History Series / TheFallAndRiseOfReginaldPerrin

(To Himself)"Why did My mother give the middle name (aloud) Iolanthe? (To himself) she was was due to appear in a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan but couldn't when she discovered she was having me; if it had been a year later I would have been (aloud) Reginald Pirates Of Penzance Perrin!"

* MadLibsCatchPhrase: Lots, which have [[MemeticMutation entered everyday use]].

* AllMenArePerverts: Reginald likes to fantasize about him and his secretary suggestively licking ice cream cones, of making love to her on his desk in the middle of a field, etc. His doctor spends his downtime looking at porn in his office.

* {{Tuckerization}}: The streets in Reggie Perrin's neighborhood, the signs for which he is regularly seen walking by to and from work ("Wordsworth Drive," "Tennyson Avenue" and "Coleridge Close") are named after the famous British 19th century poets, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In the last episode of the series, when Reginald Perrin has taken another executive job in a large corporation, like the one he had at the beginning of the series, the street signs when he walks to work now read Liebnitz Drive, Bertrand Russell Rise and Schopenhauer Grove. These streets are named after the philosophers Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Bertrand Arthur William Russell and Arthur Schopenhauer.

* ListingTheFormsOfDegenerates

In the '80s the show was adapted as an American sitcom called ''Reggie!'' with Richard Mulligan in the title role, and more recently [[TheRemake remade]] as [[Series/ReggiePerrin Reggie Perrin]], with Creator/MartinClunes in the title role.

* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: Reginald

** 18 minutes late, correcting Wiki/TVTropes entry, missed 7:15 train, had to wait for 7:30 train.

* GoneHorriblyRight: The view Reggie comes to take of Grot. It was supposed to be a joke business, but it turned into a big success. His attempts to destroy it keep turning it into an even bigger success.

* TransAtlanticEquivalent: VERY briefly adapted into an American sitcom called ''Reggie!'' starring Richard Mulligan, in the '80s at some point between his playing Burt on ''Series/{{Soap}}'' and Dr Westin on ''EmptyNest''.

* PragmaticAdaptation: the TV series dropped some of the darker subplots from the books, such as Mark's disappearance, Linda and Jimmy's incestuous affair and the whole "Climthorpe Strangler" strand from the second book.

* FanDisservice: combines with FunnyAneurysmMoment and HarsherInHindsight when the nagging thought that Joan the very sexy secretary is vaguely familiar from somewhere becomes a realisation that she is now, forty years on, [[IWasQuiteALooker a not-very-glamorous grandmother]] in ''Series/CoronationStreet''. Still, they weren't to know this in 1975.

''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'' is a British sitcom developed from a series of novels by David Nobbs. The series stars Leonard Rossiter as Reginald "Reggie" Perrin, an advertising executive at Sunshine Desserts. Three seasons of episodes were made under this title; following Rossiter's death, a belated fourth series was made with the remaining cast under the title ''The Legacy of Reginald Perrin''.

In the 80s adapted as an American sitcom called ''Reggie!'' with Richard Mulligan in the title role, and more recently [[TheRemake remade]] as [[Series/ReggiePerrin Reggie Perrin]], with Creator/MartinClunes in the title role.

* AllMenArePerverts: Reginald likes to fantasize about him and his secretary suggestively licking ice cream cones, of making love to her on his desk in the middle of a field, &c.. His doctor spends his downtime looking at porn in his office.

* CouchGag: Similarly to ''Series/FawltyTowers'', the Sunshine Desserts sign was always humorously dilapidated, losing letters rather than anagramming them.

** He survives long enought to appear in a 1982 Boxing day special.
** The Legacy of Reginald Perrin finally revealed that he did not kill himself, rather he died in a storm, struck by a falling billboard advertising health insurance.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName; For Reggie 'Iolanthe'. Even worse than being embarrassing, it also makes his initials R.I.P.

** "I didn't get where I am today by talking in cliches' from CJ

* LastSecondWordSwap: "... and with the coming of metrication *office phone begins ringing* I feel confident -- no, the advent, the advent of metrication -- I feel confident that the bloody phone will ring all day."

* NationalStereotypes: Intentionally invoked and later subverted with Seamus Finnegan, the Irish labourer who Reggie hires as his admin officer in a pub (quaffing Guiness, naturally). A self-confessed hard-drinking lazy gambler, he soon turns out to be [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass hyper-competent]], much to Reggie's annoyance.

** I didn't get where I am today by modifying [=TVTropes=] pages for 40-year-old shows during my lunch hour!

* TransAtlanticEquivalent: VERY briefly adapted into an American sitcom called ''Reggie!'' starring Richard Mulligan in the 80s at some point between his playing Burt on ''Series/{{Soap}}'' and Dr Westin on ''EmptyNest''.
* TheUnintelligible: Sunshine Desserts' vans are these in the book. The back double doors contain the slogan 'Bring a little Sunshine into your life', with the left door reading 'Bring a suns into yo' and the right door reading 'little hine ur life', but several of the vans had the doors put on the wrong sides, with the result that they read 'little Bring a hine suns ur life into yo'.

* ViolentGlaswegian: Kenny [=McBlane=], the cook from Series Three who is always muttering indeciperable gibberish and almost always weilding something very sharp in his time on-camera.