History Series / TimeGentlemenPlease

* TeenyWeenie: Greg Thompson is implied to have one, despite his claims of possessing a [[BiggusDickus "massive cock."]] His nickname back at Landlord Academy was even "Acorn."

* AnythingThatMoves: Terry, as indicated by his {{Catchphrase}} "A mouth's a mouth".

* {{Foil}}: Connie is one to Janet. While Janet was outwardly abrasive, but kindhearted on the inside, Connie seems sweet and nice, but is actually quite callous and self-centred.

* NamesTheSame: Lesley and Leslie.

* OpinionFlipFlop: In the second season finale, Connie talks to her "cool" fellow student Stella about how difficult their end of year exam was, and her worry that she might have failed. Stella scoffs, stating that she doesn't care. Connie immediately agrees with her.

* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: In her debut episode, Connie initially believed that Steve was a handsome prince who was being held captive by Greg Thompson. She is greatly disappointed to find out who he really is.

* YourCheatingHeart: The Guv's wife left him for Marcel. At the end of the second season, we learn she left Marcel for a German landlord.

* {{Adorkable}}: Steve Crosby. He's naive but also a big Cheeky Alan Supple fan to the point where he's disappointed that Supple won't be attending the pub's Fact Hunt quiz night. Plus his voice sounds child-like.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Guv makes loud proclamations that he's not attracted to men but also shows interest in them and makes mentions of how desperate he is for physical intimacy since his wife left him.

* AxeCrazy: Well, "Cleaver Crazy", but Greg Thompson's psychotic breakdown in "This Vale of Beers" shows he's ready to cut anyone up while proclaiming his AGodAmI view.
* BadBoss: Greg Thompson; he'll insult the women working for him, and trapped Steve in a cellar for 10 months working on making beer mats, only paying him in peanuts. Guv can be this towards Steve.

* ButtMonkey: Steve to a tee very episode.

* EpicFail: The result of attack pattern Alpha when the Bar Stewards try to take down Greg in "This Vale of Beers". First they run towards him, only for him to knock two of them down by raising his arms up, then Barry gets into a boxing pose and shuffles towards him. Not surprisingly, Greg sends him falling with one punch.

* {{Irony}}: Throughout the second season, Terry usually expresses his disinterest in the new barmaid Connie, who feels the same way with Terry. In the final episode's {{Stinger}}, much to Terry's shock, the two had a one-night stand after the pub's celebration, and Connie now fancies him.

** Steve. He's naive and child-like, as well as seeing the Guv as a father figure and mentor in the ways of the pub.

* SurroundedByIdiots: Connie attitude towards everyone in the pub.

'''Time Gentlemen Please''' is a British sitcom that went out on Sky in September 2000 and lasted until May 2002 after two series, clocking in at 37 episodes altogether. It starred Creator/AlMurray as Guv, a politically incorrect pub landlord (not the same as The Pub Landlord, Murray's stand-up character) who is abusive to most people he serves drinks to. It was written by Creator/RichardHerring and Al Murray.

* DeathSeeker: The Old Man. He claims to have lived for so long that death would be a relief. Even his catchphrase, "When will I die?" shows how much he wishes to die. Whenever there's something that might look like it would kill him, he's happy that he'll kick the bucket, but it's usually shot down. Ironically, in a nightmare sequence near the series' run, he gets shot by machine-gun-wielding giant mice, ending up with multiple bullet holes in his coat, but he's still not dead.

* LargeHam: Usually the Guv, especially in moments of panic. Since it's Creator/AlMurray, it's no surprise. Others include Greg with his constant boasting and whenever he's angry, and Leslie whenever he roars (just to note, that's 95% of his dialogue).

** The Old Man: "Look at his face - it's a picture!" / "When will I die?"

* {{Malaproper}}: Several. Including Steve's insistence on pronouncing 'Skeleton' as 'Skelington' because it's "more proper" (a joke used previously by the writer Richard Herring in his double act with Stewart Lee.
* ManChild: Steve. He's naive and child-like, as well as seeing the Guv as a father figure and mentor in the ways of the pub.

* OedipusComplex: Played with for laughs. When the Guv goes to see Ms Jackson's IdenticalTwin, a psychiatrist, he immediately refers to this trope, claiming that everything always ties in with having sex with the mother, and his attitude/disgust towards it makes the psychiatrist wonder about him. Eventually there's a DreamWithinADream where Ms. Jackson's twin get on her knees before the Guv while he's sitting on a chair...and then he's met with the twin replaced by his mum. Cut to BigNo while he wakes up.

'''Time Gentlemen Please''' is a British sitcom that went out on Sky in September 2000 and lasted until May 2002 after two series, clocking in at 37 episodes altogether. It starred Creator/AlMurray as Guv, a politically incorrect pub landlord (not the same as The Pub Landlord, Murray's stand-up character) who is abusive to most people he serves drinks to. It was written by {{Richard Herring}} and Al Murray.

* {{Adult Child}}: Leslie. This is even brought up when he's off the hook for assault on the count of the fact he's mentally impaired. Lesley follows him, but to a lesser extent.
* {{All Just A Dream}}: The Guv goes through this trope a couple of times.

** He has one in "The Slopranos". See {{Oedipus Complex}} below for more details.
* {{Axe Crazy}}: Well, "Cleaver Crazy", but Greg Thompson's psychotic breakdown in "This Vale of Beers" shows he's ready to cut anyone up while proclaiming his {{A God Am I}} view.
* {{Bad Boss}}: Greg Thompson; he'll insult the women working for him, and trapped Steve in a cellar for 10 months working on making beer mats, only paying him in peanuts. Guv can be this towards Steve.
* {{Basement Dweller}}: The Professor, who lives with his mum.
* {{Berserk Button}}: Take note - if you want your soul to still be intact with your body, don't EVER try to touch, insult or swipe away Leslie's Tigger toy. Lesley will break you apart; Greg's nephew learnt this the hard way.
* {{Big NO}}: Expect this a lot from the Guv, and expect it to be hammy.
* {{Butt Monkey}}: Steve to a tee very episode.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Similarly to Richard Herring's other work, the show quickly establishes a myriad of catchphrases, which continue to be heavily used throughout the series. Examples include "A mouth's a mouth", "I was never confused", "It's been a year", "Look at his face, it's a picture", "I'm cheeky me" amongst almost countless others. The frequency they recur is pretty impressive.
** To be more specific:

* {{Cloud Cuckoo Lander}}: Lesley, what with her Tigger toy and meekness.
* {{Death Seeker}}: The Old Man. He claims to have lived for so long that death would be a relief. Even his catchphrase, "When will I die?" shows how much he wishes to die. Whenever there's something that might look like it would kill him, he's happy that he'll kick the bucket, but it's usually shot down. Ironically, in a nightmare sequence near the series' run, he gets shot by machine-gun-wielding giant mice, ending up with multiple bullet holes in his coat, but he's still not dead.
* {{Dirty Old Man}}: The Old Man. Just add "Dirty" to his name, whenever he acts pervy and bingo!
* {{Dues ex Machina}}: After going through a bombardment of basically every hangover he's never had when the pub's temporarily run out of booze, Terry's temporarily dead. How does this get resolved? Simple: a pint's poured and sent down his throat --> instant resurrection. And they say beer's bad for you. Wait...
* {{Embarrassing First Name}}: Algernon, the Prof's real name.
* {{Epic Fail}}/{{One Hit Kill}}: The result of attack pattern Alpha when the Bar Stewards try to take down Greg in "This Vale of Beers". First they run towards him, only for him to knock two of them down by raising his arms up, then Barry gets into a boxing pose and shuffles towards him. Not surprisingly, Greg sends him falling with one punch.
* {{Even Evil Has Loved Ones}}: Despite all the bad stuff that Greg does, he has strong feelings for his pet snake Sampson.
* {{Fan Disservice}}: The photoshoot at the end of "Beer Necessities", featuring the Guv and the other male characters wearing nothing but pants, though YMMV on the Guv. Terry's pants are likely to be {{Nausea Fuel}} during this.

* {{Hypocritical Humour}}: Terry saying that Lesley's flatulence is "uncouth"; this coming from a man who regularly breaks wind himself.

* {{Its All About Me}}: One of Connie's main traits - it gets annoying, especially when whining about her "problems" in university despite her describing it as very lush.
* {{Jerk With A Heart of Gold}}: The Guv. Despite his abuse toward Steve, he really does care about him and the pub regulars. In the first season he decides to be incredibly kind towards Ms. Jackson, even though she's "never pulled a pint in her life", when he assumes she's going to die, and even when it's revealed she's pregnant instead, he stills acts kind to her. This can especially be demonstrated when Janet makes fun of Ms. Jackson's inability to know who the father of her unborn child is; the Guv defensively and angrily tells Janet to go to work. Doubles as {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}.
* {{Karma Houdini}}: Connie ended up stealing the Guv's mice because of her view that they shouldn't be 'trapped' despite being very personal to him. They end up getting squashed by Vicki Jackson accidentally, and not only is Connie's involvement never revealed, but she never feels guilt for it or receives some sort of punishment.
* {{Large Ham}}: Usually the Guv, especially in moments of panic. Since it's Creator/{{Al Murray}}, it's no surprise. Others include Greg with his constant boasting and whenever he's angry, and Leslie whenever he roars (just to note, that's 95% of his dialogue).
** Greg Thompson can't go through one scene without yelling or just talking to someone in an over-the-top fashion.
** Leslie - just Leslie.
* {{Luke I Am Your Father}}: Averted but also subverted. The man the Guv thought was his father isn't his real dad, which the pub regulars muse to themselves, with the Guv none the wiser. Uncle Barry isn't exactly subtle in hiding the fact that he's the Guv's real father, though, and again, the Guv never catches on, not even when Barry says things like, "Guv, I just want you to know, I'm - your father would be very proud." It's also a {{Running Gag}}.

* {{Man Child}}: Steve. He's naive and child-like, as well as seeing the Guv as a father figure and mentor in the ways of the pub.
* {{New Powers as the Plot Demands}}: In "This Vale of Beers", Terry experiences spider-like attributes like eating flies and seeing things in multi-vision due to some genetic tampering. He ends up using his abilities to encase {{Axe Crazy}} Greg Thompson in a large web via farting. Yes, you read that correctly - web-farting. It's gone by the next episode, never mentioned again.
* {{No Name Given}}: The Guv, as well as The Old Man. The closest the series gives us to a name for the Old Man is the affectionate name "Pops", but otherwise everyone just calls him "Old Man". This is even lampshaded in the "It's A Wonderful Pint", when in a telephone call he addresses himself as "The Old Man With No Name". The reason why is because he prefers that it's best for some things not to be said.
* {{Oedipus Complex}}: Played with for laughs. When the Guv goes to see Ms Jackson's {{Identical Twin}}, a psychiatrist, he immediately refers to this trope, claiming that everything always ties in with having sex with the mother, and his attitude/disgust towards it makes the psychiatrist wonder about him. Eventually there's a {{Dream Within A Dream}} where Ms. Jackson's twin get on her knees before the Guv while he's sitting on a chair...and then he's met with the twin replaced by his mum. Cut to {{Big NO}} while he wakes up.
* {{Only Sane Person}}: Connie, who's more eager to point out the ridiculousness, the obvious, the overlooked, the flaws...well, ''everything'' in the daily lives and problems of the Guv and everyone else. In fact, she even calls them "not normal" just to rub in how much she's aware of the stupidity and weirdness in the show's universe. She could easily qualify as a character taken from another genre.
* {{PrecisionFStrike}}: Nearly everyone in the show says "fuck" at some point. For example, whenever the Prof's angry, as in very angry, he'll tend to blast off "fuck", which is pretty impressive given how he normally tends to replace it with "twat" or "cock", i.e. "I need a 'FUCKING DRINK!'". Barry usually calls Greg a "fucker".
* {{Real Life Writes the Plot}}: One episode featured the characters trying to figure out the name of the pub, then later come up with a name for it. They call it "The Cowshed"; this is actually a meta-reference to how the pub used for filming the series is actually called "The Cowshed".
* {{Running Gag}}: Normally linked in with characters' catchphrases.

* {{Sanity Slippage}}: Happens to the Guv between series one and two thanks to firing Steve and Janet leaving England; by "It's A Wonderful Pint", he's locked himself up in his room for 10 months, resulting in him getting long hair and a beard. In this state, he deconstructs his whole character, even his catchphrases. Luckily, the arrival of Uncle Barry and Ms. Jackson with their baby is enough for the Guv to snap out of it and regain his self-esteem by the end of the episode.
* {{Shout Out}}:
** "It's A Wonderful Pint" - the whole sequence with the Barstewards trying to get Guv better parodies {{The Exorcist}}, including the famous vomiting scene and parodies the line "Your mother sucks cocks in Hell!" with "Your mother drinks pints in Hell!"

** The {{Rival}} Professor Baker in "Day of the Trivheads" stars Colin Baker, obviously playing on his role as the Doctor in Series/{{Doctor Who}}. A {{Shout Out}} to this is played when the Prof (our Prof) describes what his field in sci-fi shows and almost says "Doctor Who" when Professor Baker cuts him off, also a reference to the {{Executive Meddling}} that got Colin fired from his role.
* {{Smug}}: Connie usually runs this tropes around like a flag.
* {{Special Guest}}: "Day of the Trivheads" guest stars Creator/{{Colin Baker}} as the rival team's own intellectual, known as "Professor Baker". See {{Shout Out}} above for more details.
** {{David Walliams}} appears in the final episode as the French pub landlord who ran off with the Guv's wife.

* {{Story Arc}}: Quite a few.

* {{Surrounded by Idiots}}: Connie attitude towards everyone in the pub.

* {{Who Wants To Live Forever}}: The Old Man's reason why immortality isn't such a good thing.

** The {{Rival}} Professor Baker in "Day of the Trivheads" stars Colin Baker, obviously playing on his role as the Doctor in {{Doctor Who}}. A {{Shout Out}} to this is played when the Prof (our Prof) describes what his field in sci-fi shows and almost says "Doctor Who" when Professor Baker cuts him off, also a reference to the {{Executive Meddling}} that got Colin fired from his role.

** Terry's spider powers in "This Vale of Beers" is a shout out to not only {{Spider-Man}}, but also the [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy movie]] that came out at the time of the episode, which gets referenced as the reason why Terry wanted spider powers in the first place.

* {{Christmas Episode}}: Two episodes; "Bar Humbug" and "It's A Wonderful Pint", obviously parodying Scrooge's 'bah humbug' in {{A Christmas Carol}} and the title of {{Film/Its A Wonderful Life}} respectively.

* {{Special Guest}}: "Day of the Trivheads" guest stars {{Colin Baker}} as the rival team's own intellectual, known as "Professor Baker". See {{Shout Out}} above for more details.

* {{Fartillery}}:

* {{Christmas Episode}}: Two episdoes; "Bar Humbug" and "It's A Wonderful Pint", obviously parodying Scrooge's 'bah humbug' in {{A Christmas Carol}} and the title of {{Film/Its A Wonderful Life}} respectively.

*** "Hold on a minute, Terry, aren't you barred?" / "It's been a year/two years" / "You're barred!" / "Crosby, that's coming out of your wages" / "I was never confused" / (referring to Australians being good at bar work) "It's instinct, innit? IN-STINCT" / "Dear God..." / "Beer for the fellas, white wine/fruit-based drink for the ladies" / "Oh dear, what a pity, never mind" / "We don't use the A-word (alcoholics) in here - we refer to them as..." / (whenever reminding himself of his Barman's Hand) "Look at me...Don't look at me! Look at me...Don't look at me!" / "Why do they leave me?! WHY?!" / "I miss my boy, that's all." / "Terry, you MASTER of disguise!" / "Magma?!"

'''Time Gentlemen Please''' is a British sitcom that went out on Sky in September 2000 and lasted until May 2002 after two series, clocking in at 37 episodes altogether. It starred Al Murray as Guv, a politically incorrect pub landlord (not the same as The Pub Landlord, Murray's stand-up character) who is abusive to most people he serves drinks to. It was written by {{Richard Herring}} and Al Murray.

!! This series contains examples of the following tropes:

* {{Large Ham}}: Usually the Guv, especially in moments of panic. Since it's {{Al Murray}}, it's no surprise. Others include Greg with his constant boasting and whenever he's angry, and Leslie whenever he roars (just to note, that's 95% of his dialogue).

* {{Who Wants To Live Forever}}: The Old Man's reason why immortality isn't such a good thing.

* {{Cult Classic}}: Hell, even the DVDs describe it as "the cult hit comedy series" at the front!

* {{Cuckoo Lander}}: Lesley, what with her Tigger toy and meekness.

* {{Christmas Episode}}: Two specials were made; "Bar Humbug" and "It's A Wonderful Pint", obviously parodying Scrooge's 'bah humbug' in {{A Christmas Carol}} and the title of {{Film/Its A Wonderful Life}} respectively.
* {{Crazy Awesome}}: The Guv's got an emergency plan in case two pub giants are about to fight. What is it? A crisp-firing bazooka. That's right; there's a crisp-firing weapon used to pacify them. It doesn't work, but just seeing Crosby fire it is a delight.
* {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}: It's rare seeing the lads do anything out-of-the-ordinary (or just plain) awesome, but whenever there is such a moment, it's bound to be pleasing.
** The Guv decking Steve and ordering him to leave the pub in "It's A Wonderful Pint". After all the obnoxious talk of being Australian, anything that's very "Aussie", and generally annoying everyone for the last few episodes of the first series (plus taking over the pub for 10 months), it's satisfying to see the Guv finally put his foot down and tell the loud-mouthed idiot to hit the highroad.
** Barry in "This Vale of Beers" to psycho-turned Greg Thompson, who wanted to stop people drinking alcohol and accept God:
*** "A public house must accept all comers, whatever their beliefs. Booze is for everyone, regardless of creed of colour. It's every man's birthright, ya jumped-up fucker." Cue an applause from the audience and most likely every fella at home raising their beer.
* {{Cuckoo lander}}: Lesley, what with her Tigger toy and meekness.

* {{Adult Child}}: Leslie. This is even brought up when he's off the hook for assault on the count of the fact he's mentally impaired. Leslie follows him, but to a lesser extent.

*** "Hold on a minute, Terry, aren't you barred?" / "It's been a year/two years" / "You're barred!" / "Crosby, that's coming out of your wages" / "I was never confused" / (referring to Australians being good at bar work) "It's instinct, innit? IN-STINCT" / "Dear God..." / "Beer for the fellas, white wine/fruit-based drink for the ladies" / "Oh dear, what a pity, never mind" / "We don't use the A-word (alcoholics) in here - we refer to them as..." / whenever reminding himself of his Barman's Hand)"Look at me...Don't look at me! Look at me...Don't look at me!" / "Why do they leave me?! WHY?!" / "I miss my boy, that's all." / "Terry, you MASTER of disguise!"

** Terry telling Dave to not be sexist...even though he always agrees with the Guv's [[He-ManWomanHater misogynistic]] views. Everyone looks at him in bewilderment.

* {{Christmas Episode}}: Two specials were made; "Bar Humbug" and "It's A Wonderful Pint", obviously parodying Scrooge's 'bah humbug' in {{A Christmas Carol}} and the title of {{Film/It's A Wonderful Life}} respectively.

** Terry telling Dave to not be sexist...even though he always agrees with the Guv's [[Misogyny misogynistic]] views. Everyone looks at him in bewilderment.