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* FatAndSkinny: Subverted. Paul's never been fat, but Barry was practically just skin and bones.
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* {{Expy}}: It's easy to see Paul as this to Moe Howard of ''Series/TheThreeStooges''. Both clearly think of themselves as being much smarter than they actually are, would rather put all the work on their respective sidekicks and generally put the blame on said sidekicks when they mess up.
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* LongRunners: For over 20 years! In fact, it's currently the UK's longest running comedy show.
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* LongRunners: For over 20 years! 22 years from 1987 to 2009! In fact, it's currently it was the UK's longest running comedy show.
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* ThemeTuneCameo: In the episode ''Mind Your Manors'', the brothers end up meeting Beethoven due to a time travelling spell. They help him tune his piano in preparation for a meeting with some music critics, the tuning turning Beethoven’s 5th Symphony into the Chucklevision theme.
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* TheUnintelligible: Dan the Van only ever speaks with murmurs and mumbling. One episode lampshades this detail.
-->'''Paul:''' Oh no, what would Dan the Van say?
-->'''Barry:''' Mumble mumble.
-->'''Paul:''' Oh no, what would Dan the Van say?
-->'''Barry:''' Mumble mumble.
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* UnrelatedBrothers: Inverted with "No Slacking" and "Get Out of It", who are Paul And Barry's older brothers Jimmy and Brian Elliott. Their own comedy pairing "The Patton Brothers" actually preceded The Chuckle Brothers by 13 years.
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* EveryoneChasingYou: A big chunk of the episodes would end with the Chuckles being chased by people who they were only trying to help.
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* BigLittleBrother: Barry is the older of the two, but Paul is much taller.
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* ClothingDamage: No Slacking ends up being victim of this after the escaped lion attacked him halfway through the episode "Safari Park Keepers".
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* ClothingDamage: No Slacking ends up being victim of this in some episodes. For example, after the being apparently attacked by a escaped lion attacked him halfway through the episode "Safari Park Keepers".
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* ClothingDamage: No Slacking ends up being victim of this after the escaped lion attacked him halfway through the episode "Safari Park Keepers".
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* ImpactSilhouette: Happens a little often throughout the series. One example of this from a episode "Split Milk" where Paul accidentally catapults Barry into a wall of the building in the milk depot.
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* ButtMonkey:
** No Slacking can get the short end of the stick a lot.
** DependingOnTheWriter Paul or Barry can have their fair share of comical incidents happening to them.
** No Slacking can get the short end of the stick a lot.
** DependingOnTheWriter Paul or Barry can have their fair share of comical incidents happening to them.
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** Paul may be quite self-centered himself but he still cares deeply for his brother Barry.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Inverted, there's rarely any kids in the show
** However, in the final episode there was a large amount of kids doing the race
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* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Dan the Van. He's frequently ordering the Chuckle brothers about, but we never see him. Often members of his family act as his representative, and on the rare occassions he shows up [[TheFaceless his face isn't visible]], hidden under bandages or the 8 like
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* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Dan the Van. He's frequently ordering the Chuckle brothers about, but we never see him. Often members of his family act as his representative, and on the rare occassions occasions he shows up [[TheFaceless his face isn't visible]], hidden under bandages or the 8 likelike.
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* OopNorth: Both Paul and Barry speak with Rotherham accents. (It's rather surreal how similar the brutal mercenary Bronn from ''Series/GameOfThrones'' sounds to the Chuckles).
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* OopNorth: Both Paul and Barry speak with Rotherham accents. (It's rather surreal how similar the brutal mercenary Bronn from ''Series/GameOfThrones'' sounds to the Chuckles). Chuckles.)
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* TakenForGranite: In the episode "Et Tu Chuckle" Paul and Barry along with the emperor cover themself in cement and at the end of the episode the cement dries leaving them stuck, it then shows the statues in modern times showing they are most likely stuck like that forever.
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* TakenForGranite: In the episode "Et Tu Chuckle" Paul and Barry along with the emperor cover themself themselves in cement and at the end of the episode the cement dries dries, leaving them stuck, it stuck. It then shows the statues in modern times showing times, implying that they are most likely stuck like that forever.
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** Then there are their Grandfathers. grandfathers. And their Mad Uncle.mad uncle.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** No Slacking may be rather cantankerous and rather jerk-ish but he still can be caring towards Paul and Barry and get along with them.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** No Slacking may be rather cantankerous and rather jerk-ish but he still can be caring towards Paul and Barry and get along with them.
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** Paul: "Oh yes, and he's seen us. He's waving, look".
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* TheCameo: The characters from the Disney movie ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' appear on the ice cream van (most ice cream vans in the UK feature famous cartoon characters) in the episode "Breakdown". Also, in "The Final Frontier", Barry is watching ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'' on the TV.
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** The first series of ''Chucklevision'' proper was studio-based with Paul and Barry as presenters. It also featured Liverpool actor Billy Butler telling stories in a segment called "Armchair Theatre".
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** And "No Slacking" is played by their brother, Jimmy Patton. A fourth brother, Brian Patton, also occasionally appears.
* RecurringCharacter: Known by his CatchPhrase, "No Slacking" will often give the Chuckle brothers their episode task.
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''To Me! To You!''
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Children's LiveActionTV comedy centred on the wholly inept [[CharacterTitle Paul and Barry Chuckle]]. Debuted in 1987.
Nearly every episode sees the Chuckle Brothers being given a simple task to do. HilarityEnsues when they fail to do it with any degree of competence. Series 14 broke the trend for {{Stand Alone Episode}}s by having a continuous {{arc}}, and series after that also saw multi-part stories being used.
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!!Tropes:
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Paul
* BadassMustache: Both Chuckles.
* TheCameo: The characters from the Disney movie ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' appear on the ice cream van (most ice cream vans in the UK feature famous cartoon characters) in the episode "Breakdown". Also, in "The Final Frontier", Barry is watching ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'' on the TV.
* {{Catch Phrase}}s:
** "To me!" "To you!"
** "Silly me!" (Often reinforced with "Silly you!")
** "Oh dear." "Oh dear oh dear." "Oh dear oh dear oh dear."
** "No slacking!"
* CreativeClosingCredits: HilariousOuttakes.
* TheComicallySerious: No Slacking.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The show started out in TheEighties as "Chucklehounds", with Paul and Barry in dog costumes, before quickly changing to the format we all know and love.
** The first series of ''Chucklevision'' proper was studio-based with Paul and Barry as presenters. It also featured Liverpool actor Billy Butler telling stories in a segment called "Armchair Theatre".
* TheDanza: Paul and Barry.
* DittoAliens: Lampshaded in an episode involving a FreakyFridayFlip (see below). Paul gets his brain swapped with an alien and Barry notices the Commander looks the same. Paul then impersonates the commander and tells the alien to switch the minds back.
* FreakyFridayFlip: In the alien abduction episode, because of the aliens' mind-swapping device, one of the brothers gets Freaky Friday'd with an alien. [[spoiler: Then this happens with the brothers and tomatoes.]]
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Barry: "Hey look there's our boss he's running as well".
** Paul: "Oh yes, and he's seen us. He's waving, look".
** Barry: "I don't think he's waving Paul".
* GladIThoughtOfIt: Paul often takes Barry's ideas and claims them as his own – Barry doesn't usually notice.
* HauntedHouse: The premise of the episode "Spooks & Gardens", notable for being written by Creator/RussellTDavies.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Dan the Van. He's frequently ordering the Chuckle brothers about, but we never see him. Often members of his family act as his representative, and on the rare occassions he shows up [[TheFaceless his face isn't visible]], hidden under bandages or the like
* LongRunners: For over 20 years!
* NeverMyFault: Whenever Paul messes up, he manages to shift the blame to Barry.
* OopNorth: Both Paul and Barry speak with Rotherham accents. (It's rather surreal how similar the brutal mercenary Bronn from ''GameOfThrones'' sounds to the Chuckles).
* {{Pantomime}}: The brothers often do panto, transposing their act into the show and usually sharing a Buttons-type role normally played by one person.
* PunBasedTitle: "Bowl-Derdash", a cricket episode; "Shore Thing", on a beach; "King of the Mill", set in a windmill; "On Your Pike", fishing, and so on.
* RealLifeRelative: The titular characters are also brothers in real life.
** And "No Slacking" is played by their brother, Jimmy Patton. A fourth brother, Brian Patton, also occasionally appears.
* RecurringCharacter: Known by his CatchPhrase, "No Slacking" will often give the Chuckle brothers their episode task.
* ReversePsychology: Often used by Paul to con Barry into doing the difficult tasks.
* {{Slapstick}}: A lot of the comedy.
** PlankGag: Happens basically OnceAnEpisode.
* SilenceIsGolden: This Trope is the actual title of a Series 13 episode, which is notable for being the only Chucklevision episode to date to have no dialogue, just music. The reason for this is because the brothers are working as hospital porters so they must be as quiet as possible.
* StatusQuoIsGod: The show has a high SeasonFluidity, with the only difference between an episode from 1995 and one from 2005 is how old the Chuckle Brothers look.
* StockNessMonster: In the episode [[PunBasedTitle "Another Fine Ness"]].
* TakenForGranite: In the episode "Et Tu Chuckle" Paul and Barry along with the emperor cover themself in cement and at the end of the episode the cement dries leaving them stuck, it then shows the statues in modern times showing they are most likely stuck like that forever.
* TandemParasite: Taken to extremes. The 'Chucklemobile' only seems to even ''have'' pedals on Barry's side.
* {{Thememobile}}: The Chucklemobile.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: A few episodes where Paul and Barry meet their Scottish cousins, Dougal and Douglas [=McChuckle=].
** Then there are their Grandfathers. And their Mad Uncle.
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Children's LiveActionTV comedy centred on the wholly inept [[CharacterTitle Paul and Barry Chuckle]]. Debuted in 1987.
Nearly every episode sees the Chuckle Brothers being given a simple task to do. HilarityEnsues when they fail to do it with any degree of competence. Series 14 broke the trend for {{Stand Alone Episode}}s by having a continuous {{arc}}, and series after that also saw multi-part stories being used.
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!!Tropes:
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Paul
* BadassMustache: Both Chuckles.
* TheCameo: The characters from the Disney movie ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' appear on the ice cream van (most ice cream vans in the UK feature famous cartoon characters) in the episode "Breakdown". Also, in "The Final Frontier", Barry is watching ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'' on the TV.
* {{Catch Phrase}}s:
** "To me!" "To you!"
** "Silly me!" (Often reinforced with "Silly you!")
** "Oh dear." "Oh dear oh dear." "Oh dear oh dear oh dear."
** "No slacking!"
* CreativeClosingCredits: HilariousOuttakes.
* TheComicallySerious: No Slacking.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The show started out in TheEighties as "Chucklehounds", with Paul and Barry in dog costumes, before quickly changing to the format we all know and love.
** The first series of ''Chucklevision'' proper was studio-based with Paul and Barry as presenters. It also featured Liverpool actor Billy Butler telling stories in a segment called "Armchair Theatre".
* TheDanza: Paul and Barry.
* DittoAliens: Lampshaded in an episode involving a FreakyFridayFlip (see below). Paul gets his brain swapped with an alien and Barry notices the Commander looks the same. Paul then impersonates the commander and tells the alien to switch the minds back.
* FreakyFridayFlip: In the alien abduction episode, because of the aliens' mind-swapping device, one of the brothers gets Freaky Friday'd with an alien. [[spoiler: Then this happens with the brothers and tomatoes.]]
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Barry: "Hey look there's our boss he's running as well".
** Paul: "Oh yes, and he's seen us. He's waving, look".
** Barry: "I don't think he's waving Paul".
* GladIThoughtOfIt: Paul often takes Barry's ideas and claims them as his own – Barry doesn't usually notice.
* HauntedHouse: The premise of the episode "Spooks & Gardens", notable for being written by Creator/RussellTDavies.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Dan the Van. He's frequently ordering the Chuckle brothers about, but we never see him. Often members of his family act as his representative, and on the rare occassions he shows up [[TheFaceless his face isn't visible]], hidden under bandages or the like
* LongRunners: For over 20 years!
* NeverMyFault: Whenever Paul messes up, he manages to shift the blame to Barry.
* OopNorth: Both Paul and Barry speak with Rotherham accents. (It's rather surreal how similar the brutal mercenary Bronn from ''GameOfThrones'' sounds to the Chuckles).
* {{Pantomime}}: The brothers often do panto, transposing their act into the show and usually sharing a Buttons-type role normally played by one person.
* PunBasedTitle: "Bowl-Derdash", a cricket episode; "Shore Thing", on a beach; "King of the Mill", set in a windmill; "On Your Pike", fishing, and so on.
* RealLifeRelative: The titular characters are also brothers in real life.
** And "No Slacking" is played by their brother, Jimmy Patton. A fourth brother, Brian Patton, also occasionally appears.
* RecurringCharacter: Known by his CatchPhrase, "No Slacking" will often give the Chuckle brothers their episode task.
* ReversePsychology: Often used by Paul to con Barry into doing the difficult tasks.
* {{Slapstick}}: A lot of the comedy.
** PlankGag: Happens basically OnceAnEpisode.
* SilenceIsGolden: This Trope is the actual title of a Series 13 episode, which is notable for being the only Chucklevision episode to date to have no dialogue, just music. The reason for this is because the brothers are working as hospital porters so they must be as quiet as possible.
* StatusQuoIsGod: The show has a high SeasonFluidity, with the only difference between an episode from 1995 and one from 2005 is how old the Chuckle Brothers look.
* StockNessMonster: In the episode [[PunBasedTitle "Another Fine Ness"]].
* TakenForGranite: In the episode "Et Tu Chuckle" Paul and Barry along with the emperor cover themself in cement and at the end of the episode the cement dries leaving them stuck, it then shows the statues in modern times showing they are most likely stuck like that forever.
* TandemParasite: Taken to extremes. The 'Chucklemobile' only seems to even ''have'' pedals on Barry's side.
* {{Thememobile}}: The Chucklemobile.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: A few episodes where Paul and Barry meet their Scottish cousins, Dougal and Douglas [=McChuckle=].
** Then there are their Grandfathers. And their Mad Uncle.
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