* {{Anvilicious}}:
** Nearly averted, in a way. Despite being created with the purpose of dropping an anvil on the issue of female vicars, once the point had been made, the show moved on to more general insanity rather quickly.
** Played straight with the Make Poverty History episodes, which were decidedly controversial due to making the last 8 minutes of one episode an advert for the campaign.
** The "Vicar in Lockdown" specials in late 2020 drew similar criticism for Geraldine's comments in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: A lot of the humor in the show does this. Alice learning as an adult that her pet budgie Carrot did not keep miraculously resurrecting, but in fact was [[DeadPetSketch replaced every time by a new budgie?]] Genuinely heartbreaking. The fact that all of them are named Carrot? ''Hilarious.''
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The theme song, which is a beautiful choral rendition of Psalm 23. It sounds less like a television theme and more like an actual hymn. This is because it ''was'': Howard Goodall had set Psalm 23 to music in all seriousness (although better known as a comedy composer he also composes a good deal of religious music), and then repurposed it. It works as a microcosm of the show treating Geraldine's religious devotion seriously even amidst the pandemonium surrounding her.
* EditedForSyndication:
** Pretty much every TV version of "Celebrity Vicar" removes the final scene where Hugo performs his simple but sweet act at the gala, where he recites the lyrics of "Let It Be Me" for Alice to mark their imminent wedding (leading to his earlier trouble deciding what to do at the gala becoming an OrphanedReference).
** References to Rolf Harris and Jimmy Savile have been removed following their exposures as sex offenders, as was a reference to Jill Dando following her murder in 1999.
* FridgeBrilliance: Alice believes that her pet budgie, Carrot, is the same budgie that she had as a child despite his repeated deaths and "resurrections" into bodies that look entirely different. Of course, this would be plausible to a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who is an avid fan of ''Series/DoctorWho''...
* HarsherInHindsight:
** Owen is made a godparent of Hugo and Alice's baby, whilst Frank and Jim are made "God-grandparents" because they "probably won't live much longer". As it happened, Creator/RogerLloydPack (Owen) passed away in 2014, followed by Creator/EmmaChambers (Alice) in February 2018, Creator/JohnBluthal (Frank) in November 2018, and Creator/TrevorPeacock (Jim) in March 2021. Made worse by "The Vicar in Lockdown" specials in late 2020, which revealed that Alice [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim had died in-universe]], while Frank and Owen [[CharacterOutlivesActor were still alive]].
** In the "Merry Christmas" special David claims that he's been keeping a special batch of champagne in storage for Alice's funeral but notes she's in robust health. Creator/EmmaChambers ended up passing away four years before Creator/GaryWaldhorn who played David.
** The opening of "A Wholly Holy Happy Ending" has Jim remarking how he's having difficulty remembering things that have been happening recently. His actor, Creator/TrevorPeacock, was diagnosed with dementia two years later in 2009.
** Casual namechecks of Rolf Harris and Jill Dando, as well as Geraldine's reference to ''Series/TopOfThePops'' in the pilot can be viewed this way, ever since Dando's murder in 1999, Harris' conviction for paedophilia in 2014, and Jimmy Saville's postmortem revelation as a serial sex offender in 2012.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Not that it wasn't funny to begin with, but ''Series/FrenchAndSaunders'', the sketch show in which Dawn French (star of ''The Vicar of Dibley'') and her comedy partner [[Series/AbsolutelyFabulous Jennifer Saunders]] first achieved real fame, had a sketch in which Dawn French dresses up in an over the top vicar's costume (complete with buckteeth and dandruff) and claims she has been cast as "TV's first female comedy vicar," not long before being cast as Geraldine, who may indeed be the first (or most famous) female comedy vicar.
** Creator/RichardArmitage getting punched in the face during his wedding in Geraldine's DreamSequence is funny enough, but somehow even funnier when you recall that the ''exact same thing'' happened to him in his aborted wedding to Marian on ''Series/RobinHood''.
** Geraldine's casual name drop of UsefulNotes/GordonBrown as an ex-boyfriend in a 1994 episode became gradually funnier after Labor gained power in 1997 and Brown himself became Prime Minister in 2007.
* HollywoodHomely: {{Averted}} with Creator/RogerLloydPack as Owen. Lloyd-Pack wasn't exactly an unattractive guy and Geraldine makes it clear that the reason she's not attracted to Owen is because of his disregard for personal hygiene.
* OneSceneWonder: Hugo and Alice's wedding is interrupted by a woman who storms in with a marriage certificate, insisting that the groom is already married to her. Hugo turns around in shock, at which point she says: "Oops, wrong church!" and slips away again.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Some of the actors in bit parts on the show, who've since made bigger names for themselves. For example,
** ''Series/{{Skins}}'' fans will recognize Tristan, the hunky BBC cameraman played by Creator/PeterCapaldi, as Sid Jenkins's dad, ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' fans as Malcolm Tucker, and finally nearly everyone as [[Series/DoctorWho the Twelfth Doctor]].
** Mel Giedroyc appeared in "The Christmas Lunch Incident" as Alice’s sister long before hosting ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff '' (before Channel 4 got the rights to it).
** Miranda Hart of ''Series/Miranda2009'' pops up as a dating agency official and [[Series/DowntonAbbey Lord Grantham]] as the minister who officiates over Geraldine's wedding.
** At the time the series ended, Creator/RichardArmitage was a relatively little-known actor whose career had barely ventured outside supporting roles on British television. After gaining a little more recognition over the next couple of years for his role as Lucas North in ''Series/{{Spooks}}'', Armitage became a major international movie star overnight in 2012 thanks to his role as [[Film/TheHobbit Thorin Oakenshield]].
** In addition to the above, Creator/KeeleyHawes is his sister.
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