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** During a Let's Play of the adventure game ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAG32E0BunQ&t=25m53s Normality]]'', Gabriel got him to crack up by simply singing a fake [[Music/BlackEyedPeas Will.i.am]] lyric.

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** During a Let's Play LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut of the adventure game ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAG32E0BunQ&t=25m53s Normality]]'', Gabriel got him to crack up by simply singing a fake [[Music/BlackEyedPeas Will.i.am]] lyric.



* ''WebVideo/LeftPOORDead'': Reginald and Tippy have this in spades.
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** The crew often parody this trope in their gaming discussions. Their... imaginative interpretation of the Ninji family, from their "Mario Golf" videos, is a particularly triumphant example.
--->'''Andy''': What ''are'' we to do with you, Ninji?\\
'''Mike''': Military school?\\
'''Andy''': Oh, we tried that!\\
'''Luke''': We tried that first! We've tried absolutely everything except a hug. There are some lines I won't cross.\\
'''Andy''': Used to be if a chap had a son like this, you could just pack him off to the clergy and you'd be done with him. But it's not the done thing apparently.\\
'''Luke''': I think [[DressedAllInRubber Ninji]] could be a man of the cloth.\\
'''Mike''': Man of the latex.
** On the other hand, some of their own attempts to keep a StiffUpperLip while playing horror games, or refusing to take the bait of a DoubleEntendre, can wind up in this territory instead.



* ''WebVideo/LeftPOORDead'': Reginald and Tippy have this in spades.

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* Franchise/{{Batman}}'s butler Alfred often comes across as a Stuffy Brit, which carries over to most adaptations. The most prominent exception is ''Film/BatmanBegins'', where he's given a British army sergeant's accent and backstory. In the comics he also had plenty of backstory: at one point it was that he was an SOE agent/saboteur for England during WWII and had a kid with a beautiful French Resistance named Mademoiselle Marie, but that's been dropped because of [[ComicBookTime timeline considerations]]. (Humorously, one of the standard portrayals of Alfred was on ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' -- where, except for the first few episodes, he was voiced by [[FakeBrit an American actor]]!)
* From ''ComicBook/AdventuresInTheRifleBrigade'', Capt. Darcy is the typical stuffy British officer type, or at least tries to keep the front up. Best example, he does his best to maintain a stiff upper lip among all his men, while the German halftrack in which they are currently riding is ''raped by an elephant''.
* ''ComicBook/SupermanTrueBrit'', an {{Elseworld}}s comic where Franchise/{{Superman}} lands in Great Britain, is absolutely loaded with examples and subversions.

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* Franchise/{{Batman}}'s butler Alfred often comes across as a Stuffy Brit, which carries over to most adaptations. The most prominent exception is ''Film/BatmanBegins'', where he's given a British army sergeant's accent and backstory. In the comics he also had plenty of backstory: at one point it was that he was an SOE agent/saboteur for England during WWII and had a kid with a beautiful French Resistance named Mademoiselle Marie, but that's been dropped because of [[ComicBookTime timeline considerations]]. (Humorously, one of the standard portrayals of Alfred was on ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' -- where, except for the first few episodes, he was voiced by [[FakeBrit an American actor]]!)
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''ComicBook/AdventuresInTheRifleBrigade'': Capt. Darcy is the typical stuffy British officer type, or at least tries to keep the front up. Best example, he does his best to maintain a stiff upper lip among all his men, while the German halftrack in which they are currently riding is ''raped by an elephant''.
* ''ComicBook/SupermanTrueBrit'', an {{Elseworld}}s comic where Franchise/{{Superman}} lands in Great Britain, is absolutely loaded with examples and subversions.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Alfred Pennyworth often comes across as a Stuffy Brit, which carries over to most adaptations. The most prominent exception is ''Film/BatmanBegins'', where he's given a British army sergeant's accent and backstory. In the comics he also had plenty of backstory: at one point it was that he was an SOE agent/saboteur for England during WWII and had a kid with a beautiful French Resistance named Mademoiselle Marie, but that's been dropped because of [[ComicBookTime timeline considerations]]. (Humorously, one of the standard portrayals of Alfred was on ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' -- where, except for the first few episodes, he was voiced by [[FakeBrit an American actor]]!)
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': ''ComicBook/SupermanTrueBrit'', an Creator/{{Elseworlds}} comic where Superman lands in Great Britain, is absolutely loaded with examples and subversions.
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** Uncle Bill's valet, Mr. French (Sebastian Cabot) tends to be fastidious and cranky in unfamiliar situations, but overall, he is a very polite and virtuous person.

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** Uncle Bill's valet, Mr. French (Creator/SebastianCabot) tends to be fastidious and impatient in unfamiliar situations, but overall, he is a polite and virtuous person.

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** Uncle Bill's valet, Mr. French (Creator/SebastianCabot) (Sebastian Cabot) tends to be fastidious and impatient cranky in unfamiliar situations, but overall, he is a very polite and virtuous person.
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** Uncle Bill's valet, Mr. French (Creator/SebastianCabot) tends to be fastidious and impatient in unfamiliar situations, but overall, he is a polite and virtuous person.
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* In an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=j2hDjY5SamE#t=1359s advert for the Aiwa Mini System]] shown in New Zealand in 1995, some rock music is played so loud that it travels halfway round the globe... and prompts a disgruntled English gent to remark, "Ahem! Could whoever it is over there in New Zealand, with the Aiwa Mini System, please turn it down a bit? Thank you."

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* In an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=j2hDjY5SamE#t=1359s [[https://youtu.be/j2hDjY5SamE?t=1358 advert for the Aiwa Mini System]] shown in New Zealand in 1995, some rock music is played so loud that it travels halfway round the globe... and prompts a disgruntled English gent to remark, "Ahem! Could whoever it is over there in New Zealand, with the Aiwa Mini System, please turn it down a bit? Thank you."
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* ''Series/TheBuccaneers2023'': The English are a cold, unaffectionate people who look down on the American girls' casual and freewheeling mannerisms.
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* ''Film/RoyalRendezvous'': Most of the film's humor comes from the contrast between Cat being an irreverent and sassy SpicyLatina having to cook for a snobbish and stuck-up British royal family who are "scandalized" by her behavior.
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** Professor Chronotis in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]" implies that he's been able to hang around Cambridge for [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 300 years]] because all the other professors are too polite ever to bring it up.
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* The A&E version of ''Series/{{The Lost World|2001}}'' had both Robert Hardy ''and'' James Fox, as feuding professors of paleontology, which causes the VHS copy to smell like tea and tweed and pipe tobacco. However, it starred the somewhat more jovial Bob Hoskins as a sort of [[AdventurerArchaeologist Adventurer Paleontologist]], along with some dinosaurs, which lightened the mood somewhat.

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* The A&E version of ''Series/{{The Lost World|2001}}'' had both Robert Hardy ''and'' James Fox, as feuding professors of paleontology, which causes the VHS copy to smell like tea and tweed and pipe tobacco. However, it starred the somewhat more jovial Bob Hoskins as a sort of [[AdventurerArchaeologist Adventurer Paleontologist]], adventurer paleontologist]], along with some dinosaurs, which lightened the mood somewhat.
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* ''Film/SevenDaysInHell'': Aaron gets away with a ridiculous amount of blatant athletic misconduct, from snorting cocaine during the match to having sex with a pair of streakers on the court, because the British hosts are too polite to point any of this out.
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* Lynda in ''Film/WishYouWereHere'' calls out the stuffy conventions of postwar English society when she gets on top of a table at the cafe where she works and goes on an epic rant about her pregnancy and sex.

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* Lynda in ''Film/WishYouWereHere'' ''Film/WishYouWereHere1987'' calls out the stuffy conventions of postwar English society when she gets on top of a table at the cafe where she works and goes on an epic rant about her pregnancy and sex.
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Compare with QuintessentialBritishGentleman. Contrast also with EvilBrit, who is often WickedCultured and hence more [[AffablyEvil open-minded]], whereas the Stuffy Brit may be a protagonist, but is portrayed as merely [[FourTemperamentEnsemble temperamentally]] handicapped. Not to be confused with the MeanBrit, who is [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] and [[BritCom gregarious]].

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Compare with QuintessentialBritishGentleman. Contrast also with EvilBrit, who is often WickedCultured and hence more [[AffablyEvil open-minded]], whereas the Stuffy Brit may be a protagonist, but is portrayed as merely [[FourTemperamentEnsemble temperamentally]] handicapped. Not to be confused with the MeanBrit, who is [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] and [[BritCom gregarious]].\n



** Subverted with Spike. He's shown as this before he was turned. [[MeanBrit Not so much by the time he shows up in the series.]]

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* ''Film/LoveInTheVilla'': Lampshaded by Charlie when he's uncomfortable at the American Julie's InelegantBlubbering.
-->'''Charlie''': I'm British. So I don't deal with overt displays of emotion.
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* "Some Girls" from Music/TheRollingStones' ''Music/SomeGirls'':

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* "Some Girls" from Music/TheRollingStones' Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' ''Music/SomeGirls'':
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* ''Literature/PortraitInSepia'': Frederick Williams, who goes from being Paulina del Valle's butler to being her husband in a MarriageOfConvenience, possesses this quality, giving the impression of being from English nobility (he does not bother to correct whoever thinks that) and making people wonder what the heck did he see in overbearing Paulina del Valle other than possibly her money. He does warm up to Paulina and her granddaughter Aurora.
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* The VideoNasties media scare of the early 1980s is another example. Many ExploitationFilm pictures were put on a black list because they supposedly depicted gory violence, rape or extreme sexual imagery. A lot of these pictures were forgettable garbage and not half as offensive [[GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath as their outrageous titles would suggest]]. But because of MoralGuardians, Prime Minister UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher and campaigns by British tabloids to "[[ThinkOfTheChildren protect the children]]" they all got banned anyway.

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* The VideoNasties media scare of the early 1980s is another example. Many ExploitationFilm pictures were put on a black list because they supposedly depicted gory violence, rape or extreme sexual imagery. A lot of these pictures were forgettable garbage and not half as offensive [[GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath as their outrageous titles would suggest]]. But because of MoralGuardians, Prime Minister UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher and campaigns by British tabloids to "[[ThinkOfTheChildren protect the children]]" they all got banned [[note]] Submitted for age-restricting classification, some, for whatever reason, weren't classified, and remained (at least for a while) unavailable. [[/note]] anyway.
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* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla:'' Joking invoked by Shaun Hastings when talking about Loki and his mistress Angrboda, saying they got up to things he's "too British to mention" (meaning having sex. Lots of sex). Not that Shaun is usually that stuffy, just snarky, even making a crack about what his wife said about their wedding night.
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* ''Film/CarryOnUpTheKhyber'' (1968): the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWwukZyXKig climactic dinner party]] sequence.

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* ''Film/CarryOnUpTheKhyber'' (1968): the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWwukZyXKig climactic dinner party]] party sequence.
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* The ultimate example of British stuffiness is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWwukZyXKig climactic dinner party]] sequence in 1968's ''Film/CarryOnUpTheKhyber''.

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* The ultimate example of British stuffiness is ''Film/CarryOnUpTheKhyber'' (1968): the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWwukZyXKig climactic dinner party]] sequence in 1968's ''Film/CarryOnUpTheKhyber''.sequence.
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* In ''Film/OnChesilBeach'', Edward and Florence’s story plays out in England in an era when repressive attitudes toward sex and sexuality were still prevalent.


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