History Series / GrandmasHouse

* SeinfeldianConversation

[''cut to Simon walking into the living room'']

** Speaking of Whishaw, in series two Simon gets cast as Ariel in Ben Theodore's production of Theatre/TheTempest. The same role Whishaw played in the recent film.

* ActorAllusion: Ben Theodore apparently won a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance in an angsty stage production. As did [[SpringAwakening Iwan Rheon]], the actor who played him. Although the character otherwise seems to be a fairly straightforward {{expy}} of Ben Whishaw.

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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Subverted ''hard'' with Adam: [[spoiler:"Adam's finally raped someone!"]]

** Speaking of Whishaw, in series two Simon gets cast as Ariel in Ben Theodore's production of TheTempest. The same role Whishaw played in the recent film.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Liz claims that Simon's parents getting divorced caused Grandad's diabetes.

* ManChild: Simon. In the first episode, when his grandfather confides that he might have cancer, Simon (who's 30) looks incredibly awkward and asks "should I go and get a grown-up?"

* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Mostly Grandpa and his habit of calling people ''schmocks''.

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Simon wakes up confused, in bed with someone [[spoiler: (who turns out to be fifteen)]], convinced he had only been drinking water the previous night. Turns out he was drugged.

* * TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Geoffrey Hutchings, who played Simon's grandpa, died after the filming for series 1 finished. In series 2, his empty armchair remains in the living room [[spoiler:until it gets set alight by Simon's disgruntled conquest]] and it's heavily implied that his grandma's constant cheeriness and obsession with minutia is a way of dealing with the grief.

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Geoffrey Hutchings who played Grandpa died after series one. In series two, Grandpa has also passed away.

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Geoffrey Hutchings, who played Simon's grandpa, died after the filming for series 1 finished. In series 2, his empty armchair remains in the living room [[spoiler:until it gets set alight by Simon's disgruntled conquest]] and it's heavily implied that his grandma's constant cheeriness and obsession with minutia is a way of dealing with the grief.

Grandma's House (2010-) is a [[BritCom British]] DomCom following Simon Amstell AsHimself, fresh from quitting his job as host of ''NeverMindTheBuzzcocks'' and [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife desperately seeking a new purpose in life]]. Retreating to the bosom of his family and their get-togethers in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin his grandma's house]], he finds they are less than sympathetic when he tells them he's leaving behind fame and fortune. In turn he struggles to deal with his mother Tanya's impending marriage to a rich but deathly dull man, his sex-obsessed cousin Adam, and his death-obsessed grandfather. The first series ran from August to September 2010, and a second series is running from April 2012.

--> '''Tanya''' - Clive is a generous and kind man. Let him have a wank in the loft!

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: all over the place.

* FreudianExcuse: Rather than just admit to her fiance that her son doesn't like him, Tanya claims that Simon's antagonistic behaviour is because his father abused him [[hottip:*: [[PokeThePoodle with a cheese-grater]].]]. HilarityEnsues when Simon's dad then turns up.

* StalkerWithACrush: Simon is this to Ben Theodore, the actor he follows around, convinced he's in a relationship with him.

* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: "Grandma's House, its storyline and all associated characters are entirely fictional. So let's not make a whole business."

* TakingTheHeat: A minor version. When Adam is discovered in the bathroom, surrounded by his late grandfather's porn mags which he'd just been masturbating to, Clive claims that they were his in order to save embarrassment for both Adam and Grandma. He says that he had been masturbating to them and that they fell through the hole in the ceiling he'd just accidentally made.

Grandma's House (2010-) is a [[BritCom British]] DomCom following Simon Amstell AsHimself, fresh from quitting his job as host of ''NeverMindTheBuzzcocks'' and [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife desperately seeking a new purpose in life]]. Retreating to the bosom of his family and their get-togethers in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin his grandma's house]], he finds they are less than sympathetic when he tells them he's leaving behind fame and fortune. In turn he struggles to deal with his mother Tanya's impending marriage to a rich but deathly dull man, his sex-obsessed cousin Adam, and his death-obsessed grandfather.

[[BritCom British]] DomCom following Simon Amstell AsHimself, fresh from quitting his job as host of ''NeverMindTheBuzzcocks'' and [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife desperately seeking a new purpose in life]]. Retreating to the bosom of his family and their get-togethers in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin his grandma's house]], he finds they are less than sympathetic when he tells them he's leaving behind fame and fortune. In turn he struggles to deal with his mother Tanya's impending marriage to a rich but deathly dull man, his sex-obsessed cousin Adam, and his death-obsessed grandfather.

* TheAlcoholic: Clive. Inevitably he falls OffTheWagon.

* BadBadActing: Simon Amstell.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Inverted. Simon calls his aunt something like "unfunny, irritating and racist." She protests that she's not unfunny or irritating.

* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Mostly Grandpa and his habit of calling people ''schmocks''.