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* DeadLittleSister: His half-boy, half-grasshopper son.
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* TheNapoleon: Not Dagless, for once. Garth Marenghi insists in interviews that he is six feet tall. Cut to Todd Rivers laughing hysterically.
-->"He's barely five foot and wears lifts"
-->"He's barely five foot and wears lifts"
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* OnlySaneMan: Only when compared to Garth and Dean, of course, but Rivers seems to be the only person involved in the production that realized what it was awful, but is too polite to mention it.
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** GodModeSue
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**JerkStuJerkStu: Invoked.
**
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** PuritySue: "You're the most sensitive man I know, and I know God."
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** PuritySue: Invoked. "You're the most sensitive man I know, and I know God."
**SympatheticSueSympatheticSue: [[OverlyLongGag Also invoked.]]
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* '''MartyStu'''MartyStu: Invoked.
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* BadassSpaniard: He tries to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this by wearing eye makeup and foundation to make him look like he might be Hispanic.
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* DashingHispanic: He tries to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this by wearing eye makeup and foundation to make him look like he might be Hispanic.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Madeline Wool is missing, presumed dead. Judging by the other actors' uncomfortableness about the subject, they may or may not have had something to do with it.
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* MrExposition
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* ChivalrousPervert: What he's supposed to be in theory. In practice, not so much (well, not the chivalrous part).
* {{Jerkass}}
* KnowNothingKnowItAll
* KnowNothingKnowItAll
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* LicensedSexist
* MrExposition
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* SmallNameBigEgo
!'''Dr. Lucien Sanchez / Todd Rivers''' (MattBerry)
* FakeNationality: He even wears some type of eye makeup to make him look like he might be Hispanic.
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* IvyLeague: In her own words, she attended "Harvard College,Yale."
'''Thornton Reed / Dean Learner''' (Richard Ayoade)
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* IvyLeague: In her own words, she attended "Harvard College,Yale."
'''ThorntonCollege, Yale."
* PstandardPsychicPstance
* TheSmurfettePrinciple
* YourMakeupIsRunning
!'''Thornton Reed / Dean Learner''' (Richard Ayoade)
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* PstandardPsychicPstance
* TheSmurfettePrinciple
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* {{Jerkass}}
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* RidiculousProcrastinator
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* SoulBrotha: Thornton Reed is probably intended by Marenghi to be played as a Soul Brotha; he says in the first episode that if Dagless doesn't pull through, "My ass is grass! And he (Won Ton)'s got a lawn mower, ya dig?". Dean Learner cannot quite pull this off.
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** He's a Stephen King parody, which means that he'd be a popular novelist who isn't entirely respected by all quarters, and whose books are sometimes of questionable quality.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: Every word out of his mouth.
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* DumbBlonde
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* DumbBlondeDumbBlonde: Despite the fact she "aced every semester and got an A", she almost always acts as TheLoad.
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*IvyLeague: In her own words, she attended "Harvard College,Yale."
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* BadassLabcoatBadassLongcoat
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* WimpFight
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* DontLookAtTheCamera
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* FilmingForEasyDub
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* MoustacheOfFailedHeterosexuality
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* DeadLittleSister: His half-boy, half-grasshopper son.
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** Well, he ''claims'' to be a successful novelist. One gets the feeling that if his books sell at all it's because they're [[SoBadItsGood So Bad, They're Good]].
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* AudioErotica: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by the cast bios which mention his voice is "an octave deeper than it should be."
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* Don'tLookAtTheCameraDontLookAtTheCamera
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** [[Ptitleaddc1oe7 Mr. Exposition]]
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* AuthorAvatar
* BadassLabcoat
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Garth Marenghi is a successful novelist, but he's mad as a brush.
* CarpetOfVirility
* BadassLabcoat
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Garth Marenghi is a successful novelist, but he's mad as a brush.
* CarpetOfVirility
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* EightiesHair
* FriendToAllChildren
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* FriendToAllChildren
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** HurtingHero
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* LargeHam
* LicensedSexist
* '''MartyStu'''
** BlackHoleSue
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* LargeHam
* LicensedSexist
* '''MartyStu'''
** BlackHoleSue
** SympatheticSue
* {{Narrator}}: [[TropeOverdosed Oh, boy...]]
** AllFirstPersonNarratorsWriteLikeNovelists
** FauxlosophicNarration
** InfallibleNarrator
** InnerMonologue
** [[/Ptitleaddc1oe7 Mr. Exposition]]
** OpeningMonologue
** PrivateEyeMonologue
** SoOnceAgainTheDayIsSaved
* NobleBigotWithABadge
* {{Narrator}}: [[TropeOverdosed Oh, boy...]]
** AllFirstPersonNarratorsWriteLikeNovelists
** FauxlosophicNarration
** InfallibleNarrator
** InnerMonologue
** [[/Ptitleaddc1oe7 Mr. Exposition]]
** OpeningMonologue
** PrivateEyeMonologue
** SoOnceAgainTheDayIsSaved
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* BadassSpaniard: He tries to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this by wearing eye makeup to make him look like he might be Hispanic.
* BadassSpaniard: He tries to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this by wearing eye makeup to make him look like he might be Hispanic.
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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable
* TheAlcoholic: Todd Rivers, who hasn't worked since this show.
* AudioErotica: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by the cast bios which mention his voice is "an octave deeper than it should be."
* BadassLabcoat
* BadassSpaniard: He tries to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this by wearing eye makeup and foundation to make him look like he might beHispanic. Hispanic.
* TheCastShowOff: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH4_mZh-bj8 "One Track Lover"]]. Doubles as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment.
* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: Todd Rivers is one.
* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable
* TheAlcoholic: Todd Rivers, who hasn't worked since this show.
* AudioErotica: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by the cast bios which mention his voice is "an octave deeper than it should be."
* BadassLabcoat
* BadassSpaniard: He tries to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this by wearing eye makeup and foundation to make him look like he might be
* TheCastShowOff: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH4_mZh-bj8 "One Track Lover"]]. Doubles as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment.
* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: Todd Rivers is one.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: ''Another'' InvokedTrope.
* LipLock: The most frequent offender.
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* BadassGrandpa: Invoked. Badly. ''[[StylisticSuck Very]]'' badly.
* BadBadActing: Learner says he's not an actor, and he means it.
* CampStraight
* CoolOldGuy: He's ''supposed'' to be one.
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* Don'tLookAtTheCamera
* DullSurprise: "Good gravy."
* Don'tLookAtTheCamera
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* JiveTurkey: Made hilarious by Learner's nasally English accent. "My ass is grass, and Wanton's got a lawnmower, ya dig?"
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* NiceHat: Several!
* NotSoBadassLongcoat
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* NiceHat: Several!
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* WaistcoatOfStyle
* WaistcoatOfStyle
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'''Dr. Rick Dagless MD, ''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Medicinae Doctor]] / Garth Marenghi'''''
Marenghi''''' (Matthew Holness)
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Wool''' (Alice Lowe)
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* ReallyGetsAround: Implied in the last episode when it's stated that the broccoli infection is sexually transmittable. Also and InformedAttribute as Sanchez is never seen with any other woman apart from the broccoli infection victim and is constantly being shot down by Liz.
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* GoshDangItToHeck: Every one of his rants.
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* Da Chief: He's clearly written this way, but due to Dean Learner's nil acting skills is anything but.
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* Da Chief: He's clearly written this way, but due to Dean Learner's nil acting skills is anything but.DaChief
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* ShotgunsAreJustBetter
* GoshDangItToHeck: Every one of his rants.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter
* GoshDangItToHeck: Every one of his rants.
