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Season six introduced Edith (Annette Crosbie), an academic who agreed to write a biography of Satan in return for him looking into the mysterious events surrounding her death. (She's also Thomas's mother-in-law, and loathes him as much as ... well, anyone who's met him. Naturally, Satan makes them roommates.) In season seven, a dog and a baby arrive in Hell, due to a cock-up in Heaven's new computer systems; Satan ends up trying to locate the baby's new parents, while Thomas, surprisingly, finds himself literally [[PetTheDog Petting The Dog]].

* InkSuitActor: In a pilot [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc7WnDgt0yY stop-motion adaptation]], Satan has been modelled to resemble Andy Hamilton (plus wings and a tail).

* AcceptableTargets: In-universe. At the very start of the series, when Thomas is in a coma in hospital, the doctors decide it would be unethical to switch off his life support - until one of them mentions that he's the chairman of a privatised water company.

* HornyDevils:
** In Season One Thomas offers to take over the tedious task of ravishing Marilyn Monroe from Gary.
** Averted as all the devils have no genitalia so they can't. Satan, as well as being able to shape-shift, can change the form of his demons and the damned as their CoolAndUnusualPunishment requires it.

* BalefulPolymorph: One of Satan's most-used punishments is to turn the victim into something demeaning. While he mostly reserves this for Thomas, at one point he turns the Professor into a bluebottle to cut him off mid-argument.
-->"Yes, I know that's a pretty cheap way to win an argument..."

* FortheEvulz: Satan's MO.

-->'''Satan''': ''I never trust anyone who puts that much effort into his effortless charm.''

* HollywoodAtheist,

** UpToEleven: Thomas is such a horrendous human being that his behaviour shocks Satan; his EstablishingCharacterMoment is when he [[MoralEventHorizon tries to offer up his young son to go to hell instead of him]].

* GentlemanAndAScholar: The Professor is very intelligent but also optimistic and friendly, even to those who don’t return his courtesy.

* AbsentMindedProfessor: [[CaptainObvious The Professor]], while extremely intelligent and knowledgeable is curious to the detriment of all else including his own self preservation. At one point this costs him a chance to enter heaven because he insists on having a theological argument with God himself, unfortunately this version of God [[EvilGod isn’t very forgiving.]]

--->-- "Series Two, Episode 2"
* BritishBrevity: Each series lasts for only 6 half-hour episodes, except series 5 which only got four episodes.
** The show started in 1995 and has had seven seasons, two Christmas specials and a 2012 Olympics special. This counts up to fifty-four episodes over fifteen-years.

* DoomsdayDevice: When Satan arranges for the Grand Unified Theory of physics to be published in the living world, the British government (and presumbly others) immediately start pumping money into research with the hope of using it to build a bomb capable of destroying the universe.

* RoleReprisal: Impersonator Jan Ravens reprises her [[Series/DeadRingers Dead Ringers]] role as Kirsty Wark.

-->'''Satan:''' You're the only demon I know who collects Toys/{{Furb|y}}ies.

* CelestialBureaucracy: Hell appears to be marginally better-organized than Heaven.
** Particularly when Heaven tries to install new software.

** And as of season seven, has completely lost interest in humanity and gone on sabbatical. Apparently Sarah Palin was the last straw.

* TheGrimReaper: in one of the Christmas episodes Satan asks the Deaths to bring someone back to life. ChessWithDeath is averted.

* TakeThat: A lot of insults are hurled at Robert Maxwell, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, and Jeffrey Archer.

** How Gary the teenager, aka 'explodingidiot' ([[OneSteveLimit not to be confused with Gary the demon]]) died in series 6, episode 1: placing lighted sticks of gelignite between his legs as a YouTube stunt.

* RoleReprisal: Impersonator Jan
Ravens reprises her [[Series/DeadRingers Dead Ringers]] role as Kirsty Wark.

** In Season 3, we meet the Angel Graham, the messenger who told Mary she was with child, who's annoyed [[AccidentalMisnaming his name was miswritten]]. In Season 7, we meet a completely different Angel Gabriel.