ArmandoIannucci, ''The Day Today'' was a critically-acclaimed satire of every aspect of British TV news shows. The show's M.O. was to present meaningless reports such as the London Underground infested with horses, or the IRA planting bombs inside stray dogs, in an absolutely deadpan style so that anyone channel-hopping would not be sure for a split second if what they were watching was real.
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The brainchild of a number of British comedians including Creator/ChrisMorris and Creator/ArmandoIannucci, ''The Day Today'' was a critically-acclaimed satire of every aspect of British TV news shows. Adapted from the 1991-92 radio program ''On the Hour'' and featuring many of the same writers, ''The Day Today'' was broadcasted as a series of six half-hour episodes from January to February 1994, on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC2]]. The show's M.O. was to present meaningless reports such as the London Underground infested with horses, or the IRA planting bombs inside stray dogs, in an absolutely deadpan style so that anyone channel-hopping would not be sure for a split second if what they were watching was real.
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* CrapsackWorld: Set in contemporary Britain, where bombdogs are set off by the IRA, dentists are forced into illegal, backdoor operations on the streets, motorways collide with each other and the Queen and the Prime Minister have a massive fight at Buckingham Palace. Subverted in episode 3 during the fight between John Major and the Queen, when the Government interrupts all TV channels to play a special crisis propaganda video. The video depicts lawyers and businessmen skipping and playing hide and seek, police officers smoking marijuana with the general public and small children with lighters rushing to a man's aid to light his cigarette, effectively portraying Britain as [[CloudCuckooLander Cloud Cuckoo Land]].
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* CrapsackWorld: Set in contemporary Britain, where bombdogs are set off by the IRA, dentists are forced into illegal, backdoor operations on the streets, motorways collide with each other and the Queen and the Prime Minister have a massive fight at Buckingham Palace.Palace[[note]]Not an argument, an actual fist fight[[/note]]. Subverted in episode 3 during the fight between John Major and the Queen, when the Government interrupts all TV channels to play a special crisis propaganda video. The video depicts lawyers and businessmen skipping and playing hide and seek, police officers smoking marijuana with the general public and small children with lighters rushing to a man's aid to light his cigarette, effectively portraying Britain as [[CloudCuckooLander Cloud Cuckoo Land]].
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: PlayedForLaughs. War breaks out between Australia and Hong Kong, with the initial fighting happening in Eastmanstown in the Upper Cataracts on the Australio-Hong Kong Border[[note]]There is no such place as Eastmanstown in either Australia or Hong Kong, and they most definitely don't share a border[[/note]].
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: PlayedForLaughs. War breaks out between Australia and Hong Kong, with the initial fighting happening in Eastmanstown in the Upper Cataracts on the Australio-Hong Kong Border[[note]]There is no such place as Eastmanstown in either Australia or Hong Kong, and they most definitely don't share a border[[/note]].border. As well, Hong Kong isn't an independent country, meaning Australia couldn't declare war on them, nor could they declare war on Australia. They'd have to ask the UK to declare war on the Australia (the show was made in 1994, before the handover of Hong Kong to the PRC), and Australia would've had to declare war on the UK[[/note]].
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* ImmoralJournalist: Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan, an aggressively incompetent journalist who either makes up or bungles stories so frequently (during 9/11, live from New York, '''''he reported on WTC "negotiations"''''') that he often elicits an angry rant from the newsreader.
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* ImmoralJournalist: Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan, an aggressively incompetent journalist who either makes up or bungles stories so frequently (during 9/11, live from New York, '''''he reported on WTC "negotiations"''''') that he often elicits an angry rant from the newsreader. Downplayed in that he's less immoral and more incompetent and lazy.
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* ImmoralJournalist: Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan, an aggressively incompetent journalist who either makes up or bungles stories so frequently (during 9/11, live from New York, ''he reported on WTC "negotiations"'') that he often elicits an angry rant from the newsreader.
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* ImmoralJournalist: Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan, an aggressively incompetent journalist who either makes up or bungles stories so frequently (during 9/11, live from New York, ''he '''''he reported on WTC "negotiations"'') "negotiations"''''') that he often elicits an angry rant from the newsreader.
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** The report on the 9/11 terrorist attacks, mentioned below under Blatant Lies.
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* CanonDiscontinuity: American serial killer Chapman Baxter, sitting on Death Row, who reappears in new reports from ''The Day Today's'' affiliate station in America in almost every episode with an ever increasing body count to his name, despite being repeatedly executed.
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* CanonDiscontinuity: American serial killer Chapman Baxter, sitting on Death Row, who reappears in new reports from ''The Day Today's'' affiliate station in America in almost every episode with an ever increasing body count to his name, despite being repeatedly executed. Assuming it isn't a case of him coming back every time.
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* ButtMonkey: Nice but hapless economics correspondent Peter O'Hanraha-Hanrahan, who is repeatedly shamed and humiliated by Chris Morris live on air for his incompetence.
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* ButtMonkey: Nice but hapless economics correspondent Peter O'Hanraha-Hanrahan, who is repeatedly shamed and humiliated by Chris Morris live on air for his incompetence.incompetence and lying.
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* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Chris is apparently fluent in German, and uses it to catch Peter in a lie by proving he didn't speak to the German finance minister in German because he doesn't know German, forcing Peter to admit he never spoke to the German finance minister.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: PlayedForLaughs. War breaks out between Australia and Hong Kong, with the initial fighting happening in Eastmanstown in the Upper Cataracts on the Australio-Hong Kong Border[[note]]There is no such place as Eastmanstown in either Australia or Hong Kong, and they most definitely don't share a border[[/note]].
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* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Chris Morris as grotesque gangster rapper (and Ice T parody) [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Fur-Q]] and his chart-smashing single "Uzi Lover".
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* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Chris Morris as grotesque gangster rapper (and Ice T parody) [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Fur-Q]] Fur-Q and his chart-smashing single "Uzi Lover".
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* SoundEffectBleep: In Episode 4, while Peter Goodwright rants about bombdogs, one goes off each time he swears.
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* SoundEffectBleep: In Episode 4, while Peter Goodwright rants about bombdogs, one goes off each time he swears. Fur-Q's ClusterFBomb lyrics are papered over with musical stings.
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-->'''Alan Partridge''': The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and the pudding, in this case, is a football.
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-->'''Alan Partridge''': The proof of the pudding is in the eating, pudding, and the pudding, in this case, is a football.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The DVD includes the pilot episode, which was filmed in a very different style to the show proper. The lighting and set dressing resembled a generic television sketch comedy of the period, and the "Chris Morris" character was and over-enthusiastic but likeable rather than the satanic monster that he became. Ultimately the production team overhauled almost everything between the pilot and the first episode, although a few of the filmed inserts were used in the series.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The DVD includes the pilot episode, which was filmed in a very different style to the show proper. The lighting and set dressing resembled a generic television sketch comedy of the period, and the "Chris Morris" character was and over-enthusiastic but likeable rather than the satanic monster that he became. Ultimately the production team overhauled almost everything between the pilot and the first episode, although a few of the filmed inserts were used in the series.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the pilot, upon seeing a news story where soldiers on both sides of a war stop fighting upon encountering a CuteKitten, Chris Morris believes it is a sign that the war has peaked, and promptly makes his way back to London, no longer interested in covering the war if it means dealing with "the inevitable plague of refugee and human interest stories that tend to spew out in the wake of such conflicts". He announces that a skeleton staff will be left to cover the war.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the pilot, upon seeing a news story where soldiers on both sides of a war stop fighting upon encountering a CuteKitten, Chris Morris believes it is a sign that the war has peaked, and promptly makes his way back to London, no longer interested in covering the war if it means dealing with "the "[[{{Glurge}} the inevitable plague of refugee and human interest stories that tend to spew out in the wake of such conflicts".conflicts]]". He announces that a skeleton staff will be left to cover the war.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the pilot, upon seeing a news story where soldiers on both sides of a war stop fighting upon encountering a CuteKitten, Chris Morris believes it is a sign that the war has peaked, and promptly makes his way back to London, no longer interested in covering the war if it means dealing with "the inevitable plague of refugee and human interest stories that tend to spew out in the wake of such conflicts". He announces that a skeleton staff will be left to cover the war.
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* ImmoralJournalist: Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan, an aggressively incompetent journalist who either makes up or bungles stories so frequently (during 9/11, ''he reported on WTC "negotations"'') that he often elicits an angry rant from the newsreader.
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* ImmoralJournalist: Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan, an aggressively incompetent journalist who either makes up or bungles stories so frequently (during 9/11, live from New York, ''he reported on WTC "negotations"'') "negotiations"'') that he often elicits an angry rant from the newsreader.
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* ImmoralJournalist: Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan, an aggressively incompetent journalist who either makes up or bungles stories so frequently (during 9/11, ''he reported on WTC "negotations"'') that he often elicits an angry rant from the newsreader.
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* Crawl: The ticker during one of the business reports is chock full of 4s.
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* Crawl: {{Crawl}}: The ticker during one of the business reports is chock full of 4s.
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* Crawl: The ticker during one of the business reports is chock full of 4s.
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* TheBully: Chris Morris can slip into this sometimes, as shown with his completely unwarranted take-down of Janet Breen and his repeated humiliations of Peter O'Hanraha-Hanrahan, although Peter could probably avoid this if he tried to do his job a bit better. He's just as prone to shredding Alan Partridge.
** One of the episodes has a [[RealitySubtext case of this taking place in the Catholic Church]].
** One of the episodes has a [[RealitySubtext case of this taking place in the Catholic Church]].
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* DeadpanSnarker: Chris has a very low tolerance threshold for the buffoonery of those around him which is completely understandable considering Alan Partridge isn't even the least incompetent member of his news team.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Chris has a very low tolerance threshold for the buffoonery of those around him which is completely understandable considering Alan Partridge isn't even the least incompetent competent member of his news team.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Chris Morris subjects Janet Breen to a nasty one of these and dolls them out like dog-biscuits to Peter O'Hanra-Hanrahan.
* SerialKiller: Chapman Baxter.
* TheSociopath: Chapman Baxter who has killed a lot of people and is only concerned with being executed in the most overly complicated manner possible.
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* {{Cloudcoockoolander}}: Everyone on the show, everyone.
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* MoodSwinger: Chris Morris in particular is very capricious, going from genial to vicious, to gentle to casual in the space of a single interview with Janet Breen and in one radio episode, he has a mood swing and randomly cancels the news, [[{{Cloudcoockoolander}} deciding instead to phone a news agent as though they're a curry house and just have them read out the headlines and for local news, describe what's going on in the shop]].
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* MoodSwinger: Chris Morris in particular is very capricious, going from genial to vicious, to gentle to casual in the space of a single interview with Janet Breen and in one radio episode, he has a mood swing and randomly cancels the news, [[{{Cloudcoockoolander}} [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} deciding instead to phone a news agent as though they're a curry house and just have them read out the headlines and for local news, describe what's going on in the shop]].
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Especially memorable characters included anchor "[[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gvyX-CwHpAQ Chris Morris]]", who had an unquenchable lust for News with a capital "N" and a sneering demeanour that was blatantly ripped off of British journo Jeremy Paxman; [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3RpFPCDgeI4 Peter O'Hanraha-Hanrahan]], who made up for in tenacity what he lacked in... everything else; [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5gHorOt6KKw Alan Partridge]], inept sportscaster; and American correspondent [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DO9jGsgPTsk Barbara Wintergreen]], who was forever reporting on the multiple executions of killer Chapman Baxter.
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Especially memorable characters included acerbic anchor "[[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gvyX-CwHpAQ Chris Morris]]", who had an unquenchable lust for News with a capital "N" and a sneering demeanour that was blatantly ripped off of British journo Jeremy Paxman; [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3RpFPCDgeI4 Peter O'Hanraha-Hanrahan]], who made up for in tenacity what he lacked in... everything else; [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5gHorOt6KKw Alan Partridge]], inept sportscaster; and American correspondent [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DO9jGsgPTsk Barbara Wintergreen]], who was forever reporting on the multiple executions of killer Chapman Baxter.
* BlatantLies: Peter O'Hanraha-Hanrahan often tries this in order to avoid admitting that he has no idea what he's talking about. The most egregious example is when he's pretending he's in the World Trade Centre on 9/11, without realising that the terrorist attack has happened until Chris tells him to switch on the television.
-->'''Peter''': The tower I'm in is collapsing, I'm collapsing Chris, under the sheer ... wait, I've managed ... I'm out! I'm very ... run! I'm not there.
-->'''Peter''': The tower I'm in is collapsing, I'm collapsing Chris, under the sheer ... wait, I've managed ... I'm out! I'm very ... run! I'm not there.
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* ButtMonkey: Hapless economics correspondent Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan, who is repeatedly shamed and humiliated by Chris Morris live on air for his incompetence.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Chris Morris is irascible, caustic, misanthropic, preening, narcissistic, temperamental and a bully but nevertheless a highly intelligent and competent news reporter whose eccentricities don't (usually) get in the way of him doing his job.
* ButtMonkey:Hapless Nice but hapless economics correspondent Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan, O'Hanraha-Hanrahan, who is repeatedly shamed and humiliated by Chris Morris live on air for his incompetence.
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* {{Cloudcoockoolander}}: Everyone on the show, everyone.
* DeadpanSnarker: Chris has a very low tolerance threshold for the buffoonery of those around him which is completely understandable considering Alan Partridge isn't even the least incompetent member of his news team.
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** Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan can be seen getting knocked unconscious by a single punch in the background of a live-scene news report.
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* MoodSwinger: Chris Morris in particular is very capricious, going from genial to vicious, to gentle to casual in the space of a single interview with Janet Breen and in one radio episode, he has a mood swing and randomly cancels the news, [[{{Cloudcoockoolander}} deciding instead to phone a news agent as though they're a curry house and just have them read out the headlines and for local news, describe what's going on in the shop]].
* RenaissanceMan: Chris Morris is not only a news anchor but also knows German, history, politics and economics. Justified as his actor is the same.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Chris feels this way and with good reason.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: In-universe as a lively organ tune is used to end the televising of a ''live hanging''.
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** In-universe as a lively organ tune is used to end the televising of a ''livehanging''.hanging''.
** The in-universe video ''This Is Our War'', a compilation of clips from the war instigated by ''The Day Today'' itself, seems to be full of war clips set to entirely inappropriate music. For instance, the shooting of reporter is set to ''You Really Got Me'' by Music/TheKinks.
** In-universe as a lively organ tune is used to end the televising of a ''live
** The in-universe video ''This Is Our War'', a compilation of clips from the war instigated by ''The Day Today'' itself, seems to be full of war clips set to entirely inappropriate music. For instance, the shooting of reporter is set to ''You Really Got Me'' by Music/TheKinks.
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** "In 198'''6'''... I mean, I could go on."
