History Series / Bonekickers

* HollywoodAtheist: Both Magwilde and Dolly.

** In Episode two the characters find a slave ship that is dated about a decade after slavery was outlawed in England.
*** A pedent writes: slavery has never been outlawed in England as it has never been legal in the first place. Various judgements in the 17th century declared that it had had incompatible with English common law since at least before the Magna Carta.

** The entire UsefulNotes/{{Boudica}} episode is based around the idea that the Romans really captured her alive, but spread the story of her suicide to discredit her. Even leaving aside how utterly pointless this is, both the Iceni and the Romans considered a defeated leader committing suicide to be an honorable death and being captured alive the ultimate humiliation.

* TooDumbToLive: The Muslim boy who goes to to meet the crazy Christian fanatic, Jack alone, in a deserted place, after Jack and friend threatened him and said he wanted to start a holy war with the Muslims. Did I mention that Jack thinks he is a modern day knight and carries a broad sword around with him? Yeah, this meeting goes about as well as you think it does.

* AtrociousAlias: As WebVideo/DiamandaHagan noted in her review of the final episode, the Disciples of Good Use is the "[[{{Narm}} worst name for an evil conspiracy]] [[YouSuck EVER]]".

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Edward Laygass [[spoiler: is killed in the first episode.]] He is relatively famous in this universe and no one seems to care that he [[spoiler: died and that the Bonekickers team is completely responsible for it.]]

* XMeetsY:
** Adrian Lester described the series as ''Series/{{CSI}}'' meets ''Franchise/IndianaJones''.
** WebVideo/DiamandaHagan described it as "a cross between ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' and ''Series/TimeTeam'' minus the random bisexuality and any semblance of self-respect".

* TheAlcoholic: Dolly.

* [[PunnyName Punny Nickname]]: Gregory Parton being called "Dolly", after the singer Dolly Parton.

* ShockingSwerve: [[Understatement There's quite a few in the show]], but the crowning one is at the very end of the series, and strangely, it's an inversion of a typical plot twist. OK, putting aside everything else, Magwilde has been chasing a sword forged centuries ago from meteorite metal, a sword that an AncientConspiracy has gone to a lot of trouble to find and Creator/AlfredLordTennyson went to a lot of trouble to hide. On being found, the sword is clearly glowing underwater and hasn't degraded despite being underwater for decades. The VillainOfTheWeek grabs the sword - and it's revealed that it's 'just a sword'. No, seriously. And to top it off, it's implied that the villain was some sort of ghost, which makes the reveal that there's nothing special about the sword even more ridiculous.

* AtrociousAlias: As DiamandaHagan noted in her review of the final episode, the Disciples of Good Use is the "[[{{Narm}} worst name for an evil conspiracy]] [[YouSuck EVER]]".

* PoliticallyInocrrectHero: Dolly. He's a drinker, a womaniser and has rather un-PC views.

* SinisterMinister: Edward Laygass combines this with a plan to take over the United Kingdom and expel non-Christians. Hagan notes in her review that he's a kind of [[WeAllLiveInAmerica very American-style]] [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist televangelist]] [[ArtisticLicenseReligion that barely even exists in the UK, and one that would probably not even get a TV show like the one he appears in]].

[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOt8i0lTzwawHOmR3b1T1TQwpKUs9TFCY Reviewed]] by DiamandaHagan, who emphasizes that the history is composed of storylines with no regard for actual history.

** The entire Boudica episode is based around the idea that the Romans really captured her alive, but spread the story of her suicide to discredit her. Even leaving aside how utterly pointless this is, both the Iceni and the Romans considered a defeated leader committing suicide to be an honorable death and being captured alive the ultimate humiliation.

A show that could be described as ''TimeTeam'' meets ''WakingTheDead'' meets ''IndianaJones'', it involves a bunch of archaeologists who have increasingly ludicrous adventures, usually culminating in the destruction of whatever precious artifact they're after this week.

* NiceHat: Parton's hat is [[ShoutOut inspired by]] [[IndianaJones Indy]]'s.

** Episode two the characters find a slave ship that is dated about a decade after slavery was outlawed in England.
** Episode four Magwilde calms that 4000 years Egyptians and Greeks were much more advanced than the people in the UK who were doing nothing but "picking their teeth." They completely failed to mention that one of the oldest know human settlements, Skara Brae, was built of the coast of Northern Scotland, is still standing and they had a working drainage system.

[[http://www.youtube.com/user/DiamandaHagan Reviewed]] by DiamandaHagan, who emphasizes that the history is composed of storylines with no regard for actual history.

* FailOSuckyname: As DiamandaHagan noted in her review of the final episode, the Disciples of Good Use is the "[[{{Narm}} worst name for an evil conspiracy]] [[YouSuck EVER]]".
** Or the team's media-whoring Head of Department/comic relief, Daniel Mastiff?

A BBC1 series that aired at 9pm Tuesdays from 8th July to 12th August 2008.

* UnfortunateNames: Dr. Jillian ''Magwilde'' and Professor Gregory "Dolly" Parton.