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->"You're supposed to circle 'round before you do-si-do, ya dozy cow!"
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Jeffrey, Clive accepts her a little better though.
* ABirthdayNotABreak: Is forced to eat ungodly amounts of Spaghetti Garibaldi in "Spaghetti Galore".
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: In "Stripes", after she is the only staff member to be praised by Joe Maplin in his latest letter.
* ActorAllusion: In "Peggy's Pen Friend", Gladys says that tonight is [[Series/TheBlackAndWhiteMinstrelShow Black and White Minstrel Night]] in the Hawaiian Ballroom. Creator/RuthMadoc was herself a performer on ''Series/TheBlackAndWhiteMinstrelShow''.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Towards Jeffrey, although she has better luck with Clive.
* ABirthdayNotABreak: Is forced to eat ungodly amounts of Spaghetti Garibaldi in "Spaghetti Galore".
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: In "Stripes", after she is the only staff member to be praised by Joe Maplin in his latest letter.
* ActorAllusion: In "Peggy's Pen Friend", Gladys says that tonight is [[Series/TheBlackAndWhiteMinstrelShow Black and White Minstrel Night]] in the Hawaiian Ballroom. Creator/RuthMadoc was herself a performer on ''Series/TheBlackAndWhiteMinstrelShow''.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Towards Jeffrey, although she has better luck with Clive.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To She is to Jeffrey, Clive accepts her a little better though.
constantly flirting with him even though he is clearly uncomfortable with it all.
* ABirthdayNotABreak:Is On her birthday in "Spaghetti Galore", she is taken out to three different birthday dinners and forced to eat ungodly amounts of Spaghetti Garibaldi in "Spaghetti Galore".
spaghetti.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: In "Stripes",after she is the only staff member to be praised by Joe Maplin in his Maplin's latest letter.
letter lambasts all of the staff except for her, instead recommending her for promotion. This goes to her head, and she starts wearing rings on the sleeves of her Yellowcoat. The others get jealous and copy her, and it isn't until Ted shows up with eight rings on his sleeves that she realises just how foolish she's been.
* ActorAllusion: In"Peggy's Pen Friend", "Empty Saddles", Gladys says tells Jeffrey that tonight is [[Series/TheBlackAndWhiteMinstrelShow she has a record of the Black and White Minstrel Night]] in the Hawaiian Ballroom.Minstrels that they can listen to. Creator/RuthMadoc was herself a performer on ''Series/TheBlackAndWhiteMinstrelShow''.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited:Towards Gladys is crazy towards Jeffrey, although she has better luck is in the middle of nasty divorce proceedings with Clive.his wife, Daphne, and not ready to be looking for love again so soon.
* ABirthdayNotABreak:
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: In "Stripes",
* ActorAllusion: In
* AllLoveIsUnrequited:
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* BookDumb: Almost as clueless as Ted at times. "Carnival Time" reveals that he thinks a faculty chair is "one of those that opens up into a bed".
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* BookDumb: Almost Spike is smarter than Ted but can be just as clueless as Ted at times. In "Carnival Time" reveals that Time", he thinks a faculty chair is "one of those that opens up into a bed".
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* CatchPhrase:
** "If I may shove in my four penneth" when giving his opinion on something.
** "If I may shove in my four penneth" when giving his opinion on something.
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* CatchPhrase:
CharacterCatch[hrase:
** "If I may shove in my fourpenneth" penn'orth" when giving his opinion on something.
** "If I may shove in my four
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* CheapCostume: All his comedy characters feature some of the naffest designs in the history of British sitcoms. It helps show just how crap he is at his job.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: His attempts to stick up for Gladys in "A Lack of Punch" makes her feel even older with every comment.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Calls Jeffrey "the Professor" rather than Mr. Fairbrother in early series.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: His attempts to stick up for Gladys in "A Lack of Punch" makes her feel even older with every comment.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Calls Jeffrey "the Professor" rather than Mr. Fairbrother in early series.
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* CheapCostume: All of his comedy characters feature some funny costumes look like they were made in a day with an eighth of the naffest designs in the history of British sitcoms. It helps show just how crap a week's wages. Ted usually finds two or three faults with them each time he is at his job.
shows off a new one.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper:His He can be unfortunately blunt sometimes, and his attempts to backpedal only make things worse, such as when he attempts to stick up for Gladys when she is feeling insecure about her age in "A Lack of Punch" makes Punch", but only manages to make her feel even older with every comment.
*EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Calls EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the earlier series, he calls Jeffrey "the Professor" rather than Mr. Fairbrother in early series.just "Mr. Fairbrother".
* DiggingYourselfDeeper:
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* FunnyOctopus: Wears an octopus costume in "The Beauty Queen Affair".
* GooGooGetUp: Part of his comedy get-up in "Desire in the Mickey Mouse Grotto"involves getting dressed as a giant baby.
* HonorBeforeReason: From Series 6 onward, he constantly calls out the likes of Ted and Clive whenever he believed that they were doing something immoral.
* IntoxicationEnsues: Gets pissed during Ted's mystery tour in "The Graven Image" and defaces Joe Maplin's statue.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: With Ted, best example being the opening of "Stripes".
-->'''Spike''': I hope you're not gonna cook those in the chalet, Ted. When you did those kippers it took a week to get the pong out of the place!
-->'''Ted''': What's the matter with you? You nag when we don't catch anything, and when we do, you nag how it's gonna smell when I cook it! Your nagging'll ruin our relationship, Spike! If it goes on much longer, we'll have to go and see the Marriage Guidance people!
* LoveHurts: Is forced to break up with his childhood sweetheart, Brenda, in "Sausages or Limelight". His relationship with April also is more trouble than it's worth.
* MoralityPet: To Ted. He's often the only one to point out how immoral his schemes are.
* PantomimeAnimal: He wears a pantomime horse costume with Peggy in "The Day of Reckoning". HilarityEnsues when the two still in costume ride an actual horse past a very confused Mr. Partridge.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: His RunningGag of being thrown in the pool was less frequent in the later series due to Creator/JeffreyHolland's complaints of the freezing water temperature (the series had to be filmed in winter, when the holiday camp where filming took place was closed).
* RightInFrontOfMe: Mocks Jeffrey on the train alongside Ted in "Hey Diddle Diddle", not knowing he was the man sitting across from them.
* RunningGag: Getting thrown in the pool and his various 'funny' costumes he wears to entertain the campers.
* RunningGagged: His aforementioned shtick getting tossed into the pool was severely limited from Series 3 onward after fears that actor Creator/JeffreyHolland would get hypothermia during an elongated time shooting the pool scene during the climax of "Peggy's Big Chance".
* UnderdressedForTheOccasion: Shows up to Yvonne and Barry's black tie soirée in a funny vicar costume in "Nice People With Nice Manners".
* WelcomeEpisode: Joins Maplins in "Hey Diddle Diddle" and is introduced to everyone by Ted.
* WideEyedIdealist: The widest eyes of any Yellowcoat, he truly believes that Maplins is just the first step on the ladder to stardom.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: In "The Graven Image", he gets so drunk he vandalizes Joe Maplin's statue the night before the grand unveiling.
* GooGooGetUp: Part of his comedy get-up in "Desire in the Mickey Mouse Grotto"involves getting dressed as a giant baby.
* HonorBeforeReason: From Series 6 onward, he constantly calls out the likes of Ted and Clive whenever he believed that they were doing something immoral.
* IntoxicationEnsues: Gets pissed during Ted's mystery tour in "The Graven Image" and defaces Joe Maplin's statue.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: With Ted, best example being the opening of "Stripes".
-->'''Spike''': I hope you're not gonna cook those in the chalet, Ted. When you did those kippers it took a week to get the pong out of the place!
-->'''Ted''': What's the matter with you? You nag when we don't catch anything, and when we do, you nag how it's gonna smell when I cook it! Your nagging'll ruin our relationship, Spike! If it goes on much longer, we'll have to go and see the Marriage Guidance people!
* LoveHurts: Is forced to break up with his childhood sweetheart, Brenda, in "Sausages or Limelight". His relationship with April also is more trouble than it's worth.
* MoralityPet: To Ted. He's often the only one to point out how immoral his schemes are.
* PantomimeAnimal: He wears a pantomime horse costume with Peggy in "The Day of Reckoning". HilarityEnsues when the two still in costume ride an actual horse past a very confused Mr. Partridge.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: His RunningGag of being thrown in the pool was less frequent in the later series due to Creator/JeffreyHolland's complaints of the freezing water temperature (the series had to be filmed in winter, when the holiday camp where filming took place was closed).
* RightInFrontOfMe: Mocks Jeffrey on the train alongside Ted in "Hey Diddle Diddle", not knowing he was the man sitting across from them.
* RunningGag: Getting thrown in the pool and his various 'funny' costumes he wears to entertain the campers.
* RunningGagged: His aforementioned shtick getting tossed into the pool was severely limited from Series 3 onward after fears that actor Creator/JeffreyHolland would get hypothermia during an elongated time shooting the pool scene during the climax of "Peggy's Big Chance".
* UnderdressedForTheOccasion: Shows up to Yvonne and Barry's black tie soirée in a funny vicar costume in "Nice People With Nice Manners".
* WelcomeEpisode: Joins Maplins in "Hey Diddle Diddle" and is introduced to everyone by Ted.
* WideEyedIdealist: The widest eyes of any Yellowcoat, he truly believes that Maplins is just the first step on the ladder to stardom.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: In "The Graven Image", he gets so drunk he vandalizes Joe Maplin's statue the night before the grand unveiling.
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* FunnyOctopus: Wears an octopus costume He dresses up as Ollie the Octopus in "The Beauty Queen Affair".
Affair" and squirts Jeffrey with his ink.
* GooGooGetUp:Part of his comedy get-up in In "Desire in the Mickey Mouse Grotto"involves getting dressed as Grotto", his latest costume is a giant baby.
funny baby. The only issue is the nappy won't stay still.
* HonorBeforeReason:From This was always apparent, but especially from Series 6 onward, onward; he constantly calls out the likes of Ted and Clive whenever he believed believes that they were are doing something immoral.
* IntoxicationEnsues: Gets pissed during Ted's mystery tourimmoral. The best example is in "The Graven Image" and defaces Joe Maplin's statue.
Great Cat Robbery", he calls them out for their greed when they intend to drug a chalet line of campers to find an expensive emerald necklace.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple:With Ted, best example being He can be with Ted at times; he gets annoyed with Ted over the opening of "Stripes".
-->'''Spike''': I hope you're not gonna cook thoselittlest things such as Ted's schemes or Ted cooking in the chalet, Ted. When you did those kippers it took a week to get the pong out of the place!
-->'''Ted''': What's the matter with you? You nag when we don't catch anything, and when we do, you nag how it's gonna smell when I cook it! Your nagging'll ruin our relationship, Spike! If it goes on much longer, we'll have to go and see the Marriage Guidance people!
chalet.
*LoveHurts: Is LoveHurts:
** In "Sausages or Limelight", he is forced to break up with Brenda, his childhood sweetheart,Brenda, in "Sausages or Limelight". order to stay at Maplins.
** In "The Society Entertainer", he adopts a new "mature" style of comedy to impress the posh Françoise Ogilvy, but Ted and Peggy sabotage his act to bring him back down to earth, at the cost of losing Françoise.
** His relationship with April also is more trouble than it'sworth.
worth as he finds out when April quickly turns out to be bossy, abusive, and obsessive.
* MoralityPet:To He is to Ted. He's often the only one to point out how immoral his schemes are.
* PantomimeAnimal: He wears a pantomime horse costume with Peggy in "The Day of Reckoning". HilarityEnsues whenare. In "Concessions", Ted nicknames him "Dan, Dan, the two still in costume ride an actual horse past a very confused Mr. Partridge.
Conscience Man".
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: His RunningGag of being thrown in the pool was less frequent in the later series due to Creator/JeffreyHolland's complaints of the freezing water temperature (the series had to be filmed inwinter, winter when the holiday camp where filming took place was closed).
*RightInFrontOfMe: Mocks Jeffrey on the train alongside Ted in "Hey Diddle Diddle", not knowing he was the man sitting across from them.
* RunningGag:RunningGag:
** Getting thrown in the pooland his fully clothed.
** Wearing various'funny' "funny" costumes he wears to entertain the campers.
* RunningGagged: His aforementioned shtick getting tossed into the pool was severely limited from Series3 2 onward after fears that actor Creator/JeffreyHolland would get hypothermia during an elongated time shooting the pool scene during the climax of "Peggy's Big Chance".
* UnderdressedForTheOccasion:Shows He shows up to Yvonne and Barry's black tie soirée in a funny vicar costume in "Nice People With Nice Manners".
*WelcomeEpisode: Joins Maplins in "Hey Diddle Diddle" and is introduced to everyone by Ted.
*WideEyedIdealist: The widest eyes of any Yellowcoat, he Spike truly believes that Maplins is just the first step on the ladder to stardom.
stardom. Ted, knowing Spike is destined for mediocrity as long as he stays, tries his best to guide him with all he knows about comedy.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: In "The Graven Image", he gets so drunk that he vandalizes Joe Maplin's statue the night before the grand unveiling.
* GooGooGetUp:
* HonorBeforeReason:
* IntoxicationEnsues: Gets pissed during Ted's mystery tour
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple:
-->'''Spike''': I hope you're not gonna cook those
-->'''Ted''': What's the matter with you? You nag when we don't catch anything, and when we do, you nag how it's gonna smell when I cook it! Your nagging'll ruin our relationship, Spike! If it goes on much longer, we'll have to go and see the Marriage Guidance people!
*
** In "Sausages or Limelight", he is forced to break up with Brenda, his childhood sweetheart,
** In "The Society Entertainer", he adopts a new "mature" style of comedy to impress the posh Françoise Ogilvy, but Ted and Peggy sabotage his act to bring him back down to earth, at the cost of losing Françoise.
** His relationship with April also is more trouble than it's
* MoralityPet:
* PantomimeAnimal: He wears a pantomime horse costume with Peggy in "The Day of Reckoning". HilarityEnsues when
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: His RunningGag of being thrown in the pool was less frequent in the later series due to Creator/JeffreyHolland's complaints of the freezing water temperature (the series had to be filmed in
*
* RunningGag:
** Getting thrown in the pool
** Wearing various
* RunningGagged: His aforementioned shtick getting tossed into the pool was severely limited from Series
* UnderdressedForTheOccasion:
*
*
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: In "The Graven Image", he gets so drunk that he vandalizes Joe Maplin's statue the night before the grand unveiling.
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* AntiHero: Lies and cheats, but always helps a friend in need.
* {{Blackmail}}: In "All Change", Ted recognises Joan Wainwright, the new Chief Yellowcoat as Beryl Green, a magician's assistant who he once shared a theatre bill in the 1940's... and knows that she and the magician had a mixed race child out of wedlock. He forces her to buy his silence by re-instating Gladys as Chief Yellowcoat and leaving her alone henceforth.
* BookDumb: "Hey Diddle Diddle" proves he doesn't even know what an archaeologist is.
* BriefAccentImitation: Tries to copy Gladys' Welsh in "Eruptions" (although it sounds more Indian to her).
* CatchPhrase: "First rule of comedy - you must have reality".
* ClassicalAntiHero: A greedy lying {{Schemer}} who constantly cheats the campers, but will do anything for a friend in need.
* DoubleEntendre: "It's a Blue World" put it best:
* {{Blackmail}}: In "All Change", Ted recognises Joan Wainwright, the new Chief Yellowcoat as Beryl Green, a magician's assistant who he once shared a theatre bill in the 1940's... and knows that she and the magician had a mixed race child out of wedlock. He forces her to buy his silence by re-instating Gladys as Chief Yellowcoat and leaving her alone henceforth.
* BookDumb: "Hey Diddle Diddle" proves he doesn't even know what an archaeologist is.
* BriefAccentImitation: Tries to copy Gladys' Welsh in "Eruptions" (although it sounds more Indian to her).
* CatchPhrase: "First rule of comedy - you must have reality".
* ClassicalAntiHero: A greedy lying {{Schemer}} who constantly cheats the campers, but will do anything for a friend in need.
* DoubleEntendre: "It's a Blue World" put it best:
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* AntiHero: Lies Ted lies to and cheats, cheats campers and fellow staff members on the daily, but he always helps a friend in need.
need, a notable example being when he was worried that Peggy was being taken advantage of by an older man in "Peggy's Pen Friend".
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ted acts like a "cuddly" figure of fun to the campers, who don't know what he is like under the surface. Some of the worst things he's done to them include scamming them for birthday money ("The Beauty Queen Affair"), running rigged car raffles ("Raffles"), and drugging a whole chalet line with sleeping tablets ("The Great Cat Robbery").
* {{Blackmail}}: In "All Change", Ted recognises Joan Wainwright, the new Chief Yellowcoat as Beryl Green, a magician's assistant who he once shared a theatre bill in the 1940's... and knows that she and the magician had amixed race mixed-race child out of wedlock. He forces her to buy his silence by re-instating Gladys as Chief Yellowcoat and leaving her alone henceforth.
* BookDumb: Ted may be brilliant at coming up with schemes and fiddles, but he doesn't have much in the way of a classical education. "Hey Diddle Diddle" proves he doesn't even know what an archaeologist is.
*BriefAccentImitation: Tries to copy Gladys' Welsh in "Eruptions" (although it sounds more Indian to her).
* CatchPhrase: "First rule of comedy - you must have reality".
* ClassicalAntiHero: A greedy lying {{Schemer}} who constantly cheats the campers, but will do anything for a friend in need.
*DoubleEntendre: A mainstay of his act in the Hawaiian Ballroom. "It's a Blue World" put it best:
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ted acts like a "cuddly" figure of fun to the campers, who don't know what he is like under the surface. Some of the worst things he's done to them include scamming them for birthday money ("The Beauty Queen Affair"), running rigged car raffles ("Raffles"), and drugging a whole chalet line with sleeping tablets ("The Great Cat Robbery").
* {{Blackmail}}: In "All Change", Ted recognises Joan Wainwright, the new Chief Yellowcoat as Beryl Green, a magician's assistant who he once shared a theatre bill in the 1940's... and knows that she and the magician had a
* BookDumb: Ted may be brilliant at coming up with schemes and fiddles, but he doesn't have much in the way of a classical education. "Hey Diddle Diddle" proves he doesn't even know what an archaeologist is.
*
* CatchPhrase: "First rule of comedy - you must have reality".
* ClassicalAntiHero: A greedy lying {{Schemer}} who constantly cheats the campers, but will do anything for a friend in need.
*
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Calls Jeffrey "the Professor" rather than just Jeff in early series.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Calls In the earlier series, he calls Jeffrey "the Professor" rather than just Jeff in early series."Jeff".
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* ICouldaBeenAContender: A comic that never managed to get higher up than Maplins.
* {{Jerkass}}: Will lie, steal from and cheat the campers at any opportunity.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He feels he would make a better Entertainment Manager than Jeffrey or Clive. Whilst Jeffrey is honest and Ted isn't, it has to be said that Ted is much better at presenting to the campers than Jeffrey is. And since Clive unloads all of the responsibility of his position on Ted so that he can spend his time (and other people's money) charming every girl in the camp instead of working, it's fair to say Ted is better at being Entertainment Manager than Clive.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Constantly lies and cheats the campers, but'll do anything to help a friend in need.
* LampshadeHanging: Lampshades how he and Spike are LikeAnOldMarriedCouple in "Stripes".
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: The aforementioned example from "Stripes".
* {{Jerkass}}: Will lie, steal from and cheat the campers at any opportunity.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He feels he would make a better Entertainment Manager than Jeffrey or Clive. Whilst Jeffrey is honest and Ted isn't, it has to be said that Ted is much better at presenting to the campers than Jeffrey is. And since Clive unloads all of the responsibility of his position on Ted so that he can spend his time (and other people's money) charming every girl in the camp instead of working, it's fair to say Ted is better at being Entertainment Manager than Clive.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Constantly lies and cheats the campers, but'll do anything to help a friend in need.
* LampshadeHanging: Lampshades how he and Spike are LikeAnOldMarriedCouple in "Stripes".
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: The aforementioned example from "Stripes".
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* ICouldaBeenAContender: A He's a comic that never managed to get higher up than Maplins.
Maplins. He occasionally tries to break out and do his act for a higher class of audience in episodes such as "On with the Motley" and "Concessions", but it never works out.
* {{Jerkass}}:Will lie, steal from He can be very blunt and cheat the campers at any opportunity.
crude with his co-workers. His most frequent targets are Jeffrey (who he sees as an UpperClassTwit), Spike (for having far too many morals), and Yvonne (for being stuck-up).
* JerkassHasAPoint: He feels he would make a betterEntertainment Entertainments Manager than Jeffrey or Clive. Whilst Jeffrey is honest and Ted isn't, it has to be said that Ted is much better at presenting to the campers than Jeffrey is. And since Clive unloads all of the responsibility of his position on Ted so that he can spend his time (and other people's money) charming every girl in the camp instead of working, it's fair to say Ted is better at being Entertainment Entertainments Manager than Clive.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:Constantly lies Despite all the rudeness and cheats scams, Ted does have a good heart under it all. Notably, he is the campers, but'll do anything one Peggy clings to help a friend in need.
* LampshadeHanging: Lampshades how he and Spiketears on the last day of the season before they are LikeAnOldMarriedCouple all sacked in "Stripes".
"The Wind of Change".
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple:The aforementioned example from "Stripes". He and Spike act this way at times with the number of times they bicker. He {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this in "Stripes":
* {{Jerkass}}:
* JerkassHasAPoint: He feels he would make a better
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
* LampshadeHanging: Lampshades how he and Spike
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple:
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* LoveHurts: His doomed romance with Betty Barlow, a younger woman, in "September Song".
* OrphanedPunchline: Most of his gags end up like this.
-->'''Barry''': Tonight he did the one about the two sailors and the gruyère cheese, followed that with the midget and the giraffe… and finished up with the one about the curate and the cucumber.
* ParentalSubstitute: Takes Spike under his wing after he arrives at Maplins in "Hey Diddle Diddle", and gives him advice in comedy.
* RightInFrontOfMe: Mocks Jeffrey on the train in "Hey Diddle Diddle", not knowing he was the man sitting across from him.
* RoadSignReversal: He does this in "Wedding Bells" in order to stop Clive's relatives from getting to the church to prevent Clive and Gladys' wedding.
* RuleNumberOne: "First rule of comedy - you must have reality.".
* {{Schemer}}: Always trying to make a few extra bob by any means necessary.
* SitcomCharacterArchetypes: The Wisecracker.
* SlobsVsSnobs: To slob to Barry and Yvonne's snob.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Was briefly fired by Alec Foster in "Let Them Eat Cake" but got his job back by the episode's end.
* StickyFingers: Mentions to Spike in "Hey Diddle Diddle" that he steal soap from the chalets.
* UnderdressedForTheOccasion: Shows up to Yvonne and Barry's black tie soirée in a Hawaiian shirt in "Nice People With Nice Manners".
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Lies, cheats and steals from the campers, and is still the main protagonist.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: His Welsh sounds more like Indian to Gladys when he tries to mock her accent in "Eruptions".
* OrphanedPunchline: Most of his gags end up like this.
-->'''Barry''': Tonight he did the one about the two sailors and the gruyère cheese, followed that with the midget and the giraffe… and finished up with the one about the curate and the cucumber.
* ParentalSubstitute: Takes Spike under his wing after he arrives at Maplins in "Hey Diddle Diddle", and gives him advice in comedy.
* RightInFrontOfMe: Mocks Jeffrey on the train in "Hey Diddle Diddle", not knowing he was the man sitting across from him.
* RoadSignReversal: He does this in "Wedding Bells" in order to stop Clive's relatives from getting to the church to prevent Clive and Gladys' wedding.
* RuleNumberOne: "First rule of comedy - you must have reality.".
* {{Schemer}}: Always trying to make a few extra bob by any means necessary.
* SitcomCharacterArchetypes: The Wisecracker.
* SlobsVsSnobs: To slob to Barry and Yvonne's snob.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Was briefly fired by Alec Foster in "Let Them Eat Cake" but got his job back by the episode's end.
* StickyFingers: Mentions to Spike in "Hey Diddle Diddle" that he steal soap from the chalets.
* UnderdressedForTheOccasion: Shows up to Yvonne and Barry's black tie soirée in a Hawaiian shirt in "Nice People With Nice Manners".
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Lies, cheats and steals from the campers, and is still the main protagonist.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: His Welsh sounds more like Indian to Gladys when he tries to mock her accent in "Eruptions".
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* LoveHurts: His doomed romance with In "September Song", he falls for Betty Barlow, a much younger woman, whom he intends to start an act with. Her mother disapproves, and once Ted learns she has a music scholarship she is giving up so she be with him, Ted dumps her so he won't hold her back. This takes a toll on him, and he is unable to make it through his performance of "Be a Clown" in "September Song".
the Hawaiian Ballroom that night, needing the rest of the staff to take over.
* MadLibsCatchphrase: "First rule of comedy - you must have _____".
* OrphanedPunchline: Most of his gagsend up like this.
involve a bevy of NoodleImplements that the audience are left to think of what he could have meant by them:
-->'''Barry''':Tonight Tonight, he did the one about the two sailors and the gruyère cheese, followed that with the midget and the giraffe… giraffe... and finished up with the one about the curate and the cucumber.
* ParentalSubstitute:Takes He takes Spike under his wing after he arrives at Maplins in "Hey Diddle Diddle", Diddle" and gives him advice in comedy.
* RightInFrontOfMe:Mocks Jeffrey He mocks the new Entertainments Manager on the train to Spike and Jeffrey in "Hey Diddle Diddle", not knowing he Jeffrey was the man sitting across from him.
* RoadSignReversal: He does thisnew manager in "Wedding Bells" in order to stop Clive's relatives from getting to the church to prevent Clive and Gladys' wedding.
question.
* RuleNumberOne: Ted has many "Firstrule rules of comedy - you comedy" ranging from "You must have reality.".
reality" to "Pretty girls aren't funny".
* {{Schemer}}:Always He's always trying to make a few extra bob by any means necessary.necessary, whether it be stealing collection money ("Sing You Sinners") or cheating Marines ("Tell It to the Marines").
* SitcomCharacterArchetypes:The Wisecracker.
Ted is the Wisecracker. He's always on the ball with his wisecracks and smart remarks. His most frequent targets are the snobby ballroom dancers, Barry and Yvonne, who look down on him with disdain, not only for his snappy comments but also for the blue humour he uses with the campers. As Barry puts it in "It's a Blue World", with Ted, it isn't even innuendo. He ''says'' it.
*SlobsVsSnobs: SlobsVersusSnobs: To slob to Barry and Yvonne's snob.
snob. They find him "dead common" and hate his "Famous People on the Toilet" act the most.
* StatusQuoIsGod:Was He was briefly fired by Alec Foster in "Let Them Eat Cake" for wanting a pay rise but got his job back by after the episode's end.
new camp host, Jimmy Jasper, bombed on his first night.
* StickyFingers:Mentions to Spike in In "Hey Diddle Diddle" Diddle", he lets Spike know that he steal steals soap and curtain rings from the chalets.
chalets, with Jeffrey being his next target.
* UnderdressedForTheOccasion:Shows He shows up to Yvonne and Barry's black tie soirée in a Hawaiian shirt in "Nice People With Nice Manners".
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist:Lies, cheats Ted is a liar, a swindler, a rotten cheat, and steals from the campers, and is still the main protagonist.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: His Welsh sounds more like Indian to Gladys when he tries to mock her accent in "Eruptions".mostly morally bankrupt. And that's why we love him.
* MadLibsCatchphrase: "First rule of comedy - you must have _____".
* OrphanedPunchline: Most of his gags
-->'''Barry''':
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: His Welsh sounds more like Indian to Gladys when he tries to mock her accent in "Eruptions".
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The Yellowcoat who replaces Mary. Only in Series 2. Played by Gail Harrison.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The closest friend he has is Fred, and he still bickers with him and annoys him non-stop.
-->'''Fred''': Do you realise, any moment now, a Molotov Cocktail could come flying through that window and burn us all alive. And all you do is lie there.
-->'''Mr. Partridge''': I know why Molotov Cocktails are called Molotov Cocktails. Because of Molotov. He was an Israelite, you know.
-->'''Fred''': It's like living with a lunatic.
-->'''Fred''': Do you realise, any moment now, a Molotov Cocktail could come flying through that window and burn us all alive. And all you do is lie there.
-->'''Mr. Partridge''': I know why Molotov Cocktails are called Molotov Cocktails. Because of Molotov. He was an Israelite, you know.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The closest friend he has is Fred, and he still bickers with him and annoys him non-stop.
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-->'''Fred''':Do Don't you realise, any moment now, moment, a Molotov Cocktail could come flying ''flyin''' through that window and an' burn us all alive. And all you do is lie there.
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-->'''Mr. Partridge''': I know why Molotov Cocktails arecalled Molotov Cocktails. Because ''called'' "Molotov Cocktails". 'Cause of Molotov. He was an Israelite, a Russian, you know.
-->'''Fred''': It's likeliving livin' with a lunatic.''lunatic''.
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-->'''Mr. Partridge''': I know why Molotov Cocktails are
-->'''Fred''': It's like
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!!Uncle Sammy Samuel "Sammy" Morris
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!!Professor Jeffrey FairbrotherFairbrother, ME
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A slightly vain Yellowcoat. Played by Terence Creasy in Series 1 and Chris Andrews from Series 2 onward.
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Yvonne's former flame who joins her at Maplins after Barry leaves her. Appeared first in a guest role in Series 5 and became a maincast from Series 8 onward. Played by Creator/BenAris.
Yvonne's former flame who joins her at Maplins after Barry leaves her. Appeared first in a guest role in Series 5 and became a main
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* TheCharmer: Manages to flirt with Peggy, Sylvia and Gladys in his first ten minutes at Maplins.
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* ThreeAmigos: With Gary, the only other male Yellowcoat.
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* ThreeAmigos: With Stanley and Bruce, the only other male Yellowcoats.
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A member of the trio of new Yellowcoats from Series 6-7. Played by Julie Christian-Young.
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A Yellowcoat. Appears from Series 1-5. Played by Rikki Howard.
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A Scottish Yellowcoat. Only in Series 1. Played by Penny Irving.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Penny Irving's complaints about the show led to Mary being replaced by Val in Series 2.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Penny Irving's Creator/PennyIrving's complaints about the show led to Mary being replaced by Val in Series 2.
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* TheyDo: With Clive in "Wedding Bells", after three series of lies and heartbreak.
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* TheyDo: With Gladys in "Wedding Bells", after three series of lies and heartbreak.
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The slimy General Manager of Maplins and Joe Maplin's hatchet man. Only appears from Series 5-7. Played by Gavin Richards.
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The charming Entertainments Manager of Maplins from Series 6-9. Played by David Griffin.
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Yvonne's former flame who joins her at Maplins after Barry leaves her. Appeared first in a guest role in Series 5 and became main cast from Series 8 onward. Played by Ben Aris.
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The well-meaning Entertainments Manager of Maplins from Series 1-5. Played by Simon Cadell.
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* TheComicallySerious: The writers purposefully gave him no jokes, yet Simon Cadell still got the biggest laughs through his deadpan delivery.
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* FacialDialogue: Simon Cadell was a master of this and got some of his biggest laughs from his priceless expressions.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Simon Cadell wanted to avoid being typecast, so Jeffrey was PutOnABus between Series 5 and 6.
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* StraightMan: The writers deliberately avoided giving Simon Cadell any jokes in his lines. The humour of the character comes from Cadell's brilliantly dry delivery and facial expressions.
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* PromotionToOpeningTitles: After Simon Cadell left in Series 6.
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Maplins' alcoholic Theatre/PunchAndJudy man who hates kids. Only appears from Series 1-6. Played by Leslie Dwyer.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: His absences in Series 6 were due to Leslie Dwyer's ailing health.
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One of Maplins' snooty ballroom dancing instructors and Yvonne's husband. Only appears from Series 1-7. Played by Barry Howard.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Barry's departure from the show was due to his actor, Barry Howard, frequently showing up at rehearsals drunk and shoving one of the Yellowcoat actors into the freezing pool as a joke.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Barry's departure from the show was due to his actor, Barry Howard, Creator/BarryHoward, frequently showing up at rehearsals drunk and shoving one of the Yellowcoat actors into the freezing pool as a joke.
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The cast of ''Series/HiDeHi'' '''All spoilers are unmarked.'''
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The Maplins riding instructor. Played by Felix Bowness.
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The young and eager camp comic of Maplins. Played by Jeffrey Holland.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: His RunningGag of being thrown in the pool was less frequent in the later series due to Jeffrey Holland's complaints of the freezing water temperature (the series had to be filmed in winter, when the holiday camp where filming took place was closed).
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: His RunningGag of being thrown in the pool was less frequent in the later series due to Jeffrey Holland's Creator/JeffreyHolland's complaints of the freezing water temperature (the series had to be filmed in winter, when the holiday camp where filming took place was closed).
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* RunningGagged: His aforementioned shtick getting tossed into the pool was severely limited from Series 3 onward after fears that actor Jeffrey Holland would get hypothermia from an elongated time shooting the pool scene during the climax of "Peggy's Big Chance".
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* RunningGagged: His aforementioned shtick getting tossed into the pool was severely limited from Series 3 onward after fears that actor Jeffrey Holland Creator/JeffreyHolland would get hypothermia from during an elongated time shooting the pool scene during the climax of "Peggy's Big Chance".
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Chief Yellowcoat, known around Maplins as "the Welsh Maneater", has a special place in her heart for Jeffrey and Clive. Played by Ruth Madoc.
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* ActorAllusion: In "Peggy's Pen Friend", Gladys that tonight is [[Series/TheBlackAndWhiteMinstrelShow Black and White Minstrel Night]] in the Hawaiian Ballroom. Ruth Madoc was herself a performer on Series/TheBlackAndWhiteMinstrelShow.
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The camp host of Maplins, a swindler with a heart of gold. Played by Paul Shane.
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