History Recap / TheBrittasEmpireS4E5PlayingWithFire

* AngerIsHealthyAesop: Jenny starts out being unable to express her anger beyond {{Pyromaniac}} tendencies after the death of her parents and is subsequently sent to a clinic to recover. However, Brittas pisses her off so much that the memories of her parents unlock and she is said to be on the road to recovery as a consequence.

* EarthDayEpisode: This episode takes place during "Energy Conservation Week", with Brittas seeing it partially as an opportunity to point out how overuse of energy can have a negative effect on the resources of the Earth. The main impact on it comes with Colin's methane generator, but several other jokes relating to it are made as well, such as Brittas actually wasting more energy printing pamphlets and forms for it and Carole plugging in all of her eco-conscious kitchen appliances to the one energy socket.

* DramaticDrop: Hearing that Gavin has a fiancee causes Carole to drop the tray the muffins she was holding. Tim manages to hear this over the intercom and comes running in to see what's going on, allowing him to hear of the news.

* ManOnFire: {{Downplayed}}. Brittas finds several small fires that were set up by Gavin’s long-lost finance Jenny. As he is trying to put them out, the fire spreads onto his leg, causing him to go around partially on fire yelping "Help me! Help me!".

* CreatureOfHabit: The reason that Jennifer tried to burn down the centre in the first place was because Brittas was unwilling to remove Gavin from the timetable so that she and him could go house hunting.

-->'''Mr. Brittas''': Funnily enough, they made exactly the same mistake last year. Still, these things happen, eh?

* WrittenInAbsence: The only episode not to feature Pippa Haywood as Helen with the excuse that she was away on holiday without Brittas.

* StockEpisodeTitles: "Playing With Fire" has been used in several other series such as ''Series/ACountryPractice'', ''Equinox'', ''Series/{{Heartbeat}}'', ''Series/MyTwoDads'' and ''The New Adam-12''.

-->'''Laura''': You're not usually in this early, are you Mr. Brittas.

-->'''Laura''': I thought you were taking a holiday next week.

** It's implied that ''something'' happened on the second day of Brittas and Helens honeymoon that made Brittas realise that he had married a mentally unstable woman.
** Linda mentions she has no parents, but never elaborates on what happened to them.

-->'''Mr. Brittas''': Funnily enough, they made exactly the same mistake last year. Still, these things happe, eh?

* HorribleHoneymoon: It's implied that ''something'' happened on the second day of Brittas and Helen's honeymoon which made Brittas realize that the woman he had married was...not the most mentally stable of women.

* DramaticThunder: The sound of thunder plays whenever Colin mentions getting his methane digester up to "DOMESTIC VOLTAGE!".

* ManOnFire: {{Downplayed}}. Brittas finds several small fires that were set up by Gavin’s long lost finance Jenny. As he is trying to put them out, the fire spreads onto his leg, causing him to go around partially on fire yelping "Help me! Help me!".

* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: This is the only episode not to feature Helen, with the reason given that she had purposely taken the kids on a family holiday without Brittas.

** It’s implied that ''something'' happened on the second day of Brittas’ and Helen’s honeymoon that made Brittas realise that he had married a mentally unstable woman.

* NoodleIncident: How Gavin was sent to relations in Darbyshire. All that he'll reveal is that it involved trouble at the local gym and that it led to a court case.

* NoodleIncident: How Gavin was sent to relations in Darvish. All that he'll reveal is that it involved trouble at the local gym and that it led to a court case.