History Series / TheSmokingRoom

* EveryoneSmokes: Obviously, given the setting.

* MyLocal: "The Nag's Head" is often mentioned. May be a clue as to the location of the office since there is a Nag's Head near Covent Garden.

* SeinfeldianConversation

* WorkCom

* RealSongThemeTune: The Cure's "Close To Me", at least when it was on BBC Three.

* BottleEpisode: ''Every'' episode.

* ConspiracyTheorist: Clint.
* ContemplatingYourHands: Len, after he accidentally gets high on glue.

* DeadpanSnarker: Robin, pretty much perpetually.
* TheDitz: Clint.

* FakeStatic: Sally, to her mother.

* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Most of the company other than the main cast.

* FragileFlower: Annie, who frequently bursts into tears at the slightest provocation.

* YouPutTheXInXY: The CigZowt smoking cessation speaker has a particularly ill-thought-out version of this, which the smokers quickly dissect.

* PrecisionFStrike: The normally strait-laced Janet, when particularly stressed out because the staff Christmas variety show isn't going well, unleashes one on Clint that makes him jump out of his chair.

* PrecisionFStrike: Len, usually, at least when he's not dropping it in every other word. And on one occasion when she was particularly stressed, Janet.

* ClusterFBomb: Len. His grandson Ethan has taken to calling him "Grandad Fuck-Off".

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Janet's nephew Dominic, who is shadowing Robin for his psychology class, gives a gloriously passive-aggressive one to Robin under the guise of a analysis.
-->'''Dominic:''' You know, I would say that your relentless sarcasm is an obvious attempt to put people at a distance, due to an almost crippling sense of inadequacy. I would say that your barbed, defensive humour is prompted by a fear of intimacy because there's something you're trying to hide, an aspect of yourself you're desperate to suppress because you hate it so. You hate yourself. I ''would'' say all that, if I simply weren't a passive observer.

* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Janet finally snaps and outs Robin after he pours scorn on her developing relationship with a man in her church's congregation.
-->'''Janet:''' But at least it's a real relationship. I am not, like certain people I could mention, dreaming my best years away - or the tail-end of them at any rate - on some ''pointless, soul-sapping crush!''

* IntoxicationEnsues: Len absent-mindedly sniffs at some glue Clint was using to fix a floor tile, and before long he's away with the fairies.

* WaxingLyrical: Cleverly done when Annie returns to the smoking room after she stormed out upset:

* BreakTheMotivationalSpeaker: One episode has a smoking cessation workshop, "CigZowt", in the smoking room. The hapless speaker struggles to control the staff, and their short attention spans and snarkiness eventually cause him to lose his temper.

''The Smoking Room'' is a British television sitcom written by Brian Dooley, who won a BAFTA for the series in 2005. It centres around a group of people working in an office somewhere in London, taking their breaks in the titular smoking room. The first series, consisting of eight episodes, was originally transmitted on [[TheBBC BBC Three]] between 29 June and 17 August 2004. The Christmas Special was first transmitted on the same channel on 20 December 2004. A second series of eight episodes began airing on 26 July 2005.