History Series / TheGoesWrongShow

** [[CainAndAbel Jack Inwood]] (Chris) in "A Trial to Watch".

** [[TheEvilPrince Prince Richard]] (Chris), [[LadyMacbeth Queen Isobel]] (Vanessa) and [[TheStarscream Malcolm]] (Jonathan) in "The Most Lamentable...".

-->'''Dennis[=/=][=McKennon=]:''' I've got Shawcroft wrapped around my little sleeve. Ever since the Weatherby case, I've had a real finger up his ace.

* NoodleIncident: When introducing "Harper's Locket", Chris mentions how the CPDS previously televised "More Horse", an unlicensed sequel to ''Theatre/WarHorse''. He doesn't go into detail but mentions that the complaints were plentiful and abusive, and that he would never again [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent perform his]] [[JustAStupidAccent Jamaican accent]].
** Chris calls "A Trial To Watch" the first legal drama they've put on, but not the first they've been involved in.

** [[CainAndAble Jack Inwood]] (Chris) in "A Trial to Watch".

** Edwin Graves (Chris) in "Harper's Locket".
** Wycomb (Annie) in "The Pilot (Not The Pilot)".
** Renee (Vanessa) and Barbara (Sandra) in "90 Degrees".

** Jack Inwood (Chris) in "A Trial to Watch".

** In The Nativity, Trever's foot gets caught in the set, trapping him for the next scene. Max is confused, while Sandra [[ThrowItIn rolls with it]].

** Albert Fortnoy (Robert) and the Ghost of Vera (Sandra) in "The Lodge".

*** Speaking of doors, early in the episode, Max accidentally pulls out the doorknob when he tries to open the kitchen door. So, when the group has to hide in the kitchen from Fortnoy (Robert) later, they can't get in.

* CutPhoneLines: Fortnoy (Robert) attempts this in "The Lodge" while David (Chris) calls the police to report Tony's (Max) death. Unfortunately, the line is too thick for the scissors to cut through, even after multiple attempts.

-->'''Fortnoy[=/=]Robert:''' The little one can stay in Vera's cozy, warm, welcoming, nice, bright, safe study.

** "The Lodge" ends with four people dead, Fortnoy's multiple murders to revive his wife proving fruitless when ''he'' is killed just as she is reborn, and the little girl forced to watch her mother kill her father, and then try to kill her--and because of a door being unexpectedly locked, the play goes off-script and the little girl is murdered too.

* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: [[invoked]] In "The Spirit of Christmas", when Santa asks the children what they want for Christmas, they respond with "An UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}!" and "A UsefulNotes/PlayStation!" despite having been (apparently) told to ask for things that were within the show's budget.

** In "A Most Lamentable..." Jonathon cannot lift the visor of his helmet. She ends up kissing his tongue.

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: During a scene in "The Lodge", the message "EXPECT MORE BODIES" is supposed to appear on a window. Trevor instead writes "EXPECT MORE BOIDES", which Chris reads aloud exactly as spelt.

* AnywhereButTheLips: Accidental example - Vanessa has some poor luck with scripted kisses.

** "A Trial To Watch" has her lean in to Dennis, only for him to turn to camera at the last moment to announce [[ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud "They kiss. Roll Credits."]]

* StockFootageFailure: [[invoked]]In "Harper's Locket", it shows footage of "Harper" riding up to the house on a horse. When he rides off, later in the scene, the same footage is shown, only it is being played backwards.

** Members of the then-current cast of ''Theatre/ThePlayThatGoesWrong''[[note]]including Ellie Morris, who is better known for originating the role of Lucy in ''Theatre/PeterPanGoesWrong''[[/note]] appear as jury members in "A Trial to Watch".

** An inability to do this is perhaps Robert's biggest issue in "Summer Once Again"; no matter how many things go wrong with Chris at the helm, the cast carry on the play, but in "Summer Once Again" twice Robert insists on restarting the play, forcing them to rush the rest of the play.

* {{Slapstick}}: The actresses botch up and suffer AmusingInjuries almost as often as the male cast.

* TerribleArtist: Annie's character in "Harper's Locket" is supposed to be a talented painter. When Annie accidentally ruins the artwork commissioned for the show, she has to hastily put together a replacement, composed of stick figures and a frog (the only thing she knows how to draw.)

* ComedyGhetto: Apparently an unfortunate belief of not just Chris and Robert, but also previous Cornley troupes - according to Annie, the last comedy put on by the organization was in ''1979'', which she herself repeats for the Festival.

* "The Most Lamentable..."[[labelnote:short for...]]"The Most Lamentable Tragedy of the Prince of England and His Long Lost Twin Brother, Prince Regent of France and the Problems Therein Experienced by All When they came to Know of One Another after a Battle."[[/labelnote]]: A [[WilliamFakespeare (Simon) Shakespeare]] play about two identical princes who, on learning of each other's existence, come into conflict over the throne.

* "There Is No Escape": A prison break drama set in Indiana in TheSeventies.

* FakeAmerican: [[invoked]] Attempted with varying degrees of success by the cast in "90 Degrees", and the cause for an extended "beer/bear" pun scene.[[note]]Americans actually pronounce 'bear' as 'bare', same as Brits, but given that it's Dennis receiving the line....[[/note]]

* "The Most Lamentable...": A [[WilliamFakespeare (Simon) Shakespeare]] play about two identical princes who, on learning of each other's existence, come into conflict over the throne.

* EasterEgg: Robert's book on acting is sprinkled across multiple episodes in the first season[[note]]The original plan was to hint towards a reveal in "The Spirit of Christmas" -- the intended finale -- but the episodes were reordered so the reveal happened first[[/note]].
** Dave Hearn and Nancy Zamit sneak in a fistbump (or "spud" as they call them) in various episodes.

* WilliamFakespeare: A double dose in the second episode of season two. "The Most Lamentable..." was written by Simon Shakespeare, the lesser known cousin of Colin Shakespeare.

* BritishBrevity: The first and second series only have 6 episodes.

* LongTitle: The faux-Shakespeare play in the third episode of series 2 is titled "The Most Lamentable Tragedy of the Prince of England and His Long Lost Twin Brother, Prince Regent of France and the Problems Therein Experienced by All When they came to Know of One Another after a Battle."

--> Day 6. The play is not improving. Maybe Mother was right. Maybe I am all sausage and no trousers… (Robert swaps the books) Forever and ever, amen.

* ExactWords: In "The Nativity", during the innkeepers scene, Dennis forgets his lines while playing the third innkeeper (as well as the first two) and takes Sandra's exasperated words as a reminder.