Berserk Button: Do not mention the E-word in front of the Egg. Don't even say anything that sounds like the E-word! Disc 9 (Year Nine): "I Spy with my Little Eye...", "Bigfoot Falls", "The Statue of Liberty Caper", "Penfold Transformed!", "A Dune with a View", "Don Coyote and Sancho Penfold" The opening shots of each episode establish the setting as a darkly forested part of central Europe filled with nervous villagers and horrible creatures of the night. Comic Books Are Real: The Count's hero Tremendous Terence is a comic book star and cereal mascot but no one shows any surprise when they meet him in person. Funny Foreigner: Used repeatedly in the traveling-the-world episodes, especially the Frenchmen...er, Frenchbirds, Gaston et Pierre.

Seinfeldian Conversation: Constantly. One of the series' primary sources of humor is the characters having longwinded, often inappropriately timed tangents about minutiae (or nothing at all), usually in which one or even all parties have no idea what anyone's talking about.Ruritania: On one occasion the country (using that actual name) is referred to, because that week's adventure takes place there. It is mentioned as the name of a bank in an episode of Victor & Hugo as well. The title of the game was a parody on the title of a British comedy play No Sex Please, We're British!. Katie Nutter, Karl Scoble, Joyce Flowers, Laura Cosgrove, Helen Smith, Marie Dembinski and Helen Michael. Watson, Elena M. (2000). Television horror movie hosts: 68 vampires, mad scientists and other denizens of the late night airwaves examined and interviewed. Jefferson, North Carolina, United States: McFarland & Company. p.265. ISBN 978-0-7864-0940-2. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007 . Retrieved 30 May 2008. Falling Chandelier of Doom: In "Igor's Busy Day", Igor tries to use one of these to crush American tourists Scott and Laura. Unfortunately, he relies upon Nanny to trigger it. First, she misunderstands the command "Hit the beak" and hits Igor's beak instead of the beak of the statue which triggers the falling chandelier. Later, she realises her mistake and hits the beak of the statue... while Igor himself is under the chandelier.

Parental Substitute: Despite their subservient position, Nanny and Igor serve as surrogate parent figures to the current count with Nanny as the doting mother and Igor as the disappointed dad. Igor's Busy Day" has a joke involving Igor enlisting Nanny in triggering a Falling Chandelier of Doom for castle vistors with the instruction: "Hit the beak, Nanny!". He meant for Nanny to press the beak of a statue to activate the Booby Trap, but Nanny thought he meant his own beak. World of Funny Animals: Humans are implied to exist, though in the context of this series, they are all bird-people. The title of "No Sax Please, We're Egyptian" is a reference to the play No Sex Please, We're British, and the pharaoh who owned the Mystic Saxophone is Zootensimun XVII, a reference to American jazz saxophonist John Haley "Zoot" Sims. Alps-A-Daisy" clearly states that the series takes place in the late 1980s (1989 to be exact) and "The Rest Is History" has the first Count's servant identified as Igorth not Igor. Igor himself seems keen to meet him, implying they are seperate people.

Limited Wardrobe: The main and recurring cast members are always dressed in the same clothes. Notable in Nanny always wearing her arm in a medical sling for some reason. (One newspaper comic gives the reason: she's hiding an Embarrassing Tattoo.)