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4	->''"We're getting ready to go now
5	->to spend some time with [=ManBuyCow=]."''
6	-->-- '''Theme Music'''
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8	[=ManBuyCow=] is a [[{{SketchComedy}} sketch]] and [[{{Sitcom}} sitcom]] podcast written and performed by comedians Howard Long and Rufus Penzance, who [[{{AsHimself}}play versions of themselves]] living day to day, eating crisps and talking nonsense in their Great Auntie Beatrix's House while a bevy of bizarre characters seek to make their lives more interesting, often against their will. They have also got a spin-off podcast, the Adventures of Grett Binchleaf, about a [[{{HardBoiledDetective}} soft-boiled private detective]] with a crippling fear of [[{{WeaksauceWeakness}} pies]].
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12	!!The main podcast provides examples of:
13	* AwesomeAussie: Creator/DennisQuaid, blokes!
14	* AxCrazy: Nomedy Klosh, Mr Fluck and also Grandpappy Doo, [[spoiler:at least in relation to his younger brother, Johnny Doo]].
15	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Mr Fluck's 'I Like Stuff Song'. After starting off quite sweet, it takes a down turn to reveal that one of the things he likes is [[spoiler:"the stuff that comes out of babies when you squeeze them".]]
16	* BrickJoke: There is a particularly clever example based around a 'time-phone'.
17	* CanineCompanion: Nomedy Klosh and his talking dog, Doggety Dogg! [[{{ShootTheDog}} It does not go well for the dog.]]
18	* CloudCuckoolander: Mr Fluck, and also Howard, who has such a bad memory he cannot remember what Rufus does for a living
19	* CreepyUncle: Played for laughs with Uncle Mick, who [[spoiler: ruined sex for Rufus when he gave him 'the talk'.]]
20	* DepravedHomosexual: Mr Fluck. Not so evident in the first series, but in the second it becomes quite difficult to avoid – he offers his services as a 'bum inspector', enjoys getting hit in the face with sausages, wants to be Brad Pitt's underwear and would not have sex with his wife because “She didn't have a penis – at least, if she did, I couldn't find it.”
21	%% * DoubleAct: Rufus and Howard
22	* FatalAttractor: Uncle Mick – apparently every one of his wives seems to have some kind of bizarre romance-destroying problem, like being an alien or a zombie. [[{{UnreliableNarrator}} Although that may just be in his head]]. Also Bigon the demon, who managed to [[spoiler: shock 24 women to death during speed dating]].
23	* {{Fanfic}}: The Series/DoctorWho Special is this, which showcases Howard's early writing about his favourite show.
24	* GateGuardian: Bigon, the hideous but oddly sensitive Evil Minion who works the front desk of Hell.
25	* GenuineHumanHide: Grandpappy Doo did this. [[spoiler: To his brother.]] It's [[{{Black Comedy}} played of laughs]].
26	* {{Hell}}: Rufus and Howard have a staircase to it in their basement. There are Nazis on the 8463rd floor, along with the boys' own Great Auntie Beatrix, who is also a big old racist.
27	* HonouraryUncle: Uncle Dennis Quaid (or Uncle D.Q. as the boys call him).
28	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: So far the majority of the episodes have followed the pattern 'The _____ in the ______'
29	* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: Various things in the house and also Hitler's ring, which allows him to get in and out of Hell. "It isn't magic, it's SCIENCE! Magic science! With wizards on it!"
30	* KickTheDog: Not technically an example of a MoralEventHorizon but worth mentioning due to Rufus and Howard's apparent obsession with cruelty to man's best friend. Not a single episode to date has not involved dogs being beat, shot or glued to things. Needless to say, NoAnimalsWereHarmed.
31	* KnowNothingKnowItAll: In the 'How Stuff Works' section, the boys are often this however even more so with the characters Mike and Brian who take over in Series 2, Episode 6
32	* MadScientist: Uncle Norbert, who created among other things the Flashback Cupboard, The Time Fridge and a Clairvoyant Kettle
33	* MaidenAunt: Great Auntie Beatrix. Possibly. She may have been married to Uncle Mick, it's not quite clear.
34	* MillsAndBoonProse: Howard tries his hand at this and the result ends up in the [[{{ValentinesDayEpisode}} Valentines Special]]. [[{{Squick}} It does not end well.]]
35	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Tombaker Doctorwho aka Howard whose voice veers between being a decent Tom Baker impression and something entirely unique.
36	%% * PsychopathicManchild: Mr Fluck
37	* {{Pun}}: A regular feature in serious one is Fred Rubbish and Ivor Pun in 'Rubbish Pun'. It's [[{{ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin}} what it sounds like]].
38	* SummationGathering: Happens in 'The Dictator In The Dining Room', with Howard playing detective to solve the murder of [[spoiler: Hitler. Turns out, it was Hitler.]]
39	* TemporalParadox: The very first thing Howard does when he finds out the time fridge is working again is to go back in time to kill his grandfather. [[spoiler: Surprisingly, he's fine.]]
40	* TheUnfavorite – Rufus, who is an orphan and, during his childhood with Howard, had to live in the shed.
41	* VitriolicBestBuds: Rufus often mocks Howard for his supposed idiocy and poor memory whereas Howard constantly taunts Rufus for being an orphan - but they still describe each other as 'the best of all their friend' [''sic'']

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