History Series / Room101

* AppealToVanity: one of StephenFry's choices for Room 101 was collector's plates - decorative crockery with terrible artwork sold at absurd prices (often advertised in [[BritishNewspapers the Daily Mail) to people who quite wrongly think they will appreciate in value. Merton then presented him with a plate depicting Fry himself, which he loves, and offered him a SadisticChoice: he can put all the ghastly plates into Room 101, but if he does then the one of him goes in with them. Fry gave in and kept the plate.

* AppealToVanity: one of StephenFry's choices for Room 101 was collector's plates - decorative crockery with terrible artwork sold at absurd prices (often advertised in [[UsefulNotes/BritshNewspapers the Daily Mail) to people who quite wrongly think they will appreciate in value. Merton then presented him with a plate depicting Fry himself, which he loves, and offered him a SadisticChoice: he can put all the ghastly plates into Room 101, but if he does then the one of him goes in with them. Fry gave in and kept the plate.

* AppealToVanity: one of StephenFry's choices for Room 101 was collector's plates - decorative crockery with terrible artwork sold at absurd prices (often advertised in [[BritshNewspapers the Daily Mail) to people who quite wrongly think they will appreciate in value. Merton then presented him with a plate depicting Fry himself, which he loves, and offered him a SadisticChoice: he can put all the ghastly plates into Room 101, but if he does then the one of him goes in with them. Fry gave in and kept the plate.

* AppealTo Vanity: one of StephenFry's choices for Room 101 was collector's plates - decorative crockery with terrible artwork sold at absurd prices (often advertised in [[BritshNewspapers the Daily Mail) to people who quite wrongly think they will appreciate in value. Merton then presented him with a plate depicting Fry himself, which he loves, and offered him a SadisticChoice: he can put all the ghastly plates into Room 101, but if he does then the one of him goes in with them. Fry gave in and kept the plate.

BBC comedy show that has been running on-and-off since 1994, named for the {{Room 101}} from the novel ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. When hosted by Nick Hancock (1994-97) and Paul Merton (1999-2007), it was a chat show where that week's featured guest nominated some of their pet hates and argued why they should be consigned to Room 101; the host then had to decide whether or not they had made a persuasive enough argument.

In 2012, a revamped edition hosted by Frank Skinner began, with the programme now taking the format of a PanelGame as three different guests argued across a series of categories to try and get their chosen items into Room 101.

* RunningGag: For the final Merton-hosted episode (which proved to be the final episode of the run until the {{Retool}}ed series), the guest was Ian Hislop, Merton's opposing team captain on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' and the only guest to appear twice in the original run. He deliberately chose items he knew Merton liked, such as TheBeatles and Creator/CharlieChaplin, all of which were refused, culminating in the final choice being Merton himself.

* RunningGag: For the final Merton-hosted episode (which proved to be the final episode of the run until the {{Retool}}ed series), the guest was Ian Hislop, Merton's opposing team captain on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' and the only guest to appear twice in the original run. He deliberately chose items he knew Merton liked, such as TheBeatles and Creator/CharlieChaplin, all of which were refused, culminating in the final choice being the show itself.

* TheArtOfBraRemoval: The reason BillBailey disliked brassieres, so Paul invited Bill to try removing a bra that Paul was wearing.

* SelfDeprecation: JonathanRoss nominated his own dress sense.

* {{Retool}}: The Hancock/Merton-fronted original run was on BBC2 and took the form of a light-hearted chat show. The Frank Skinner series has moved to BBC1 and has turned it into a more straightforward PanelGame.

* ColbertBump / ItsPopularNowItSucks: Johnny Vegas reluctantly tells Paul the name of the chatroom he's addicted to: "''Beauty's Castle''... everyone will start visiting it now it'll be ruined!"

* OldShame: Frequently guests will be reminded of their own past faux-pas, such as Creator/RickyGervais's time as the singer in a 1980s new romantic band (he looked genuinely embarrassed).

* RunningGag: For the final Merton-hosted episode (which proved to be the final episode of the run until the {{Retool}}ed series), the guest was Ian Hislop, Merton's opposing team captain on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' and the only guest to appear twice in the original run. He deliberately chose items he knew Merton liked, such as TheBeatles and Creator/CharlieChaplin, all of which were refused, culminating in the final choice being Merton himself.

* RunningGag: For the final Merton-hosted episode (which proved to be the final episode of the run until the {{Retool}}ed series), the guest was Ian Hislop, Merton's opposing team captain on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' and the only guest to appear twice in the original run. He deliberately chose items he knew Merton liked, such as TheBeatles and CharlieChaplin, all of which were refused, culminating in the final choice being Merton himself.

* OldShame: Frequently guests will be reminded of their own past faux-pas, such as RickyGervais's time as the singer in a 1980s new romantic band (he looked genuinely embarrassed).

* IWasQuiteAFashionVictim: One of BillBailey's reasons for hating the {{Eighties}}.

* ThatCameOutWrong: Kirsty Young was [[BrokenPedestal disappointed]] meeting Jon BonJovi: "He actually made me gag..." (pause) Paul: "So you did get on well then?"

--> "Look, there! A tree! ''Growing''! '''Well done!'''" (thumbs up) "There's a bloke, getting his shopping--''good for him!''"

* DudeNotFunny: There was a media fallout after two guests in swift succession put countries into Room 101: Des Lynam put in France ("I was going to do America, but then I remembered they came up with [[ThePhilSilversShow Sergeant Bilko]]) and Anne Robinson put in Wales.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: One of Nick Hancock's items was '(annoyingly) happy people', and he gave the example of a bus driver he'd known:

* TakeThat: The point of some of the nominations.

BBC comedy show that has been running on-and-off since 1994, named for the {{Room 101}} from the novel ''NineteenEightyFour''. When hosted by Nick Hancock (1994-97) and Paul Merton (1999-2007), it was a chat show where that week's featured guest nominated some of their pet hates and argued why they should be consigned to Room 101; the host then had to decide whether or not they had made a persuasive enough argument.

BBC comedy show that has been running on-and-off since 1994, named for the Room101 from the novel ''NineteenEightyFour''. When hosted by Nick Hancock (1994-97) and Paul Merton (1999-2007), it was a chat show where that week's featured guest nominated some of their pet hates and argued why they should be consigned to Room 101; the host then had to decide whether or not they had made a persuasive enough argument.