History Series / TheWrongMans

--> '''Phil:''' How about now? That's £2.20.
* DamselInDistress: Subverted. [[spoiler:Scarlett is set up as one when she is kidnapped]] until [[spoiler:she jumps over a building with relative ease]] and [[spoiler:kills her husband to frame Sam and Phil]].

* DepravedHomosexual: [[spoiler: Marat Milankovitch. What he does to Sam comes close to molestation.]]

* EmbarrassingPassword: Lizzie's password is 'samhasnopubes'.

The Wrong Mans is a 2013 dark comedy made for the BBC, which focuses on two well-meaning idiots who end up entangled in a world of crime. The two protagonists are Sam Pinkett ([[Series/HorribleHistories Mat Baynton]]), an unambitious office worker in Berkshire County Council; and his friend Phil Bourne ([[Main/GavinAndStacey James Corden]]) who works in the mail room. Both of their lives take a turn for the interesting - yet also perilous - when Sam picks up a ringing mobile phone, and answers it, which serves only to draw him, and his friend, into a massive conspiracy of kidnapping, murder and sushi.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted. When [[spoiler:Scarlett attacks her husband she accidently kills him and it is treated as serious.]]

* DoubleStandard:AbuseIsOkayIfItsFemaleOnMale: Averted. When [[spoiler:Scarlett attacks her husband she accidently kills him and it is treated as serious.]]

* DoubleStandard:AbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted. When [[spoiler:Scarlett attacks her husband she accidently kills him and it is treated as serious.]]

* DamselInDistress: Subverted. [[spoiler:Scarlett is set up as one when she is kidnapped]] until [[spoiler:she jumps over a building with relative ease]] and [[spoiler:kills her husband to frame Sam and Phil]].

* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler: Episode four. Helicopters and agents pointing guns at them and Phil is all ready to go out with a bang.]]

** If you're a fan of British comedy you play this every other episode. HorribleHistories fans were especially excited by Jim Howick's two minute appearance. There's also [[{{Homeland}} David Harewood]], Emilia Fox (Coupling, Pride & Prejudice) and [[Series/TheVicarOfDibley Dawn French]].

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Inverted. The series is set in the very real Berkshire county of Bracknell but was actually filmed in neighbouring county, Surrey.

* VastBureaucracy: The two protagonists work in Berkshire County Council (now fictional; it split into six in 1998). This works against them when they [[spoiler:hide a hostage in a large, rarely used room;]] a meeting is held there later that day which neither of them are aware of.

* BookEnds: At both ends of the first series, the protagonists fist bump, and both times Phil berates Sam for not exploding it.

* WorkingWithTheEx: Sam and Lizzie both work at the Berkshire County Council. It is made even more awkward when [[spoiler: Lizzie is also introduced as Sam's boss]] on the Bracknell project.

** If you're a fan of British comedy you play this every other episode. HorribleHistories fans were especially excited by Jim Howick's two minute appearance. There's also [[{{Homeland}} David Harewood]], Emilia Fox (Coupling, Pride & Prejudice) and DawnFrench.

* Book Ends: At both ends of the first series, the protagonists fist bump, and both times Phil berates Sam for not exploding it.

* Bookends: At both ends of the first series, the protagonists fist bump, and both times Phil berates Sam for not exploding it.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Mathew Baynton from [[Series/HorribleHistories Horrible Histories]] and James Corden from GavinAndStacey.

The Wrong Mans is a 2013 dark comedy made for the BBC, which focuses on two well-meaning idiots who end up entangled in a world of crime. The two protagonists are Sam Pinkett ([[Series/HorribleHistories Mat Baynton]]), an unambitious office worker in Berkshire County Council; and his friend Phil Bourne ([[Series/GavinAndStacey James Corden]]) who works in the mail room. Both of their lives take a turn for the interesting - yet also perilous - when Sam picks up a ringing mobile phone, and answers it, which serves only to draw him, and his friend, into a massive conspiracy of kidnapping, murder and sushi.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Mathew Baynton from [[Series/HorribleHistories Horrible Histories]] and James Corden from [[Series/GavinAndStacey Gavin And Stacey]].

The Wrong Mans is a 2013 dark comedy made for the BBC, which focuses on two well-meaning idiots who end up entangled in a world of crime. The two protagonists are Sam Pinkett (Mat Baynton), an unambitious office worker in Berkshire County Council; and his friend Phil Bourne (James Corden) who works in the mail room. Both of their lives take a turn for the interesting - yet also perilous - when Sam picks up a ringing mobile phone, and answers it, which serves only to draw him, and his friend, into a massive conspiracy of kidnapping, murder and sushi.

HarassingPhoneCall: One of these at the start of the first episode sets up the whole narrative when Sam answers it. Another in the second episode kindly asks Phil to [[spoiler:lie down or be shot]].
IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: Pretty much everyone who reviews the show starts by commenting on how irritating the title is to say. One reviewer stated that it sounds like 'you've turned into a LOLcat halfway through'.