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* InsaneTrollLogic: Why does weed killer need to be moved immediately? Because what if some small child decided to pour some in it's eyes?

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* ImpliedDeathThreat: Julie tells Rawlinson over the phone that if he wasn't at the centre in 20 minutes, she would torch his new Mercedes, adding that it would be a pity if someone was inside it at the time.
-->'''John Rawlinson''': I think it was a joke, although one can never be entirely sure with Julie.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Why does weed killer need to be moved immediately? Because what if some small child decided to pour some in it's its eyes?
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* ButtBiter: Mr. Furber is bit in the butt by the rats which Linda dumped into the toilet.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Even though Helen is for the most part without remorse for trying to kill her son's English teacher, she does nevertheless eventually feel some regret.
-->'''Helen''': She's right.
-->'''John Rawlinson''': I'm sorry?
-->'''Helen''': Laura. I shouldn't have done it, should I?

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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Mr. Furber is left with a slight limp where the roof rack clipped him in the ankle during Helen's attempted murder of him.



* AxCrazy: Helen trying to kill her son's teacher; she even says she'll do it again.

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* AxCrazy: Helen trying makes an attempt to kill her son's teacher; she teacher with no remorse. She even says she'll she's perfectly happy to do it again.



* BookDumb: Helen is shown to have a poor ability to do her schoolwork in the fact that the work she's doing for her son is getting consistently low marks.

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* BookDumb: Helen is shown to have a poor ability to do her schoolwork in the fact that the work she's doing for her son is getting consistently low marks.



* CutAndPasteNote: Mr. Furber accidentally gets one saying "I know where you live and I am going to get you". Naturally, he thinks it's Helen, coming to try to murder him.

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* CutAndPasteNote: Brittas has been getting threatening notes from a man called Mr. Furber accidentally gets Redwood, with one saying reading "I know where you live and I am going to get you". Naturally, he thinks Mr. Furber accidentally stumbles upon one and is left to believe it's Helen, coming to try to murder him.


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* TheGhost: A man named Mr. Redwood is apparently responsible for the threatening [[CutAndPasteNote Cut-And-Paste-Notes]], but he never appears in the flesh.


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* MistakenForMurderer: Mr. Furber comes across several things which leave him with the impression that Helen intends to kill or at least severely injure him, including a threatening CutAndPasteNote, his car getting destroyed and a toilet full of rats. PlayedWith in that Helen really was thinking of murdering or severely injuring him, it's just that the attempts that he thought came from her were in fact coincidental.


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* NoodleIncident: Carole's offscreen holiday, which started off with a bus trip to see Colin and involved Colin accidentally using the wrong tea caddy, leading to her and Colin ingesting paralytic herbs.


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* TookALevelInJerkass: Thanks to the stresses of the day, Laura becomes snappier than usual, most notably when she coldly tells Carole to get back to work.
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-->'''Helen''': This is exam work Laura! Much more of this and he's going to fail his GCSEs.

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-->'''Helen''': This is exam work Laura! Much more of this and he's going to fail his GCSEs.[=GCSE=]s.
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* BookDumb: Helen is shown to have a poor ability to do her schoolwork in the fact that the work she's doing for her son is getting consistently low marks.


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-->'''John Rawlinson''': I believe you said he'd been consistently undermarking your son in his English.
--> '''Helen''': All term. He's never given him a decent mark ever.
-->'''Laura''': That's it?
-->'''Helen''': I've spent two days on his last homework, Laura and do you know what he got? A "D" and something about "Had You Read the Book?". Of course I've read the bloody book!
-->'''Laura''': So that's why you drove the car at him? Because he gave you a "D" in English?
-->'''Helen''': This is exam work Laura! Much more of this and he's going to fail his GCSEs.
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* BeleagueredBoss: Poor Laura falls into this role during her time spent running the centre whilst Brittas is away, not helped by the fact that unbeknownst to both her and the rest of the staff, it's Brittas' phone calls that are causing issues. Upon discovering that Colin got the idea to apply weedkiller to an ''entire pitch'', she even mutters to herself "I'm beginning to see how he (Mr. Brittas) feels".


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* MissionControl: Brittas isn't physically anywhere near the centre this episode, yet it's his phone calls to the staff that end up causing trouble for them.
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* TheParentProducedProject: It's revealed that Helen has been doing the homework for her son Jonathan. Unfortunately for both of them, Helen is terrible when it comes to schoolwork.
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* ProductPlacement:
** Brittas complains at the hotel that he was given ''Shredded Wheat'' instead of ''Weetabix''.
** The reason the dustbin men were on strike was that a ''Malteasers'' wrapper had been left on the ground.
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** Before John Rawlinson, there was a OneShotCharacter called John in "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS2E1BackFromTheDead Back From the Dead]].

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** Before John Rawlinson, there was a OneShotCharacter called John in "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS2E1BackFromTheDead Back From the Dead]].Dead]]".

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* OneSteveLimit: Graham was also the name of a OneShotCharacter back in "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS2E4SetInConcrete Set in Concrete]]".

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* OneSteveLimit: OneSteveLimit:
** Before John Rawlinson, there was a OneShotCharacter called John in "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS2E1BackFromTheDead Back From the Dead]].
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Graham was also the name of a OneShotCharacter back in "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS2E4SetInConcrete Set in Concrete]]".
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* IgnoredVitalNewsReport: At the end of the episode, Brittas is too busy chatting with Helen on the phone to realize that there is a news report reporting on an explosion at his leisure centre right behind him.

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* IgnoredVitalNewsReport: IgnoredVitalNewsReports: At the end of the episode, Brittas is too busy chatting with Helen on the phone to realize that there is a news report reporting on an explosion at his leisure centre right behind him.
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* IgnoredVitalNewsReport: At the end of the episode, Brittas is too busy chatting with Helen on the phone to realize that there is a news report reporting on an explosion at his leisure centre right behind him.
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* CarFu: How did Helen try to kill Johathan's teacher? She backed into the school with her car.

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* CarFu: How did Helen try to kill Johathan's teacher? Mr. Furber? She backed into the school with her car.



* CutAndPasteNote: Jonathan's teacher accidentally gets one saying "I know where you live and I am going to get you". Naturally, he thinks it's Helen, coming to try to murder him.

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* CutAndPasteNote: Jonathan's teacher Mr. Furber accidentally gets one saying "I know where you live and I am going to get you". Naturally, he thinks it's Helen, coming to try to murder him.
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* BirthdayPartyGoesWrong: The party of Furber's child already goes wrong when a rat gets into the pool, necessitating it being closed down. However, it is further ruined by Tim taking on the DreadedKidsPartyEntertainerJob before it is canceled altogether. Oh, and the birthday kid preferred the previous Mr. Jolly.

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* BirthdayPartyGoesWrong: The party of Furber's the Furbers' child already goes wrong when a rat gets into the pool, necessitating it being closed down. However, it is further ruined by Tim taking on the DreadedKidsPartyEntertainerJob before it is canceled altogether. Oh, and the birthday kid preferred the previous Mr. Jolly.
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* BirthdayPartyGoneWrong: The party of Furber's child already goes wrong when a rat gets into the pool, necessitating it being closed down. However, it is further ruined by Tim taking on the DreadedKidsPartyEntertainerJob before it is canceled altogether. Oh, and the birthday kid preferred the previous Mr. Jolly.

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* BirthdayPartyGoneWrong: BirthdayPartyGoesWrong: The party of Furber's child already goes wrong when a rat gets into the pool, necessitating it being closed down. However, it is further ruined by Tim taking on the DreadedKidsPartyEntertainerJob before it is canceled altogether. Oh, and the birthday kid preferred the previous Mr. Jolly.

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* AmbulanceChaser: John Rawlinson manages to help Helen get away with attempted murder of a teacher after she had signed a confession.

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* AmbulanceChaser: John Rawlinson manages to help Helen get away with the attempted murder of a teacher after she had signed a confession. He was also able to let Julie's previous boyfriend off the hook on no less than three cases of car theft through loopholes.



* BirthdayPartyGoneWrong: The party of Furber's child already goes wrong when a rat gets into the pool, necessitating it being closed down. However, it is further ruined by Tim taking on the DreadedKidsPartyEntertainerJob before it is canceled altogether. Oh, and the birthday kid preferred the previous Mr. Jolly.



* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being an outspoken animal rights activist, Linda has no problem flushing a bucket full of rats down the toilet.

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* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being an outspoken animal rights activist, Linda has no problem flushing a bucket full of rats down the toilet.toilet despite being an outspoken animal rights activist.

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* CarFu: How did Helen try to kill Johathan's teacher? She backed into the school with her car.



* ContinuityNod: John Rawlinson remembers Helen from the time [[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS3E6TheStuffOfDreams she gave birth to twins on the high street]].

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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
** Rawlison was able to get Julie's previous boyfriend off from car theft, which he had been mentioned to be getting arrested for at the end of "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS4E6ShallWeDance Shall We Dance?]]"
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John Rawlinson remembers Helen from the time [[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS3E6TheStuffOfDreams she gave birth to twins on the high street]].

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* ProductPlacement: Brittas complains at the hotel that he was given ''Shredded Wheat'' instead of ''Weetabix''.

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* ProductPlacement: ProductPlacement:
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Brittas complains at the hotel that he was given ''Shredded Wheat'' instead of ''Weetabix''.''Weetabix''.
** The reason the dustbin men were on strike was that a ''Malteasers'' wrapper had been left on the ground.
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-->-- '''Laura Lancing''', '''Carole Parkinson''' and '''Julie Porter''' slowly realising that Mr. Brittas has accidentally gotten the staff to make a garbage bomb.

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-->-- '''Laura Lancing''', '''Linda Perkin''', '''Carole Parkinson''' and '''Julie Porter''' slowly realising that Mr. Brittas has accidentally gotten the staff to make a garbage bomb.
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->'''Laura''': He put weedkiller... sugar. ({{Beat}}) He couldn't have... could he? [MassOhCrap as Laura, Linda, Carole and Julie race out towards the potential garbage bomb]

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->'''Laura''': He put weedkiller... sugar. ({{Beat}}) He couldn't have... could he? [MassOhCrap as Laura, Linda, Carole he?
-->-- '''Laura Lancing''', '''Carole Parkinson'''
and Julie race out towards '''Julie Porter''' slowly realising that Mr. Brittas has accidentally gotten the potential staff to make a garbage bomb]
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* EverythingMakesAMushroom: The garbage bomb makes a mushroom cloud that rises high above the centre.
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-->'''Laura''': Colin... had thirty bags of weedkiller by the emergency exit, and they weren't there when I came back. What's he done with them?
-->'''Linda''': I think he threw them away. Mr. Brittas told him to. I think that's how he got confused about the fire bucket. You see, he-
-->'''Laura''': Colin threw away a hundred weight of weedkiller? Where?
-->'''Carole''': It's alright, put it in a dustbin. I saw him when I took 'round the icing sugar.
-->'''Laura''': What icing sugar?
-->'''Carole''': Well, Gavin rang from the kitchen to ask if he could borrow some, and I happened to have an extra packet.
-->'''Laura''': What would Gavin want sugar for? He's got a cupboard full of it.
-->'''Julie''': Yeah, but the rats ate that. Well, some of it. That's why Brittas told him to throw it away.
-->'''Laura''': He put weedkiller... sugar. ({{Beat}}) He couldn't have... could he? [MassOhCrap as Laura, Linda, Carole and Julie race out towards the potential garbage bomb]

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-->'''Laura''': ->'''Laura''': Colin... had thirty bags of weedkiller by the emergency exit, and they weren't there when I came back. What's he done with them?
-->'''Linda''': ->'''Linda''': I think he threw them away. Mr. Brittas told him to. I think that's how he got confused about the fire bucket. You see, he-
-->'''Laura''': ->'''Laura''': Colin threw away a hundred weight of weedkiller? Where?
-->'''Carole''': ->'''Carole''': It's alright, put it in a dustbin. I saw him when I took 'round the icing sugar.
-->'''Laura''': ->'''Laura''': What icing sugar?
-->'''Carole''': ->'''Carole''': Well, Gavin rang from the kitchen to ask if he could borrow some, and I happened to have an extra packet.
-->'''Laura''': ->'''Laura''': What would Gavin want sugar for? He's got a cupboard full of it.
-->'''Julie''': ->'''Julie''': Yeah, but the rats ate that. Well, some of it. That's why Brittas told him to throw it away.
-->'''Laura''': ->'''Laura''': He put weedkiller... sugar. ({{Beat}}) He couldn't have... could he? [MassOhCrap as Laura, Linda, Carole and Julie race out towards the potential garbage bomb]
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: A television in Brittas' hotel room in Brussels shows a live news report on Whitbury Newtown leisure centre after two bins full of weedkiller explode. Brittas is of course merrily oblivious and on the telephone at the time.

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* CoincidentalBroadcast: A television in Brittas' hotel room in Brussels shows a live news report on Whitbury Newtown New Town leisure centre after two bins full of weedkiller explode. Brittas is of course merrily oblivious and on the telephone at the time.

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