History Series / Cuckoo

Series 2 introduced two major cast changes: Tamla Kari (Rachel) was replaced by Esther Smith, and Cuckoo was written out because of Andy Samberg's other work commitments and replaced by his long lost son Dale (TaylorLautner). It also introduced a new recurring character in the form of Rachel's new boyfriend Ben; a safe and boring solicitor who works with Ken.

* ButtMonkey: Ben.

* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: At Dr Rafferty's funeral, [[spoiler: Dylan gets a handjob in the rose garden during the ceremony.]] And then the funeral party comes over to spread the ashes. [[spoiler: Cue the [[AshesToCrashes urn]] [[DramaticDrop being dropped]] out of shock.]]

* MushroomSamba: Lorna is pulled over and has marijuana in her pocket. She hands it to Ken (which the police officer notices) and he eats it to avoid being arrested. A short while afterwards, he has to defend Steve against (entirely justified) accusations of medical malpractice. HilarityEnsues.

Series 2 introduced two major cast changes: Tamla Kari (Rachel) was replaced by Esther Smith, and Cuckoo was written out because of Andy Samberg's other work commitments and replaced by his long lost son Dale (TaylorLautner).

* TheFunInFuneral: Episode 4 of Series 2 is made of this trope. Ken lends a very rare book that's worth [[spoiler: £1,000]] to his dying history lecturer Dr Rafferty, who wants to read it before he dies. Rafferty unexpectedly dies two weeks later and Ken goes to the funeral (dragging Lorna and Dylan along) to get the book back, and Dale goes because his unexpressed grief over Cuckoo is causing him to take Rafferty's death very hard. At the funeral; [[spoiler: Dale is mistaken for Rafferty's gay American lover, Ken steals the book out of Rafferty's niece's bag (unaware that a passage from it is to be read at the funeral) and swaps it for "A History Of Genocide", and Dylan gets off with Rafferty's great niece Chastity.]] It all culminates with [[spoiler: Dale publicly reading a passage about genocide in the Kmehr Rouge as part of the service, Ken and Rafferty's niece having an angry back and forth about the ownership of the book during a part of the service where mourners are invited to share their memories of the deceased, the reveal that Dale isn't Rafferty's lover, and the entire funeral party going to Rafferty's rose garden to spread his ashes only to see Dylan [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces getting a handjob]] from Chastity.]] Cue a DramaticDrop of [[spoiler: the urn.]]

Series 2 introduced two major cast changes: Tamla Kari (Rachel) was replaced by Esther Smith, and Cuckoo was written out because of Andy Samberg's other work commitments and replaced by his long lost son Dale (TyalorLautner).

* AshesToCrashes: At [[spoiler: Dr Rafferty's]] funeral, [[spoiler: the urn gets dropped and shatters on the ground when the funeral party see Dylan [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces getting a handjob]] ]] as they go to the rose garden to spread the ashes.

* TheOtherDarrin: Tamla Kari (Rachel) was be replaced by Esther Smith at the start of Series 2.

* PottyFailure: Happens to [[spoiler: Dylan]] after [[spoiler: eating a jacket potato topped with a sauce containing fish that had been in the garage for two years]]. Made even worse by the fact that it happens when [[spoiler: he and Zoe are in the bath and about to have sex.]]

* TheirFirstTime: Of the two onscreen instances where Dylan and Zoe try to have sex, the first time they are interrupted by Ken, and the second time [[spoiler: Dylans suffers a PottyFailure when they are in the bath together.]]

** Discussed in the second episode of series 2, where despite the similarities, Cuckoo Jr is shown to have more shades of a NaiveNewcomer and a CluelessChickMagnet due to being raised in a [[Cult cult]] as opposed to the NewAgeRetroHippie that was his father.

* TheirFirstTime: Of the two onscreen instances where Dylan and Zoe try to have sex, the first time they are interrupted by Ken, and the second time [[spoiler: Dylans suffers a PottyFailure when they are in the bath together.]]
* TooDumbToLive: Cuckoo. [[spoiler: Literally.]] In the first scene of Series 2 [[spoiler: while hiking in the Himalayas, he tries to rescue a mountain goat. Oblivious to the fact that the mountain is its habitat and it is in no danger (despite the Sherpas he is in radio contact telling him this repeatedly) and falls to his death.]]
** This also applies to his son Dale who is barely even capable of crossing the road and [[RunningGag gets run over twice]] in the first episode.

* TheOtherDarrin: Tamla Kari (Rachel) will be replaced by Esther Smith for Series 2.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In Series 2, Cuckoo will be replaced by his long lost son who moves in with the family, has similar hippy beliefs to his father, and shares the same name.

* ShowerOfLove: Discussed

* NotSoDifferent: It's suggested a couple times that Ken wasn't so different from Cuckoo when he was growing up.

It revolves around Ken and Lorna, a couple of middle-England parents who go to pick their daughter Rachel, a promising medical student with a university placement at Bristol, up from the airport upon her return from her gap-year travels only to get a bit of a shock when she reveals she has gotten married to Cuckoo, a modern young NewAgeRetroHippie type. As Rachel is busy sorting out her educational future and Cuckoo is in the process of writing a self-help book that he is convinced will put him somewhere between Jesus and Gandhi, they move back into the family home, an arrangement that works very well for them but less so for Ken. For while Cuckoo's eccentric ways manage to win over Lorna, strait-laced Ken is hardly convinced, perceiving himself as the OnlySaneMan while his home is invaded by a man with a questionable perception of personal space.

* MeaningfulName: Cuckoo has basically invaded Ken's 'nest' and set up home there.

''Cuckoo'' is a comedy series on Creator/TheBBC, focused on the titular character.

Rachel, a promising medical student with a university placement at Bristol, has just come back from a yearlong gap-year. The strange thing is, she met Cuckoo while abroad and they were married; now her plan is to have Cuckoo and her live at home while she switches universities and Cuckoo writes his book. Naturally, this all comes as a bit of a shock to Ken and Lorna, Rachel's parents. While Cuckoo's eccentric ways manage to win over Lorna, Ken is hardly convinced, perceiving himself as the OnlySaneMan while his home is invaded by a man with a questionable perception of personal space.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Ken is definitely not very welcoming, friendly or pleasant to Cuckoo, but given that Cuckoo, while well-meaning, nevertheless quite easily comes off as both an annoying, sanctimonious idiot with questionable ideas and as a sponger with little concept of personal space or appropriate conduct in someone else's home and who's quite happy to leech off someone else's generosity indefinitely while acting quite self-righteous about it, Ken's resentment is fairly easy to understand.

* DaddysGirl: It seems that Rachel was this, before Cuckoo turns up of course..

Rachel, a promising medical student with a university placement at Bristol, has just come back from a yearlong gap-year. The strange thing is, she met Cuckoo while aboard and they were married; now her plan is to have Cuckoo and her live at home while she switches universities and Cuckoo writes his book. Naturally, this all comes as a bit of a shock to Ken and Lorna, Rachel's parents. While Cuckoo's eccentric ways manage to win over Lorna, Ken is hardly convinced, perceiving himself as the OnlySaneMan while his home is invaded by a man with a questionable perception of personal space.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Ken, who initially believes that Cuckoo is a conman who tricks naive young women into marrying him, all the while fleecing their rich parents for money. In fairness, he's only ''half'' wrong.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Ken, who intitally believes that Cuckoo is a conman who tricks naive young women into marrying him, in order to fleece their rich parents for money.

* MistakenForPedophile: Ken after inviting a young girl over to a party, and then later having discovered to have close ups of the girl swimming on his camera is caught up in one of these. It was of course Dylan who wanted the girl to come to the party and who took the photos.

* Cloudcuckoolander: Do we really have to say who?

* BritishBrevitiy

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''Cuckoo'' is a BBC comedy focused on the titular character.

Rachel, a promising medical student with a university placement at Bristol, has just come back from a year long gap-year. Only thing is she met Cuckoo while aboard and they were married, now her plan is to now to have Cuckoo and her live at home while she switches universities and Cuckoo writes his book. Naturally this all comes as a bit of a shock to Ken and Lorna, Rachel's parents. While Cuckoo's eccentric ways manage to win over Lorna, Ken is hardly convinced, perceiving himself as the OnlySaneMan while his home is invaded by a man with a questionable perception of personal space.

Throw in a horny, apathetic, self-obsessed teenage brother and you've got the basic formula for Cuckoo.

!!The series provides examples of the following tropes;