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* ActorAllusion: A subtle one. In "Art", Lee drops the line "everyone's a comedian" just after fellow comedian Justin Edwards leaves. Considering how many people in single-episode appearances or even walk-on parts ''were'' comedians, it's not far from the truth.
** In a series 2 episode, Lee pretends to be a doctor to get access to Guy's daughter. This is likely a reference to the time LeeMack bluffed his way into an appointment-booking job at a hospital.
** In a series 3 episode, Lucy makes a reference to the comedians Cannon and Ball, one of which plays the father of Lee's character.
** In a series 2 episode, Lee pretends to be a doctor to get access to Guy's daughter. This is likely a reference to the time LeeMack bluffed his way into an appointment-booking job at a hospital.
** In a series 3 episode, Lucy makes a reference to the comedians Cannon and Ball, one of which plays the father of Lee's character.
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** Lee calls his Dad the same thing during a rollercoaster ride, but is cut short as they plummet down a slope.
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* BedmateReveal: After Lee and Lucy get blind drunk on potato hooch.
* BadJobWorseUniform: 'If there's two things I love it's handing out leaflets and looking like a nob! Who would have thought there'd be a way to combine both?'
* BadOmenAnecdote: Tim recalls the plot of a slasher film when the four get lost in the woods on a camping trip.
* BadJobWorseUniform: 'If there's two things I love it's handing out leaflets and looking like a nob! Who would have thought there'd be a way to combine both?'
* BadOmenAnecdote: Tim recalls the plot of a slasher film when the four get lost in the woods on a camping trip.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick
* BreathlessNonSequiter
* ButICantBePregnant: Lucy
* CampStraight: Tim
* BreathlessNonSequiter
* ButICantBePregnant: Lucy
* CampStraight: Tim
* CeilingBanger: Lucy with a noisy neighbor.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Daisy.
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* ClassClown: Lee
* ClearMyName: What Lee has to do when caught in the company of a prostitute (unknowingly)
* CloudCuckooLander:Daisy. Daisy.
* ConsummateLiar: Lee, and Frank
* ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping: Lee, when he's not untying flowers from lamp posts...
* CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: Kate with the plush monkey
* ClearMyName: What Lee has to do when caught in the company of a prostitute (unknowingly)
* CloudCuckooLander:
* ConsummateLiar: Lee, and Frank
* ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping: Lee, when he's not untying flowers from lamp posts...
* CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: Kate with the plush monkey
* DaddysGirl: Lucy
* TheDiaperChange: 'Give it a good scrape first'
* DisappearedDad: Lee's dad Frank
* DisappearedDad: Lee's dad Frank
* DirtyOldMan: Lee's dad Frank
* ExactWords: Lee's way of remaining honest while engaging in duplicitous schemes
* FaceDoodling: Tim does this to female relatives when drunk.
* FalseReassurance: 'All I'm trying to do is clear up'- Lee tricking Tim into thinking he wants Lucy out the flat to wash a wine stain when in fact he's renting it to a (porn) director as a set.
* GargleBlaster: Potato Hooch
* FaceDoodling: Tim does this to female relatives when drunk.
* FalseReassurance: 'All I'm trying to do is clear up'- Lee tricking Tim into thinking he wants Lucy out the flat to wash a wine stain when in fact he's renting it to a (porn) director as a set.
* GargleBlaster: Potato Hooch
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* HypocriticalHumour: Lee rarely has a job, but constantly berates Barbara for never appearing to do hers.
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* HypocriticalHumour: GuysAreSlobs: Lee
* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: Leerarely has a job, but constantly berates Barbara accuses Lucy of being dishonest when she hesitates over questions about her relationship with Amy. When she throws it back at him questioning him about his relationship with Tim and he hesitates he brushes it off by saying he was sickened by the suggestion.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Lee invokes this to guilt-trip Lucy into letting him stay fornever appearing Christmas, including suggesting his stepfather subjected his sister to do hers.Trial by water when she started her periods during which she drowned.
* HomePornMovie: Lee and Lucy believe they've made one.
* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: Lee
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Lee invokes this to guilt-trip Lucy into letting him stay for
* HomePornMovie: Lee and Lucy believe they've made one.
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* IHaveThisFriend: Lee uses this to talk about his genitals in two separate episodes.
* ILikeMyXLikeILikeMyY: Stretch uses it to charm Lucy
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* IntentionalEngrishForFunny
* InterruptedIntimacy: Lee pops up during an experimental moment between Lucy and Amy
* ItRunsInTheFamily: 'Who would have thought that an aptitude for scrounging was hereditory?'
* IWasBeatenByAGirl: Tim
* InterruptedIntimacy: Lee pops up during an experimental moment between Lucy and Amy
* ItRunsInTheFamily: 'Who would have thought that an aptitude for scrounging was hereditory?'
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Lee and his dad are very similar in how they act, as much as Lee would like to think otherwise.
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* LazyBum
* LoserProtagonist
* MaintainTheLie
* ManlyManAndSensitiveGuy: Lee and Tim respectively
* MenAreUncultured: Well Lee is
* MistakenForGay
* MistakenForProstitute: Mistaken for masseuse
* MommasBoy
* MonsterClown: From ''Camping''
* MyParentsAreDead: As Lee backpedals from confronting a noisy psychotic neighbor he rhetorically asks 'Who am I to tell you to keep the noise down? I'm not your mum' the neighbor snaps 'My mother's dead!' Lee's response? '[[Film/Psycho|You don't run a hotel with her do you?]]'
* MySisterIsOffLimits
* NewJobEpisode
* LoserProtagonist
* MaintainTheLie
* ManlyManAndSensitiveGuy: Lee and Tim respectively
* MenAreUncultured: Well Lee is
* MistakenForGay
* MistakenForProstitute: Mistaken for masseuse
* MommasBoy
* MonsterClown: From ''Camping''
* MyParentsAreDead: As Lee backpedals from confronting a noisy psychotic neighbor he rhetorically asks 'Who am I to tell you to keep the noise down? I'm not your mum' the neighbor snaps 'My mother's dead!' Lee's response? '[[Film/Psycho|You don't run a hotel with her do you?]]'
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* ParentalFavouritism: Lucy seems to benefit
* PassThePopcorn
* PassThePopcorn
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* RefridgeratorAmbush: ''Neighbor''
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* TheScrounger: Lee and particularly his dad
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* TheSlacker: Lee
* SnowballLie
* StronglyWordedLetter: Lucy leaves one for their psychotic neighbor against Lee's protests
* SnowballLie
* StronglyWordedLetter: Lucy leaves one for their psychotic neighbor against Lee's protests
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: Tim accuses Lee of being this.
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* VerbalBackpedelling: Lee on childbirth- 'It can't be as bad as women go on about...women say... people say... stupid people!'
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* WalkingDisasterArea: Barbara.
* WhyAreYouLookingAtMeLikeThat
* WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons: Frequently levelled at Lee
* WhyAreYouLookingAtMeLikeThat
* WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons: Frequently levelled at Lee
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Pun-heavy British sitcom staring LeeMack and TimVine as best friends [[TheDanza Lee and Tim]]. Lee lives with landlord Kate, Tim's ex-girlfriend; Kate moves back to America in the second series and is replaced by Tim's sister Lucy. Other supporting characters include Lee's cleaner Barbara, played by {{Miranda}} Hart (in series 2 and 3), Tim's girlfriend Daisy, played by Katy Wix (from series 2 onwards), and Lucy's boyfriend Guy (in series 2 only). Tim Vine left after series 5, leaving the main cast for series 6 as just Lee, Lucy and Daisy. Both [[EarWorm Katy Wix]] and Miranda Hart were springboarded from exposure in this show to series of their own.
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* GeniusDitz: Daisy - who once in a while does something brilliant, like rescuing Tim and Lee from a psychopathic drug dealer. Or putting all Lee's money on a horse on a whim - and winning at enormous odds, thus rescuing him from an evil clown to whom he owes a lot of cash. It makes sense in context.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Lucy frequently gives Lee grief about how he acts towards and treats his father, and she's probably right to. But in Lee's defence, his dad has been a complete piece of shit to him his whole life.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Lucy frequently gives Lee grief about how he acts towards and treats his father, and she's probably right to. But in Lee's defence, defense, his dad has been a complete piece of shit to treated him with even less consideration and care for most of his whole life.
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** Of course, Daisy, Barbara and Lee tend to be this most of the time.
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** Of course, Daisy, Daisy and Barbara and Lee tend to be this most of the time.
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** Of course, Daisy, Barbara and Lee tend to be this most of the time.
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** In a series 3 episode, Lucy makes a reference to the comedians Cannon and Ball, one of which plays the father of Lee's character.
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* TheLoad: Daisy is this in the finale of series 6. The entire episode centres on her, Lee, Lucy and Frank being trapped at sea. Almost everything that makes things worse is her fault.
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* PlayingAgainstType: TimVine usually plays the straight man despite his stand-up act being nothing but a stream of puns and one lines.
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* PlayingAgainstType: TimVine usually plays the straight man despite his stand-up act being nothing but a stream of puns and one lines.liners.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Lucy frequently gives Lee grief about how he acts towards and treats his father, and she's probably right to. But in Lee's defence, his dad has been a complete piece of shit to him his whole life.
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Pun-heavy British sitcom staring LeeMack and TimVine as best friends [[TheDanza Lee and Tim]]. Lee lives with landlord Kate, Tim's ex-girlfriend; Kate moves back to America in the second series and is replaced by Tim's sister Lucy. Other supporting characters include Lee's cleaner Barbara, played by {{Miranda} {{Miranda}} Hart (in series 2 and 3), Tim's girlfriend Daisy, played by Katy Wix (from series 2 onwards), and Lucy's boyfriend Guy (in series 2 only). Tim Vine left after series 5, leaving the main cast for series 6 as just Lee, Lucy and Daisy.
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Pun-heavy British sitcom staring LeeMack and TimVine as best friends [[TheDanza Lee and Tim]]. Lee lives with landlord Kate, Tim's ex-girlfriend; Kate moves back to America in the second series and is replaced by Tim's sister Lucy. Other supporting characters include Lee's cleaner Barbara, played by MirandaHart {{Miranda} Hart (in series 2 and 3), Tim's girlfriend Daisy, played by Katy Wix (from series 2 onwards), and Lucy's boyfriend Guy (in series 2 only). Tim Vine left after series 5, leaving the main cast for series 6 as just Lee, Lucy and Daisy.
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Pun-heavy British sitcom staring LeeMack and TimVine as best friends [[TheDanza Lee and Tim]]. Lee lives with landlord Kate, Tim's ex-girlfriend; Kate moves back to America in the second series and is replaced by Tim's sister Lucy. Other supporting characters include Lee's cleaner Barbara Barbara, played by MirandaHart (in series 2 and 3), Tim's girlfriend Daisy Daisy, played by Katy Wix (from series 2 onwards), and Lucy's boyfriend Guy (in series 2 only). Tim Vine left after series 5, leaving the main cast for series 6 as just Lee, Lucy and Daisy.
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** Daisy as well, due to being TheMalaproper.
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** Daisy as well, due to being TheMalaproper.the {{Malaproper}}.
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** In a series 2 episode, Lee pretends to be a doctor to get access to Lucy's boyfriend's daughter. This is likely a reference to the time LeeMack bluffed his way into an appointment-booking job at a hospital.
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** In a series 2 episode, Lee pretends to be a doctor to get access to Lucy's boyfriend's Guy's daughter. This is likely a reference to the time LeeMack bluffed his way into an appointment-booking job at a hospital.
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Pun-heavy British sitcom staring LeeMack and TimVine as best friends [[TheDanza Lee and Tim]]. Lee lives with landlord Kate, Tim's ex-girlfriend; Kate moves back to America in the second series and is replaced by Tim's sister Lucy. Other supporting characters include Lee's cleaner Barbara (in series 2 and 3) and 3), Tim's girlfriend Daisy (from series 2 onwards).onwards), and Lucy's boyfriend Guy (in series 2 only). Tim Vine left after series 5, leaving the main cast for series 6 as just Lee, Lucy and Daisy.
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* BottleEpisode: The skiing episode in Series 6 was set entirely in a cable car.
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* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Daisy in series 4, replacing Barbara's spot in the sequence.
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* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Daisy in series 4, replacing Barbara's spot in the sequence. (Following Tim Vine's departure after series 5, in series 6 the opening titles were refilmed to put her front and centre.)
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* RuleOfFunny: In series 6, Tim's absence is HandWaved within 10 seconds of the first episode as working in Germany, and it is ''never'' explained why his girlfriend continues to show up randomly at his sister's flat.
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* ToiletHumour: Used occasionally but hilariously such as when Lee and Tim are called upon to babysit Guy's grandson.
* [[ToughRoom Tough Crowd...]]: Both Tim and Lee. Lee even uses it as a catchphrase of sorts.
* [[ToughRoom Tough Crowd...]]: Both Tim and Lee. Lee even uses it as a catchphrase of sorts.
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* EnormousEngagementRing: Lucy is taken aback by the massive and expensive diamonds her slightly dodgy nightclub-owning boyfriend has given her as a sort of engagement gift. Her cynical and jealous flatmate Lee suggests this is all a scam to get otherwise chargeable jewellry through Customs for free as Lucy and her man are off on a dream holiday.
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* CelebrityParadox: Lucy mentions Cannon & Ball in one episode. Bobby Ball plays Lee's dad.
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* ShoutOut: The cold opening to the episode ''Life on Mars Bars'' is a reconstruction of the opening to ''LifeOnMars''.
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* ShoutOut: The cold opening to the episode ''Life "Life on Mars Bars'' Bars" is a reconstruction of the opening to ''LifeOnMars''.''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}''.
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** A slightly different take to usual, as Betty is elderly, frail and not entirely sane.clearly has dementia.
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* TheKlutz: Barbara, who manages to break something every time she cleans.
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* AWorldWidePunomenon
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* GeniusDitz: Daisy - who once in a while does something brilliant, like rescuing Tim and Lee from a psychopathic drug dealer.
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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Lee and Tim frequently invokes this when a Lesbian couple moves downstairs.
* HypocriticalHumour: Lee rarely has a job, but constantly berates Barbara for never appearing to do hers.
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* OneHourWorkWeek: Barbara the Cleaner. Lee often jokes about the last time he saw Barbara actually ''clean'' something?
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Pun-heavy British sitcom staring LeeMack and TimVine as best friends [[TheDanza Lee and Tim]]. Lee lives with landlord Kate, Tim's ex-girlfriend; Kate moves back to America in the second series and is replaced by Tim's sister Lucy. Other supporting characters include Lee's cleaner Barbara (in series 2 and 3) and Tim's girlfriend Daisy (from series 2 onwards).
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!!This show contains examples of:
* AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: Betty attacking Lee in "Fireworks".
** Averted with Miranda Hart's first appearance as an acupuncturist, which sees Lee attacking her as a background joke.
* ActorAllusion: A subtle one. In "Art", Lee drops the line "everyone's a comedian" just after fellow comedian Justin Edwards leaves. Considering how many people in single-episode appearances or even walk-on parts ''were'' comedians, it's not far from the truth.
** In a series 2 episode, Lee pretends to be a doctor to get access to Lucy's boyfriend's daughter. This is likely a reference to the time LeeMack bluffed his way into an appointment-booking job at a hospital.
* AWorldWidePunomenon
* CannotTellAJoke: Kate
* CurseCutShort: Subverted in a series 3 episode, where Lee said "f-" before the opening titles interrupted him. After the opening, the scene picked up where it left off: "-uck."
** Also, Lucy ends an episode telling Lee, "You can be a real [[CountryMatters c-]]" *closing titles*
* DaddyDNATest: The plot of one series 4 episode, where a 20-year-old girl arrives claiming Lee might be her father... only for it to transpire that her mother slept with Tim in the same week. [[spoiler: [[TakeAThirdOption It turns out her real father is a third man from the party they were at]], who [[BrickJoke had been the subject of a]] RunningGag throughout the episode.]]
* TheDanza: Both of the main characters.
* DeadpanSnarker: Everyone to an extent.
* TheDitz: Daisy
* HurricaneOfPuns
* IncrediblyLamePun: At ''least'' once a minute.
* InnocentInnuendo: When Lucy mentions she's planning to stay in with a bottle of wine and a "ChickFlick", Lee [[ADateWithRosiePalms imagines it a completely different way]].
* LineOfSightName: Lee pretends his son's name is George whilst he's trying to convince a drugs counsellor of his existence. [[MaleGaze The name 'George' comes from the (female) counsellor's shirt.]]
* TheOtherDarrin: Tim and Lucy's father was recast between series 3 and 4.
* PlayingAgainstType: TimVine usually plays the straight man despite his stand-up act being nothing but a stream of puns and one lines.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Daisy in series 4, replacing Barbara's spot in the sequence.
* PungeonMaster: Lee more than anyone else.
* RetroactiveWish
* ShipperOnDeck: Barbara, for Lee/Lucy.
* ShoutOut: The cold opening to the episode ''Life on Mars Bars'' is a reconstruction of the opening to ''LifeOnMars''.
* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: The karaoke song Tim starts singing the same moment [[spoiler:Debbie tells Lee she thinks he's her father.]]
* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Lee's attempt at speed-dating.
* UnCancelled: After the third series.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Lee and Tim.
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!!This show contains examples of:
* AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale: Betty attacking Lee in "Fireworks".
** Averted with Miranda Hart's first appearance as an acupuncturist, which sees Lee attacking her as a background joke.
* ActorAllusion: A subtle one. In "Art", Lee drops the line "everyone's a comedian" just after fellow comedian Justin Edwards leaves. Considering how many people in single-episode appearances or even walk-on parts ''were'' comedians, it's not far from the truth.
** In a series 2 episode, Lee pretends to be a doctor to get access to Lucy's boyfriend's daughter. This is likely a reference to the time LeeMack bluffed his way into an appointment-booking job at a hospital.
* AWorldWidePunomenon
* CannotTellAJoke: Kate
* CurseCutShort: Subverted in a series 3 episode, where Lee said "f-" before the opening titles interrupted him. After the opening, the scene picked up where it left off: "-uck."
** Also, Lucy ends an episode telling Lee, "You can be a real [[CountryMatters c-]]" *closing titles*
* DaddyDNATest: The plot of one series 4 episode, where a 20-year-old girl arrives claiming Lee might be her father... only for it to transpire that her mother slept with Tim in the same week. [[spoiler: [[TakeAThirdOption It turns out her real father is a third man from the party they were at]], who [[BrickJoke had been the subject of a]] RunningGag throughout the episode.]]
* TheDanza: Both of the main characters.
* DeadpanSnarker: Everyone to an extent.
* TheDitz: Daisy
* HurricaneOfPuns
* IncrediblyLamePun: At ''least'' once a minute.
* InnocentInnuendo: When Lucy mentions she's planning to stay in with a bottle of wine and a "ChickFlick", Lee [[ADateWithRosiePalms imagines it a completely different way]].
* LineOfSightName: Lee pretends his son's name is George whilst he's trying to convince a drugs counsellor of his existence. [[MaleGaze The name 'George' comes from the (female) counsellor's shirt.]]
* TheOtherDarrin: Tim and Lucy's father was recast between series 3 and 4.
* PlayingAgainstType: TimVine usually plays the straight man despite his stand-up act being nothing but a stream of puns and one lines.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Daisy in series 4, replacing Barbara's spot in the sequence.
* PungeonMaster: Lee more than anyone else.
* RetroactiveWish
* ShipperOnDeck: Barbara, for Lee/Lucy.
* ShoutOut: The cold opening to the episode ''Life on Mars Bars'' is a reconstruction of the opening to ''LifeOnMars''.
* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: The karaoke song Tim starts singing the same moment [[spoiler:Debbie tells Lee she thinks he's her father.]]
* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Lee's attempt at speed-dating.
* UnCancelled: After the third series.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Lee and Tim.
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