YMMV / Lock, Stock...

• Awesome Music: As with the movie, there's one hell of a soundtrack. The title theme is "July" by Ocean Colour Scene.
• Magnificent Bastard: Miami Vice. An utterly ruthless London Gangster who inspires total loyalty in his subordinates and total fear in those unlucky enough to come to his attention, and who is able to get the better of anyone who tries to usurp his position as London's top crime boss. His crowning moment is perhaps the climax of "Lock, Stock and Two Sips". For most of the episode, it has seemed as though his position has been under threat from within his own organisation, in addition to which Two Sips, an old blagger from back in the day, has come back to London to settle some old scores and is suspected by the lads to be gunning for Miami himself. However, the ending reveals that Miami has been manipulating the entire situation all along; he set Two Sips up to kill two of his (Miami's) subordinates who were on the take, plus another who was actively trying to take over. And then he has Two Sips himself killed. There's a reason why Ralph Brown is first in the credits despite the fact that he does not appear in every episode.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Jaap, one of the Dutch stoners, was played by Martin Freeman (a year before The Office). This becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when they steal a vintage car and Jaap jokes about using it to pick up some hitchhikers.
  • Also, "Lock, Stock and a Fistful of Jack and Jills" featured a pre-Coronation Street Bradley Walsh as a London Gangster who has dealings with the lads, and stand-up comic Omid Djalili as one of the Gadaffi brothers.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The series is this thanks to the use of chunky mobile phones (which are only used to, err, phone people) and VHS tapes, plus the fact that most of the characters smoke indoors (which was banned in Britain seven years later). That said, the use of (mostly) old cars (perhaps to invoke London Gangster films like The Long Good Friday and Mona Lisa), plus Miami's Seventies dress sense, makes it seem like a period piece even for 2000.
• Values Dissonance: The latent homophobia displayed by most characters (one episode even has a Running Gag about how everyone's seemingly OK with distributing animal porn, but no-one wants to touch gay porn in case they are themselves assumed to be gay) does tend to date the show.
  • In "Lock, Stock and Four Stolen Hooves", a (presumably sexual) Noodle Incident involving Moon and Tanya, which was only resolved when she (eventually) dropped the charges, appears to be played for laughs.
  • Also, a cement mixer truck with "Jim'll Mix It" written on the side? Since 2011, that counts as this.

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