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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3f6Yuo4nys The Chairheads]]", played for laughs because the prejudiced Father is a man with a chair for a head, upset his daughter is dating a "roundhead".
-->'''Deidre:''' Dad, you can't use the r-word, it's offensive! The politically correct term is 'human person born with a face where their chair should be'.


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* EvilOldFolks: Mrs. Geraghty from the [=Visiting/Putting] Up With Gran sketches, whose crimes range from pickpocketing her grandson to stabbing a nurse in the leg with a knitting needle. [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain She's also prejudiced against one of her grandsons for living with another man, and another for having married a Romanian]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Foil(Sean Finegan), Arms (Conor [=McKenna=]) and Hog (Sean Flanagan)]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Foil(Sean Foil (Sean Finegan), Arms (Conor [=McKenna=]) and Hog (Sean Flanagan)]]



* HashtagForLaughs: The premise of “Hashtag”.

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* HashtagForLaughs: HashtagForLaughs:
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The premise of “Hashtag”.“Hashtag”.
** Influencer Dad tends to litter his speech with these.



* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Any sketch involving “The Mc Cormack Family”, which usually revolve around parents' inability to understand social media. Also Mrs Flanagan from time to time.

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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents:
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Any sketch involving “The Mc Cormack Family”, which usually revolve around parents' inability to understand social media. Also Mrs Flanagan from time to time.time.
** Deconstructed with the Influencer Dad, whose repeated sharing of his son's most vulnerable and embarrassing moments with the entire internet for his own narcissistic gratification crosses the line into outright psychological abuse.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: all the time. Most often in the "X Throw a Party" sketches (days of the week, months of the year, vegetables, fruits, etc.), but also in the Meeting/Conference sketches, the Bad Relationship sketches, there's a lot. See also NationsAsPeople.



-->'''Father:''' Darren! [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Mecca]]'s that way, for goodness' sake!

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-->'''Father:''' Darren! Ciaran! [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Mecca]]'s that way, for goodness' sake!



* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Their early work generally featured a lot more BlackComedy and was DarkerAndEdgier, as mentioned in their Top Ten Sketches of 2009-2019. Also generally lacked their signature ''DOOMDAH!''



* GoldenMeanFallacy: parodied in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tewUlulsEaU In the Interest of Balance]]. First a climate scientist is rebutted by a climate change denier who insists that the planet has been warming independent of humans, then he is rebutted by a flat earther who insists the earth isn't a planet and people are dying from falling off it, then he is rebutted by someone who believes human beings don't die at all. [[UpToEleven Then it gets silly]].

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* GoldenMeanFallacy: parodied in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tewUlulsEaU In the Interest of Balance]].Balance]]". First a climate scientist is rebutted by a climate change denier who insists that the planet has been warming independent of humans, then he is rebutted by a flat earther who insists the earth isn't a planet and people are dying from falling off it, then he is rebutted by someone who believes human beings don't die at all. [[UpToEleven Then it gets silly]].



* ItsAllAboutMe: Pretty much the whole point of the "Narcissitic Song Collection".

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Pretty much the whole point of the "Narcissitic "Narcissistic Song Collection".


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* NationsAsPeople: often, as in "Countries Guess Who They Are", "Brexit Divorce" and "Will Northern Ireland and Ireland Get Back Together?"


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* StraightGay:
** In "Tennis", a HeteronormativeCrusader father bullies his heterosexual son for preferring women's tennis, and fails to make sense of his son's StraightGay friend Gary, who prefers men's tennis. [[spoiler:Then the dad and Gary kiss at the end, suggesting the dad was ArmoredClosetGay all along]].
** The two "Bouncers on a Blind Date", [[spoiler:although one of them turns out to be BiTheWay at the end]].
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: PlayedForLaughs in "Irish School Admissions (As an Atheist)", where a father tries to get his son into an Irish Catholic school... while having confused the tenets of Catholicism with every other world religion. And the plot of ''Film/SisterAct''.
-->'''Father:''' Darren! [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Mecca]]'s that way, for goodness' sake!
* BaitAndSwitch: key to the "Getting Past [Country] Immigration" sketches. For example, the Premier League showcases the popular British sport of [[WoundedGazelleGambit diving]], the herb that is controversially consumed openly in the Netherlands to the disgust of outsiders is liquorice, and the [[VodkaDrunkenski colourless, tasteless, odorless liquid]] that Russia is famous for is Novichok.

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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Foil(Sean Finegan), Arms (Conor Mc Kenna) and Hog (Sean Flanagan)]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Foil(Sean Finegan), Arms (Conor Mc Kenna) [=McKenna=]) and Hog (Sean Flanagan)]]



Comedy trio consisting of Sean Finegan, Conor Mc Kenna and Sean Flanagan. They do in house comedy sketches for their [[https://www.youtube.com/user/foilarmsandhog/featured YouTube]] and [[https://www.facebook.com/foilarmsandhog/ Facebook]] pages, and have gone on a number of successful tours both within and outside Ireland over the last eight years.

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Comedy trio consisting of Sean Finegan, Conor Mc Kenna [=McKenna=] and Sean Flanagan. They do in house comedy sketches for their [[https://www.youtube.com/user/foilarmsandhog/featured YouTube]] and [[https://www.facebook.com/foilarmsandhog/ Facebook]] pages, and have gone on a number of successful tours both within and outside Ireland over the last eight years.



* ContinuityNod: Intended in “Ceoil agus Ól 2”, with the reference to the Ferrari, but Foil and Arms’ roles were unintentionally switched.

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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
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Intended in “Ceoil agus Ól 2”, with the reference to the Ferrari, but Foil and Arms’ roles were unintentionally switched.switched.
** In "When Parents Ruin Your Holidays", one of Anne's long list of suggestions of things she could teach Oisin is driving, to which Oisin responds "Never again!", in reference to "When Parents Teach You How To Drive."



%% * CutawayGag: Arms’ dance in “Interview with Foil and La Bullshat”.

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%% * CutawayGag: Arms’ dance in “Interview with Foil and La Bullshat”.



** "An Irish Intervention", where the alcoholics hold an intervention for the song being a non-drinker.

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** "An Irish Intervention", where the alcoholics hold an intervention for the song son being a non-drinker.


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* LanguageEqualsThought: In "Different Countries Learn to Speak French." There is no French phrase for "you can't smoke in here", nor "I'd like my steak well done", but there are eighteen different words for adultery.
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* GoldenMeanFallacy: parodied in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tewUlulsEaU In the Interest of Balance]]. First a climate scientist is rebutted by a climate change denier who insists that the planet has been warming independent of humans, then he is rebutted by a flat earther who insists the earth isn't a planet and people are dying from falling off it, then he is rebutted by someone who believes human beings don't die at all. [[UpToEleven Then it gets silly]].

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* FunnyForeigner: The German character in “Never Take an Irish Person Literally”.

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* DropInCharacter: Barry in the Anne Flanagan sketches. Anne repeatedly wonders how he gets in.
* FunnyForeigner: The German character in “Never Take an Irish Person Literally”.



* HereditaryHomosexuality: In "Coming Out", a man repeatedly tries to come out to his family over the course of twenty years, but every time gets upstaged by his brother. [[spoiler:At the end, turns out the brother is gay. And their granny.]]



* JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites: Numerous sketches:
** "An Irish Intervention", where the alcoholics hold an intervention for the song being a non-drinker.
** "Excuses", where the son and father give increasingly absurd, demeaning, and illegal excuses for what they've been doing to cover up the awful truth: they've been at mass. [[spoiler:Although this one is justified by being AllJustADream]].



* RapidFireComedy: In “Two Bouncers on a Blind Date”, composed entirely of stereotypical bouncer quotes.

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* RapidFireComedy: RapidFireComedy:
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In “Two Bouncers on a Blind Date”, composed entirely of stereotypical bouncer quotes.quotes.
** All of the Word Play sketches (for example "Word Play Hotel", "Word Play Barber") which exist to squeeze as many puns in a few minutes as possible.
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* OddlySpecificGreetingCard: The sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YyUyYdu9Fo "A Greeting Card for Literally Everything"]] is set in a store that sells hyper-specific cards such as "Sorry for Embarrassing You in Front of Derek" and "Best of Luck in the Autopsy!" The customer is increasingly frustrated that despite their claim of having a card for ''every'' occasion, they don't have a simple "Happy Birthday" card he can send to his niece. [[spoiler: But they do have an "Allison, Wishing You a Wonderful 11th Birthday from your Uncle Leonard" card.]]
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* RaisedCatholic: Played with in several videos featuring the priest character. Again, the experiences are pretty universal to an Irish audience - even viewers who aren't actually Catholic will probably relate to it.
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* SleazyPolitician: [[CloudCuckooLander Jim Mohammed Everyman]] claims he'll improve unemployment by getting himself employed as Mayor, accuses his opponent of being bigoted against invertebrates, and converted to Islam to appeal to Muslim asylum seekers [[LogicBomb but also campaigns by bribing everyone in the electorate with beer]].

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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Any sketch involving “The Mc Cormack Family”, which usually revolve around parents' inability to understand social media.

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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Any sketch involving “The Mc Cormack Family”, which usually revolve around parents' inability to understand social media. Also Mrs Flanagan from time to time.



* BlackComedy: “Hair Cut”, “An Irish Intervention” and “Green Living” to name a few, but the real stand out has to be [[RefugeInAudacity “The Baby Head Clamp”.]]

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* BlackComedy: “Hair Cut”, “An Irish Intervention” Intervention”, "Paper Bag Hats" and “Green Living” to name a few, but the real stand out has to be [[RefugeInAudacity “The Baby Head Clamp”.]]


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* HappinessInSlavery: Bittles from "Paper Bag Hats" to ludicrous degrees. Simply loves being treated like shit.
* HenpeckedHusband: Foil's character from "Ceoil agus Ól” to Shile who's not above to employ a GroinAttack on her husband.


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* ItsAllAboutMe: Pretty much the whole point of the "Narcissitic Song Collection".
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* LameExcuse: The premise of “How to be Late for Work”.
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* TakeANumber: Suffered by Hog in “The Passport Office”.

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%% * TheAlcoholic: Everyone in “An Irish Intervention”, except main character Séan.
%% * AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Any sketch involving “The Mc Cormack Family”.

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%% * TheAlcoholic: Everyone in “An Irish Intervention”, except main character Séan.
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Séan.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Any sketch involving “The Mc Cormack Family”.Family”, which usually revolve around parents' inability to understand social media.



%% * BlackComedy: “Hair Cut”, “An Irish Intervention” and “Green Living” to name a few, but the real stand out has to be [[RefugeInAudacity “The Baby Head Clamp”.]]

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%% * BlackComedy: “Hair Cut”, “An Irish Intervention” and “Green Living” to name a few, but the real stand out has to be [[RefugeInAudacity “The Baby Head Clamp”.]]



%% * DirtyOldMan: In “Ceoil agus Ól” Paul asks Michael does he have anything [[BilingualBonus “salach”]].
%% * FunnyForeigner: The German character in “Never Take an Irish Person Literally”.
%% * InAWorld: The premise of “Movie Voice”.

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%% * DirtyOldMan: In “Ceoil agus Ól” Paul asks Michael does he have anything [[BilingualBonus “salach”]].
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“salach”]].
* FunnyForeigner: The German character in “Never Take an Irish Person Literally”.
%% * InAWorld: The premise of “Movie Voice”.



* KitschyLocalCommercial: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORfOqRn3r4A&t=7s “Hello, I’m Matts Matterson from The Mat Warehouse. I own the company, and I also do the adverts”.]]
%% * LameExcuse: The premise of “How to be Late for Work”.
%% * NegativeContinuity

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* KitschyLocalCommercial: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORfOqRn3r4A&t=7s “Hello, I’m Matts Matterson from The Mat Warehouse. I own the company, and I also do the adverts”.]]
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]] The target is probably "Mattress Mick", a Dublin mattress shop owner and self-declared "mattress pricefighter", but the premise is pretty understandable worldwide.
* LameExcuse: The premise of “How to be Late for Work”.
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Work”.



%% * OnlySaneMan
%% * OverreactingAirportSecurity: In “Border Control Live” resulting in a slow motion shootout.
%% * RaisedCatholic: Played with in several videos featuring the priest character.
%% * RapidFireComedy: In “Two Bouncers on a Blind Date”.

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%% * OnlySaneMan
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* OverreactingAirportSecurity: In “Border Control Live” resulting in a slow motion shootout.
%% * RaisedCatholic: Played with in several videos featuring the priest character.
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character. Again, the experiences are pretty universal to an Irish audience - even viewers who aren't actually Catholic will probably relate to it.
* RapidFireComedy: In “Two Bouncers on a Blind Date”.Date”, composed entirely of stereotypical bouncer quotes.



%% * SketchComedy
%% * StraightMan: Originally meant to be Foil, hence the nickname, but all three play the role at some point.

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SketchComedy: Obviously.
* StraightMan: Originally meant to be Foil, hence the nickname, but all three play the role at some point.
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* IrishAccents: All three are from Dublin, but their videos feature a range of different accents including both north and south Dublin, Cork, and Kerry.

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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Any sketch involving “The Mc Cormack Family”.
* AnnoyingLaugh: Arms as Maureen in “Space Missions from Hell”, rather reminiscent of Fr. Noel Furlong from FatherTed.

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%% * TheAlcoholic: Everyone in “An Irish Intervention”, except main character Séan.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Any sketch involving “The Mc Cormack Family”.
* AnnoyingLaugh: Arms as Maureen in “Space Missions from Hell”, rather reminiscent of Fr. Noel Furlong from FatherTed.
Family”.



* BlackComedy: “Hair Cut”, “An Irish Intervention” and “Green Living” to name a few, but the real stand out has to be [[RefugeInAudacity “The Baby Head Clamp”.]]

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%% * BlackComedy: “Hair Cut”, “An Irish Intervention” and “Green Living” to name a few, but the real stand out has to be [[RefugeInAudacity “The Baby Head Clamp”.]]



* CutawayGag: Arms’ dance in “Interview with Foil and La Bullshat”.
* DirtyOldMan: In “Ceoil agus Ól” Paul asks Michael does he have anything [[BilingualBonus “salach”]].
* FunnyForeigner: The German character in “Never Take an Irish Person Literally”.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: See BilingualBonus above.
* InAWorld: The premise of “Movie Voice”.

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%% * CutawayGag: Arms’ dance in “Interview with Foil and La Bullshat”.
%% * DirtyOldMan: In “Ceoil agus Ól” Paul asks Michael does he have anything [[BilingualBonus “salach”]].
%% * FunnyForeigner: The German character in “Never Take an Irish Person Literally”.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: See BilingualBonus above.
%% * InAWorld: The premise of “Movie Voice”.



* IrishPriest

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%% * IrishPriest



* LameExcuse: The premise of “How to be Late for Work”.
* NegativeContinuity: See ContinuityNod above.

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%% * LameExcuse: The premise of “How to be Late for Work”.
%% * NegativeContinuity: See ContinuityNod above.NegativeContinuity



* OnlySaneMan
* OverreactingAirportSecurity: In “Border Control Live” resulting in a slow motion shootout, see OneWomanWail above.
* RaisedCatholic: Played with in several videos featuring the priest character.
* RapidFireComedy: In “Two Bouncers on a Blind Date”.

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%% * OnlySaneMan
%% * OverreactingAirportSecurity: In “Border Control Live” resulting in a slow motion shootout, see OneWomanWail above.
shootout.
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* RaisedCatholic: Played with in several videos featuring the priest character.
%% * RapidFireComedy: In “Two Bouncers on a Blind Date”.



* SketchComedy
* StraightMan: Originally meant to be Foil, hence the nickname, but all three play the role at some point.
* TheAlcoholic: Everyone in “An Irish Intervention”, except main character Séan.

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%% * SketchComedy
%% * StraightMan: Originally meant to be Foil, hence the nickname, but all three play the role at some point.
* TheAlcoholic: Everyone in “An Irish Intervention”, except main character Séan.
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* BilingualBonus: The extra dialogue at the end of “Ceoil agus Ól” probably wouldn’t have gotten past YouTube’s filters if not for the fact that it was in Irish.

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* BilingualBonus: The extra dialogue at the end of “Ceoil agus Ól” probably wouldn’t have gotten past YouTube’s Website/YouTube’s filters if not for the fact that it was in Irish.
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Foil, Arms and Hog are an Irish Comedy trio consisting of Sean Finegan, Conor Mc Kenna and Sean Flanagan. They do in house comedy sketches for their [[https://www.youtube.com/user/foilarmsandhog/featured YouTube]] and [[https://www.facebook.com/foilarmsandhog/ Facebook]] pages, and have gone on a number of successful tours both within and outside Ireland over the last eight years.

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Foil, Arms and Hog are an Irish Irish
Comedy trio consisting of Sean Finegan, Conor Mc Kenna and Sean Flanagan. They do in house comedy sketches for their [[https://www.youtube.com/user/foilarmsandhog/featured YouTube]] and [[https://www.facebook.com/foilarmsandhog/ Facebook]] pages, and have gone on a number of successful tours both within and outside Ireland over the last eight years.
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* Crossdresser: In “Post Festival Make-Up Tutorial” all three are decked out in make-up such as mascara, foundation and . . . [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Darth Maul face paint]].

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* Crossdresser: {{Crossdresser}}: In “Post Festival Make-Up Tutorial” all three are decked out in make-up such as mascara, foundation and . . . [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Darth Maul face paint]].



* Scatting: At the end of most of their videos, to promote their tour Doomdah.

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* Scatting: {{Scatting}}: At the end of most of their videos, to promote their tour Doomdah.
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* Scatting: At the end of most of their videos, to promote their tour DoomDah.

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* Scatting: At the end of most of their videos, to promote their tour DoomDah.Doomdah.
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* FunnyForeigner The German character in “Never Take an Irish Person Literally”.

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* FunnyForeigner FunnyForeigner: The German character in “Never Take an Irish Person Literally”.



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* OnlySaneMan
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[-“DOOMDAAAAHHHHHHHH!”-]

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Foil, Arms and Hog are an Irish Comedy trio consisting of Sean Finegan, Conor McKenna and Sean Flanagan. They do in house comedy sketches for their [[https://www.youtube.com/user/foilarmsandhog/featured YouTube]] and [[https://www.facebook.com/foilarmsandhog/ Facebook]] pages, and have gone on a number of successful tours both within and outside Ireland over the last eight years.

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Foil, Arms and Hog are an Irish Comedy trio consisting of Sean Finegan, Conor McKenna Mc Kenna and Sean Flanagan. They do in house comedy sketches for their [[https://www.youtube.com/user/foilarmsandhog/featured YouTube]] and [[https://www.facebook.com/foilarmsandhog/ Facebook]] pages, and have gone on a number of successful tours both within and outside Ireland over the last eight years.



* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Any sketch involving “The McCormack Family”.

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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Any sketch involving “The McCormack Mc Cormack Family”.
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* AcceptableTargets: [[RefugeInAudacity/RealLife Ryanair]], in “the Ryanair Song” and “Ryanair Website Fail”.



* FakeAmerican: Arms in “U.S Immigration”.
* FakeAustralian: Hog in “Post Festival Make-Up Tutorial”.



* TalkingToHimself
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Foil, Arms and Hog are an Irish Comedy trio consisting of Sean Finegan, Conor McKenna and Sean Flanagan. They do in house comedy sketches for their [[https://www.youtube.com/user/foilarmsandhog/featured YouTube]] and [[https://www.facebook.com/foilarmsandhog/ Facebook]] pages, and have gone on a number of successful tours both within and outside Ireland over the last eight years.
Their sketches usually consist of a mixture of observational comedy, SurrealHumour and Irish references. Several of them have gone viral on well-known Irish websites, such as joe.ie and the Irish Examiner.com.

Their twitter can be found [[https://twitter.com/FoilArmsAndHog?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor here]], and their official website can be found [[http://www.foilarmsandhog.ie/ here]].

(And yes, Arms is [[ChewingTheScenery that guy]] from the Mc Donnells curry chips [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsQeBA-ITa8 ad]].)

!! Foil, Arms and Hog contains examples of:
* HashtagForLaughs: The premise of “Hashtag”.
* AcceptableTargets: [[RefugeInAudacity/RealLife Ryanair]], in “the Ryanair Song” and “Ryanair Website Fail”.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Any sketch involving “The McCormack Family”.
* AnnoyingLaugh: Arms as Maureen in “Space Missions from Hell”, rather reminiscent of Fr. Noel Furlong from FatherTed.
* AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter: Paul and Michael greeting each other in “Ceoil agus Ól”.
* BerserkButton: Foil in “Christmas Party 2012”. He receives presents from Arms and Hog, and promptly loses his shit after its revealed that it’s the symbol from their live act and tickets to their own gig.
* BilingualBonus: The extra dialogue at the end of “Ceoil agus Ól” probably wouldn’t have gotten past YouTube’s filters if not for the fact that it was in Irish.
* BlackComedy: “Hair Cut”, “An Irish Intervention” and “Green Living” to name a few, but the real stand out has to be [[RefugeInAudacity “The Baby Head Clamp”.]]
* ContinuityNod: Intended in “Ceoil agus Ól 2”, with the reference to the Ferrari, but Foil and Arms’ roles were unintentionally switched.
* Crossdresser: In “Post Festival Make-Up Tutorial” all three are decked out in make-up such as mascara, foundation and . . . [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Darth Maul face paint]].
* CutawayGag: Arms’ dance in “Interview with Foil and La Bullshat”.
* DirtyOldMan: In “Ceoil agus Ól” Paul asks Michael does he have anything [[BilingualBonus “salach”]].
* FakeAmerican: Arms in “U.S Immigration”.
* FakeAustralian: Hog in “Post Festival Make-Up Tutorial”.
* FunnyForeigner The German character in “Never Take an Irish Person Literally”.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: See BilingualBonus above.
* InAWorld: The premise of “Movie Voice”.
* IrishAccents: All three are from Dublin, but their videos feature a range of different accents including both north and south Dublin, Cork, and Kerry.
* IrishPriest
* KitschyLocalCommercial: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORfOqRn3r4A&t=7s “Hello, I’m Matts Matterson from The Mat Warehouse. I own the company, and I also do the adverts”.]]
* LameExcuse: The premise of “How to be Late for Work”.
* NegativeContinuity: See ContinuityNod above.
* OneWomanWail: Male version with Arms in “Border Control Live”. Once Foil and Hog begin to mime a slow motion shootout, Arms starts belting out a pitch perfect [[SingingVoiceDissonance mournful chant.]]
OnlySaneMan
* OverreactingAirportSecurity: In “Border Control Live” resulting in a slow motion shootout, see OneWomanWail above.
* RaisedCatholic: Played with in several videos featuring the priest character.
* RapidFireComedy: In “Two Bouncers on a Blind Date”.
* Scatting: At the end of most of their videos, to promote their tour DoomDah.
* SketchComedy
* StraightMan: Originally meant to be Foil, hence the nickname, but all three play the role at some point.
* TalkingToHimself
* TheAlcoholic: Everyone in “An Irish Intervention”, except main character Séan.
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