History Film / CarryOnMatron

Being the fourth ''Carry On'' that's set in a hospital, it's amazing that none of the critics claimed it was another sequel to ''Film/CarryOnDoctor'', but that might've been because Jim Dale wasn't in it. Instead, the movie focuses on a gang of thieves, led by Sid Carter (James) and including his cohorts Ernie Bragg (Bresslaw) and Freddy (Maynard) trying to steal medicine from a maternity hospital run by Sir Bernard (Williams) and the Matron (Jacques), as well as [[AllMenArePerverts the horny Dr Prodd]] (Scott) and Dr Goode (Hawtrey). The thieves manage to smuggle in Sid's son Cyril (Cope) to pose as an intern-nurse who shares a room with nurse Susan Ball (Windsor).

For the other ''Carry On'' films that are hospital-based, see ''Film/CarryOnDoctor'' and ''Film/CarryOnAgainDoctor''.

* BumblingDad: Mr Tidey always turns up at the maternity ward every time his wife claims that she's going into labor, even ''leaving in the middle of his work-shift'' to be by her side.

'''''Carry On Matron''''' is a British film from the ''Film/CarryOn'' series and was released in 1972. It stars regulars Creator/SidJames, Creator/JoanSims, Creator/KennethWilliams, Kenneth Cope, Creator/KennethConnor, Bernard Bresslaw, Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor, Creator/TerryScott and Charles Hawtrey.

Being the fourth ''Carry On'' that's set in a hospital, it's amazing that none of the critics claimed it was another sequel to ''Film/CarryOnDoctor'', but that might've been because Jim Dale wasn't in it. Instead, the movie focuses on a gang of thieves, lead by Sid Carter (James) and Ernie Bragg (Bresslaw) trying to steal medicine from a maternity hospital run by Sir Bernard (Williams) and the Matron (Jacques), as well as [[AllMenArePerverts the horny Dr Prodd]] (Scott) and Dr Goode (Hawtrey). The thieves manage to smuggle in Sid's son Cyril (Cope) to pose as an intern-nurse who shares a room with nurse Susan Ball (Windsor).

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dr Goode. Upon being introduced, he is seen hypnotizing himself.

* VerbalBackspace: Dr Prodd tells a patient, Mrs Smethurst, that he has good news for her. She corrects him - it's ''Miss'' Smethurst. Dr Prodd's smile fades, and he says in that case, he has bad news for her, and she leaves the room in tears.[[note]] In Britain in 1972, there was still a strong negative stigma attached to having children out of wedlock.[[/note]]

* TheyDo: [[spoiler:In the film's final sequence, Sir Bernard Cutting and Matron have just been married, and Cyril and Nurse Ball are contemplating taking the same step at some point.]]

* DerailedTrainOfThought: As Sid, Freddy, and Ernie are looking over the plans for the hospital, they fall into a collective case of this trope. When Sid explains that the pills are in the basement of the hospital, Ernie asks where the babies are, and a frustrated Sid tells him they're in the wards - "where do you think!?" Ernie explains that it's not as obvious as Sid thinks; for example, he was born on the top deck of a Number 73 bus in Brixton High Street. Freddy argues that Number 73 goes from Marble Arch to Putney and Wimbledon, not to Brixton at all, and when Sid tries to get things back on track, he pauses mid-sentence and then says they're both wrong, Number 73 goes to Holloway - and he should know, as his wife did at least one stretch in the women's prison there, and he used take that bus to visit her. It takes the paperboy knocking at the door to finally get the argument to stop.

* DerailedTrainOfThought: As Sid, Freddy, and Ernie are looking over the plans for the hospital, they fall into a collective case of this trope. When Sid explains that the pills are in the basement of the hospital, Ernie asks where the babies are, and a frustrated Sid tells him they're in the wards - "where do you think!?" Ernie explains that it's not as obvious as Sid thinks; for example, he was born on the top deck of a Number 73 bus in Brixton High Street. Freddy argues that the Number 73 goes from Marble Arch to Putney and Wimbledon, not to Brixton at all, and when Sid tries to get things back on track, he pauses mid-sentence and then says they're both wrong, the Number 73 goes to Holloway.

* INeedToGoIronMyDog: When Sid and Freddy are searching Matron's bedroom for the key to the storeroom where the birth control pills are kept, they hear Sir Bernard knock at the door, and they both hide. Eventually Matron herself returns, and as she and Sir Bernard sit on her bed, they hear Freddy screaming beneath it. He rolls out and, as he is dressed in a worker's uniform, he excuses himself by claiming that gas metres are kept in the strangest places sometimes. Having previously found Dr Goode in Matron's wardrobe, an irate Sir Bernard opens the wardrobe again to find Sid, who knocks on the side of the wardrobe and tells Matron it definitely has woodworm, and he leaves with a promise to send her an estimate. Neither Sir Bernard nor Matron are fooled.

* ApronMatron: Matron.

* HospitalHottie: Susan.

* BigEater: The three-week overdue Mrs Tidely, who gives out false alarms due to her indigestion and bloated-ness.

* BumblingDad: Mr Tidely always turns up at the maternity ward every time his wife claims that she's going into labor, even ''leaving in the middle of his work-shift'' to be by her side.

* CryingWolf: Mrs Tidely, every time she gets a bloated feeling, thinking it's her waters.

There's also expecting couple Mr and Mrs Tidely (Connor and Sims), who have been waiting for almost a month for the baby to be born. This has caused the wife to binge-eat.

''[Mrs Tidely's [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything sausage on her fork snaps in half]]]''

* LikeFatherLikeSon: Sid Carter and his son Cyril are both thieves.

* PanickyExpectantFather: Mrs Tidley's husband, who nearly falls over when he rushes into the hospital on news of a possible childbirth.

* ShotInTheAss: As in ''Film/CarryOnDoctor'', that's "shot" as in "injection". In the ambulance with an expecting mother, a panicked Cyril accidentally injects Dr Prodd in the backside with [[InstantSedation a dose of chloroform]] when he fumbles around for painkillers. [[FridgeBrilliance Can be seen as a blessing in disguise, because God knows what would've happened after the mother was wheeled out into another hospital.]] [[FridgeHorror At this point in the movie, Cyril had just got away from Prodd's attempted rape...]]

* TheyDo: In the film's final sequence, Sir Bernard Cutting and Matron have just been married, and Cyril and Nurse Ball are contemplating taking the same step at some point.

'''''Matron''''' is a British film from the ''Film/CarryOn'' series and was released in 1972. It stars regulars Creator/SidJames, Creator/JoanSims, Creator/KennethWilliams, Kenneth Cope, Creator/KennethConnor, Bernard Bresslaw, Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor, Creator/TerryScott and Charles Hawtrey.

* ValuesDissonance: Dr Prodd trying to have his way with the disguised Cyril. The entire scene is PlayedForLaughs, but would raise serious eyebrows today.
** It takes DirtyOldMan to the next level, considering Cyril's posing as a young female intern, and Prodd's probably a middle-aged man.
** Prodd physically ''pushes'' Cyril down on the couch and tries to ''[[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale rape]]'' him (remember that he's supposed to be a [[UnfortunateImplications woman probably in her late teens or early twenties]]). When he runs away terrified, Prodd is aroused by it.

* PunnyName: The hospital is named "Finisham Mternity".

There's also expecting couple Mr and Mrs Tidely (Connor and Sims), who have been waiting for almost a month for the baby to be born. This has caused the wife to binge-eat

!!Tropes Included
* AllMenArePerverts[=/=][[AllMenAreRapists Rapists]]: Dr Prodd tries to sleep with every attractive female patient or nurse that turns up in the hospital.

* BumblingDad[=/=]{{Good Parent|s}}: Mr Tidely always turns up at the maternity ward every time his wife claims that she's going into labor, even ''leaving in the middle of his work-shift'' to be by her side.

-->'''Sir Bernard''': ''[after Goode offers the therapist's seat]'' I can't do it laying down.
-->'''Dr Goode''': Oh my. You ''do'' have a problem.
-->'''Sir Bernard''': No, I prefer to sit down.
-->'''Dr Goode''': ''[scoffs and laughs]'' "Sit down"?! If it turns you on, who cares?!

-->'''Mother''': I'm telling you, there's something wrong with him.
-->'''Matron''': Certainly not, you have a fine little boy!
-->'''Mother''': Well take a look at his little thing, then.
-->'''Matron''': His what?
-->''[Susan raises the cloth the newborn is wrapped in and Matron has a look at him]''
-->'''Matron''': There's certainly nothing wrong with that!
-->'''Mother''': But it's all bent to one side!
-->''[Mrs Tidely's [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything sausage on her fork snaps in half]]]''

* [[ShotInTheAss Injected in the Ass]]: In the ambulance with an expecting mother, a panicked Cyril accidentally injects Dr Prodd in the backside with [[InstantSedation a dose of chloroform]] when he fumbles around for painkillers. [[FridgeBrilliance Can be seen as a blessing in disguise, because God knows what would've happened after the mother was wheeled out into another hospital.]] [[FridgeHorror At this point in the movie, Cyril had just got away from Prodd's attempted rape...]]

-->'''Dr Goode''': Oh my. You do have a problem.

* MeaningfulName: Dr Prodd, because he prods attractive patients and nurses.

* [[ShotInTheAss Injected in the Ass]]: In the ambulance with an expecting mother, a panicked Cyril accidentally injects Dr Prodd in the backside when he fumbles around for painkillers. [[FridgeBrilliance Can be seen as a blessing in disguise, because God knows what would've happened after the mother was wheeled out into another hospital. Remember, Cyril had just got away from Prodd's attempted rape...]]

Being the fourth ''Carry On'' that's set in a hospital, it's amazing that none of the critics claimed it was another sequel to ''Film/CarryOnDoctor'', but that might've been because Jim Dale wasn't in it. Instead, the movie focuses on a gang of thieves, lead by Sid Carter (James) and Ernie Bragg (Bresslaw) trying to steal medicine from a maternity hospital run by Sir Bernard (Williams) and the Matron (Jacques), as well as [[AllMenArePerverts the horny Dr Prodd]] (Scott) and Dr Goode (Hawtrey). The thieves manage to smuggle in Sid's son Cyril (Cope) to pose as an intern-nurse who shares a room with nurse Susan Ball (Windsor)

* {{Cloudcuckolander}}: Dr Goode. Upon being introduced, he is seen hypnotizing himself.

* {{Hypachondriac}}: Bernard, whose face is always in a medical book, wondering what's wrong with him. At one point, he believes he's turning into a woman.

** Prodd physically ''pushes'' Cyril down on the couch and tries to ''[[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale rape]]'' him (remember that he's supposed to be a [[UnfortunateImplications woman probably in her late teens or early twenties]]). When he runs away terrified, Prodd is aroused by it.