Title: The Naked Ant
Original Airdate: 4/1/1970
Guest Starring: Connie Booth, Maureen Flanagan
It's: Suicidal office workers and their indifferent co-workers, the fast-talking talk show "Spectrum", Mr Hilter giving a speech, policeman that can only hear things at certain pitches, the final round of the Upper Class Twit of the Year ("Upper Class Twit of the Year"), a father questioning his daughter's fiance, and a minister of the Wood Party trying to state his party's platform in a hole in the ground.
Tropes:
- Adolf Hitlarious: Adolf ̶H̶i̶t̶l̶e̶r̶ Hilter as a bumbling incompetent, hiding out in a small English town and apparently trying to restart the Nazi Party by winning a local by-election.
- Bears Are Bad News: One breaks into a signal box near Hove, and causes a train wreck.
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Parodied in the sketch "Spectrum":Man: This column represents twenty-three percent of the population. This column represents twenty-eight percent of the population! And this column represents forty-three percent of the population!
Host: Telling figures indeed. But what do they mean to you? What do they mean to me? What do they mean to the average man on the street? - Most Definitely Not a Villain: "Mr Hilter" and his cronies, "Ron Vibbentrop" and "Mr. Bimmler".
- Motor Mouth: The host of "Spectrum" won't shut up until the 16-ton weight is dropped on him.What do I mean by the word 'mean'? What do I mean by the word 'word'? What do I mean by 'what do I mean'? What do I mean by 'do' and what do I do by 'mean'? And what do I do by do by do and what do I mean by wasting your time like this? Good night.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Ken Shabby, who is as gross and disorderly as his name suggests.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted; all the newscasters in the final sketch are called Robert.
- ...Or So I Heard: Ron Vibbentrop drops a similar phrase alongside a Suspiciously Specific Denial when someone jokes that he's not Von Ribbentrop.Ron Vibbentrop: Nein! Nein! Nein! Nein! Oh. Ha ha. No, different other chap. I in Somerset am being born. Von Ribbentrop is born in Gotterdammerstrasse 46, Dusseldorf Vest 8... so they say!!note
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Exaggerated in the "Mr Hilter" sketch. Hitler, Himmler and Von Ribbentrop have actually survived and are hiding out in an English bed-and-breakfast. Their disguise is virtually non-existent, limited to partly modifying their names and making lame attempts to sound English; they haven't even changed out of their Nazi garb...yet no one at the rooming house sees them as anything other than a bunch of jolly good old British chaps!Landlady: Well it's the North Minehead by-election. Mr Hilter's standing as the National Bocialist candidate. He's got wonderful plans for Minehead!
Mr. Johnson: Like what?
Landlady: Well, for a start he wants to annex Poland.
Mr. Johnson: Oh, North Minehead's Conservative, isn't it? - Police Are Useless: A man (Terry Jones) walks into a police station to report a theft. In order for the waiting officer to properly hear him, he has to speak at an incredibly high octave. It is then passed on to a second officer who can only hear him at an incredibly low octave, and then to a third officer who only understands when people speak really fast. Apparently, the entire force is full of officers with these strange quirks, the three officers calling other officers, one needing to alternate between octaves and another that has the second officer singing into the phone.
- Politicians Kiss Babies: Subverted by "Mr Hilter" while canvassing for the North Minehead By-Election.Mother: I gave him my baby to kiss, and he bit it - on the head!
- Rapid-Fire "No!": No, no, no, no, bloody fairy, no, no...
- Renamed the Same: When Adolf Hitler hides out in Minehead as Mr Hilter. His cronies Von Ribbentrop and Heinrich Himmler are similarly renamed Ron Vibbentrop and Heinrich Bimmler. Hilter is the National Bocialist Party candidate in the North Minehead by-election, and plans to set up boncentration bamps if elected.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: When "Heinrich Bimmler" introduces himself.I in Peterborough, Lincolnshire was given birth to, but stay in Peterborough Lincolnshire house all during war, owing to nasty running sores, and was unable to go in the streets play football or go to Nuremberg. I am retired window cleaner and pacifist, without doing war crimes, and am glad England win World Cup - Bobby Charlton, Martin Peters - and eating lots of chips and fish and hole in the toads, and Dundee cakes on Piccadilly line. Don't you know old chap I was head of Gestapo for ten years. (sits down, then quickly stands up) Five years! (sits down, "Hilter" hits him, stands up again) No, no, nein, I was not head of Gestapo at all... I make joke.
- Those Wacky Nazis: "Mr Hilter"
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The office workers aren't all that troubled by the sight of board members plummeting to their deaths.
- Upper-Class Twit: The Trope Namer, from "The Upper Class Twit of the Year Contest".
- Windbag Politician: "Well speaking as Conservative candidate I just drone on and on and on... never letting anyone else get a word in edgewise, until I start foaming at the mouth and fall over backwards."
