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''Come with us now on a journey through time and space...''

The Mighty Boosh is a zany British comedy series about two friends, Howard Moon (Julian Barratt) and Vince Noir (Noel Fielding), who have bizarre adventures together. Most episodes involve Howard and Vince leaving the zoo (first series), their flat (second series), or their second-hand goods shop (third series), for a number of distant locations (including the Arctic tundra, Monkey Hell, and the planet Xooberon). Here they will eventually have to fight a MonsterOfTheWeek while meeting a range of strange characters, many of whom are also played by Barratt and Fielding.

The humour of the show is based on a combination of non sequiturs, pop culture references, psychedelic visuals, and musical interludes, along with the clearly low budget -- but nonetheless very creative -- settings and costumes. The humor ranges from the silly to the surreal, and a good deal of its charm is due to the fact that there is not a trace of cynicism to any of it. Imagine a children's show for adults, and you're a third of the way there.

Also part of the show's appeal is the home-made feel it has. Fielding designs many of the visual elements (including the artwork featured in the animation) while Barratt composes all of the music (and plays a mean guitar), and many of the extras are Barratt's and Fielding's friends and family.

The Mighty Boosh was originally a stage act, and then a radio series, before it became a TV show. It then returned to the stage between series one and two, and another live tour took place between 2008 and 2009.

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This show provides examples of:
* AerithAndBob: Lampshaded with the Shaman Tony Harrison.
* AllJustADream, OrWasIt? (''The Nightmare of Milky Joe'')
* AnimeAnatomy (Naboo the Enigma has a crotch "as smooth as the bonnet of a Porsche")
* AscendedExtra: Bollo. Also, Rudi was initially a one-shot character but had almost a whole episode dedicated to him after series one.
* AsideGlance
* AtArmsLength
* AttractiveBentGender (Vince proudly claims this status)
* BambooTechnology (literally, out of bamboo)
* BewareOfHitchhikingGhosts
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment (At least once an episode)
* BitingTheHandHumor: A scene from ''The Chokes'' pokes fun at BBC Three's sister, BBC Four, basically saying it's all documentaries which are boring and intellectualist. And they actually got to use the real BBC Four symbol.
* BlessedAreTheCheesemakers: Tommy Nooka, the cheese priest
* BrainlessBeauty (Vince, almost literally: he has ''one'' brain cell.)
* {{Brainwashed}} (Howard, Vince, Naboo and Bollo in "The Call of the Yeti")
* BreadEggsMilkSquick (Bob Fossil's monologues)
* BreathlessNonSequitur (both verbal and visual)
* CardCarryingVillain The Hitcher
** The Crack Fox pretty much had no reason for wanting to become all-powerful.
* CatchPhrase
-->''''Howard:''' "I can't die...I've got so much to give!"
-->'''Tony Harrison:''' "This is an outrage!"
-->'''Old Gregg:''' "I'm Old Gregg!" (granted, besides his official appearance in one episode, his other appearances have been in deleted scenes and the live show)
-->'''Bollo:''' "I got a bad feeling about this."
-->'''Naboo:''' "I'm going to have to turn my back on you."
-->'''Naboo:''' "I'm Naboo, that's who."
* CelibateHero (Rudi in "The Priest and the Beast")
* CrossesTheLineTwice Many instances, but the Hitcher is the number one offender.
* CrowdSong: Everybody join in! "Bouncy bouncy/Oh such a good time/Bouncy bouncy/Shoes all in a line..."
* DeadPersonConversation (Montgomery Flange in "The Chokes")
* DeathIsCheap: The episode ''Bollo'' is almost entirely based around the death of the titular gorilla. He becomes a major character in Series 2. Also, Saboo and (presumably) Tony Harrison die in Series 2 only to return in Series 3.
* DerangedAnimation
* {{Doppelganger}} (Lance Dior and Harold Boon of "The Flighty Zeus")
* DoubleEntendre (e.g., Howard Moon: [colon] explorer)
* DudeLooksLikeALady (Vince)
* EarWorm ("Jean-Claude Jacquettie" and "Love Games" especially.)
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys (Bollo)
* EverythingsCuterWithKittens (Naboo gives Howard a picture of kittens in a barrel to look at, as a form of Anger Management therapy.)
* EvilLaugh (live show)
* FakeBand (The Black Tunes, Kraftwork Orange, Orange Work-Kraft)
* {{Fartillery}} (The Crack Fox uses his bad diet against Vince to render him unconscious.)
* FantasticVoyage ("Journey to the Center of the Punk")
* FetishFuel (mind control, Vince's [[FormFittingWardrobe jumpsuits]]...)
* {{Flashback}}
* FlashbackCut
* FormFittingWardrobe (Hello, mirrorball suit!)
* FountainOfYouth
* FriendToAllLivingThings (Vince can communicate with animals)
* GilliganCut
* GhostInTheMachine ("Journey to the Center of the Punk")
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler: How you gets to kill a 'roo]].
* GrotesqueGallery ("Mutants")
* HeterosexualLifePartners (Howard and Vince)
** Although according to Vince's brain cell in "Journey to the Centre of the Punk" he is bi but doesn't feel it with Howard.
* {{Hermaphrodite}}: Old Gregg. He's got a manginaaaa!
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[GarthMarenghisDarkplace Todd Rivers]]/[[GarthMarenghisDarkplace Julian Sanchez]] as Dixon Bainbridge, and [[GarthMarenghisDarkplace Dean Lerner]]/[[GarthMarenghisDarkplace Thornton Reed]] as Saboo. You have to be a BBC fan or an Adult Swim fan to notice and/or care.
** They're also Douglas Reynholm and Maurice Moss in IT Crowd, if that helps any.
* HoYay (between almost all of the characters at one point or another)
* IHaveManyNames (Rudi van DiSarzio: "I go by many names...")
* ImprobableHairstyle (well, Vince's hair is always improbable, but it's exceptionally so in "The Nightmare of Milky Joe")
* LampshadeHanging ("Party," which has some fun with the age difference between Howard and Vince [and actors Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding])
* LeFilmArtistique ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAlxNNvfvJs ''The Doctor and the Pencil'']] in "The Chokes")
* LemonWackyHello (Tommy Nookah and his "cheese dreams")
* {{Leitmotif}} (Naboo's theme)
* {{Memetic Mutation}} ("I'm Old Gregg!" "Who the f—— is John Simm?!?""I'm the spirit of jazz""OW!! Man, my hat's on fire!!")
* {{Metaphorgotten}}
* MilesGloriosus ("Howard Moon: Man of Action...Don't kill me! I've got so much to give!")
* MindRape Again, the Hitcher, in "Eels"
* MonsterOfTheWeek
* NiceHat (Howlin' Jimmy Jefferson, a.k.a, the spirit of jazz, and no, the hat being on fire is not part of his look)
** "OW! Man, my hat's on fire! What's wrong with you, you blind?! Why didn't you tell me?!"
* NightmareFuel (The Hitcher, the Crack Fox, Old Gregg, take your pick!)
** Charlie, the Hubba-Bubba nightmare!
** The Moon, unholy emperor of Uncanny Valley. It... haunts my dreams.
*** When...when you are the moon, you pretty much split people down the middle. Some go: awww, look at the moon up there with his creamy white face. He's all gentle. While others go: UGH! He's a vanilla rapist, get 'im away from my kids.
* NoFourthWall
* OddCouple (Howard and Vince, and Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding, for that matter);
* OminousFog (heralds the appearance of Old Gregg)
* OminousLatinChanting
* OnceAnEpisode (The Moon, the musical numbers... it's got a couple of OnceAnEpisode bits.)
* PerkyGoth (Vince, temporarily, in "Nanageddon")
-->'''Vince:''' You're going to have to get a bit dark, like me.
-->'''Howard:''' Like you? You're the least dark person I've ever met. You're like candy floss.
* PopularIsDumb ("Prince of Camden" Vince is...not always the sharpest knife in the drawer)
* RapeAsComedy Too many times to mention. Oh, alright, just one: "Pelt The Rabbit in His Big White Face"
* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic (averted through copious improvisation)
* RunningGag (Howard's tiny eyes, Vince being mistaken for a Howard's wife, etc.)
* SaltAndPepper (Aversion once with Rudi and Spider. Twice if you count Saboo and Tony Harrison, the latter being more fuschia than white.)
* SecretTestOfCharacter ("Jungle," the live show, etc.)
* SoundToScreenAdaptation
* SpiritAdvisor (Montgomery Flange in "The Chokes")
* TalkingAnimal (Bollo, various bears, fish, the Crack Fox, etc.)
* TedBaxter (Howard)
* TheCameo (Roger Daltrey, Gary Numan, the bands Razorlight and the Horrors)
* TheChewToy (Howard)
* TheDumbledore (Naboo is an extremely long-suffering and cynical version)
* TheGrimReaper ("Bollo")
* TheManInTheMoon
* TheMinnesotaFats (Lance Dior and Harold Boon in "The Power of the Crimp")
* TheObiWan (Tommy Nookah in "Jungle," Montgomery Flange in "The Chokes")
* ThePhilosopher (Rudi van DiSarzio; subverted with Howard)
* ThePowerOfRock (highlighted in "The Priest and the Beast")
* TheWoobie (Howard; when he's not being a complete stuffed-shirt, he's usually a combination of this and TheChewToy)
* TooKinkyToTorture (Bob Fossil)
* UnspokenPlan (subverted, in "The Fountain of Youth")
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist (both Howard and Vince -- as endearing as they are, Howard's stuffiness and Vince's shallowness are significant.)
* WitchDoctor (Naboo again)
** And the Shaman's Council are made up entirely of "Super magic men"
* YawnAndReach (between Howard and a coconut)

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