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* {{Corpsing}}: You can hear some of the actors doing their best not to laugh through their lines from time to time.

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** Also, save for Sir Phillip, who functions as the {{Narrator}}, all the characters who appear in the framing story are played by actors who also have large roles in the main story:

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** Also, save for Sir Phillip, who functions as the {{Narrator}}, a CharacterNarrator, all the characters who appear in the framing story are played by actors who also have large roles in the main story:



* RealSongThemeTune: The theme music is 'Mazurka' from 'Three Pieces' by Edward Elgar.

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* RealSongThemeTune: The theme music is 'Mazurka' from 'Three Pieces' by Edward Elgar.Elgar.
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* DawsonCasting: Done very blatantly, with Tom Allen, Suzie Kane, James Bachman, Sarah Hadland and Anthony Head all playing teenagers at one point or another. Taken to extremes in Head's case, when he plays Mr. Benevolent as a child as well.
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*** James Bachman plays Sir Phillip's servant Servewell in the framing story, and also plays Pip's best friend Harry Biscuit in the main story.

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*** James Bachman plays Sir Phillip's servant Servewell in the framing story, and also plays Pip's best friend Harry Biscuit in the main story.story.
* RealSongThemeTune: The theme music is 'Mazurka' from 'Three Pieces' by Edward Elgar.
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*** James Bachman plays Sir Phillip's servant Servewell in the framing story, and also plays Pip's best friend Harry Biscuit in the main story.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Mr Gently Benevolent sounds a lot like Giles from ''Series/{{Buffy|The Vampire Slayer}}'', being voiced by Creator/AnthonyHead.
** Ripely's father, the Reverend Godly Fecund, is DavidMitchell.

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*** James Bachman plays Sir Phillip's servant Servewell in the framing story, and also plays Pip's best friend Harry Biscuit in the main story.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Mr Gently Benevolent sounds a lot like Giles from ''Series/{{Buffy|The Vampire Slayer}}'', being voiced by Creator/AnthonyHead.
** Ripely's father, the Reverend Godly Fecund, is DavidMitchell.
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* ActingForTwo: Several instances.
** Geoffrey Whitehead plays [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals all the members of the families Hardthrasher, Sternbeater, Whackwallop, Harshsmacker, Grimpunch and Clampvulture, most of whom are Gently Benevolent's accomplices]].
** Series creator Mark Evans makes a number of cameo appearances in various minor roles, most of them one-shot characters.
** Also, save for Sir Phillip, who functions as the {{Narrator}}, all the characters who appear in the framing story are played by actors who also have large roles in the main story:
*** Sarah Hadland plays Sir Phillip's daughter Lily in the framing story, and from season two and onwards [[GenerationXerox also plays Lily's mother Ripely Fecund, who was Pip's third wife, in the main story.]]
*** Creator/AnthonyHead plays the journalist Jeremy Sourquill in the framing story, while in the main story he is the main villain Mr. Gently Benevolent, [[spoiler:who proves to have been [[IdenticalGrandson Sourquill's grandfather]].]]
*** James Bachman plays Sir Phillip's servant Servewell in the framing story, and also plays Pip's best friend Harry Biscuit in the main story.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Mr Gently Benevolent sounds a lot like Giles from ''Series/{{Buffy|The Vampire Slayer}}'', being voiced by Creator/AnthonyHead.
** Ripely's father, the Reverend Godly Fecund, is DavidMitchell.

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