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* BreakingPointSwearing: Dorien calls Angela a tasteless bitch, a term which Tracey also uses when talking about her.


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* PrecisionFStrike: Dorien calls Angela a tasteless bitch, a term which Tracey also uses when talking about her.
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* TakeThat: Sharon remarks that ''Quick Cabs'' thinks that they can charge what they like like ''British Rail''.

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* TakeThat: Sharon remarks that ''Quick Cabs'' Quick Cabs thinks that they can charge what they like just like ''British Rail''.British Rail do.

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* BreakingPointSwearing: Dorien calls Angela a tasteless bitch, a term which Tracey also uses when talking about her.



* PrecisionFStrike: Dorien calls Angela a tasteless bitch, a term which Tracey also uses when talking about her.
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* ApologyGift: Dorien tries to give one to Tracey for screwing up her house sale.

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* ApologyGift: Dorien tries to give one perfume to Tracey for screwing up her house sale.



* StatusQuoIsGod: Dorien, Garth and Tracey all try separately to move somewhere else and Sharon is kicked out of Dalentrace, but all four remain in their old homes by the end of the episode.

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* StatusQuoIsGod: Dorien, Garth and Tracey all try separately to move somewhere else and Sharon is kicked out of Dalentrace, but Dalentrace. While Garth stays in Sharon's flat, the girls all four remain in their old homes by the end of the episode.

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* ApologyGift: Dorien tries to give one to Tracey for screwing up her house sale.
-->'''Tracey''': What is it?
-->'''Dorien''': A peace offering.
-->'''Tracey''': Is it worth three-quarters of £1,000,000?
-->'''Dorien''': Well, of course it isn't.
-->'''Tracey''': Then stick it, coz that's what you cost me.



* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Angela slaps Dominic when she thinks he was trying to move to Chigwell to be closer to Dorien.



* InterruptedIntimacy: Angela once caught Dorien and Dominic in the middle of having sex.



** This episode gives us our fouth Dominic, after two separate unseen characters in "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS2E10ThirtySomething Thirty Something]]" and "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS3E10Cuckoo Cuckoo]]" and a OneShotCharacter in "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS6E6AppreciationSociety Appreciation Society]]".

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** This episode gives us our fouth fourth Dominic, after two separate unseen characters in "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS2E10ThirtySomething Thirty Something]]" and "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS3E10Cuckoo Cuckoo]]" and a OneShotCharacter in "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS6E6AppreciationSociety Appreciation Society]]".



* StatusQuoIsGod: Dorien, Garth and Tracey all try separately to move somewhere else, but all give up by the end of the episode.

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* ShoutOut: Sharon calls Garth and Kate "Literature/HanselAndGretel".
* StatusQuoIsGod: Dorien, Garth and Tracey all try separately to move somewhere else, else and Sharon is kicked out of Dalentrace, but all give up four remain in their old homes by the end of the episode.



* VerbalBackspace: Garth has to pretend like he hasn't been looking forward to hooking up with Kate for ages:
-->'''Garth''': Brilliant! I mean... really?




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* YouExclamation: Angela squeaks out a shrill one when she catches Dorien in the same room as Dominic.

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An estate agent has come to Dorien's house, and he's looking at her home for a couple who likes the location they live at, meaning that Dorien may be moving - to The Grange. During this conversation, Sharon reveals that she has a flat (well, more of a storage room) up above the cafe, and Dorien thus decides she's going to rent it, although she is beaten to the punch by Garth.

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An estate agent has come to Dorien's house, and he's looking at her home for a couple who likes the location they live at, meaning that Dorien may be moving - to The Grange. During this conversation, Sharon reveals that she has a flat (well, more of a storage room) up above the cafe, and Dorien thus decides she's going to rent it, although she is beaten to the punch by Garth.



* BriefAccentImitation: Sharon uses a West Country accent when mocking Dorien for her pokey home decorating skills.



** Tracey's old house had a damp patch in every room, whilst Darryl's was thankful for dry patches in his house. And that's not getting into the rats they had.

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** Tracey's old house Tracey tells Darryl about how Auntie Sylvie's flat had a damp patch in every room, whilst Darryl's Darryl was thankful for dry patches in his house. And that's not getting into the rats they had.had.
--->'''Tracey''': No, you never 'ad rats. Apart from ya mother.



* MyBelovedSmother: Tracey keeps trying to check if Garth's okay and offering to do stuff for him, even though he's 20 now and in catering college.

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* MyBelovedSmother: Tracey keeps trying to check if Garth's okay and offering to do stuff for him, even though he's 20 nearly twenty now and in catering college.



-->'''Tracey''': Are you looking after yourself properly?

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-->'''Tracey''': Are you Hope you're looking after yourself properly?properly.



-->'''Tracey''': Got enough clean underwear.

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-->'''Tracey''': Got enough clean underwear.underwear?



-->'''Tracey''': He'll always be my baby! Bet you're not eating properly.

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-->'''Tracey''': He'll always be my baby! Bet you're not eating properly.eatin' properly. Got you some chicken an' some bacon.



* ObnoxiousInLaws: Tracey tells Darryl the only rat he had in his house was his mum, Olive.



-->'''Sharon''': Nah, I'll give it a kick. Always worked with Chris!
* PrecisionFStrike: Dorien calls Angela a tasteless bitch, a term which Tracey also uses when talking about Angela.

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-->'''Sharon''': Nah, I'll give it a kick. Always worked with wi' Chris!
* {{Portmanteau}}: Darryl suggests calling his and Tracey's new house "Tracendal", which much like their last house ("Dalentrace") is both of their names together.
* PrecisionFStrike: Dorien calls Angela a tasteless bitch, a term which Tracey also uses when talking about Angela.her.
* ReallyGetsAround: Dorien has had so many affairs that now she wants her own place for it.
-->'''Dorien''': I ''simply'' must find my own little love nest to rent. I've been trying to find somewhere to go with my new man Brian, he's a relapsed born again Christian, an' I suddenly realised that I had been to all the hotels at least half a dozen times. I mean it ''is'' becoming embarrassing. Half of them mention me by name in their fire instructions.




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* YouDirtyRat: Darryl claims he used to have sewer rats in his garden.

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->'''Sharon''': Well, two minutes ago, we was callin' each other names.
->'''Dorien''': Oh, that was just banter. I didn't mean it.
->'''Sharon''': ({{Beat}}) I did.
-->-- '''Dorien Green''' and '''Sharon Theodopolopodous'''

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->'''Sharon''': Well, two minutes ago, we was callin' each other names.
->'''Tracey''': 'Alf an 'our I queued at that checkout, then one o' me carrier bags split, I got a parkin' ticket an' a flat tyre that I 'ad to change in the pourin' rain, an' on top o' that I got ragin' PMT!
->'''Dorien''': Oh, So the last thing you want to hear is that was just banter. I didn't mean it.
->'''Sharon''': ({{Beat}}) I did.
''Garth's'' leaving home?
-->-- '''Dorien Green''' and '''Sharon Theodopolopodous'''
angering '''Tracey Stubbs''' as revenge for losing her chance to rent Sharon's flat.



* BirdPoopGag: Sharon parks Dorien's car under a tree and forgets to close the sunroof, causing sparrows to crap inside the car.



* FeatheredFiend: Sharon mentions being attacked by sparrows when she forgot to close the sunroof.
-->'''Sharon''': I know I should've closed the sunroof, but I didn't realise sparrows had that good of an aim.

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* FeatheredFiend: Sharon mentions being attacked crapped on by sparrows when she forgot to close the sunroof.
-->'''Sharon''': I know I should've closed the sunroof, but but... I didn't realise sparrows had that good of an aim.



* JustFriends: Garth lies to Sharon and Dorien that he and Kate are only friends, not realising he's pretending to be gay.



* OneShotCharacter: Dominic, Angela, and Kate.

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* OneShotCharacter: Dominic, Angela, Kate, Dominic and Kate.Angela.




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* WithFriendsLikeThese: While Dorien's snark is purely banter, Sharon admits she means every word of it.
-->'''Sharon''': Well, two minutes ago, we was callin' each other names.
-->'''Dorien''': Oh, that was just banter. I didn't mean it.
-->'''Sharon''': ({{Beat}}) I did.

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->'''Sharon''': Well, two minutes ago, we was callin' each other names.
->'''Dorien''': Oh, that was just banter. I didn't mean it.
->'''Sharon''': ({{Beat}}) I did.
-->-- '''Dorien Green''' and '''Sharon Theodopolopodous'''



An estate agent has come to Dorien's house, and he's looking at her home for a couple who likes the location they live at, meaing that Dorien may be moving - to The Grange. During this conversation, Sharon reveals that she has a flat (well, more of a storage room) up above the cafe, and Dorien thus decides she's going to rent it, although she is beaten to the punch by Garth.

Garth soons moves in, and Sharon fidns that his girlfriend, Kate, considers Garth to be gay. She orders him to tell the truth, or he'll be kicked out, which he proceeds to do, leading to a romantic relationship. Soon, the couple who wanted to buy Dorien's house decide not to ahead after all. However, they're now interested in the sisters' house. Darryl wants to not only move to the country but doesn't want to bring Sharon with them. Sharon thus throws Garth out so that she can have the flat for herself and she is forced to leave. Oh, and she reveals that Garth tricked Kate deliberately to get her to live with him, leading to the break-up of their relationship.

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An estate agent has come to Dorien's house, and he's looking at her home for a couple who likes the location they live at, meaing meaning that Dorien may be moving - to The Grange. During this conversation, Sharon reveals that she has a flat (well, more of a storage room) up above the cafe, and Dorien thus decides she's going to rent it, although she is beaten to the punch by Garth.

Garth soons soon moves in, and Sharon fidns finds that his girlfriend, Kate, considers Garth to be gay. She orders him to tell the truth, or he'll be kicked out, which he proceeds to do, leading to a romantic relationship. Soon, the couple who wanted to buy Dorien's house decide not to ahead after all. However, they're now interested in the sisters' house. Darryl wants to not only move to the country but doesn't want to bring Sharon with them. Sharon thus throws Garth out so that she can have the flat for herself and she is forced to leave. Oh, and she reveals that Garth tricked Kate deliberately to get her to live with him, leading to the break-up of their relationship.



* ContinuityNod: Sharon still hasn't [[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS5E3NonStarter passed her driving test]].



* TheGhost: Mention is made of an estate agent showing Domnic and Angela the houses in Chigwell, although they are not seen on-screen.

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* TheGhost: Mention is made of an estate agent showing Domnic Dominic and Angela the houses in Chigwell, although they are not seen on-screen.



** Garth and Kate's new housing is quite filthy and grimey and that's not accounting for the dripping tap and the lack of a working boiler. When Sharon moves in for a while, she eventually can't take it, describing it as a tip, and lets Garth have it, claiming that it will be fine as students love squalor.

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** Garth and Kate's new housing is quite filthy and grimey grimy and that's not accounting for the dripping tap and the lack of a working boiler. When Sharon moves in for a while, she eventually can't take it, describing it as a tip, and lets Garth have it, claiming that it will be fine as students love squalor.



* LIsForDyslexia: Sharon writes "disabbled" when she means "disabled".



-->'''Tracey''': He'll alway be my baby! Bet you're not eating properly.
* ObfuscatingDisability: Sharon intends to pretend to be a disabled driver to hide the fact that she's not qualified to drive. Of course, the fact that she's mispelled it as "disabbled" isn't really going to help, although she hopes that it will convince the police that she's disabled mentally as well.
* OneShotCharacter: Domninic, Angela, and Kate.
* OneWordTitle: The name of the episode is "Moving".

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-->'''Tracey''': He'll alway always be my baby! Bet you're not eating properly.
* ObfuscatingDisability: Sharon intends to pretend to be a disabled driver to hide the fact that she's not qualified to drive. Of course, the fact that she's mispelled misspelled it as "disabbled" isn't really going to help, although she hopes that it will convince the police that she's disabled mentally as well.
* OneShotCharacter: Domninic, Dominic, Angela, and Kate.
* OneSteveLimit:
** This episode gives us our fouth Dominic, after two separate unseen characters in "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS2E10ThirtySomething Thirty Something]]" and "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS3E10Cuckoo Cuckoo]]" and a OneShotCharacter in "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS6E6AppreciationSociety Appreciation Society]]".
** There's also his wife Angela, who shares a name with a voice-only character from "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS6E3FirstTimeCaller First Time Caller]]".
*
OneWordTitle: The name title of the episode is "Moving".



* PrecisionFStrike: Dorien calls Angela a tasteless "bitch", a term which Tracey also uses when talking about Angela.
* TakeThat: Sharon remarks that Quick Cabs thinks that they can charge what they like like ''British Rails''.

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* PrecisionFStrike: Dorien calls Angela a tasteless "bitch", bitch, a term which Tracey also uses when talking about Angela.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Dorien, Garth and Tracey all try separately to move somewhere else, but all give up by the end of the episode.
*
TakeThat: Sharon remarks that Quick Cabs ''Quick Cabs'' thinks that they can charge what they like like ''British Rails''.Rail''.




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* VehicularSabotage: When Dorien tells Sharon she can use her car, Sharon asks if the brakes are dodgy.
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Garth soons moves in, and Sharon fidns that his girlfriend, Kate, considers Garth to be gay. She orders him to tell the truth, or he'll be kicked out, which he proceeds to do, leading to a romantic relationship. Soon, the couple who wanted to buy Dorien's house decide not to ahead after all. However, they're now interested in the sisters' house. Darryl wants to not only move to the country but doesn't want to bring Sharon with them. Sharon thus throws Garth out so that she can have the flat for herself and she is forced to leave.

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Garth soons moves in, and Sharon fidns that his girlfriend, Kate, considers Garth to be gay. She orders him to tell the truth, or he'll be kicked out, which he proceeds to do, leading to a romantic relationship. Soon, the couple who wanted to buy Dorien's house decide not to ahead after all. However, they're now interested in the sisters' house. Darryl wants to not only move to the country but doesn't want to bring Sharon with them. Sharon thus throws Garth out so that she can have the flat for herself and she is forced to leave.
leave. Oh, and she reveals that Garth tricked Kate deliberately to get her to live with him, leading to the break-up of their relationship.

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* PrecisionFStrike:
** Dorien calls one of the people who have withdrawn "a tasteless bitch". Tracey later on calls her a bitch as well.

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* PrecisionFStrike:
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PrecisionFStrike: Dorien calls one of the people who have withdrawn "a Angela a tasteless bitch". "bitch", a term which Tracey later on calls her a bitch as well. also uses when talking about Angela.
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* PercussiveMaintenace: Sharon's idea of fixing the boiler is to give it a good kick.

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* PercussiveMaintenace: PercussiveMaintenance: Sharon's idea of fixing the boiler is to give it a good kick.

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* ObfuscatingDisability: Sharon intends to pretend to be a disabled driver to hide the fact that she's not qualified to drive. Of course, the fact that she's mispelled it as "disabbled" isn't really going to help...

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* ObfuscatingDisability: Sharon intends to pretend to be a disabled driver to hide the fact that she's not qualified to drive. Of course, the fact that she's mispelled it as "disabbled" isn't really going to help...help, although she hopes that it will convince the police that she's disabled mentally as well.



* TimeToMove: Tracey considers the idea of selling the house and moving to the countryside, much to the horror of Sharon when she realises that she'll be practically be kicked out. However, the move ends up being cancelled by the end of the episode thanks to Dorien.

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* TimeToMove: Tracey considers the idea of selling the house and moving to the countryside, much to the horror of Sharon when she realises that she'll be practically be kicked out. However, the move ends up being cancelled by the end of the episode thanks to Dorien.Dorien.

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* Date First Aired: 30/10/1994

An estate agent has come to Dorien's house, and he's looking at her home for a couple who likes the location they live at, meaing that Dorien may be moving - to The Grange. During this conversation, Sharon reveals that she has a flat (well, more of a storage room) up above the cafe, and Dorien thus decides she's going to rent it, although she is beaten to the punch by Garth.

Garth soons moves in, and Sharon fidns that his girlfriend, Kate, considers Garth to be gay. She orders him to tell the truth, or he'll be kicked out, which he proceeds to do, leading to a romantic relationship. Soon, the couple who wanted to buy Dorien's house decide not to ahead after all. However, they're now interested in the sisters' house. Darryl wants to not only move to the country but doesn't want to bring Sharon with them. Sharon thus throws Garth out so that she can have the flat for herself and she is forced to leave.

Soon, the couple have a look around the place. However, it turns out that Dorien recognises the man as an affair he had called Dominic and the deal is off when his wife, Angela, believes that he's moving to be with her. Soon, Tracey invites Sharon back to Dalentrace.



!!Tropes in this episode:
* AffectionateNickname: Dominic calls Dorien "Dodo" when he sees her.
* BigWhat:
** Tracey's response when she learns that if Sharon gets stopped by the police, Sharon intends to give out her name.
** Both Kate and Tracey's response to finding out that Garth pretended to be gay so that Kate could move in with him.
* FeatheredFiend: Sharon mentions being attacked by sparrows when she forgot to close the sunroof.
-->'''Sharon''': I know I should've closed the sunroof, but I didn't realise sparrows had that good of an aim.
* GetOut: Tracey tells Dorien to get out after she ruins the house sale for her.
* TheGhost: Mention is made of an estate agent showing Domnic and Angela the houses in Chigwell, although they are not seen on-screen.
* HorribleHousing:
** Garth and Kate's new housing is quite filthy and grimey and that's not accounting for the dripping tap and the lack of a working boiler. When Sharon moves in for a while, she eventually can't take it, describing it as a tip, and lets Garth have it, claiming that it will be fine as students love squalor.
** Tracey's old house had a damp patch in every room, whilst Darryl's was thankful for dry patches in his house. And that's not getting into the rats they had.
* MistakenForGay: Garth tricks Kate into thinking that he's gay to get him to live with her.
* MyBelovedSmother: Tracey keeps trying to check if Garth's okay and offering to do stuff for him, even though he's 20 now and in catering college.
-->'''Tracey''': Settled in all right?
-->'''Garth''': Fine, Mum.
-->'''Tracey''': Are you looking after yourself properly?
-->'''Garth''': Yes, Mum.
-->'''Tracey''': Got enough clean underwear.
-->'''Garth''': Oh, for Heaven's sake!
-->'''Sharon''': Trace, he's not a baby!
-->'''Tracey''': He'll alway be my baby! Bet you're not eating properly.
* ObfuscatingDisability: Sharon intends to pretend to be a disabled driver to hide the fact that she's not qualified to drive. Of course, the fact that she's mispelled it as "disabbled" isn't really going to help...
* OneShotCharacter: Domninic, Angela, and Kate.
* OneWordTitle: The name of the episode is "Moving".
* PercussiveMaintenace: Sharon's idea of fixing the boiler is to give it a good kick.
-->'''Garth''': So you'll get a plumber in, then?
-->'''Sharon''': Nah, I'll give it a kick. Always worked with Chris!
* PrecisionFStrike:
** Dorien calls one of the people who have withdrawn "a tasteless bitch". Tracey later on calls her a bitch as well.
* TakeThat: Sharon remarks that Quick Cabs thinks that they can charge what they like like ''British Rails''.
* TimeToMove: Tracey considers the idea of selling the house and moving to the countryside, much to the horror of Sharon when she realises that she'll be practically be kicked out. However, the move ends up being cancelled by the end of the episode thanks to Dorien.

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