Recap / Black Books S 1 E 4 The Blackout

• Amusing Injuries: Bernard and Fran's in the last act.
• Buffy Speak: "Fizzy-good-make-feel-nice".^note Oh, Alka-Seltzer.
• Drunken Song: Bernard treats young Jim to an Irish ballad of questionable taste.
• Good Cop/Bad Cop: Manny, over-caffeinated and in over his head, plays the Good Cop so well it bamboozles the suspect into confessing.
• Groin Attack: Self-inflicted by Manny when he 'sits on himself'.
• Hangover Sensitivity: Initially averted when Bernard wakes up with such a bad hangover he actually screams before he goes out to get some fizzy-good-make-feel-nice.
• Instant Soprano: When Manny 'sits on himself' for a third time.
• Joke of the Butt: Bernard denies having done Cobumbo at the party. By analogy with his Belly Savalas, it presumably would've involved holding a cigar between his buttocks.
• Metaphorgotten: Bernard tries:
  Bernard: They blanked me! That's an incredibly powerful thing to do in civilised society! It's like, it's like when the Mafia send each other...fish in the post!
• Mind Your Step: How Bernard broke his arm.
• Never My Fault: When Bernard learns the truth about what he did, he doesn't think it was bad at all.
• Noodle Incident: Bernard drunkenly rambled at the dinner party about beating an 8-year-old at something again and again.
• Pet the Dog: Bernard gives young Jim a five-pound note. Before immediately taking it back. In fairness, it was less out of spite, and more out of being totally hammered.
• Sickening "Crunch!": Fran's neck makes a nasty sound when her boyfriend tries to turn her head.
• Taking the Bullet: Parodied. Manny tackles Bernard to the ground when he mistakes a customer closing a book for a gunshot.
• What Did I Do Last Night?: Bernard spends the episode trying to remember what he did to offend Gerald and Sarah at their dinner party the night before.