History Series / GetSomeIn

** In "Rugby" from Series 2, when Ken is invited to join RAF Skelton's rugby team and thereby rub shoulders with the officers, Marsh claims that he plays rugby as well, as a centre forward (which Ken immediately notes is a position in football, not rugby).

* DiggingYourselfDeeper: In the Series 1 episode "Boots", Marsh selects Matthew to show what he has learned about being on sentry duty, and sets the scene by telling him he is in the Libyan desert guarding millions of pounds of new aircraft from hordes of [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles IRA terrorists.]] Matthew points out that the IRA would probably not be in the Libyan desert, and proceeds to identify other tribes who might instead be found there as an unimpressed Marsh gives the entire squad an extra hour's bull (cleaning/polishing their quarters). When Marsh then sarcastically identifies himself as MickeyMouse as part of the roleplay and hands over his identification, Matthew pretends to shoot him for supposedly being Mickey Mouse but having Corporal Marsh's ID. The irate Marsh assigns the flight an extra two hours' bull, which prompts Matthew to say that he's dead and shouldn't be able to speak... which in turn prompts Marsh to make it three hours.

''Get Some In!'' was a British sitcom written by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey (best known as the writers of ''Series/TheGoodLife'') which aired on Creator/ThamesTelevision for five series between 1975 and 1978. It followed the trials and tribulations of a group of Royal Air Force National Service recruits in 1955 (between 1949 and 1960, all healthy males between the ages of 17 and 21 were required to serve in the British military for two years), and starred Tony Selby as Corporal Percy Marsh, the RAF's version of a DrillSergeantNasty. The recruits included snarky Teddy Boy Jakey Smith (Creator/RobertLindsay), well-spoken grammar school graduate Ken Richardson (David Janson), naive vicar's son Matthew Lilley (Gerard Ryder), and pessimistic Scot Bruce Leckie (Brian Pettifer). Most episodes also featured scenes of Marsh's AwfulWeddedLife with his long-suffering wife Alice (Lori Wells).

** This happens to Marsh repeatedly; notably in the Series 2 episode "Flight", where, having convinced Flight Lieutenant Grant that his panicked outburst (see IronicFear) was actually a brilliant ruse to test how well the airmen had learned from their training, he is cheerfully informed by Grant that, as that training ruse worked so well, [[LaserGuidedKarma he'll now be taking up every training group for their familiarisation flgiht]].

''Get Some In!'' was a British sitcom written by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey (best known as the writers of ''Series/TheGoodLife'') which aired on Creator/ThamesTelevision for five series between 1975 and 1978. It followed the trials and tribulations of a group of Royal Air Force National Service recruits in 1955 (between 1949 and 1960, all healthy males between the ages of 17 and 21 were required to serve in the British military for two years), and starred Tony Selby as Corporal Percy Marsh, the RAF's version of a DrillSergeantNasty. The recruits included snarky Teddy Boy Jakey Smith (Robert Lindsay), well-spoken grammar school graduate Ken Richardson (David Janson), naive vicar's son Matthew Lilley (Gerard Ryder), and pessimistic Scot Bruce Leckie (Brian Pettifer). Most episodes also featured scenes of Marsh's AwfulWeddedLife with his long-suffering wife Alice (Lori Wells).

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "Complaints" from Series 2, the four aircraftmen are trying to decide which of them will complain to Flight Lieutenant Grant about the quality of the food when he walks through the mess asking, "Any complaints?", and Matthew notes that when he was in the Life Boys (the junior Boys' Brigade), he and his friends would decide who would read the day's Bible lesson by seeing which of them their brigade leader, Mr. Underwood, spoke to first. They decide that whichever of them is the first to be spoken to by the next person to enter the barracks will speak to Grant, and soon another aircraftman enters, whistling and absently noting that the other four seem to be trying to avoid looking at him. He then sits down with a book, and Matthew notices the title:
-->'''Matthew:''' Oh, ''The Wooden Horse''![[note]] The (mostly) true story of the second most famous escape from Stalag Luft III (after Film/TheGreatEscape), in which the entrance to the escape tunnel was concealed under a wooden vaulting horse.[[/note]]\\

** This also happens to Marsh repeatedly; notably in the Series 2 episode "Flight", where, having convinced Flight Lieutenant Grant that his panicked outburst (see IronicFear below) was actually a brilliant ruse to test how well the airmen had learned from their training, Grant cheerfully informs Marsh that, as that training ruse worked so well, [[LaserGuidedKarma he'll now be taking up every training group for their familiarisation flgiht]].

* TyrantTakesTheHelm: In "RAF Midham" from Series 3, the National Serviceman arrive at the camp in the title and find the CO, Group Captain Brice, an [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure amiable fellow who doesn't enforce the same strict, even bullying discipline to which they were subject at RAF Skelton]]. However, he moves on near the end of the episode, and the new CO, Group Captain Ruark, agrees to let Marsh, who has also joined the nursing course at RAF Midham after asking for a transfer, to whip the camp into shape by instilling a bit of discipline. In the episode's final scene, he makes it clear that he will make their lives just as miserable as they were at Skelton, if not more so.

** In "Erks" from Series 3, the first test at the end of basic training requires the National Servicement to jump off a springboard and over a pommel horse. Gymnastics are not one of Matthew's strong suits, so he is clearly nervous about the test, but as he runs forward and jumps onto the springboard, it smashes into fragments beneath his feet. The adjudicator declares, "Faulty equipment! You can have that one, airman!" Matthew smiles, clasps his hands, and looks toward the sky as if to say, "Thank you, God!"

* BillingDisplacement: The series' DVD release gave top billing not to Tony Selby but to Robert Lindsay, who had become famous in the intervening years in such series as ''Series/CitizenSmith'' and ''Series/MyFamily''. Tony Selby has likened this to releasing a Sixth Doctor-era ''Series/DoctorWho'' DVD with "Starring Tony Selby and Creator/ColinBaker" on the cover.

* AccidentalInnuendo:[[invoked]] The none-too-worldly Matthew occasionally uses suggestive language without realising it. For example, in "Complaints", he introduces an anecdote about he and his fellow Life Boys deciding which of them would read the day's Bible lesson by seeing which of them their brigade leader addressed first by saying, "When I was in the Life Boys, we used to take advantage of Mr. Underwood." Jakey lampshades the innuendo by telling Matthew, "Don't get sordid," which only confuses him.

* FakeUltimateHero: Marsh is hailed as a hero when he returns in "V.I.P. Guard", the first episode of Series 5, in which he is reported as having risked his life to save that of a superior officer. However, in "Labrador", Matthew discovers that Marsh did nothing of the kind, and simply [[SelfServingMemory spun what really happened]] to restore himself to his former rank of Corporal. Marsh does not take kindly to the discovery of his deception.