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Tim has a rather crappy life. He has an ex-wife who hates him, a dead-end job and has a son who doesn't respect him. He applies for a job as a civil servant doing data entry, but discovers during the job interview that he has been offered a job as a trainee spy for MI5.

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Tim has a rather crappy life. He has an ex-wife who hates him, a dead-end job and has a son who doesn't respect him. He applies for a job as a civil servant doing data entry, but discovers during the job interview that he has been offered a job as a trainee spy for MI5.
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** About the only good thing is that he has a steady job (he was unemployed for some time at the start of the series). And even this is debatable since, as competent as he is, his boss is well... borderline insane with a man-crush on him as big as the MI5 building.

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** About the only good thing is that he has a steady job (he was unemployed for some time at the start of the series). And even this is debatable since, as competent as he is, his boss is well... borderline insane with a man-crush on him as big as the MI5 [=MI5=] building.
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adorkable cleanup, now it's YMMV. removing misuse and ZCE, and moving appropriate examples to YMMV


* {{Adorkable}}: Tim
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* ComedicSociopathy: The Examiner and Owen.

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* ComedicSociopathy: The Examiner Examiner, Chris and Owen.
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* CursedWithAwesome: When Marcus ends up going with Tim to the office, Tim has to hide what he does or he'll get fired. It's a curse because Marcus thinks very little of him to begin with so Tim's attempts come off as just him being embarrassed about what he does. [[spoiler: Ends up being a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome when Tim uses his skills to subdue an MI6 agent and help Marcus get to his cello lesson... but again, he has to have Marcus close his eyes in order not to reveal what he does.]]

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* CursedWithAwesome: When Marcus ends up going with Tim to the office, Tim has to hide what he does or he'll get fired. It's a curse because Marcus thinks very little of him to begin with so Tim's attempts come off as just him being embarrassed about what he does. [[spoiler: Ends up being a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome when Tim uses his skills to subdue an MI6 [=MI6=] agent and help Marcus get to his cello lesson... but again, he has to have Marcus close his eyes in order not to reveal what he does.]]



* ObfuscatingStupidity: Tim. He might come across as a guy who stumbled across his job and, to an extent, it's true. But that doesn't mean he doesn't take his job - or the skills he's learned - seriously. [[spoiler: When he needs to, such as in "Codename: Lie Hard", he'll drop the act. In the mentioned episode, he has to subdue an MI6 agent and does so in a few seconds.]]

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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Tim. He might come across as a guy who stumbled across his job and, to an extent, it's true. But that doesn't mean he doesn't take his job - or the skills he's learned - seriously. [[spoiler: When he needs to, such as in "Codename: Lie Hard", he'll drop the act. In the mentioned episode, he has to subdue an MI6 [=MI6=] agent and does so in a few seconds.]]
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Not to be confused with the 2019 miniseries about real-life Israeli spy Eli Cohen, ''Series/Spy2019''

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Not to be confused with the 2019 miniseries about real-life Israeli spy Eli Cohen, ''Series/Spy2019''''Series/TheSpy''
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Not to be confused with the 2019 miniseries about real-life Israeli spy Eli Cohen, ''Series/Spy2019''

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