History Radio / AbsolutePowerBBC

* AcceptableTargets: One ZanyScheme initially involves [[ItMakesSenseInContext implying an (imaginary) Japanese businessman is buying a national treasure,]] and must be stopped.
--> '''Reza''': The Japanese are not beloved of the Brits, but they don't seem quite adequate as objects of resentment and vilification.
--> '''Charles''': Did you say Japanese?
--> '''Martin''': I meant [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys French.]]

* BadBadActing: The [[LandOfMyFathersAndTheirSheep obviously Welsh]] [[BritishFootyTeams footballer]] Terry Pine saying on television "I'm English and I want to play for England."

* BreakoutCharacter Charles and Martin were [[EnsembleDarkhorse]]s only tangentially attached to the George Cragge stories. The firing that lead to their own business- and series- happened in the last one.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Gareth David-Lloyd from [[Torchwood]] appears in one episode as a young footballer.

* RetroactiveRecognition: {{Torchwood's}} Gareth David-Lloyd appears in one episode as a young footballer.

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/Torchwood Gareth David-Lloyd]] appears in one episode as a young footballer.

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/Torchwood Ianto]] played football before working at [[Series/Torchwood Torchwood.]]

* TropeaholicsAnonymous: Charles' sardonic description of a circle session:

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: In the radio series, Maurice the waiter, who's name Charles always pronounces "Morris".

* RefugeInAudacity: "Crash and Burn"

--> '''Martin''': I meant French.

* {{Sequelitis}}: A particularly ghastly InUniverse example: TheDiaryOfAnneFrank Two". According to Jamie "it's sort of a sequel".

* {{Sequelitis}}: A particularly ghastly InUniverse example: TheDiaryOfAnneFrank Two" According to Jamie "it's sort of a sequel".

* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: A meta-example, demonstrating the perennial difficulties of writing dialogue even in other English dialects. The occasional characters from the United States speak in slightly off ways. One uses "nous", British slang, and another claims she spent time "reading" a subject at university and describes Al Gore as "standing" for election, phrases uncommon in mainstream UsefulNotes/AmericanEnglish. (It's possible that the latter studied in the UK, which would account for the trans-Atlantic phrasing. But it's never mentioned in the episode.)

* JerkAss: Jamie

** Alison is much smarter in the earlier episodes. Charles says of her in the first episode, "Most of the young people here don't know their arse from their elbow. But at least with Alison you know she'll join [[BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats The Royal Arse Society]] and get out a book on elbows from the library." By Series Two, he's referring to her as "the sixth form girl".

* TheNicknamer: Charles, who describes Alison and Jamie as "the sixth form girl and the spiv." He has also referred to Jamie as "my office boy", and Kat as "the servant".

* TheNicknamer: Charles, who describes Alison and Jamie as "the sixth form girl and the spiv." He has also referred to Jamie as "my office boy".

* PlayingSick: Marqueiro Hennell Disease.