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By the way, not related to the 1987 ''[[The Comic Strip]]'' animated series.

 

* [[Author Appeal]] -- several episodes written by Adrian Edmondson feature his long-term work partner Rik Mayall in various stages of makeup and femininity, a trope often seen in their other works.

* [[Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word]] -- In "Space Virgins From The Planet Sex" the kidnapped earthmen are informed that they will not be referred to as sex slaves, although until every woman aboard the ship is pregnant they will be forced to have sex with those who have yet to conceive.

* [[Blah Blah Blah]] -- "Five Go Mad In Dorset"

* [[Bolivian Army Ending]] -- "A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques"

* [[Cardboard Boxes]] -- spoofed in "The Bullshitters"

'''Boy''': Pernod? }}

* [[Contrived Coincidence]] -- a brilliant lampshading in "Five Go Mad in Dorset", when the Five see the villains must have vanished into a secret passage and are wondering how to open it. "I'll try tugging this branch three times!" says Julian, selecting a random branch and doing so, which of course works.

* [[The Danza]]

* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: "The Beat Generation", "The Hunt for Tony Blair"

* [[Dying Dream]] -- {{spoiler|"Les Dogs"}}

* [[Exact Eavesdropping]] -- "Five Go Mad In Dorset"

* [[Fluffy the Terrible]] -- Jayne and Mr Lovebucket in "Mr Jolly Lives Next Door"

* [[Fruit of the Loon]] -- "Meryl Streep" in "The Strike"

* [[Historical Re Creation]] -- "Summer School" is an early send-up of the genre.

* [[Ho Yay]] -- Bonehead and Foyle in "The Bullshitters"

** Colin Grigson and Vim Fuego in "Bad News Tour/More Bad News"

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] -- Spoofed in "Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown", when the Seventies TV detective's aiming skills stop working because he's shooting at a Nineties TV detective who uses different conventions.

* [[Left It In]] -- In ''More Bad News'', Vim/Alan breaks the fourth wall and threatens to sue the producers if they leave in a particularly embarrassing item about him. Unfortunately for him he later gets beaten up and left in a coma, so the item stays in.

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