Line #27 Series/TheLegendOfDickAndDom


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4	''The Legend of Dick and Dom'' is a [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] children's fantasy sitcom, three seasons broadcast 2008-11. Stars Creator/DickAndDom as bumbling royal brothers who must collect ingredients for a magic potion to cure a plague that has struck their homeland, [[MagicalLand Fyredor]], aided by IneptMage Mannitol and thieving servant [[IncrediblyLamePun Lutin]].
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6	The group wander all over the FantasyWorldMap of Bottom World -- sometimes literally, as the LemonyNarrator, [[Creator/MontyPython Terry Jones]], explains that they couldn't afford to film the incredibly exciting action that's going on, so they show a dotted line on a map dashing away from pictures of [[HereThereBeDragons dragons]] instead. Each episode they have to defeat a MonsterOfTheWeek, or meet some wacky countryfolk who hinder them in finding the next revolting or impossible ingredient. In the third season, the plot switches to their attempts to get home before the newly revealed BigBad can stop them.
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8	This was Creator/DickAndDom's first major Creator/{{CBBC}} project after ''Series/DickAndDomInDaBungalow'', and there are plenty of {{Shout Out}}s to Bungalow games and jokes -- DI Harry Batt turns up as a Sheriff, for example.
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10	Fairly {{Troperiffic}} -- see long list below -- although many of the tropes are applicable to antagonists or settings from individual episodes (and are therefore slight spoilers).
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12	!!''The Legend of Dick and Dom'' provides examples of the following tropes:
13	* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Large enough to escape through in "Escape".
14	* ActorAllusion: Quite a few. Dave Chapman's Beastmaster character looks an awful lot like his Death from ''Series/DickAndDomInDaBungalow'', for example.
15	* TheAllegedCar: Jalopies that run on jam and have candelabras for headlamps, in [[WackyRacing "The Cabbage Ball Run"]] episode.
16	* AllJustADream: They come home in triumph to cheering crowds in "Home". And then wake up.
17	%%* AmusingInjuries
18	* BackToSchool: Back to WizardingSchool... in an episode called "Back to School".
19	* BandageMummy: In "Cabbage Ball Secrets", Dom ends up bandaged head to toe.
20	%%* TheBeastmaster:
21	* BBCQuarry: All the kingdoms they travel through look very much like the same patch of woodland as used in ''Film/BugsyMalone'' and ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace''.
22	* BigBad: [[spoiler:TheBeastmaster]] is a mysterious entity behind many of their setbacks in season two, and revealed as the antagonist for season three. Has a different wig each week.
23	* Creator/BrianBlessed: Plays the Princes' father (to the hilt) in season two and three.
24	* UsefulNotes/BritishCoppers: Sheriff [[Series/DickAndDomInDaBungalow Harold Batt]]
25	* TheCaper: They rob a bank in the episode "Heist".
26	* CoolGate: The MacGuffin in "Valley of the Bigheads" -- a gate that can send them straight home.
27	* CoveredInGunge: At any opportunity. How about a custard-and-jam fight as InitiationCeremony?
28	* CrowdSong: "Land of the {{Luvvies}}" features a stagestruck tribe prone to bursting into song and dance at the least provocation -- and [[InvoluntaryDance making everyone near them join in]].
29	* CurseCutShort: In "Hairwolf" a woman explains about the beast that eats everyone's hair in rhyme.
30	--> '''Village Woman:''' Whoever caused this dreadful farce, I'd like to kick them in the...
31	--> '''Dom:''' ''(quickly)'' We'll! Do everything we can to help you.
32	* ADayInTheLimelight: Mannitol and Lutin take centre stage in "Rock Hard".
33	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Lutin
34	* DisguisedInDrag: Prince Dom, as a baby's nanny. He is not happy about it.
35	* DistressedDamsel: Princess Gladys is imprisoned at the top of a tower in a castle filled with evil dolphins.
36	* EasyAmnesia: Caused by breathing in a gas, in "Forget Me Nuts".
37	* {{Elseworld}}: In "Mists of Time", the group are transported to a terrifying and mysterious place: [[spoiler: [[RealWorldEpisode Slough]].]]
38	* {{Evil Twin}}s: [[ThePsychoRangers All of them]], complete with [[BeardOfEvil goatees]], even Lutin's; go round causing trouble that the real ones are blamed for in the episode "Dick's Brain".
39	* EyeOfNewt: Many of the potion ingredients. (A dragon's [[BizarreAlienBiology clack]], for example.)
40	* FantasyWorldMap: The gang's travels are shown as animations on it.
41	* FictionalHoliday: "Garlic Tuesday"
42	* FountainOfYouth: Or Muddy Puddle of Youth, anyway. In "Hag Puss". * p
43	* GirlInTheTower: "Princess Gladys"
44	* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Man driven crazy by the horrors of the Hairwolf. ("Don't go to the Dark Castle -- nobody ever comes back! Don't talk to the Baroness -- she's cursed! Don't [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking stew your appples in March]] -- they'll be tart! Woooooooo!")
45	* GottaCatchEmAll: A magic scroll reveals what ingredient is needed next for the potion.
46	* GotVolunteered: The King sent them off on their quest (granted, because it was their fault the original potion got spilt).
47	* HauntedHouse: They visit the most haunted mansion in Bottom World, Aaargh Manor, in "Haunted".
48	* HereWeGoAgain: In the finale. [[spoiler:As the four prepare to go their separate ways, an assistant of Fyredor's king arrives to inform them of a new adventure assigned by the king]].
49	* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Lutin has a gingerbread problem in "Haunted".
50	* IneptMage: Mannitol. At one point it turns out that non-mages are better at his own spells than him. That said, occasionally his spells do work, such as the humbug jar he conjures, which turns out able to capture sound, which the foursome then use to capture the love song of the swamp monster.
51	* InitiationCeremony: To join the Loopy Tribe.
52	* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: They visit every country on the map. It's not that many.
53	* JourneyToTheCentreOfTheMind: They need to find a secret hidden in [[spoiler:The Beastmaster]]'s brain. It's a very odd place, with penguin security guards and giant red teddy-bears of wrath.
54	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: They're imprisoned by a WackyWaysideTribe of children in "The Neehi Tribe"; "I thought kids still liked us!"
55	* LemonyNarrator: [[Creator/MontyPython Terry Jones]]; prone to complaining about being shut up in a small booth and not paid enough.
56	* LoveableRogue: Lutin to a tee.
57	* ManOfAThousandVoices: Ian Kirkby's excellent [[Creator/MorecambeAndWise Eric Morecambe]] impression shows up again in "Dr Cheese".
58	%%* MagicalLand
59	* MagicalSociety: "The Magic Oblong", which Mannitol hopelessly yearns to join. (ActorAllusion to Dom being thrown out of the Magic Circle for revealing secrets.)
60	* MagiciansAreWizards: The Magic Oblong -- the wizards in it use their powers to do magic shows.
61	* MilkingTheGiantCow: In a dance supposed to make it rain milk.
62	%%* MonsterOfTheWeek
63	* MusicalEpisode: "Land of the Luvvies"
64	* TheMusicMeister: The {{Luvvies}} in "The Land of the Luvvies". Supposedly.
65	* MyBrainIsBig: "Valley of the Bigheads" -- a tribe with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin enormous heads]]. Supposedly geniuses, although the only evidence we see is that they know lots of trivia.
66	* MySkullRunnethOver: [[spoiler:The Bighead Tribe.]]
67	* MysticalPlague: The plot driver.
68	* NeverMessWithGranny: Mannitol's Gran is a lot more [[NotUsingTheZWord formidable]] at her speciality of apple crumble than she seems at first...
69	* NoodleIncident: In the first episode, the tickle master says that he's never seen "disobedient madness" like that of Dick and Dom, "except for that dwarf with three legs".
70	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Pretty much all the officials they meet, from traffic wardens to anthropomorphic personifications inside [[spoiler:TheBeastmaster]]'s mind.
71	* OurSirensAreDifferent: Literal sirens who lure men in with their song and then devour them, in "Sirens". [[spoiler:The song doesn't work on women, though]].
72	* PaperThinDisguise: Averted; Lutin has a simple false moustache that competely fools everyone -- we eventually discover (in passing) that it is magic, when a total stranger takes off his moustache and turns into Lutin.
73	%%* PeoplePuppets: A warlock does this in "Beastly".
74	%%* PlotCoupons: The potion ingredients.
75	* PottyEmergency: In "Cabbage Ball Secrets". It's not helped when they go drive over a bumpy road, and then go into a shop where the shopkeeper is slowly trickling a yellow liquid from one bottle to another.
76	* PrisonEpisode: Called "Escape". [[spoiler:They do.]]
77	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampire babies, who drink milk as well as blood.
78	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: "Hairwolf"; there's a cursed wig.
79	* RoadSignReversal: In the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' parody episode, "The Cabbage Ball Run".
80	* SecretCircleOfSecrets: [[spoiler:A couple of helpful monks who secretly work for the BigBad]] in "Cabbage Ball Secrets".
81	* ShoutOut: Lots.
82	** How about a whole episode, "Hairy Fizzogs", named after a [[Series/DickAndDomInDaBungalow Bungalow]] game? (Any guesses how they disguise themselves?)
83	** [[Series/DickAndDomInDaBungalow The Prize Idiot]] cropping up as part of "The Loony Tribe"?
84	** There's also the odd one to other fantasy series, like a [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Constable Carrot]] turning up.
85	%%* SpellBook
86	* SwampMonster: "Swampy's Girlfriend" has the gang requiring "a Swamp Monster's song" as an ingredient for their potion, so they visit a settlement built on the edge of the swamp called "Bog Off". The residents are actually well-acquainted with their local Swamp Monster, "Swampy", a specimen of the variety covered in green plant matter, and try to get him to sing, but Swampy is very depressed; as such, they try to give him a girlfriend to make him sing. Eventually, Lutin finds another female Swamp Monster called "Ruby" and the episode ends with the two swamp monsters falling in love with one another.
87	* TakenForGranite: [[spoiler: Dick and Dom]] in "Rock Hard".
88	* TakeOverTheWorld: [[spoiler:TheBeastmaster has power over animals,]] so his cunning plan is to [[spoiler:turn everyone into animals]], and thus RULE THE WORLD!!!
89	* VoodooDoll: Used by a warlock in "Beastly" to control the Princes.
90	* WackyRacing: "The Cabbage Ball Run" episode.
91	* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: Oh, it electrocutes your brother.
92	* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to the Frog]]: After [[spoiler:Prince Dom's love interest]] turns into a frog, she is put into Dom's belt pouch to keep safe, and [[PutOnABus never spoken of again]]. [[SarcasmMode Why, it's almost as if]] the writers forgot all about her.
93	* WickedWitch: A whole tribe of them -- Spanish, for some reason -- in "Hag Puss".
94	* WizardingSchool: Hogwarts AffectionateParody in "Back to School".
95	* WhoEvenNeedsABrain: The potion calls for the brain of [[spoiler:a prince called Dick]]. They manage to get hold of one [[spoiler:and the prince is not inconvenienced]].
96	* WordsCanBreakMyBones: Or reduce a person to simply a live head, for example.

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