History YMMV / NoisesOff

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The actor playing Selsdon is sometimes asked to dance while doing his little speech, so that when Selsdon, Tim and Lloyd form a pseudo-chorus line when doing their lines.

** Some think that making the play into a film was a bad idea in that first place, as the story is so inherently rooted in theatre that it was impossible to do it justice cinematically.

** Gary CrazyJealousGuy tendencies cause quite a bit of drama throughout the second act, with his targeting of the [[NiceGuy innocent Frederick]] being particularly cruel. At the same time, he takes more physical abuse throughout the show than anyone else.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: The second act requires a cast of actors working in perfect tandem to be truly pulled off. Once the InUniverse play begins, from then on, with few exceptions, if an actor is portraying almost entirely silent slapstick onstage, then they're behind the stage, delivering dialogue which has to match up to just right with the visible action. It's difficult, but if pulled off, the audience will be in stitches.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the film version, Creator/ChristopherReeve (rather impressively) hops up an entire flight of stairs with his pants around his ankles. Three years later, his horse racing accident severed his first two vertebrae, paralyzing him from the neck down. This trope applies to those born in the mid-80s and later, as they pretty much only know the paralyzed Reeve; it becomes HarsherInHindsight for everyone else.

** Also, in changing the setting from Britain to America, the film alters a key premise. In the play, the troupe is touring provincial British towns (i.e. Weston-super-Mare) with their production; in the film, the troupe is moving the play toward Broadway and the story is framed as flashbacks.

* TheWoobie:

* MostAnnoyingSound: "BAG! BAG! BAG! BAG! BAG! BAG!"
** Doesn't help that it's usually done in a high voice.

* TheWoobie: Poor Tim. He hasn't gotten to sleep in two days!

* BrokenBase: The film version, when it came out, received epically low review scores - probably because the film, no matter if they DID add a happy ending, doesn't really have a narrative structure. However, some would claim that if you can get past that, it's hysterical.

* HilarityEnsues: The entire point of ''Noises Off'' is to depict what might result when everything that could go wrong does: A director who is in over his head, actors who are clearly incompetent or ill-suited to being cast in a major theatric production and a stage manager who desperately needs sleep. In the real world, given that the play is clearly nowhere close to being ready to present to the audience, a competent director would postpone opening night. If any play actually did open with everything as ill-ready as it was, the play might not make it past opening night … maybe not even through opening night. Additionally, the director (Lloyd Dallas, whose abilities as a director leave much to be desired despite him fancying himself as the greatest) would likely be blacklisted and might also face legal trouble for his overworking of stage manager Timothy Allgood, particularly if he were to suffer health issues due to being denied the chance to sleep.

* HilarityEnsues: The entire point of ''Noises Off'' is to depict what might result when everything that could go wrong does: A director who is in over his head, actors who are clearly incompetent or ill-suited to being cast in a major theatric production and a stage manager who desperately needs sleep. In the real world, a competent director would postpone opening night until he deems the production ready to go, and -- given how grossly ill-prepared the actors are and how far from ready the entire production is from the top on down -- if it did actually make it to the stage the farewell performance would be much, much sooner than the 10 weeks "Nothing On" lasts (in storyline). Additionally, the director (Lloyd Dallas, whose abilities as a director leave much to be desired) would likely be blacklisted and might also face legal trouble for his overworking of stage manager Timothy Allgood.

* YourMileageMayVary: The film version, when it came out, received epically low review scores - probably because the film, no matter if they DID add a happy ending, doesn't really have a narrative structure. However, if you can get past that, it's hysterical.

* YourMileageMayVary: The film version, when it came out, received epically low review scores - probably because the film, no matter if they DID add a happy ending, doesn't really have a narrative structure. However, if you can get past that, it's hysterical.