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** JerkassWoobie: He's a rude, self-centered elitist who abuses his employees both verbally and physically... and yet the people he's forced to deal with are '''''so''''' stupid, obnoxious, and demanding that it's impossible not to feel at least a little sorry for him.

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** JerkassWoobie: He's a rude, self-centered elitist who abuses his employees both verbally and physically... and yet the people he's forced to deal with are '''''so''''' stupid, obnoxious, and demanding that it's impossible not to feel at least a little sorry for him. Especially when he makes a huge effort for his and Sybil's anniversary and she still thinks he's screwed up.
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* HypercompetentSidekick

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* HypercompetentSidekickHypercompetentSidekick: She always manages to conjure up a career and livelihood-saving lie for Basil in the heat of the moment. She's still a pretty lousy waitress though.
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* AnnoyingLaugh

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* AnnoyingLaughAnnoyingLaugh: Basil compares it to "somebody machine-gunning a seal".
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: '''The''' UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist, by which all others are measured.

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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: '''The''' UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist, The standard by which all others are measured.
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist

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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist
UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: '''The''' UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist, by which all others are measured.
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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: In "The Wedding Party", he says he has five brothers and four sisters.

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* BigHair: Which Basil referes to as a "rat's maze" during a row.


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* EightiesHair: Which Basil referes to as a "rat's maze" during a row.
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* BigHair: Which Basil referes to as a "rat's maze" during a row.


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* GossipyHens: Fond of tying up the phone line chatting with best mate Audrey.


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* {{Hypocrite}}: Always quick to bollock Basil for apparent laziness, flirtatiousness, rudeness etc, but is ''certainly'' NotSoAboveItAll herself.


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* TheTease: Some of the male guests (particularly Mr Johnson in "The Psychiatrist") definitely grab her attention, and she enjoys a spot of shameless flirting.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His last name is McGowan, but no one really uses it.

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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His last name is McGowan, [=McGowan=], but no one really uses it.
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* OneHeadTaller: Basil towers over Sybil, but hilariously, he still jumps a mile whenever she barks "BASIL!" at him.
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* BumblingSidekick


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* ObfuscatingStupidity: "The Germans" implies that Manuel's English isn't actually quite as bad as he lets on, and that he pretends to speak barely any English so that Basil won't expect too much from him.


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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: His last name is McGowan, but no one really uses it.
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* LeanAndMean

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* LeanAndMeanLeanAndMean: His wife calls him an "an ageing, brilliantined stick insect".
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* MotorMouth: Has a tendency for fast-paced rants when he's upset.
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* HenpeckedHusband
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!Polly Sherman
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* CatchPhrase: "Oh, I knooow!"
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* DeadpanSnarker
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* NoAccountingForTaste: He and Sybil actively hate each other.
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** YourMileageMayVary on that. For some people, ''[[BeyondTheImpossible she's even worse]]''.
* NoAccountingForTaste: Seriously, ''why the hell did she marry him?''
** Why the hell did they marry ''each other??''
*** [[WildMassGuessing It was that or celibacy?]]
*** According to [[WordOfGod John Cleese]], she married Basil because he was of a higher social class than her.
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*** According to [[WordOfGod John Cleese]], she married Basil because he was of a higher social class than her.
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** YourMileageMayVary on that. For some people, ''[[BeyondTheImpossible she's even worse]]''.
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** JerkassWoobie: He's a rude, self-centered elitist, has no problems with abusing his employees both verbally and physically... and yet the people he's forced to deal with are '''''so''''' stupid, obnoxious, and demanding that it's impossible not to feel at least a little sorry for him.

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** JerkassWoobie: He's a rude, self-centered elitist, has no problems with abusing elitist who abuses his employees both verbally and physically... and yet the people he's forced to deal with are '''''so''''' stupid, obnoxious, and demanding that it's impossible not to feel at least a little sorry for him.















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* LeanAndMean
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*** [[WildMassGuessing It was that or celibacy?]]
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** Why the hell did they marry ''each other??''
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* AnnoyingLaugh
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* {{Cockney}}
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* Cockney

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* Cockney{{Cockney}}
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!Terry

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* SixthRanger
* TeamChef
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* PhraseCatcher: "He's from Barcelona."

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