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* FormerTeenRebel: Sue in "Mercy Dash" is a nice old lady who isn't ''especially'' straitlaced but is ''very'' cautious, including not wanting to drive on the motorway. When Malcom persuades her to do so, she laments that going back onto the normal road feels like coming off speed.
-->'''Malcom''': Have you, er, ''done'' speed?\\
'''Sue''': I was a student nurse in the sixties, Malcom, I've done a lot of things.
-->'''Malcom''': Have you, er, ''done'' speed?\\
'''Sue''': I was a student nurse in the sixties, Malcom, I've done a lot of things.
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** Both Kerry and Adele -- so long as she's smart enough to accept she's beaten and play along with the blackmail, [[WhatAnIdiot which is by no means guaranteed]] -- in "Wysinnwyg".
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** Both Kerry and Adele -- so long as she's smart enough to accept she's beaten and play along with the blackmail, [[WhatAnIdiot which is by no means guaranteed]] guaranteed -- in "Wysinnwyg".
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* BritishStuffiness: Edward's drives the plot in "A Flock of Tigers".
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* BritishStuffiness: Edward's Edmund's drives the plot in "A Flock of Tigers".
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* ContinuityNod: In "A Flock of Tigers", Edward reveals that he is a bathtub salesman trading under Willard & Son. In the present day, Willard & Son is the company which the characters in "Wysinnwyg" and "Hot Desk" work for, and from which Noel in "Red-Handed" was just fired.
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* ContinuityNod: In "A Flock of Tigers", Edward Edmund reveals that he is a bathtub salesman trading under Willard & Son. In the present day, Willard & Son is the company which the characters in "Wysinnwyg" and "Hot Desk" work for, and from which Noel in "Red-Handed" was just fired.
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* AnalogyBackfire: Eileen, trying to claim neutrality in a ''Star Wars'' metaphor, asks if she can't just be a farmer, and whether there were farmers in ''Star Wars''. Lizzie awkwardly says there ''were'', but does not tell Eileen what became of them.
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* GrewASpine: Eileen, by the end of "The Rebel Alliance", is finally able to stand up and say to her daughter that her husband is completely wrong.
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* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords: Eileen is not only bumped down to the loser's table, but her part in her daughter's wedding reception is saying a small, brief poem about apples. Lizzie figures it's another part of Yvonne's revenge, having searched the internet for the most meaningless guff she could find.
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Sue is helpful, but not passive about it, even if you take her actions at face value; she takes charge of the situation pretty quickly, offering more help than Malcom wants
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** Sue in "Mercy Dash" seems like one but is a lot sharper than she appears.
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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: In "Mercy Dash", Sue repeatedly mentions that Malcom will have to pay her back before Wednesday or they'll stop her water, and at one point that her son thinks she's a "silly old fool" and is looking for an excuse to take her bank account away. [[spoiler: While we don't learn exactly when Sue realised the truth, it turns out to be at least partly [[InvokedTrope invoked]].]]
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* NotSoDifferent: The conclusion of "English For Pony Lovers" has Elke and Lorna realise that they are Not So Different.
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* {{Crossover}}: A sketch in series 8 of ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'' depicts the toast given by mother-of-the-bride Yvonne that Lizzie and Eileen talk over in "The Rebel Alliance". It's just as insufferable as we were led to believe.
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* CrazyPrepared: The burglar in "Red Handed" is so much in control throughout the episode that it's easy to forget the robbery has gone wrong and what we're witnessing is his back-up plan. What a plan it is.
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* CrazyPrepared: The burglar in "Red Handed" is so much in control throughout the episode that it's easy to forget the robbery has gone wrong and what we're witnessing is [[IndyPloy his back-up plan.plan]]. What a plan it is.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Both Henry in "Red-Handed" and Kerry in "Wysinnwyg" know the value of seeming nice, friendly and non-threatening.
* ExtremeDoormat:
** Noel in "Red-Handed".
** Eileen in "The Rebel Alliance" shows the hurt that can be caused when someone like this won't take sides even when one person is obviously in the wrong.
** Sue in "Mercy Dash" seems like one but is a lot sharper than she appears.
** Noel in "Red-Handed".
** Eileen in "The Rebel Alliance" shows the hurt that can be caused when someone like this won't take sides even when one person is obviously in the wrong.
** Sue in "Mercy Dash" seems like one but is a lot sharper than she appears.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Lampshaded in "The Rebel Alliance"; while it doesn't seem possible that [[ObnoxiousInLaws monster-in-law Yvonne]] could have any reason to banish the meek mother of the other bride to the bottom table, it's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:her husband refused to attend their daughter's lesbian wedding, and she refused to take sides in the ensuing argument.]] Then even Lizzie reluctantly sees Yvonne's side of things.
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* MinimalistCast: Every episode is basically a two-hander. John Finnemore acts as announcer, setting the scene and throwing in the odd "Two days later" as required, but that still only brings the number of voices in an episode to three. (And "The Goliath Window" and "The Wroxton Box" really do feature only two voices since Finnemore plays one of the main parts as well.) In a few episodes, there are additional voices but they are uncredited.
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* MinimalistCast: Every episode is basically a two-hander.two-hander, as the name suggests. John Finnemore acts as announcer, setting the scene and throwing in the odd "Two days later" as required, but that still only brings the number of voices in an episode to three. (And "The Goliath Window" and "The Wroxton Box" really do feature only two voices since Finnemore plays one of the main parts as well.) In a few episodes, there are additional voices but they are uncredited.
* NeutralityBacklash: The dark side of Eileen's ExtremeDoormat nature is revealed near the end of "The Rebel Alliance". When [[spoiler:her homophobic husband refused to attend their daughter's wedding]], she wouldn't take sides against him, making her damned by association.
* NeutralityBacklash: The dark side of Eileen's ExtremeDoormat nature is revealed near the end of "The Rebel Alliance". When [[spoiler:her homophobic husband refused to attend their daughter's wedding]], she wouldn't take sides against him, making her damned by association.
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* PointyHairedBoss: Adele in "Wysinnwyg", so very much.
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Yvonne in "The Rebel Alliance" is a stereotypical battleaxe mother-in-law micromanaging the wedding and apparently desperate to overshadow the ''other'' mother of the bride. [[spoiler:Tess's parents aren't guiltless either, though -- her homophobic father refused to even attend, and her mother made things worse by not disowning his decision because she didn't want to take sides.]]
* PointyHairedBoss: Adele in "Wysinnwyg", so very much. Even [[spoiler:Kerry, as she schemes to get promoted above her,]] wants her to keep her middle-management job because she's such a useful idiot.
* PointyHairedBoss: Adele in "Wysinnwyg", so very much. Even [[spoiler:Kerry, as she schemes to get promoted above her,]] wants her to keep her middle-management job because she's such a useful idiot.
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* RetiredBadass: Henry in "Red-Handed" used to be an insurance actuary. Following his retirement and the death of his MoralityChain wife, he decided on a whim to apply his particular set of skills to learning to be a GentlemanThief, which he seems to be very good at.
* RuleOfThree: Adele asks Kerry three times if she's "wearing a wire". It's unclear whether the first time she asked [[spoiler:is what gave Kerry the idea to start recording their conversations, or if she was already doing so.]]
* RuleOfThree: Adele asks Kerry three times if she's "wearing a wire". It's unclear whether the first time she asked [[spoiler:is what gave Kerry the idea to start recording their conversations, or if she was already doing so.]]
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Adele in "Wysinnwyg" ''almost'' ruins Kerry's plan by being even dumber than expected, but the only effect of this is to exasperate Kerry into giving her an uncharacteristic MotiveRant that helpfully explains the plot to the listener.
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* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler:Mike]] and [[spoiler:Griselda]] in "Hot Desk," both regarding their mutual AccidentalMisnaming and their desire to ask one another out.
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* ButtMonkey: Not only does Joel get on [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption the wrong side]] of a MagnificentBastard burglar in "Red Handed", but he is by far the one who suffers the most from the events of "Wysinnwyg", an episode ''he's not even in''.
* CallBack: At one point in "Hot Desk", the receptionist makes a phone call to a superior. We only hear the receptionist's side of the conversation, but the superior is strongly implied to be Adele from "Wysinnwyg".
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* BrokenRecord: The number of times Joel says "I'm calling the police!" in "Red Handed."
-->'''Henry:''' You know you say that rather a lot, it's becoming a sort of CatchPhrase...
* ButtMonkey: Not only does Joel get on [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption the wrong side]] of a MagnificentBastard burglar in "Red Handed", but it happens immediately after heis by far the one who suffers the most from loses his job to the events of "Wysinnwyg", an episode ''he's not ''[[TheGhost he doesn't even in''.
* CallBack: At one point in "Hot Desk", the receptionist makes a phone call to a superior. We only hear the receptionist's side of the conversation, but the superior is strongly implied to be Adele from "Wysinnwyg".appear in]]''.
-->'''Henry:''' You know you say that rather a lot, it's becoming a sort of CatchPhrase...
* ButtMonkey: Not only does Joel get on [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption the wrong side]] of a MagnificentBastard burglar in "Red Handed", but it happens immediately after he
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* TheCon: [[spoiler:"Mercy Dash"]]
* ContinuityNod: In "A Flock of Tigers", Edward reveals that he is a bathtub salesman trading under Willard & Son. In the present day, Willard & Son is the company which the characters in "Wysinnwyg" and "Hot Desk" work for.
* ContinuityNod: In "A Flock of Tigers", Edward reveals that he is a bathtub salesman trading under Willard & Son. In the present day, Willard & Son is the company which the characters in "Wysinnwyg" and "Hot Desk" work for.
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* TheCon: [[spoiler:"Mercy Dash"]]
Dash"]] is an attempted one that goes wrong. "Henry" is mistaken for a con artist in "Red Handed", but he's just an extremely well-prepared and smoothly-spoken burglar.
* ContinuityNod: In "A Flock of Tigers", Edward reveals that he is a bathtub salesman trading under Willard & Son. In the present day, Willard & Son is the company which the characters in "Wysinnwyg" and "Hot Desk" workfor.for, and from which Noel in "Red-Handed" was just fired.
* ContinuityNod: In "A Flock of Tigers", Edward reveals that he is a bathtub salesman trading under Willard & Son. In the present day, Willard & Son is the company which the characters in "Wysinnwyg" and "Hot Desk" work
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* NoNameGiven: "Henry" is eventually revealed to be a fake name in "Red Handed", but we never learn his real one. Even the credits say "John Bird as... let's call him Henry".
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* TomatoSurprise: In "Goliath Window", the fact that Mark and Luke [[spoiler: are brothers]], and later in the episode, that [[spoiler: they are identical twins]].
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* TomatoSurprise: In "Goliath Window", the fact that Mark and Luke [[spoiler: are brothers]], and later in the episode, that [[spoiler: they are identical twins]].twins]].
* ToWinWithoutFighting: [[spoiler:Kerry's]] modus operandi in "Wysinnwyg", complete with the appropriate reference to ''Literature/{{The Art of War|SunTzu}}''.
* ToWinWithoutFighting: [[spoiler:Kerry's]] modus operandi in "Wysinnwyg", complete with the appropriate reference to ''Literature/{{The Art of War|SunTzu}}''.
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* MainstreamObscurity: In Universe. The Mainstream Obscurity of ''Literature/TheArtOfWar'' is a plot point in "Wysinnwyg".
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** In "Wysinnwyg", the fact that Kerry has read ''Literature/TheArtOfWar''.
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