History YMMV / Coupling

** It's not like Jill is surely a good therapist, if Jane could beat her in her own game when manipulating her to come to the Inferno dinner. Even if harmless nonsense is a good enough reason to abuse your patient, which doesn't make any other aquaintances (she spends even more time with, and is sometimes malicious and selfish towards) hostile. For this troper that seems more as Jill's IrrationalHatred, like Robin constantly screaming at Patrice in ''HowIMetYourMother''.

** It's not like Jill is surely a good therapist, if Jane could beat her in her own game when manipulating her to come to the Inferno dinner. Even if harmless nonsense is a good enough reason to abuse your patient, which doesn't make any other aquaintances (she spends even more time with) hostile. For this troper that seems more as Jill's IrrationalHatred, like Robin constantly screaming at Patrice in ''HowIMetYourMother''.

** It's not like Jill is surely a good therapist, if Jane could beat her in her own game when manipulating her to come to the Inferno dinner. Even if harmless nonsense is a good enough reason to abuse your patient, which doesn't make any other aquaintances (she spends even more time with) hostile.

** It's not like Jill is surely a good therapist, if Jane could beat her in her own game when manipulating her to come to the Inferno dinner. Even if harmless nonsense is a good enough reason to abuse your patient.

** For this troper the real rot began in the third series, where the laughs were more predictable and less spontaneous then they had been before. Geoffrey Perkins leaving the BBC (he was once described as an "enormous influence" by the ''Father Ted'' writers) may well have had something to do with this.

** A rather depressing example, but Jeff claiming his girlfriend Julia is dead is a lot less funny and way more depressing when this troper found out that her actress died two years later after the show ended from cancer.

** Realize that Jane is so screwed up, she has sent a licensed health professional so over the edge, she's insulted her repeatedly -- even calling her "insane", which is not a word psychiatrists are generally fond of. It was our first major glimpse into how messed up Jane really is.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome Steve's raging defence of pornography that ends in him accidentally declaring to Susan that he wants to spend the rest of her life with her. Patrick and Jeff start applauding ''and the audience joins in''.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: See [[{{Funny/Coupling}} the page]].
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The Spider-man dance at the end of series 3, and just about everything in the last episode.

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Commodore Norrington]] and [[{{Leverage}} Sophie Deveraux]] used to be a couple!

* TheWoobie: Jeff.

** Realize that Jane is so screwed up, she has sent a licensed health professional so over the edge, she's insulted her repeatedly. It was our first major glimpse into how messed up Jane really is.

** In the first episode, Jane's use of stockings to seduce Steve is turned into not wearing underwear. Even if they do mangle some perfectly good sentences by simply changing the word 'stockings' to 'no panties'.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome Steve's raging defence of pornography that ends in him accidentally declaring to Susan that he wants to spend the rest of her life with her.
** One word: "Gotcha".

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming (the Spider-man dance)
** And everything in the last episode.

* ReplacementScrappy (Jeff is one of the great creations of British comedy. Oliver, his replacement, is not.)

* TheWoobie (Jeff - see above)

* {{Woolseyism}}: The US remake is, for the most part, bad- but when Patrick's political stance is discussed, making him a Republican and a George W. Bush supporter is actually a pretty nice (and in-character) touch. However it kills Sally's breakdown, as a big part of what broke her was being told that Labour was in charge, while the Tories were now the revolutionaries.

* At the same time, the BBC was also producing a remarkably similarly themed sitcom called ''Two Pints of Lager'', in which three ill-assorted twentysomething couples were trying to sort their lives out for the best whilst working out what was really going on in the world. This was set in the [[OopNorth North]], in the industrial town of Runcorn, and attracted the usual sort of sneering contempt from southern TV critics. It was as if ''"Coupling"'' and ''"Two Pints"'' were the northern and southern BBC editions of the same sitcom, but one (the southern version) was hailed as sophisticated humour while the other was dismissed as a bunch of thick northerners cracking fart gags. The jury remains out. (Is there a trope to cover this sort of thing?)

* HilariousInHindsight/HarsherInHindsight: During series 4, while Susan is coping with her pregnancy, the very vain Sally is very uncomfortable with the whole process. She mentioned in "Nightlines" how she doesn't really want a child, and mentioned how unsettling she finds it. In "Circus of the Epidurals," whenever Susan goes into detail about the actual birth, Sally ''faints'' and goes to her "safe place." When you learn that Kate Isitt (Sally) was actually pregnant during Series 4, it either becomes a hilarious in-joke from the people behind the scenes, or becomes unsettling to watch a pregnant woman face the gruesome truth about what's going to happen to her head-on.

* At the same time, the BBC was also producing a remarkably similarly themed sitcom called ''Three Pints of Lager'', in which three ill-assorted twentysomething couples were trying to sort their lives out for the best whilst working out what was really going on in the world. This was set in the [[OopNorth North]], in the industrial town of Runcorn, and attracted the usual sort of sneering contempt from southern TV critics. It was as if ''"Coupling"'' and ''"Three Pints"'' were the northern and southern BBC editions of the same sitcom, but one (the southern version) was hailed as sophisticated humour while the other was dismissed as a bunch of thick northerners cracking fart gags. The jury remains out. (Is there a trope to cover this sort of thing?)

* {{Woolseyism}}: The US remake is, for the most part, bad- but when Patrick's political stance is discussed, making him a Republican and a George W. Bush supporter is actually a pretty nice (and in-character) touch. However it kills Sally's breakdown, as a big part of what broke her was being told that Labour was in charge, while the tories were now the revolutionaries.
** In the first episode, Jane's use of stockings to seduce Steve is turned into not wearing underwear. Even if they do mangle some perfectly good sentences by simply changing the word 'stockings' to 'no panties'.

* {{Woolseyism}}: The US remake is, for the most part, bad- but when Patrick's political stance is discussed, making him a Republican and a George W. Bush supporter is actually a pretty nice (and in-character) touch. However it kills Sally's breakdown, as a big part of what broke her was being told that Labor was in charge, while the tories were now the revolutionaries.

** YourMileageMayVary. While Jeff is ''funnier'', Oliver is a [[RoundedCharacter deeper character]] - although this isn't at first apparent. Jeff's really a one-trick pony, although admittedly he's a ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny very]]'' [[RuleOfFunny funny]] one-trick pony, [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality so much so that you don't even mind the fact that he is]].

* {{Woolseyism}}: The US remake is, for the most part, SoBadItsHorrible - but when Patrick's political stance is discussed, making him a Republican and a George W. Bush supporter is actually a pretty nice (and in-character) touch. However it kills Sally's breakdown, as a big part of what broke her was being told that Labor was in charge, while the tories were now the revolutionaries.

* {{Woolseyism}}: The US remake is, for the most part, SoBadItsHorrible - but when Patrick's political stance is discussed, making him a Republican and a George W. Bush supporter is actually a pretty nice (and in-character) touch.

* {{Woolseyism}}: The US remake is, for the most part, SoBadItsHorrible - but when Patrick's political stance is discussed, making him a Republican and a George W. Bush supporter is actually a pretty nice (and in-character) touch.