History Series / PhoneShop

** Shelley's test of Janine's loyalty is one of these with two male escorts who turn out to be Wheelchair Dave and an unnamed (but presumably just as disgusting) friend of his. She's disgusted. So, for that matter, is Shelley as she evidently did not know who the male escorts she'd booked would be.

* TooSpicyForYogSonoth: Shelley seems to have notably fewer inhibitions than anyone else when it comes to sex, and thinks nothing of hitting on her husband's co-workers and even (at one point) breaking into one of their bedrooms to try and get intimate. In the escort episode, she tries to force Janine to go along with a group sex encounter .. but when one of the male escorts she's booked is revealed to be Wheelchair Dave, she joins Janine in running away in terror.

* TooSpicyForYouSonoth: Shelley seems to have notably fewer inhibitions than anyone else when it comes to sex, and thinks nothing of hitting on her husband's co-workers and even (at one point) breaking into one of their bedrooms to try and get intimate. In the escort episode, she tries to force Janine to go along with a group sex encounter .. but when one of the male escorts she's booked is revealed to be Wheelchair Dave, she joins Janine in running away in terror.

* MemeticMutation: In-universe; Jerwayne becomes an Internet sensation after a video of him sleeping goes viral in "The Sleepyman".

* TheAce: Despite being in prison, Little Gary Patel -- phone salesman extraordinaire and perpetual Salesman of the Month -- is seen as this by the rest of the Sutton Branch. He even manages to retain his Salesman of the Month crown ''while doing time'', as a result of selling phones to his fellow-inmates.

** Shelley's test of Janine's loyalty is one of these Wheelchair Dave and an unnamed (but presumably just as disgusting) friend of his. She's disgusted. So, for that matter, is Shelley as she evidently did not know who the male escorts she'd booked would be.

* OddFriendship: Between Shelley and Janine, for a time; it mainly consists of alcohol-fuelled nights out, and ends when Shelley demands that Janine prove her loyalty by taking part in a group sex session with a pair of male escorts. Janine's uneasy with this anyway, but when the men are revealed to be Don and Wheelchair Dave, she outright refuses (and almost throws up).

* TheBusCameBack: Don, revealed to be the Sani Van Man [[note]] the man who collects the sanitary towel bins from just about every retailer on the high street [[/note]] in series one, reappears in series two as a male escort.

** Shelley's test of Janine's loyalty is one of these with Don and Wheelchair Dave. She's disgusted. So, for that matter, is Shelley as she evidently did not know who the male escorts she'd booked would be.

* TheBusCameBack: Don, revealed to be the "Sani Van Man" [[note]] the man who collects the sanitary towel bins from just about every retailer on the high street [[/note]] in series one, reappears in series two as a male escort.

** Shelley's test of Janine's loyalty is one of these with Don and Wheelchair Dave. She's disgusted.

** In series two, Little Gary is still pulling in the Salesman of the Month awards from behind bars, even though (according to the photos on the break room wall) he has become a radical Islamist.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: When Janine gets drunk with Shelley.

->''"We don't run on the high street. We run the high street."''

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* RunningGag: Shit is thrown at the shop window in more than one episode.
-->'''Lance''': Clean that, Christopher. Use the old squeegee.

->''"If man says it is a ting, it is a ting, innit."''

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/phoneshop.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:350:The Sutton Branch. L-R: [[NewMeat Christopher]], [[CasanovaWannabe Ashley]], [[PointyHairedBoss Lance]], [[BewareTheQuietOnes Janine]], [[SharpDressedMan 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 broadcast on E4 in 2010 (which was actually commissioned before the pilot was even broadcast). A second series followed in 2011, and a third in 2013.

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

* BecomingTheMask: Although he doesn't approve of sales tricks like showing off a flashy watch and pretending to be a student who's only working in order to fund his studies in order to gain a customer's trust, Christopher is nevertheless very quick to make use of such tricks.

* BecomingTheMask: Although he doesn't approve of sales tricks like showing off a flashy watch and pretending to be a student who's only working in order to fund his studies in order to gain a customer's trust, Christopher is nevertheless very quick to make use of such tricks. If man says it is a ting, it is a ting.

* BriefAccentImitation: Don doesn't like people imitating his Scottish accent, and Jez doesn't like people doing an Irish accent. The latter mostly because he's actually Welsh.

* YouGetMeCoffee: Christopher is often forced to make the tea.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Ashley and Jerwayne walk past Phones [=4u=], the employees are giving them the finger.

* BingeMontage: With shots of [[KlatchianCoffee "quad-shot ristretto"]], in preparation for Super Sales Wednesday. Jerwayne is even shown licking the back of his hand, as one would for licking salt while doing tequila slammers.

* AmbiguousSituation: Janine interrupts and ruins Christopher's date with Amanda by pretending to be a wronged ex-girlfriend of his. True, it hadn't been going well before the interruption ... but was Janine aware that Amanda was also the PsychoExGirlfriend that Jerwayne and Ashley had previously mentioned and thus trying to save Christopher, or was she just indulging in a bit of [[{{Jerkass}} jerkassery]]?

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

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

* DirtyCop: Somewhat downplayed, but Lance does have to pay off the cops who find that there are two men in their underwear imprisoned in the store's cage. Another cop is happy to sell him some confiscated weed in order to help him get in with the White Men's Reggae Club.

* HiddenDepths: Janine has a few, including the ability to speak fluent Mandarin. Ashley finds that he's surprised by the eloquence of some of the poetry he received from soldiers after he signed up to an Army dating website. And Christopher, despite being the newest employee, knows ''a lot'' about the history of the [=PhoneShop=] Group (granted, this is evidently part of the company's training as fellow-newbie Rochelle from Croydon Branch knows a fair bit as well, but his knowledge proves to be better than hers).

!!Tropes present in this series include:

* HiddenDepths: Janine has a few, including the ability to speak fluent Mandarin. Ashley finds that he's surprised by the eloquence of some of the poetry he received from soldiers after he signed up to an Army dating website. And Christopher, despite being the newest employee, knows ''a lot'' about the history of the [=PhoneShop=] Group.