1 | * In classic British style, much of the verbal humour especially is likely to sail right over the kiddies' heads. The most audacious example is probably in the ChristmasSpecial, wherein a sadistic, whip-wielding prison guard tells Baynton, "I think I can speak for all the lads when I say, 'You're our favourite prisoner'." Yes, [[PrisonRape they actually went there]]. |
2 | * There's a song set in a monastery featuring errant monks partying with a "funky nun" while the bishop isn't looking. Her closing thoughts? "Ah, men!" A cleverly PG presentation of what were basically orgies behind monastery walls between nuns and monks. |
3 | * Bob Hale gets off a lulu in the Pharaoh Report: "Tutankhamen's daddy became a mummy, which is a very complex operation." |
4 | * There's also the wink and lip-bite George II gives the camera (and repeats in the the Prom special) while singing the line "I was the bad one..." Not to mention George I singing about how ladies "would do anything for me, or I'd have their husbands killed..." with a big eyebrow raise on "anything". |
5 | * Also from the Prom special, the inset sketch involving a royal lineup to use the public loo features this little experiment in just how much you can get away with by claiming historical accuracy: |
6 | -->'''Charles II:''' Henry VIII's in there with his personal bottom-wiper. Calls him the Groom of the Stool. Very popular job in his day, apparently... ''[aside, to George III]'' Not my kind of party, but to each his own... |
7 | * Apparently, the Cash My Sin number (a riff on the medieval Church requirement that you pay to keep out of purgatory) is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything 0800-I've Been Naughty.]] Dang. |
8 | * The visual for this moment in the 'Burke & Hare' song is kept tastefully vague, but: |
9 | -->'''Dr. Knox:''' Well it's always a palaver |
10 | -->Getting hold of a cadaver |
11 | -->So I said yes, I'd have her -- |
12 | -->''[peeks under sheet]'' Ooh! It's a he! |
13 | * One 'Victorian Eastenders' sketch involves a father berating his 'sixteenth daughter'. Her name? Chastity. |
14 | * In one sketch about the Greek myth of Cronus, they actually mention Cronus cutting off his father's [[GroinAttack "dangly bits"]]. |
15 | * In the online game, they actually make mention to the ancient Egyptian aristocracy's tradition of brother-sister incest. |
16 | * Some of the FloweryInsult Shakespeare uses is this via GetTheeToANunnery. The better you understand Elizabethan English, the less it is InherentlyFunnyWords and the more it is rather dirty and un-PC words that ''couldn't'' be translated for a kids' show. |
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