Has become a Cult Classic after a long-delayed DVD release, having only lasted 13 episodes.
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- Art Shift: The background elements are changed to a more line-based "engraving" style during "Diary of a Victorian Lady Detective".
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Mr. Hell's default outfit.
- Bait-and-Switch: The 'Golden Baby' skits combine this with Deus ex Machina to produce positive results from negative situations, including what could have been a prison rape joke.
- Basement-Dweller: Tommy Tommorrow is a Manchild who thinks he's in the far off year of 2001. Reacting to everything as if it were from a science fiction movie and apparently hasn't learned to use the bathroom until recently.
- Big Bad: Without a doubt, Mr. Hell. In the final episode, it's revealed that he killed Serge's parents
- Black Comedy
- Bland-Name Product: One pub is advertising "Giddiness" with a similar font to Guinness.
- Break the Cutie: The "Hellathon" episode was dedicated to trying to make Pepito turn from a Wide-Eyed Idealist into someone who sees that Humans Are Bastards. It works.
- Catchphrase: Serge, whenever his Berserk Button is pushed, screams, "It was YOU!"
- "But alas, it is 1888, and I am but a woman who..."'
- Disproportionate Retribution: One skit involves a man being annoyed by another person's ringtone. His solution? Beat his head in with his Cell Phone in order to kill him. It doesn't work and the ending implies he got sent to a mental asylum.
- Deconstructive Parody: "Diary of a Victorian Lady Detective" is this to novels of that very ilk, with particular emphasis on the era's attitude towards women.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Mr Hell's insurance company boss in episode 10 is a Jerkass Bad Boss who encourages selling insurance that (theoretically) shouldn't pay out. His only saving grace is his affection for his family — so when Hell and his temporary comrade Scarlet trick him into signing away his company he is convinced to off himself to support them.
- Evil Brit: Mr. Hell
- Female Angel, Male Demon: The episode "From Here to Paternity" reveals that Mr. Hell has an illegitimate child named Damien with a female angel named Angela. This also makes Damien an example of Born of Heaven and Hell - he has the basic appearance of a devil, but with angel wings and a halo.
- Fluffy the Terrible: Serge the seal of death.
- Girl on Girl Is Hot: The main plot in one of the episodes ends this way because Mr. Hell says so.
- Gosh Darn It to Heck!: One particular teacher refers to the title character as "Mr. (beat) Heck".
- Guns Akimbo: Serge whenever he goes on a killing spree.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Remember how the above Berserk Button example said that Serge is very quick to accuse and go an a subsequent Roaring Rampage of Revenge if anyone so much as slightly resembles the hooded figure who killed his parents? It didn't use the word vaguely lightly.
- Hammerspace:
Best not to ask where Serge keeps all his firearms... - Hypocritical Humor: A cold opening has Mr Hell in disguise trying to trick the viewer into giving money for a charity to fight "This Terrible Disease". A sentient bacteria tears off his disguise and utters the Title Drop, only for Hell to utter in disgust, "You people really are the lowest form of life!" Well, morally speaking, Mr. Hell ...
- Kick the Dog: The "Hellathon" episode was full of examples. As well as a Shoot the Dog (by drowning it) ...
- Large Ham: Serge's French accent.
- Literal-Minded: When Mr. Hell says, "You kids have touched my heart" at one point, the people he was talking to literally were. Through a hatch in his suit, no less.
- Lucky Rabbit's Foot: Serge's sidekick, Lucky is a rabbit foot keyring.
- Male Gaze: Dorian Gray's arse is perfect enough to cause this.
- Manipulative Bastard: Oh, Mr. Hell, maliciously. In separate episodes he coerces a broke, jobless man into downing exotic drinks he can't pay for, and a temporary girlfriend into giving him money for strippers, under the guise of buying flowers for his 'grandmother'.
- Odd Couple: The premise of the 'Tough Cop' sketches in the Hellathon episode. The tough cop is the constant, his partners are changed for every sketch.
- Overused Running Gag: After many attempts to talk about reincarnation, Josh briefly disappears after The Reveal that he didn't really want to talk about reincarnation after all.
- Pixellation: Mr. Hell's genitals get blurred out in one episode.
- Pun: "Henry VIII...there was a guy who knew how to get good head!"
- Reincarnation: "Hi, my name's Josh, and I'd like to talk to you about reincarnation..." (dies horrible death).
- Recursive Reality: One particular episode has Mr. Hell's musings focussed on the (Heavily fictionalised for Rule of Funny) history of animation...within the context of the very animated show he resides in.
- Recycled In Space: "The Photocopy of Dorian Gray's Arse"
- Rimshot: This exchange:Queen Elizabeth II: (Reading Mr. Hell's business card) The Right Honorable Sir Frankly Mint O.B.E. and Bar. (To Mr. Hell) What's the bar for?Mr. Hell: Gathering dust, apparently. (Rimshot)
- Running Gag: "Hi, my name's Josh, and I'd like to talk to you about reincarnation..."
- Same Face, Different Name: When dealing with other people, Mr. Hell sometimes identifies himself by a different name, despite still looking like a giant red devil.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: The Victorian Lady Detective at one point dies in childbirth midway through solving a case.
- Show Within a Show: This trope is how certain sketches are linked together.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Invoked with Mr. Hell, awarding sets of school prizes to himself and thinking he can get elected president of the US by way of a comparatively immature-sounding campaign speech.
- Sophisticated as Hell: A giant squid which soliloquises on its mysteriousness before capping it off with a colloquialism about boredom and loneliness.
- Mr. Hell manages to get the entire royal family singing a drinking song, accents and all.
- Stock Footage: They reused animation a lot due to time and budget limitations. Once it was lampshaded, during a TV news report scene when two newsreaders mentioned that the show does that, followed by a repeated sequence of the newsreaders laughing.
- Tempting Fate: Josh, continuing to talk about reincarnation is just opening you up to repeating the process.
- Title Drop: The sketch at the start of every episode cues in the title sequence with someone title-dropping the series.
- Trauma Button: Seeing a silouethe that even vaguely resembles the hooded figure that killed his parents causes Serge to go into a murdeous rampage, accusing whoever owns the sillouethe of being the murderer.
- Unusual Euphemism: "What the field-marshal is going on here?"
- Values Dissonance: Invoked in "Diary of a Victorian Lady Detective". In fact, using this trope to deconstruct actual Victorian female detective novels is the entire premise of these sketches. For example, her dress blows upwards slightly during a heated chase scene, and a nearby vicar and a bishop arrest the title character for indecent exposure on those grounds (which, in those days, amounted showing an ankle).
- Waxing Lyrical: Pepito mostly talks using nothing but song lyrics ... at least until he snaps and goes on a killing rampage.
- Who Writes This Crap?!: After a round of increasingly questionable sexual exchanges during the tail end of one episode, Scarlett calls out this trope, then accuses "a gang of spotty boy virgins hiding their latent sexuality by sniggering at girlies!"
