History Series / TheSketchShow

* OedipusComplex: Tim and Ronni act out the TropeNamer in a short skit.
-->'''Oedipus''': ''(As Oepidus' mother walks away)'' ''Cor!''[[labelnote:explanation]]A British English exclamation of arousal.[[/labelnote]]

* ReallyGetsAround: The wedding photo sketch reaches the point where the photographer asks for a photo involving everyone who slept with the bride. That turns out to be seemingly every man at the wedding (and in every previous photo), as well as the (female photographer) -- except the groom.

* ScrabbleBabble: Lee's tactic is to include his made-up words in the conversation before his turn starts. First he does this with "quazoosl", referring to someone being so attractive that they come across as intimidating (the example he gives is Elizabeth Hurley). In a later sketch, he asks Tim if he wants a glass of "saxisquith". Tim replies, "Don't even think about it."

It spawned a short-lived American remake, headlined by Creator/KelseyGrammer, though he only appeared in the opening and closing scenes of each episode, also starring Creator/MalcolmBarrett, Creator/KaitlinOlson, Paul F Tompkins, Creator/MaryLynnRajskub and Lee Mack, often though not always as the characters he played in the original. Most sketches were line for line based on the original show, though with some variation in the punchlines.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Lee plays a bingo caller who keeps getting complaints from the students in the audience about his descriptions of the numbers, such as "Legs 11" being sexist, "Blind 30" being offensive to the visually impaired, "Two Fat Ladies, 88" being sexist ''and'' offensive to the overweight, etc.

* AccentOnTheWrongSyllable: In the English Course sketch, Tim has a problem with his em''pha''sis, causing him a lot of awk''ward''ness as a speech the''ra''pist.

It spawned a short-lived American remake, headlined by Creator/KelseyGrammer, though he only appeared in the opening and closing scenes of each episode, and with Lee Mack reprising some, though not all, of his characters. Most sketches were line for line based on the original show, though with some variation in the punchlines.

** Another sketch has two burglars preparing for a break-in, one of which is inexperienced, LiteralMinded and prone to ComicallyMissingThePoint, like stating the number 1 rule to be "[[ToiletHumour Don't do a number 1, wait 'til you get home!]]". He does however have an implied DumbassHasAPoint moment when he points out a potential short cut that his partner seems to have missed, perhaps due to ComplexityAddiction. It ends with the newbie [[PottyEmergency breaking the number 1 rule out of fear]].