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** According to a featurette on the season one DVD set, ''Finding Leo'', Creator/JudeLaw was supposed to appear in the last episode of the season, but pulled out at the last minute, leaving Creator/RickyGervais and Creator/StephenMerchant scrambling to find a replacement, which eventually ended up being Creator/PatrickStewart. The change happened so late in the day that the episode's closing scene was filmed under the assumption that Law would still be the main guest star, hence the oddly out-of-place focus on an advert for the 2004 remake of ''Alfie'' (which starred Law, and was a critical and commercial failure) in the last shot.
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** According to a featurette on the season one DVD set, ''Finding Leo'', Creator/JudeLaw was supposed to appear in the last episode of the season, but pulled out at the last minute, leaving Creator/RickyGervais and Creator/StephenMerchant scrambling to find a replacement, which eventually ended up being Creator/PatrickStewart. The change happened so late in the day that the episode's closing scene was filmed under the assumption that Law would still be the main guest star, hence the oddly out-of-place focus on an advert for the 2004 remake of ''Alfie'' (which starred Law, and was a critical and commercial failure) Law in the title role) in the last shot.
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* RealSongThemeTune: Cat Stevens's "Tea for the Tillerman" brings every episode to a close.
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* RealSongThemeTune: Cat Stevens's Music/CatStevens's "Tea for the Tillerman" brings every episode to a close.
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** Literally and figuratively in Creator/JonathanRoss's case. Gervais became very good friends with him after ''Series/TheOfficeUK'' propelled him to stardom, his co-writer Creator/StephenMerchant sometimes joking that Ricky seemed to be spurning their own friendship for this blossoming bond with Ross. They wrote this exact same sort of friendship between Ross, playing himself, and Andy in ''Extras'', right down to the exclusion of Andy's preexisting friendship with Maggie.
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** Literally and figuratively in Creator/JonathanRoss's Creator/JonathanRoss' case. Gervais became very good friends with him after ''Series/TheOfficeUK'' propelled him to stardom, his co-writer Creator/StephenMerchant sometimes joking that Ricky seemed to be spurning their own friendship for this blossoming bond with Ross. They wrote this exact same sort of friendship between Ross, playing himself, and Andy in ''Extras'', right down to the exclusion of Andy's preexisting pre-existing friendship with Maggie.
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* RealSongThemeTune: Cat Stevens's "Tea for the Tillerman" brings every episode to a close.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to a featurette on the season one DVD set, ''Finding Leo'', Creator/JudeLaw was supposed to appear in one of the episodes, but pulled out at the last minute, leaving Creator/RickyGervais and Creator/StephenMerchant scrambling to find a replacement. ''Finding Leo'' follows Gervais' unsuccessful attempts to contact Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Literally and figuratively in Creator/JonathanRoss's case. Gervais became very good friends with him after ''Series/TheOfficeUK'' propelled him to stardom, his co-writer Creator/StephenMerchant sometimes joking that Ricky seemed to be spurning their own friendship for this blossoming bond with Ross. They wrote this exact same sort of friendship between Ross, playing himself, and Andy in ''Extras'', right down to the exclusion of Andy's preexisting friendship with Maggie.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: Literally and figuratively in Creator/JonathanRoss's case. Gervais became very good friends with him after ''Series/TheOfficeUK'' propelled him to stardom, his co-writer Creator/StephenMerchant sometimes joking that Ricky seemed to be spurning their own friendship for this blossoming bond with Ross. They wrote this exact same sort of friendship between Ross, playing himself, and Andy in ''Extras'', right down to the exclusion of Andy's preexisting friendship with Maggie.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** According to a featurette on the season one DVD set, ''Finding Leo'', Creator/JudeLaw was supposed to appear inone the last episode of the episodes, season, but pulled out at the last minute, leaving Creator/RickyGervais and Creator/StephenMerchant scrambling to find a replacement. replacement, which eventually ended up being Creator/PatrickStewart. The change happened so late in the day that the episode's closing scene was filmed under the assumption that Law would still be the main guest star, hence the oddly out-of-place focus on an advert for the 2004 remake of ''Alfie'' (which starred Law, and was a critical and commercial failure) in the last shot.
** ''Finding Leo'' follows Gervais' unsuccessful attempts to contactCreator/LeonardoDiCaprio.
Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio. It's thought, but unconfirmed, that his intended role ended up going to Creator/BenStiller.
*WriteWhoYouKnow: WriteWhoYouKnow:
** Literally and figuratively in Creator/JonathanRoss's case. Gervais became very good friends with him after ''Series/TheOfficeUK'' propelled him to stardom, his co-writer Creator/StephenMerchant sometimes joking that Ricky seemed to be spurning their own friendship for this blossoming bond with Ross. They wrote this exact same sort of friendship between Ross, playing himself, and Andy in ''Extras'', right down to the exclusion of Andy's preexisting friendship with Maggie.
** According to a featurette on the season one DVD set, ''Finding Leo'', Creator/JudeLaw was supposed to appear in
** ''Finding Leo'' follows Gervais' unsuccessful attempts to contact
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** Literally and figuratively in Creator/JonathanRoss's case. Gervais became very good friends with him after ''Series/TheOfficeUK'' propelled him to stardom, his co-writer Creator/StephenMerchant sometimes joking that Ricky seemed to be spurning their own friendship for this blossoming bond with Ross. They wrote this exact same sort of friendship between Ross, playing himself, and Andy in ''Extras'', right down to the exclusion of Andy's preexisting friendship with Maggie.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Literally and figuratively in [[Creator/JonathanRoss Jonathan Ross's]] case. Gervais became very good friends with him after ''Series/TheOffice'' propelled him to stardom, his co-writer Creator/StephenMerchant sometimes joking that Ricky seemed to be spurning their own friendship for this blossoming bond with Ross. They wrote this exact same sort of friendship between Ross, playing himself, and Andy in ''Extras'', right down to the exclusion of Andy's preexisting friendship with Maggie.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Literally and figuratively in [[Creator/JonathanRoss Jonathan Ross's]] Creator/JonathanRoss's case. Gervais became very good friends with him after ''Series/TheOffice'' ''Series/TheOfficeUK'' propelled him to stardom, his co-writer Creator/StephenMerchant sometimes joking that Ricky seemed to be spurning their own friendship for this blossoming bond with Ross. They wrote this exact same sort of friendship between Ross, playing himself, and Andy in ''Extras'', right down to the exclusion of Andy's preexisting friendship with Maggie.
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* GenreKiller: This series pretty much finished the job that ''[[Series/TheOfficeUK The Office]]'' had started, in making the classic BritCom format seem dated and worn-out. Nowadays, it's pretty widely accepted that in order to have even the slightest chance of getting any critical respect, any new comedy show must be in the "single-camera with no laugh track" format.
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* GenreKiller: This series pretty much -- along with ''Series/TheThickOfIt'', which started airing the same year -- finished the job that ''[[Series/TheOfficeUK The Office]]'' had started, in making the classic BritCom format seem dated and worn-out. Nowadays, it's pretty widely accepted that in order to have even the slightest chance of getting any critical respect, any new comedy show must be in the "single-camera with no laugh track" format.
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* ActorSharedBackground: Like [[Creator/StephenMerchant his actor]], Darren is from Bristol.
-->'''Shaun''': "Sheep shagger" is Welsh.
-->'''Darren''': No, it can be Bristol.
-->'''Shaun''': Bristol is inbreeding.
-->'''Darren''': Sheep-shagging, inbreeding, slavery. Famous for loads of stuff down there.
-->'''Shaun''': "Sheep shagger" is Welsh.
-->'''Darren''': No, it can be Bristol.
-->'''Shaun''': Bristol is inbreeding.
-->'''Darren''': Sheep-shagging, inbreeding, slavery. Famous for loads of stuff down there.
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** Maggie's InnocentlyInsensitive comments, interest in the abnormal, poor grasp of general knowledge, and [[CloudCuckooLander generally bizarre mind]] all call to mind Creator/Karl Pilkington, Gervais' close friend and pet obsession around the time of filming. Add to that, a suspicious amount of Maggie's "would-you-rather"s seem to involve monkeys.
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** Maggie's InnocentlyInsensitive comments, interest in the abnormal, poor grasp of general knowledge, and [[CloudCuckooLander generally bizarre mind]] all call to mind Creator/Karl Pilkington, Creator/KarlPilkington, Gervais' close friend and pet obsession around the time of filming. Add to that, a suspicious amount of Maggie's "would-you-rather"s seem to involve monkeys.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Literally and figuratively in Jonathan Ross's case. Gervais became very good friends with him after ''Series/TheOffice'' propelled him to stardom, his co-writer Creator/StephenMerchant sometimes joking that Ricky seemed to be spurning their own friendship for this blossoming bond with Ross. They wrote this exact same sort of friendship between Ross, playing himself, and Andy in ''Extras'', right down to the exclusion of Andy's preexisting friendship with Maggie.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Literally and figuratively in [[Creator/JonathanRoss Jonathan Ross's Ross's]] case. Gervais became very good friends with him after ''Series/TheOffice'' propelled him to stardom, his co-writer Creator/StephenMerchant sometimes joking that Ricky seemed to be spurning their own friendship for this blossoming bond with Ross. They wrote this exact same sort of friendship between Ross, playing himself, and Andy in ''Extras'', right down to the exclusion of Andy's preexisting friendship with Maggie.Maggie.
** Maggie's InnocentlyInsensitive comments, interest in the abnormal, poor grasp of general knowledge, and [[CloudCuckooLander generally bizarre mind]] all call to mind Creator/Karl Pilkington, Gervais' close friend and pet obsession around the time of filming. Add to that, a suspicious amount of Maggie's "would-you-rather"s seem to involve monkeys.
** Maggie's InnocentlyInsensitive comments, interest in the abnormal, poor grasp of general knowledge, and [[CloudCuckooLander generally bizarre mind]] all call to mind Creator/Karl Pilkington, Gervais' close friend and pet obsession around the time of filming. Add to that, a suspicious amount of Maggie's "would-you-rather"s seem to involve monkeys.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Literally and figuratively in Jonathan Ross's case. Gervais became very good friends with him after ''Series/TheOffice'' propelled him to stardom, his co-writer Creator/StephenMerchant sometimes joking that Ricky seemed to be spurning their own friendship for this blossoming bond with Ross. They wrote this exact same sort of friendship between Ross, playing himself, and Andy in ''Extras'', right down to the exclusion of Andy's preexisting friendship with Maggie.
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* OutOfOrder: The episode with Ross Kemp was originally supposed to be the series opener. According to Creator/RickyGervais, Creator/{{HBO}} switched it with the second episode, as Creator/BenStiller was better known in America.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to a featurette on the season one DVD set, ''Finding Leo'', Creator/JudeLaw was supposed to appear in one of the episodes, but pulled out at the last minute, leaving Creator/RickyGervais and Creator/StephenMerchant scrambling to find a replacement. ''Finding Leo'' follows Gervais' unsuccessful attempts to contact Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to a featurette on the season one DVD set, ''Finding Leo'', Creator/JudeLaw was supposed to appear in one of the episodes, but pulled out at the last minute, leaving Creator/RickyGervais and Creator/StephenMerchant scrambling to find a replacement. ''Finding Leo'' follows Gervais' unsuccessful attempts to contact Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio.
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* CareerResurrection: As a result of his candid and naked (both literally, and metaphorically) performance, Les Dennis, who seemed fated for obscurity after having a messy public divorce and subsequent breakdown on reality TV, turned his career all the way around from a washed up light entertainer to serious actor.
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* GenreKiller: This series pretty much finished the job that ''Series/TheOffice'' had started, in making the classic BritCom format seem dated and worn-out. Nowadays, it's pretty widely accepted that in order to have even the slightest chance of getting any critical respect, any new comedy show must be in the "single-camera with no laugh track" format.
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* GenreKiller: This series pretty much finished the job that ''Series/TheOffice'' ''[[Series/TheOfficeUK The Office]]'' had started, in making the classic BritCom format seem dated and worn-out. Nowadays, it's pretty widely accepted that in order to have even the slightest chance of getting any critical respect, any new comedy show must be in the "single-camera with no laugh track" format.
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* GenreKiller: This series pretty much finished the job that ''Series/TheOffice'' had started, in making the classic BritCom format seem dated and worn-out. Nowadays, it's pretty widely accepted that in order to have even the slightest chance of getting any critical respect, any new comedy show must be in the "single-camera with no laugh track" format.
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