The Mighty Boosh
TV Show • 2004 • Comedy
ReportThe Mighty Boosh is a British comedy television show created by Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and others. The Mighty Boosh is a comic fantasy containing humour and pop-culture references. Episodes often featured elaborate musical numbers in different genres, such as electro, heavy metal, funk, and rap. The show has been known for popularising a style called "crimping"; short a cappella songs which are present throughout all three series. Julian Barratt wrote the music within the show, and performs it with Noel Fielding. Fielding also designed many of the show's graphics and artwork.
The TV series has many animated sequences, puppets and special effects. Barratt has said that he approached Fielding with the idea of doing a show like The Goodies, as if it were a complete "world" rather than simply a sketch show. Barratt and Fielding play many of the recurring and one-off characters themselves, with other characters being played by other Boosh members Rich Fulcher, Dave Brown, and Michael Fielding.
This tv show contains 30 potentially triggering events.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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There are no specifically transgender characters. Old Gregg and Eleanor could both be interpreted as transgender, Old Gregg is a gender non-conforming man who has a vagina and Eleanor is a female character played by a man and is accused of being transgender, and they are both seen as sexual perverts and in the case of Old Gregg, predators.
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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transexual is used but im a trans man and dont mind it
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Abuse
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howard displays stalker tendencies towards mrs gideon
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Howard is abused by his coconut girlfriend
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the shamans devel in drug use
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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VinceNoir
you do not see the alcohol abuse take place. however, in s2, ep3 (nanageddon) Naboo comes home drunk and passes out on the sofa.
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an evil crack addicted fox is thrown into a garbage disposal and crushed
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Are animals abused?
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S1
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Howard has a fight with a kangaroo in a boxing ring.
(the kangaroo is not real, it is a model of some sort)
(the kangaroo is not real, it is a model of some sort)
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Is there a dead animal?
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There is a taxidermy fox and it is implied that a gorilla head is real. You never see an animal die, though.
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Does a pet die?
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S1
Bollo, a gorilla, comes close to dying and it is confirmed that he was supposed to die but the grim reaper killed the wrong person. Bollo is not a pet, at that point he is a zoo animal and is later a shaman’s familiar, but his role is sometimes that of a pet.
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Are there spiders?
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In ‘The Priest and the Beast’
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Are there snakes?
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eels
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Is there pedophilia?
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There is no pedophilia, but a character played by a child (6-8 years old) is described as a ‘sexually deranged being’, but it is clear that the character is an adult and an alien.
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Is rape mentioned?
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The Hitcher consistently threatens to rape Howard. It is also implied that the characters Old Gregg and Eleanor rape or attempt to rape Howard.
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Vince gets many unwanted advances and is threatened with rape numerous times
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Lester Corncrake’s sentient, decapitated head is raped by Tony Harrison on screen. There is no nudity and it is entirely absurd since neither one has genitals or hands. They also never actually touch.
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Is someone burned alive?
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extreme sunburn
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Is someone buried alive?
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Howard's me Vince are buried to their necks in the desert to be killed
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Is there amputation?
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VinceNoir
in s2, ep4 (fountain of youth) a character is shown to cut his own hand off. it is not gory however as you would expect, he is pretty distressed with the pain he is in.
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Does a head get squashed?
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hyperkineticrabbitything
someone gets decapitated in the party episode though, its cartoonish and entirely played for laughs
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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In the first episode, a kangaroos large testicles are shown being squeezed on screen causing agony to win a fight.
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Is someone tortured?
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unless you count Howard on the daily
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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hyperkineticrabbitything
used two or three times through the course of the show, the first time is when vince and howard are doing a training montage in season one, second time is when saboo and the little pink guy are flying on a carpet
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Sid
Howard pretty much every episode
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Does someone cheat?
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606Pigeons
In addition - It is clear that Dennis regularly cheats on his wife and it’s discussed multiple times throughout the episode.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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howie
an entire episode where the character Howard moon dies and comes back as a ghost
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Is there a shower scene?
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Sid
The fountain of youth is a shower
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Is someone possessed?
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Naboo possesses somebody to talk to vince
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Sid
An Eskimo and tony Harrison
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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gothiccobweb
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when Vince mentions Black Lake to the fishermen, one of them can be seen to wet himself.
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Is there farting?
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The Crack Fox audibly farts and the smell knocks Vince unconscious.
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Howard gets a very expensive, rare record. however Vince is peer pressured into biting into the record causing it to smash.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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a mini submarine is injected into Vince when he is infected with a jazz cell
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Howard gives himself a Chinese burn
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Ieshawithaneye
in the first episode ing the boxing ring vinces uncle (?) this old man calls Howard the R word and maybe said in a couple more episodes (?)
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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gothiccobweb
this is a very fantastical show, much of it is very unrealistic and pretty wild. not in a scary way though, in more of an imaginative way. definitely worth watching, it is a firm favourite of mine. just wonderful <3
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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hyperkineticrabbitything
Howard is on occasion shown to be insecure about his face
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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hyperkineticrabbitything
howard and vince looking directly into the camera in the party episode, happens when theyre talking about how old they are. there are frequent fourth wall breaks in the first season as well
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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kscience
the r word is used at least twice
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Ieshawithaneye
the entire old greg episode
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howie
Vince is commonly referred to as a woman but is played for laughs and no one minds
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Does an LGBT person die?
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hyperkineticrabbitything
vince and howard both face situations where they might die but never do, never because of their sexualities (howard is ambigously bi and vince is overtly bi)
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Is there blackface?
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hyperkineticrabbitything
first in the jungle episode, after howard and vince seperate. and basically the entire spider and the priest episode. old gregg also kind of looks like hes in blackface but hes just green and its the lighting
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
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gothiccobweb
there is a scene where it’s suggested that Howard has been bumming a fox however nothing is actually shown or confirmed.
in S1 E2, Vince goes on a date with a panda but nothing really comes of it.
in S1 E2, Vince goes on a date with a panda but nothing really comes of it.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Social
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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howie
every episode ends on a relatively good note
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Does a car crash?
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606Pigeons
It is implied in a credits scene that Naboo and Bollo hit Bryan Ferry with a car. There is no serious injury.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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S1
It is implied in a credits scene that Naboo and Bollo hit Bryan Ferry with a car. There is no serious injury.
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Is there gun violence?
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S3
E1
Someone is shot, but is not injured because he has a bulletproof elbow patch in his pocket.
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