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• Accidental Innuendo: Something Lance Corporal Jones was prone to. For example, describing an mutinous American sailor being whipped -

"And that was the noise that he ejaculated while he was being flogged, sir."

• Ear Worm: Who hasn't quietly hummed the end theme while advancing with fixed bayonet during an army exercise?
• Hilarity Ensues
• Jerkass Woobie: Mainwaring is extremely pompous but it is impossible not to feel sympathy for him at times.
• Memetic Mutation: "They don't like it up 'em!" and the opening sequence with the swastika arrows aimed at Britain--this is often referenced by the tabloids (and the opening credits of Have I Got News for You) for stories about the European Union.
• Values Dissonance: When reciting 'Eenie meenie miney mo', Pike renders the second line as "Catch a nigger by the toe" which would have been the way the rhyme went both in the 1940s where the show was set and the 1960s when it was written.
  • The episode "Absent Friends", which involves the platoon trying to capture a suspected IRA member, is sometimes omitted from broadcast because of the stereotypical portrayal of the Irish. Before that, it would be left out of broadcast schedules because of The Troubles.
• The Woobie: Private Godfrey, expecially in the case of "Branded".