History Series / ToastOfLondon

* RealSongThemeTune: The end credits play to a rendition of En Doris' ''Beatmaker'' produced by Berry himself and sung by Emma Noble.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: In "Global Warming", Toast is fined by the literal PC Police for harassing disabled people, nursing mothers, and an Asian tourist. Parodied, as Toast is portrayed rather negatively for this.

* BrickJoke: In the pre-credits sequence for "Match Fit," Toast is recording the voiceover for the "Mind The Gap" announcement on UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground, and is asked by UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson to leave a longer and longer gap between the words "the" and "Gap". Eventually, he says "Mind the" and then walks out of the recording booth. He doesn't return until after the end of the closing credits.

* DoubleStandard: Toast has no problem sleeping with Mrs Purchase despite her being married, but won't do the same with the also married Lorna, possibly because he is genuinely in love with her.

** In "Beauty Calls," an extra dressed as Baker's incarnation of [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] can be seen in the background, drinking gin and smoking a fag.

* {{Hipster}}: Clem Fandango and Danny Bear are pretty obnoxious examples, always clad in increasingly ridiculous hipster fashions (described as "clowns' outfits" by Toast). Danny Bear wears a mustache together with garishly-colored streetwear, while Clem Fandango sports a "man bun" in some episodes. Both also have a disdainful, insincere attitude towards everything.

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold:
** Wendy Nook is initially unwilling to participate in the Prostitutes and Celebrities Blow Football Tournament, until she finds out that it's in aid of homeless ponies. She is incredibly moved that some ponies are homeless and agrees to take part.
** Mrs Purchase, although she isn't technically a prostitute as she doesn't charge anyone for sex apart from her husband.

** Mrs Purchase's first name is never revealed.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: While never exactly exceptionally modern, Toast becomes one of these in ''Global Warming'' (insisting people in wheelchairs be moved because they were distracting him, abusing an Asian tourist for not speaking English clearly, complaining about a woman breastfeeding in public and being seen going into a porno theatre) forcing him to deal with the PC police.

* SayingSoundEffectsOutloud: Many of Toast's voice-overs will include what would seem to be sound effects but which Toast will have to say as words. In one case, Toast is given a script that just says "neigh" and it's unclear whether he's supposed to say the word "neigh" or make the sound of a horse. He initially assumes the former but is later told the latter, being told they can't get a horse in to the studio to do it due to OH&S concerns.[[note]]It turns out the script didn't print properly and it was supposed to say "neighbours" and then go on to say a full sentence."[[/note]]In another case, Ray Purchase is in the booth with Toast reading from a script and Toast has been given a script of sound effects being expected to say "bang" when there's a gunshot and "smash" when some glass is smashed. Toast realises just how ridiculous this is and it seems to be done intentionally to annoy him.

* SurrealHumour: While a lot of strange things happened in the original series, ''Tinseltown'' frequently ups the ante to "batshit insane" - special mention has to go to the penultimate episode where Toast gets abandoned in Death Valley during the filming of a Western, and is rescued by a crazy drifter who forces him to recover a rattlesnake from his friend Rusty Halloween... And it just gets more bonkers from there.

* AwfulBritishSexComedy: Toast was filming one of these at Creator/PinewoodStudios in 1969 when he accidentally walked onto the wrong set and met Creator/StanleyKubrick [[spoiler: (Who was [[MoonLandingHoax faking the Apollo 11 Moon Landings]])]]. Ray Purchase himself is something of an extreme homage to the "jealous husband" archetype, and his introduction is shot like one of these -- having just come home from ''filming'' an awful sex comedy, he's outraged to find himself being cuckolded and Toast hiding in the wardrobe.

* BottomlessMagazines: In one episode, Ray Purchase fires his six-shot revolver into the ceiling ten times without reloading, and still has enough bullets to threaten Toast,
* BrickJoke: In the pre-credits sequence for "Match Fit," Toast is recording the voiceover for the "Mind The Gap" announcement on UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground, and is asked to leave a longer and longer gap between the words "the" and "Gap". Eventually, he says "Mind the" and then walks out of the recording booth. He doesn't return until after the end of the closing credits.

* SkunkStripe: Toast has one of these. He got it by falling out of a tree. As does Wendy Nook. Who also got it by falling out of a tree.

* AwfulBritishSexComedy: Toast was filming one of these at Creator/PinewoodStudios in 1969 when he accidentally walked onto the wrong set and met Creator/StanleyKubrick [[spoiler: (Who was [[MoonLandingHoax faking the Apollo 11 Moon Landings]])]].
** Ray Purchase himself is something of an extreme homage to the "jealous husband" archetype, and his introduction is shot like one of these -- having just come home from ''filming'' an awful sex comedy, he's outraged to find himself being cuckolded and Toast hiding in the wardrobe.

* BrickJoke: In the pre-credits sequence for ''Match Fit'', Toast is recording the voiceover for the "Mind The Gap" announcement on UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground, and is asked to leave a longer and longer gap between the words "the" and "Gap". Eventually, he says "Mind the" and then walks out of the recording booth. He doesn't return until after the end of the closing credits.

** And he clearly had a go at her vocal cords as well, because she even sounds like Brucie (though this doesn't explain why she has his mannerisms).

** Axel Jacklin in ''High Winds Actor'' is pretty clearly supposed to be Creator/JamesMason. In his career he's been pretty much typecast as sea captains, much like Mason played Captain Nemo. His voice is even an impersonation of Mason. Particularly humorous in that the episode revolves around actors being members of [[BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats the Masons]].
** Peggy Plywood in ''Over the Moon'' is supposed to be director [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Littlewood Joan Littlewood]], right down to the cap and donkey jacket. Once again justified, as Littlewood died in 2002.
** Weirdly, however, this is averted in ''Fool in Love'', when Toast goes to stay with his friend, the artist Francis Bacon. Bacon died in 1992, and other characters even comment on the fact that he is supposed to be dead, but Toast can't understand why they're saying this, and still pops in to see Francis for a chat.
** Also averted in ''Bob A Job'', with the comedian Bob Monkhouse, who Toast is surprised to find is still alive (although, in reality, he died in 2003).

* LastNameBasis: Toast is nearly always addressed as simply Toast, even by his brother. In fact, the only people that call him Steven are Danny Bear and Clem Fandango, which clearly gets his back up.

* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: This tends to happen with Toast's GirlOfTheWeek, who are often totally perfect ... except for one issue, which starts off as extremely minor before reaching levels of absurdity by the end of the episode.

** Toast looks to be in his early forties (Creator/MattBerry himself is 40 as of 2014), and yet flashbacks of Toast's previous acting jobs include an AwfulBritishSexComedy in 1969, an appearance in a children's programme in 1974 (thanks to a FreezeFrameBonus of the VT clock during the clip), and an episode of Series/DoctorWho which, judging by Creator/TomBaker's costume would have been made in 1974 or 1975. Who knows how old he actually is?!

** In 'Vanity Project', Alan Ford plays a cabbie named (only [[AllThereInTheManual in the credits]]) Mick Carriage. Put another way? Paddy Wagon. Also qualifies as a StealthPun and a MeaningfulName.

* StylisticSuck: Throughout the first series, Toast is appearing in what is described as "the worst play in the world". We finally see part of it in episode six. It's pretty awful. [[spoiler:So awful that it's actually ''improved'' when Michael Ball gets shot and killed during the performance.]]

-> "Hi Steven, this is Clem Fandango, can you hear me?"\\

A SequelSeries, ''Toast of Tinseltown'', started airing in 2022, now being aired by Creator/TheBBC (via their [=BBC2=] channel).

A SequelSeries, ''Toast Of Tinseltown'', started airing in 2022, now being aired by Creator/TheBBC (via their [=BBC2=] channel).

* TitleDrop: By Ray Purchase during Toast's day filming the New ''Franchise/StarWars'' Mo-VIE, who [[LampshadeHanging comments on how ironic it is]].

* FourEyesZeroSoul: {{Downplayed}}. Russ Nightlife, Toast's landlord, wears glasses and isn't a villain, but a deranged {{Jerkass}} who [[{{Squick}} tips a jug of his own urine onto his homeless father]]. [[spoiler: Probably played straighter once it's revealed that he's D.B. Cooper.]]

* StatusCellPhone: Toast still posesses one of these, which is frequently PlayedForLaughs - it appears to be stored in {{Hammerspace}}, and can somehow receive text messages and display a GPS.

* SurrealHumour: While a lot of strange things happened in the original series, ''Tinseltown'' ups the ante to "batshit insane" - special mention has to go to the penultimate episode where Toast gets abandoned in Death Valley during the filming of a Western, and is rescued by a crazy drifter who forces him to recover a rattlesnake from his friend Rusty Halloween... And it just gets more bonkers from there.

** Ray '''bloody''' Purchase... although he is more genuinely dangerous than most examples, having tried to murder Toast several times.

** Ray bloody Purchase... although he is more genuinely dangerous than most examples, having tried to murder Toast several times.