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1	%%* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Where to start?
2	%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CmaLgxLDE0 The Four Candles Sketch]].
3	%%** The ''Series/{{Mastermind}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0C59pI_ypQ sketch]].
4	%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6jWCVO38iA Crossed Lines]].
5	* HilariousInHindsight: The show was famously (and controversially) parodied by [[Series/AlasSmithAndJones Mel Smith and Gryff Rhys-Jones]] on ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews'', who pointed out its over-reliance on double-entendre and a format that had remained unchanged, and rather stale, since 1971. Years later, the Two Ronnies (still popular) came back to present the compilation 'The Two Ronnies Sketchbook'... only to have the format copied by Smith and Jones for 'The Smith and Jones Sketchbook'!
6	* RetroactiveRecognition:
7	** A blonde in a 1986 episode is played by Creator/AndreeBernard, who would later be best known for playing Liz Burton in ''Series/{{Hollyoaks}}''.
8	** Creator/BarbaraNew, who would later be best known for playing Mabel Wheeler in ''Series/YouRangMLord'', appeared in 5 episodes between 1973 and 1980.
9	** Creator/JosephineTewson, who would later be best known for playing Elizabeth Warden in ''Series/KeepingUpAppearances'', appeared in 5 episodes between 1971 and 1981.
10	** Madame Vivian Bultitude from a 1983 episode is played by Creator/PatriciaRoutledge, who would later be best known for playing Hyacinth Bouquet in ''Series/KeepingUpAppearances''.
11	** A girl in a suitcase in a 1975 episode is played by Creator/PennyIrving, who would later be best known for playing Miss Bakewell in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed''.
12	** Creator/RikkiHoward, who would later be best known for playing Betty Whistler in ''Series/HiDeHi'', appeared in 4 episodes between 1977 and 1980.
13	** Otto from a 1983 episode is played by Creator/RobinParkinson, who would later be best known for playing the third [=LeClerc=] in ''Series/AlloAllo''.
14	** Creator/VickiMichelle, who would later be best known for playing Yvette Carte-Blanche in ''Series/AlloAllo'', appeared in 5 episodes between 1976 and 1980.
15	* ValuesDissonance:
16	** In the "Accountant Bore" sketch, the titular character (played by Creator/RonnieBarker) is mentioned to have two children and another on the way. When Corbett's character says "that's three times you haven't been boring at least!" the accountant mentions that his lady wife "was asleep at the time", which was intended to humorously emphasise how boring he is, but nowadays it [[DudeShesLikeInAComa just sounds like rape.]] It doesn't help that the sketch ends with him grabbing the tea lady and [[QuestionableConsent audibly "making love" to her offscreen.]]
17	** The second episode of "The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town" contains a scene involving blackface, and one where Benjamin Disraeli is played as a Jewish stereotype. These were edited out of the 2005 repeat.
18	** The show also had some racist sketches as well, one good example being the infamous "Sheik in The Grocery Store" which has Ronnie Corbett playing the title Sheik by darkening his skin tone and acting in a stereotypical Sheik manner.

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