History YMMV / LittleBritain

* RecycledPremise: The show has been criticized for ripping off the surreal and grotesque humour found in ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'', of whom Lucas and Walliams are both fans and friends. That said, ''League of Gentlemen'' member Creator/MarkGatiss served as one of the co-writers on series 1.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Just about every character is either repugnant or weak. The Prime Minister seemed to be the exception, until it was revealed that he cheated on his wife and was eventually {{flander|ization}}ised into sleeping with everyone except Sebastian. With nobody to cheer for, audiences understandably got tired of watching horrible people get what they want while honest people suffer.

* ValuesDissonance: There's a lot of sketches featuring Matt and David wearing blackface or its variants, often with little justification. With awareness of ethnic actors being underrepresented in film and television, there's no way you'd get that on public television.

* FunnyAneurysm: Bernard Chumley trying to seduce an aspiring actor. In the 2010s (particularly 2017), numerous men in the film industry have been outed as coercing young actors into sex in exchange for getting their careers off the ground.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Just about every character is either repugnant or weak. The Prime Minister seemed to be the exception, until it was revealed that he cheated on his wife and was eventually flanderised into sleeping with everyone except Sebastian. With nobody to cheer for, audiences understandably got tired of watching horrible people get what they want while honest people suffer.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Just about every character is either repugnant or weak. The Prime Minister seemed to be the exception, until it was revealed that he cheated on his wife and was eventually flanderised into sleeping with everyone except Sebastian.
* FunnyAneurysm: Bernard Chumley trying to seduce an aspiring actor. In the 2010s (particularly 2017), numerous men in the film industry have been outed as coercing young actors into sex.

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* HoYay: Sebastian, the prime minister's right hand man. Come on, guys!

* DeaderThanDisco: A borderline case. In the early-mid 2000s the series was very popular, and many will still admit to liking (albeit probably not ''loving'') the radio series and the first TV series. However, everything else after that now tends to be regarded as total crap, and a major contributor to the blacklash against the classic BritCom format later in that decade.

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* RecycledPremise: The show has been criticized for ripping off the surreal and grotesque humour found in ''TheLeagueOfGentlemen'', of whom Lucas and Walliams are both fans and friends.

* TheScrappy: Pretty much any character introduced after series 1 has had a pretty frigid reception compared to the series 1 characters, due to the series increasing dependence on shock-humour. Carol Beer may be the only exception, as her brand of comedy isn't as vulgar.

* SubbingVersusDubbing: In Austria, Little Britain is shown with subtitles. In Germany, it's dubbed. '''But:''' the dubbing is done by comedians Oliver Welke and Oliver Kalkofe, who used to have a similar radio show.

* DudeNotFunny: Increasingly cheap laughs as the series went on.
** One specific example is a deleted scene from season three, where Linda makes fun of a student who only has one arm. The actor playing him was indeed disabled, and while he himself was perfectly okay with the joke, Lucas and Walliams were very uncomfortable about it in retrospect ("It's one thing to stick some fake hair on a girl and say she has a moustache, but this one went that little bit too far"). Depending on your perception of the duo, this could be a case of EvenEvilHasStandards.
** Walliams and Lucas also admit to cutting a sex scene between Jason and Nan (intended for series two) because they agreed it was too offensive for broadcast.

* DeaderThanDisco: A borderline case. In the early-mid 2000s the series was very popular, and many will still admit to liking (albeit probably not ''loving'') the radio series and the first TV series. However, everything else after that now tends to be regarded as total crap, and a major contributor to the blacklash against the classic BritCom format in later in that decade.

* OverusedRunningGag: A complaint that was always destined to arise given that the series is almost entirely made of them.

* DudeNotFunny: Increasingly cheap laughs [[JumpingTheShark as the series went on]].

* HoYay: Sebastian, the prime minister's righthandman. Come on, guys!

* RetroactiveRecognition: Andy's new caretaker Mrs Mead is [[HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Dolores Umbridge]].

* SubbingVersusDubbing: In Austria, Little Britain is shown with subtitles. In Germany, it's dubbed. '''But:''' the dubbing is done by comedians Oliver Welke and Oliver Kalkofe, who used to have a similar radio show. So YourMileageMayVary about the dubbed version.

* HoYay: the prime minister's righthandman. Come on, guys!

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - If the audience's reaction is anything to go by, it's [[spoiler:the PM and Gregory kissing]] in season 3.
* DudeNotFunny - Increasingly cheap laughs [[JumpingTheShark as the series went on.]]

* RecycledPremise - The show has been criticized for ripping off the surreal and grotesque humour found in ''TheLeagueOfGentlemen'', of whom Lucas and Walliams are both fans and friends.
* RetroactiveRecognition - Andy's new caretaker Mrs Mead is [[HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Dolores Umbridge]].
* SubbingVersusDubbing - In Austria, Little Britain is shown with subtitles. In Germany, it's dubbed. '''But:''' the dubbing is done by comedians Oliver Welke and Oliver Kalkofe, who used to have a similar radio show. So YourMileageMayVary about the dubbed version.

** Walliams and Lucas also admit to cutting a sex scene between Jason and Nan (intended for series two) because they agreed it was too offensive for broadcast.

* DudeNotFunny - Increasingly cheap laughs as the series went on.