Brit Com about two friends, Tim, a comic book artist (vaguely), and Daisy, a journalist (vaguely). They pretend to be a couple in order to rent a flat, and cope with their slow-paced, but rather bizarre, life. Tim's military-obsessed friend Mike, Daisy's ditzy glamour friend Twist,
Mad Artist Brian in the flat below and dipsomanic landlady Marsha.
The show is filled with references to scenes and plots from well-known films and TV shows, often conflicting them with the mostly mundane existences of the main characters.
Contains examples of:
Themes
Characters
- The Libby: Daisy's friend Twist is as shallow as a saucer, quite vicious and uncaring of her friend's feelings. And a Fag Hag.
- Mad Artist: Brian is incredibly angsty and tortured (not to mention pretentious) though not in a dangerous way. He does find he's unable to paint when he's happy.
- Ambiguously Gay: Although apparently edgy about his sexuality, Brian ends up dating Twist.
- She Who Must Not Be Seen: Martha's daughter Amber, despite her constant rows, is only ever seen storming down the stairs. Of note is the fact that she is played by a guy in a wig.
- Mood Swinger: Tyres.
Tropes
- Big No
- Daydream Surprise: And plenty of them. In some cases, Tim and Daisy break from the fantasy, then follow it up by doing exactly the same thing later.
- Irrevocable Message: Tim's... unflattering... caricature of Damien Knox, which was of course inadvertently sent to Knox as part of a job application.
- Shout Out, Homage, The Parody: By the bucket, of everything, including some rather obscure films and TV shows. The DVDs even have a subtitle track consisting purely of the sources of each reference. This troper and one of his flatmates once made a drinking game of identifying them and had to abandon it when unconsciousness loomed.
- The subtitle track in question even sometimes references pure fictional references within the show. In one episode, Daisy is making up a story about working on a movie to impress someone, saying the movie's to be named "Guacamole Window." The subtitle on that track then says "Film Ref: Quacamole Window, Directed by and starring Daisy Steiner."
- Smoking Hot
Sex Vacuuming
- Taking The Bullet, Leap And Fire: Mike does both on a paintball trip, along with many other war tropes.
- The Paolo: Sophie
- What Do You Mean Its Not Awesome: Scenes from films are re-enacted with a fraction of the budget, in far more mundane circumstances.
