History Series / TheGoesWrongShow

* GagBoobs: Melinda (Annie), in "90 Degrees", has obvious fakes...which fall out, and aren't level when replaced.

* {{Mammy}}: Melinda (Annie) covers this role in "90 Degrees". She's put in a FatSuit with GagBoobs to give her the appropriate size.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: The actresses botch up and suffer AmusingInjuries almost as often as the male cast.

* AdaptationDistillation: It's unintentional in-universe due to it being essentially TheMockbuster of real Shakespeare plays, but "The Most Lamentable..." is essentially a combination of multiple plays' plot elements. These include ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', ''Theatre/TheComedyOfErrors'', ''Theatre/KingLear'', ''Theatre/RichardIII'', and more. It's also a possible ShoutOut to Creator/ReducedShakespeareCompany.

-->--'''Chris Bean''' at the start of every show, [[BlatantLies not telling the truth even a little bit]].

-> ''"They kiss. Roll credits."''
-->--'''[[TheDitz Dennis]]''', at the end of "A Trial to Watch"

*** [[invoked]]Before that, the audience gets one for laughs when [[CriticalResearchFailure this WWII drama is revealed to be set in 1961.]]

* "The Lodge": A haunted mansion horror play set in TheSixties.

* CaptivityHarmonica: Rex (Sandra) plays one during his introductory scene in ''There Is No Escape''... which she ends up swallowing. As a result, for the rest of the episode, the harmonica keeps making noise whenever she speaks.

* ISophagus: In "There Is No Escape", Sandra swallows a harmonica after Annie bumps her. She continues with her lines, accompanied by the instrument for the rest of the play. The harmonica plays over the end credits.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: For a given value of "evil." Chris can be nasty and petty, but even he regards Robert's preemptive apology for Lucy's performance as "just mean."

** On the ''third'' attempt at ''Summer Once Again'', Annie mistakenly brings out the galoshes instead of the goulashes. Rather than attempt to cover the mistake, Dennis takes a bite out of the galoshes ("This beef's as tough as old boots!"), but it's not until Bryony steps into the goulash dishes...

* {{Bowdlerize}}: The in-universe BBC apparently instituted an anti-knife crime policy some time after "A Trial to Watch", meaning all of the knives used in the prison-break drama "There is No Escape" had to be replaced with spoons.

* [[Main/{{Corpsing}} Corpsing:]] A rather subtle example, but in "The Lodge," when the gun falls apart (a genuine accident, completely unscripted) and the actor begins to panic, Jonathan Sayer (Dennis) can be seen shaking with suppressed laughter in the background.
** Henry Shields is visibly chuckling while Chris gets sprayed like a fire hose with high pressure blood in "A Trial to Watch"
** Constantly occurring in-universe to Max, who does not care in the slightest about breaking character and will smile and giggle at anything he finds funny.
*** There's therefore a bizarre example in "The Most Lamentable..." where he's corpsing in-universe and out of it, when he obliges Chris to make a series of funny noises. Max the ''character'' is grinning directly into the camera over Chris's mortified attempt, while David Hearn the ''actor'' is turning purple and has tears in his eyes from the strain of not bursting into laughter.
** Charlie Russell (Sandra) can be seen corpsing a couple of times, notably during "The Pilot (not the pilot)" while Max is getting himself wrapped up in the lie detector, and during "The Most Lamentable..." in the background during Dennis' attempt to improvise a merry song that ends up being very inappropriate.

** Dave Hern and Nancy Zamit sneak in a fistbump (or "spud" as they call them) in various episodes.

* CuteButCacophonic: Vanessa pitches her voice up into a loud squeak to play Belle in "The Spirit of Christmas". Taken UpToEleven when she has to sing in Belle's voice at a nearly impossibly high register to match the backing track.

** "The Most Lamentable…" has everyone but Chris, Vanessa and Dennis playing multiple roles.

* "Summer Once Again": A ''[[Series/DowntonAbbey Downton]]''-esque family saga.
* "The Most Lamentable...": A [[WilliamFakespeare (Simon) Shakespeare]] play.

* "The Lodge": A haunted house horror play set in TheSixties.

* "The Lodge": Horror set in TheSixties.

* "The Spirit of Christmas": Santa and his elves attempt to help a little girl regain the spirit of Christmas.
* "The Pilot (not the pilot)": An RAF pilot in WWII, injured in a previous flight, takes on a desk job to crack German codes.

* "Harper's Locket": Period romance.

* "The Most Lamentable...": A [[WilliamFakespeare (Simon) Shakespeare]] play