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The Leisure Centre's hapless receptionist who raises her children in drawers at her desk. Played by Harriet Thorpe.
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* CreatureOfHabit: Follows timetables and rosters as if they were set in stone, and expects his staff to do so as well.
* TooMuchAlike: One of the only characters in the entire series Brittas dislikes is his Brother's fiancé, Philippa Belmont, who herself is basically a female Brittas.
* AnimalMetaphor: In 'Wake Up the Lion Within' Carole becomes more assertive after 'waking up her inner lion'.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Dissapeared after Series 6, with only a brief mention the sauna was up for lease.
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* PutOnABus: Moves to America with Michael in between Series 5 and 6.
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* PutOnABus: Moves to America with Michael her husband, Michael, in between Series 5 and 6.6 to start a family.
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* PutOnABus: Moves to America with Michael in between Series 5 and 6.
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* RunningGag: Had a habit of using small children in analogies to explain his obsession with health and safety measures. For example, the coffee machine is welded to the wall because "What if some small child saw the flashing lights and tried to climb it and got crushed to death?"death?" Also would tell Helen to buy a drink and a donut from the canteen whenever something went wrong.
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Brittas' secretary in Series 1. Disappeared in Series 2 and was replaced by Julie. Played by Andrée Bernard.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Disappeared after Series 1, the 1994 Christmas Special 'In the Beginning...' which took place before Series 1 has no mention of her and acts like Julie was part of the staff from the start of the series.
* SassySecretary
* ServileSnarker
* SexySecretary
'''Angie'''
Brittas' secretary in Series 1. Disappeared in Series 2 and was replaced by Julie. Played by Andrée Bernard.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Disappeared after Series 1, the 1994 Christmas Special 'In the Beginning...' which took place before Series 1 has no mention of her and acts like Julie was part of the staff from the start of the series.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Helen rarely shows affection for Brittas, cheats on him frequently and had pulled the plug on him at one point, only reinserting the plug after Laura convinced her to.
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Brittas's long-suffering second in command, Laura is the Deputy Manager Dry of Whitbury Leisure Centre. A highly intelligent and capable woman, Laura is well aware of Brittas's faults but sees beyond them and likes him for his idealism and genuinely good intentions. Played by Julia St. JohnJohn.
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Pool attendant and later Deputy Manager. Perhaps the nicest and most sensitive character on the show. In a relationship with Tim Whistler of which everyone but Brittas is aware. Played by Tim Marriott.
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Ran the sauna and solarium in Series 6. Played by Anouschka Menzies.
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* DeadpanSnarker
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Dissapeared after Series 6, with only a brief mention the sauna was up for lease.
* ReplacementScrappy: Took Laura's role as the main voice of reason and Helen's confidant, however her arrogance and general lack of development saw her removed the cast by from Series 7.
* ServileSnarker
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Penny was basically just a less rounded Laura.
'''Penny Bidmead'''
Ran the sauna and solarium in Series 6. Played by Anouschka Menzies.
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* DeadpanSnarker
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Dissapeared after Series 6, with only a brief mention the sauna was up for lease.
* ReplacementScrappy: Took Laura's role as the main voice of reason and Helen's confidant, however her arrogance and general lack of development saw her removed the cast by from Series 7.
* ServileSnarker
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Leisure centre visitor forms require such data as "father's profession", "criminal record" and "
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Gordon Brittas is the Manager of Whitbury Leisure Centre. He is utterly devoted to his job and is unshakably convinced he can make the world a better place. Unfortunately despite being very well meaning he is absolutely hopeless at his job, myopically devoted to red tape and utterly lacking in people skills. Played by Chris Barrie.Creator/ChrisBarrie.
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-->"Shortly we will have some 800 people rehearsing hymns in our gymnasium, all of whom will want to use the resources of this leisure centre, and our job is to make sure they don't."
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* LethalKlutz: Tends to cause major and often fatal catastrophes while solving minor or non-existent problems. At one point, he slams a door and sets off an accidental RubeGoldbergDevice which nearly de-fingers a visiting pianist.
* LethalKlutz: Tends to cause major and often fatal catastrophes while solving minor or non-existent problems. At one point, he slams a door and sets off an accidental RubeGoldbergDevice which nearly de-fingers a visiting pianist.
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Though how much tends [[DependingOnTheWriter to vary]]. Sometimes he is a totally insensitive jerk sometimes he is very much a well meaning {{Woobie}}.
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BrokenBird: Is married to Brittas, and wears a semi-permanent expression of despair.
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Brittas's long suffering long-suffering second in command, Laura is the Deputy Manager Dry of Whitbury Leisure Centre. A highly intelligent and capable woman, Laura is well aware of Brittas's faults but sees beyond them and likes him for his idealism and genuinely good intentions. Played by Julia St. John
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GeniusDitz: Constructs a machine to recycle toilet waste into methane and thence into electricity. Thinks the centre could be self-powered if only everyone went to the bathroom a little more.
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{{Gonk}}: Has facial boils, a permanently septic right hand, and an abundance of fluids which everybody would rather not hear about.
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WhosYourDaddy: Becomes pregnant after a liason in the dark at an office party, and decides to go through the list of guests to work out who it might have been. Unfortunately, that night they'd been gate-crashed by the rugby club. All thirty-one of them.
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Gordon's hopelessly neurotic, adulterous wife. She seems to survive mostly on perscription medication. Played by Pippa Haywood.
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* MeaningfulName: Sir Arthur Wellesley (better known as TheDukeOfWellington) was one of the greatest English generals of all time, and never lost a battle. Unlike Gordon Wellesley Brittas.
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'''Gordon Wellesley Brittas'''
Gordon Brittas is the Manager of Whitbury Leisure Centre. He is utterly devoted to his job and is unshakably convinced he can make the world a better place. Unfortunately despite being very well meaning he is absolutely hopeless at his job, myopically devoted to red tape and utterly lacking in people skills. Played by Chris Barrie.
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* ButtMonkey
* DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm
* ObstructiveBureaucrat
* PointyHairedBoss
* TedBaxter
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Laura.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Though how much tends [[DependingOnTheWriter to vary]]. Sometimes he is a totally insensitive jerk sometimes he is very much a well meaning {{Woobie}}.
* WeirdnessMagnet
* WideEyedIdealist: "I have a dream..."
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Gordon's hopelessly neurotic, adulterous wife. She seems to survive mostly on perscription medication. Played by Pippa Haywood.
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* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' call Helen brittas a bad mother.
* BrokenBird
* CloudCuckooLander
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Her unfaithfulness is a running gag and depicted as a character flaw, though not a very bad one. Fans tend to view her more harshly, especially since Gordon is completely faithful.
* LadyDrunk
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist
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'''Laura Lancing'''
Brittas's long suffering second in command, Laura is the Deputy Manager Dry of Whitbury Leisure Centre. A highly intelligent and capable woman, Laura is well aware of Brittas's faults but sees beyond them and likes him for his idealism and genuinely good intentions. Played by Julia St. John
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* DeadpanSnarker
* HypercompetentSidekick
* OnlySaneEmployee
* ServileSnarker
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Brittas.
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'''Colin Weatherby'''
Colin is Deputy Manager Wet. He is absolutely devoted to Brittas and his dream which makes it unfortunate that Brittas finds him irritating and incompetent and even more unfortunate that he is both of these things. Played by Michael Burns
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* BumblingSidekick
* TheChewToy
* CloudCuckooLander
* TheDitz
* {{Gonk}}
* [[GranolaGirl Granola Guy]]
* UltimateJobSecurity
* {{Woobie}}
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'''Carole Parkinson'''
The Leisure Centres hapless receptionist who raises her children in drawers at her desk. Played by Harriet Thorpe.
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* TheChewToy
* HollywoodPudgy
* UltimateJobSecurity
* {{Woobie}}
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'''Gavin Featherly'''
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Pool attendant and later Deputy Manager. Perhaps the nicest and most sensitive character on the show. In a relationship with Tim Whistler of which everyone but Brittas is aware. Played by Tim Marriott.
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* ButtMonkey
* NiceGuy
* StraightGay
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'''Linda Perkin'''
Petite blonde attendant. Very keen and loyal but pretty naive and suggestible. She is quite as worshipful of Brittas as Colin is but she certainly respects him much more than most of the staff. Played by Jill Greenacre.
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* HairOfGold
* PintsizedPowerhouse: She's tiny but surprisingly strong.
* MayDecemberRomance: She was in a long term relationship with someone she knew from school - her sixty-something headmaster.
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'''Tim Whistler'''
Pool attendant and Gavin's boyfriend. Probably likes Brittas the least out of any of the staff (or at least joint least with Julie.) Played by Russell Porter.
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* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Dismotivation}}
* ServileSnarker
* StraightGay
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Brittas's lazy, gobby, Northern secretary. Played by Judy Flynn
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'''Gordon Wellesley Brittas'''
Gordon Brittas is the Manager of Whitbury Leisure Centre. He is utterly devoted to his job and is unshakably convinced he can make the world a better place. Unfortunately despite being very well meaning he is absolutely hopeless at his job, myopically devoted to red tape and utterly lacking in people skills. Played by Chris Barrie.
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* ButtMonkey
* DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm
* ObstructiveBureaucrat
* PointyHairedBoss
* TedBaxter
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Laura.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Though how much tends [[DependingOnTheWriter to vary]]. Sometimes he is a totally insensitive jerk sometimes he is very much a well meaning {{Woobie}}.
* WeirdnessMagnet
* WideEyedIdealist: "I have a dream..."
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'''Helen Brittas'''
Gordon's hopelessly neurotic, adulterous wife. She seems to survive mostly on perscription medication. Played by Pippa Haywood.
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* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' call Helen brittas a bad mother.
* BrokenBird
* CloudCuckooLander
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Her unfaithfulness is a running gag and depicted as a character flaw, though not a very bad one. Fans tend to view her more harshly, especially since Gordon is completely faithful.
* LadyDrunk
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist
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'''Laura Lancing'''
Brittas's long suffering second in command, Laura is the Deputy Manager Dry of Whitbury Leisure Centre. A highly intelligent and capable woman, Laura is well aware of Brittas's faults but sees beyond them and likes him for his idealism and genuinely good intentions. Played by Julia St. John
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* DeadpanSnarker
* HypercompetentSidekick
* OnlySaneEmployee
* ServileSnarker
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Brittas.
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'''Colin Weatherby'''
Colin is Deputy Manager Wet. He is absolutely devoted to Brittas and his dream which makes it unfortunate that Brittas finds him irritating and incompetent and even more unfortunate that he is both of these things. Played by Michael Burns
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* BumblingSidekick
* TheChewToy
* CloudCuckooLander
* TheDitz
* {{Gonk}}
* [[GranolaGirl Granola Guy]]
* UltimateJobSecurity
* {{Woobie}}
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'''Carole Parkinson'''
The Leisure Centres hapless receptionist who raises her children in drawers at her desk. Played by Harriet Thorpe.
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* TheChewToy
* HollywoodPudgy
* UltimateJobSecurity
* {{Woobie}}
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'''Gavin Featherly'''
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Pool attendant and later Deputy Manager. Perhaps the nicest and most sensitive character on the show. In a relationship with Tim Whistler of which everyone but Brittas is aware. Played by Tim Marriott.
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* ButtMonkey
* NiceGuy
* StraightGay
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'''Linda Perkin'''
Petite blonde attendant. Very keen and loyal but pretty naive and suggestible. She is quite as worshipful of Brittas as Colin is but she certainly respects him much more than most of the staff. Played by Jill Greenacre.
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* HairOfGold
* PintsizedPowerhouse: She's tiny but surprisingly strong.
* MayDecemberRomance: She was in a long term relationship with someone she knew from school - her sixty-something headmaster.
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'''Tim Whistler'''
Pool attendant and Gavin's boyfriend. Probably likes Brittas the least out of any of the staff (or at least joint least with Julie.) Played by Russell Porter.
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* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Dismotivation}}
* ServileSnarker
* StraightGay
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'''Julie Porter'''
Brittas's lazy, gobby, Northern secretary. Played by Judy Flynn
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* {{Jerkass}}
* SassySecretary
* ServileSnarker
* SexySecretary
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