Manly Man and Sensitive Guy: Lee and Tim respectively. This is just relative, though, as despite being quite slobbish, Lee is quite the wuss himself, but pretty much everyone can be manly next to Tim.
Camp Straight: Tim is very soft-natured and mild mannered, likes feminine-leaning films, is into personal grooming, and eats pills crunched up with raspberry jam. He even has a fondness for dolls well into adulthood. According to Lucy's ex-boyfriend Guy, the second he walks into a room it's pretty obvious that he's a friend of Dorothy.
Lee and Tim respectively, with Tim being an effeminate middle class man who is In Touch with His Feminine Side while Lee is more slobbish and has more conventionally masculine interests like football and drinking. Though it's all relative, as Lee isn't really isn't all that manly himself.
Tim was also this with his father, who would constantly ridicule him for his feminine traits and would try and encourage him to be more manly.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: A sibling example between Tim and Lucy. In "Speech", Tim mentions his father considered Lucy to be the son he never had, since Lucy was a football player while his accomplishments such as winning a synchronised skipping rosette were never acknowledged. Even as adults, Lucy is not particularly feminine, being quite foul-mouthed and easily prone to anger, while Tim is the Camp Straight guy and a big softie with lots of girly interests.
May–December Romance: A Running Gag throughout series 1 is that his relationship with Kate ended after he cheated on her with a much younger woman, with Lee and Kate exaggerating the age gap.
Put on a Bus: Because Tim Vine wanted to leave the show after series 5, the character was written out in series 6, where it was mentioned he was on a work placement in Germany.
The Un Favourite: Tim considered himself as this to Lucy in his father's eyes.
Deadpan Snarker: Her preferred method of dealing with Lee's antics.
Iconic Sequel Character: Lucy was not in the first series, but now that she has been in the show for so long and even married and had kids with Lee, it's easy to forget that sometimes.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: A sibling example between herself and Tim. In "Speech", Tim mentions his father considered Lucy to be the son he never had, since Lucy was a football player while his accomplishments such as winning a synchronised skipping rosette were never acknowledged. Even as adults, Lucy is not particularly feminine, being quite foul-mouthed and easily prone to anger, while Tim is the Camp Straight guy and a big softie with lots of girly interests.
Only Sane Man: Sometimes she can be this to Lee, if only in comparison. Other times, she can be just as rash, impulsive, erratic, and outlandish as him, and on occassion, even moreso. While she thinks of herself as the more sane and level headed of the two, she has the capacity to stoop down to his level sometimes.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: She can actually be quite a potty mouth at times, especially when angered. "Babysitter" is a prime example of just how foul-mouthed she can actually be when riled up.
Slobs Versus Snobs: Lucy is interestingly in the middle of the conflict between the rest of the main cast in the later seasons. While her parents and new friends Anna and Toby are the snobs (to varying extents), her husband Lee and his father Frank are the slobs. Lucy is somewhere inbetween, being less stuck-up and posh than her parents and friends, but not as rough as Lee or Frank, either.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: For Kate, in the sense that she became the main female lead after Kate departed. Although Lucy is shown to be more hot-headed than the relatively laid back Kate.
Tsundere: A type A example to Lee. Most of the time, she acts like she can't stand the guy.
Disappeared Dad: Lee constantly brings up how Frank would disappear for sometimes years at a time when he was growing up.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Frank is frequently shown to be devious, dishonest and scheming, lacking in manners, and a little short-tempered. Then there's also the lifetime of letting his son down and abandoning him as a child. But there are times that show he can be a selfless and caring father to his son. He also seems to have a much healthier relationship with his grandchildren in the later seasons.
Killed Offscreen: The 2021 Christmas Special reveals that he had died offscreen.
Napoleon Complex: He's short and old, but is quite a fiery little man and is quick to challenge anyone he has a problem with to a fight (to be fair, it's usually Geoffrey, and he does provoke it).
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Has this with Geoffrey in the later episodes, as they constantly butt heads every time they meet.
Slobs Versus Snobs: He's the slobbish 'low life' compared to Geoffrey's snobbish 'middle class ponce'.
Geoffrey (Geoffrey Whitehead)
The Chain of Harm: The episode "War" implies Wendy's father looked down on him just as much as he does Lee.
Dating What Daddy Hates: Implied and then played straight. Lucy and Lee never actually officially become a couple until one episode before their wedding happens, but Geoffrey always made it clear he never liked Lee and mentioned in the wedding episode that he didn't like the fact that the two were getting married.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: There are occassions which hint at the fact that he probably doesn't hate Lee as much as he claims to. On Lee and Lucy's wedding day, he willingly lied about the police van and kept it a secret that Lee and Frank got arrested from Lucy. Then in "Parachute", he was willing to sacrifice his own life to save Lee's, deciding that it would be wrong to let him die on a plane and cause Lucy and his grandchildren to lose their husband and father.
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Has this with Frank in the later episodes, as they constantly butt heads every time they meet.
Slobs Versus Snobs: He's the snobbish 'middle class ponce' compared to Frank's slobbish 'low life'. To a lesser extent, he's also this with Lee.
Took a Level in Kindness: A very mild example as he can still be quite the Jerkass towards Lee and Frank, but he occasionally drops his hatred towards Lee in the newer episodes. Since the wedding, his dislike towards Lee has been downplayed and there and in one episode he even showed he was willing to sacrifice his life to save him.
Toby (Hugh Dennis)
Beware the Nice Ones: Anna and Lee can often make him do things he doesn't want to do, and he's generally very passive and not hostile, but every now and again he can stand up for himself. "Resolutions" and "Christmas Shopping" are particularly noteworthy examples of this.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Again, his dynamic with Anna. Downplayed since Anna is actually very feminine in her own right, but she is clearly the stronger, dominant party in their marriage, while Toby is clearly the submissive one. In "Resolutions", the others joke that he should man-up and grow a backbone.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Much like Lucy was to Kate, Toby is this for Tim, coming in just over a series after Tim left to be the replacement best friend for Lee.
Toxic Friend Influence: Sometimes Lee can be this to him, getting him involved in all kinds of mishaps that he otherwise wouldn't be in.
Anna (Abigail Cruttenden)
Control Freak: She's this towards Toby, very clearly being the bossy and controlling one in thier marriage.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: With Toby. Downplayed since Anna is actually very feminine in her own right, but she is clearly the stronger, dominant party in their marriage, while Toby is clearly the submissive one. In "Resolutions", the others joke that he should man-up and grow a backbone.
Slobs Versus Snobs: An upper class posh lady who does not take kindly to common vulgarity of Lee or his dad. She's very much a younger version of Geoffrey in this regard.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: A Downplayed example with Lucy, who Anna believes has some 'rough edges' as a result of living with Lee, while Anna herself is far more posh and outwardly feminine. Also, Anna will typically wear more make-up and dresses while Lucy has a more practical look, opting for jeans and casual clothes.
Toxic Friend Influence: Interestingly, she's on both sides of this trope. She believes Lee is a lazy, slobbish mess of a man who is holding Lucy down in life and she would be better off without him. Lee thinks the exact same of her, however, accusing her of being the reason Lucy picks up on so many ridiculous fads and makes so many choices that he thinks she shouldn't make. Anna's own wife, Toby, actually agrees with this too, at one point even telling her that she should see his wife as the 'tiring gobshite' she actually is rather than someone to look up to and follow.
You Look Familiar: Miranda Hart had previously appeared as an acupunturist in the first series.