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* ContrivedCoincidence: The solar reflector dish which was knocked down the side of a mountain by the storm just happens to land intact and pointing directly at the town, and on the night when Lady Penelope just happened to be staying in the local hotel.
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* BusmansHoliday: When Lady Penelope and Parker go for some well-deserved time off in an Italian town, of course a disaster would strike.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: All the dish could do in real life is focus the sunlight to a single point. It does not multiply sunlight, so the town as a whole would be in no danger. Just keep everyone away from the building at the focal point, and everything will be fine. (Well, that building won't, but you can't win them all)
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: All the The reflector dish could do in real life is has a very short focal length, to focus sunlight onto a crystal at the end of an attached arm a few metres long. Beyond that focal point, the sunlight to a single point. It does not multiply sunlight, so the town as a whole beam would be in no danger. Just keep everyone away from the building at the focal point, diverge again and everything will be fine. (Well, that building won't, but you can't win them all)completely harmless within another few metres. It is not a magical sunlight multiplier capable of creating a Beam of Death to destroy a town.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: All the dish could do in real life is focus the sunlight to a single point. It does not multiply sunlight, so the town as a whole would be in no danger. Just keep everyone away from the building at the focal point, and everything will be fine. (Well, that building won't, but you can't win them all)
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* BigStormEpisode: An interesting case as the storm itself poses no immediate danger to the townspeople. However, the reflector dish knocked down by the storm will destroy the town when the sun rises the next morning.
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-->'''Bruno:''' ''It'll ''It will be a great disaster.''
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* ADayInTheLimelight: This episode sees Brains actually go into dangerzone and perform the rescue operation himself, rather than just advising the Tracy brothers.
* DisneyDeath: Brains apparently falls down in the avalance that also brings down the dish. Turns out it was just the isolation suit, that Brains complained was too uncomfortable.
* DisneyDeath: Brains apparently falls down in the avalance that also brings down the dish. Turns out it was just the isolation suit, that Brains complained was too uncomfortable.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: This episode sees Brains actually go into dangerzone the danger zone and perform the rescue operation himself, rather than just advising the Tracy brothers.
* DeadpanSnarker:
-->'''Bruno:''' ''(to a clearly rain-soaked Parker)'' You'd better change, ''signor,'' before you flood the hotel!
* DisneyDeath: Brains apparently falls down in the avalance that also brings down the dish. Turns out it was just the isolation suit,that which Brains complained was too uncomfortable.
* DeadpanSnarker:
-->'''Bruno:''' ''(to a clearly rain-soaked Parker)'' You'd better change, ''signor,'' before you flood the hotel!
* DisneyDeath: Brains apparently falls down in the avalance that also brings down the dish. Turns out it was just the isolation suit,
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The solar power station has a cool design and can store enough energy during the day to continuously power the world's first solar town. Unfortunately, the tower it is on is so high as to attract every lightning strike within miles, which proves to be its undoing.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Bruno, an employee of the hotel, is very supersticious and keeps claiming that the sun will have its revenge for the fact that people try to harness its power. His predicions almost become true when the damaged reflector threatens to burn down the town.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Bruno, an employee of the hotel, is very supersticious and keeps claiming that the sun will have its revenge for the fact that people try to harness its power. His predicions almost become true when the damaged reflector threatens to burn down the town.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Bruno, an employee of the hotel, is very
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* TheCameo: Cass Carnaby, the piano player from Series 1 episode "The Cham-Cham", briefly appears during the dinner scene.
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An experimental solar power generator is badly damaged in a storm, and the reflector is trapped in a position where it will blaze a beam of focused solar heat across the small Italian town where Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward is taken her holiday. While International Rescue try to move the dish, Parker dons a fancy outfit and claims that he is "Lord Parker", who insists that the guests play bingo to prevent them from noticing their imminent death by giant mirror.
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An experimental solar power generator is badly damaged in a storm, storm and the reflector is trapped in a position where it will blaze a beam of focused solar heat across the small Italian town of Montebianco, where Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward is has taken her holiday. While International Rescue try to move the dish, Parker dons a fancy outfit and claims that he is "Lord Parker", who insists that the guests play bingo to distract and prevent them from noticing their imminent death by giant mirror.
leaving the hotel, should a fire break out.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Bruno, an employee of the hotel, is very supersticious and keeps claiming that the sun will have its revenge for the fact that people try to harness it's its power. His predicions almost become true when the damaged reflector threatens to burn down the town.
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* SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass: The reflector becomes a large version of this after falling halfway down the mountain.
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* SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass: The Lampshaded: the reflector becomes a large version of this after falling halfway down the mountain.
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* WeNeedADistraction: Parker has to keep the guests in the hotel busy to prevent them from realizing the danger. He does so by introducing the game bingo to them.
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* WeNeedADistraction: Parker has to keep the guests in the hotel busy to prevent them from realizing realising the danger.danger and to keep them around, in case a fire needs to be fought. He does so by introducing the game bingo to them.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Bruno, an employee of the hotel, is very supersticious and keeps claiming that the sun will have it's revenge for the fact that people try to harness it's power. His predicions almost become true when the damaged reflector threatens to burn down the town.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Bruno, an employee of the hotel, is very supersticious and keeps claiming that the sun will have it's its revenge for the fact that people try to harness it's power. His predicions almost become true when the damaged reflector threatens to burn down the town.
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-->''Bruno: It'll be a [[GenreSavvy great disaster]].''
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->''Bruno: It'll be a [[GenreSavvy great disaster]].''
->''Bruno: It'll be a [[GenreSavvy great disaster]].''
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TheOneWith the solar reflector.
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* WeNeedADistraction: Parker has to keep the guests in the hotel busy to prevent them from realizing the danger. He does so by introducing the game bingo to them.
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* WeNeedADistraction: Parker has to keep the guests in the hotel busy to prevent them from realizing the danger. He does so by introducing the game bingo to them.
them.
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* KingIncognito: played with; Parker pretends to be a British Lord traveling incognito since he fears the guests won't listen to an ordinary butler.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: what the episode is all about.
* PinkElephants: discussed by a clearly drunk man on a yacht when he sees Lady Penelope float by in FAB 1.
* SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass: the reflector becomes a large version of this after falling halfway down the mountain.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: what the episode is all about.
* PinkElephants: discussed by a clearly drunk man on a yacht when he sees Lady Penelope float by in FAB 1.
* SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass: the reflector becomes a large version of this after falling halfway down the mountain.
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* KingIncognito: played Played with; Parker pretends to be a British Lord traveling incognito since he fears the guests won't listen to an ordinary butler.
*ThePowerOfTheSun: what the episode is all about.
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* PinkElephants:discussed Discussed by a clearly drunk man on a yacht when he sees Lady Penelope float by in FAB 1.1 zoom by on hydrofoils.
* SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass:the The reflector becomes a large version of this after falling halfway down the mountain.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Brains. Where in previous episodes his role was limited to just giving advice from the sideline, in this episode he actually goes into the dangerzone and performs the rescue operation himself.
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An experimental solar power generator is badly damaged in a storm, and the reflector is trapped in a position where it will blaze a beam of focused solar heat across the small town where Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward is taken her holiday. While International Rescue try to move the dish, Parker dons a fancy outfit and claims that he is "Lord Parker", who insists that the guests play bingo to prevent them from noticing their imminent death by giant mirror.
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An experimental solar power generator is badly damaged in a storm, and the reflector is trapped in a position where it will blaze a beam of focused solar heat across the small Italian town where Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward is taken her holiday. While International Rescue try to move the dish, Parker dons a fancy outfit and claims that he is "Lord Parker", who insists that the guests play bingo to prevent them from noticing their imminent death by giant mirror.mirror.
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*TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Bruno, an employee of the hotel, is very supersticious and keeps claiming that the sun will have it's revenge for the fact that people try to harness it's power. His predicions almost become true when the damaged reflector threatens to burn down the town.
*ADayInTheLimelight: This episode sees Brains actually go into dangerzone and perform the rescue operation himself, rather than just advising the Tracy brothers.
*KingIncognito: played with; Parker pretends to be a British Lord traveling incognito since he fears the guests won't listen to an ordinary butler.
*ThePowerOfTheSun: what the episode is all about.
*PinkElephants: discussed by a clearly drunk man on a yacht when he sees Lady Penelope float by in FAB 1.
*SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass: the reflector becomes a large version of this after falling halfway down the mountain.
*SmokeOut: Thunderbird 1 creates a smoke screen to block out the sun and buy Brains a little more time.
*TemptingFate: Lady Penelope insists it's always sunny in the town they will visit, so she and Parker dress accordingly. When they arrive however, it's raining.
*WeNeedADistraction: Parker has to keep the guests in the hotel busy to prevent them from realizing the danger. He does so by introducing the game bingo to them.
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*TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Bruno, an employee of the hotel, is very supersticious and keeps claiming that the sun will have it's revenge for the fact that people try to harness it's power. His predicions almost become true when the damaged reflector threatens to burn down the town.
*ADayInTheLimelight: This episode sees Brains actually go into dangerzone and perform the rescue operation himself, rather than just advising the Tracy brothers.
*KingIncognito: played with; Parker pretends to be a British Lord traveling incognito since he fears the guests won't listen to an ordinary butler.
*ThePowerOfTheSun: what the episode is all about.
*PinkElephants: discussed by a clearly drunk man on a yacht when he sees Lady Penelope float by in FAB 1.
*SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass: the reflector becomes a large version of this after falling halfway down the mountain.
*SmokeOut: Thunderbird 1 creates a smoke screen to block out the sun and buy Brains a little more time.
*TemptingFate: Lady Penelope insists it's always sunny in the town they will visit, so she and Parker dress accordingly. When they arrive however, it's raining.
*WeNeedADistraction: Parker has to keep the guests in the hotel busy to prevent them from realizing the danger. He does so by introducing the game bingo to them.
