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The show follows the all-English hero Englishman, and his sidekick Welshman, as TheyFightCrime they fight crime and have improbable adventures across the world, and indeed beyond. The genre is approximately halfway between superheroics and Film/JamesBond, though often harder to define. The humour is, of course, very British.
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A surreal comedy series, written in script form by the mysterious Ball Brothers and released on the websites AlternateHistoryDotCom and www.changingthetimes.net. More information can be found here [[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/offtopic/englishman]] and the first season's episodes can be found here [[http://www.changingthetimes.net/samples/misc/englishman.htm]].
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A surreal comedy series, written in script form by the mysterious Ball Brothers and released on the websites AlternateHistoryDotCom Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom and www.changingthetimes.net. More information can be found here [[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/offtopic/englishman]] and the first season's episodes can be found here [[http://www.changingthetimes.net/samples/misc/englishman.htm]].
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A surreal comedy series, written in script form by the mysterious Ball Brothers and released on the websites AlternateHistoryDotCom and www.changingthetimes.net. More information can be found here [[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/offtopic/englishman]] and the first season's episodes can be found here [[http://www.changingthetimes.net/samples/misc/englishman.htm]].
The show follows the all-English hero Englishman, and his sidekick Welshman, as TheyFightCrime and have improbable adventures across the world, and indeed beyond. The genre is approximately halfway between superheroics and Film/JamesBond, though often harder to define. The humour is, of course, very British.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AlienAbduction -- In the episode "Englishman Vs [[strike:Global Warming]] The Alien Invasion", it is revealed that aliens somehow abducted Abraham Lincoln in the 19th century. He returns to Earth...and, owing to an obscure legal loophole, becomes President again to serve out the rest of his second term.
* AmericaSavesTheDay -- Played with. Even though Englishman always saves the day, he actually does so on behalf of the USA, and lives there. This is alright, because it is revealed that in the "Englishworld" George Washington secretly made a deal with George III and the USA is in fact still part of the British Empire. However, Britain itself isn't.
* AntiHero -- Englishman is cheerfully involved with financial scams, drug smuggling, etc. on the side and it is often implied that he or his ancestors are responsible for virtually all historical disasters.
* ArgentinaIsNaziland -- Parodied in one of the first episodes.
* AuthorFilibuster -- A sequence in which Englishman rants about the hypocrisy of the international community's failure to recognise Somaliland.
* BadassNormal -- Englishman is an interesting case; theoretically a perfectly normal human, he nonetheless seems completely immune to poisoning and treats being shot as a minor inconvenience. This may be due to a comedically exaggerated form of [[BritishStuffiness The Stiff Upper Lip]].
* BattleButler -- Englishman's butler, called Butler, who occasionally moonlights as a supervillain known as The Butler. No-one ever seems to notice any possible connection.
* BritishBrevity -- Interestingly, for a show about an Englishman written by two Englishmen, averted. Each season has 26 episodes, American-style, and it is revealed in the episode "Englishman Vs The Mob Again" that the show is supposedly being made for an American network - which [[ExecutiveMeddling wants to cancel it]]. [[spoiler:So Englishman gets the Mafia to intimidate them into un-cancelling it]].
* CoolCar -- Englishman's Bentley, which he calls "[[{{Thememobile}} The Bentmobile]]", oblivious of any negative implications. Its absurd fuel consumption means that it is actually designed to stop and drill for oil when necessary.
* CowardlySidekick -- Welshman, somewhat justified in that he usually ends up taking the damage for Englishman.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming -- Nearly all episodes are titled "Englishman Vs X". Even when X is not the villain, as in the Christmas episode, "Englishman Vs Christmas".
* {{Mummy}} -- The recurring villain Tutankhamun, who later becomes a televangelist.
* NegativeContinuity -- The writers love this. Englishman has a MultipleChoicePast, for instance. More radical is the case of his sidekick - usually Welshman, he occasionally changes to the different character Scotsman for a single camera shot with no explanation. In the episode "Englishman Vs The Butler", he does mention that he is temporarily replacing Welshman with Colonial Man - however, Colonial Man changes actor with every camera shot, representing a different British colony each time. This is particularly noticeable when he goes from apartheid South Africa to Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed -- Names of politicians and celebrities are usually disguised either with blatant {{Spoonerism}}s ("Blony Tair", "Jichael Mackson") or punning alterations ("Hilarity Clinton", "Vladimir Putout", "Mahmoud Armoured Dinner Jacket").
* OnlySaneMan -- In earlier episodes, Welshman. Eventually he seems to give up and accept the wackiness of the "Englishworld".
* RecycledInSPACE -- "Englishman Vs Moonbase Hitler" includes, among other things, a sequence with Englishman flying a Spitfire in space. Of course, the wings split apart to make it an "X-Spitfire", so that's all right then.
** HilariousInHindsight now they did it in ''Series/DoctorWho''...
* {{Retraux}} -- The Christmas special "Weekend At Mernie's" features a segment where Welshman watches a TV show called ''Britman and Hootsmon'', which is both a parody/homage to the 1960s Series/{{Batman}} TV show and a {{Retraux}} version of ''{{Englishman}}'' itself.
* {{Ruritania}} and similar tropes such as DarkestAfrica and {{Qurac}} -- neatly averted. With the exception of Hitleria, all the action takes place in real countries, usually fairly well researched.
* StupidJetpackHitler -- The episode "Englishman Vs Moonbase Hitler" involves fighting Nazis in space. Some of Hitler's more outlandish ground-bound schemes also qualify.
* SupervillainLair -- Unusually, Englishman's villains appear to be itinerant while he himself has a permanent (and over-ground) base, the Englishmansion in New York and later the English Castle in San Francisco.
* TakeThat -- Mostly aimed at ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
* ThematicRoguesGallery -- Most obviously Frenchman, his French counterpart and nemesis.
* ThoseWackyNazis -- In a comedic exaggeration of the 'Nazis flee to South America' story, the "Englishworld" has an actual Amazonian country called Hitleria, which is populated entirely by Nazi exiles. It is often said to have mysterious cities of gold, thus skilfully combining El Dorado myths with tales of hidden Nazi gold.
* WesternTerrorists -- The episode "Englishman Vs The Axis of Amish Fundamentalism" spoofs this trope by having Englishman fight a conspiracy of Amish suicide bombers, whose bombs consist of bundles of logs with a sundial attached.
* WholePlotReference -- TheMovie is a close adaptation of ''TheBluesBrothers'', and other episodes have looser references - such as ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' in "Englishman Vs. Time Travel".
* ZanyScheme -- Most of the plans by both Englishman and the bad guys qualify, for example Frenchman's plot to steal the Statue of Liberty to restore the glory of France.
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The show follows the all-English hero Englishman, and his sidekick Welshman, as TheyFightCrime and have improbable adventures across the world, and indeed beyond. The genre is approximately halfway between superheroics and Film/JamesBond, though often harder to define. The humour is, of course, very British.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AlienAbduction -- In the episode "Englishman Vs [[strike:Global Warming]] The Alien Invasion", it is revealed that aliens somehow abducted Abraham Lincoln in the 19th century. He returns to Earth...and, owing to an obscure legal loophole, becomes President again to serve out the rest of his second term.
* AmericaSavesTheDay -- Played with. Even though Englishman always saves the day, he actually does so on behalf of the USA, and lives there. This is alright, because it is revealed that in the "Englishworld" George Washington secretly made a deal with George III and the USA is in fact still part of the British Empire. However, Britain itself isn't.
* AntiHero -- Englishman is cheerfully involved with financial scams, drug smuggling, etc. on the side and it is often implied that he or his ancestors are responsible for virtually all historical disasters.
* ArgentinaIsNaziland -- Parodied in one of the first episodes.
* AuthorFilibuster -- A sequence in which Englishman rants about the hypocrisy of the international community's failure to recognise Somaliland.
* BadassNormal -- Englishman is an interesting case; theoretically a perfectly normal human, he nonetheless seems completely immune to poisoning and treats being shot as a minor inconvenience. This may be due to a comedically exaggerated form of [[BritishStuffiness The Stiff Upper Lip]].
* BattleButler -- Englishman's butler, called Butler, who occasionally moonlights as a supervillain known as The Butler. No-one ever seems to notice any possible connection.
* BritishBrevity -- Interestingly, for a show about an Englishman written by two Englishmen, averted. Each season has 26 episodes, American-style, and it is revealed in the episode "Englishman Vs The Mob Again" that the show is supposedly being made for an American network - which [[ExecutiveMeddling wants to cancel it]]. [[spoiler:So Englishman gets the Mafia to intimidate them into un-cancelling it]].
* CoolCar -- Englishman's Bentley, which he calls "[[{{Thememobile}} The Bentmobile]]", oblivious of any negative implications. Its absurd fuel consumption means that it is actually designed to stop and drill for oil when necessary.
* CowardlySidekick -- Welshman, somewhat justified in that he usually ends up taking the damage for Englishman.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming -- Nearly all episodes are titled "Englishman Vs X". Even when X is not the villain, as in the Christmas episode, "Englishman Vs Christmas".
* {{Mummy}} -- The recurring villain Tutankhamun, who later becomes a televangelist.
* NegativeContinuity -- The writers love this. Englishman has a MultipleChoicePast, for instance. More radical is the case of his sidekick - usually Welshman, he occasionally changes to the different character Scotsman for a single camera shot with no explanation. In the episode "Englishman Vs The Butler", he does mention that he is temporarily replacing Welshman with Colonial Man - however, Colonial Man changes actor with every camera shot, representing a different British colony each time. This is particularly noticeable when he goes from apartheid South Africa to Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed -- Names of politicians and celebrities are usually disguised either with blatant {{Spoonerism}}s ("Blony Tair", "Jichael Mackson") or punning alterations ("Hilarity Clinton", "Vladimir Putout", "Mahmoud Armoured Dinner Jacket").
* OnlySaneMan -- In earlier episodes, Welshman. Eventually he seems to give up and accept the wackiness of the "Englishworld".
* RecycledInSPACE -- "Englishman Vs Moonbase Hitler" includes, among other things, a sequence with Englishman flying a Spitfire in space. Of course, the wings split apart to make it an "X-Spitfire", so that's all right then.
** HilariousInHindsight now they did it in ''Series/DoctorWho''...
* {{Retraux}} -- The Christmas special "Weekend At Mernie's" features a segment where Welshman watches a TV show called ''Britman and Hootsmon'', which is both a parody/homage to the 1960s Series/{{Batman}} TV show and a {{Retraux}} version of ''{{Englishman}}'' itself.
* {{Ruritania}} and similar tropes such as DarkestAfrica and {{Qurac}} -- neatly averted. With the exception of Hitleria, all the action takes place in real countries, usually fairly well researched.
* StupidJetpackHitler -- The episode "Englishman Vs Moonbase Hitler" involves fighting Nazis in space. Some of Hitler's more outlandish ground-bound schemes also qualify.
* SupervillainLair -- Unusually, Englishman's villains appear to be itinerant while he himself has a permanent (and over-ground) base, the Englishmansion in New York and later the English Castle in San Francisco.
* TakeThat -- Mostly aimed at ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
* ThematicRoguesGallery -- Most obviously Frenchman, his French counterpart and nemesis.
* ThoseWackyNazis -- In a comedic exaggeration of the 'Nazis flee to South America' story, the "Englishworld" has an actual Amazonian country called Hitleria, which is populated entirely by Nazi exiles. It is often said to have mysterious cities of gold, thus skilfully combining El Dorado myths with tales of hidden Nazi gold.
* WesternTerrorists -- The episode "Englishman Vs The Axis of Amish Fundamentalism" spoofs this trope by having Englishman fight a conspiracy of Amish suicide bombers, whose bombs consist of bundles of logs with a sundial attached.
* WholePlotReference -- TheMovie is a close adaptation of ''TheBluesBrothers'', and other episodes have looser references - such as ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' in "Englishman Vs. Time Travel".
* ZanyScheme -- Most of the plans by both Englishman and the bad guys qualify, for example Frenchman's plot to steal the Statue of Liberty to restore the glory of France.
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