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* BittersweetEnding: They got the Olympics on, but they couldn't fix the Closing Ceremony and all the cock-ups and over-budgeting means that they [[spoiler: have to get out of there]].
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* BittersweetEnding: They got the Olympics on, but they couldn't fix the Closing Ceremony and all the cock-ups and over-budgeting means that they [[spoiler: have [[spoiler:have to get out of there]].
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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** In one episode, Joseph Williams, a businessman who basically gets whatever he wants and has his eyes on the Olympics board. [[spoiler: He gets shot before anything happens.]]
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** In one episode, Joseph Williams, a businessman who basically gets whatever he wants and has his eyes on the Olympics board. [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He gets shot before anything happens.]]
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* HypocriticalHumor: In "Job Search" John repeatedly shouts at at Bryan and Gina [[spoiler: for focusing on future job prospects instead of on the Olympics. It turns out he rigged the events of the episode so he'd get a job at Athens 2004.]]
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* HypocriticalHumor: In "Job Search" John repeatedly shouts at at Bryan and Gina [[spoiler: for [[spoiler:for focusing on future job prospects instead of on the Olympics. It turns out he rigged the events of the episode so he'd get a job at Athens 2004.]]
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* RefugeInAudacity: The modus operandi of the [[spoiler:fake]] IOC Delegate in "IOC Man" [[spoiler: impersonating and IOC delegate to receive paid trips and accommodations from host cities.]]
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* RefugeInAudacity: The modus operandi of the [[spoiler:fake]] IOC Delegate in "IOC Man" [[spoiler: impersonating [[spoiler:impersonating and IOC delegate to receive paid trips and accommodations from host cities.]]
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* SpringtimeForHitler: In "Strike", Gina tells a major industrialist [[spoiler: to stick his demands up his arse... not expecting him to actually back down]].
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* SpringtimeForHitler: In "Strike", Gina tells a major industrialist [[spoiler: to [[spoiler:to stick his demands up his arse... not expecting him to actually back down]].
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--> '''John''': [[spoiler: Well, because I think what you wanted was to create industrial chaos so you could teach the Minister a lesson you thought he deserved.]]
--> '''Gina''': [[spoiler: And yet I have, in the process, singlehandedly brought industrial stability to the Games, and saved millions of dollars in wage demands.]]
--> '''John''': [[spoiler: Yeah, so it would appear, Gina.]]
* StealingFromTheTill: [[spoiler: Everyone souvenirs something in the final episode.]]
--> '''Gina''': [[spoiler: And yet I have, in the process, singlehandedly brought industrial stability to the Games, and saved millions of dollars in wage demands.]]
--> '''John''': [[spoiler: Yeah, so it would appear, Gina.]]
* StealingFromTheTill: [[spoiler: Everyone souvenirs something in the final episode.]]
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--> '''John''': [[spoiler: Well, [[spoiler:Well, because I think what you wanted was to create industrial chaos so you could teach the Minister a lesson you thought he deserved.]]
--> '''Gina''':[[spoiler: And [[spoiler:And yet I have, in the process, singlehandedly brought industrial stability to the Games, and saved millions of dollars in wage demands.]]
--> '''John''':[[spoiler: Yeah, [[spoiler:Yeah, so it would appear, Gina.]]
* StealingFromTheTill:[[spoiler: Everyone [[spoiler:Everyone souvenirs something in the final episode.]]
--> '''Gina''':
--> '''John''':
* StealingFromTheTill:
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See also [[{{Funny/TheGames}} The Games' Funny entry]] and [[{{YMMV/TheGames}} the YMMV entry]].
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* FalseFriend: Nicholas, quite often. One example was when he wrote a completely incorrect press release and put Gina's name on it without even showing it to her, and tried to get John to sign another without reading it, thus setting them up as the scapegoats for his terrible plan.
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* PoisonousFriend: Nicholas, quite often. One example was when he wrote a completely incorrect press release and put Gina's name on it without even showing it to her, and tried to get John to sign another without reading it, thus setting them up as the scapegoats for his terrible plan.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: John and a Scottish athlete do this in "Immigration" when they are forced to talk with a journalist who thinks the athlete is Bulgarian and doesn't speak English. John has to pretend to translate to Bulgarian and then the athlete reply in Bulgarian, though neither knows the language. The athlete ends mostly quoting the words of Robert Burns' poems ("To a Mouse", "Auld Lang Syne" and "A Red, Red Rose"). John by contrast largely lists off famous Russians (though he does slip in "very bad nuclear accident" at one point).
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* BreakTheMotivationalSpeaker: "A Management Course" has a downplayed example. John and Gina clearly do not want to be there and frustrate the instructor by refusing to engage (in John's case by picking apart minutiae and pretending unrelated events in the room were part of the scenario, in Gina's by pretending not to understand what's being asked). Bryan however does actually participate.
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Fixing the details of the Hilarity Ensues entry. John only set the date on a single machine, not every mechanism he could find. The trouble came from Bryan’s computer being at home and Gina’s being voice activated (since only the three of them had a copy).
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* HilarityEnsues: The team have to deal with the Millennium Bug, and John is convinced that it doesn't exist. To prove it, he sets the date on every mechanism he can to January 1st, 2000, and [[TemptingFate …yeah, he should have reconsidered.]]
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* HilarityEnsues: The team have to deal with the Millennium Bug, and John is convinced that it doesn't exist. To prove it, he sets the date on every mechanism he can his computer to January 1st, 2000, and [[TemptingFate …yeah, he should have reconsidered.]]
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* TheScapegoat: "100 Metre Track" features Robbo (the Minister for the Environment) blaming a Kevin Nowra for his office's failure to comply with guidelines. Then at the end Mr. Wilson, Bryan and John all agree to blame the issue with the 100 metre track not being 100 metres on Kevin as well.
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-> "We don't need to ''imagine'' we're running the Olympics and we've got problems, ''we are'' running the Olympics and we've got problems!"
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-> "We don't need to ''imagine'' we're running the Olympics and we've got problems, ''we are'' we ''are'' running the Olympics and we've got problems!"
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In one episode John Howard played himself. That's Creator/JohnHoward the actor, not John Howard the then prime minister of Australia. John Howard (the actor) apologised for the treatment of indigenous Australians, which the prime minister had refused to do. (Kevin Rudd, the succeeding prime minister, did give the apology).
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In one episode John Howard played himself. That's Creator/JohnHoward the actor, not John Howard the then prime minister of Australia. John Howard (the actor) apologised for the treatment of indigenous Australians, which the prime minister had always refused to do. (Kevin Rudd, the succeeding prime minister, did give the apology).
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In one episode, John is asking Gina questions relayed to him by a group of construction workers she's been watching and criticizing. After the first few, he quietly asks Bryan, 'What are funbags, Bryan?' Bryan flips off the workers.
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In one episode, John is asking Gina questions relayed GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to him by a group of construction workers she's been watching overwhelming and criticizing. After persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the first few, he quietly asks Bryan, 'What are funbags, Bryan?' Bryan flips off future, please check the workers.trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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** Averted with the 100 Meters track course.
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** Averted with the 100 Meters track course.course when they bring in the stadium contractor. They work out that while the oval shaped main track is the standard 400 meters but that the 100 metres track, that starts off the main track and joins the main oval, is ''about'' 100 metres long. It's so short that Brian, a middle aged and not particularly athletic man can run it fast enough to break the Australian record, and that an upcoming schoolboy championship will result in the World Record being broken.
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** VindicatedByHistory: Despite all the cockups, the Sydney Olympics was "The Best Olympics Ever" to this day.
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** VindicatedByHistory: Despite all the cockups, the Sydney Olympics was "The Best Olympics Ever" to this day.day, with almost all of the permanent venues still in use.
