History Funny / Hustle

** And then the Mark buys the castle (which is really being used as a museum) and is taking a bath in "her" new tub when a tour group walks through.

* A comic buff tangibly involved in a con imaging Stacie dressed as Wonder Woman.

* The episode that's a WholePlotReference to ''Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes''. They trick a sleazy fashion designer into marketing lousy clothes before using psychology to make the crowd turn on them. ''Then'' they convince her to model one of her own dresses and walk onto the stage in what looks remarkably like a potato sack right as the crowd start booing.

* On Danny's first job as team leader, the OnceMoreWithClarity scene where the Mark panics and sees Ash dragged out of a place he was sent to rob screaming out and trying to implicate him. Turns out there was no attempted robbery and Ash just started acting like an off-his-meds weirdo to get security (who actually had no idea what he was talking about) to escort him out.

* ''Everything'' from the last act of ''Eat Yourself Slender'' from the looks on the faces of the marks when Mickey reveals he tricked them into wearing a button camera while committing industrial espionage to them finding out that they paid a quarter of a million pounds for a diet drug that eleminates fat through sweat that just makes them vomit.

* As the series attracted more big-name guests, some of the overacting by guests clearly enjoying the chance to not take things very seriously is absolutely hysterical. Daniel Mays in "Conned Out of Luck" and David Harewood in "The Fall of Railton FC" are the standouts - the former playing his scumbag enterpeneur like a nightmare fusion of Richard Branson and [[Series/DadsArmy Private Walker]], the latter an outrageously manipulative MotorMouth.

** Then there's blowing his and Carlton's entire con by beng stupid enough to ''[[WhatAnIdiot advertise it in the newspaper first]]''.

** At the end of the episode, the mark has tracked them down due to hearing them mention Eddie's Bar during the con. It looks like the gang's luck has run out, only it turns out that the man (thinking their black ops soldiers due to the con) actually wants to ''hire'' them to kill "Heinz Zimmerman" the man he thinks cheated him (really another con man assisting crew). Mickey can barely keep a straight face as he clarifies that the mark will pay them $100,000 just for a picture of Zimemrman's dead body. It then cuts to "Zimmerman" lying on the floor with his eyes closed and ketchup squirted across his shirt to look like blood as the team takes a picture.

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* The episode that's a WholePlotReference to ''Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes''. They trick a sleazy fashion designer into marketing lousy clothes before using psychology to make the crowd turn on them. ''Then'' they convince her to model one of her own dresses and walk onto the stage right in what looks remarkably like a potato sack right as the crowd start booing.

** At the end of the episode, the mark has tracked them down due to hearing them mention Eddie's Bar during the con. It looks like the gang's luck has run out, only it turns out that the man (thinking their black ops soldiers due to the con) actually wants to ''hire'' them to kill "Heinz Zimmerman" the man he thinks cheated him (really another con man and short-ten member of the crew). Mickey can barely keep a straight face as he clarifies that this man will pay them $100,000 just for a picture of his dead enemy. It then cuts to "Zimmerman" lying on the floor with his eyes closed and ketchup squirted across his shirt to look like blood as the team takes a picture.

* Carlton Wood's increasingly UpToEleven meltdowns at being outwitted.

* Danny and Mickey being turfed out of the back of a van in the middle of London, stark naked, and their efforts to get clothes. And then TheReveal at the end that Albert made the whole thing up to win a bet.

* 'In "Getting Even", Danny describing the plan to set up the mark only for Albert to show up and talk about how the mark is wise to cons after encountering one described almost exactly like the one Danny proposed, which sounds a lot less clever when someone else says it.

* The episode that's a WholePlotReference to ''Literature/TheEmperorsNewClothes'' where they trick a fashion designer into marketing lousy clothes before using psychology to make the crowd turn on them and then convince her to model one of her own dresses and walk onto the stage right as the crowd I see ready to start booing.

* Danny getting caned over a lost bet during the Whitaker Wright job (and then turn gin the tables on the marks at the end) with the cold open having a FlashForward to that scene and Danny saying sometimes he wishes he never heard Whitaker's name.

* On Danny's first job as team leader, the OnceMoreWithClarity scene where the Mark panics and sees Ash dragged out of a place he was sent to rob screaming out and trying to implicate him. Turne out there was no attempted robbery and Ash just started acting like a weirdo off his meds Tocqueville get security to escort him out and the had no idea what he was talking about.

* Sean's OhCrap moment when he gets into a card game with Ash in one of his early episodes and then realizes that ash had noticed the markings on his deck and tampered with them.

* 'The HookersAndBlow ImagineSpot sir Edmund Richardson keeps having about the job he thins he says been offered as the con.

* The StupidCrooks dialogue of "Liability" sFinch, such as being reluctant to admit he lied about his skills to get hired and talking about how its a stereotype to assume the Russian who hired him is a gansgter before admitting the man threatened to cut his ear off.

* Mickey blackmailing a government agent how tired to set him up with a video of her trying to seduce him off the clock.

* Danny getting caned over a lot bet during the Whitaker Wright job (and then turn gin the tables on the marks at the end) with the cold open having a FlashForward to that scene and Danny saying sometimes he wishes he never heard Whitaker's name.

* The ending to "Conned Out of Luck" when the mark finds out that the revolutionary chemical free insect killing device that Richard Branson and Lord Sugar were apparently interested in (and that he paid £160,000 to own the rights to) was [[spoiler: two blocks of wood with A and B labels and a target printed on]].

* As the series attracted more big-name guests, some of the overacting by guests clearly enjoying the chance to not take things very seriously is absolutely hysterical. Daniel Mays in "Conned Out of Luck" and David Harewood in "The Fall of Railton FC" are the standouts - the former playing his scumbag enterpeneur like a nightmare fusion of Richard Branson and [[Series/DadsArmy Private Walker]], the latter an outrageously manipulative MotorMouth.

** His failure to realize the crew are scam artists, threatening to get their (non-existent) company blacklisted if they proceed.

* 'ThenHookersAndBlow ImagineSpot sir Edmund Richardson keeps having about the job he thins he says been offered as the con.

* As the series attracted more big-name guests, some of the overacting by guests clearly enoying the chance to not take things very seriously is absolutely hysterical. Daniel Mays in "Conned Out of Luck" and David Harewood in "The Fall of Railton FC" are the standouts - the former playing his scumbag enterpeneur like a nightmare fusion of Richard Branson and [[Series/DadsArmy Private Walker]], the latter an outrageously manipulaive MotorMouth.

* In the episode "Picasso Fingerpainting", it starts with Ash hanging upside down in an abandoned warehouse. He then goes on to state that it started out with a good idea. Turns out it's a really bad idea to sell stolen objects to the original owner.

* An episode opens with Danny and Mick convincing their mark he's about to pull off a major real estate purchase, making it sound like a house or such. With the deal done, the man looks out the window to what he thinks he's just bought: "The Eye" ferris wheel in the heart of London.
** The first scene after the titles is the man being shown on a newscast arrested when he showed up to claim his "property" and the newscaster chuckling at how anyone could be so stupid as to think they bought The Eye from a pair of total strangers.

* Danny and Mickey being turfed out of the back of a van in the middle of London, stark naked, and their efforts to get clothes.

* In the episode Picasso Fingerpainting, it starts with Ash hanging upside down in an abandoned warehouse. He then goes on to state that it started out with a good idea. Turns out it's a really bad idea to sell stolen objects to the original owner.

* Eddie's idol footballer, Ian Rush, calling him and Eddie thinking that its one of the team pulling a prank on him.

* Danny and Mickey being turfed out of the back of a van in the middle of London, stark naked, and their efforts to get clothes.