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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Bren and Tony. [[spoiler:TheyDo]].
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Dolly delivers one to their revolting and irritating temporary colleague Christine.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Dolly Stan attempts to deliver many of these, but his insistence on relating issues arising in a factory canteen to situations his dad (allegedly) encountered in North Africa during World War II leaves most of them more confusing than scathing. Phillipa is most often on the receiving end of these after some minor administrative error.
**Dolly delivers one to their revolting and irritating temporary colleagueChristine.Christine.
**Bren delivers two of her own: one to Phillipa after a larger-than-usual series of admin cock-ups, and one to temporary manager Nicola Bodeaux after she causes the entire staff to walk out.
**Dolly delivers one to their revolting and irritating temporary colleague
**Bren delivers two of her own: one to Phillipa after a larger-than-usual series of admin cock-ups, and one to temporary manager Nicola Bodeaux after she causes the entire staff to walk out.
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** '''Tony''': (After the topic of conversation has become something too uncomfortable for him to contemplate) [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere "... I need a fag (cigarette)."]]
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** Tony going out for a cigarette is also a running gag itself as he nearly always does it when the conversation turns into something he doesn't want to deal with.
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* MaternityCrisis: Anita's character arc initially focuses on her wanting children but being extremely upset about not having them. When she eventually does become pregnant, she does not tell any of her co-workers and eventually goes into labour on New Year's Eve 1999, during riots in central Manchester. She has such a crisis over her ability to raise the child that she leaves it at the canteen for Bren to look after.
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* UnusualEuphemism: "Can you smell my Charlie?"
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* UnusualEuphemism: "Can Packed full of them, in British sitcom tradition:
**"How long do I need to have my hand on Tom's horn to get a response?!"
**"Can you smell my Charlie?"
**"How long do I need to have my hand on Tom's horn to get a response?!"
**"Can you smell my Charlie?"
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Despite the humour shown (which, being a Victoria Wood programme, can often take a turn for the slightly bizarre) most of the characters have darker moments to contend with both on-camera and in their backstories. This generally sees the programme described in listings as "Bittersweet".
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Despite the humour shown (which, being a Victoria Wood programme, can often take a turn for the slightly bizarre) most of the characters have darker moments to contend with both on-camera and in their backstories.backstories, and the whole story is awash with the GrimUpNorth "ordinary people getting on" themes that exist across all of Wood's work. This generally sees the programme described in listings as "Bittersweet".
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Twinkle (although she's not really a jerk on a personal level - she moans and snarks about nearly everything, is frequently late and thinks nothing of her professional appearance, but greatly values her friendship with her colleagues, particularly Bren).
* ManipulativeBastard: Petula Gordino
* ManipulativeBastard: Petula Gordino
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: A few:
** Twinkle (although she's not really a jerk on a personal level - she moans and snarks about nearly everything, is frequently late and thinks nothing of her professional appearance, but greatly values her friendship with her colleagues, particularly Bren).
** Dolly, who is constantly judgemental towards others on every aspect from their wealth (despite how she works in a canteen herself) to their appearance, dress, heritage, race or sexuality, all handily informed by Daily Mail headlines. She does frequently show her nice side and is more misinformed than malicious.
* ManipulativeBastard: PetulaGordinoGordino (actually [[spoiler: Brenda Furlong]]), Bren's mother and, according to her, best friend and confidante of the entirety of Hollywood. She constantly takes advantage of Bren's good nature and lies as easily as breathing.
** Twinkle (although she's not really a jerk on a personal level - she moans and snarks about nearly everything, is frequently late and thinks nothing of her professional appearance, but greatly values her friendship with her colleagues, particularly Bren).
** Dolly, who is constantly judgemental towards others on every aspect from their wealth (despite how she works in a canteen herself) to their appearance, dress, heritage, race or sexuality, all handily informed by Daily Mail headlines. She does frequently show her nice side and is more misinformed than malicious.
* ManipulativeBastard: Petula
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** '''Bren''': "What's that word? Not X ''({{beat}})'' Y" - where X and Y are completely unconnected and unalike words.
*** Not unrelated so much as distantly, idiomatically related.
*** Not unrelated so much as distantly, idiomatically related.
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** '''Bren''': "What's that word? Not X ''({{beat}})'' Y" - where X and Y are completely unconnected and unalike words.
*** Not unrelated so much asdistantly, idiomatically related.related words.
*** Not unrelated so much as
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Despite the humour shown, which being a Victoria Wood programme, can often take a turn for the slightly bizarre, most of the characters have darker moments to contend with both on-camera and in their backstories. This generally sees the programme described in listings as "Bittersweet".
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Despite the humour shown, which shown (which, being a Victoria Wood programme, can often take a turn for the slightly bizarre, bizarre) most of the characters have darker moments to contend with both on-camera and in their backstories. This generally sees the programme described in listings as "Bittersweet".
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* NextSundayAD: Almost a literal example. Each episode of S2 is set on a specific date, and the last four are set from one to thirty days into the future relative to the broadcast date.
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The plot follows Brenda "Bren" Furlong (Wood) in an otherwise ordinary canteen job, flanked by four colleagues, the older [[VitriolicBestBuds best friends]] Dolly and Jean- one uptight and prudish, the other... ''less'' so, as well as the younger Twinkle (brassy, loud, ladetteish) and Anita (quiet, ditzy), all presided over by their boss, Tony, and supported by a cast of peripheral factory workers- HR manager Philippa, planning manager Jane and caretaker Stan. Oh, and Bren's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} mum, Petula.
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The plot follows Brenda "Bren" Furlong (Wood) in an otherwise ordinary canteen job, flanked by four colleagues, the older [[VitriolicBestBuds best friends]] Dolly and Jean- Jean - one uptight and prudish, the other... ''less'' so, as well as the younger Twinkle (brassy, loud, ladetteish) and Anita (quiet, ditzy), all presided over by their boss, Tony, and supported by a cast of peripheral factory workers- workers - HR manager Philippa, planning manager Jane and caretaker Stan. Oh, and Bren's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} mum, Petula.
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* BuffySpeak: "You know, he's that thing, sort of a bouncy word. Not unicorn {{beat}} Impotent, that's it."
** That's also a stealth pun. A unicorn's got a big horn, so not unicorn means...
** That's also a stealth pun. A unicorn's got a big horn, so not unicorn means...
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*** "What's that word? Not unicorn, ''({{beat}})'' dilemma!" - The link here is a horn.
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*** "What's that word? Not unicorn, unicorns, ''({{beat}})'' dilemma!" disenchanted!" - The link here is a horn.enchanted.
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* ClusterFBomb: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PwTG_pab40 "Never mind your bloody coffee- get in the bloody bloody BLOODY FRIGGING CAR!"]]
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* ClusterFBomb: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PwTG_pab40 "Never mind your bloody coffee- coffee - get in the bloody bloody BLOODY FRIGGING CAR!"]]
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* FreudianSlip: When visiting royals ask Anita about her views on wearing a uniform.
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* FreudianSlip: When visiting royals ask Anita about her views on wearing a uniform. "It protects your nipples."
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* MistakenForPregnant: Bren, after a fainting spell brought on by the mention of needles when the blood donor van comes to visit. The punchline to this is itself a NoodleIncident - "We thought you were pregnant" "Not unless sperm can get through a sash window"
* NoodleImplements: Among Petula's possessions, revealed when she's rummaging in her handbag are a blanket and a large funnel sporting extremely suspect brown stains, which alongside her chronic flatulence hint strongly at an undisclosed and unexplored bowel complaint
* NoodleImplements: Among Petula's possessions, revealed when she's rummaging in her handbag are a blanket and a large funnel sporting extremely suspect brown stains, which alongside her chronic flatulence hint strongly at an undisclosed and unexplored bowel complaint
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* MistakenForPregnant: Bren, after a fainting spell brought on by the mention of needles when the blood donor van comes to visit. The punchline to this is itself a NoodleIncident - "We thought you were pregnant" pregnant." "Not unless sperm can get through a sash window"
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* NoodleImplements: Among Petula's possessions, revealed when she's rummaging in her handbag are a blanket and a large funnel sporting extremely suspect brown stains, which alongside her chronic flatulence hint strongly at an undisclosed and unexplored bowelcomplaintcomplaint.
* NoodleImplements: Among Petula's possessions, revealed when she's rummaging in her handbag are a blanket and a large funnel sporting extremely suspect brown stains, which alongside her chronic flatulence hint strongly at an undisclosed and unexplored bowel
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** Bread man Norman's endless list of things that he cannot do because he is 'agoraphobic, you know. I fell off a diving board in Guernsey.
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** Bread man Norman's endless list of things that he cannot do because he is 'agoraphobic, you know. I fell off a diving board in Guernsey.'
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*** Put your specs on!
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*** Put "Put your specs on!on!"
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Played relatively straight in the first series (Although nothing of significance really happens in it), but continuity hits hard in the second.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Played relatively straight in the first series (Although (although nothing of significance really happens in it), but continuity hits hard in the second.
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** Petula speaking about parking her caravan on a petrol station forecourt: "Can I winch my legs down onto your hard standing?"
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** Petula speaking about parking her caravan on a petrol station forecourt: "Can I winch my legs down onto your hard standing?"hard-standing?"
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** The theme tune and lyrics are written by Victoria Wood herself.
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*** Blaming everything on "'''TonyBlair'''!", saying his name in a hilariously contemptuous manner.
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*** Blaming everything on "'''TonyBlair'''!", "'''UsefulNotes/TonyBlair'''!", saying his name in a hilariously contemptuous manner.
