History Series / TheFastShow

** '''Chanel 9''': "Bono estente" ''('Hello')'', "[[UsefulNotes/UnitedNations Boutros-Boutros Ghali]]" ''(Goodbye'', among other things), "Ethethethetheth, ethethetheth", "Svinky Pinky", "Chris Waddle" and "Scorchio". The commercial breaks included "(insert function here) Gizmo" and "Action Pumpo".

* MoodDissonance: The "Rowley Birkin QC" monologues are generally unintelligible but very funny anecdotes. One, however, seems to be about a woman he was in love with during WW2, and who apparently died. The whole scene is melancholy, and the final line "I held her in my arms... (long pause)... I'm afraid I was very drunk." is unutterably sad.

* ArmourPiercingQuestion: Parodied in a set of sketches where a criminal played by Mark Williams is subjected to PerpSweating with no success, only for a [[JohnLeCarre George Smiley]] {{expy}} to turn up and ask him a question in an innocuous tone that leads to him accidentally revealing everything. [[CatchPhrase "Aha!"]] ''[[CatchPhrase "...Shit!"]]''

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: ''{{Series/Taggart}}'''s use of this trope (continuing for years after the title character died with his actor) is parodied in universe in "The Last Fast Show Ever", when Monkfish actor John Actor dies, only to be given a ''new'' show: "John Actor plays a tough, uncompromising, ''dead Scottish detective'' in '''MCMONKFISH!'''"

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: The entire premise of 'Cheesy Peas' - "They're a combination of cheese and peas to form Cheesy Peas!"

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: ''{{Series/Taggart}}''`s use of this trope (continuing for years after the title character died with his actor) is parodied in universe in "The Last Fast Show Ever", when Monkfish actor John Actor dies, only to be given a ''new'' show: "John Actor plays a tough, uncompromising, ''dead Scottish detective'' in '''MCMONKFISH!'''"

** Jazz Club's host's voice was also inspired by that of radio DJ "Whistling" Bob Harris.

* RunningGag: Very many within the sketches, and also a few that crossed over between different ones, such as "Cheesey Peas" (which started out as 'an advertisement [[OopNorth for Northern types]] before getting a Chanel 9 version, a posh version, being mentioned in Brilliant Kid's rambling monologue, etc.)

* VomitIndiscretionShot: Part 2 of the Last Fast Show Ever special features four of the cast playing annoying young people in a Cheesy Peas advert. At the end of the episode, we see them again, and it is obvious the Cheesy Peas has done something to them, because one of them is crying, one keeps rushing out of the room to vomit, and another is doubled over puking in full view.

* PromotedFanboy: Creator/JohnnyDepp appeared in one of the "Suit you, sir!" sketches. (If you want to do this, it helps to be Johnny Depp.)

* FanDumb: Invoked in the case of Archie the Pub Bore, specifically the Monomaniac variety. ''Every'' conversation he butts into he will ultimately turn into a lecture about Frank Sinatra.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the Dave Angel sketches, Shirley is often doing the exact thing Dave is warning against in the background whilst he is talking to the camera e.g. When Dave is warning against using aerosols, Shirley can be seen using an aerosol in the background.

* CaliforniaDoubling: the "Shore Leave" song, supposedly in New York, is clearly filmed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

* WriteWhoYouKnow:
** Simon Day admits to basing "Competitive Dad" on a man he saw at a public swimming pool, who challenged his children to a race and then swam away at top speed leaving them to struggle behind him.
*** This inspiration formed part of the very last Competitive Dad sketch, where we see a video recording of Competitive Dad's own father doing it to him as a child.
** Rowley Birkin QC was based on a similarly incomprehensible (English) person Paul Whitehouse met in Iceland - although his style also owes something to ventriloquist Ray Alan's puppet Lord Charles.
** One of Arabella Weir's characters is a woman who suggests something to a group of arguing men, only for them to totally ignore her and hear the suggestion [[GladIThoughtOfIt as though one of them had made it]]. This, as Whitehouse and Higson wryly realised on reading the first sketch, was her commentary on how they tended to treat her in script meetings.
** Insecure Woman was suggested to Weir by the others, based on herself.
** Swiss Toni was apparently based on several different real car salesmen.
** The Suit You Tailors were based on a real person, but oddly enough, a bank manager rather than a tailor.

* SieSwearsALot: Shane, one of the guests on ''That's Amazing!'', has a genuinely interesting story, but he can’t stop swearing long enough to tell Carl about it.

* BeamMeUpScotty: "Suits you, sir!" was never ever said; the line was always "'''Suit''' you, sir!"

** This inspiration formed part of the very last Competitive Dad sketch, where we see a video recording of Competitive Dad's own father doing it to him as a child.

** '''Archie''': "...hardest game in the world." "Thirty years, man and boy."

** '''Ron Manager''': Variations on "Football, eh? Little boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts...''marvellous''."

* PromotedFanboy: Creator/JohnnyDepp appeared in one of the "Suit you, sir!" sketches. (If you want to do this, it helps to be JohnnyDepp.)

* BritishAccents: essential to many characters, especially the Cockney criminal.

* TheWoobie: Several characters are woobies some or all of the time.
** Ralph is a major woobie; you just spend the whole time wanting to hug the poor thing. The most woobie-ish moment without a doubt is when Ralph and Ted start talking about the time he ended up in the hospital:
---> '''Ralph''': A lot of people are frightened of... mental illness.
---> '''Ted''': Your parents told everyone you had the flu, sir.
---> (Both wipe their eyes.)
** Ted is a woobie too after his wife dies.
** Archie, the pub bore, clearly just wants someone to talk to. He mentions that his dog is sick, and, at one point, he tells someone that he's thought about committing suicide, 'but the words of Frank keep coming back to me in my hour of need'. It becomes worse when you realise that the songs he always goes on about clearly mean something to him, if they have actually saved his life.
** Rowley Birkin is a woobie in the sketch were he talks about a woman he loved dying. When he finishes, he says his catchphrase in a sad, quiet voice, and there is an agonised look in his eyes as the camera slowly pans backwards.
---> '''Rowley''': And I held her in my arms... (Agonising pause; Rowley looks so sad) ... I'm afraid I was very drunk.

** '''Chanel 9''': "Bono estente" ''('Hello')'', "[[UsefulNotes/UnitedNations Boutros-Boutros Ghali]]" ''(Goodbye'', among other things), "Ethethethetheth, ethethetheth", "Chris Waddle" and "Scorchio". The commercial breaks included "(insert function here) Gizmo" and "Action Pumpo".

** '''The Off-Roaders''': "Let's off-road!"

** '''13th Duke of Wybourne''': "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne? Here? In (place)? With my reputation? Are they mad?"

* TourettesShitcockSyndrome: Jed Thomas ARSE!

* TheParody: The films of GuyRitchie, such as ''{{Snatch}}'' ("It's a Right Royal Cockney Barrel of Monkeys"), the musical ''{{On The Town}}'' ("Shore Leave") and the classic movie ''Whiskey Galore'' ("Heroin Galore").

* PromotedFanboy: JohnnyDepp appeared in one of the "Suit you, sir!" sketches. (If you want to do this, it helps to be JohnnyDepp.)