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* AntiEducationMama: According to "Mums and Dads", when he was 15, Jim Brittas wanted to become an astronomer. However, his father laughed off his desire to stay on at school and pass an exam for this dream, believing that there were better ways (such as becoming a night watchman) to allow him to see the stars.
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* AntiEducationMama: According to "Mums and Dads", when When he was 15, Jim Brittas wanted to become an astronomer. However, his father laughed off his desire to stay on at school and pass an exam for this dream, believing that there were better ways (such as becoming a night watchman) to allow him to see the stars.
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*AntiEducationMama: According to "Mums and Dads", when he was 15, Jim Brittas wanted to become an astronomer. However, his father laughed off his desire to stay on at school and pass an exam for this dream, believing that there were better ways (such as becoming a night watchman) to allow him to see the stars.
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* WaxingLyrical: Jim quotes from the musical number "Happy Talk" in Theatre/SouthPacific when explaining the importance of dreams to Laura, with Helen even completing the quote in sing-song.
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* WaxingLyrical: Jim quotes from the musical number "Happy Talk" in Theatre/SouthPacific ''Theatre/SouthPacific'' when explaining the importance of dreams to Laura, with Helen even completing the quote in sing-song.
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* UnknownRelative: Laura is rather horrified to learn that Brittas has a brother.
-->'''Jim''': Both of my boys have done well for themselves.
-->'''Laura''': There's another one?
-->'''Jim''': Oh yes. Twins.
-->'''Helen''': Gordon and Horatio.
-->'''Laura''': I had no idea...
-->'''Jim''': Both of my boys have done well for themselves.
-->'''Laura''': There's another one?
-->'''Jim''': Oh yes. Twins.
-->'''Helen''': Gordon and Horatio.
-->'''Laura''': I had no idea...
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* WaxingLyrical: Jim quotes from the musical number "Happy Talk" in Theatre/SouthPacific when explaining the importance of dreams to Laura, with Helen even completing the quote in sing-song.
-->'''Jim''': You've got to have a Dream, Laura, because if you don't have a dream...
-->'''Helen''': [singing] How you going to have a dream come true?
-->'''Jim''': You've got to have a Dream, Laura, because if you don't have a dream...
-->'''Helen''': [singing] How you going to have a dream come true?
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** Carole currently works as a receptionist in Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. However, in "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS2E5MumsAndDads Mums and Dads]]", she confides to Laura that she had always wanted to become a pianist, but was forced to give up the piano when her parents, who wanted her to become a wife, sold it to afford beauty classes for her. Her EarnYourHappyEnding in "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireCS1InTheBeginning In the Beginning...]]" reveals that she does eventually manage to become an international pianist.
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** Carole currently works as a receptionist in Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. However, in "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS2E5MumsAndDads Mums and Dads]]", she confides to Laura that she had always wanted to become a pianist, but was forced to give up the piano when her parents, who wanted her to become a wife, sold it to afford beauty classes for her. Her EarnYourHappyEnding in "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireCS1InTheBeginning In the Beginning...]]" reveals that she does eventually manage to become an international pianist.
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** Carole currently works as a receptionist in Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. However, in "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS2E5MumsAndDads Mums and Dads]]", she confides to Laura that she had always wanted to become a pianist, but was forced to give up the piano when her parents, who wanted her to become a wife, sold it to afford beauty classes for her. Her EarnYourHappyEnding in "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireCS1InTheBeginning In the Beginning...]]" reveals that she does eventually manage to become an international pianist.
** Jim Brittas worked as a night watchman before his move into sheltered accommodation. However, he reveals to Laura and Helen that he had always wanted to become an astronomer, being forced to change careers when his parents refused to let him take further classes in education.
** Carole currently works as a receptionist in Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. However, in "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS2E5MumsAndDads Mums and Dads]]", she confides to Laura that she had always wanted to become a pianist, but was forced to give up the piano when her parents, who wanted her to become a wife, sold it to afford beauty classes for her. Her EarnYourHappyEnding in "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireCS1InTheBeginning In the Beginning...]]" reveals that she does eventually manage to become an international pianist.
** Jim Brittas worked as a night watchman before his move into sheltered accommodation. However, he reveals to Laura and Helen that he had always wanted to become an astronomer, being forced to change careers when his parents refused to let him take further classes in education.
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* CharacterCatchphrase: The earliest appearance of Brittas' signature and drawn-out "Excellent!" catchphrase.
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* StayInTheKitchen: Carole had this belief forced into her by her parents
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* StayInTheKitchen: Carole had this belief forced into her by her parentsparents.
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* StayInTheKitchen: Carole had this belief forced into her by her parents.
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* StayInTheKitchen: Carole had this belief forced into her by her parents.parents
-->'''Carole''': I used to dream of being a concert pianist when I was little, but my parents made me give it up. They said it would be more sensible to do extra… domestic science.
-->'''Laura''': Oh dear...
-->'''Carole''': They sold our piano to put me through a max factor beauty course. They said it was more important to get a man.
-->'''Carole''': I used to dream of being a concert pianist when I was little, but my parents made me give it up. They said it would be more sensible to do extra… domestic science.
-->'''Laura''': Oh dear...
-->'''Carole''': They sold our piano to put me through a max factor beauty course. They said it was more important to get a man.
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* BrownNote: {{Implied}}. Brittas' mother died whilst he was playing the piano and considering the fact that the episode was playing up his DreadfulMusician status...
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* BrownNote: {{Implied}}. Brittas' mother died whilst he was Implied to be the case with Brittas, whose piano playing the piano and considering the fact (combined with his own sheet music) is apparently so bad that the episode was playing up his DreadfulMusician status...mother ''dropped dead'' during one of his own sessions.
* {{Fingore}}: Vladimir's hands are threatened several times with injury by Brittas, including Brittas almost stomping on one of them and accidentally creating a RubeGoldbergDevice leading to a sickle falling dangerously close to Vladimir's fingers. One of his hands is eventually injured by a runaway piano crashing into him, making him unable to play that night.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: A more humorous version with Brittas and Helen's old piano, where Helen just ''happened'' to accidentally put white spritz on and which ''happened'' to have been become engulfed in flames by a stray spark off a neighbour's barbeque. Of course, as the end of the episode shows, she did it deliberately so that she wouldn't have to hear Brittas' dreadful piano-playing skills.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: Vladimir overhears Carole playing the piano and is awestruck by it, even considering taking her with him to his home country to teach her. Unfortunately, he decides to wait a little longer to hear the tune proper, which is long enough for her to finish and leave the centre without him ever knowing her identity.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: Vladimir overhears Carole playing the piano and is awestruck by it, even considering taking her with him to his home country to teach her. Unfortunately, he decides to wait a little longer to hear the tune proper, which is long enough for her to finish and leave the centre without him ever knowing her identity.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: A more humorous version with Brittas and Helen's old piano, where which Helen just ''happened'' to accidentally put white spritz on and which ''happened'' to have been become engulfed in flames by a stray spark off a neighbour's barbeque. Of course, as the end of the episode shows, she did it deliberately so that she wouldn't have to hear Brittas' dreadful piano-playing skills.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: Vladimir overhears Carole playing the piano and is awestruck by it, even considering taking her with him to his home country to teach her. Unfortunately, he decides to wait a little longer to hear the tune proper, which is long enough for her to finish and leave the centre without him ever knowing her identity. Making matters worse is when Vladimir inquires about the identity of the person who played to Brittas and about how he'll take them for training. Carole doesn't appear until near the end of the inquiry and even then only to wish goodnight to everyone, having apparently not heard anything of what Vladimir said.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: Vladimir overhears Carole playing the piano and is awestruck by it, even considering taking her with him to his home country to teach her. Unfortunately, he decides to wait a little longer to hear the tune proper, which is long enough for her to finish and leave the centre without him ever knowing her identity. Making matters worse is when Vladimir inquires about the identity of the person who played to Brittas and about how he'll take them for training. Carole doesn't appear until near the end of the inquiry and even then only to wish goodnight to everyone, having apparently not heard anything of what Vladimir said.
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** Helen got thrown out of school for ''something'' when she was 16.
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** Helen got thrown out of school for ''something'' when she was 16.16, but all we know is that she considered herself to be good at it.
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** Implied with Laura's parents, as Laura laments how they settled for teaching her how to sit up straight and wear a clean handkerchief rather than a belief in her abilities.
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* WantedASonInstead: It's briefly mentioned by Helen that her parents saw her as a disappointment because if she had been born a boy, her father would have inherited a jam factory.
* WickedStepmother: Carole's stepmother is implied to be the case, seeing as she makes Carole clean the house whilst she and her children head for the ball, with no indication of them inviting Carole along.
* WickedStepmother: Carole's stepmother is implied to be the case, seeing as she makes Carole clean the house whilst she and her children head for the ball, with no indication of them inviting Carole along.
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* WantedASonInstead: It's briefly mentioned by Helen that According to Helen, her parents saw her as father was due to inherit a disappointment because jam factory if she had been born a boy, boy. Unfortunately for him, she wasn't, leading to her father would have inherited parents viewing her as a jam factory.
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* WickedStepmother: Carole's stepmother is implied to be the case, seeing as she makes Carole clean the house whilst she and herchildren two daughters head for the ball, with no indication of them inviting Carole along.
* WickedStepmother: Carole's stepmother is implied to be the case, seeing as she makes Carole clean the house whilst she and her
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* DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: The only reason Brittas took over for Mr. Petrov was that he didn't understand Laura was joking in the page quote.
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* ProductDeliveryOrdeal: Brittas orders a piano to be taken to the centre for a concert, but the actual trip to get it there proves to be difficult, starting with the original piano getting stolen. This naturally leaves the delivery men at their wit's end, just in time for Brittas to chew them out for [[StealingTheHandicappedSpot parking on the disabled spot]], and it leads to a piano on its side in reception.
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* WickedStepmother: Carole's stepmother is implied to be the case, seeing as she makes Carole clean the house whilst she and her children head for the ball, with no indication of them inviting Carole along.
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* TheGhost: Carole mentions having a stepmother and stepsisters, but they never show up on screen or are even mentioned again in later episodes.
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* ParentsAsPeople: Jim is a loving parent, and his method of raising Brittas and his twin brother was only ever intended as a way of giving them the opportunity he never had, but he never realises that maybe raising a child through constant praise may result in what might be best known as a git.
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** Helen's parents apparently saw her as a disappointment and are implied to have been quite disparaging to her, leading to her history of depression and neurosis.
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** Helen's parents apparently saw her as a disappointment and are implied to have been quite disparaging to her, disparaging, leading to her history of depression and neurosis.
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* DreadfulMusician: Brittas is so bad with the piano that Helen had to burn their piano just to stop him from playing it. We later on in the episode get to hear him play a horrible rendition of "Knock Three Times", which is shown to cause mass cringing amongst those present.
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* DreadfulMusician: Brittas is so bad with the piano that Helen had to burn their piano just to stop him from playing it. We later Later on in the episode episode, we get to hear him play a horrible rendition of "Knock Three Times", which is shown to cause mass cringing amongst those present.
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* HiddenDepths: Carole is shown to actually be a very skilled piano player.
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* HiddenDepths: Carole is shown to actually be have a very skilled piano player.talent for playing the piano.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: A more humorous version with Brittas and Helen's old piano, where Helen just ''happened'' to accidentally put white spritz on and which ''happened'' to have been become engulfed in flames by a stray spark off a neighbour's barbeque. Of course, as the end of the episode shows, she did it deliberately so that she wouldn't have to hear Brittas' dreadful piano playing skills.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: Vladimir overhears Carole playing the piano and is awestruck by it, even conisdering taking her with him to his home country to teach her. Unfortunately, he decides to wait a little longer to hear the tune proper, which is long enough for her to finish and leave the centre without him ever knowing her identity.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: Vladimir overhears Carole playing the piano and is awestruck by it, even conisdering taking her with him to his home country to teach her. Unfortunately, he decides to wait a little longer to hear the tune proper, which is long enough for her to finish and leave the centre without him ever knowing her identity.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: A more humorous version with Brittas and Helen's old piano, where Helen just ''happened'' to accidentally put white spritz on and which ''happened'' to have been become engulfed in flames by a stray spark off a neighbour's barbeque. Of course, as the end of the episode shows, she did it deliberately so that she wouldn't have to hear Brittas' dreadful piano playing piano-playing skills.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: Vladimir overhears Carole playing the piano and is awestruck by it, evenconisdering considering taking her with him to his home country to teach her. Unfortunately, he decides to wait a little longer to hear the tune proper, which is long enough for her to finish and leave the centre without him ever knowing her identity.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: Vladimir overhears Carole playing the piano and is awestruck by it, even
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* TemptingFate: Laura makes a joke about doing the concert themselves after Mr. Petrov is sent to the hospital. Only problem is [[DreadfulMusician Brittas]] takes her seriously.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If Jim had only gave Brittas realistic expectations growing up, the staff and visitors of the leisure centre would lead much happier and safer lives.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If Jim had only gave Brittas realistic expectations growing up, the staff and visitors of the leisure centre would lead much happier and safer lives.
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* TemptingFate: Laura makes a joke about doing the concert themselves after Mr. Petrov is sent to the hospital. Only The only problem is [[DreadfulMusician Brittas]] takes her seriously.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: If Jim had onlygave given Brittas realistic expectations growing up, the staff and visitors of the leisure centre would lead much happier and safer lives.
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* SmallParentsHugeChild: Jim Brittas is at least a head smaller than his son Gordon.
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* CinderellaPlot: Carole's subplot has her stay behind to clean up whilst her stepmother and two stepsisters head off to a grand ball, much like Cinderella. Meanwhile, she ends up catching the attention of a man who wishes to give her a brand new life, much like the Prince in the fairytale. Unfortunately for Carole, she doesn't get the happy ending this episode like Cinderella does.
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