It just seems so... "British." I remember an episode of Fawlty Towers ending with John Cleese about to use a garden gnome as a weapon.
Was he being attacked with Rasberries?
First thing I thought of, the episode ends with Basil marching off with intentions of inserting a large garden gnome into the bumbling contractor O'Reilly.
I still can't believe they only made 12 episodes. It seems like there were 30. I guess the writing was so tight that each episode carried a lot of punch.