Line #32 Creator/FoilArmsAndHog


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Foil (Sean Finegan), Arms (Conor [=McKenna=]) and Hog (Sean Flanagan)]]
3	Foil, Arms and Hog are an Irish Comedy trio consisting of Sean Finegan, Conor [=McKenna=] and Sean Flanagan. They do in house comedy sketches for their [[https://www.youtube.com/user/foilarmsandhog/featured YouTube]] and [[https://www.facebook.com/foilarmsandhog/ Facebook]] pages, and have gone on a number of successful tours both within and outside Ireland over the last eight years.
4	Their sketches usually consist of a mixture of observational comedy, SurrealHumour and Irish references. Several of them have gone viral on well-known Irish websites, such as joe.ie and the Irish Examiner.com.
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6	Their twitter can be found [[https://twitter.com/FoilArmsAndHog?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor here]], and their official website can be found [[http://www.foilarmsandhog.ie/ here]].
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8	(And yes, Arms is [[ChewingTheScenery that guy]] from the Mc Donnells curry chips [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsQeBA-ITa8 ad]].)
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10	!! Foil, Arms and Hog contains examples of:
11	* HashtagForLaughs:
12	** The premise of “Hashtag”.
13	** Influencer Dad tends to litter his speech with these.
14	* AccentDepundent: one of the puns in "The Word Play Restaurant" doesn't really work outside an Irish accent that pronounces "sides" synonymous with "scythes."
15	* AccentuateTheNegative: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uIy100tZd0 The English Football Press]]" who are quick to emphasise what a total disaster England's World Cup campaign is, before England have even played a match. [[spoiler:Except in the theoretical scenario where England actually win the world cup, in which case [[HypocriticalHumour they say they were]] "[[BlatantLies with you every step of the way]]."]]
16	* TheAlcoholic:
17	** Everyone in “An Irish Intervention”, except main character Séan.
18	** Michael the Driving Instructor, who inevitably spends every sketch [[DrowningMySorrows Drowning His Sorrows]] over his many, many traumatic experiences.
19	** The brother played by Foil in the [=McCormack=] sketches (who seemingly gets a new name in every appearance) is never seen without a can of Guinness in hand.
20	** In "Alcohol Goes to Therapy", Alcohol describes his former friend Kevin, who he used to "meet up everyday, all day long" but who [[RecoveredAddict hasn't spoken to him in years]] ever since Alcohol "cost him his job and his family."
21	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents:
22	** Any sketch involving “The [=McCormack=] Family”, which usually revolve around parents' inability to understand social media. Also Mrs Flanagan from time to time.
23	** Deconstructed with the Influencer Dad, whose repeated sharing of his son's most vulnerable and embarrassing moments with the entire internet for his own narcissistic gratification crosses the line into outright psychological abuse.
24	* AnthropomorphicPersonification: all the time. Most often in the "X Throw a Party" sketches (days of the week, months of the year, vegetables, fruits, etc.), but also in the Meeting/Conference sketches, the Bad Relationship sketches, there's a lot. See also NationsAsPeople.
25	* AnthropomorphizedAnatomy: in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrji7a_J6UY The Parts of the Body Hold a Meeting]]", portrayed as a business meeting.
26	* AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter: Paul and Michael greeting each other in “Ceoil agus Ól”.
27	* ArtisticLicenseReligion: PlayedForLaughs in "Irish School Admissions (As an Atheist)", where a father tries to get his son into an Irish Catholic school... while having confused the tenets of Catholicism with every other world religion. And the plot of ''Film/SisterAct''.
28	-->'''Father:''' Ciaran! [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Mecca]]'s that way, for goodness' sake!
29	* BadInfluencer: Influencer Dad, naturally.
30	* BaitAndSwitch: key to the "Getting Past [Country] Immigration" sketches. For example, the Premier League showcases the popular British sport of [[WoundedGazelleGambit diving]], the herb that is controversially consumed openly in the Netherlands to the disgust of outsiders is liquorice, and the [[VodkaDrunkenski colourless, tasteless, odorless liquid]] that Russia is famous for is Novichok.
31	* BigNo: Sean's reaction in "In Irish Intervention", when he finds out his father [[spoiler:[[FelonyMisdemeanour was a lightweight]].]]
32	* BilingualBonus: The extra dialogue at the end of “Ceoil agus Ól” probably wouldn’t have gotten past Platform/YouTube’s filters if not for the fact that it was in Irish.
33	* BlackComedy: “Hair Cut”, “An Irish Intervention”, "Paper Bag Hats" and “Green Living” to name a few, but the real stand out has to be [[RefugeInAudacity “The Baby Head Clamp”.]]
34	* BrainDrain: In a sketch literally titled "Emigration Police (The Brain Drain)", the Police resort to increasingly illegal tactics to keep valuable jobs in Ireland, like threatening a doctor's mother's life, or planting drugs on potential emigrants.
35	* BreakingTheFourthWall: From the end of "The Word Play Clothes Shop":
36	-->'''Customer:''' ''[holding a fur coat]'' Excuse me, [[FurAndLoathing is this]] [[ItsFakeFurItsFine real]]?!
37	-->'''Shop Assistant:''' Oh no, none of this is real. It's not even a real shop.
38	-->''[cut to a wider shot revealing the rest of the set, microphones, and Foil reading his script off-camera]''
39	-->'''Shop Assistant:''' It's a [=YouTube=] video.
40	* TheCameo: Anne and Oisin at the end of "An English Period Drama", to demonstrate it "keeping teenagers from the living room for generations":
41	-->'''Anne:''' God, the ballgowns are beautiful.
42	-->'''Oisin:''' Urgh! ''[gets up and leaves]''
43	* ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor: in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhmiEpm6Igs Inconvenience Store Robbery]]", a robber gets so annoyed with the cashier's inability to give him all the money in the till he starts threatening to speak to the manager.
44	* {{Confessional}}: Naturally it crops up a few times:
45	** in "Quarantine Catholic Confession", Father O'Flaherty has to zoom his penitents from home using a sieve and a breadboard as a makeshift booth. [[spoiler:He ends up accidentally streaming a confession of a murder to his entire congregation]].
46	** The love interest played by Hog in "An Irish Film" is seen in one at the end of the trailer, despite the character [[ChristianityIsCatholic previously being established as a Protestant]].[[note]]However given she and Foil's character were also StarCrossedLovers, one can assume she [[ConvertingForLove Converted For Love]].[[/note]]
47	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH25DnNe8J0 Confessing Your Sins to Your Fitness Instructor]]", which features, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
48	* ContinuityNod:
49	** Intended in “Ceoil agus Ól 2”, with the reference to the Ferrari, but Foil and Arms’ roles were unintentionally switched.
50	** In "When Parents Ruin Your Holidays", one of Anne's long list of suggestions of things she could teach Oisin is driving, to which Oisin responds "Never again!", in reference to "When Parents Teach You How To Drive."
51	* CorruptTheCutie: Kevin, Mrs. Geraghty's grandson. He goes from being oblivious to or appalled by his grandma's immoral behaviour in their early sketches, to enabling it and using it for his own ends in the later ones.
52	* ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping: Parodied at the end of "When you get an Unexpected Present at Xmas", when Foil and Hog exchange generic presents and appreciate each other's thoughtlessness.
53	* CostumeDrama: Parodied in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50WOU0IHW84 An English Period Drama]]". Featuring love, class division, a local vicar, a visiting doctor, colonialism, boring dancing...
54	* {{Crossdresser}}: In “Post Festival Make-Up Tutorial” all three are decked out in make-up such as mascara, foundation and... Darth Maul face paint.
55	* CrazyWorkplace: In Hospital Chef, the uncompromising chef insists on serving garlic to a severely allergic patient, tells a patient to spit out their medication because it is not on the menu, and has threatened to quit seven times. Still, the doctor claims the hospital is lucky to have the chef.
56	* CutawayGag: Arms’ dance in “Interview with Foil and La Bullshat”.
57	* DatingWhatDaddyHates: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3f6Yuo4nys The Chairheads]]", played for laughs because the prejudiced father is a man with a chair for a head, upset his daughter is dating a "roundhead".
58	-->'''Deidre:''' Dad, you can't use the r-word, it's offensive! The politically correct term is 'human person born with a face where their chair should be'.
59	* DirtyOldMan: In “Ceoil agus Ól” Paul asks Michael does he have anything [[BilingualBonus “salach”]].
60	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "Cancelling a Gym Membership," which is apparently just like ''[[SeriousBusiness trying to leave]]'' ''[[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles the IRA]]''.
61	* DoubleStandard: PlayedForLaughs in "An English Period Drama":
62	-->'''[[{{Jerkass}} Ulysses Bretherington]]:''' Face it Elizabeth, you're seventeen, you're past your peak. I'm forty-three, I'm in my prime.
63	* DoWrongRight: in "How to Make the Perfect Protest Sign", a farmer complains about an animal rights activist's 'Meat is Murder' sign... because he's drawn a dairy cow on it.
64	-->'''Farmer:''' Now you've drawn what looks like a Friesian cow, but that'd be a milking cow, you'd never send that to slaughter. I would use maybe a Charolais or an Aberdeen Angus.
65	* DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas: Discussed in "When the Weather Ruins Everything", in which the failure for it to snow on Christmas Day is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything treated like]] [[TheLoinsSleepTonight another sort of lack of performance]]:
66	-->'''Weather:''' There's an expectation on me there to perform on the day, based on this Hollywood romantic idea ... I can't just turn it on, I need certain conditions, certain [[{{Pun}} atmosphere]].
67	* DropInCharacter: Barry in the Anne Flanagan sketches. Anne repeatedly wonders how he gets in.
68	* DublinSkanger: parodied with the "Hard Lads", who try to be these, but whose crimes never pass the PokeThePoodle level.
69	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Their early work generally featured a lot more BlackComedy and was DarkerAndEdgier, as mentioned in their Top Ten Sketches of 2009-2019. Also generally lacked their signature ''DOOMDAH!''
70	* EvilInc: In Corporate Advertising is Evil, the company has a lackadaisical attitude towards their oil tanker having crashed off the coast of Greenland, has switched to palm oil because it is cheaper, employs 7-year-olds in Bangladesh to reduce labour costs, and exploits tax loopholes.
71	* EvilOldFolks: Mrs. Geraghty from the [=Visiting/Putting=] Up With Gran sketches, whose crimes range from pickpocketing her grandson to stabbing a nurse in the leg with a knitting needle. [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain She's also prejudiced against one of her grandsons for living with another man, and another for having married a Romanian]].
72	* FelonyMisdemeanor: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbiXcYuBWB0 Prison For Annoying People]]", which features the trio sentenced to years in prison for leaving the toilet seat up, [[ItsAllAboutMe making every conversation about themselves]], and going 'tut-tut-tut' at people.
73	* TheFlapper: [[UsefulNotes/TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]] is portrayed as one in "Decades Throw a Party", complete with TwentiesBobHaircut.
74	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: in "Cancelling a Gym Membership", while Foil and Arms are engaging in HamToHamCombat in their most outrageous Northern Irish accents, Hog can be seen in the background [[MoodDissonance casually doing cardio in a flashy pink shirt]].
75	* FunnyForeigner: The German character in “Never Take an Irish Person Literally”. Also, every single character from "An Englishman Plays Risk" - represented are Britain, Ireland, United States, Spain/Catalonia, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, China, and Russia - is this, except for the character representing India, who is more of the exasperated OnlySaneMan.
76	* HappinessInSlavery: Bittles from "Paper Bag Hats" to ludicrous degrees. Simply loves being treated like shit.
77	* HaveAGayOldTime: Played with in "Decades Throw a Party", as [[UsefulNotes/TheNewTens 2010s]] fails to find it as hilarious as UsefulNotes/TheNineties:
78	-->'''1920s:''' Let's drink, dance, and be gay!
79	-->'''1990s:''' ''[[[HehHehYouSaidX snickers]]]''
80	-->'''2010s:''' Oh grow up, would you?
81	* HenpeckedHusband: Foil's character from "Ceoil agus Ól” to Shile who's not above to employ a GroinAttack on her husband.
82	* HereditaryHomosexuality: In "Coming Out", a man repeatedly tries to come out to his family over the course of twenty years, but every time gets upstaged by his brother. [[spoiler:At the end, turns out the brother is gay too. As is their granny.]]
83	* HourglassPlot: Anne and Oisin toward the end of "Isolating With Your Parents", after Oisin has spent all day doing Anne's chores, while she believes she has Coronavirus:
84	-->'''Oisin:''' Mother of god, can I not get a moment's peace? I haven't sat down all day. I am up to high-do. You'd need [[{{Catchphrase}} the patience of a saint]]. Now, have you coughed since this morning?
85	-->'''Anne:''' No I haven't.
86	-->'''Oisin:''' Do you have a temperature?
87	-->'''Anne:''' No.
88	-->'''Oisin:''' A tightness of the chest, difficulty breathing?
89	-->'''Anne:''' ''[sounding increasingly sullen]'' No.
90	-->'''Oisin:''' ''[sounding increasingly shrill]'' Any loss of smell or taste?
91	-->'''Anne:''' No.
92	-->'''Oisin:''' Are you feeling tired, loss of energy?
93	-->'''Anne:''' No.
94	-->'''Oisin:''' ''[slipping fully into Anne's voice]'' Well then there is nothing wrong with you young lady so get out of that bed and get down here this instant!
95	-->'''Anne:''' OH! YOU ARE SO ANNOYING!
96	* GoldenMeanFallacy: parodied in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tewUlulsEaU In the Interest of Balance]]". First a climate scientist is rebutted by a climate change denier who insists that the planet has been warming independent of humans, then he is rebutted by a flat earther who insists the earth isn't a planet and people are dying from falling off it, then he is rebutted by someone who believes human beings don't die at all. Then it gets silly.
97	* IgnoringBySinging: the person who, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tewUlulsEaU In The Interest of Balance]], isn't interested in an intelligent discussion is shown doing this. Although they still have the nerve to tell the host "[[RunningGag Excuse me]], [[BlatantLies I didn't interrupt you!]]"
98	* InAWorld: The premise of “Movie Voice”.
99	* IncompatibleOrientation:
100	** Played for laughs in "First Dates (Most Shocking Revelations)":
101	--->'''Kevin:''' Well I'm a teacher, and I enjoy rock climbing. What about you?
102	--->'''Joe:''' I'm a massive time waster. I have been for years, even before I was married.
103	--->'''Kevin:''' You're married?!
104	--->'''Joe:''' ''[gesturing at his wedding ring]'' She's my rock.
105	--->'''Kevin:''' You're not even gay?!?!
106	** Also how the mother in "Excuses" sees through one of her son's excuses, that he got [[TeacherStudentRomance his history teacher]] pregnant: "She's a lesbian!"
107	* IncrediblyLongNote: Hog in "Three Drunken Monks", managing to stretch the word 'sorry' out for [[https://youtu.be/rJ_YP3oGrBo?t=134 a good thirty five seconds]].
108	* InternetJerk: The subject of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opmvfn9QiVE Keyboard Commando]]"
109	--> ''Real life's not the best place to complain, to the internet is where I go''
110	--> ''I write horrible things 'cause I'm safe in my room, would I say it to your face? No.''
111	* InterruptedByTheEnd: used as the culmination of a RunningGag in "In the Interest of Balance", as every speaker on the panel gets interrupted by their predecessor, only to respond "Excuse me, I didn't interrupt you!" Then when the host starts wrapping up:
112	-->'''Host:''' Well that's about all we have time for, we've had a lot of people interrup-
113	-->'''End Card:''' ''DOOMDAH!''
114	-->'''Host:''' Excuse me, I didn't interrupt you!
115	* IrishPriest: Several. For example, Father O'Flaherty from "Quarantine Catholic Confession."
116	* ItsAllAboutMe: Pretty much the whole point of the "Narcissistic Song Collection".
117	* JobMindsetInertia: Tiernan Callaghan, who uses his newsreader voice and mannerisms in all situations, including [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REboboHMqB4 interviewing for other jobs]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixI6HFy6Qco on a date]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKPFoRq05UE giving a best man speech]].
118	* JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites: Numerous sketches:
119	** "An Irish Intervention", where the alcoholics hold an intervention for the son being a non-drinker.
120	** "Excuses", where the son and father give increasingly absurd, demeaning, and illegal excuses for what they've been doing to cover up the awful truth: they've been at mass. [[spoiler:Although this one is justified by being AllJustADream]].
121	* KissingCousins:
122	** From "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQgGJZ-Rxz8&ab_channel=FoilArmsandHog Anxious! The Board Game]]", one of the chance cards is simply "You are attracted to your cousin." Although certain commenters have noted with bemusement it's apparently only worth two points.
123	** Also in "Parents When You Get Dumped," when Anne is trying to reassure Oisin that there is "plenty more trout in the Shannon":
124	--->'''Oisin:''' Yeah, like who?
125	--->'''Anne:''' Well, Mrs. O'Toole's daughter always had a soft spot for you.
126	--->'''Oisin:''' She's my cousin.
127	--->'''Anne:''' ...[[DownplayedTrope Third cousin]]. ''[beat]'' We're a small island nation Oisin...
128	* KitschyLocalCommercial: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORfOqRn3r4A&t=7s “Hello, I’m Matts Matterson from The Mat Warehouse. I own the company, and I also do the adverts”.]] The target is probably "Mattress Mick", a Dublin mattress shop owner and self-declared "mattress pricefighter", but the premise is pretty understandable worldwide.
129	* LanguageEqualsThought: In "Different Countries Learn to Speak French." There is no French phrase for "you can't smoke in here", nor "I'd like my steak well done", but there are eighteen different words for adultery.
130	* LesserStar: Invoked in "Vaccines Throw a Party", in regards to the Pfizer-[=BioNTech=] vaccine:
131	-->'''Moderna:''' It's like Music/{{U2}}, you know, everyone knows Bono and then there are... the other guys.
132	-->'''[=BioNTech=]:''' [[GratuitousGerman Nein, nein,]] it's more like [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Simon und Garfunkel]], you know, even Stevens.
133	-->'''Moderna:''' Yeah yeah, Pfizer is Music/PaulSimon and you... You're Garfunkel.
134	-->'''[=BioNTech=]:''' [[PrecisionFStrike F*ck you]].
135	* LoveDodecahedron: in "Will Northern Ireland and Ireland Get Back Together?", where the relations between the [[UsefulNotes/BritainVersusTheUK constituent countries of the UK]], the Republic of Ireland, and the European Union are portrayed as a set of overlapping current or former polyamorous relationships as displayed on a [[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]] or Jeremy Kyle-esque show. It gets convoluted quickly.
136	* {{Luvvies}}: Richard Chandley III from "The Military Capture an Actor", the archetypical luvvie actor.
137	* MissConception: parodied in "Paper Bag Hats" as after Mary reveals she's pregnant, her fellow whore asks if she didn't "use precautions":
138	-->'''Mary:''' I did!
139	-->'''Other Whore:''' Oh did you really now. Did you sit on a cold stone wall?
140	-->'''Mary:''' Yes.
141	-->'''Other Whore:''' Did you rub a cabbage on your belly?
142	-->'''Mary:''' Yes.
143	-->'''Other Whore:''' Did you fling an egg at a baby?
144	-->'''Mary:''' Yes.
145	-->'''Other Whore:''' Did you punch a blacksmith?
146	-->'''Mary:''' Yes.
147	-->'''Other Whore:''' At midnight?
148	-->'''Mary:''' Yes.
149	-->'''Other Whore:''' Did you bury the beetroot?
150	-->'''Mary:''' Yes.
151	-->'''Other Whore:''' Put the goat's horn in the attic?
152	-->'''Mary:''' Yes.
153	-->'''Other Whore:''' Take it out again?
154	-->'''Mary:''' Yes.
155	-->'''Other Whore:''' Put it back in again?
156	-->'''Mary:''' Yes.
157	-->'''Other Whore:''' Lock the door behind you?
158	-->'''Mary:''' Yes.
159	-->'''Other Whore:''' Make him wear a condom?
160	-->'''Mary:''' ...No.
161	* MyNewGiftIsLame: Inverted in "When you get an Unexpected Present at Xmas", when Jim gets Ger a genuinely thoughtful gift, but Ger hates it because now he's pressured to reciprocate the nice gesture. Averted at the end of the same sketch, when Ger and Paul get each other equally thoughtless presents.
162	-->'''Ger:''' Why the hell would you get me a present? You're not in my family. And you're not on my pre-assigned list of present-givers.
163	-->'''Jim:''' Because I'm your friend?
164	-->'''Ger:''' No, you are a rogue present-giver. And you are upsetting the very delicate Christmas-present equilibrium.
165	-->'''Jim:''' Sorry.
166	-->'''Ger:''' And you gave it to me last-minute. So I have no time to get you something.
167	-->'''Jim:''' OK, well, will you at least open it for me?
168	-->'''Ger:''' Fine, I'll open it. Oh! Nightmare! Nightmare! It's personalised.
169	-->'''Jim:''' I thought you'd like that?
170	-->'''Ger:''' Yeah. That's the problem. I love it, ok? And now I can't just get you a tin of Roses or Lynx toiletries gift set. I have to put actual thought into your present.
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172	* NationsAsPeople: often, as in "Countries Guess Who They Are", "Brexit Divorce" and "Will Northern Ireland and Ireland Get Back Together?"
173	* NoWrongAnswersExceptThatOne: a CatchPhrase of The Snob.
174	* NorthernIrishAndNasty: Parodied in the[[https://youtu.be/i3gyQLgr8m8 "Regional Accent Discrimination"]] sketch. The Northern Irish character is offended that he keeps being stereotyped as belligerent due to his accent and mannerisms.
175	-->'''Foil:''' ''[[NoIndoorVoice [bellowing at the top of his lungs] ]]'' I'm not aggressive! I'M AN AROMATHERAPIST!
176	* NotSoAboveItAll: Anne Flanagan, often:
177	** In "Parents Teach You How to Drive", she goes from telling Oisin to ignore the driver repeatedly honking behind them to storming out of the car to "give him a piece of my mind" in a split second.
178	** In "When Parents Walk in on You Watching TV" she refuses to let Oisin watch ''Series/NormalPeople'' because of the sex scenes (while suggesting he read [[{{Irony}} a book by that Irish author]], Creator/SallyRooney [[{{Irony}} instead]]), but when she accidentally starts watching it herself she gets deeply emotionally invested. Oisin is understandably annoyed.
179	* NotThatKindOfDoctor: from "Companies Throw a Party", [=PornHub=] tries to get Dr. Pepper to investigate a suspicious rash he has, much to his confusion:
180	-->'''Dr. Pepper:''' I make cherry cola? I'm not a medical doctor.
181	-->'''[=PornHub=]:''' Fine, be like that, I'll just ask [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Oetker Dr. Oetker]].
182	* OddlySpecificGreetingCard: The sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YyUyYdu9Fo "A Greeting Card for Literally Everything"]] is set in a store that sells hyper-specific cards such as "Sorry for Embarrassing You in Front of Derek" and "Best of Luck in the Autopsy!" The customer is increasingly frustrated that despite their claim of having a card for ''every'' occasion, they don't have a simple "Happy Birthday" card he can send to his niece. [[spoiler: But they do have an "Allison, Wishing You a Wonderful 11th Birthday from your Uncle Leonard" card.]]
183	* OddNameOut: the trio's real names, which are Sean Finegan, Sean Flanagan, and... Conor [=McKenna=].
184	* OneDialogueTwoConversations: in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9CV-aQ45VE Never Take an Irish Person Literally]]". [[DeadpanSnarker Terminally sarcastic]] Irishman + LiteralMinded European = HilarityEnsues.
185	* OneWomanWail: Male version with Arms in “Border Control Live”. Once Foil and Hog begin to mime a slow motion shootout, Arms starts belting out a pitch perfect [[SingingVoiceDissonance mournful chant.]]
186	* OnlySaneMan: Darren[[note]]usually the name he's given, although he is on at least one occasion called "Tom" instead[[/note]], the son played by Hog in the [=McCormack=] sketches.
187	* OverreactingAirportSecurity: In “Border Control Live” resulting in a slow motion shootout.
188	* PaintingTheMedium: used as a source of puns in the Pun Barber:
189	-->'''Word Play Guy:''' Oh, I know what I want to get now. A tight crop.
190	-->'''Barber:''' So, something like...
191	-->''[gestures around Word Play Guy's face with his hands, the shot cropping tightly around Word Play Guy's face as he does so]''
192	-->'''Word Play Guy:''' A little less?
193	-->''[Barber moves his hands wider, widening the shot again]''
194	-->'''Word Play Guy:''' Yeah, that's starting to look good now. Could I also get a fade?
195	-->''[screen starts to FadeToBlack]''
196	* ParentalIncest:
197	** A [[CrossesTheLineTwice particularly disturbing]] example from "The Baby Head Clamp", from a father who has already put his baby daughter through the process:
198	--->'''Father:''' Well neither my wife or I is particularly good-looking, so we were worried our daughter would be the same. But now she's only eighteen months old, and already onto her second boyfriend. I tell ya, were I twenty years younger...
199	--->'''Interviewer:''' And if you weren't her father?
200	--->'''Father:''' Hmm?
201	** One of the couples in "First Dates", overlapping with SurpriseIncest: the man confesses he never knew his birth parents, only for the woman he's on a date with to reveal [[LukeIAmYourFather she is his mother]]. She agrees to see him again so long as he finishes his homework.
202	* ParentalNeglect: Implied with Barry in the Anne Flanagan sketches. According to her, his father lives in Portugal, and his mother pays so little attention to him that she doesn't mind if he goes on holiday or spends Christmas day with another family entirely.
203	* PerformanceArtist: La Bullshat, of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOuQEyz4itc Interview With Foil and La Bullshat]]".
204	* RageBreakingPoint: Arms' therapist character is usually very composed, but gets pushed over the edge by the Influencer Dad's utter obliviousness toward his son's needs. See TheReasonYouSuckSpeech below.
205	* RapidFireComedy:
206	** In “Two Bouncers on a Blind Date”, composed entirely of stereotypical bouncer quotes.
207	** All of the Word Play sketches (for example "Word Play Hotel", "Pun Barber") which exist to squeeze as many puns in a few minutes as possible.
208	** The Business Dudes sketches as well fit as many jokes and puns in as possible, although they tend to be less focused and more risque than the Word Play ones.
209	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: from "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhVT3G8vJRg An Influencer Dad Goes to Family Therapy]]", when the Influencer Dad decides his son Alexei's desire for more independence means he actually wants to start his own channel, their therapist loses it:
210	-->'''Therapist:''' No, that's not what he's saying at all! He's saying he doesn't want a social media manger he wants a father, and he needs a safe and structured space to develop as a person, and not have his most vulnerable, intimate details plastered all over the internet for your repulsive narcissistic gratification, '''you total freak.'''
211	* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Elizabeth Scornington in "An English Period Drama" is proposed marriage by local wealthy {{Jerkass}} Ulysses Bretherington, but is actually in love with the family gardener, Geoffrey.
212	* {{Scatting}}: At the end of most of their videos, to promote their tour Doomdah.
213	* SceneryPorn: Parodied in "An Irish Film":
214	-->'''Voice Over:''' An Irish Film: it's [[PeriodPiece old]]. It's [[TrueArtIsAngsty sad]]. And there's lots of unnecessary scenic shots in there [[EnforcedTrope for the Irish tourist board]].
215	* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Oisin and Barry in the Anne Flanagan sketches are always seen in school uniform, despite never being seen in school. The exception being "When Parents Ruin Your Summer".
216	* ScrewYourself: John and Jonathon from "First Dates", whose shocking revelation is that they are in fact the same person.
217	* SecretTestOfCharacter: The final challenge in "Getting Past Irish Immigration" is to properly pour a can of Guinness into a pint class. The correct answer is to refuse, since one does not drink Guinness from cans.
218	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Gerald and Stephen, respectively, from the "How to Be a Lad" sketches (as well as others).
219	* TheShrink: A recurring character played by Arms. Somewhere between the "awesome" and "well-meaning but ineffective" variants: he generally comes across as very put together and competent, but he never seems to get far with his very dysfunctional clients.
220	* SketchComedy: Obviously.
221	* SkewedPriorities: Well, maybe not skewed exactly, but still unexpected. In "Quarantine Catholic Confession", the priest is far more concerned with his parishioner possibly breaching [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic lockdown restrictions]] than any more traditional sins, such as alcohol abuse, idleness, adultery, etc. [[spoiler:Until the parishioner reveals he killed a man, which, socially distanced or not, is still a major sin.]]
222	* SleazyPolitician: [[CloudCuckooLander Jim Mohammed Everyman]] claims he'll improve unemployment by getting himself employed as Mayor, accuses his opponent of being bigoted against invertebrates, and converted to Islam to appeal to Muslim asylum seekers [[LogicBomb but also campaigns by bribing everyone in the electorate with beer]].
223	* StereotypeReactionGag: from "Regional Accent Discrimination":
224	-->'''Hog:''' ''[[[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents West Country accent]]]'' Regional accent discrimination is still at a record high. Only last week, five different people assumed I were a gardener. Now, turns out I am a gardener, but that's by the by.
225	* StraightGay:
226	** In "Tennis", a HeteronormativeCrusader father bullies his heterosexual son for preferring women's tennis, and fails to make sense of his son's StraightGay friend Gary, who prefers men's tennis. [[spoiler:Then the dad and Gary kiss at the end, suggesting the dad was ArmoredClosetGay all along]].
227	** From "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zLroelPLBw Life Hacks]]", the suggestion for being tired of your girlfriend not wanting to watch football is to get a boyfriend instead. Cue two men enthusiastically watching the football, then [[SmoochOfVictory making out in celebration]] when their team scores a goal.
228	** The two "Bouncers on a Blind Date", [[spoiler:although one of them turns out to be bisexual at the end]].
229	* StraightMan: Originally meant to be Foil, hence the nickname, but all three play the role at some point.
230	* TakeANumber: Suffered by Hog in “The Passport Office”.
231	* TomatoInTheMirror: The end of "Sandcastles", where it's revealed that Jason, Foil's character's son, is himself [[spoiler:made of sand]].
232	* TWordEuphemism: attempted by Paddy in "The Post-Xmas Sales", but it goes somewhat awry:
233	-->'''Paddy:''' Now you are under strict instructions Darren not to mention the P-word around your sister.
234	-->'''Darren:''' ...Penis?
235	-->'''Paddy:''' No, puppy!
236	-->'''Anne:''' ''[offscreen]'' I WANT A PUPPY!
237	-->'''Paddy:''' [[NeverMyFault Ah, now look what you're after doing Darren!]]
238	* ViolentGlaswegian: Defied, albeit [[IResembleThatRemark perhaps not all that convincingly]], by Foil's Glaswegian character in "Regional Accent Discrimation":
239	-->''It's an absolute disgrace, I'm sick and tired of this discrimination! People keep thinking I'm aggressive! I'M NOT AGGRESSIVE! '''[[AlwaysCamp I'M AN AROMATHERAPIST]]!'''''
240	* VolleyingInsults: in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rH3-jOIXR4 Insults]]", naturally, between two friends who've recently fallen out over one of them getting a promotion instead of the other. Also FloweryInsults.
241	* WhosOnFirst: from "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id9W8jqjTaE Vaccines Throw a Party]]":
242	-->'''Sputnik:''' ''[waving to someone at the door]'' Bye-bye, see you never!
243	-->'''Pfizer:''' Who was at the door?
244	-->'''Sputnik:''' I know, I sent them away.
245	-->'''Pfizer:''' No but who was there?
246	-->'''Sputnik:''' Exactly, so I sent them away.
247	-->'''Pfizer:''' ''Who'' was there?!
248	-->'''Sputnik:''' I know WHO was there, they didn't recognise me, so I sent them away!
249	-->'''[=AstraZeneca=]:''' I think he means the W-H-O?
250	-->'''Sputnik:''' Yes!
251	-->'''Pfizer:''' [[OhCrap Oh, for the love of...]] ''[rushing out the door]'' No no, it's okay, come back!
252	* YouJustRuinedTheShot: taken to MindScrew extents in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSuOyDZb0E One Man Play]]".
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