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* DoingItForTheArt: InUniverse. Patrick refuses to tell James what piece of art-work he should buy, insisting instead that he chose the piece that moves him personally.
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* FalseFriend: Dirty Dixon, who is interested in nothing but belittling the other four men and trying to turn them against each other.
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* PoisonousFriend: Dirty Dixon, who is interested in nothing but belittling the other four men and trying to turn them against each other.
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* BiTheWay: Patrick. "I'm not gay, I'm just occasionally a bit bi."
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* BiTheWay: Patrick. "I'm not gay, I'm just occassionally a bit bi."
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* BiTheWay: Patrick. "I'm not gay, I'm just occassionally occasionally a bit bi."
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Rupert Giles is James, and ''EastEnders''' Carol Jackson is Cheryl.
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* PoisonousFriend: Dirty Dixon, the closest thing this show has to a CompleteMonster, who is interested in nothing but belittling the other four men and trying to turn them against each other.
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* PoisonousFriend: Dirty Dixon, the closest thing this show has to a CompleteMonster, who is interested in nothing but belittling the other four men and trying to turn them against each other.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Terry. The finale captures this perfectly: after buying the family house from his wife because he insists that the family has to have a "base" and an "anchor", he gets a better deal from the estate agent and decides to sell it. And this is ''after'' his son finally begins to warm to him and his daughter starts making plans for the house.
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* LeftHanging: The final episode ended with Gary learning why his son Wayne was being so distant -- he (presumably, given Gary's reaction: "she's only fifteen!") got his girlfriend pregnant. The cancellation of the show meant that it was all left up in the air.
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* ManlyMenCanHunt: Terry firmly believes this, even though he's useless at it.
--> ''"From time to time, it is every man's duty to hunt, to kill."''
--> ''"From time to time, it is every man's duty to hunt, to kill."''
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* PoisonousFriend: Dickens, the closest thing this show has to a CompleteMonster, who is interested in nothing but belittling the other four men and trying to turn them against each other.
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* PoisonousFriend: Dickens, Dirty Dixon, the closest thing this show has to a CompleteMonster, who is interested in nothing but belittling the other four men and trying to turn them against each other.
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* PoisonousFriend: Dickens, the closest thing this show has to a CompleteMonster, who is interested in nothing but belittling the other four men and trying to turn them against each other.
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* BiTheWay: Patrick. "I'm not gay, I'm just occassionally a bit bi."
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* WomenAreWiser: Very much the case with Gary's wife Cheryl. On getting her advice as to how to deal with Patrick's grief, he asks how she knows.
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* WomanScorned: James cheats on his interior designer and she promptly has his flat destroyed.
* WomenAreWiser: Very much the case with Gary's wife Cheryl. On getting her advice as to how to deal with Patrick's grief, he asks how sheknows.knows so much.
* WomenAreWiser: Very much the case with Gary's wife Cheryl. On getting her advice as to how to deal with Patrick's grief, he asks how she
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* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Various women pull this one on the men ''all the time'', particularly the one trying to bribe Terry into paying for a boob job.
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* CigarChomper: An entire episode revolves around how much the men enjoy smoking cigars.
* GoldDigger: Several of the women in the foursome's lives.
* GreenEyedMonster: Terry gets jealous of his ex-wife's new man in an episode aptly titled "Jealousy".
* GreenEyedMonster: Terry gets jealous of his ex-wife's new man in an episode aptly titled "Jealousy".
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* GoldDigger: Several of the women TheLadette: This trope is referred to by name, and held in the foursome's lives.
* GreenEyedMonster: Terry gets jealous of his ex-wife's new man in an episode aptly titled "Jealousy".contempt by Terry.
* GreenEyedMonster: Terry gets jealous of his ex-wife's new man in an episode aptly titled "Jealousy".
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* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Despite all their griping about women, the men are constantly seen getting facials and manicures. Terry even tells the audience that the most important advice he gleaned from his wife was: "cleanse, tone, moisturize."
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* RealMenHateAffection: Averted with Patrick, who at one point kisses Terry on the lips, totally platonically.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: James spots a woman smoking a cigar in a rather suggestive manner.
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* RealMenHateAffection: Averted with Patrick, who at one point kisses Terry on the lips, totally platonically.
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* WomenAreWiser: Very much the case with Gary's wife Cheryl. On getting her advice as to how to deal with Patrick's grief, he asks how she knows.
--> ''Because I piss sitting down. I'm a woman.''
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* {{Bridezilla}}: According to Terry: "My daughter wants her wedding to make Madonna's wedding look like a car-boot sale."
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* TheSmartOne: Patrick. Gary explicitly tells him: "you're the brainy one."
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* UnreliableNarrator: Terry's voice-overs are often belied by whatever's unfolding on-screen.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Terry is utterly self-absorbed.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Terry is utterly self-absorbed.
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* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: Patrick and his comatose mother.
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* CatapultNightmare: James, when he dreams that his girlfriend snaps off his member.
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* TheOneThatGotAway: Scarlet to James. As he points out, he's well aware that he only wants her ''because'' she got away.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Terry gets jealous of his ex-wife's new man in an episode aptly titled "Jealousy".
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* CampStraight: Patrick
* DoingItForTheArt: InUniverse. Patrick refuses to tell James what piece of art-work he should buy, insisting instead that he chose the piece that moves him personally.
* HappilyMarried: Despite a few bumps, Gary and Cheryl.
* HappilyMarried: Despite a few bumps, Gary and Cheryl.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: James's entire arc revolves around his erectile dysfunction.
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* StraightCamp: PatrickShirtlessScene: Nigel Havers. Quite a bit, actually.
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* AmicableExes: Terry and his ex-wife still get on reasonably well.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Terry does this regularly to share pearls of wisdom with the audience.
* CoolTrain: James has a train that he's renovated into a sort-of love shack on wheels.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Terry does this regularly to share pearls of wisdom with the audience.
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* TheHedonist: All four men.
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* ManChild: Well duh.
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* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: HeyItsThatGuy: Rupert Giles is James, and ''EastEnders''' Carol Jackson is Cheryl.
