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''Mandy'' is a British sitcom [[WrittenByCastMember written by]], [[DirectedByCastMember directed by]], and starring Diane Morgan as Mandy Carter, a perpetual jobseeker who also happens to be a WalkingDisasterArea. A pilot episode aired in 2019, followed by a six-part series in 2020. A second series was filmed in 2021 and released in 2022. A third series was filmed in 2023 and released in 2024.

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''Mandy'' is a British sitcom [[WrittenByCastMember written by]], [[DirectedByCastMember directed by]], and starring Diane Morgan Creator/DianeMorgan as Mandy Carter, a perpetual jobseeker who also happens to be a WalkingDisasterArea. A pilot episode aired in 2019, followed by a six-part series in 2020. A second series was filmed in 2021 and released in 2022. A third series was filmed in 2023 and released in 2024.
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''Mandy'' is a British sitcom [[WrittenByCastMember written by]], [[DirectedByCastMember directed by]], and starring Diane Morgan as Mandy Carter, a perpetual jobseeker who also happens to be a WalkingDisasterArea. A pilot episode aired in 2019, followed by a six-part series in 2020. A second series was filmed in 2021 and released in 2022. A third series is in development.

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''Mandy'' is a British sitcom [[WrittenByCastMember written by]], [[DirectedByCastMember directed by]], and starring Diane Morgan as Mandy Carter, a perpetual jobseeker who also happens to be a WalkingDisasterArea. A pilot episode aired in 2019, followed by a six-part series in 2020. A second series was filmed in 2021 and released in 2022. A third series is was filmed in development.
2023 and released in 2024.
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* JobsOnlyVolunteer: In "Jobseeker", Mandy gets a job at a chicken fast-food joint. When she says to her boss about how happy she is that he's given her a chance, he points out that she was the only one who applied.
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''Mandy'' is a British sitcom [[WrittenByCastMember written by]], [[DirectedByCastMember directed by]], and starring Diane Morgan as Mandy Carter, a perpetual jobseeker who also happens to be a WalkingDisasterArea. A pilot episode aired in 2019, followed by a six-part series in 2020. A second series was filmed in 2021 and released in 2022.

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''Mandy'' is a British sitcom [[WrittenByCastMember written by]], [[DirectedByCastMember directed by]], and starring Diane Morgan as Mandy Carter, a perpetual jobseeker who also happens to be a WalkingDisasterArea. A pilot episode aired in 2019, followed by a six-part series in 2020. A second series was filmed in 2021 and released in 2022. \n A third series is in development.
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* SillyWalk: Mandy has a distinctive walk, which involves her leaning backwards, swinging her shopping bag and placing one foot very deliberately in front of the other.
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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Parodied, when Lola "removes" a tattoo of Shaun Ryder from Mandy's back by ''blowtorching'' it. Mandy screams, but because she's biting down on a wooden spoon, her screams are unintelligible until Lola says "What did you say?" Mandy removes the spoon from her mouth and says in a normal voice "It smells like pork." Afterwards, Mandy is sitting and chugging a can of beer as if everything is normal.
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* StaticCharacter: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]]. Mandy never goes through any form of CharacterDevelopment, and always remains the same jobless character. This forms part of the show's humor and if she were to change too much, it could damage the show. It was actually discussed by the British media in an article by The Guardian.
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** Then there's the Captain dying in "Holiday For One" because he ate a tangerine whole without peeling it, not helped by the cast's attempts to help him going wrong. As well as that, it is implied that the rude Purser, Joan MacDonald and the shipmates were killed when the large cruise ship sank.

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** Then there's the Captain dying in "Holiday For One" because he ate a tangerine whole without peeling it, not helped by the cast's attempts to help him going wrong. As well as that, it is implied that the rude Purser, Joan MacDonald [=MacDonald=] and the shipmates were killed when the large cruise ship sank.

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** Then there's the Captain dying in "Holiday For One" because he ate a tangerine whole without peeling it, not helped by the cast's attempts to help him going wrong.

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** Sergei is shot while at his wedding with Mandy, along with the Registrar and the police officers.
** Then there's the Captain dying in "Holiday For One" because he ate a tangerine whole without peeling it, not helped by the cast's attempts to help him going wrong. As well as that, it is implied that the rude Purser, Joan MacDonald and the shipmates were killed when the large cruise ship sank.

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** Shola from the pilot is replaced with a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute, Lola, for the series. The salon is also different.

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** Shola from the pilot is replaced with a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute, Lola, for the full series. The salon is also different.



* NewJobEpisode: Well, a series of new jobs each episode, at least, since she doesn't keep a job for long.



* StaticCharacter: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]]. Mandy never goes through any form of CharacterDevelopment, and always remains the same jobless character. This forms part of the show's humor and if she were to change too much, it could damage the show. It was actually discussed by the British media in an article by The Guardian.
* StatusQuoIsGod: One of the show's [[CentralTheme central themes]] is that people don't change. Within the show itself, Mandy will always remain unemployed; if she gets a job, by the next episode she's back to being unemployed, and not because [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity the same boss keeps hiring and firing her]], but she's always got a new job each time.



* WoundedGazelleGambit: How Susan won "Touch the Truck". She faked having a heart attack touching the truck to convince Mandy to let go of the truck to try to help her.

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* WoundedGazelleGambit: How Susan won "Touch the Truck". She faked having a heart attack touching the truck to convince Mandy to let go of the truck to try to help her.her.
* WritingAroundTrademarks: For legal reasons, NASA couldn't be used in a Season 2 episode focusing on Mandy going into space, so the generic name "Space Force" was used.
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* Distant: One thosand and fourteen years

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* Distant: One thosand DistantFinale: The end of "The Curse of Mandy Carter" takes place one thousand and fourteen yearsyears into the future.

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* CometOfDoom: The comet in "The Curse of Mandy Carter" is meant to be a bad omen. The last time it came coincided with the Spanish Flu. The time before that, vampires.

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* CometOfDoom: The comet in "The Curse of Mandy Carter" is apparently meant to be a bad omen. The last time it came coincided with the Spanish Flu. The time before that, vampires.


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* Distant: One thosand and fourteen years


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* HumanPopsicle: Mandy considers freezing herself (well, mainly just her head) in "The Curse of Mandy Carter" in a bid to have a second chance at life. She backs out of it but the end of the episode reveals that she did so in the end. Only issue is that the scientists of the future forgot to get her a donor body beforehand.
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* CometOfDoom: The comet in "The Curse of Mandy Carter" is meant to be a bad omen. The last time it came coincided with the Spanish Flu. The time before that, vampires.
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* CoveredInMud: Happens to Mandy at the end of "Fatberg", courtesy of her lighting up in the middle of a methane pocket down in the sewers.

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