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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''This Morning with Richard not Judy''. In some ways it had the feel of being a live Sunday-lunchtime version of ''Fist of Fun'', with some of Kevin Eldon's characters still around.
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* TheGhost: Simon Quinlank has a bitter rivalry with someone called Neil Petark.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''This Morning with Richard not Judy''. In some ways it had the feel of being a live Sunday-lunchtime version of ''Fist of Fun'', with some of Kevin Eldon's characters still around.
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* SelfDeprecation: The tie-in book contains a number of pages celebrating mediocrity in all its forms. The last of these is about the world's most mediocre comedy double-act, Lee and Herring.
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* SelfDeprecation: The tie-in book contains a number of pages celebrating mediocrity in all its forms. The last of these is about the world's most mediocre comedy double-act, Lee and Herring.Herring[[note]]Well, second most mediocre, after Punt and Dennis, but the fact that they're not even the most mediocre makes them even more mediocre and therefore the most mediocre after all[[/note]].
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* CompanionCube: Donny Oddlegs, Peter's only friend.
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** The second friend Peter (literally) made in the second series, Ian Milkcartonbody.
** Donny Oddlegs, Peter's only
** The second friend Peter (literally) made in the second series, Ian Milkcartonbody.
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* SelfDeprecation: The tie-in book contains a number of pages celebrating mediocrity in all its forms. The last of these is about the world's most mediocre comedy double-act, Lee and Herring.
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Creator/{{BBC}} comedy show starring comedy double act Creator/StewartLee and Creator/RichardHerring. One of the last of an era of sketch shows presented in front of a studio audience that began with ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Fist of Fun began as a radio show in 1993 before being adapted in to a television show in 1995, although sketches from Radio One FM's Lee and Herring show were also adapted. Similar in style to a ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' and ''Radio/TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'', being quite intellectual and popular with students and 20-somethings. The main difference being that Lee and Herring were more self deprecating and played up their Generation X alter egos; Herring as the neurotic manchild and Lee being the aloof Morrissey lookalike who would "listen to music that nobody else would like just to show off". Other reccuring characters included 'Peter' (played and written by Peter Baynham, previously of ''Series/TheDayToday'') a disgusting loser who provided "Lifestyle Tips", and Simon Quinlank (Kevin Eldon) an over-zealous hobbyist who has Nazi-esque enthusiasm for various bizarre hobbies ("Old Man Collecting").
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Creator/{{BBC}} comedy show starring comedy double act Creator/StewartLee and Creator/RichardHerring. One of the last of an era of sketch shows presented in front of a studio audience that began with ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Fist of Fun began as a radio show in 1993 before being adapted in to into a television show in 1995, although sketches from Radio One FM's Lee and Herring show were also adapted. Similar in style to a ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' and ''Radio/TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'', being quite intellectual and popular with students and 20-somethings. The main difference being that Lee and Herring were more self deprecating and played up their Generation X alter egos; Herring as the neurotic manchild and Lee being the aloof Morrissey lookalike who would "listen to music that nobody else would like just to show off". Other reccuring recurring characters included 'Peter' (played and written by Peter Baynham, previously of ''Series/TheDayToday'') ''Series/TheDayToday''), a disgusting loser who provided "Lifestyle Tips", and Simon Quinlank (Kevin Eldon) Eldon), an over-zealous hobbyist who has had a Nazi-esque enthusiasm for various bizarre hobbies ("Old Man Collecting").
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* BerserkButton: Any suggestion to "Rod Hull" that he isn't actually Rod Hull "I AM HIM!".
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* BerserkButton: Any suggestion to "Rod Hull" that he isn't actually Rod Hull Hull: "I AM HIM!".HIM!"
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* EpunymousTitle: Parodied in the Spin Off book with a whole list of sitcom titles based on the theme of "X in the Y' ("Bird in the Hand" Ian Bird is manager of 'The Hand' pub' "God in Heaven" Ian Godd is manager of 'Heaven' pub.)
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* EpunymousTitle: Parodied in the Spin Off book with a whole list of sitcom titles based on the theme of "X in the Y' ("Bird in the Hand" Ian Bird is manager of 'The Hand' pub' "God in Heaven" Ian Godd is manager of 'Heaven' pub.)pub).
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* StalkerShrine: Rich has a shrine to Julia Sawalha (complete with ''a well'') and wig that looks like her hair.
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* StalkerShrine: Rich has a shrine to Julia Sawalha (complete with ''a well'') and a wig that looks like her hair.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Rich would say something; Stew would point out it was nonsense, ending with a rhetorical reducto ad absurdum such as "Or do you want to swim in raw sewage?" Richard would then reply "Honestly, if I wanted to swim in sewage then I'd..." and proceed to outline a highly detailed plan for breaking into his local sewage plant during the guard's teabreak.
** In the stage show, during a lengthy Stewart Lee monologue, Richard left the stage with Peter and came back later with Peter's hair looking suspiciously damp. When Stewart asked what had happened, Rich replied 'Well, someone definitely didn't flush his head down the toilet seven times'
* TakeThat: often insulted each other or public figures, usually Patrick Marber or anybody complaining to or about the show.
** In the stage show, during a lengthy Stewart Lee monologue, Richard left the stage with Peter and came back later with Peter's hair looking suspiciously damp. When Stewart asked what had happened, Rich replied 'Well, someone definitely didn't flush his head down the toilet seven times'
* TakeThat: often insulted each other or public figures, usually Patrick Marber or anybody complaining to or about the show.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Rich would say something; Stew would point out it was nonsense, ending with a rhetorical reducto reductio ad absurdum such as "Or do you want to swim in raw sewage?" Richard would then reply "Honestly, if I wanted to swim in sewage then I'd..." and proceed to outline a highly detailed plan for breaking into his local sewage plant during the guard's teabreak.
** In the stage show, during a lengthy Stewart Lee monologue, Richard left the stage with Peter and came back later with Peter's hair looking suspiciously damp. When Stewart asked what had happened, Rich replied 'Well, someone definitely didn't flush his head down the toilet seventimes'
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* TakeThat: Stew and Richard often insulted each other or public figures, usually Patrick Marber or anybody complaining to or about the show.
** In the stage show, during a lengthy Stewart Lee monologue, Richard left the stage with Peter and came back later with Peter's hair looking suspiciously damp. When Stewart asked what had happened, Rich replied 'Well, someone definitely didn't flush his head down the toilet seven
* TakeThat: Stew and Richard often insulted each other or public figures, usually Patrick Marber or anybody complaining to or about the show.
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* Take That is a popular trope, usually against Patrick Marber or anybody complaing to or about the show.
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* Take That is a popular trope, TakeThat: often insulted each other or public figures, usually against Patrick Marber or anybody complaing complaining to or about the show.
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** Simon Quinlank got in on this with his "train ignoring" hobby. This requires the presence of a trainspotter to tell you which trains you've ignored. When there are no trains around, Simon passes the time by bullying his trainspotter, and suggests you do the same.
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Creator/{{BBC}} comedy show starring comedy double act Creator/StewartLee and Creator/RichardHerring. One of the last of an era of sketch shows presented in front of a studio audience that began with ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Fist of Fun began as a radio show in 1993 before being adapted in to a television show in 1995, although sketches from Radio One FM's Lee and Herring show were also adapted. Similar in style to a ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' and ''Radio/TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'', being quite intellectual and popular with students and 20-somethings. The main difference being that Lee and Herring were more self depricating, GenreSavvy, deprecating and played up their Generation X alter egos; Herring as the neurotic manchild and Lee being the aloof Morrissey lookalike who would "listen to music that nobody else would like just to show off". Other reccuring characters included 'Peter' (played and written by Peter Baynham, previously of ''Series/TheDayToday'') a disgusting loser who provided "Lifestyle Tips", and Simon Quinlank (Kevin Eldon) an over-zealous hobbyist who has Nazi-esque enthusiasm for various bizarre hobbies ("Old Man Collecting").
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** TruthInTelevision: Rich went on to have a relationship with Julia Sawalha for about a year in the late nineties.
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** According to Lee and Herring, the entire setup for the show was based on the idea of a clear hierarchy between characters, with Rich bullying Peter, Stew bullying Rich, and the outside world bullying Stew.
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Creator/{{BBC}} comedy show from the mid-1990s starring comedy double act Creator/StewartLee and Creator/RichardHerring. One of the last of an era of sketch shows presented in front of a studio audience that began with ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Similar in style to a ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' and ''Radio/TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'', being quite intellectual and popular with students and 20-somethings. The main difference being that Lee and Herring were more self depricating, GenreSavvy, and played up their Generation X alter egos; Herring as the neurotic manchild and Lee being the aloof Morrissey lookalike who would "listen to music that nobody else would like just to show off". Other reccuring characters included 'Peter' (played and written by Peter Baynham, previously of ''Series/TheDayToday'') a disgusting loser who provided "Lifestyle Tips", and Simon Quinlank (Kevin Eldon) an over-zealous hobbyist who has Nazi-esque enthusiasm for various bizarre hobbies ("Old Man Collecting").
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Creator/{{BBC}} comedy show from the mid-1990s starring comedy double act Creator/StewartLee and Creator/RichardHerring. One of the last of an era of sketch shows presented in front of a studio audience that began with ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Fist of Fun began as a radio show in 1993 before being adapted in to a television show in 1995, although sketches from Radio One FM's Lee and Herring show were also adapted. Similar in style to a ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' and ''Radio/TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'', being quite intellectual and popular with students and 20-somethings. The main difference being that Lee and Herring were more self depricating, GenreSavvy, and played up their Generation X alter egos; Herring as the neurotic manchild and Lee being the aloof Morrissey lookalike who would "listen to music that nobody else would like just to show off". Other reccuring characters included 'Peter' (played and written by Peter Baynham, previously of ''Series/TheDayToday'') a disgusting loser who provided "Lifestyle Tips", and Simon Quinlank (Kevin Eldon) an over-zealous hobbyist who has Nazi-esque enthusiasm for various bizarre hobbies ("Old Man Collecting").
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Creator/{{BBC}} comedy show from the mid-1990s starring comedy double act Creator/StewartLee and RichardHerring. One of the last of an era of sketch shows presented in front of a studio audience that began with ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Similar in style to a ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' and ''Radio/TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'', being quite intellectual and popular with students and 20-somethings. The main difference being that Lee and Herring were more self depricating, GenreSavvy, and played up their Generation X alter egos; Herring as the neurotic manchild and Lee being the aloof Morrissey lookalike who would "listen to music that nobody else would like just to show off". Other reccuring characters included 'Peter' (played and written by Peter Baynham, previously of ''Series/TheDayToday'') a disgusting loser who provided "Lifestyle Tips", and Simon Quinlank (Kevin Eldon) an over-zealous hobbyist who has Nazi-esque enthusiasm for various bizarre hobbies ("Old Man Collecting").
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Creator/{{BBC}} comedy show from the mid-1990s starring comedy double act Creator/StewartLee and RichardHerring.Creator/RichardHerring. One of the last of an era of sketch shows presented in front of a studio audience that began with ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Similar in style to a ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' and ''Radio/TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'', being quite intellectual and popular with students and 20-somethings. The main difference being that Lee and Herring were more self depricating, GenreSavvy, and played up their Generation X alter egos; Herring as the neurotic manchild and Lee being the aloof Morrissey lookalike who would "listen to music that nobody else would like just to show off". Other reccuring characters included 'Peter' (played and written by Peter Baynham, previously of ''Series/TheDayToday'') a disgusting loser who provided "Lifestyle Tips", and Simon Quinlank (Kevin Eldon) an over-zealous hobbyist who has Nazi-esque enthusiasm for various bizarre hobbies ("Old Man Collecting").
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* {{Galaxian}}: "The product of the dark lord that is Satan"
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** This was due to him having dated her for 18 months. Not sure if this was before or after the Sawalha shrine though, and I'm not sure which is weirder!
*** This was 5 years before he went out with her. She hadn't seen the sketche, and ended up watching it with Rich and his dad.
*** This was 5 years before he went out with her. She hadn't seen the sketche, and ended up watching it with Rich and his dad.
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Creator/{{BBC}} comedy show from the mid-1990s starring comedy double act Creator/StewartLee and RichardHerring. One of the last of an era of sketch shows presented in front of a studio audience that began with ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Similar in style to a ''ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' and ''TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'', being quite intellectual and popular with students and 20-somethings. The main difference being that Lee and Herring were more self depricating, GenreSavvy, and played up their Generation X alter egos; Herring as the neurotic manchild and Lee being the aloof Morrissey lookalike who would "listen to music that nobody else would like just to show off". Other reccuring characters included 'Peter' (played and written by Peter Baynham, previously of ''Series/TheDayToday'') a disgusting loser who provided "Lifestyle Tips", and Simon Quinlank (Kevin Eldon) an over-zealous hobbyist who has Nazi-esque enthusiasm for various bizarre hobbies ("Old Man Collecting").
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Creator/{{BBC}} comedy show from the mid-1990s starring comedy double act Creator/StewartLee and RichardHerring. One of the last of an era of sketch shows presented in front of a studio audience that began with ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Similar in style to a ''ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' and ''TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'', ''Radio/TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'', being quite intellectual and popular with students and 20-somethings. The main difference being that Lee and Herring were more self depricating, GenreSavvy, and played up their Generation X alter egos; Herring as the neurotic manchild and Lee being the aloof Morrissey lookalike who would "listen to music that nobody else would like just to show off". Other reccuring characters included 'Peter' (played and written by Peter Baynham, previously of ''Series/TheDayToday'') a disgusting loser who provided "Lifestyle Tips", and Simon Quinlank (Kevin Eldon) an over-zealous hobbyist who has Nazi-esque enthusiasm for various bizarre hobbies ("Old Man Collecting").
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Creator/{{BBC}} comedy show from the mid-1990s starring comedy double act Creator/StewartLee and RichardHerring. One of the last of an era of sketch shows presented in front of a studio audience that began with ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Similar in style to a ''ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' and ''TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'', being quite intellectual and popular with students and 20-somethings. The main difference being that Lee and Herring were more self depricating, GenreSavvy, and played up their Generation X alter egos; Herring as the neurotic manchild and Lee being the aloof Morrissey lookalike who would "listen to music that nobody else would like just to show off". Other reccuring characters included 'Peter' (played and written by Peter Baynham, previously of ''Series/TheDayToday'') a disgusting loser who provided "Lifestyle Tips", and Simon Quinlank (Kevin Eldon) an over-zealous hobbyist who has Nazi-esque enthusiasm for various bizarre hobbies ("Old Man Collecting").
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!!Provides examples of:
* BerserkButton: Any suggestion to "Rod Hull" that he isn't actually Rod Hull "I AM HIM!".
* BritishBrevity: Two series of six episodes.
* CompanionCube: Donny Oddlegs, Peter's only friend.
* EpunymousTitle: Parodied in the Spin Off book with a whole list of sitcom titles based on the theme of "X in the Y' ("Bird in the Hand" Ian Bird is manager of 'The Hand' pub' "God in Heaven" Ian Godd is manager of 'Heaven' pub.)
* {{Galaxian}}: "The product of the dark lord that is Satan"
* {{Jerkass}}: Rich throws Peter's only friend in a bin and sets him on fire. And teases the '[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmRf1zURNsw&feature=related Girl Who Smelt of Spam]]'.
* LonersAreFreaks: Peter definitely qualifies.
* RunningGag: Every episode starts with Lee and Herring jumping out of crates - or, rather, Lee and somebody else (be it a Frenchman or the gimp from ''Film/PulpFiction'') jumping out of crates.
** The Hobby sketches also usually involve a reference to a weak lemon drink.
* SoundToScreenAdaptation: Started on BBC Radio.
* SpecialGuest: None other than [[spoiler:the real Rod Hull!]]
* SpoofAesop: "Stewart Lee's True Fables": The moral of The Ant And ''The Man''? Well the ant, being an insect, had died of old age.
* StalkerShrine: Rich has a shrine to Julia Sawalha (complete with ''a well'') and wig that looks like her hair.
** This was due to him having dated her for 18 months. Not sure if this was before or after the Sawalha shrine though, and I'm not sure which is weirder!
*** This was 5 years before he went out with her. She hadn't seen the sketche, and ended up watching it with Rich and his dad.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Rich would say something; Stew would point out it was nonsense, ending with a rhetorical reducto ad absurdum such as "Or do you want to swim in raw sewage?" Richard would then reply "Honestly, if I wanted to swim in sewage then I'd..." and proceed to outline a highly detailed plan for breaking into his local sewage plant during the guard's teabreak.
** In the stage show, during a lengthy Stewart Lee monologue, Richard left the stage with Peter and came back later with Peter's hair looking suspiciously damp. When Stewart asked what had happened, Rich replied 'Well, someone definitely didn't flush his head down the toilet seven times'
* Take That is a popular trope, usually against Patrick Marber or anybody complaing to or about the show.
* TheBully: Richard's constant mistreatment of Peter. Viewers would send him gifts that Richard would "accidentally" destroy in front of him.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Rod Hull loves his jelly.
* UnreadablyFastText: The end credits provided a spoof 'Events Guide' full of silly messages. One of these was an advertisement for the Lee and Herring Video Repair Shop, suggesting you visit if you broke your video player by pausing it too many times.
** There were also a number of pop-up text balloons that appeared throughout the show. These always disappeared before they could possibly be read. Viewers just barely had time to notice them at all.
!!You can drink your weak lemon drink now.
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!!Provides examples of:
* BerserkButton: Any suggestion to "Rod Hull" that he isn't actually Rod Hull "I AM HIM!".
* BritishBrevity: Two series of six episodes.
* CompanionCube: Donny Oddlegs, Peter's only friend.
* EpunymousTitle: Parodied in the Spin Off book with a whole list of sitcom titles based on the theme of "X in the Y' ("Bird in the Hand" Ian Bird is manager of 'The Hand' pub' "God in Heaven" Ian Godd is manager of 'Heaven' pub.)
* {{Galaxian}}: "The product of the dark lord that is Satan"
* {{Jerkass}}: Rich throws Peter's only friend in a bin and sets him on fire. And teases the '[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmRf1zURNsw&feature=related Girl Who Smelt of Spam]]'.
* LonersAreFreaks: Peter definitely qualifies.
* RunningGag: Every episode starts with Lee and Herring jumping out of crates - or, rather, Lee and somebody else (be it a Frenchman or the gimp from ''Film/PulpFiction'') jumping out of crates.
** The Hobby sketches also usually involve a reference to a weak lemon drink.
* SoundToScreenAdaptation: Started on BBC Radio.
* SpecialGuest: None other than [[spoiler:the real Rod Hull!]]
* SpoofAesop: "Stewart Lee's True Fables": The moral of The Ant And ''The Man''? Well the ant, being an insect, had died of old age.
* StalkerShrine: Rich has a shrine to Julia Sawalha (complete with ''a well'') and wig that looks like her hair.
** This was due to him having dated her for 18 months. Not sure if this was before or after the Sawalha shrine though, and I'm not sure which is weirder!
*** This was 5 years before he went out with her. She hadn't seen the sketche, and ended up watching it with Rich and his dad.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Rich would say something; Stew would point out it was nonsense, ending with a rhetorical reducto ad absurdum such as "Or do you want to swim in raw sewage?" Richard would then reply "Honestly, if I wanted to swim in sewage then I'd..." and proceed to outline a highly detailed plan for breaking into his local sewage plant during the guard's teabreak.
** In the stage show, during a lengthy Stewart Lee monologue, Richard left the stage with Peter and came back later with Peter's hair looking suspiciously damp. When Stewart asked what had happened, Rich replied 'Well, someone definitely didn't flush his head down the toilet seven times'
* Take That is a popular trope, usually against Patrick Marber or anybody complaing to or about the show.
* TheBully: Richard's constant mistreatment of Peter. Viewers would send him gifts that Richard would "accidentally" destroy in front of him.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Rod Hull loves his jelly.
* UnreadablyFastText: The end credits provided a spoof 'Events Guide' full of silly messages. One of these was an advertisement for the Lee and Herring Video Repair Shop, suggesting you visit if you broke your video player by pausing it too many times.
** There were also a number of pop-up text balloons that appeared throughout the show. These always disappeared before they could possibly be read. Viewers just barely had time to notice them at all.
!!You can drink your weak lemon drink now.
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