History Series / RockAndChips

* PlayingGertrude: A male example -- Phil Daniels, who plays Ted, is 14 years older than Shaun Dingwall, who plays his son Reg. Who in turn is 17 years older than James Buckley, who plays ''his'' son Del.

** Another example comes in "The Frog and the Pussycat", when even [[{{Jerkass}} Reg]] is disturbed by Beryl Bird coming on to Del, who was dating ''her daughter''.

* DarkerAndEdgier: When compared to ''Only Fools and Horses'', definitely so; subjects include domestic abuse, adultery (resulting in an unplanned pregnancy) and drug-taking. And, of course, there's no laughter track.

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Joan changes her hairstyle four times. The time was is in the first episode, when her new 'do is modelled after Creator/MarilynMonroe. The second time is in "Five Gold Rings" when it's modelled after Creator/ElizabethTaylor. The third and fourth times are in "The Frog and the Pussycat", modelled after Creator/AudreyHepburn and Creator/JaneFonda respectively.

* InformedAttractiveness: While Joan is decent looking, the sheer amount of gushing she gets over her looks, from pretty much everybody (including her son's friends), is somewhat disproportionate.

* IsThisThingOn: Reenie's verbal take-down of Ernie when he tries to touch her up is broadcast to the whole cinema, as the microphone in his office (used for public announcements) has been left on.
* {{Jerkass}}: Reg Trotter, a bone-idle wife-beater.

* BerserkButton: Pervy behaviour towards Joan is this for Freddie Robdal -- as Mr. Raynor, her boss at the local cinema, finds out to his cost when he gets ''all of his fingers broken'' after Freddie heard some gossip about him in the Nag's Head.

* DescentIntoAddiction: Albie Littlewood, one of the members of Del's gang, appears to be developing a drug problem.

* DomesticAbuse: Reg is abusive towards Joan, much to the fury of Del (their son) and Freddie (her lover). Even Reenie (her friend) calls him out on this. Joan herself is somewhat passive about both this and the pervy behaviour of Mr. Raynor, her and Reenie's boss at the cinema (when he tries the same with Reenie, she reacts with fury).

* DoomedByCanon: In ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'', Joan Trotter was DeadToBeginWith, so it's not hard to work out where the story arc was going had it not been cut short by John Sullivan's death.

* EveryoneHasStandards: In "The Frog and the Pussycat", even [[{{Jerkass}} Reg]] is disturbed by Beryl Bird coming on to Del, who was dating ''her daughter''.

* DarkerAndEdgier: When compared to ''Only Fools and Horses'', definitely so; subjects include domestic abuse, adultery (resulting in an unplanned pregnancy) and drug-taking.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Trigger was very much the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} in the original series, with his stupidity being the source of many gags. While he's just as daft here, it's not being played for laughs, and at one point [[{{Jerkass}} Reg]] of all people is sufficiently concerned to ask Del if his friend is "all there".

* PlayingGertrude: A male example -- Phil Daniels, who plays Ted, is 14 years older than Shaun Dingwall, who plays his son Reg.

* InformedAttractiveness: While Joannie is decent looking, the sheer amount of gushing she gets over her looks, from pretty much everybody (including her son's friends), is somewhat disproportionate.

* {{Jerkass}}: Reg.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Does this for many plot points of the parent series. For example, the gag about Del having been engaged to many women in his time is explained here by the young Del using a marriage proposal (and subsequent engagement, complete with a fake gold ring) as a ruse to get intimate with more than one young lady.

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Del Boy is ''desperate'' to lose his virginity and resorts to various tricks to try to achieve this end. "Five Gold Rings", for example, sees him acquire the five titular (fake) gold rings, which he gives to girls as engagement rings in the hope that being engaged will lead to a greater level of intimacy.

* WalkThePlank: Referenced when, after being told by the school gym teacher to go away, Del and his gang suggest heading to the park, and Slater protests that he doesn't want to walk the plank again. Del assures him that grown-ups don't play pirates. However, when the gang are seen hanging out in the Ritz Cinema (where Del's mother Joan works), Slater is soaking wet.

* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Rodney is the biological son of Freddie Robdal, not Reg Trotter. When she gets pregnant by Freddie (her lover) at a time when she has not had sex with Reg (her husband) for quite some time, Joan is able to convince the latter that they ''had'' been intimate, it's just that he was drunk at the time. Even though she claims the he was drunk as a result of [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams Millwall]] winning a football match (something he thinks [[TruthInTelevision sounds most unlikely]]), he buys it. Is it happens, almost everyone assumes that little Rodney is Reg's son.

* MyLocal: As per the original series, the Nag's Head is a much-visited establishment by most of the characters.

* PlayingGertrude: A male example -- Phil Daniels, who plays Ted, is 14 years older than Shaun Dingwall, who plays Reg (his son).

* SympatheticAdulterer: Reg is neglectful, crude, abusive, and all too happy to sit at home, watch Joan bring home the bacon and then waste her meager wages down at the pub. Is it any wonder she jumps into bed with Freddie Robdal — debonair and attentive, if somewhat unreliable and immoral — the first chance she gets?
* WalkThePlank: Referenced when, after being told by the school gym teacher to buzz off, Del and his gang suggest heading to the park, and Slater protests that he doesn't want to walk the plank again. Del assures him that grown-ups don't play pirates. However, when the gang are seen hanging out in the Ritz Cinema (where Del's mother Joan works), Slater is soaking wet.

* DoomedByCanon: Joanie Trotter was DeadToBeginWith, so it's not hard to work out where the story arc was going had it not been cut short by John Sullivan's death.
* EveryoneHasStandards: In "The Frog and the Pussycat", even Reg is disturbed by Beryl Bird coming on to Del, who was dating ''her daughter''.

* InformedAttractiveness: While Joannie is decent looking, the sheer amount of gushing she gets over her looks, from pretty much everybody, is somewhat disproportionate.

* WalkThePlank: This was referenced when after being told by the school gym teacher to buzz off, Del and his gang suggest heading to the park, and Slater protests that he doesn't want to walk the plank again. Del assures him that grown-ups don't play pirates. However, when the gang are seen hanging out in the Ritz Cinema (where Del's mother Joan works), Slater is soaking wet.

The show ran for just three episodes between 2010 and 2011, with [[AuthorExistenceFailure Sullivan's death]] five days before the broadcast of the third one preventing any more from being written.

* SympatheticAdulterer: Joan, who cheats on her abusive, bone-idle husband Reg with the debonair Freddie Robdal.
* WalkThePlank: This was referenced when after being told by the school gym teacher to buzz off, Del and his gang suggest heading to the park, and Slater protests that he doesn't want to walk the plank again. Del assures him that grown-ups don't play pirates. However, when the gang are seen hanging out in the Ritz Cinema (where Del's mother Joan works), Slater is soaking wet.

* SympatheticAdulterer: Joan, who cheats on her abusive, bone-idle husband Reg with the debonair Freddie Robdal.

* MilesGloriosus: Reg Trotter, who beats his wife but backs down when confronted by a man. Or his teenage son. Or any other woman, if his reaction to Irene calling him out on his behaviour is anything to go by.