History Series / TheBasilBrushShow

->''"Boom boom!"''

* AllForNothing: In the episode, "The Incapables", Madison and Molly spend an episode raising money for an endangered species called the Bolivian Moose Ant, and Madison just so happens to own the last Bolivian Moose Ant in the world which she named "Jumbo". [[spoiler: In the last moments of the episode, however, Madison accidentally kills Jumbo, rendering his species extinct]].

* FrameUp: One episode has Basil framed for a crime, with the real perps being [[spoiler: Anil's long-lost children]], one of whom was [[DirtyCop the officer making the arrest]].

* FoodFight: Happens in the very first episode, ending with [[spoiler: someone hitting the camera, causing the camera crew to desert them]].
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* ZillionDollarBill: The solution to the first BrokeEpisode. Unfortunately, [[spoiler: it turns out to be made of rubber.]]

* ThePeteBest: Inverted in "Fox Rocks". Basil, Liam, Lucy and Madison form a rock band with Basil as the main singer, but Basil's singing doesn’t fit the genre. He’s replaced by Mortimer, whose gravelly vocals suit the band much more. Unfortunately, Mortimer becomes a prima donna, making outlandish demands and scandalously getting [[DrunkOnMilk addicted to fruit juice]]. Meanwhile, Basil has been busking outside Anil's Cafe, and his huskier voice as a result allows him to return to the band.

%%* LandDownUnder: Complete with Steve Irwin parody.

In the 1968-80 incarnation of ''The Basil Brush Show'', Basil had a series of human co-stars/comedy stooges, always addressed by Basil as "Mr. [actor's first name]"; in order, they included former [[Series/TheLikelyLads Likely Lad]] Rodney Bewes, a pre-''Series/YesMinister'' Derek Fowlds, actor/singer Roy North, ''Three Scampies'' alumnus Howard Williams, and Billy Boyle. The episodes opened with a joke-filled introduction by Basil and his co-star, followed by a comedy sketch (which often included topical jokes), a musical number (often performed by a guest star, sometimes as a straight performance and sometimes as a comic duet with Basil), and finally a serial story about a famous relative of Basil's (such as spacefarer Blast-Off Basil or Robin Hood parody Basil the Farmer, Knight in Shining Armour) which would be frequently interrupted by jokes and asides from the fox himself. At the height of the series' popularity in the 1970s, actors and singers were queueing up for the chance to be the butt of Basil's humour for an episode.

''The Basil Brush Show'' is a Creator/{{CBBC}} series involving a fox puppet and its human companions. Originally running from 1968 to 1980 on [=BBC1=], either during Children's Hour or the Saturday early evening slot, it has a tendency toward BreakingTheFourthWall and using DoubleEntendre to appeal to adult (presumably parental) viewers as well as children. The BBC cancelled the show before [[UnCanceled picking it up again]] in 2002, complete with a SpinOff, ''Basil's Swap Shop''.

* NoFourthWall: The 2002 series turns BreakingTheFourthWall UpToEleven. Characters frequently acknowledge that they're on a studio set, reading through the script, talking to the voice-over man, cutaways to the writer's room, and in several episodes, the camera crew gets involved in the action.

* ScoobyDooHoax: Taken UpToEleven at one point, where upon being unmasked, the ghost turns out to be every character that was introduced for this episode… and ultimately Anil.

* AbsenteeActor: Ella is MIA in one season two episode, this was likely done so to have Basil DraggedIntoDrag.

%%* LethalChef: Anil.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Ivan Owen based Basil's voice on Creator/TerryThomas, giving the character a touch of well-cultivated class.

* RealityEnsues: To deal with a rat problem, Molly buys a cat so it can hunt the rat, however, the cat isn't interested in hunting. Contrary to popular belief, domesticated cats aren't great rat hunters because the rats can detect cats and will adjust their strategies in response.

''The Basil Brush Show'' is a Creator/{{CBBC}} series involving a fox puppet and its human companions. Originally running from 1968 to 1980 on [=BBC1=], either during Children's Hour or the Saturday early evening slot, it has a tendency toward BreakingTheFourthWall and using DoubleEntendre to appeal to adult (presumably parental) viewers as well as children. Creator/The BBC cancelled the show before [[UnCanceled picking it up again]] in 2002, complete with a SpinOff, ''Basil's Swap Shop''.

* BaitAndSwitchComment: After Mr Steven gives away a large sum of money that wasn't his (thus fulfilling the moral lesson for the episode) that could have allowed him to go to the Maldives, Basil comes out with this little gem...
--> '''Basil:''' You know, sometimes my admiration for Mr Steven (beat) goes ''right through the bleeding floor!''

''(Sure enough, Mr Rossiter appears at the door, in a devil costume and accompanied by ominous music)''

* FrameUp: One episode has Basil framed for a crime, with the real perps being Dave's long-lost children, one of whom was [[DirtyCop the officer making the arrest]].
* {{Flanderization}}: Mr Steven alone became much more of a ButtMonkey and got more childish with each season.

* LavaPit: In this case, a pool of Anil's chilli sauce.

* MindScrew: They keep going back and forth on either or not they're in a show, in real life or in a show about their lives. [[RuleOfFunny Often during the same episode.]]
* MissionImpossibleCableDrop: Happens when they encounter the chilli sauce.

'''Basil:''' Exchange all the knowing looks you like! I've checked the script, and it's Mr Stephen, who goes over the ''chilli sauce''.\\

* MsFanservice: Madison got more notice than other women in the series (women older than the younger characters of course) and in the episode Revenge of the Mummy she was dressed as a Playboy Bunny. In fact, the show really played up the sex appeal with women to emphasise Steven's bad luck with finding love.

* NoFourthWall: The 2002 series turns BreakingTheFourthWall UpToEleven. Characters frequently acknowledge that they're on a studio set, reading through the script, talking to the voice-over man, cutaways to the writer's room and in several episodes the camera crew get involved in the action.

* ProWrestlingEpisode: “Foxweight Champion” has the gang set up their own wrestling promotion in Anil’s Cafe, becoming successful enough that their favourite wrestler, [[CaptainErsatz The Stone]] comes out of retirement in order to challenge the entire promotion.

* AllforNothing: In the episode, "The Incapables", Madison and Molly spend an episode raising money for an endangered species called the Bolivian Moose Ant, and Madison just so happens to own the last Bolivian Moose Ant in the world which she named "Jumbo". [[spoiler: In the last moments of the episode, however, Madison accidentally kills Jumbo, rendering his species extinct]].

''The Basil Brush Show'' is a Creator/{{CBBC}} series involving a fox puppet and its human companions. Originally running from 1968 to 1980 on [=BBC1=], either during Children's Hour or the Saturday early evening slot, it has a tendency toward BreakingTheFourthWall and using DoubleEntendre to appeal to adult (presumably parental) viewers as well as children. Creator/TheBBC cancelled the show before [[UnCanceled picking it up again]] in 2002, complete with a SpinOff, ''Basil's Swap Shop''.

Although Basil continued to appear on television sporadically across the 1980s and 1990s, it was not until 2002 that ''The Basil Brush Show'' was revived, with Christopher Pizzey as Basil's new comic foil, Mr. Stephen, and child actors Georgina Leonidas and Michael Hayes as friends of Basil and Stephen's (as with Ivan Owen, the identity of Basil's voice actor/puppeteer remains a closely guarded secret). Other characters included Basil's hyperactive nephew Bingo, his criminal cousin Mortimer, latter day hippie Madison, and LethalChef Anil. The revived series followed a more straightforward sitcom format with animated inserts and ran until 2007. Basil continues to make sporadic theatre and television appearances to this day.

* All for Nothing: In the episode, "The Incapables", Madison and Molly spend an episode raising money for an endangered species called the Bolivian Moose Ant, and Madison just so happens to own the last Bolivian Moose Ant in the world which she named "Jumbo". [[spoiler: In the last moments of the episode, however, Madison accidentally kills Jumbo, rendering his species extint]].

* AnimalSuperheroes: One episode, “The Incapables”, has Basil and Bingo try to be superheroes(The Flying Phantom and Derek, respectively) in order to deal with a crimewave. Unfortunately, they tend to spend more time trying to outdo Stephen and Dave, who took up the mantles of Moghty Muscle and Wide Boy.

* BaitAndSwitchComment: After Mr. Steven gives away a large sum of money that wasn't his (thus fulfilling the moral lesson for the episode) that could have allowed him to go to the Maldives, Basil comes out with this little gem...

* BeCarefulWhatYouSay: Happens when they turns the flat into the best, worst hotel in the world.

* BrickJoke: Plenty. One would often be setup at the start and appear at the end.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Steven's LoveInterest in season one had the excuse of being fired from the show due to joining Mortimer. Ella in season 2 however vanishes for no reason come season 3.

* DoubleStandard: Steven is always punished for giving women unwanted attention and is ridiculed in turn whenever he's harassed by less attractive women. In one episode, Steven was basically made a sex slave to an ugly woman (they didn't say it outright, a visual pun was made when his stalker locked him a shed and made him act like a dog).

* {{Flanderization}}: Mr. Steven alone became much more of a ButtMonkey and got more childish with each season.

* NoFourthWall: The 2002 series turns BreakingTheFourthWall UpToEleven. Characters frequently acknowledge that they're on a studio set, reading through the script, talking to the voice over man, cutaways to the writer's room and in several episodes the camera crew get involved in the action.

* OneIPreparedEarlier: Parodied. Basil finds a muffin recipe from one of his relatives, but they take 45 minutes to make whilst the show is only 25 minutes. Cue a screenwipe where we see a tray of finished muffins and Basil saying, "And here are some I made earlier."

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
-->'''Farmer:''' Oh... bullocks! ''(cue short clip of young bulls)''
** Another one in the first episode where Mr. Steven gets a bit carried away with planning his future with his crush.
-->'''Mr. Steven''': Go on a date, get engaged, get married, move in together etc. etc. etc!
** Madison calling Anil 'Anal'
** The song "Everybody Goes Boom Boom" is a good party song about going to a dance club. When you read the lyrics though, it sounds like the people are hooking up for a one night stand.
---> Work it to the morning light, move your body up across the floor, shake your hips and until they scream for more.

* MsFanservice: Madison got more notice than other women in the series (women older than the younger characters of course) and in the episode Revenge of the Mummy she was dressed as a Playboy Bunny.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: In one episode Steven made a wish that he was irresistible to women. By morning everyone saw him as such, however he soon regretted the wish and begged to be put back the way he was.

* RealityEnsues: To deal with a rat problem, Molly buys a cat so it can hunt the rat, however, the cat isn't interested in hunting. Contrary to popular belief, domesticated cats aren't great rat hunters because the rats can detect cats and rats will hide from them instead.

%%* AnimalSuperheroes

%%* MediumAwareness

%%* SpeakOfTheDevil