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* HopeSpot: Brittas' hopes that his missing children are found are raised when Tim and Gavin enter the centre with white bundles... until they reveal that they are not in fact children, but duvets they bought at Debenhams.
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* SkewedPriorities: In the middle of a town-wide search for their Manager's missing children, Tim and Gavin manage to take time out to indulge in an offer on duvets in Debenhams.
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* HypocriticalHumour: Carole agrees with Helen after the latter headbutts and gives Philippa a {{Swirlie}} for calling her a bad mother, remarking that Philippa doesn't know anything about motherhood and it's as if she doesn't realise that they know what's best with their children... whilst putting one of her twin children in a drawer and closing it shut with a thump.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Philippa is nothing but a rude obnoxious person when she appears on-screen, yet Horatio claims that she does have a kind side, having standards and believing deeply in things, which is what attracted him to her in the first place.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Did Horatio ever actually marry Philippa in the end? We'll never know, as he isn't even mentioned again after this episode.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Did Horatio ever actually marry Philippa in the end? We'll never know, as aside from one indirect reference by Carole in "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS7E8CurseOfTheTigerWomen Curse of the Tiger Women]]", he isn't even mentioned again after this episode.is never referred to again.
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* ConvenientlyTimedDistraction: Carole does try to tell Laura early in the episode that the cake due for the christening has been ruined by toddler piss, but is distracted by Helen entering the centre before she can say.
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* DistaffCounterpart: Philippa is this to Brittas, with both being people so annoying that no one can stand them, but having hidden hearts of gold and good intentions underneath her obnoxious exterior.
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* DistaffCounterpart: Philippa is this to basically a female Brittas, with both being people so annoying that no one can stand them, but having hidden hearts of gold and good intentions underneath her their obnoxious exterior.exteriors.
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* DroppedInTheToilet: Helen dunks Philippa's head in the toilet, causing one of her earrings to fall in. Brittas is thus forced to spend several hours attempting to retrieve it for her, with the studio audience even reacting in disgust when it cuts to him pulling out gunk from the piping connecting the toilets.
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* DistaffCounterpart: Philippa is this to Brittas, being a person so annoying that no one can stand her.
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* DistaffCounterpart: Philippa is this to Brittas, with both being a person people so annoying that no one can stand her.them, but having hidden hearts of gold and good intentions underneath her obnoxious exterior.
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* MissingChild: Helen manages to misplace her twin children on the bus, prompting a town-wide hunt to get them back.
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* MissingChild: Helen manages to misplace her twin children during a trip on the bus, prompting a town-wide hunt to get them back.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite getting engaged to Philippa, Horatio's wedding is never seen as he disappears after this episode.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite getting engaged to Philippa, Horatio's wedding is Did Horatio ever actually marry Philippa in the end? We'll never seen know, as he disappears isn't even mentioned again after this episode.
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* MissingChild: Helen manages to misplace her twin children on the bus, prompting a town-wide hunt to get them back.
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* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: Brittas refers to Philippa as the sort of person who could cause fights and has poor social skills, oblivious to the fact that his definition also matches himself.
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* ObliviousToHisOwnDescription: Brittas refers to Philippa as the sort of person who could cause fights and has poor social skills, oblivious to the fact that his this definition also matches himself.
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* {{Swirlie}}: Part of Helen's solution to being called a bad mother by Philippa is dunk her head down the toilet, leading to one of her earrings getting lost down there.
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* {{Swirlie}}: Part of Helen's solution to being called a bad mother by Philippa is to dunk her head down the toilet, leading to one of her earrings getting lost down there.
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** Where was the christening held in the end? The toliets.
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** Where was the christening held in the end? The toliets.toilets.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Helen doesn't notice that she's lost her children until arrives at the centre and Laura points it out. She almost makes the same mistake again at the end of the episode.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Helen doesn't notice that she's lost her children until she arrives at the centre and Laura points it out. She almost makes the same mistake again at the end of the episode.
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* GeniusDitz: Although Colin is an idiot, it's his idea of putting a postcard in front of the newsagent's which helps save the day in the end.
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* GeniusDitz: Although Colin is an idiot, it's his idea of putting a postcard in front of the newsagent's newsagent which helps save the day in the end.
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* LetMeAtHim: Helen tries to attack Philippa but Brittas restrains before she can do so. Doesn't stop her from headbutting Philippa in the face.
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* LetMeAtHim: Helen tries to attack Philippa Philippa, but Brittas restrains her before she can do so. Doesn't stop her from headbutting Philippa in the face.
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** When Helen headbutts Phillipia in the face, Brittas tells her that they can't afford another lawsuit.
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** When Helen headbutts Phillipia Philippa in the face, Brittas tells her that they can't afford another lawsuit.
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* ProductPlacement: A couple of store names pop up as part of the Whitbury staff's search for Helen's missing children, including Debenhams, Oddbins, and Sainsbury's.
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* ShoutOut: The christening goes so disastrously that Julie reckons that she has enough content for an entire episode for Jeremy Beadle (at the time the host for ''You've Been Framed'').
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Brittas quotes ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}'' when talking to his brother about how to handle a woman.
** The christening goes so disastrously that Julie reckons that she has enough content for an entire episode for Jeremy Beadle (at the time the host for ''You've Been Framed'').
** Brittas quotes ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}'' when talking to his brother about how to handle a woman.
** The christening goes so disastrously that Julie reckons that she has enough content for an entire episode for Jeremy Beadle (at the time the host for ''You've Been Framed'').
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* WaxingLyrical: Brittas quotes from the ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}'' song "How to Handle a Woman" when talking to Horatio initially.
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-->-- '''Helen Brittas''' being slowly wound up by '''Philippa Belmot''', much to the dismay of her husband '''Gordon''', who knows how violent Helen can get.
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* FaceDoodling: Helen gets so pissed at Philippa that she doodles the word "Cow" on her forehead.
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* FaceDoodling: Helen gets so pissed at Philippa that she doodles the word "Cow" "COW" on her forehead.
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* TheGhost: Uncle Herbert is brought up several times during the christening rehearsal, only to be sent
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* TheGhost: Uncle Herbert is brought up several times during the christening rehearsal, only to be sentsent home by Philippa and never shown on screen.
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* LetMeAtHim: Helen tries to attack Phillipia but Brittas restrains before she can do so. Doesn't stop her from headbutting Philippa in the face.
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* LetMeAtHim: Helen tries to attack Phillipia Philippa but Brittas restrains before she can do so. Doesn't stop her from headbutting Philippa in the face.
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* LetMeAtHim: Helen tries to attack Phillipia but Brittas restrains before she can do so. Doesn't stop her from headbutting Philipia in the face.
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* LetMeAtHim: Helen tries to attack Phillipia but Brittas restrains before she can do so. Doesn't stop her from headbutting Philipia headbutting Philippa in the face.
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* AncestralName: Judging by a banner in the episode, Mark's middle name is Gordon, after his father. Matthew appears to have the same middle name as well, although its positioning makes it more difficult to read.
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* BabyDollBaby: The baby dolls are so realistic that Colin acts as if it were an actual child, planning to change its nappy until Laura reminds him otherwise.
* TheBigBoard: The meeting on how the staff is going to locate Helen's children includes a map of Whitbury in the staff room (with the path that Helen took in a red line) which Laura uses.
* TheBigBoard: The meeting on how the staff is going to locate Helen's children includes a map of Whitbury in the staff room (with the path that Helen took in a red line) which Laura uses.
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* BabyDollBaby: The baby dolls are so realistic that Colin acts as if it one of them were an actual child, planning to change its nappy until Laura reminds him otherwise.
* TheBigBoard: The meeting on how the staff is going to locate Helen's children includes a map of Whitbury in the staff room (with the path that Helen took in a red line)which Laura uses.put up like a big board.
* TheBigBoard: The meeting on how the staff is going to locate Helen's children includes a map of Whitbury in the staff room (with the path that Helen took in a red line)
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* FaceDoodling: Helen gets so pissed at Phillipia that she doodles the word "Cow" on her forehead.
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* FaceDoodling: Helen gets so pissed at Phillipia Philippa that she doodles the word "Cow" on her forehead.
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* ToiletHumour: Carole's cake gets splashed by baby piss and she spends the episode trying to cover up this fact, which ends up leading to the majority of the people at the ceremony eating piss-covered cake.
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* ToiletHumour: ToiletHumour:
** Carole's cake gets splashed by baby piss and she spends the episode trying to cover up this fact, which ends up leading to the majority of the people at the ceremony eating piss-coveredcake.cake.
** Where was the christening held in the end? The toliets.
** Carole's cake gets splashed by baby piss and she spends the episode trying to cover up this fact, which ends up leading to the majority of the people at the ceremony eating piss-covered
** Where was the christening held in the end? The toliets.
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* TolietHumour: Carole's cake gets splashed by baby piss and she spends the episode trying to cover up this fact, which ends up leading to the majority of the people at the ceremony eating piss-covered cake.
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* TolietHumour: ToiletHumour: Carole's cake gets splashed by baby piss and she spends the episode trying to cover up this fact, which ends up leading to the majority of the people at the ceremony eating piss-covered cake.
