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US President of Little Britain USA

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Is it fair to mention that the American President in the Sebastian Love sketchs of Little Britain USA resembles Barack Obama? 86.130.225.193 (talk) 00:10, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Marjorie Dawes's weight

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I don't think that we need a direct translation of Marjorie's weight - the 15 stone 8.5 pounds that the sketch gives us is sufficient. If you try to give a direct translation of Marjorie's weight in pounds or kilograms, it indicates that you're trying to show off. Grieferhate (talk) 09:52, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

May I remind users that the Stone is not used in the United States which an English speaking country. Also my converter doesn't have the Stone on it (I multiply the number of stone by 14) and Guinness World Records provides conversions in their book. Also English is an official language in 56 UN member states many of which use the Metric system. I would also like to remind users that this version of Wikipedia is General English instead of just British English and Little Britain is aired in other countries as well as the UK. (Tk420 (talk) 15:47, 13 May 2010 (UTC))[reply]

Dame Sally Markham

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Who in the wide world of Internet users vandalised the "Dame Sally Markham" section!? It was a brilliant section with the adequate detail for the character, then some stupid moron thought it was funny to vandalise the page. That was, in my opinion, a very stupid thing to do, and I hope that the person who did it owns up, because it's taking ages for the regular visitors to fix their damage. Grieferhate (talk) 19:48, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Catchphrase

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A catchphrase is the kind of thing which people hear a character saying and then use as a reference to this character. For example, Vicky Pollard's "Yeah but no but" is a catchphrase whereas "Dying man"'s "Not long now!" hardly counts as a catchphrase. Hence, I'm starting to weed some of these out. CLW 01:13, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference is the number of times the phrase is repeated. Vicky Pollard says her "Yeah but no but" every time, while the dying man only has one scene so indeed his quotes can hardly be called catch phrases. However, there are characters with much less screentime than Vicky, who still have some sort of a catchphrase, such as "Call me Bubbles darlin, everyone does." Keep that in mind when your weeding out. (RagingR2 22:01, 31 August 2006 (UTC))[reply]


"The Series 1 DVD contains a deleted scene showing Des visiting a children's hospital and accidentally unplugging a patient's life support machine while trying to play some cheerful music on a tape recorder. It does not take much to work out why this sketch was cut."

Doesn't it? There are sketches on many other potentially far more offensive things.....--Deglr6328 05:54, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The claim is POV and not backed up by evidence; there was a similar gag in the first Airplane film (woman singing to sick child swings her guitar and knocks her drip out; child goes into spasms but no one notices) and that didn't get cut. — Paul G 10:45, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It's only a bit of fun though - no need to take it so seriously —Preceding unsigned comment added by Snailsarefriends (talk • contribs) 14:25, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

About my change

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Today, I changed this page quite a bit (see here). I think this page is much more useful in alphabetical order (before, in was sorted by Series and then by major/minor character.) Also,

  • Since Wikipedia isn’t the encyclopedia about everything, I deleted many minor characters. My cut-off was characters who appear in only one episode, or only in the deleted scenes.
  • I didn’t have time to read much of the content. I did a lot of copy/pasting to get stuff in alphabetical order. For that reason I kept the {{tone}} tag. I did, however, try to delete any unverified claims.

If you have any comments, let me know. • Supāsaru 21:26, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Name of article

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Shouldn't this be "List of characters in Little Britain"? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 16:22, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Mrmann.jpg

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Deleted Characters

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Why did you delete the list of deleted characters? There was no problem with it so what was the point? I think you should bring it back asap! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Snailsarefriends (talk • contribs) 09:58, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • When I re-did this page, I decided that a character had to appear on at least two episodes to be included here. Wikipedia is not a list of everything, so I had to cut some people out. Deleted scenes are, in my mind, not actual episodes and do not count towards my "two-episode minimum." • Supāsaru 02:03, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well why is it you who gets to decide? What makes you the special one? Maybe in your mind deleted scenes don't matter but they do to others! And also, some characters are in the deleted scenes more than twice - so doesn't that count for your "two-episode minimum?" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Snailsarefriends (talk • contribs) 15:20, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is meant to be an encyclopedia of things that are notable. The characters found in the "canon" episodes (if one could call them "canon" episodes) have established catch-phrases and personalities and most are well-known to people in the UK and other parts of world. I don't consider deleted scenes to be canon and these characters are known only to those who own the DVDs.
Also, Wikipedia is about being bold and taking initiative. It's not that I have any special privileges. I made changes that I felt were needed to keep this article within Wikipedia's guidelines. • Supāsaru 20:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't care about Cannons or whatever, it's not just me who thinks that somebody should bring them back, alot of others do to you know! And I don't think you have any right to delete the section anyway.snailsarefriends 10:44, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Dafydd?

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Is the character's name really spelt 'Daffyd'? This would be pronounced "Daffid", whereas the name is pronounced "Davvith", which is normally (and properly) written 'Dafydd'. Salopian (talk) 09:38, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dennis Waterman

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DW didn't write and sing the feem toon to Minder. His then wife wrote the song. see DW's page Saintmesmin (talk) 18:10, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Characters or sketches?

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If I'm not mistaken, the characters are never seen out of their sketches (eg, a character from one sketch never interacts with a character from another), so would this work better as a list of recurring sketches, rather than a list of characters? For example, rather than have separate entries for Mr Mann, Roy, and Margaret, why not a single entry for "Roy's shop" or something. Stevage 01:03, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Harvey Pincher fiancée

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Please, do you know the name of the actress, who played Harvey Pincher´s fiancée and later his wife? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.177.131.218 (talk) 16:35, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I found it myself. Her name is Samantha Power.89.177.131.188 (talk) 13:51, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Lou and Andy!

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Wierdly these two were missing!!!! I've added them in. Jubilee♫clipman 00:32, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Alphabetical somewhat random

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Having found both Lou and Andy separately and under their surnames, I looked at other charcacters to see if this logic was applied elsewhere: it isn't. Some are under first name and some under last name. The logical method for ordering the names should surely use the name they are commenly known by, and the most important name if there are two or more. Lou and Andy are always considered together by that name, so they should be under L for Lou (since they are equally important and Lou is first). Thoughts?

...actually Lou Todd was missing entirely until I wrote my entry! Jubilee♫clipman 00:58, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal

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There is someone who keeps deleting the Bubbles DeVere link and replacing it with some defaming and horribly cruel story about someone called "Candice." I can only guess that it is cyber bullying in disguise. It's happened before, and I think it's the same person. I would like to at least try to bring it to attention, and hopefully get it dealt with. Grieferhate (talk) 21:32, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Gary and Jason's Surnames

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I found out that Gary and Jason both have surnames, if you listen carefully to the dinner sketch or if you have the series one scriptbook, Jason says to Gary's mother "I'll get it for you Mrs. Leigh." So Gary's surname is Leigh. Jason's was mentioned in the Series two deleted scene in where Mrs. Leigh says to Gary; "I saw Jason Valtrey's mum." So that means Jason's surname is Valtrey. Do you think we should add this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.200.166.235 (talk) 06:51, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Uncle Albert Hall

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Any proof that the joke here is supposed to be Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey as the article claims? I had always presumed it was referring to Uncle Albert but without a reference either way it would surely be better delinked or pointed at Royal Albert Hall instead. Keresaspa (talk) 01:16, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling of Sir Bernard's surname

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There seems to be some confusion over the spelling of the surname of the character Sir Bernard Chumley vs Cholmondeley. Although his surname is a homophone of the civil parish of Cholmondeley in Cheshire we do see his the name spelled Chumley on the blue plaque by the character's front door and on the film posters inside his flat, in the sketches in which he appears, and we also see it spelled Chumley on the BBC's website. Tk420 (talk) 21:29, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Sir Bernard Chumley nuance

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It may be worthwhile to mention the background music playing on the radio in one or more sketches. It is the Adagietto From Symphony number 5 by Gustav Mahler. This is the signature tune of the Visconti film Death in Venice (1971) based on the 1912 book by Thomas Mann. The film is well known as an indulgent excuse to exploit young male beauty from the older homosexual perspective. It seems that the choice of this music was a deliberate choice to summon the correct aura or Sir Bernard evoked in the scene - a tragic homosexual artiste longing for a younger male companion. 82.43.88.129 (talk) 22:43, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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