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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Steve wanted to call the series The Porn Dwarfs, but it sounded more like a bang.
** In Series Two, Benice was to take confession one woman was to talk about her weight problems and Benice ended up insulting her. Then she was to hear the mercy kill a woman did for her father who was beyond saving and then Benice locked her in and called the police.
*** While, the former scene was used in the live show, it was clear that they were trying to fit her in.
** In Series Two, Benice was to take confession one woman was to talk about her weight problems and Benice ended up insulting her. Then she was to hear the mercy kill a woman did for her father who was beyond saving and then Benice locked her in and called the police.
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* UncreditedRole: Creator/CyrilChamberlain as an AA patrolman.
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** Creator/CyrilChamberlain as an AA patrolman.
** Creator/NormanRossington as Staff-Sergeant Hall.
** Creator/CyrilChamberlain as an AA patrolman.
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* WordOfGod: According to the season two DVDCommentary, Iris was 14 when she gave birth to Judee, and Judee was subsequently taken away and raised by someone else. Many years later Judee hired Iris as a cleaning lady, not knowing their relationship. She later discovered that Judee was her mother, but never changed the way she treated her.
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* WordOfGod: According to the season two DVDCommentary, Iris was 14 when she gave birth to Judee, and Judee was subsequently taken away and raised by someone else. Many years later Judee hired Iris as a cleaning lady, not knowing their relationship. She later discovered that Judee Iris was her mother, but never changed the way she treated her.
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* FakeNationality: Kieron Moore is Irish, so he's actually using his own accent when impersonating the IRA.
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!!Film
* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Collecting license plate numbers was a common hobby at the time. Think of it as an early version of trainspotting.
* PropRecycling: The portrait of Hyde's wife is a portrait of Deborah Kerr that was originally used in ''Film/TheLifeAndDeathOfColonelBlimp''.
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* AluminiumChristmasTrees: Collecting license plate numbers was a common hobby at the time. Think of it as an early version of trainspotting.
* PropRecycling: The portrait of Hyde's wife is a portrait of Deborah Kerr that was originally used in ''Film/TheLifeAndDeathOfColonelBlimp''.
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** Barbara was partially based on George/Julia from the ''Change of Sex'' documentary, as well as a Pre-Operative Transsexual Magician that the League saw perform, as she did her tricks she was sidetracked by talking about the surgery.
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** Barbara was partially based on George/Julia Julia from the ''Change of Sex'' documentary, as well as a Pre-Operative Transsexual Magician pre-operative transgender magician that the League saw perform, as she did her tricks she was sidetracked by talking about the surgery.
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* OldShame: The [=BBC=] seems to view the series as this now due to jokes surrounding Barbara and, of course, Papa Lazarou resembling a black and white minstrel. The League themselves have never apologised for any of their jokes, and many fans hope they never do.
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* {{Jossed}}: Though it is never revealed what "special stuff" consists of, many have assumed that it is human meat. The writers have denied this, stating that they can think of "nothing more mundane than cannibalism", and indicating that it is something much worse, while also claiming it is possible to determine its identity from clues in the series.
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* StarMakingRole: For Creator/MarkGatiss.
* PropRecycling: The cage Mary gets put into at the carnival is the cage from ''Film/TheElephantMan''.
* WordOfGod: According to the season two DVDCommentary, Iris was 14 when she gave birth to Judee, and Judee was subsequently taken away and raised by someone else. Many years later Judee hired Iris as a cleaning lady, not knowing their relationship. She later discovered that Judee was her mother, but never changed the way she treated her.
* WordOfGod: According to the season two DVDCommentary, Iris was 14 when she gave birth to Judee, and Judee was subsequently taken away and raised by someone else. Many years later Judee hired Iris as a cleaning lady, not knowing their relationship. She later discovered that Judee was her mother, but never changed the way she treated her.
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** The "Go Johnny Go Go Go Go" card game was based on a few different things. One was a couple of guys Jeremy Dyson sat near on a trip back from Leeds. One kept calling the other "Young Man", and the "Young Man" kept calling the other guy "Sir" -- and after a while it got really annoying. The other inspiration is Jeremy's childhood, when his older brother would try to teach him card games that he knew Jeremy was too young to understand with their wildly complicated rules.
** Reenie and Vinnie are based upon workers in the real charity shop where the League members used to go to get their props and costumes for their live shows.
** Both Jeremy and Reece are amateur magicians who have experienced some of Dean's troubles, such as relatives who lose interest mid-way through a magic trick.
** Reenie and Vinnie are based upon workers in the real charity shop where the League members used to go to get their props and costumes for their live shows.
** Both Jeremy and Reece are amateur magicians who have experienced some of Dean's troubles, such as relatives who lose interest mid-way through a magic trick.
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** Alvin was based on an actual hotel owner in Brighton who wandered about as his guests ate and told rambling stories with no point. A rather plain man, he had a wife who was quite glamorous, and the two seemed like an unlikely pair. He basically told the Myth/RobinHood story, nearly word-for-word as it is seen in season two, to the Gents during their stay. Sunny was based on his wife.
** Daddy was based upon a distant relative (by marriage) of Jeremy's sister.
** Judee and Iris were loosely based on Jeremy's mother and her relationship with their cleaning lady (from when he was little). He recalls being uncomfortable as his mother talked about the opera and such with "Irene".
** Daddy was based upon a distant relative (by marriage) of Jeremy's sister.
** Judee and Iris were loosely based on Jeremy's mother and her relationship with their cleaning lady (from when he was little). He recalls being uncomfortable as his mother talked about the opera and such with "Irene".
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* CastTheRunnerUp: Because Pauline was Reece Sheersmith's idea taken from his own experiences he was originally slated to play her. However, Steve Pemberton jokes that the prospect of playing the woman who made his life miserable whilst on his restart depressed Reece too much, so he took the role of Ross instead.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: Egregious was based on Reece Shearsmith going on an interview to shift trolleys around ASDA, he was refused the job as he was smart and his personality was too much for the others.
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** Egregious was based on Reece Shearsmith going on an interview to shift trolleys around ASDA, he was refused the job as he was smart and his personality was too much for theothers.others.
** The Terry character is based on a true-life experience had by Reece. A door-to-door Jehovah's Witness showed him drawn illustrations and said that the bad stuff was in black and white whereas when everything was good it was in color.
** In the ChristmasSpecial, the scene where Bernice pulls a frozen-in-place bird off of its legs is based on real-life -- Reece's mother saw a lady try to help a sparrow that was stuck in tarmac, but unfortunately the bird came free of its legs. The lady, like Bernice, tried to balance the bird back on its legs and walked off.
** Charlie and Stella came about when Steve and Reece were sharing a flat in Highgate. Desperate for ideas for new characters, they stopped to go out for a meal. At the restaurant (the Capri, on Archway Road), they observed that all of the couples around them appeared desperately sad and silent -- that is until the waiter, named Luigi, appeared. As long as Luigi was around the patrons would talk to him and be much more animated.
** The costume designer, Yves Barre, had once been a professional masseuse. He told the Gents that people would frequently ask for "extras", but he never gave them. Yves taught Steve the proper way to give massages, using Reece as the guinea pig.
** Egregious was based on Reece Shearsmith going on an interview to shift trolleys around ASDA, he was refused the job as he was smart and his personality was too much for the
** The Terry character is based on a true-life experience had by Reece. A door-to-door Jehovah's Witness showed him drawn illustrations and said that the bad stuff was in black and white whereas when everything was good it was in color.
** In the ChristmasSpecial, the scene where Bernice pulls a frozen-in-place bird off of its legs is based on real-life -- Reece's mother saw a lady try to help a sparrow that was stuck in tarmac, but unfortunately the bird came free of its legs. The lady, like Bernice, tried to balance the bird back on its legs and walked off.
** Charlie and Stella came about when Steve and Reece were sharing a flat in Highgate. Desperate for ideas for new characters, they stopped to go out for a meal. At the restaurant (the Capri, on Archway Road), they observed that all of the couples around them appeared desperately sad and silent -- that is until the waiter, named Luigi, appeared. As long as Luigi was around the patrons would talk to him and be much more animated.
** The costume designer, Yves Barre, had once been a professional masseuse. He told the Gents that people would frequently ask for "extras", but he never gave them. Yves taught Steve the proper way to give massages, using Reece as the guinea pig.
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** The All of the League members participated in various theatre companies, and all of their experiences combined to become the Legz Akimbo theatre troupe are Theatre Company. Ollie Plimsolls was based on a real person (also named Ollie) with whom Reece performed on a theatre-in-education tour. The scene where Ollie tells the League members' experiences in community theatre.kids that Phil will be leaving to become a "proper actor" actually happened -- with the real-life Ollie referring to Reece leaving (although Reece says there was none of the malice that was ultimately added to their own Ollie's version).
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** Tubbs and Edward were based on a real incident which occurred when the cast visited a small shop. The woman behind the counter acted scared, like they were about to rob her.
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** Mickey is partially based on some of the people Creator/MarkGatiss experienced growing up near a mental hospital
** Tubbs and Edward were based on areal incident which occurred when real-life shopkeeper in a little town near Brighton called Rottindean. Whilst on their first tour, the cast visited League-members wandered into her shop, and she proceeded to watch them all warily as though she didn't trust them. She also had a small shop. The woman behind lot of snowstorms and tourist junk. She was so defensive of the counter acted scared, like they were about to rob her."strangers" in her shop that the League got rather offended at her distrust
** Tubbs and Edward were based on a
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** Barbara was based on a Pre-Operative Transsexual Magician that the League saw perform, as she did her tricks she was sidetracked by talking about the surgery.
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** Barbara was partially based on George/Julia from the ''Change of Sex'' documentary, as well as a Pre-Operative Transsexual Magician that the League saw perform, as she did her tricks she was sidetracked by talking about the surgery.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Korea, the show is called ''Psycho Village''. When the guys found out, they liked it so much they used the name for their next show, Series/{{Psychoville}}.
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** Les [=McQueen=] was based on someone the guys knew who used to work in the record industry. After experiencing the feeling of being "almost there", he couldn't quite let go of his past, and was always melancholy about it.
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* ActorAllusion: In season 2, British stand-up comedian: Roy Chubby Brown played the [[ClusterFBomb foul mouthed]] mayor of Royston Vassey, which was named after him as "Royston Vassey" is his full name.
* CreatorsFavorite: Steve Pemberton described Pop as one of his favourite characters, and his first appearance as one of his favourite scenes within the first series.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Egregious was based on Reece Shearsmith going on an interview to shift trolleys around ASDA, he was refused the job as he was smart and his personality was too much for the others.
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** The Legz Akimbo theatre troupe are based on the League members' experiences in community theatre, and Pauline is based on an actual restart officer Reece Shearsmith had.
** The Dentons are loosely based on real relatives of Jeremy Dyson, who went to stay with his relatives who told him to make himself at home, but found himself breaking lots of rules that he didn't know existed.
** Herr Lipp is believed to be based on a hospital chaplain Steve Pemberton encountered after suffering a heart attack in Germany and Pauline is primarily based on a restart officer of Reece Shearsmith's.
** The Dentons are loosely based on real relatives of Jeremy Dyson, who went to stay with his relatives who told him to make himself at home, but found himself breaking lots of rules that he didn't know existed.
** Herr Lipp is believed to be based on a hospital chaplain Steve Pemberton encountered after suffering a heart attack in Germany and Pauline is primarily based on a restart officer of Reece Shearsmith's.
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** The Legz Akimbo theatre troupe are based on the League members' experiences in community theatre, and Pauline is based on an actual restart officer Reece Shearsmith had.
theatre.
** The Dentons areloosely based on real relatives relations of Jeremy Dyson, who went to stay with his relatives who told him to make himself at home, but found himself breaking lots of rules Dyson that he didn't know existed.
had the bad luck of staying with, they gave him these insane rules and a door that had a confusing set of lock, which Jeremy got wrong and felt the guilt for when the question was shouted the next day.
** Herr Lippis believed to be was based on German teachers that the group met on tours, a man who called himself "the Queen of Duisberg", a girl that has a crush on Steve and a hospital chaplain Chaplain Steve Pemberton encountered after suffering a met during his recovery from his heart attack in Germany and attack.
** The inspiration for Paulineis primarily based on came from Reece Shearsmith's own experience of a restart officer of Reece Shearsmith's.in 1992, in regards to which he stated "obviously not everything about them is the same, but yes, there is a real-life Pauline out there somewhere." He described the woman as "Cockney," "having a chunky cardigan," and "longer [ginger] hair."
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** Geoff was inspired by a time when Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith were eating at a restaurant and heard a man trying to remember a joke for his two friends but the one friend kept butting. This would be the being of the Mau Mau joke which appeared in the original stage show and would appear on Radio.
** Barbara was based on a Pre-Operative Transsexual Magician that the League saw perform, as she did her tricks she was sidetracked by talking about the surgery.
** Barbara was based on a Pre-Operative Transsexual Magician that the League saw perform, as she did her tricks she was sidetracked by talking about the surgery.
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* ActorAllusion: In season 2, comedian: Roy Chubby Brown played the [[ClusterFBomb foul mouthed]] mayor of Royston Vassey, which was named after him as "Royston Vassey" is his full name.
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* ActorAllusion: In season 2, British stand-up comedian: Roy Chubby Brown played the [[ClusterFBomb foul mouthed]] mayor of Royston Vassey, which was named after him as "Royston Vassey" is his full name.
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* ActorAllusion: In season 2, comedian: Roy Chubby Brown played the [[ClusterFBomb foul mouthed]] mayor of Royston Vassey, which was named after him as "Royston Vassey" is his full name.
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* ActorAllusion: The Mayor is played by standup Roy "Chubby" Brown, whose real name is Royston Vasey.
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* {{Jossed}}: Though it is never revealed what "special stuff" consists of, many have assumed that it is human meat. The writers have denied this, stating that they can think of "nothing more mundane than cannibalism", and indicating that it is something much worse, while also claiming it is possible to determine its identity from clues in the series.
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* YouLookFamiliar: Almost everyone in a ''single town'' looks like Creator/MarkGatiss, Steve Pemberton or Reece Shearsmith.
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** Herr Lipp is believed to be based on a hospital chaplain Steve Pemberton encountered after suffering a heart attack in Germany and Pauline is primarily based on a restart officer of Reece Shearsmith's.
** Tubbs and Edward were based on a real incident which occurred when the cast visited a small shop. The woman behind the counter acted scared, like they were about to rob her.
* YouLookFamiliar: Almost everyone in a ''single town'' looks like Creator/MarkGatiss, Steve Pemberton or ReeceShearsmith.Shearsmith.
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* YouLookFamiliar: Almost everyone in a ''single town'' looks like Creator/MarkGatiss, Steve Pemberton or Reece
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* TheOtherDarrin: Chloe and Radclyffe are played by a different pair of twins in the 2017 series than the original. This is most likely because The League themselves were unable to track down the original twins.
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* ActorAllusion: the Mayor is played by standup Roy "Chubby" Brown, whose real name is Royston Vasey.
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** The Dentons are loosely based on real relatives of Jeremy Dyson, who went to stay with his relatives who told him to make himself at home, but found himself breaking lots of rules that he didn't know existed.existed.
* YouLookFamiliar: Almost everyone in a ''single town'' looks like Creator/MarkGatiss, Steve Pemberton or Reece Shearsmith.
* YouLookFamiliar: Almost everyone in a ''single town'' looks like Creator/MarkGatiss, Steve Pemberton or Reece Shearsmith.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Korea, the show is called ''Psycho Village''.
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** The Legz Akimbo theatre troupe are based on the League members' experiences in community theatre, and Pauline is based on an actual restart officer Reece Shearsmith had.had.
** The Dentons are loosely based on real relatives of Jeremy Dyson, who went to stay with his relatives who told him to make himself at home, but found himself breaking lots of rules that he didn't know existed.
** The Dentons are loosely based on real relatives of Jeremy Dyson, who went to stay with his relatives who told him to make himself at home, but found himself breaking lots of rules that he didn't know existed.
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** The Legz Akimbo theatre troupe are based on the League members' experiences in community theatre, and Pauline is based on an actual restart officer Reece Shearsmith had. Papa Lazarou and Pop are Shearsmith's and Pemberton's respective reinterpretations of Peter Papalazarou, a Greek landlord they once shared, who was always unwilling to speak to Reece and would always demand to talk to Steve, even when he wasn't there, hence Papa Lazarou's eternal quest to speak to Dave.
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** The Legz Akimbo theatre troupe are based on the League members' experiences in community theatre, and Pauline is based on an actual restart officer Reece Shearsmith had. Papa Lazarou and Pop are Shearsmith's and Pemberton's respective reinterpretations of Peter Papalazarou, a Greek landlord they once shared, who was always unwilling to speak to Reece and would always demand to talk to Steve, even when he wasn't there, hence Papa Lazarou's eternal quest to speak to Dave.
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* ActorAllusion: the Mayor is played by standup Roy "Chubby" Brown, whose real name is Royston Vasey.
* FakeNationality: Steve Pemberton plays German Wolff Lipp.
* WriteWhoYouKnow:
** Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton once had a Greek landlord called Peter Papalazarou, who was always unwilling to speak to Reece. He would always demand to talk to Steve, even when he wasn't there, hence Papa Lazarou's eternal quest to speak to Dave. (Steve talks about it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnP9kjcLoEo here.]]
** The Legz Akimbo theatre troupe are based on the League members' experiences in community theatre, and Pauline is based on an actual restart officer Reece Shearsmith had. Papa Lazarou and Pop are Shearsmith's and Pemberton's respective reinterpretations of Peter Papalazarou, a Greek landlord they once shared, who was always unwilling to speak to Reece and would always demand to talk to Steve, even when he wasn't there, hence Papa Lazarou's eternal quest to speak to Dave.
* FakeNationality: Steve Pemberton plays German Wolff Lipp.
* WriteWhoYouKnow:
** Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton once had a Greek landlord called Peter Papalazarou, who was always unwilling to speak to Reece. He would always demand to talk to Steve, even when he wasn't there, hence Papa Lazarou's eternal quest to speak to Dave. (Steve talks about it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnP9kjcLoEo here.]]
** The Legz Akimbo theatre troupe are based on the League members' experiences in community theatre, and Pauline is based on an actual restart officer Reece Shearsmith had. Papa Lazarou and Pop are Shearsmith's and Pemberton's respective reinterpretations of Peter Papalazarou, a Greek landlord they once shared, who was always unwilling to speak to Reece and would always demand to talk to Steve, even when he wasn't there, hence Papa Lazarou's eternal quest to speak to Dave.
