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* AmbiguouslyGay: Stephen.
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--> '''Afie''': "If he's 23 and she's 15, what would it feel like?" ''Illegal'' Chantelle!

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--> '''Afie''': *''Reading essay''* "If he's 23 and she's 15, what would it feel like?" ''Illegal'' Chantelle!

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* {{Adorkable}}: Alfie oh so much. Rosie as well. Stephen also has shades of it.

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* {{Adorkable}}: Alfie Alfie, oh so much. Rosie as well. Stephen also has shades of it.it.
* BecomingTheMask: Rosie ends up [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask transforming]] into Pickwell ([[BriefAccentImitation including the Scottish accent]]) when she becomes deputy headmistress, [[spoiler: after Pickwell's "supposed" death]]. She snaps out of it at the [[StatusQuoIsGod end of the episode]].



** [[spoiler: This goes nowhere as of Series 2, as Rosie reveals she is a LipstickLesbian]].

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** [[spoiler: This goes nowhere as of Series 2, as Rosie reveals she is a LipstickLesbian]].she's now [[BiTheWay dating a]] [[LipstickLesbian woman]]]].



* BrainBleach: Alfie, Rosie and Joe's reaction to hearing Alfie's dad and Professor Green having sex upstairs on Alfie's bed.
** Followed by Alfie's dad then revealing TooMuchInformation shortly afterwards;
--> '''Alfie's Dad''': I'm just going to put these sheets in the wash. I tried to keep a lid on it, but it's been a while; Postman Pat's fine, Mrs Goggins took the brunt of it...



* HotForTeacher: Chantelle for Alfie, much to his annoyance.
--> '''Afie''': "If he's 23 and she's 15, what would it feel like?" ''Illegal'' Chantelle!



* LipstickLesbian: [[spoiler: Rosie]], much to Alfie's distress and misery.

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* LipstickLesbian: LipstickLesbian / BiTheWay: [[spoiler: Rosie]], much to Alfie's distress and misery.misery.
** [[spoiler: However, it's implied the reason they later broke up was because her partner believed she wasn't [[ExperimentedInCollege actually comfortable]] with her new sexuality]].



* PetTheVillain: How Alfie reacts to Frank, following [[spoiler: Pickwell's (faked) suicide]].

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* PetTheVillain: [[PetTheDog Pet The Villain]]: How Alfie reacts to Frank, following [[spoiler: Pickwell's (faked) suicide]].




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* SadistTeacher: Pickwell.
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* OneOfTheKids: Alfie is this in relation to his class. He gets bullied by some students and even [[TeacherStudentRomance gets constantly propositioned by another.]] The first episode even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by not revealing that he is actually a teacher until the end of the cold open.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Alfie oh so much. Rosie as well. Stephen also has shades of it

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* {{Adorkable}}: Alfie oh so much. Rosie as well. Stephen also has shades of itit.
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Pickwell]], [[spoiler: except she isn't...]]



* PetTheVillain: How Alfie reacts to Frank, following [[spoiler: Pickwell's (faked) suicide]].





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\n* RunForTheBorder: [[spoiler: Pickwell at the end of ''The Funeral'']].
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** Alfie is also sometimes this (in one episode he raps part of "Gangsta's Paradise" by {{Coolio}}. So is ''Pickwell'' of all people, who responds to Alfie's rap by quoting TupacShakur.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The Headmaster is a [[LesbianVampireKillers Lesbian Vampire Killer]], there's Treacher aka Gollum from [[HowNotToLiveYourLife How Not To Live Your Life ]]and [[GreenWing Green Wing's]] Sue White.
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** [spoiler: This goes nowhere as of Series 2, as Rosie reveals she is a LipstickLesbian].

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** [spoiler: [[spoiler: This goes nowhere as of Series 2, as Rosie reveals she is a LipstickLesbian].LipstickLesbian]].



* LipstickLesbian: [[spoiler: Miss Gulliver]], much to Alfie's distress and misery.

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* LipstickLesbian: [[spoiler: Miss Gulliver]], Rosie]], much to Alfie's distress and misery.

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* BelligerentSexualTension: Alfie and Rosie, particularly throughout in the series finale.

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* BelligerentSexualTension: Alfie and Rosie, particularly throughout in the finale of series finale.1.
** [spoiler: This goes nowhere as of Series 2, as Rosie reveals she is a LipstickLesbian].
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** Which, according to one episode from a NoodleIncident, got him into trouble with a Racial Insensitivity Panel, implied to be because he mistakenly believed he had NWordPrivileges.
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* HilarityEnsues: Frequently.
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* LipstickLesbian: [[spoiler: Miss Gulliver]], much to Alfie's distress and misery.

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* AllAsiansAreAlike: When Alfie makes his class do a reenactment of the Battle of Pearl Harbour, he gives Asian student Jing Chow the role of a Japanese soldier, even putting a Rising Sun headband on her. He is soon reminded that "She's Chinese, you muppet!"


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* InterchangeableAsianCultures: When Alfie makes his class do a reenactment of the Battle of Pearl Harbour, he gives Asian student Jing Chow the role of a Japanese soldier, even putting a Rising Sun headband on her. He is soon reminded that "She's Chinese, you muppet!"
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* ViewerGenderConfusion: Pickwell is mistaken for a lad when she overdoes "it with her make-up and her suit, and her dick" to impress Mr Humpage and get a job at Middleton.

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* ViewerGenderConfusion: Pickwell is mistaken for a lad when she overdoes "it with her make-up and her suit, and her dick" to impress Mr Humpage and get a job at Middleton.

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*ViewerGenderConfusion: Pickwell is mistaken for a lad when she overdoes "it with her make-up and her suit, and her dick" to impress Mr Humpage and get a job at Middleton.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The Headmaster is a Lesbian Vampire Killer, there's Treacher aka Gollum from [[HowNotToLiveYourLife How Not To Live Your Life ]]and [[GreenWing Green Wing's]] Sue White.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: The Headmaster is a [[LesbianVampireKillers Lesbian Vampire Killer, Killer]], there's Treacher aka Gollum from [[HowNotToLiveYourLife How Not To Live Your Life ]]and [[GreenWing Green Wing's]] Sue White.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The Headmaster is a Lesbian Vampire Killer, there's Treacher aka Gollum from [[HowNotToLiveYourLife]]How Not To Live Your Life and [[GreenWing]]Green Wing's Sue White.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: The Headmaster is a Lesbian Vampire Killer, there's Treacher aka Gollum from [[HowNotToLiveYourLife]]How [[HowNotToLiveYourLife How Not To Live Your Life and [[GreenWing]]Green Wing's ]]and [[GreenWing Green Wing's]] Sue White.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The Headmaster is a Lesbian Vampire Killer, there's Treacher aka Gollum from [[HowNotToLiveYourLife]] and [[GreenWing]] Sue White.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: The Headmaster is a Lesbian Vampire Killer, there's Treacher aka Gollum from [[HowNotToLiveYourLife]] [[HowNotToLiveYourLife]]How Not To Live Your Life and [[GreenWing]] [[GreenWing]]Green Wing's Sue White.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Fraser. How he got to be headmaster is a complete mystery.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Alfie and Rosie, particulary throughout in the series finale.

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* BelligerentSexualTension: Alfie and Rosie, particulary particularly throughout in the series finale.

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* BelligerentSexualTension: Alfie and Rosie, particulary throughout in the series finale.
* BoomerangBigot: During the school election, we see the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName BNP]] candidate... is ''Black''.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Fraser claims his first name is "Simon". It's actually "''Shaquelle''".





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\n* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Fraser's attempts to be hip.
* RefugeInAudacity: Alfie's attempt to clear Fraser in front of the school board.
--> '''Alfie''': Look, I've done things here that in any other school would get me fired, maybe even arrested. But Fraser has never shouted at me ''once!''
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* MistakenForPaedophile: Mr Humpage is repeatedly mistaken for one by Rosie after Alfie mentions something he refuses to explain happened between them in his second year at school. Turns out it was simply Aflie quitting his sports team, which Humpage refused to forgive him for. He could have become a professional ''Irish Dancer!''


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* MistakenForPaedophile: MistakenForPedophile: Mr Humpage is repeatedly mistaken for one by Rosie after Alfie mentions something he refuses to explain happened between them in his second year at school. Turns out it was simply Aflie quitting his sports team, which Humpage refused to forgive him for. He could have become a professional ''Irish Dancer!''

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* EmbarrassingNickname: At Aflie's posh ''alma mater'' Middleton House, the term "Wickers" literally became an insult.
* MistakenForPaedophile: Mr Humpage is repeatedly mistaken for one by Rosie after Alfie mentions something he refuses to explain happened between them in his second year at school. Turns out it was simply Aflie quitting his sports team, which Humpage refused to forgive him for. He could have become a professional ''Irish Dancer!''

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'''Bad Education''' is a British sitcom produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for ''BBC3''. It stars Jack Whitehall as young teacher Alfie Wickers – "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system" – at the fictional Abbey Grove School. Matthew Horne plays Fraser, the headmaster of the fictional school alongside him. It has been suggested that Whitehall's character is a continuation of his "posh twit" persona from ''Series/FreshMeat''.

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'''Bad Education''' (2012-) is a British sitcom produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for ''BBC3''. It stars Jack Whitehall as young teacher Alfie Wickers – "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system" – at the fictional Abbey Grove School. Matthew Horne plays Fraser, the headmaster of the fictional school alongside him. It has been suggested that Whitehall's character is a continuation of his "posh twit" persona from ''Series/FreshMeat''.
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'''Bad Education''' is a British sitcom produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for ''BBC3''. It stars Jack Whitehall as young teacher Alfie Wickers – "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system" – at the fictional Abbey Grove School. Matthew Horne plays Fraser, the headmaster of the fictional school alongside him. It has been suggested that Whitehall's character is a continuation of his "posh twit" persona from ''Series/FreshMeat''.

The series launch broke BBC3's record for the highest-rated first episode of a comedy, which was previously held by HorneAndCorden''.

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* AllAsiansAreAlike: When Alfie makes his class do a reenactment of the Battle of Pearl Harbour, he gives Asian student Jing Chow the role of a Japanese soldier, even putting a Rising Sun headband on her. He is soon reminded that "She's Chinese, you muppet!"
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