The Trap Door was a British Claymation show that first aired in 1984. The show was set in a Haunted Castle owned by an unseen creature known only as 'The Thing Upstairs'. The main character was this creature's servant, a blue blob named Berk, who lived in the castle's lower floors along with his friends, a skull named Boni and a strange spider-like creature named Drutt. In every episode, the titular trap door would open, and a monster would come out, usually to hinder Berk in his toils. Each episode lasted around five minutes.
Provides Examples Of:
All Just a Dream: 'Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite' and 'Moany Boni'
Bedsheet Ghost: Berk gets haunted by loads of these in 'Boo!'
Bolivian Army Ending: The last episode of the series has the Big Red Thing, one of the nastiest creatures to come through the trap door, jump out and attack Berk and his friends only for the show to cut out
Cordon Bleugh Chef: Berk often cooks with such ingredients as live worms and eyeballs. Justified, since he's cooking for a monster. Taken to extremes in the first episode when a yellow monster emerges from the trap door and eats Berk's carefully prepared dinner. Berk improvises and serves Yellow Monster Surprise instead. The thing congratulated him on the texture.
Cousin Oliver: Drutt had babies that became regular characters.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: A good few of the monsters actually find out the hard way not to mess with Berk. Rogg also deals with some rather swiftly.
In the episode "The Midnight Snack" he actually won a 4-on-1 fight. Pretty impressive
Music Soothes the Savage Beast: Subverted in Don't You Open That Trap Door, Bert turns on the radio, leading nearly every monster from the series to pop up and run rampant in the kitchen. They scurry back in when I'm Upstairs bellows about the noise.
Screwy Squirrel: A fair few of the monsters from the trap door are more trouble makers or pranksters than outright menaces. Bubo is perhaps the most notable.
Sdrawkcab Name: Drutt. More commonly spelled Drut. Turd.
Spoof Aesop: "If you've got a problem, stuff a worm in it."
This Is Going To Suck: Boni can tell instantly there will be trouble whenever the Trap Door is left open.
Three Amigos: They finally fit this in Series 2, Episode... 8?
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Some of the horrors Berk and the others meet are treated in a light-hearted manner. Though granted they do deal with them on a very regular basis.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Berk and Boni. Berk also ends up one to the obliviously friendly Rogg, though seems to lighten up by Season Two.
Point in case:
Rogg:[To the audience] I like Berk. He's my friend.
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