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* [[Catchpharse]]: "I (just) love gay guys!"

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* [[Catchpharse]]: {{Catchphrase}}: "I (just) love gay guys!"
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!Tish Guppy
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[[caption-width-right:445:"Camden's such a rip-off, I love it."]]
->Steve Pemberton

A Londoner and self-proclaimed [[FagHag Fag Hag]], as well as the overbearing friend to Phil of the Legz Akimbo Theatre Company.

* BareYourMidriff: She wears a tube top that exposes her belly button piercing.
* {{Catchpharse}}: "I (just) love gay guys!"
* FagHag: She outright describes herself as this and her unbearable stereotyping of gay men is her main gimmick.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Why Phil ever became friends with Tish is a '''really''' good question consider she just drags him around to listen to her stereotyping ramblings about gay men.
* HateSink: She fails to show any redeeming qualities in her appearance in either series 3 or "Live at Drury Lane".
* InnocentlyInsensitive: She seems completely oblivious to how offensive her backwards, superficial views on gay men are.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Her whole thing is being a [[FagHag Fag Hag]] that only thinks of gay man as substitutes for gal pals and views them solely through stereotypes.
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* ChesshireCatGrin: He almost always has a smug smirk on his face.

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* ChesshireCatGrin: CheshireCatGrin: He almost always has a smug smirk on his face.
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* ChesshireCatGrin: He almost always has a smug smirk on his face.
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* EyepatchOfPower: Don wears an eye patch was canonically in the [=TAs=], he also carries himself as very influential and knowledgeable. [[spoiler: He also happens to have ties to a terrorist organization.]]

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* EyepatchOfPower: Don wears an eye patch and was canonically in the [=TAs=], he also carries himself as very influential and knowledgeable. [[spoiler: He also happens to have ties to a terrorist organization.]]
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* EyepatchOffPower: Don wears an eye patch was canonically in the [=TAs=], he also carries himself as very influential and knowledgeable. [[spoiler: He also happens to have ties to a terrorist organization.]]

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* EyepatchOffPower: EyepatchOfPower: Don wears an eye patch was canonically in the [=TAs=], he also carries himself as very influential and knowledgeable. [[spoiler: He also happens to have ties to a terrorist organization.]]

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Geoff's old "friend" from the [=TIs=], now working as a manager at the Salmon of Knowledge. Offers Geoff a job as a comedian at said club in series 3. [[spoiler: He also uses Geoff as a patsy in a car-bombing which directly results in the road accident plot the series centers around.]]

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Geoff's old "friend" from the [=TIs=], [=TAs=], now working as a manager at the Salmon of Knowledge. Offers Geoff a job as a comedian at said club in series 3. [[spoiler: He also uses Geoff as a patsy in a car-bombing which directly results in the road accident plot the series centers around.]]
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* EyepatchOffPower: Don wears an eye patch was canonically in the [=TAs=], he also carries himself as very influential and knowledgeable. [[spoiler: He also happens to have ties to a terrorist organization.]]
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* [[spoiler: VillainExitStageLeft]]: [[After he frames Geoff he quits his job at the club he manages and is never mentioned again.]]

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* [[spoiler: VillainExitStageLeft]]: [[After [[spoiler: After he frames Geoff he quits his job at the club he manages and is never mentioned again.]]
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Geoff's old "friend" from the TIs, now working as a manager at the Salmon of Knowledge. Offers Geoff a job as a comedian at said club in series 3. [[spoiler: He also uses Geoff as a patsy in a car-bombing which directly results in the road accident plot the series centers around.]]

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Geoff's old "friend" from the TIs, [=TIs=], now working as a manager at the Salmon of Knowledge. Offers Geoff a job as a comedian at said club in series 3. [[spoiler: He also uses Geoff as a patsy in a car-bombing which directly results in the road accident plot the series centers around.]]
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!Don Lynch
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[[caption-width-right:362:"Here we go, Geoffery. Welcome to the Salmon of Knowledge!"]]
->Mark Gatiss

Geoff's old "friend" from the TIs, now working as a manager at the Salmon of Knowledge. Offers Geoff a job as a comedian at said club in series 3. [[spoiler: He also uses Geoff as a patsy in a car-bombing which directly results in the road accident plot the series centers around.]]

* [[spoiler: GreaterScopeVillain]]: [[spoiler: Him choosing to use Geoff in his car-bombing plot results in Geoff stealing the Legz Akmibo van and causing the car crash all the main plots revolve around.]]
* JerkAss: As is to be expected of someone whose maintained a good relationship with Geoff Tipps off all people, for a prolonged length of time.
* [[spoiler: VillainExitStageLeft]]: [[After he frames Geoff he quits his job at the club he manages and is never mentioned again.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's neigh-impossible to discuss Don without [[spoiler: mentioning that he's evil ''and'' ultimately responsible for the series main plot]].
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* NoInsideVoice: Almost everything they say is shouted out in a shrill tone. [[spoiler: Even when Reenie is breaking into a house with Brain to catch Papa Lazarou]].

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* NoInsideVoice: Almost everything they say is shouted out in a shrill tone. [[spoiler: Even when Reenie is breaking into a house with Brain Brian to catch Papa Lazarou]].
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: {{Implied}} in some of their earlier sketches in the series but best seen[[spoiler: during the events of the Anniversary specials, when, a good while after their divorce, Charlie shows genuine concern when he starts to believe that Stella's new partner is physically abusing her. When he asks her about it she silently, somewhat longingly, looks back at him]].

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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: {{Implied}} in some of their earlier sketches in the series but best seen[[spoiler: during the events of the Anniversary specials, when, a good while after their divorce, Charlie shows genuine concern when he starts to believe that Stella's new partner is physically abusing her. When he asks her about it she silently, somewhat longingly, looks almost answers, then hesitates and then fully pulls back at him]].as they both fall silent]].
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An [[UnwantedSpouse unhappily married]] couple living in Royston Vasey who use any third party present as means by which to carry out their arguments and insults.

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An A [[UnwantedSpouse unhappily dysfunctional married]] couple living in Royston Vasey who use any third party present as means by which to carry out their arguments and insults.
insults, whether that be their waiter or their neighbor's baby.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: He appears in 2 individual sketches in series one but has a major role in a subplot n the series 3 premire.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: He appears in 2 individual sketches in series one but has a major role in a subplot n in the series 3 premire.


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* ScatterbrainedSenior: Ernest has shades of this. He gets carried away in conversation, usually forgetting what disability the person he's speaking to and consequently insulting them by accident. In series 1 episode 5 he even says "I'm goin' daft in my old age.".
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* PreAsskickingOneLiner: When he loses his patience with Mike King the latter tries to defend his actions with a saying that starts with "When the shit's been shat", before he can finish Lance responds with "I'll shit '''you'''." and delivers a knuckle sandwich.
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* AssholeVictim: In season three, when Phil "falls" out of the wheelchair Ollie gave him for their method acting exercise and says he can't get up, to annoy Ollie, the latter screams and then at a muscular man who interjects and subsequently beats the snow out of Ollie.

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* AssholeVictim: In season three, when Phil "falls" out of the wheelchair Ollie gave him for their method acting exercise and says he can't get up, to annoy Ollie, the latter screams and then at a muscular man who interjects and subsequently beats the snow snot out of Ollie.
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* AssholeVictim: In season three, when Phil "falls" out of the wheelchair Ollie gave him for their method acting exercise and says he can't get up, to annoy Ollie, the latter screams and then at a muscular man who interjects and subsequently beats the snow out of Ollie.
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* [[spoiler: UncertainDoom]]: At the end of the funeral scene in the 2018 live tour he's [[spoiler: stuffed into a coffin by Pauline, a coffin which then sent off to an incinerator]]. However, this live show is questionably canon.

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* [[spoiler: UncertainDoom]]: At the end of the funeral scene in the 2018 live tour he's [[spoiler: stuffed into a coffin by Pauline, a coffin which is then sent off to an incinerator]]. However, this live show is questionably canon.
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* MarriedToTheJob: To the point that there isn't space for any other meaningful relationship let alone for a marriage of another kind. That's why ItsPersonal with Pauline, she made him hate the one thing that he had in his life. That makes him even more..

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* MarriedToTheJob: To the point that there isn't space for any other meaningful relationship let alone for a marriage of another kind. That's why ItsPersonal with Pauline, she made him hate the one thing that he had in his life. That makes him even more..

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* [[spoiler: BackForTheFinale]]: He makes a brief appearance [[spoiler: evacuating the other women from the wife mine before it explodes in the "LIVE Again" tour]].



* [[spoiler: BackForTheFinale]]: He makes a brief appearance [[spoiler: evacuating the other women from the wife mine before it explodes in the "LIVE Again" tour]].
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* DoesNotLikeSpam: Living on food from the bins at Hammonds, he laments always getting egg mayonnaise sandwiches.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Barry fails to realize he's only supposed to use force with ''uncooperative'' debtors.
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* YouAreFat: Barry is very sensitive about his weight and any time it's brought up he only refers to himself as large. His insecurity is exploited by Lisgoe during their training role play. The biggest visual gag using his weight occurs when Lisoge throws him to the floor of his office (fashioned from a train car) which promptly starts swaying due to the weight imbalance.
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* InsistentTerminology: Any time Barry is called fat he interjects specifying that he's "large".

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* InsistentTerminology: Any time Barry is called fat he interjects interjects, specifying that he's "large".
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* InsistantTerminology: Any time Barry is called fat he interjects specifying that he's "large".

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* InsistantTerminology: InsistentTerminology: Any time Barry is called fat he interjects specifying that he's "large".

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* InsistantTerminology: Any time Barry is called fat he interjects specifying that he's "large".



* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Despite working for a cut throat loan shark like Lisgoe, Barry is a very meek, polite and cowardly man. [[spoiler: Until he gets a "lesson" in dealing with troublesome debtors from his boss.]]

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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Despite working for a cut throat loan shark like Lisgoe, Barry is a very meek, polite and cowardly man. [[spoiler: Until he gets a "lesson" some "retraining" in dealing with troublesome debtors from his boss.]]
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* AffablyEvil: A necrophiliac who became a mortician to satisfy his urges but is actually a rather personable and friendly man, as his lecture to some medical residents indicates.
* CheshireCatGrin: Briefly flashes one to his residents (and by extension the camera) as he's being taken away by the cops.

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* AffablyEvil: A necrophiliac who became a mortician to satisfy his urges but is actually a rather personable and friendly man, as his lecture to some medical residents indicates.man.
* CheshireCatGrin: Briefly flashes one to his residents (and by extension the camera) camera as he's being taken away by the cops.



* ILoveTheDead: The punchline to the one prolonged scene he appears in is the reveal that he is exactly this and has taken advantage of his position to pleasure himself, the reveal is followed right away by two cops walking in and arresting him.

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* ILoveTheDead: The punchline to the one prolonged scene he appears in is the reveal that he is exactly this and has taken advantage of his position to pleasure himself, the reveal is followed right away by two cops a cop walking in and arresting him.
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[[caption-width-right:343:"The only things you regret in life are the ones you don't do."]]

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[[caption-width-right:343:"The only things you ever regret in life are the ones things you don't never do."]]
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* SkewedPriorities: When Glenn and Barry not only fail to collect on a debt, but lose 15 pounds, Barry starts crying, not because he's now in even more hot water with his very violent boss, but because he can't buy ice cream.

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