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* MoodWhiplash: Invoked by Alan Bennett's vicar.
-->'''Alan Bennett''': Very many years ago, when I was about as old as some of you are now, I went mountain-climbing in Scotland with a friend of mine, and there was this mountain, you see, and we decided to climb it. And so, very early one morning, we arose and began to climb. All day, we climbed. Up and up and up. Higherrrr, and higherrrr, and higherrrr, until the valley lay very small below us, and the mists of the evening began to come down, and the sun to set. And when we reached the summit, we sat down to watch this magnificent sight of the sun going down behind the mountains. And as we watched, my friend, very suddenly, and violently...vomited. [''Pause''] Some of us think life's a bit like that, don't we? But it isn't.
-->'''Alan Bennett''': Very many years ago, when I was about as old as some of you are now, I went mountain-climbing in Scotland with a friend of mine, and there was this mountain, you see, and we decided to climb it. And so, very early one morning, we arose and began to climb. All day, we climbed. Up and up and up. Higherrrr, and higherrrr, and higherrrr, until the valley lay very small below us, and the mists of the evening began to come down, and the sun to set. And when we reached the summit, we sat down to watch this magnificent sight of the sun going down behind the mountains. And as we watched, my friend, very suddenly, and violently...vomited. [''Pause''] Some of us think life's a bit like that, don't we? But it isn't.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: Alan Bennett's vicar does this because he's giving a sermon.
-->'''Alan Bennett''': As I was on my way here tonight, I arrived at the station and by an oversight I happened to go out by the way one is supposed to come in. And as I was going out, an employee of the railway company hailed me. "Hey, Jack," he shouted, "where d'you think you're going?" ...That, at any rate, was the ''gist'' of what he said.
-->'''Alan Bennett''': As I was on my way here tonight, I arrived at the station and by an oversight I happened to go out by the way one is supposed to come in. And as I was going out, an employee of the railway company hailed me. "Hey, Jack," he shouted, "where d'you think you're going?" ...That, at any rate, was the ''gist'' of what he said.
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-->'''Alan Bennett''': Life, you know, is rather like opening a tin of sardines. We are all of us looking for the key. And, I wonder, how many of you here tonight have wasted years of your lives looking behind the kitchen dressers of this life, for that key? Others think they've found the key, don't they? They roll back the lid of the sardine tin, they reveal the sardines, the riches of life, therein, and they get them out, they enjoy them. But, you know, there's always a little bit in the corner you can't get out. I wonder — I wonder, is there a little bit in the corner of your life? I know there is in mine.
-->'''Alan Bennett''': Life, you know, is rather like opening a tin of sardines. We are all of us looking for the key. And, I wonder, how many of you here tonight have wasted years of your lives looking behind the kitchen dressers of this life, for that key? Others think they've found the key, don't they? They roll back the lid of the sardine tin, they reveal the sardines, the riches of life, therein, and they get them out, they enjoy them. But, you know, there's always a little bit in the corner you can't get out. I wonder — I wonder, is there a little bit in the corner of your life? I know there is in mine.
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Stage revue show written by and (originally) starring two Cambridge grads, Creator/PeterCook and Jonathan Miller and two Oxford grads, Creator/DudleyMoore and Creator/AlanBennett. Debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in the Summer of 1960 and later enjoyed long runs in the West End and Broadway. Considered the ''[[Music/TheBeachBoys Pet Sounds]]'' to the Creator/MontyPython's ''[[Music/TheBeatles Sgt. Pepper]]'' (interestingly a [[{{Sampling}} sample]] from a recording of the show was used on the Sgt. Pepper album) and the emergence of the modern British Comedy movement of the [[TheSixties 1960s]].
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Stage revue show written by and (originally) starring two Cambridge grads, Creator/PeterCook and Jonathan Miller and two Oxford grads, Creator/DudleyMoore and Creator/AlanBennett. Debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in the Summer of 1960 and later enjoyed long runs in the West End and Broadway. Considered the ''[[Music/TheBeachBoys Pet Sounds]]'' to the Creator/MontyPython's ''[[Music/TheBeatles Sgt. Pepper]]'' (interestingly a [[{{Sampling}} sample]] snippet]] from a recording of the show was used on ''Sgt. Pepper''[[note]]In the Sgt. Pepper album) title track, the audience laughter was taken from the recording of ''Beyond the Fringe'''s audience by George Martin, who produced both albums[[/note]]) and the emergence of the modern British Comedy movement of the [[TheSixties 1960s]].
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-->'''Cook''': Take a shufti.[[note]]Mid-20th century British slang for "look".[[/note]]
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* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: One sketch is about a man who has been to see an unnamed theatre show nearly 500 times, because he'd heard a rumour that members of the royal family were going to attend... someday.
* ShoutOutToShakespeare: "So That's The Way You Like It" is a spectacular pastiche of all the most notorious cliches.
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* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: One sketch is about a man in the audience who has been to see an unnamed theatre the show nearly 500 times, because he'd heard a rumour that members of the royal family were going to attend... someday.attend...some day.
* ShoutOutToShakespeare: "So That's The Way You Like It" is a spectacularpastiche round-up of all the most notorious cliches.clichés.
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-->'''Miller''': Goodbye, sir. [[HopeSpot Or is it...''au revoir''?]]
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* BlackComedy: Peter Cook as a senior RAF officer orders one of his men to go on what amounts to a suicide mission, because morale is low and "we need a futile gesture at this point":
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* BlackComedy: In a parody of post-war British WW2 films, Peter Cook as a senior RAF officer orders one of his men Jonathan Miller to go on what amounts to a suicide mission, because morale is low the war isn't going too well and "we need a futile gesture at this point":
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* BlackComedy: Peter Cook as a senior RAF officer orders one of his men to go on what amounts to a suicide mission, because morale is low and "we need a futile gesture at this point":
-->'''Cook''': Perkins?
-->'''Miller''': Sah?
-->'''Cook''': I want you get into a plane --
-->'''Miller''': Sah.
-->'''Cook''': Pop over to Bremen --
-->'''Miller''': Sah.
-->'''Cook''': Take a shufti.[[note]]Mid-20th century British slang for "look".[[/note]]
-->'''Miller''': Sah.
-->'''Cook''': Don't come back. ...Goodbye, Perkins.
-->'''Miller''': Goodbye, sir. [[HopeSpot Or is it...''au revoir''?]]
-->'''Cook''': [''Beat''] No, Perkins.
-->'''Cook''': Perkins?
-->'''Miller''': Sah?
-->'''Cook''': I want you get into a plane --
-->'''Miller''': Sah.
-->'''Cook''': Pop over to Bremen --
-->'''Miller''': Sah.
-->'''Cook''': Take a shufti.[[note]]Mid-20th century British slang for "look".[[/note]]
-->'''Miller''': Sah.
-->'''Cook''': Don't come back. ...Goodbye, Perkins.
-->'''Miller''': Goodbye, sir. [[HopeSpot Or is it...''au revoir''?]]
-->'''Cook''': [''Beat''] No, Perkins.
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Stage revue show written by and (originally) starring two Cambridge grads, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller and two Oxford grads, Creator/DudleyMoore and Creator/AlanBennett. Debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in the Summer of 1960 and later enjoyed long runs in the West End and Broadway. Considered the ''[[Music/TheBeachBoys Pet Sounds]]'' to the Creator/MontyPython's ''[[Music/TheBeatles Sgt. Pepper]]'' (interestingly a [[{{Sampling}} sample]] from a recording of the show was used on the Sgt. Pepper album) and the emergence of the modern British Comedy movement of the [[TheSixties 1960s]].
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Stage revue show written by and (originally) starring two Cambridge grads, Peter Cook Creator/PeterCook and Jonathan Miller and two Oxford grads, Creator/DudleyMoore and Creator/AlanBennett. Debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in the Summer of 1960 and later enjoyed long runs in the West End and Broadway. Considered the ''[[Music/TheBeachBoys Pet Sounds]]'' to the Creator/MontyPython's ''[[Music/TheBeatles Sgt. Pepper]]'' (interestingly a [[{{Sampling}} sample]] from a recording of the show was used on the Sgt. Pepper album) and the emergence of the modern British Comedy movement of the [[TheSixties 1960s]].
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* CutSong: Quite a few sketches were tried out and dropped in the pre-West End test runs. Some of them were taped and can be found on the ''Cambridge Arts Centre'' CD.
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Stage revue show written by and (originally) starring two Cambridge grads, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller and two Oxford grads, Creator/DudleyMoore and Alan Bennett.Creator/AlanBennett. Debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in the Summer of 1960 and later enjoyed long runs in the West End and Broadway. Considered the [[TheBeachBoys ''[[Music/TheBeachBoys Pet Sounds]] Sounds]]'' to the Creator/MontyPython's [[Music/TheBeatles ''[[Music/TheBeatles Sgt. Pepper]] Pepper]]'' (interestingly a [[{{Sampling}} sample]] from a recording of the show was used on the Sgt. Pepper album) and the emergence of the modern BritishComedy British Comedy movement of the [[TheSixties 1960s]].
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* DreamCrushingHandicap: Played for laughs (of course) in the "One Leg Too Few" sketch with the one-legged man auditioning for the role of Tarzan.
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* SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs: The actor auditioning for the role of {{Tarzan}} in "One Leg Too Few".
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Stage revue show written by and (originally) starring two Cambridge grads, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller and two Oxford grads, Dudley Moore Creator/DudleyMoore and Alan Bennett. Debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in the Summer of 1960 and later enjoyed long runs in the West End and Broadway. Considered the [[TheBeachBoys Pet Sounds]] to the Creator/MontyPython's [[Music/TheBeatles Sgt. Pepper]] (interestingly a [[{{Sampling}} sample]] from a recording of the show was used on the Sgt. Pepper album) and the emergence of the modern BritishComedy movement of the [[TheSixties 1960s]].
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Stage revue show written by and (originally) starring two Cambridge grads, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller and two Oxford grads, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. Debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in the Summer of 1960 and later enjoyed long runs in the West End and Broadway. Considered the [[TheBeachBoys Pet Sounds]] to the Creator/MontyPython's [[Music/TheBeatles Sgt. Pepper]] (interestingly a [[Sampling [[{{Sampling}} sample]] from a recording of the show was used on the Sgt. Pepper album) and the emergence of the modern BritishComedy movement of the [[TheSixties 1960s]].
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Stage revue show written by and (originally) starring two Cambridge grads, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller and two Oxford grads, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. Debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in the Summer of 1960 and later enjoyed long runs in the West End and Broadway. Considered the [[TheBeachBoys Pet Sounds]] to the Creator/MontyPython's [[Music/TheBeatles Sgt. Pepper]] (interestingly a [[Sampling sample]] from a recording of the show was used on the Sgt. Pepper album) and the emergence of the modern BritishComedy movement of the [[TheSixties 1960s]].
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* SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs: "One Leg Too Few"
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* SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs: The actor auditioning for the role of {{Tarzan}} in "One Leg Too Few"Few".
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: "Die Flabbergast" and "The Weill Song".
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: "Die Flabbergast" and "The Weill Song".Song", both parody/pastiche songs (of Schubert and Weill respectively) in mock-German.
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* CampGay: three of them in "Bollard".
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* CampGay: "Bollard" features three of them in "Bollard".them, having a discussion before adopting butch personas for a cigarette advertisement.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: They got the parody of Prime Minister Harold MacMillan past the censor by simply not naming him in the script. Once Peter Cook put on the voice, everybody got it.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: They got the parody of Prime Minister Harold MacMillan [=MacMillan=] past the censor by simply not naming him in the script. Once Peter Cook put on the voice, everybody got it.
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* OverlyLongGag: the coda of Dudley Moore's piano solo "And The Same To You" is a classic example. Peter Cook's "Sitting on the Bench" monologue sometimes got into this too: "Oh look, a lump of coal!".
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* OverlyLongGag: the coda of Dudley Moore's piano solo "And The Same To You" (basically, the "Colonel Bogey March" is the style of Beethoven, with EndingFatigue played for laughs) is a classic example. Peter Cook's "Sitting on the Bench" monologue sometimes got into this too: "Oh look, a lump of coal!".
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* RuleOfThree: "Put "Aftermyth of War" has Peter Cook's suburban gardener character pop up three times and deliver variations of the kettle on, love..."same speech each time.
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* {{Spoonerism}}: "They were rough, toothless... er, tough, ruthless..."
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* {{Spoonerism}}: "They As delivered by Miller's vicar: "The apostles of old were rough, toothless... er, tough, ruthless..."
* StiffUpperLip: "Aftermyth ofWar"War" parodies the use of this tropes in war films.
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* TitleConfusion: Most references to the show assume it debuted on the Edinburgh Fringe. In fact, it was part of the main Arts Festival and the title (a minor bit of ExecutiveMeddling) was intended to imply it went beyond what the Fringe was capable of.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: There's CD available recorded during the pre-West End tour when they were still knocking the material into shape. It's very strange to hear some of the sketches still lacking their most famous lines.
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-->'''Jonathan Miller''': Please, don't call me Richard, call me Dick, because [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar that's the kind of vicar I am]].
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Stage revue show written by and (originally) starring two Cambridge grads, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller and two Oxford grads, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. Debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in the Summer of 1960 and later enjoyed long runs in the West End and Broadway. Considered the [[TheBeachBoys Pet Sounds]] to the {{Monty Python}}'s [[Music/TheBeatles Sgt. Pepper]] and the emergence of the modern BritishComedy movement of the [[TheSixties 1960s]].
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Stage revue show written by and (originally) starring two Cambridge grads, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller and two Oxford grads, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. Debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in the Summer of 1960 and later enjoyed long runs in the West End and Broadway. Considered the [[TheBeachBoys Pet Sounds]] to the {{Monty Python}}'s Creator/MontyPython's [[Music/TheBeatles Sgt. Pepper]] and the emergence of the modern BritishComedy movement of the [[TheSixties 1960s]].
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* CutSong: Quite a few sketches were tried out and dropped in the pre-West End test runs. Some of them were taped and can be found on the ''Cambridge Arts Centre'' CD.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: They got the parody of Prime Minister Harold MacMillan past the censor by simply not naming him in the script. Once Peter Cook put on the voice, everybody got it.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: They got the parody of Prime Minister Harold MacMillan past the censor by simply not naming him in the script. Once Peter Cook put on the voice, everybody got it.
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* InformedJudaism: Played straight in "Real Class":
-->'''Alan Bennett''': Well, I...I suppose we are working-class. But, eh...I wonder how many of these people have realised that Jonathan Miller's a Jew?
-->'''Dudley Moore''': I suppose he gets away with it because of his ginger hair, actually.
-->'''Alan Bennett''': I'd rather be working-class than be a Jew.
-->'''Dudley Moore''': Oh, anyday. But think of the awful situation if you were...working-class, ''and'' a Jew?
-->'''Alan Bennett''': There's always somebody worse off than yourself.
-->'''Jonathan Miller''': In fact, I'm not really a Jew. Just Jew-''ish''. Not the whole hog, you know.
-->'''Alan Bennett''': Well, I...I suppose we are working-class. But, eh...I wonder how many of these people have realised that Jonathan Miller's a Jew?
-->'''Dudley Moore''': I suppose he gets away with it because of his ginger hair, actually.
-->'''Alan Bennett''': I'd rather be working-class than be a Jew.
-->'''Dudley Moore''': Oh, anyday. But think of the awful situation if you were...working-class, ''and'' a Jew?
-->'''Alan Bennett''': There's always somebody worse off than yourself.
-->'''Jonathan Miller''': In fact, I'm not really a Jew. Just Jew-''ish''. Not the whole hog, you know.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: "The Weill Song".
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Stage revue show written by and (originally) starring two Cambridge grads, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller and two Oxford grads, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. Debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in the Summer of 1960 and later enjoyed long runs in the West End and Broadway. Considered the [[TheBeachBoys Pet Sounds]] to the {{Monty Python}}'s [[Music/TheBeatles Sgt. Pepper]] and the emergence of the modern BritishComedy movement of the [[TheSixties 1960s]].
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* AfterTheEnd: In "Civil War", a heckler (Moore) asks when public transport services will resume following a nuclear holocaust. [[spoiler:(As soon as possible, but it will be a skeleton service.)]]
* TheBritishInvasion: made its US debut a good two years before Music/TheBeatles jumped the pond. Also made its US debut in Washington, DC with President Kennedy and his wife Jackie attending.
* CampGay: three of them in "Bollard".
* TheEndIsNigh: the closing sketch features a doomsday cult waiting for the end of the world. [[spoiler: It doesn't come.]]
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: They got the parody of Prime Minister Harold MacMillan past the censor by simply not naming him in the script. Once Peter Cook put on the voice, everybody got it.
* LiteralMinded / MathematiciansAnswer: The policeman in "The Great Train Robbery".
* MusicalPastiche: Dudley Moore's solos.
* NonIndicativeTitle: the sketch "The Heat Death of the Universe" is actually a whimsical monologue about trousers and nothing whatsoever to do with entropy.
* OverlyLongGag: the coda of Dudley Moore's piano solo "And The Same To You" is a classic example. Peter Cook's "Sitting on the Bench" monologue sometimes got into this too: "Oh look, a lump of coal!".
* {{Pastiche}}: of war movies, Shakespeare, and religious TV shows.
* RuleOfThree: "Put the kettle on, love..."
* {{Satire}}: it was credited with starting a "satire boom".
* SketchComedy
* SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs: "One Leg Too Few"
* {{Spoonerism}}: "They were rough, toothless... er, tough, ruthless..."
* StiffUpperLip: "Aftermyth of War"
* TheVicar: a traditional one portrayed by Alan Bennett and a modernising one played by Jonathan Miller.
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* AfterTheEnd: In "Civil War", a heckler (Moore) asks when public transport services will resume following a nuclear holocaust. [[spoiler:(As soon as possible, but it will be a skeleton service.)]]
* TheBritishInvasion: made its US debut a good two years before Music/TheBeatles jumped the pond. Also made its US debut in Washington, DC with President Kennedy and his wife Jackie attending.
* CampGay: three of them in "Bollard".
* TheEndIsNigh: the closing sketch features a doomsday cult waiting for the end of the world. [[spoiler: It doesn't come.]]
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: They got the parody of Prime Minister Harold MacMillan past the censor by simply not naming him in the script. Once Peter Cook put on the voice, everybody got it.
* LiteralMinded / MathematiciansAnswer: The policeman in "The Great Train Robbery".
* MusicalPastiche: Dudley Moore's solos.
* NonIndicativeTitle: the sketch "The Heat Death of the Universe" is actually a whimsical monologue about trousers and nothing whatsoever to do with entropy.
* OverlyLongGag: the coda of Dudley Moore's piano solo "And The Same To You" is a classic example. Peter Cook's "Sitting on the Bench" monologue sometimes got into this too: "Oh look, a lump of coal!".
* {{Pastiche}}: of war movies, Shakespeare, and religious TV shows.
* RuleOfThree: "Put the kettle on, love..."
* {{Satire}}: it was credited with starting a "satire boom".
* SketchComedy
* SorryBillyButYouJustDontHaveLegs: "One Leg Too Few"
* {{Spoonerism}}: "They were rough, toothless... er, tough, ruthless..."
* StiffUpperLip: "Aftermyth of War"
* TheVicar: a traditional one portrayed by Alan Bennett and a modernising one played by Jonathan Miller.
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