History Series / TwoPointFourChildren

* RunawayBride - Rona runs out of her own wedding after seeing all her ex-boyfriends gathered in the church reminds her what she would miss out on if she got married.

* HiddenDepths - Despite his standard characterisation, Ben is always able to provide emotional support when Bill needs it. And of the two during any genuine emergency or crisis, he actually manages stays calmer and reacts better than she does.

* NotWhatItLooksLike - One episode has Bill notice some men loading a TV into their van from the house next door, whose occupants are on holiday. She suspects the men are burglars, and she and Ben end up breaking into the house just to check that it's really empty - then they realize that the burglars can get in easily through the now-broken window, so Bill and Ben decide to take all valuables over to their own house for safety. This doesn't look at all good when the police arrive (although Bill thinks that several plates of her sausage rolls made the explanation more believable.)

* ThemeNaming: Appears to have been done in Bill's family since she, her mother Bette and aunt Belle all have very similar-sounding names.
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Dawn, the "per-son-al ben-ker" later resurfaces as an equally deranged and annoying loan officer.

** Christine sometimes goes by "Chris", causing Bill and Ben to think she was a guy until they met her in peron.

* NotWhatItLooksLike - One episode has Bill notice some men loading a TV into their van from the house next door, whose occupants are on holiday. She and Ben end up breaking into the house just to check that it's really empty - then they realize that the burglars can get in easily through the now-broken window, so Bill and Ben decide to take all valuables over to their own house. This doesn't look at all good when the police arrive (although Bill thinks that several plates of her sausage rolls made the explanation more believable.)

* CrossesTheLineTwice - One episode did this with a joke where Ben puts David's goldfish into a food mixer (since they don't have a tank for it yet) and then accidentally switches on the mixer. At the end of the episode, the show broke the fourth wall with actor Gary Olsen explaining how they used a prop fish - and then went into this trope, with another scene where Olsen accidentally microwaves the real fish.

* CousinOliver - Declan, the Porters' foster child, who was also a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for the departing Jenny.

* ThePrecariousLedge - Bill and Rona become stuck on a ledge with Bill's aunt after going out there to rescue her (she threatened to jump if they called the fire brigade since she was afraid of the authorities sending her to a retirement home.) The ledge then starts to crumble, leaving them stranded with no way to get back. Luckily, the whole building is so shoddily constructed that they are rescued when Bill stumbles backwards and breaks through the paper-thin wall.

* NotWhatItLooksLike - One episode has Bill notice some men loading a TV into their van from the house next door, whose occupants are on holiday. Bill and Ben end up breaking into the house just to check that it's really empty - then they decide they should take all valuables over to their own house, so no one can steal it through the broken window. This doesn't look at all good when the police arrive (although Bill thinks that several plates of her sausage rolls made the explanation more believable.)

* DeadpanSnarker - All the characters have there moments, especially Bill and Ben.

''Series/TwoPointFourChildren'' is a prime example of MagicRealism. It was written by Andrew Marshall, whose former writing partner David Renwick was responsible for the more successful ''[[OneFootInTheGrave One Foot in the Grave]]'' (which was more like tragic surrealism). Both jointly created classic radio comedy ''TheBurkissWay''. ''2.4 Children'' has strong echoes of burkiss but is less surrealistic.

''Series/TwoPointFourChildren'' is a prime example of MagicRealism. It was written by Andrew Marshall, whose former writing partner David Renwick was responsible for the more successful ''[[OneFootInTheGrave One Foot in the Grave]]'' (which was more like tragic surrealism).

** The end of the first episode of the second series shows a TV news report (which Bill misses, due to being asleep) reporting on the accident that killed him. This implies he was alive during the first series.

* ActingForTwo - Bill's mother and aunt were played by the same actress

* SitcomArchNemesis (Jake the Klingon)

* SpiritualSuccessor - Considered by some to have paved the way for the similarly-themed ''MyFamily''.

* CutShort - By the death of Ben's actor in 1999

* {{Casanova}}

** All of which end with a bizarre broadway-esque musical number.

* Bill (Willemina) Porter, a caterer

* GenderBlenderName - Bill (full name Willemena)