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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Mackenzie asks for a volunteer to spend the night with him as his "hostage". Rick is the only one to volunteer, but gets told to take a hike.
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* BilingualBonus: Lots and lots of native Spanish is spoken that the boys don't understand. In particular, Carmen's mother mentions Baxter with a devious smile on her face.
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* StuffBlowingUp: In Ibiza, the boys get their money changed and are about to go home as rich men, when suddenly their hire car explodes into a gigantic fireball.
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* RecklessGunUsage: At the villa, Baxter acquires Tiny Blair's pistol and starts carrying it around with him wherever he goes, even to the police station. He stops after accidentally blowing a hole in the roof.
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* NeverMyFault: Baxter explodes into a petulant rage whenever someone (usually Quinn or Rick) insinuate that everything is his fault.
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* AffablyEvil: Drug baron and master criminal Mackenzie forces the Mad Dogs to eat ice cream on the beach with him, then gets them to work together in his kitchen to cook a Spanish Omelette for dinner.
** Rick in particular is so perturbed by the pleasantries that it causes him to snap and scream at Mackenzie.
** Rick in particular is so perturbed by the pleasantries that it causes him to snap and scream at Mackenzie.
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* VillainousBreakdown: After Lazaro's rubbish plan to assassinate the mad dogs goes tits up, he resorts to growling, baring his teeth and barking at them while pinned under a table.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A highly insecure, miserable Alvo does this to all four of his friends, and seems intent on causing as much embarrassment and humiliation to them as possible in order to boost his own self-esteem.
** Rick, the most histrionic and least independent Mad Dog, also gets this speech multiple times from Baxter and Quinn for just generally being a pain in the arse.
** Rick, the most histrionic and least independent Mad Dog, also gets this speech multiple times from Baxter and Quinn for just generally being a pain in the arse.
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* SanitySlippage: Just after killing Maria and saving his friends lives, Quinn, complete with face paint, bandana and gunshot wound, turns the gun on those same friends and tells them to fuck off and never come back.
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* OhCrap: The entire series and all of its cliffhangers are built on Oh Crap moments.
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* NotQuiteDead: Woody reverses into Dominic at high speed, smashing into him and sending him flying straight over the bonnet. His body appears a bloodied, very dead-looking mess at first, but he then manages to get up and stagger forwards, muttering incoherently before collapsing again.
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* DaylightHorror: Beautiful and sunny holiday locations contrast to the truly corrupt, violent and surreal goings on.
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* EnhancedInterrogationTechniques: Referenced by the head of the prison in Morocco, and used on the guys.
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* BerserkButton: Calling Rick an accountant. According to him, he is a fiancial adviser.
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* BerserkButton: Calling Rick an accountant. Accountant. According to him, he is a fiancial adviser.''[[InsistentTerminology Financial Adviser]]''.
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* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Rick is The Cynic, Quinn The Optimist, Baxter The Realist and Woody plays The Apathetic. Carmen in series 2 is The Conflicted.
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* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Rick is The Cynic, Quinn The Optimist, Baxter The Realist and Woody plays The Apathetic. Carmen inseries Series 2 is The Conflicted.
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* TheMafia: The Serbian mafia [[spoiler: although they actually have nothing to do with the money or the boat]] are referenced and there is a huge trade in drugs around Spain and Ibiza.
* TheNapoleon: "Tiny Blair", the gangster. This is actually acidental as the script called for "Tony Blair", but was misspelled "Tiny Blair" and loads of short men auditioned for the role.
* OnlySaneMan: Oddly enough, Rick is often the only one to see how bad things are and what to do. [[spoiler: For instance, in season 2 he rightly suggests they throw the 13 million euros into the sea and go back to England, so they cannot be traced. Of course, the other guys don't listen to him.]]
* TheNapoleon: "Tiny Blair", the gangster. This is actually acidental as the script called for "Tony Blair", but was misspelled "Tiny Blair" and loads of short men auditioned for the role.
* OnlySaneMan: Oddly enough, Rick is often the only one to see how bad things are and what to do. [[spoiler: For instance, in season 2 he rightly suggests they throw the 13 million euros into the sea and go back to England, so they cannot be traced. Of course, the other guys don't listen to him.]]
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* TheMafia: The Serbian mafia Mafia, [[spoiler: although they actually have nothing to do with the money or the boat]] are referenced and there is a huge trade in drugs around Spain and Ibiza.
* TheNapoleon: "Tiny Blair", the gangster. This is actuallyacidental accidental as the script called for "Tony Blair", but was misspelled "Tiny Blair" and loads of short men auditioned for the role.
* OnlySaneMan: Oddly enough, Rick is often the only one to see how bad things are and what to do. [[spoiler: For instance, inseason Series 2 he rightly suggests they throw the 13 million euros Euros into the sea and go back to England, so they cannot be traced. Of course, the other guys don't listen to him.]]
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The Catholic Church and Santería imagery in series 2. The guys hide money in a statue of the Virgin Mary, and the old woman protects the guys by painting them in a wide circle of goats blood. As Quinn steps out of the circle, things take a turn for the worse. And don't get started on the shrunken heads...
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The Catholic Church and Santería imagery in series Series 2. The guys hide money in a statue of the Virgin Mary, and the old woman protects the guys by painting them in a wide circle of goats blood. As Quinn steps out of the circle, things take a turn for the worse. And don't get started on the shrunken heads...
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Mad Dogs (2011-) is a British drama in which four old friends, played by [[JohnSimm The Master]], [[LifeOnMars Gene Hunt]] (Philip Glenister), [[Discworld/{{Hogfather}} Teatime]] (Marc Warren) and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the guy from the adverts]] (Max Beesley) reunite with the newly successful fifth member of the gang, Alvo (Ben Chaplin) in his new villa in Mallorca. Things take a dark turn when Alvo steals a "friend's" boat, dragging his friends into his own vengeance.
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Mad Dogs (2011-) is a British drama in which four old friends, played by [[JohnSimm The Master]], [[LifeOnMars [[Series/LifeOnMars2006 Gene Hunt]] (Philip Glenister), [[Discworld/{{Hogfather}} Teatime]] (Marc Warren) and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the guy from the adverts]] (Max Beesley) reunite with the newly successful fifth member of the gang, Alvo (Ben Chaplin) in his new villa in Mallorca. Things take a dark turn when Alvo steals a "friend's" boat, dragging his friends into his own vengeance.
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[[ItGotWorse And then Tony Blair]] [[FlatWhat shoots somebody.]]
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* BritishBrevity: The show ran for all of four Four episodes per ''two series''. in each series
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* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Rick is The Cynic, Quinn The Optimist, Baxter The Realist and Woody plays The Apathetic.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: [[spoiler: Quinn is shot in the upper arm by Maria after he shoots her to prevent her from killing the other guys. Although it bleeds quite badly he suffers no ill effects at all.]]
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* CallBack: Dead animals found by the guys where they are staying, for instance the dead goat in Alvo's pool and the dead bird in the apartment they rent in series 2.
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* TheDon: Mackenzie. [[spoiler: aka the man who Alvo stole the money from.]]
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* DeathIsDramatic: Most of the time averted, most deaths are brutal and undramatic, adding realistic tension to the series. [[spoiler: The deaths of Alvo, possibly Dominic and Hector are examples of this averted trope. The death of Maria is an exception; her death is ''very'' dramatic and is in slow motion.]]
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** There's also Marc Warren in little speedos.
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* BritishBrevity: The show ran for all of four episodes. episodes per ''two series''.
* FanService: Maria Botto and Leticia Dolera. All without GettingCrapPastTheRadar
* FanService: Maria Botto and Leticia Dolera. All without GettingCrapPastTheRadar
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* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Alvo, Maria and possibly Dominic (it was unclear whether he died) all appear in "two weeks ago" flashbacks.]]
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* TheAlcoholic: Woody.
* BerserkButton: Calling Rick an accountant. According to him, he is a fiancial adviser.
* BerserkButton: Calling Rick an accountant. According to him, he is a fiancial adviser.
* OnlySaneMan: Oddly enough, Rick is often the only one to see how bad things are and what to do. [[spoiler: For instance, in season 2 he rightly suggests they throw the 13 million euros into the sea and go back to England, so they cannot be traced. Of course, the other guys don't listen to him.]]
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* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: Quinn is dead and the group is torn apart]]apart. Although with Season 2 it has been shown the other guys went back for Quinn and now have accidently ended up in more trouble in Ibiza.]]
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