History AudioPlay / TheFurtherAdventuresOfNickDanger

[[caption-width-right:236:[[HardboiledDetective This flatfoot]] [[IncrediblyLamePun really gets around...]]]]

* PoliceAreUseless: A standard trope of the genre; Sergeant ("Lieutenant!") Bradshaw is not at all interested in the disappearance of "Nancy's" husband, and just wants to ''get'' Nick. He also expresses annoyance that Nick helped catch a criminal he immediately let go.

* MediumAwareness: The work is full of this, with characters seemingly equally aware that they're in a radio show and fully invested in the story of it. Nick is aware of his own filtered narration, and asks "how do I make my voice do this?", and when the characters get stuck in a flashback, the butler explains that to escape, he just has to fade his voice out and cue the organist. At one point, a character explains that he got back into a scene by bribing the sound effects guy (who thanks him from off stage). One character goes on a monologue about the radio show he'll get once Nick is in jail. There are also references to foley effects, like the cellophane used to create the sound of a crackling fire:

* EvilDebtCollector: Rocky Rococco is one of these initially, trying to collect on a debt "Nancy" owes on an engagement ring. He even tries [[RidiculousRepossession ''tearing her ring finger off'']] when she can't pay her debt...the day after getting the ring. As a bonus, she's in debt because Nick Danger forced her into it.

* HostileShowTakeover: Sergeant ("Lieutenant!") Bradshaw attempts this when he thinks he's got the goods on Nick. He has grandiose plans of turning the show into a more action-oriented thriller. [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain And no Jewish writers, either!]]

* PoliceAreUseless: A standard trope of the genre; Sergeant ("Lieutenant!") Bradshaw is not at all interested in the disappearance of "Nancy's" husband, and just wants to ''get'' Nick.

* MediumAwareness: The work is full of this. Nick is aware of his own filtered narration, and asks "how do I make my voice do this?", and when the characters get stuck in a flashback, the butler explains that to escape, he just has to fade his voice out and cue the organist. There are also references to foley effects, like the cellophane used to create the sound of a crackling fire:

* ParodyCommercial: Lieutenant Bradshaw gives a commercial for Loosener's Castor Oil Flakes "with real glycerin vibrafoam! It doesn't just wash your mouth out--it cleans the whole system, right on down the line."

* ThemeTuneCameo: At one point, Nick begins whistling the theme tune as he "walks the streets by night".

* {{Gayngster}}: Rocky Roccoco (appropriately, as he's an expy of Creator/PeterLorre's character Cairo from ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'')

** The show contains many references from ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'', but there's an explicit shout-out when Roccoco says, "You may have seen me loitering around the drugstore, drinking Chocolate Malted Falcons and giving away free high schools."

** '''Nick''': ...looks like I've solved another one for you, Bradshaw.

** "--Looks like I've solved another one for you, Bradshaw."