History Series / TheArmstrongAndMillerShow

** The ComicRelief sketches include a cameo by Mitchell and Webb ([[spoiler:"Kill them!"]]), and another by Geoffrey Palmer as a senior RAF officer, who manages to set our heroes straight on a couple of points by lapsing into their vernacular.

* TheCameo: Morton Harkit (lead singer of A-Ha) of all people turns up in the Farmer's Market Song ([[NeverExpainTheJoke 'cause his name rhymes with "market", geddit?]])

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The "kill them" sketches. Plus Miranda and Pru, the owners of Dandylion's cafe in the first series, who are perfectly pleasant (in a bitchy sort of way) when talking to each other but every sketch ends with them attacking the customers.
* TheCameo: Morton Harkit (lead singer of A-Ha) of all people turns up in the Farmer's Market Song ([[DontExpainTheJoke 'cause his name rhymes with "market", geddit?]])

* DeliberatelyBlackAndWhite: The RAF pilots sketches. Isn't it.

* VisualPun: In one sketch, a man who's been taking certain pills he ordered off the internet receives a giant statue of a rooster. Also overlaps with ConcealedPun, because it's never actually described as [[spoiler:a huge cock]].

* Parodies of 1970s PublicInformationFilms [[hottip:*:Authentically presented in 4:3 aspect ratio though the rest of the series is in widescreen]] giving useless or dangerous advice

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The "kill them" sketches. Plus Miranda and Pru, the owners of Dandelion's cafe in the first series, who are perfectly pleasant when talking to each other but every sketch ends with them attacking the customers.

* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: Several Brabbins and Fyffe sketches cut to the Test Card when they start getting too filthy to broadcast. Usually this is used as a CurseCutShort, although a song beginning "[[JailBait The loveliest thing about teenage girls...]]" is cut off before it can go any further.

* TheCameo: Morton Harkit (lead singer of A-Ha) of all people turns up in the Farmer's Market Song

* CurseCutShort: A lot of Brabbins & Fyffe's songs end with this.

* Brabbins & Fyffe, [[AffectionateParody a parody of Flanders & Swann]].

* RefugeInVulgarity: Played With. The dentist from the first series is the sketch that produces the most {{Squick}} of the number that the two do, discussing [[TooMuchInformation highly disgusting activities or very graphic sexual practices]] in great detail. However, the humour doesn't come from the vulgarity, it comes from [[ReactionShot Miller's expressions]] and the fact that the dentist has his fingers in the patient's mouth the whole time.
** Brabbins & Fyffe, being a filthier take on Flanders & Swann, is another Played With example. They're incredibly dirty but their songs remain very classy and witty. Before they're hit with the impromptu censor, anyway.

* WalkAndTalk: A recurring sketch features a man striding purposefully down endless corridors, ''TheWestWing'' style, while underlings duck in and out delivering him assorted pointless trivia.

** Brabbins & Fyffe, being a filthier take on Flanders & Swann, is another Played With example. They're incredibly dirty but their songs remain very classy and witty.

* A series of vox pops in which a man describes his quirks or mental illnesses, ending with "and that's why I became a teenager"

* [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer]]: Subverted. In series 3, a character in a sketch will have a reasonably funny slapstick accident and, while they're trying to regain their composure, Miller will walk into view, [[BreakingTheFourthWall look into camera]] and say "this isn't actually funny. It actually happened to a friend of mine, so ..."

** RunningGag:
*** "...I bit him on the nose. Quite hard."
*** "Kill them."

* AffectionateParody: Lots. Flanders & Swann, The Hairy Bikers, Jeeves & Wooster, not to mention plenty of one-off sketches.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Aside from the WWII pilots, the second series also featured [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2kD1YUtA5o a Victorian pianist shocking his employer's guests by playing racy modern songs]].

** Brabbins & Fyffe, being a filthier take on Flanders & Swann, is another Played With example. They're incredibly dirty but their songs remain very classy and witty.

* RefugeInVulgarity: Played with. The dentist from the first series is the most [[Squick Squick-worthy]] sketch the two do, discussing [[TooMuchInformation highly disgusting activities or very graphic sexual practices]] in great detail. However, the humour doesn't come from the vulgarity, it comes from [[ReactionShot Miller's expressions]] and the fact that the dentist has his fingers in the patient's mouth the whole time.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The "kill them" sketches. Plus Miranda and Pru, the two lady owners of Dandelion's cafe in the first series, who are perfectly pleasant when talking to each other but every sketch ends with them attacking the customers.

* InventingTheWheel: Played For Laughs. In "The Origin Of ..." sketches, there are plenty of cavemen but they don't invent the wheel. Instead, we they invent things like small talk, unusual baby names and hairdressing. It's as much a joke about modern life as it is about the cavemen.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Dimitri from the first series, clearly a take on Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich.

* A pair of RAF pilots who speak like modern teenagers (Isn't it? Standard.)

* Brabbins & Fyffe, a parody of Flanders & Swann.

* Several sketches in which a man has a perfectly amicable conversation with several people, wishes them goodbye, leans over a desk microphone, and says in his best Bond villain voice, "'''[[AC:kill them]]'''".