History Radio / TheMuseumOfEverything

* IncrediblyLamePun: Oh so very many.
* MagicRealism: While the museum's impossibility is acknowledged (e.g. that it really does contain everything, including itself), by far its main purpose is its ability to be the setting of any conceivable museum-related sketch. This briefly slips when we finally see inside the (pause for effect) '''gift shop.''' ''aaaahhhh...''

* EldritchLocation: The Gift Shop counts - one father and his son kept trying to exit, only to have all doors lead straight back into the shop. Although it's downplayed, the Museum itself is one by necessity, since it may have exteriors in multiplce locations in Britain and is definitely bigger on the inside in order to contain, well, everything, including itself.

* EldritchLocation: The Gift Shop counts - one father and his son kept trying to exit, only to have all doors lead straight back into the shop.

* MagicRealism: While the museum's impossibility is acknowledge (e.g. that it really does contain everything, including itself), by far its main purpose is its ability to be the setting of any conceivable museum-related sketch. This briefly slips when we finally see inside the (pause for effect) '''gift shop.''' ''aaaahhhh...''

* MagicRealism: While the museum's impossibility is acknowledge (e.g. that it really does contain everything, including itself), by far its main purpose is its ability to be the setting of any conceivable museum-related sketch. This briefly slips when we finally [[spoiler: see inside the (pause for effect) '''gift shop.''' ''aaaahhhh...'']]

* BritishAccents: The full range; most notably the cheerful Bristolian tour guides [[note]]''"Cheers then, thanks then, cheers then, thanks then..."''[[/note]] (and their Essex girl temp), the Geordie Falconer Travis [[note]]''"Nightmare!"''[[/note]] and the [[UpperClassTwit upper-class twits]] with a fondness for bizarre drinking games and casual bigotry.

* CodeEmergency: Often used to humorous effect: "Will Mr Fire please come to the flammable items gallery?"

* CloudCuckooLander: Just about everyone, but especially the curator. Who, for some reason, happens to be gravelly-voiced singer-songwriter Music/TomWaits.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Only Series One has been released on CD, although it appears on Radio 4 Extra[[note]]A BBC digital radio station for comedy and drama, mostly from the BBC's extensive archive. Previously called Radio 7[[/note]] from time to time.

The Museum of Everything is a [[TheBBC Radio 4]] comedy series, written by and starring Marcus Brigstocke, Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell, broadcast between 2003 and 2006. The series is essentially a sketch-show, with various recurring characters and surreal scenes linked together by the concept of a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin museum that contains literally everything.]]

* TakeThat: The Museum of Everything Film Institute features pretentious film critic Tom Commode whose distinct accent (pronouncing film as ''fillum'') is an obvious parody of critic Tom Paulin. On one occasion he interviews the most important figure working in ''fillum'' today: [[spoiler:Himself]]. The name also appears to be a swipe at critic MarkKermode.

* BrickJoke: TomWaits is initially introduced as a museum curator as a throwaway gag. He returns later.

* CloudCuckooLander: Just about everyone, but especially the curator. Who, for some reason, happens to be gravelly-voiced singer-songwriter TomWaits.

* EyeScream: The museum's curator, TomWaits, will frequently tell some surreal, rambling anecdote inevitably featuring someone with a missing eye. He's eventually forced to admit that he doesn't know ''anyone'' with a full set of working eyes.

* TakeThat: The Museum of Everything Film Institute features pretentious film critic Tom Commode whose distinct accent (pronouncing film as ''fillum'') is an obvious parody of critic Tom Paulin. On one occasion he interviews the most important figure working in ''fillum'' today: [[spoiler:Himself]]. The name also appears to be a swipe at critic Mark Kermode.

* BritishAccents: The full range; most notably the cheerful Bristolian tour guides [[hottip:*:''"Cheers then, thanks then, cheers then, thanks then..."'']] (and their Essex girl temp), the Geordie Falconer Travis [[hottip:*:''"Nightmare!"'']] and the [[UpperClassTwit upper-class twits]] with a fondness for bizarre drinking games and casual bigotry.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Only Series One has been released on CD, although it appears on Radio 4 Extra[[hottip:*:A BBC digital radio station for comedy and drama, mostly from the BBC's extensive archive. Previously called Radio 7]] from time to time.

* ParodyCommercial: Numerous, including a worrying-sounding theme park called Badgerland (parodying the Toy'R'Us adverts) and regular adverts promoting bizarre partworks: [[SerialEscalation Build your own life-size BobDylan! Week by week, build your own full-scale replica of the Cutty Sark! How about a one-to-one scale replica of France!]]

* CherubicChoir: Heard whenever [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome the gift shop is mentioned]].

* ParodyCommercial: Numerous, including a worrying-sounding theme park called Badgerland (parodying the Toy'R'Us adverts) and regular adverts promoting bizarre partworks: Build your own life-size BobDylan! Week by week, build your own full-scale replica of the Cutty Sark! [[BeyondTheImpossible How about a one-to-one scale replica of France!]]

* BritishAccents: The full range; most notably the cheerful Bristolian tour guides [[hottip:*:''"Cheers then, thanks then, cheers then, thanks then..."'']] (and their Essex girl temp), the Geordie Falconer Travis [[hottip:*:''"Nightmare!"'']] and the [[UpperClassTwit upper-class twits]] with a fondness for bizarre drinking games and casual bigotry.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The mistress of Bagshot Grange (a stately home now open to the public due to the owner's debts) show nothing but contempt for her disabled husband. She's also convinced that anyone foreign or working-class must be a criminal, which proves a problem when she's giving them guided tours.

* TakeThat: The Museum of Everything Film Institute features pretentious film critic Tom Commode whose distinct accent (pronouncing film as ''fillum'') is an obvious swipe at critic Tom Paulin. On one occasion he interviews the most important figure working in ''fillum'' today: [[spoiler:Himself]]. The name also appears to be a swipe at critic Mark Kermode.

* CloudCuckooLander: Just about everyone, but especially the curator. Who, for some reason, happens to be gravelly-voiced singer-songwriter Tom Waits.