* Despite being drunken jackass most of the time, Bernard displays once in a while he does have respect for his own wares:
-->'''Customer''': ''(about a complete collection of Charles Dickens work)'' Are they real leather?
-->'''Bernard''': They're real ''Dickens''.
* Manny spends most of the series being the ButtMonkey to the other characters. Then, after a particularly cruel period of torment from Bernard, he takes some therapy to sort out some of his issues - and the resulting Manny is so assertive he manages to reduce the bullying, arrogant Bernard into an insecure, hysterical wreck over the course of a short conversation:
-->'''Bernard''': You look different. Have they put you on steroids?
-->'''Manny''': ''[Calm but withering]'' What are you talking about, you silly little man?
-->'''Bernard''': ''[Indignant]'' Now look here - !
-->'''Manny''': Haven't you got some work you should be doing or something? And isn't it about time you had a really good scrub?
-->'''Bernard''': ''[Hurt]'' It isn't my fault I look like this, you haven't washed my things -
-->'''Manny''': ''[Patronising]'' Ah - we can't blame others for our own appearance, can we?
-->'''Bernard''': ''[Flustered]'' Well, no, but, no...
-->'''Manny''': I suggest you wash your own socks if you can chisel them out of your shoes. I'm going for a nap. I don't want to be disturbed.
-->'''Bernard''': ''[Hysterical and shrieking, obviously upset]'' How dare you speak this way to me?! ''My own son''!!! [Realises what he's just said]
-->'''Manny''': What did you say?!
-->'''Bernard''': Nothing. Nothing.
** Bernard's half-crazed and sadly ineffective defence of Manny- whilst under the influence of coffee and oven cleaner:
--->'''Bernard''': (Hoarsely) How dare you? Don't you touch a hair on that boy's head! Have you no respect? He's ''mine!'' Get your own human play-thing... you quartz-brained little cream puff!
--->(He swings a fist at Evan, misses, and crashes to the floor.)
*** And his [[WeWantOurJerkBack welcome return to his usual, foul-tempered self:]]
---->'''Manny:''' Uh, what sort of thing would you like?
---->(Without warning, Bernard violently shoves Manny through the curtains)
---->'''Bernard:''' DON'T ASK QUESTIONS, JUST ''DO'' IT!!! And clean this place up, it's a ''disgrace!''
---->(Behind the curtains, Manny smiles contentedly)
---->'''Bernard:''' And boil the bath out! And polish the stair rods! Delouse the duvet! And tumble-dry our doilies! And hoover the roof! And whistle down the chimneys!
** This becomes HilariousInHindsight when you realize the same actors would go on to play almost complete opposites of their characters (well, Dylan Moran's David was still a git) in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''.
** And, being a struggling author, Bernard has a crowning moment in a DVD short in which he replies to a rejection letter from the publishers:
--->Dear Mr Chussington-Howe-Foxworthy, thank you for returning my manuscript and your enclosed nasty nimminy-pimminy note. I am afraid ''your'' letter is most unsuitable for ''me'' at the present time, as I've just spent the entire weekend writing the novel that you have summarily rejected. I can only presume it is company policy to reject all manuscripts not submitted in ten-foot-high braille, and yes, I am aware it is traditionally bad form to respond to any kind of criticism or rejection, but in this, as with all else, I am an innovator, therefore I may freely address you as... PISS MIDGET. Still, there's time for you to change your views, and I think you will when we meet, and meet we most assuredly will: when I suck out your eyes and use them as stoppers for my ears to muffle the screams you will make as I headbutt you into a fine paste. I do hope you will not be disheartened by your sudden violent death. Yours faithfully, Bernard Black.
* Any moment in the episode "Blood" when Manny or Bernard take on the invisible creatures: special mention must go to Bernard ''noticing'' one of them, despite them being ''invisible'', on the ''other side of the shop'', casually putting his foot up on his desk, drawing a knife from his shoe and hurling it.
* Bernard writing a 1,000 page novel with a deeply complex plot, characters and themes in the space of one night [[CrazyIsCool using two typewriters.]]
* Any displays of Manny's hidden talents, such as playing piano, making a tower out of soup and selling half the contents of the bookshop on his first day.
* When Fran is at a hen's party, she finds out how inferior she is to all her friends, who have families and stable careers. Fran is further put down when her "friends" mention that they've always had a low opinion of her. Fran manages to turn the tables by mentioning how, unlike two of their supposed friends, she never slept with the groom behind the bride's back. [[EveryoneHasStandards Yes, there are some things even Fran won't do.]]
** She also sardonically points out their hypocrisy when said friends sheepishly try to convince the bride that they were going to admit what they'd done at some point: "What, at their anniversary or something?"
** Fran tricking her seedy landlord into moving her wall back after making her apartment smaller to get another tenant.
** Fran standing up to gangster Danny, who had been terrorising Manny and Bernard throughout the episode.
* When an enraged Fran confronts Bernard after he fired Manny after his first day of work, she throws a book across the shop and shatters his wineglass.