Line #14 Characters/Episodes


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5	! Matt [=LeBlanc=]
6	-->Played by: Creator/{{Matt LeBlanc}}
7	Years after appearing in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' and its spinoff ''Joey'', Matt is cast in the new sitcom "Pucks" as the lovable hockey coach Lyman.
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9	* AdamWesting: Conceited, egotistical serial adulterer(!) Matt [=LeBlanc=].
10	* ArchnemesisDad: Matt and his father have an insanely dysfunctional relationship.
11	* TheAtoner: Goes back and forth on this. On some issues he'll show genuine remorse while on others he'll dig his heels in.
12	* BelligerentSexualTension: With Beverly.
13	* BilingualBonus: In episode 4, Matt makes fun of Beverly with the Lincolns' cleaning lady in Spanish.
14	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Matt has apparently become this to the rest of the ''Friends'' cast.
15	* HiddenDepths: Matt is a massive tool, but genuinely cares for his kids (or at least tries to). "I'm a terrible husband but an excellent father." He's also fluent in Spanish, and is a skilled cook.
16	* HollywoodPudgy: [[invoked]]Matt is criticised by the execs for gaining weight; Sean can't even see a difference.
17	* JailBaitWait: Rather creepily implied with Matt and Labia. She'd been stalking him for years by the time he slept with her at eighteen and it's unlikely that she just suddenly turned hot the moment she became legal.
18	* JerkassHasAPoint: While Matt royally screws Sean and Beverly over by [[spoiler:passing on their script after begging them to write it for him in the first place, they ultimately agree with him that it's crap]].
19	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Matt, pretty much. He's completely self-centered, doesn't have much of a conscience, and quite often has no clue how terribly he treats people, but he's very amiable and jovial... and in his own way, he ''does'' care.
20	* MyEyesAreUpHere: Gender-flipped when Matt catches Beverly looking at his GagPenis.
21	* ReallyGetsAround: Matt is...not discerning when it comes to who he sleeps with, whether it's other people's wives or his own ''stalker''.
22	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Beverly gives Matt several, but [[spoiler:Sean's one to him in the final episode takes the cake]].
23	* SadClown: He's the star of a comedy series and in his personal life has to deal with custody battles for his kids, a stalker, the tabloids fat-shaming him, his dwindling bank balance and a strained relationship with his father.
24	* SmokingHotSex: After sex with Beverly.
25	* SupremeChef: Surprisingly, Matt is a really good cook.
26	* WimpFight: Sean and Matt have the "vicious but technically inept" kind after [[spoiler:Matt sleeps with Beverly.]]
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28	! Sean Lincoln
29	-->Played by: Creator/StephenMangan
30	The co-writer of the British series "Lyman's Boys", which was eventually adapted as "Pucks" for the American audience. Married to Beverly.
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32	* DeadpanSnarker: It seems to be his only coping mechanism.
33	* DowntimeDowngrade: Justified by [[spoiler:Beverly's infidelity.]] The second season thus becomes a [[WillTheyOrWontThey Will They or Won't They Get Back Together?]].
34	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Every time the Lincolns try to stop Merc and Matt from altering their show, they fail. Even a series cancellation doesn't last very long.
35	* HandsOnApproach: Sean teaching Beverly to ice-skate. Played For Heartwarming as she'd earlier lamented that what she missed most since they broke up was him holding her.
36	* ImprovisedWeapon: Sean and Matt's WimpFight escalates into throwing things at each other, and crosses a line when Sean sprays cologne in Matt's face and they take a break to rinse his eyes out.
37	* InformedAbility: Sean & Beverley's writing ability and the quality of ''Lyman's Boys''. The bits of ''Pucks!'' we see are of varying quality at best, and that can't be ''entirely'' the fault of ExecutiveMeddling...
38	* AManIsAlwaysEager: He'll deny any attraction to Morning, but it's eventually proven that he's only as faithful as his options.
39	* WimpFight: Sean and Matt have the "vicious but technically inept" kind after [[spoiler:Matt sleeps with Beverly.]]
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41	! Beverly Lincoln
42	-->Played by: Creator/TamsinGreig
43	The co-writer of the British series "Lyman's Boys", which was eventually adapted as "Pucks" for the American audience. Married to Sean.
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45	* BelligerentSexualTension: With Matt.
46	* BerserkButton: Calling her "Betsy".
47	* BriefAccentImitation: Beverly does LA Valley Girl--"oh my god, I love your accent"--when telling Sean how much she wants to go home.
48	* CreatorBacklash: InUniverse -- Beverly openly states in the fourth episode that she hates what their show was turned into.
49	* DowntimeDowngrade: Justified by [[spoiler:Beverly's infidelity.]] The second season thus becomes a [[WillTheyOrWontThey Will They or Won't They Get Back Together?]].
50	* EmbarrassingNickname: "Betsy".
51	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Every time the Lincolns try to stop Merc and Matt from altering their show, they fail. Even a series cancellation doesn't last very long.
52	* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: [[spoiler:Beverly cheats on Sean mistakenly thinking he'd cheated on her with Morning, and they break up when he finds out. While they're separated, he ''does'' sleep with Morning, but feels guilty about it and tries to keep it a secret.]]
53	* HandsOnApproach: Sean teaching Beverly to ice-skate. Played For Heartwarming as she'd earlier lamented that what she missed most since they broke up was him holding her.
54	* InformedAbility: Sean & Beverley's writing ability and the quality of ''Lyman's Boys''. The bits of ''Pucks!'' we see are of varying quality at best, and that can't be ''entirely'' the fault of ExecutiveMeddling...
55	* InformedJudaism: During a conversation with Carol in the Season 5 premiere, she mentions being Jewish, which plays absolutely no part in the rest of the show.
56	* LimitedSocialCircle: Lampshaded - Carol jokes that Beverly "know[s] three people".
57	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Invoked by [[spoiler: Beverley word for word after sleeping with Matt]].
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60	[[folder: Hollywood]]
61
62	! Merc Lapidus
63	-->Played by: Creator/JohnPankow
64	The (former) network executive that greenlights "Pucks".
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66	* BlatantLies: Pretty much most of what Merc says to Sean & Beverley.
67	* ClusterFBomb: Merc's reaction when he thinks a travel agent has let his wife know about his plan to take Carol on a trip.
68	* DudeNotFunny: [[invoked]]In-universe;
69	** At a party, Merc's blind wife is talking about the charity she works with, whilst Merc is miming apologies before pretending to kill himself, thinking he's actually being pretty funny. Everyone else at the table is just looking around awkwardly.
70	*** Indeed, a running gag through the series is Merc constantly joking around his wife from fondling female guests to other lewd actions, acting like it's hysterical when everyone else just stares in disbelief.
71	* FauxAffablyEvil: He's a very friendly and extroverted guy. He's also a massive liar who will manipulate anyone for a dollar or a screw.
72	* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: [[spoiler:Merc and his wife]] frequently cheat on each other. He seems to be unaware of hers, but she knows about his.
73	* HiddenDepths: Seemingly invoked when we are introduced to Merc's wife, Jamie. She's sweet, charitable, and blind. Everyone's pleasantly surprised, and it seems like there's more to Merc than meets the eye. [[spoiler: Five minutes later, we see that Merc gleefully belittles her in public, has been cheating on her for years, and is even more of a slime ball than everyone first thought.]]
74	* IdiotBall: After he finally confronts [[spoiler: his wife about her affair with Matt and learns he's been fired]] Merc is being driven home by Carol as she says now they can finally be together. Merc immediately says [[spoiler: he can't leave his wife now because without a job, it'll be harder to pay her half his money. Carol ''finally'' realizes her dream of being with Merc is just that and]] drops him off in the rain in a slum neighborhood.
75	* IronicEchoCut: Merc giving his speech about winning a Man of the Year award at a charity on how great it feels to be supportive while we see [[spoiler: workers packing up his office as he's been fired from his job.]]
76	* NobodyPoops: Merc insists on having a ratings discussion with Carol while he's sitting on the toilet.
77	* PoorCommunicationKills: Merc and his wife trying to book separate romantic getaways through the same travel agent fall victim to this, along with the agent assuming they're traveling together, and end up booked on a trip together.
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79	! Carol Rance
80	-->Played by: Creator/KathleenRosePerkins
81	The assistant executive.
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83	* FunctionalAddict: Possibly. Beverly thinks so, and she [[SarcasticConfession jokingly agrees]].
84	* HasAType: Carol cannot seem to refrain from sleeping with her boss ([[spoiler:regardless of said boss's gender]]).
85	* OpinionFlipflop: Carol is an expert at this.
86	-->'''Carol:''' I head about the heatwave you're having! And they say there's no global warming.
87	-->'''Exec:''' There's no global warming.
88	-->'''Carol:''' I know, right? Come on, people, it's called "weather"!
89	* ShamefulStrip: After a messy breakup, Helen forces Carol to strip to the waist, since she'd borrowed Helen's singlet and sports bra.
90	* TheStoner: Carol at first seems very normal and secure, then reveals later into Series 1 that she is a stoner (seemingly not a light one either as she carries pre-rolled joints in her bag) and shares a smoke with Beverley. From this point onwards, her insecurity and eccentricities aren't hidden as much and she continues to appear less and less well-adjusted each episode.
91	-->'''Beverly:''' ''[As Carol turns up on her doorstep holding two joints]'' And you claim you don't have a problem.
92	-->'''Carol:''' [[FunctionalAddict Who said I don't have a problem?]]
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94	! Morning Randolph
95	-->Played by: Creator/MirceaMonroe
96	Matt [=LeBlanc's=] co-star on "Pucks".
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98	* AdaptationalSexuality: Her character in "Lyman's Boys" was originally a lesbian.
99	* AgeInsecurity: She sometimes starts brining up celebrities she had worked with in the past or her work from as far as the seventies, only to sheepishly stop talking mid-sentence, prompting at least one reaction of "Just say it already". Also, see MumLooksLikeASister.
100	* CommutingOnABus: Gradually became less involved in the plot of episodes by Series 3.
101	* ConsummateProfessional: She grows to hate "Pucks" and her diminished role, but still has standards and is appalled by Matt being drunk on-set.
102	* DawsonCasting: In-Universe. She's well over 40 and manages to get cast in roles that would normally go to actresses much younger than that. Irony is that her actress Mircea Monroe was actually 28 in real life when the show first started.
103	* MamaBear: [[spoiler: Morning]] is very protective of her 18-year-old daughter.
104	* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Morning frequently gets rather intimate with Sean throughout the first season (somewhat justifying Beverly's paranoia about them), but later claims she never meant anything by it. [[spoiler:Then she hooks up with Sean twice in the second season]].
105	* MsFanservice: She's a busty blonde bombshell and the art department does nothing to downplay it.
106	* MumLooksLikeASister: Morning and her [[spoiler: daughter Dawn.]]
107	* OddFriendship: Slowly comes to mostly get along with Beverly despite being intimate with Sean during Beverly and Sean's separation.
108	* OlderThanTheyLook: Apparently Morning was playing grown women on TV in the 1980s and is older than Beverley, who seems to be in her mid-40s.
109	* RomanticFalseLead: For Sean.
110	* TookALevelInDumbass: Morning is noticeably more of an airhead in Series 2.
111	* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Since nobody under the age of 50 remembers her breakout role.
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113	! Andy Button
114	-->Played by: Creator/JosephMay
115	The casting director.
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117	* CampGay: He uses his sexuality to sue Merc when he fires him.
118	* ThoseTwoGuys: With Myra.
119
120	! Myra Licht
121	-->Played by: Creator/DaisyHaggard
122	The "Head of Comedy".
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124	* TheDitz: Myra is pretty brainless.
125	* EskimosArentReal: A group of Hollywood TV executives discuss a potential premise for their network's vampire style show. Many ideas are mentioned, culminating in Myra recommending the paranormal creatures in their show should be Gypsies. She recommends it twice, before somebody tells her that Gypsies are real.
126	* InformedAttribute: Played for laughs. She shows absolutely no sense of humor, despite her job revolving around it.
127	* NoodleIncident: Myra's pregnancy in Series 4, which is only ever acknowleged by Carol and Andy.
128	* VerbalTic: ''"Mmm..."''
129
130	! Castor Sotto
131	-->Played by: Creator/ChrisDiamantopoulos
132	Merc's replacement.
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134	* AxCrazy: Merc's successor Castor. A paranoid schizophrenic who furiously masturbates in his office, borderline ''rapes'' Carol several times and experiences wild mood swings.
135	* MrFanservice: He's very buff and his constant working out means he spends a lot of time topless and glistening.
136	* RagingStiffie: [[AxCrazy Castor]] frequently gets these as a side-effect of his psychosis medication. On one notable occasion, it was prompted by a news broadcast about an earthquake in Peru.
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138	! Helen Basch
139	-->Played by: Creator/AndreaSavage
140	Castor's replacement.
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142	* LipstickLesbian: She gets Carol in on it as well.
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144	! Andrew Lesley
145	-->Played by: Creator/OliverKieranJones
146	A former assistant to Sean and Beverly who has found success in Hollywood.
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148	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: While Sean and Beverly are contractually tied to a critically-panned sitcom they're desperate to abandon, Andrew is getting his passion projects greenlit and never seems to have any issues with creative control.
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150	! Tim Whittick
151	-->Played by: Creator/BruceMackinnon
152	Sean's former writing partner before he married Beverly.
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154	* {{Jerkass}}: Antagonises Beverly and threatens to sue Sean if he doesn't give him any royalties or creative control over their old pilot script.
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156	! Eileen Jaffee
157	-->Played by: Creator/AndreaRosen
158	A literary agent that takes on Sean and Beverly.
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160	* {{Keet}}: Her desk is set above a treadmill as she's so energetic.
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163	[[folder: Supporting Characters]]
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165	! Jamie Lapidus
166	-->Played by: Creator/GenevieveOReilly
167	Merc's (ex) wife.
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169	* BlindMistake: A couple of times, for example needing a minder at a funeral to make sure she doesn't "go in the hole."
170	* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: [[spoiler:Merc and his Jamie]] frequently cheat on each other. He seems to be unaware of hers, but she knows about his.
171	* HiddenDepths: Despite being blind [[spoiler: has her own affairs,]] and far more aware of her husband's behavior than she lets on.
172	* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: Jamie Lapidus leaves Matt when she figures out that he'd cheated on her and never appears again.]]
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174	! Diane
175	-->Played by: Creator/FionaGlascott
176	Matt's ex-wife.
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178	* WillTheyOrWontThey: Has this with Matt in Series 4.
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180	! Labia
181	-->Played by: Creator/SophieRundle
182	Matt's stalker.
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184	* {{Fanservice}}: Labia's prolonged nude scene. In fact, just about the only part of Labia's anatomy we ''don't'' see is, well...
185	* JailBaitWait: Rather creepily implied with Matt and Labia. She'd been stalking him for years by the time he slept with her at eighteen and it's unlikely that she just suddenly turned hot the moment she became legal.
186	* PutOnABus: Labia has just one appearance in Season 3 [[spoiler: where it's revealed that she's got a boyfriend and finally overcame her infatuation with Matt.]]
187	* StalkerWithACrush: She's a LoonyFan who's been obsessed with Matt for fifteen years, ever since he took her sick 8-year-old self to Disneyland for Make-A-Wish. Oh right, and he slept with her once. [[spoiler: Make that twice.]]
188	** When she does finally move on from Matt, she starts dating a guy called "Joe". Yeah...
189
190	! Rob
191	-->Played by: Creator/JamesPurefoy
192	Morning's younger brother.
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194	* RomanticFalseLead: For Beverly.
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