History Radio / GoodnessGraciousMe

* MommasBoy: Often used as a source of humour. One sketch is the song "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Mother". Another has a couple trying to go to therapy over the man being one of these going wrong because the therapist ''is'' his mother.

* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: Invoked with the cast of "Partition: The Movie", where all the actors are clearly the wrong choice (Jim Carrey as Lord Mountbatten).

* AsianAirhead: The Minx Twins, two dim and vain teenage girls who utterly believe every man within half a mile is looking at them and obsessed with their attractiveness.

* MyBelovedSmother

* SoundToScreenAdaptation

[[caption-width-right:350:The main cast. Left to right - Nina Wadia, Kulvinder Ghir, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Meera Syal]]
1998-2001 SketchComedy show performed by British Indians Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir and Nina Wadia. Most sketches were self-parody of British Asians and Asian culture, the reaction of white British people to Asians, or Indian-styled spoofs of western TV shows. [[SoundToScreenAdaptation Began as a radio series]], then became a TV adaption on Creator/{{BBC}}1. A one off reunion special aired in 2014 with a second in 2015 as part of "Indian Season".

* Everything Comes From India - A man who believes that everything from shampoo [[note]]:Actually semi-true; see Wiki/TheOtherWiki's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shampoo page on the subject]] for details.[[/note]] to Franchise/{{Superman}} is Indian [[note]]Except God, who clearly cannot be Indian as he works a six-day week, no Sundays, and Michaelangelo's David because no man with an organ that small could ever be Indian[[/note]] or was invented by Indians.

* FakeNationality: [[invoked]] One sketch was a parody of ''Film/TheGreatEscape'', where a group of Indian prisoners of war in WWII attempt to escape by posing as East Germans - "''very'' East"

* FakeNationality: One sketch was a parody of ''Film/TheGreatEscape'', where a group of Indian prisoners of war in WWII attempt to escape by posing as East Germans - "''very'' East"

* OldPeopleAreNonsexual: Parodied in a sketch where a grandmother tries to give her soon-to-be-married granddaughter "advice" about the wedding night, involving "vibrating eggs" and far more detail than the granddaughter wants to hear.

* TheBGrade: "My son got a B!"

* WindowPain: The Coopers get a brick through their window from racist neighbours. They ignore the racist message written on it, and toss it in the bin with all the others.

* PlainPalate: The 'Going for an English' sketch involves Asian people going to an English restaurant and ordering "the blandest thing on the menu" as a parody of the NationalStereotype about Brits in Indian restaurants.

* TitledAfterTheSong: "Goodness Gracious Me" was originally a comic song by Creator/PeterSellers and Creator/SophiaLoren, in which Sellers played a heavily-accented Indian doctor and Loren his patient, who was in love with him. According to WordOfGod, the ''Goodness Gracious Me'' team originally intended to do a much more aggressive sketch attacking the song, until they listened to the lyrics and realised that, despite the stereotypical fake accent, Sellers' character was actually quite positively portrayed and the song wasn't racist in its humour.

* OhCrap: The Coopers and Robinsons are about to have a very ''British'' gin and tonic, until they notice the gin is Indian. They decided to change their drink order.

* BerserkButton - Try suggesting that the Kapoors and Rabindranaths - er, Coopers and Robinsons - are anything but 100% English ...
* BlackComedy - Often invoked when dealing with serious topics such as racism, HonorRelatedAbuse and sectarian violence.
* TheBGrade - "My son got a B!"
* CatchPhrase - "Kiss my chuddies!", "Cheque please!", "In your dreams, buddy!", "I can make it at home for nothing!", "''Chaakde phaate!''", "Yes, but how big is his ''danda''?", etc.
* CaptainEthnic: the Punjabi super-hero [=BhangraMan=], who defeats his foes through his amazing superpower of Indian folk dancing. [=BhangraMan=] is meant as a double parody, firstly of comic super-heroes in general, and secondly of the home-grown Indian variant such as Shaktimaan and Nagraj.
* CaptainGeographic: the Punjabi superhero [=BhangraMan=].

* CloudCuckoolander - The Bhangra Muffins
* CultureJustifiesAnything - Savagely lampooned in one sketch where an Indian woman runs into a women's shelter, screaming that her husband is chasing after her with a knife. The white woman running the shelter decides that this must be a "cultural" matter, and refuses to intervene - even when the husband breaks in.
* {{Flanderization}}: a mild but distinct example with Mr Everything Comes From India. In his early sketches he'd set up the joke by mentioning things that actually are from India (e.g. the words "veranda" and "bungalow") before claiming things that definitely aren't (e.g. the phrase "mock Tudor mansion"). In later sketches he'd skip the first bit and go straight to claiming non-Indian things as Indian with absurd justifications.
* GagDub - The "[[Series/SkippyTheBushKangaroo Skipinder the Punjabi Kangaroo]]" sketch.
* GayBarReveal - In a Bhangra Muffins sketch.
* JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites: "Going Out for an English", about a group of drunk and rowdy Indian friends who visit an English restaurant, repeatedly mispronounce the waiter's strange foreign name (James) and show how macho they are by ordering "the blandest thing on the menu".
** This sketch is exceptional for the series in that it makes fun of a stereotype of white British, rather than British Asian, behaviour.

* LargeHam - Chunky Lafanga

* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy - One song on the show was a parody of "Common People" by Music/{{Pulp}}. The singer accuses his white girlfriend of trying too hard to emulate Hindi culture because she thinks it's trendy.

* StereotypeFlip: One sketch flips the stereotype of obnoxious Brits making fools of themselves at Indian restaurants with a bunch of Indians who decide to "go for an English".

* TokenWhite: the show had Dave Lamb in the cast to play the Token White Man, who was cast in role-reversal situations where he represented the equivalent of an Indian or Pakistani, who is [[ButtMonkey alone among white people in an unfamiliar culture]]. This was used to {{LampShade}} white British attitudes towards Asians, ranging from well-meaning ineptitude to outright racism. [[note]]Dave is better known as the mega-sarky narrator of foodie show ''Series/ComeDineWithMe''[[/note]].
* TruthInTelevision - The cast based some of the characters on the show on people they knew and didn't exaggerate when portraying them, [[MuseAbuse offending those people greatly]] while doing it.
* TheUnintelligible - Bhangra Man speaks only in Punjabi but is always perfectly understood by English-speaking characters.