History Series / PlanetAjay

* BritishBrevity: The show only ran for a total of 13 episodes.

* ShortRunner: Ran for 13 episodes.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Bud, the American astronaut that crash lands on Planet Ajay in the episode "Spaceman", refers to the United States as the "United States of the US of A" a couple of times. Since "US of A" is short for "United States of America", he's basically just saying "United States of the United States of America".

* BritishBrevity: The show only ran for a total of 13 episodes.

* BigNo: Whenever his plans are foiled, Badjay usually always blerts out "NO!".

* LoveInterest: Preeti is shown to be Ajay's love interest. The episode "Bolly Willoughby" bungles this characterization a bit by implying that Ajay has feelings for the celebrity Bolly Willoughby instead.

** Besides the "Under Pressure" and "Beat Badjay" game segments, there was also a segment every episode where Ajay sang a song from a popular artist (examples include Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" and Music/KatyPerry's "Hot n' Cold").

The show is basically a hybrid comedy/game show, with game segments placed in-between the scenes in the actual episode. There are two game segments: "Under Pressure", where three contestants must answer a true or false question, and if they get it right they pull one of three chains in the hope that it will release some curry from the planet's core, this winning the contestant a prize, and "Beat Badjay", where a contestant has to ask Badjay a few questions, and if he gets three right the contestant is dropped into a pool of slime below; on the other hand, if Badjay gets three questions wrong, he gets dropped into the pool of slime and the contestant wins prizes based on how many incorrect answers Badjay gives.

** Mr Killjoy's mother.

* VagueAge: Nani, a grandma from the palace. It's obvious she's a senior citizen, but her exact age is never given. The announcer lampshades this whenever she introduces Nani:

The show is basically a hybrid comedy/game show, with game segments placed in-between the scenes in the actual episode. There are two game segments: "Under Pressure", where three contestants must answer a true or false question, and if they get it right they pull one of three chains in the hope that it will release some curry from the planet's core this winning the contestant a prize, and "Beat Badjay", where a contestant has to ask Badjay a few questions, and if he gets three right the contestant is dropped into a pool of slime below; on the other hand, if Badjay gets three questions wrong, he gets dropped into the pool of slime and the contestant wins prizes based on how many incorrect answers Badjay gives.

** "Welcome to Planet Ajay; a world of gunge, games, guests and good good things!"
** "NOT ON MY WATCH!"

** Norman Killjoy hates fun and is constantly trying to ruin the fun others are having. Basically, he's trying to ''kill joy'' on Planet Ajay.

''Planet Ajay'' is an obscure British children's show that aired from 2009 to 2010 on Creator/{{CBBC}}.

* TheUnseen: Mr Killjoy's mother.

** "Welcome to Planet Ajay; a world of gundge, games, guests and good good things!"

** "Welcome to Planet Ajay; a world of fun, games, guests and good good things!"

* HarmlessVillain: You may consider Badjay to be one. In many episodes he shows no real threat to everyone on Planet Ajay, aside from trying to affect his brother's reputation.

** Whenever a certain character first appears in any episode, a brief description of that character will appear to remind viewers who they are.

** Killjoy hates fun and is constantly trying to ruin the fun others are having. Basically, he's trying to ''kill joy'' on Planet Ajay.

* HarmlessVillain: You may consider Badajay to be one. In many episodes he shows no real threat to everyone on Planet Ajay, aside from trying to affect his brother's reputation.

-->''That's me - Ajay. My life had become rather dull. But it all changed when I came across a magic ring. I got transported to my own planet to have 30 minutes of fun in outer space!''
-->--The OpeningNarration from the show's intro.

* LoveInterest: Preeti is shown to be Ajay's love interest.

The show is basically a hybrid comedy/game show, with game segments placed in-between the scenes in the actual episode. There are two game segments: "Under Pressure", where three contestants must answer a true or false question, and if they get it right they pull one of three chains in the hope that it will release some curry from the planet's core this winning a prize, and "Beat Badjay", where a contestant has to ask Badjay a few questions, and if he gets three right the contestant is dropped into a pool of slime below; on the other hand, if Badjay gets three questions wrong, he gets dropped into the pool of slime and the contestant wins prizes based on how many incorrect answers Badajay gives.

* SeriesFauxnale: "Highlights Show" is set up to be like this, and would likely have been a straight example if the show went on longer. [[spoiler:Near the end of the episode, Ajay decides not to take his trip across the universe after all, and instead decides on throwing a party for everyone on Planet Ajay... but he decides this right near the end of his 30-minute stay on the planet, and has to travel back to Earth.]]

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:The entirety of the events of "Planet Badjay", where Badjay inexplicably takes over Planet Ajay, turns out to be a nightmare Ajay was having.]]

* SeriesFauxnale: [[spoiler: "Highlights Show" is set up to be like this, and would likely have been a straight example if the show went on longer. Near the end of the episode, Ajay decides not to take his trip across the universe after all, and instead decides on throwing a party for everyone on Planet Ajay... but he decides this right near the end of his 30-minute stay on the planet, and has to travel back to Earth.]]

* OncePerEpisode: Besides the "Under Pressure" and "Beat Badjay" game segments, there was also a segment every episode where Ajay sang a song from a popular artist (examples include Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" and Music/KatyPerry's "Hot n' Cold").

-->'''Announcer:''' Name: Nani.
Job: Grandma.
Hobby: To fuss.
Age: Wouldn't you like to know?

-->'''Announcer:''' Name: Nani. Job: Grandma. Hobby: To fuss. Age: Wouldn't you like to know?

The show is basically a hybrid comedy/game show, with game segments placed in-between the scenes in the actual episode. There are two game segments: "Under Pressure", where the contestants must ask a question, and if they get it right they pull one of three chains in hopes that it will release some curry from the planet's core, and "Beat Badjay", where a contestant has to ask Badjay a few questions, and if he gets three right the contestant is dropped into a pool of slime below; on the other hand, if Badjay gets three questions wrong, he gets dropped into the pool of slime.

** This is used in a RunningGag form whenever Chips The Robot malfunctions and start to reference quotes from well known TV shows, including ''Series/LittleBritain'' and ''Series/ChuckleVision''.
** Badjay attempts to sell Bud's spaceship online, on a website called "[[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.-Bay]]".