History Film / CarryOnRegardless

* PunnyName: '''Aunt Acid''' (a play on "antacid") is the name given for Lucy Griffith's character in the script.

* OutOfFocus: Though this is nominally an ensemble film, we see very little of either Montgomery Infield-Hopping or Mike Weston outside of sequences involving all seven employees (such as the Ideal Home Exhibition or the mass address mix-up), while Delia, Lily and Gabe get one solo vignette each. As such, most of the jobs are taken by either Sam or Francis.

* UnusualEuphemism: When Francis [[MistakenForPedophile makes a school headmistress believe he is after her schoolgirls]], he tries to explain that he thought they were supposed to be Chinese (his assignment from Helping Hands got mixed up with Sam's) and that he was only doing his job as a linguist. The policeman taking him away doesn't understand and remarks it's the first time he's heard it called that, believing linguist to mean something dirty.

* TitleDrop: Done in a somewhat contrived way in the film's final scene. [[spoiler:When the Helping Hands crew end up half-demolishing the house their landlord has asked them to clean, he arrives and, as translated by Francis, tells them he is planning to demolish it anyway to make way for a block of flats. So there's only one thing for them to do: carry on, regardless.]]

* DisguisedAsDrag: Delia has to dress up as a workman to stop Mrs. Delling to think that her husband is having an affair.

* TheCameo: Series regular Creator/HattieJacques appears briefly as a Sister in a hospital (though not the Matron, for once).

* ClosetShuffle: A DeletedScene saw Gabe hired to stay in a wardrobe and listen in on Mrs. Riley's [[TalkingInYourSleep sleep talking]].
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: After tormenting Massive Mickey [=McGee=], a nationally famous boxer, [[{{cloudcuckoolander}} Gabe]] willingly steps into the boxing ring and runs rings around him before managing to knock him out.

->'''Bert''': It's a matter o' business. In 'is shoes, I'd do exactly the same thing.

''Regardless'' is based around Helping Hands, an agency that sets out to perform all sorts of odd jobs, which run by Bert Handy (James) and his assistant Miss Cooling (Creator/EsmaCannon). Seven people turn up to join the agency for a new start - unhappy labour exchange clerk Sam Twist (Connor) and six labour exchange regulars, the upper-class Montgomery Infield-Hopping (Longdon), the working-class Mike Weston (Owen), the multilingual Francis Courtenay (Williams), the brassy Lily Duveen (Sims), the glamorous Delia King (Fraser) and the naïve Gabe Dimple (Hawtrey).

They are given a succession of ludicrous jobs, such as Francis taking a monkey for a walk and becoming a translator for a bilingual married couple, Lily getting drunk at a wine-tasting event, Gabe entering the boxing ring, Bert being mistaken for a famous diagnostician and Sam taking on a spy persona, all while unaware that their lease is running out, as nobody seems to be able to understand their landlord (Stanley Unwin).

** The script reveals that Lucy Griffith's character is called '''A'''unt '''A'''cid.
* AllThereInTheScript:
** The back of the DVD in "The Classic ''Film/CarryOn'' Film Collection" boxset reveals that Gabe is short for "Gabriel".
** Lucy Griffith's character is named "Aunt Acid" in the script.

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Sam tries to quit smoking, but is so stressed that he dashes out and buys a pack of cigarettes.
* CoolOldLady: Miss Cooling, Bert's friendly assistant.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: After tormenting Massive Mickey [=McGee=], a nationally famous boxer, [[{{cloudcuckoolander}} Gabe]] willingly steps into the boxing ring and headbutts him unconscious.

** Bert's trip to the hospital shows off a whole parade of nurses in their underwear.

* LastNameBasis: Bert only calls Miss Cooling by her last name to stay professional.
* MistakenForCheating: One of the first requests sent to Helping Hands comes from Mr. Delling, who needs a woman who wears the same size clothing as his wife so that she can model a large number of clothes he is buying as a surprise present; Delia fits the bill and is sent to the Delling's home. Mrs. Delling comes home in the middle of the modelling session, and in an effort to avoid this trope, Delia hides in the wardrobe. When the suspicious Mrs. Delling opens the wardrobe, Delia has put on some of Mr. Delling's clothes and pretends to be a workman, before making a quick getaway, stopping any misconceptions from Mrs. Delling.
* MistakenForPedophile: Francis is told to meet Chinese immigrants at the train station. He approaches a headmistress with a group of young schoolgirls, wondering why they didn't look Asian or why they spoke English. The headmistress calls the police, and they carry a kicking and protesting Francis away.
-->'''Francis:''' I'm a linguist!\\
'''Policeman:''' ''[disgustedly]'' Oh, is that what they call 'em now?
* MistakenForProstitute: In Lily's eyes, that is. She is given the wrong assignment arrives at famous actor Leonard Beamish's mansion, who asks her to take her clothes off, telling her how much he'd pay her. She shoves him into an armchair and marches out of the house in disgust.
* MistakenForSpecialGuest: When a wealthy scrap metal merchant employs Bert to hold his place in the waiting room queue at the local hospital (as rich as he is, he still insists on using the UsefulNotes/NationalHealthService), the staff mistake Bert for a Sir Theodore, a visiting diagnostician, and invite him to take a look around.
* {{Omniglot}}: You name a language; Francis probably speaks at least a few words of it. Many of the jobs sent his way require him to speak a language other than English.
* OpenFlyGag: In the room of silence, Sam spots an old man with his trouser buttons unfastened. He tries several times to play charades with the man, until he eventually decides to make a buzzing noise, gesture to the buttons on his waistcoat, and point as he pulled his hands down his stomach towards his groin, making the businessman check himself and then rush out of the room in embarrassment.
* OperationJealousy: Sam is called out on a babysitting job, but this turns out to be a ruse by the customer, Penny Panting, who just wants a man to make her husband jealous, thereby re-igniting their marriage. It works, although Sam ends up with a black eye for his trouble.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Severely inconveniences rather than kills, but Sam gets what he thinks is an assignment for a secret meeting on the Forth Bridge, so he boards a train to Edinburgh and jumps off as the train is crossing the Firth of Forth. However, the assignment was actually asking for a fourth for ''a game of bridge''.
* PollyWantsAMicrophone: Mike arrives at an aviary, thinking it's the strip club he's going to be a bouncer for. When he asks the bird woman where the girls were, the woman replies that no one strips in here, cuing the parrot in the cage nearby to say, "She only strips when she goes to bed", as the bird woman barks at it to be quiet.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Sam, Francis, Lily, Delia, Gabe, Mike and Montgomery - seven eager people looking for interesting jobs and will try any task Helping Hands gives to them, no matter how unsuitable they may be.
* SerialSpouse: Leonard Beamish, the famous actor that Lily visits, claims to have just ended his fifth marriage and promises to make her his number six. Naturally, she's having none of it.
* ShoutOut: The Forth Bridge sequence parodies a sequence in ''Film/The39Steps1935''.

* SmokyGentlemensClub: Sam is requested to work at one with a rule of "silence". Unfortunately, no matter where he looks, he can't stop himself from finding things that make him laugh.

* TheUnintelligible: The agency's landlord is played by "Professor" Stanley Unwin, who speaks entirely in his made-up language of "Unwinese". The language itself involves assorted creative twists on English words, but he speaks so quickly that only a careful listener will be able to follow him. InUniverse, Francis is the only one who can understand him, but he is away the first and second time the landlord tries to explain to Bert that he has had a better offer for their premises, and they must leave by the end of the month.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: After tormenting Massive Mickey [=McGee=], a nationally-famous boxer, [[{{cloudcuckoolander}} Gabe]] willingly steps into the boxing ring and headbutts him unconscious.
* CunningLinguist: Francis can speak sixteen languages, and manages to be the only one who can understand the landlord.

* MistakenForPedophile: Francis is told to meet Chinese immigrants at the train station. He approaches a headmistress with a group of young schoolgirls, wondering why they didn't look Asian or why they spoke English. The headmistress calls the police and they carry a kicking and protesting Francis away.

* {{Omniglot}}: You name a language, Francis probably speaks at least a few words of it. Many of the jobs sent his way require him to speak a language other than English.

** The back of the DVD in "The Complete ''Film/CarryOn'' Collection" boxset reveals that Gabe is short for "Gabriel".