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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Their teenage son has just started masturbating and they're telling everyone they meet.

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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Their In one sketch two parents find their teenage son has just started masturbating and they're telling watching television with a "stauner". They proceed to tell everyone they meet.
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* NorthernIrishAndNasty: One brief sketch featured two Northern Irish hard men, Frankie and Johnny, talking tough to each other in a manner that's so terse their statements take on a kind of comedically gnomic quality.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: An office worker stops listening when another worker bends down near him, giving him a chance to look at her rear. His boss notices, and she solves the problem by slapping her on the ass. The offender coworker turns around and assumes the man did it, and punches him before storming off.



* ForegoneConclusion: One Jack and Victor sketch has Victor mocking Jack for reading a history book about World War 2, since he knows full well what happened, as opposed to reading a fiction book.



* HatesSmallTalk: The Big Man doesn't like making small-talk, and threatens a news host when he tries doing it with him.



* KarmaHoudini: Malcolm from the lighthouse sketches is a horrible friend who constantly harasses Duncan to no end and always wearing a slimy grin on his face. In their final sketch, Malcolm outright kills him and leaves the lighthouse.

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* KarmaHoudini: KarmaHoudini:
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Malcolm from the lighthouse sketches is a horrible friend who constantly harasses Duncan to no end and always wearing a slimy grin on his face. In their final sketch, Malcolm outright kills him and leaves the lighthouse.



** A bus driver is caught on tape not only refusing to let a customer on, but then running her over. His boss lets him off because apparently she "smell like piss".



** The ramblers get their own back on the Ned's by tricking them into climbing over a fence just as it's being electrified, sending the current straight through their groins.

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** The ramblers get their own back on the Ned's Neds by tricking them into climbing over a fence just as it's being electrified, sending the current straight through their groins.



* ViolentGlaswegian: The foundation of half of the show. The "Big Man" is a Scottish gangster who is so terrifying that even the police are scared of him, and when one stops him, he apologizes, and offers to help him dump one of his daughter's boyfriends in the Clyde. His weapon is a Hammer with a stanley knife attached to it.

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* ViolentGlaswegian: The foundation of half of the show. The "Big Man" is a Scottish gangster who is so terrifying that even the police are scared of him, and when one stops him, he apologizes, and offers to help him dump one of his daughter's boyfriends in the Clyde. His weapon is a Hammer hammer with a stanley knife attached to it.
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* ViolentGlaswegian: The foundation of half of the show. The "Big Man" is a Scottish gangster who is so terrifying that even the police are scared of him, and when one stops him, he apologizes, and offers to help him dump one of his daughter's boyfriends in the Clyde. His WeaponOfChoice is a Hammer with a stanley knife attached to it.

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* ViolentGlaswegian: The foundation of half of the show. The "Big Man" is a Scottish gangster who is so terrifying that even the police are scared of him, and when one stops him, he apologizes, and offers to help him dump one of his daughter's boyfriends in the Clyde. His WeaponOfChoice weapon is a Hammer with a stanley knife attached to it.
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I Ate What clean up. The trope is when a character eats something, unaware of what they are consuming, and then reacts in disgust after they find out what it is. Misuse will be deleted or moved to another trope when applicable. Administrivia.Zero Context Examples will be removed or commented out depending on the amount of context within the entry.


* IAteWhat: More like "I ''Drank'' What?" The ramblers note the funny taste of a mountain spring they're drinking from, only to then find out that the rude youths who kept calling them a "coupla fannies" are urinating in the water.
-->'''Rude Youth''': Youse are drinkin' oor pish!

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* %%* IAteWhat: More like "I ''Drank'' What?" The ramblers note the funny taste of a mountain spring they're drinking from, only to then find out that the rude youths who kept calling them a "coupla fannies" are urinating in the water.
-->'''Rude
water. %%What was their reaction?
%%-->'''Rude
Youth''': Youse are drinkin' oor pish!
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A pilot for a Ronald Villiers spinoff was written, but never produced as the humour surrounding the character was deemed too difficult to stretch across a half hour format. The cancelled spinoff was announced at the same time as ''Still Game'' and the Scottish press largely ignored the latter...

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* MoodWhiplash: Everytime that ice cream truck intervenes a serious event.

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** The ramblers get their own back on the Ned's by tricking them into climbing over a fence just as it's being electrified, sending the current straight through their groins.
* MoodWhiplash: Everytime that ice cream truck intervenes in a serious event.
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* IAteWhat: More like "I ''Drank'' What?" The ramblers note the funny taste of a mountain spring they're drinking from, only to then find out that the rude youths who kept calling them a "coupla fannies" are urinating in the water.
-->'''Rude Youth''': Youse are drinkin' oor pish!
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* [[GrumpyOldMan Grumpy Old Men]] Jack and Victor, who got their own SpinOff in Series/StillGame.

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* [[GrumpyOldMan Grumpy Old Men]] Jack and Victor, who got their own SpinOff in Series/StillGame.''Series/StillGame''.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Series 1 had Greg and Ford appearing at the beginning, the middle and the end of each show as themselves, portrayed as flatmates discussing several things. One of these skits was an early version of Bish and Bosh's "too far" sketches. The segments were dropped in Series 2, although the opening titles (showing Greg and Ford rushing back to their flat in order to present the show) remained until the end of Series 3.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
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Series 1 had Greg and Ford appearing at the beginning, the middle and the end of each show as themselves, portrayed as flatmates discussing several things. One of these skits was an early version of Bish and Bosh's "too far" sketches. The segments were dropped in Series 2, although the opening titles (showing Greg and Ford rushing back to their flat in order to present the show) remained until the end of Series 3.3.
** The first series also featured a number of sketches set outside of Scotland (i.e. Ford and Greg playing American police officers or rednecks). These were largely eliminated in later series as the show increasingly played up its "Scottishness."

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** Same goes for that girl on the scooter. She's responsible for a hazard and uses her cuteness to get off scot-free.



* MoodWhiplash: Everytime that ice cream truck intervenes a serious event.



* WorldOfJerkass: The sketches involving "Mr Simpson" can be seen as this. Just about ''everyone'' forces him to sa words beginning with S, just to hear his whistling lisp and laugh at him.

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* WorldOfJerkass: The sketches involving "Mr Simpson" can be seen as this. Just about ''everyone'' forces him to sa say words beginning with S, just to hear his whistling lisp and laugh at him.
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* WorldOfJerkass: The sketches involving "Mr Simpson" can be seen as this. Just about ''everyone'' forces him to sa words beginning with S, just to hear his whistling lisp laugh at him.

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* WorldOfJerkass: The sketches involving "Mr Simpson" can be seen as this. Just about ''everyone'' forces him to sa words beginning with S, just to hear his whistling lisp and laugh at him.
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* KarmaHoudini: Malcolm from the lighthouse sketches is a horrible friend who constantly harasses Duncan to no end and always wearing a slimy grin on his face. In their final sketch, Malcolm outright kills him and leaves the lighthouse.



* WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore: ''Taysiders in Space''.

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* WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore: ''Taysiders in Space''.Space''.
* WorldOfJerkass: The sketches involving "Mr Simpson" can be seen as this. Just about ''everyone'' forces him to sa words beginning with S, just to hear his whistling lisp laugh at him.
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** One of the historical sites visited by Alastair and Rory is called Cracknafuddin Point.

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** One of the historical sites visited by Alastair and Rory is called Cracknafuddin Point."Cracknafuddin Point".

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* AssShove: An "unseen" sketch features a nightclub bouncer who likes to punish people who try to mess with him by [[BlackComedyRape "pumping"]] them.

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* AssShove: An "unseen" unused sketch features a nightclub bouncer who likes to punish people who try to mess with him by [[BlackComedyRape "pumping"]] them.



* InherentlyFunnyWords: Ronald Villiers' acting agency, "Widdecombe and Pump".

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* InherentlyFunnyWords: InherentlyFunnyWords:
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Ronald Villiers' acting agency, "Widdecombe and Pump".Pump".
** One of the historical sites visited by Alastair and Rory is called Cracknafuddin Point.
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Kelvinside not Edinburgh!


* The Banter boys. Two AmbiguouslyGay Edinburgians who find everything Glaswegians say simply delightful, much to the bemusement of the Glaswegians.

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* The Banter boys. Two AmbiguouslyGay Edinburgians Kelvinside men who find everything Glaswegians say simply delightful, much to the bemusement of the Glaswegians.
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* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Most if not all of the Big Man's threats can come off as this.

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* BadAss: The "Big Man" a ViolentGlaswegian gangster who is so terrifying that even the police are scared of him, and when one stops him, he apologizes, and offers to help him dump one of his daughter's boyfriends in the Clyde. His WeaponOfChoice is a Hammer with a stanley knife attached to it.



* ViolentGlaswegian: The foundation of half of the show.

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* ViolentGlaswegian: The foundation of half of the show. The "Big Man" is a Scottish gangster who is so terrifying that even the police are scared of him, and when one stops him, he apologizes, and offers to help him dump one of his daughter's boyfriends in the Clyde. His WeaponOfChoice is a Hammer with a stanley knife attached to it.

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