History Series / PhoneShop

* PrettFlyForAWhiteGuy: The White Men's Reggae Club is roundly mocked for being this, although it's really just a place where middle-aged white men can dance to reggae music without fear of being mocked.

** The company's come a long way since 2008.

The show is set in a mobile phone shop, located on the high street of the South London suburb of Sutton, and follows a graduate called Christopher (played by Tom Bennett) during a one-day trial and his subsequent employment. The branch is managed by Lance (Martin Trenaman) and the other employees are Ashley (Andrew Brooke), Jerwayne (Javone Prince) and Janine (Emma Fryer). ''[=PhoneShop=]'' is created and written by Phil Bowker, comedy editor at the production company behind the show, [=TalkBack=] Thames. It was script edited by Creator/RickyGervais.

* MistakenForGay: Happens to Jerwayne with the girls from Clare's Accessories. He decides to go along with it in the hope of hooking up with one of the girls by way of claiming that she has 'converted' him to heterosexuality. They, though, are trying to hook him up with a gay friend of theirs, [[spoiler: but in a final twist, this friend is revealed to be a straight man who is attempting the same thing as Jerwayne]].

* ShoutOut: Several episode titles -- among them "Series/DoctorWho", "[[Series/BreakingBad Baking Bad]]", "[[Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist The First Temptation of Chris]]" and "[[Series/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy Soldier, Swinger, Shelley, Shelley]]".

* ShoutOut: Several episode titles -- among them "Series/DoctorWho", "[[Series/BreakingBad Baking Bad]]" and "[[Series/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy Soldier, Swinger, Shelley, Shelley]]".

* DrugsAreBad: The gang are affected by accidentally eating Lance's hash cookies in various ways, none of them good.

* FishOutOfWater: Christopher, when he starts working for the PhoneShop Group.

* HiddenDepths: Janine has a few, including the ability to speak fluent Mandarin. Ashley is also surprisingly eloquent about some of the poetry he received from soldiers after he signed up to an Army dating agency.

* ShoutOut: Several episode titles.

* GenderBlenderName: Kim from the Purley branch is actually a man, something Lance was unaware of when he was agonising about how to respond to the fact that an email to him from Kim was signed with two kisses.

* HiddenDepths: Janine has a few, including the ability to speak fluent Mandarin.
* HypocriticalHumor: Christopher makes a RousingSpeech entreating the other salespeople to stop using underhanded lies and confidence tricks to make sales ... at the end of which, a little old lady comes along and congratulates him, saying he'll make a fine human rights lawyer once he finishes his exams.

* MistakenForGay: Happens to Jerwayne with the girls from Clare's Accessories. He decides to go along with it in the hope of hooking up with one of the girls by way of claiming that she has 'converted' him to heterosexuality. They, though, are trying to hook him up with a gay friend of theirs, [[spoiler: but in a final twist, this friend is revealed to be attempting the same thing as Jerwayne]].

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/phoneshop.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:350:The Sutton Branch. L-R: [[NewMeat Christopher]], Ashley, [[PointyHairedBoss Lance]], [[BewareTheQuietOnes Janine]], Jerwayne. Not seen: [[TheGhost Little Gary Patel]].]] ''[=PhoneShop=]'' is a [[BritCom British sitcom]] first broadcast on Creator/Channel4 as part of the channel's 2009 Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. This was followed by a six-episode series on E4 that started on 7 October 2010. A second series followed in 2011, and a third in 2013.

The show is set in a mobile phone shop, located on the high street of the South London suburb of Sutton, and follows a graduate called Christopher (played by Tom Bennett) during a one-day trial and his subsequent employment. The branch is managed by Lance (Martin Trenaman) and the other employees are Ashley (Andrew Brooke), Jerwayne (Javone Prince) and Janine (Emma Fryer). ''[=PhoneShop=]'' is created and written by Phil Bowker, comedy editor at the production company behind the show, [=TalkBack=] Thames. It was script edited by Ricky Gervais. The programme had been commissioned as a full series on digital channel E4 before the pilot was broadcast.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Amanda ultimately turns out to be the ''both'' of the {{Psycho Ex Girlfriend}}s the guys had mentioned earlier in the episode - she just keeps changing her name.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/phoneshop.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:350:The Sutton Branch. L-R: [[NewMeat Christopher]], Ashley, [[PointyHairedBoss Lance]], [[BewareTheQuietOnes Janine]], Jerwayne. Not seen: [[TheGhost Little Gary Patel]].]] ''[=PhoneShop=]'' is a [[BritCom British sitcom]] first broadcast on Creator/Channel4 as part of the channel's 2009 Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. This was followed by a six-episode series on E4 that started on 7 October 2010.

The show is set in a mobile phone shop, filmed in Sutton, London and follows a graduate called Christopher (played by Tom Bennett) during a one-day trial and his subsequent employment. ''[=PhoneShop=]'' is created and written by Phil Bowker, comedy editor at the production company behind the show, [=TalkBack=] Thames. It was script edited by Ricky Gervais. The programme had been commissioned as a full series on digital channel E4 before the pilot was broadcast.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/phoneshop.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:350:The Sutton Brach]] ''[=PhoneShop=]'' is a [[BritCom British sitcom]] first broadcast on Creator/Channel4 as part of the channel's 2009 Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. This was followed by a six-episode series on E4 that started on 7 October 2010.

* TheGhost: Little Gary Patel, salesman extraordinaire, is unseen because he's in prison -- although we do see a picture of him in the ShrineToTheFallen on the break room wall.
GroinAttack: Razz gets shot in the testicles with a paintball gun.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/phoneshop.jpg]] ''[=PhoneShop=]'' is a [[BritCom British sitcom]] first broadcast on Creator/Channel4 as part of the channel's 2009 Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. This was followed by a six-episode series on E4 that started on 7 October 2010.

!!Tropes present in this series include;

* BrokenAce: Little Gary Patel, phone salesman extraordinaire and perpetual Employee of the Month, is doing time in prison for various unexplained crimes. Despite this, he's regarded with near-reverence by Lance.

* YouDidntAsk: Lance to his wife, on his ... [[SensualSpandex revealing]] bike shorts.

* AxCrazy: Little Gary Patel. Also, quite a few of the women who Ashley and Jerwayne try to date.

* AxCrazy: Little Gary Patel

* BingeMontage: Showing the effects of KlatchianCoffee, with flashes of CaffeineBulletTime, and people drinking espresso like tequila slammers.

* HardWorkMontage: Super Sales Wednesday

* KlatchianCoffee
-->'''Jerwayne:''' "What we're working with is under-the-counter quad-shot ristretto. This shit here? [[BannedInChina Banned in Milan]]. It killed a ''priest''"

* ShrineToTheFallen: To Little Gary, who isn't dead -- just in prison.

* AmbulanceCut: After the "meet & greet" guy goes out to beat up the Sax Man. Combined with a GilliganCut, since [[FightUnscene it turns out]] the Sax Man won the fight.

* TheBlindLeadingTheBlind: Christopher pulls the classic sitcom asking-your-mates-for-dating-advice error, which goes predictably badly. Subverted when it turns out that by their own admission, that strategy doesn't work on girls from a particular "aspirational demographic" ... and he didn't tell them she works in ''Waterstones.''

* DiscriminateAndSwitch: Janine isn't ineligible for Salesman of the Month because she's a woman. It's because she sells Pay As You Go.

* StupidSexyFlanders: Lance's bike shorts certainly have an effect on Christopher.

* TheBlindLeadingTheBlind: Christopher pulls the classic sitcom asking-your-mates-for-dating-advice error, which goes predictably badly. Subverted when it turns out that by their own admission, that strategy doesn't work on girls from a particular "aspirational demographic"... and he didn't tell them she works in ''Waterstones.''

* Facecam: Chris' coffee-fuelled FreakOut.
* FishOutOfWater

* HypocriticalHumor: Chris makes a RousingSpeech entreating the other salespeople to stop using underhanded lies and confidence tricks to make sales... at the end of which, a little old lady comes along and congratulates him, saying he'll make a fine human rights lawyer once he finishes his exams.

* [[NewMeat New Man]]

* PointyHairedBoss: Lance

* ShrineToTheFallen: To Little Gary, who isn't dead - just in prison.

* TakeAThirdOption: When the staff need to buckle down and get things done, they get a ludicrous amount of extra-strong coffee. Christopher asks how they could afford it all, and Ashley explains about the loyalty cards in coffee shops, which get ink-stamped 8 times before you get a free coffee. Christopher assumes they just have a load of loyalty cards saved up, but Ashley explains the secret: they've got the stamp.

* YouDidntAsk: Lance to his wife, on his... [[SensualSpandex revealing]] bike shorts.

''[=PhoneShop=]'' is a [[BritCom British sitcom]] first broadcast on Creator/Channel4 as part of the channel's 2009 Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. This was followed by a six-episode series on E4 that started on 7 October 2010. It is set in a mobile phone shop, filmed in Sutton, London and follows a graduate called Christopher (played by Tom Bennett) during a one-day trial and his subsequent employment. ''[=PhoneShop=]'' is created and written by Phil Bowker, comedy editor at the production company behind the show, [=TalkBack=] Thames. It was script edited by Ricky Gervais. The programme had been commissioned as a full series on digital channel E4 before the pilot was broadcast.

''[=PhoneShop=]'' is a [[BritCom British sitcom]] first broadcast on [[ChannelFour Channel 4]] as part of the channel's 2009 Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. This was followed by a six-episode series on E4 that started on 7 October 2010. It is set in a mobile phone shop, filmed in Sutton, London and follows a graduate called Christopher (played by Tom Bennett) during a one-day trial and his subsequent employment. ''[=PhoneShop=]'' is created and written by Phil Bowker, comedy editor at the production company behind the show, [=TalkBack=] Thames. It was script edited by Ricky Gervais. The programme had been commissioned as a full series on digital channel E4 before the pilot was broadcast.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: After Christopher's freakout in the bear suit has finished and everything is back to normal, Jerwayne high-fives him and says "Bear Man? Badman.", a strong term of respect for a guy he previously was disdainful towards.

* HoYay: Jerwayne and Ashley, especially when the two of them are demonstrating sexual encounters. They get rather... physical.

''[=PhoneShop=]'' is a [[BritCom British sitcom]] first broadcast on [[ChannelFour Channel 4]] as part of the channel's Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. This was followed by a six-episode series on E4 that started on 7 October 2010. It is set in a mobile phone shop, filmed in Sutton, London and follows a graduate called Christopher (played by Tom Bennett) during a one-day trial and his subsequent employment. ''[=PhoneShop=]'' is created and written by Phil Bowker, comedy editor at the production company behind the show, [=TalkBack=] Thames. It was script edited by Ricky Gervais. The programme had been commissioned as a full series on digital channel E4 before the pilot was broadcast.