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1	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Joy, the sociopathic P.A, went from having two-minute appearances in Series Two to having her own plotlines in later episodes.
2	* HarsherInHindsight: In the season two episode "Baseball", Henry talks about a disturbing rumour he heard over lunch at the club, to which Damien replies, "Oh, not Creator/JimmySavile again?"
3	* HilariousInHindsight:
4	** Characters often insult Sarah Ferguson's book ''WesternAnimation/BudgieTheLittleHelicopter''. Jeff Rawle (George) provided voices for the animated adaptation of the same book.
5	** Damien tries to report next to a burning pile of drugs and gradually gets high off the fumes. In 2015, reporter Quentin Somerville encountered the same problem.
6	** In episode two, a joke is made about President UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush giving an interview about the Gulf War from his golf course. In 2002, President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush was widely mocked for giving an interview about the UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror in the middle of a game of golf (the notorious "watch this drive" interview shown in ''Film/Fahrenheit911'').
7	* JerkassWoobie:
8	** Gus is a ManipulativeBastard who annoys the staff to no end, but he is also a lonely individual with little life beyond Globelink.
9	** Damien is a lying, sensationalist, arrogant, amoral reporter, but he also had a pretty lonely and depressing childhood and a neglectful and apathetic mother, and suffers one of the worst endings of any character in the series.
10	** Sally is selfish, unpleasant, homophobic and egotistical, but she had neglectful parents and was raised by an abusive grandmother, and [[spoiler: marries a man who isn't any better. ]]
11	* RetroactiveRecognition:
12	** Creator/DanielCraig as a thug, [[Series/WireInTheBlood Hermione]] [[Series/{{Spooks}} Norris]]
13	** [[Series/TheThickOfIt Dan Miller]] shows up as a carbon copy of Gus who works in a hospital.
14	** Creator/AndrewLincoln pretends to be Henry's son.
15	** [[Series/AshestoAshes2008 Gene Hunt]] goes from a tough policeman to a downright crooked one...
16	* TheWoobie: Poor George has to deal with poor health caused by the stress of his job, his horrible wife (who eventually divorces him), and his demon of a daughter. He doesn't get the happiest of endings either, ditching his new love in favor of reconciling with his abusive ex.

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