History Series / MooneBoy

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[[caption-width-right:350:Sean (left) and Martin (right)]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Subverted in an early episode where Martin "playing with himself" involves a table football game. Played straight later after he begins to hit puberty.

* NamesTheSame: In universe example. While on holidays in Donegal, the Moones visit the house of Packie Bonner. Just turns out not to be the Ireland goalkeeper. Liam decides not to tell the others this and instead keeps up the illusion that they are at the home of the footballer.

* CoolPet: Martin keeps a donkey named VideoGame/DonkeyKong.

* RealSongThemeTune: "Where's Me Jumper?" by the Sultans Of Ping FC. Fairly apt, considering the lead singer is synonymous with CloudCuckooLander in Ireland.

* SpiritualSuccessor: A show broadcast on British tv, set in Ireland with an Irish cast and crew lampooning the country? [[Series/FatherTed Now where have we seen this before?]] The two share numerous cast and some crew too. Director Declan Lowney worked on both shows, and Ian Fitzgibbon who directed Season 2 of Moone Boy played the sarcastic Father Jessop in Ted.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's never explicitly stated which town or which county the Moones holiday in other than a vague "The Sunny South East", but in reality, this was a tourism slogan used to refer to Waterford and Wexford during TheEighties and TheNineties.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Padraig's ImaginaryFriend is called Crunchie 'Danger' Haystacks.

* NiceHat: Martin's red and white striped wooly hat. Sean wears an identical one.

* VerbThis: In a FunnyBackgroundEvent, a teacher's car has been overturned and spraypainted with the phrase "Drive This!"

Martin Moone is 12 years old and lives in the village of Boyle, County Roscommon. Joined by his ImaginaryFriend, Sean Murphy (played by Creator/ChrisODowd), Martin comes up with a different ZanyScheme each week to navigate the obstacles that are put before him. The youngest of four children, he has to contend with three older sisters, as well as the perils of school.

Martin Moone is 12 years old and lives in the village of Boyle, County Roscommon. Joined by his ImaginaryFriend, Sean Murphy (played by Crestor/ChrisODowd), Martin comes up with a different ZanyScheme each week to navigate the obstacles that are put before him. The youngest of four children, he has to contend with three older sisters, as well as the perils of school.

Martin Moone is 12 years old and lives in the village of Boyle, County Roscommon. Joined by his ImaginaryFriend, Sean Murphy (played by [[Series/TheITCrowd Chris]] [[Film/{{Bridesmaids}} O'Dowd]]), Martin comes up with a different ZanyScheme each week to navigate the obstacles that are put before him. The youngest of four children, he has to contend with three older sisters, as well as the perils of school.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Martin's best friend Padraic in several episodes, such as when he caddies for Liam and gives him a "supportive" pat on the butt. On the other hand, he gets a girlfriend on his first day of secondary school, though this is thanks to having a knowledge of ''DirtyDancing''. It's further expanded upon with a VisualPun of him sleeping in a closet.
* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: George Gerschwin talks like a typical Prohibition-era toughguy. This is likely intentional, as this was the era that Joe apparently grew up in and George is the product of his imagination.

* IrishTravellers: A family of them moves into the field next to the Moones' house. While Debra and Liam get everything off the lawn so it won't be stolen, the usual tropes regarding stereotypical travellers are subverted; They're a fairly well-meaning family and Martin even gets his first kiss from the daughter.

* [[OhCrap Oh Balls]]

* ShellShockedVeteran: Liam's father is so far gone that he can't even recognise a recent photograph of himself. The Moones stick him in an old folks' home and only visit him once a year. He also has an imaginary friend who is DeliberatelyMonochrome.

* SpiritualSuccessor: A show broadcast on British tv, set in Ireland with an Irish cast and crew lampooning the country? [[FatherTed Now where have we seen this before?]] The two share numerous cast and some crew too. Director Declan Lowney worked on both shows, and Ian Fitzgibbon who directed Season 2 of Moone Boy played the sarcastic Father Jessop in Ted.

* VerbThis: In a FunnyBackgroundEvent, a teacher's car has been overturned and spraypainted with the phrase "Drive This!"

Martin Moone is 12 years old and lives in the village of Boyle, County Roscommon. Joined by his ImaginaryFriend, Sean Murphy (played by [[Series/TheITCrowd Chris]] [[{{Bridesmaids}} O'Dowd]]), Martin comes up with a different ZanyScheme each week to navigate the obstacles that are put before him. The youngest of four children, he has to contend with three older sisters, as well as the perils of school.

* ShellShockedSenior: Liam's father is so far gone that he can't even recognise a recent photograph of himself. The Moones stick him in an old folks' home and only visit him once a year. He also has an imaginary friend who is DeliberatelyMonochrome.

''Moone Boy'' is a sitcom set in UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}} in [[TheEighties 1989]] and moves into TheNineties.