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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: In "Something Fishie", Gary runs into trouble with two "insurance salesmen" gangsters. One of them (Mr. Jones) is played by Kenneth [=MacDonald=], who had a recurring role in ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' with Creator/NicholasLyndhurst as Mike Fisher, the barman at the Nag's Head.
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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: In "Something Fishie", Gary runs into trouble with two "insurance salesmen" gangsters. One of them (Mr. Jones) is played by Kenneth [=MacDonald=], Creator/KennethMacDonald, who had a recurring role in ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' with Creator/NicholasLyndhurst as Mike Fisher, the barman at the Nag's Head.
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** This could be a case of FridgeBrilliance; the first two instances can be explained as the result of the time portal being hit with a large blast of energy (from the bomb, or lightning) temporarily destabilising its normal effect. In the last case, it was mentioned in "Just in Time" that time agents from the future had identified Gary's time portal, but were not closing it, despite closing another portal nearby. Gary theorises in "Accentuate the Positive" after [[spoiler: he finds that his portal had closed that he was originally sent back in 1993 to save UsefulNotes/ClementAtlee (the future prime minister) from assassination, owing to the fact that it was later on that same night that the portal had vanished.]]
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** This could be a case of FridgeBrilliance; the first two instances can be explained as the result of the time portal being hit with a large blast of energy (from the bomb, or lightning) temporarily destabilising its normal effect. In the last case, it was mentioned in "Just in Time" that time agents from the future had identified Gary's time portal, but were not closing it, despite closing another portal nearby. Gary theorises in "Accentuate the Positive" after [[spoiler: he finds that his portal had closed that he was originally sent back in 1993 to save UsefulNotes/ClementAtlee UsefulNotes/ClementAttlee (the future prime minister) from assassination, owing to the fact that it was later on that same night that the portal had vanished.]]
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* TaintedTobacco: In the SeriesFinale, "Accentuate the Positive", Gary celebrates VE Day with Phoebe, Reg, and company, and saves guest-speaker UsefulNotes/ClementAttlee's life when Kenneth, a foe, tries to kill him by adding cyanide to Atlee's pipe.
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* TaintedTobacco: In the SeriesFinale, "Accentuate the Positive", Gary celebrates VE Day with Phoebe, Reg, and company, and saves guest-speaker UsefulNotes/ClementAttlee's life when Kenneth, a foe, tries to kill him by adding cyanide to Atlee's Attlee's pipe.
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* SeriesContinuityError: The show was inconsistent about the distance between the present and past end of the portal. Gary was shown to travel to the same date by an even number of years (e.g. having to choose which woman he spent Christmas with). Explicitly, Gary started in 1993 and travelled to 1940 (53 years). The series ended 6 years later in 1999 (with the year stated explicitly) but it was only 1945 in the past (54 years). Different episodes used the 53 and 54 year figure (necessary since only 5 years could pass in the past to stay within the war, while there had been six series and six years had passed in reality). This was particularly confusing in "Many Happy Returns" where the inconsistency shows up '''within''' the episode. It is a plot point that Gary is about to turn 53 in 1962 and therefore about to be born (clearly suggesting a 53 year gap). Yet when he travels back to the present he travels to 2016 (54 years).
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* BlatantLies: While Gary lies frequently, the lies are usually plausible. A notable exception is in "Flash Bang Wallop" when Gary finds his photo in a book about Noel Coward that Yvonne is reading. To prevent her seeing it, he throws it off the balcony. Yvonne sees him do it but when she asks why he did it, he simply keeps insisting he didn't do it.
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* WaxingLyrical: Gary is fond of slipping song lyrics into his conversation with people in the 1940s, such as quoting "You're the One That I Want" to Phoebe in "All About Yvonne". Naturally, since the songs haven't been written yet, they don't realise what he's doing.
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* HaughtyHelp: In “Careless Talk”, Gary and Phoebe encounter a very snobbish salesman at Harrods who makes Phoebe feel uncomfortable. Gary flashes some cash about and slips him some petrol coupons, making it clear that he needs to treat Phoebe better, at which point the man behaves much nicer.
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* CannotTellAJoke: Reg has a tendency to forget the punchline of the joke. There was also the problem that when he did a talent show he chose jokes which required a StraightMan, even though he didn't have one.
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* HarmlessElectrocution: Gary survives being struck by lightning in "Mine's a Double". As he was going through the time portal at the time it kept him alive, with the side effect of creating good and evil clones of Gary.
* ICallHimMisterHappy: Gary and Yvonne both seem to call his penis Nobby Nobbit.
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* HarmlessElectrocution: Gary survives being struck by lightning in "Mine's a Double". As he was going through the time portal at the time it kept him alive, with the side effect of creating good and evil clones of Gary.
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* HarmlessElectrocution: Gary survives being struck by lightning in IdenticalTwinIDTag: "Bad Gary" (Gary's evil double from "Mine's a Double". As Double") looks exactly like Gary but can be told apart by eagle-eyed viewers who notice that he was going through the time portal at the time it kept him alive, with the side effect of creating good and evil clones of Gary.is almost always chewing gum.
* ImMrFuturePopCultureReference: Ron calls himself Franchise/JamesBond while in wartime Britain in "Maizy Doats".
* ItsAllAboutMe: Gary can be very callous towards others, ignoring their issues and only focusing on himself. Even when Ron is in jail in "Pennies from Heaven" or reeling from the end of a relationship in "Something Fishie", Gary only wants to focus on himself and his life in the '40s.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Gary can be very callous towards others, ignoring their issues and only focusing on himself. Even when Ron is in jail in "Pennies from Heaven" or reeling from the end of a relationship in "Something Fishie", Gary only wants to focus on himself and his life in the '40s.
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* IdenticalTwinIDTag: "Bad Gary" (Gary's evil double from "Mine's a Double") looks exactly like Gary but can be told apart by eagle-eyed viewers who notice that he is almost always chewing gum.
* ImMrFuturePopCultureReference: Ron calls himself Franchise/JamesBond while in wartime Britain in "Maizy Doats".
* ItsAllAboutMe: Gary can be very callous towards others, ignoring their issues and only focusing on himself. Even when Ron is in jail in "Pennies from Heaven" or reeling from the end of a relationship in "Something Fishie", Gary only wants to focus on himself and his life in the '40s.
* ImMrFuturePopCultureReference: Ron calls himself Franchise/JamesBond while in wartime Britain in "Maizy Doats".
* ItsAllAboutMe: Gary can be very callous towards others, ignoring their issues and only focusing on himself. Even when Ron is in jail in "Pennies from Heaven" or reeling from the end of a relationship in "Something Fishie", Gary only wants to focus on himself and his life in the '40s.
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* TeenyWeenie: In "And Mother Came, Too", Reg finds Gary's wallet which includes a modern condom. Since packaged condoms were much larger in the 1940s, he assumes that this trope must apply to Gary.
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* SubvertedPunchline: In "Out of Town" Gary's father mentions taking his wife to the West Indies. Ron sets him up for the obvious joke by asking "Jamaica?" but he misses the joke and says, "Yeah, unless we go to Barbados."
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* FoodSlap: In "Out of Town" Gary gets Ron to pretend to be Phoebe so he can practice giving her the bad news that he has to cancel their holiday. Ron throws a drink in his face.
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* SpeedSex: Implied in "In the Mood". Yvonne, who'd been feeling unwell thanks to being pregnant, claimed Gary had propositioned her at three in the morning. He defended himself saying she'd been feeling better at the time. She insisted she was only feeling better for a minute and he responded "Yeah, well?" as if it's not clear what the issue is.
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* ExactWords: Gary will sometimes use this when Yvonne or Phoebe ask questions, exploiting the difference in time periods to say something which is technically true even though it's also misleading. For example, in "You're Driving Me Crazy" he assures Phoebe he loves her more than anyone else ''alive''.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Used frequently with Reg, though other characters weren't immune. For example, in "Let's Get Away From It All" Gary felt bad that he would have to pretend his child was Phoebe's husband's, and was lamenting that his child would never be able to call him Daddy. Ron consoled him that it was too early to know if they were going to have a speech impediment.
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* CurseCutShort: At the end of "The Yanks are Coming", Ron has just finished rebuilding a jeep and is ready to drive it out of the building. He attempts to open the door to the back of the building and realises it's blocked by some bollards. Ron begins to swear "Oh, b..." and Gary cuts him off with "Bollards, Ron."
