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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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* ScatterbrainedSenior: Ernest has shades of this. He gets carried away in conversation, usually forgetting what disability the person he's speaking to has 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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* 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 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 at Phil and then at a muscular man who interjects and subsequently beats the snot out of Ollie.
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* ArcVillain: [[spoiler: It's his special stuff that causes the nose bleeds at heart of series 2]].
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* ArcVillain: [[spoiler: It's his special stuff that causes the nose bleeds at the heart of series 2]].
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* AbusiveParents: The fact they essentially treat their daughter as an item to use in contests and yell at her almost every time they address her, best seen when they answer questions for her and, when she ask for directions to the toilet, they scream at her, telling her to only speak when spoken to.
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* AbusiveParents: The fact they essentially treat their daughter as an item to use in contests and yell at her almost every time they address her, best seen when they answer questions for her and, when she ask asks for directions to the toilet, they scream at her, telling her to only speak when spoken to.
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* AbusiveParents: The fact the essentially treat their daughter as an item to use in contests and yell at her almost every time they address her, best seen when they answer questions for her and, when she ask for directions to the toilet, they scream at her, telling her to only speak when spoken to.
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* AbusiveParents: The fact the they essentially treat their daughter as an item to use in contests and yell at her almost every time they address her, best seen when they answer questions for her and, when she ask for directions to the toilet, they scream at her, telling her to only speak when spoken to.
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* Gonk: Given his teeth, unibrow and messy circle beard, Terry is one of the most visually unappealing characters in the show.
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* Gonk: {{Gonk}}: Given his teeth, unibrow and messy circle beard, Terry is one of the most visually unappealing characters in the show.
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* Manchild: Or rather, womanchild, as Anne is quite possibly ''the'' most mentally deficient character in the entire franchise. She covers her face in fear of a simplistic drawing of Hell, has to be pulled away from a door by Terry when no one answers it and barely reacts when Terry later pushes her to the ground.
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* Manchild: Or rather, womanchild, as {{Womanchild}}: Anne is quite possibly ''the'' most mentally deficient character in the entire franchise. She covers her face in fear of a simplistic drawing of Hell, has to be pulled away from a door by Terry when no one answers it and barely reacts when Terry later pushes her to the ground.
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* Womanchild: Anne is quite possibly ''the'' most mentally deficient character in the entire franchise. She covers her face in fear of a simplistic drawing of Hell, has to be pulled away from a door by Terry when no one answers it and barely reacts when Terry later pushes her to the ground.
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* Womanchild: Manchild: Or rather, womanchild, as Anne is quite possibly ''the'' most mentally deficient character in the entire franchise. She covers her face in fear of a simplistic drawing of Hell, has to be pulled away from a door by Terry when no one answers it and barely reacts when Terry later pushes her to the ground.
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->Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, respectively
Terry Lollard and Anne Hand are a pair of door-to-door advertisers working for a religious organization that also deals in renovations. Terry is and irritable man with a thin mask of politeness, whilst Anne is a mentally disabled woman with child-like mannerisms.
* BlatantLies: Terry claims that what are obviously drawings are in fact photographs, if the one woman we see him and Anne advertising to is any indication, he tends to have trouble convincing people that he's correct on the matter.
* BritishTeeth: Terry's teeth are are very yellow as well as crooked and spread widely apart.
* Gonk: Given his teeth, unibrow and messy circle beard, Terry is one of the most visually unappealing characters in the show.
* HairTriggerTemper: Terry very quickly drops the amicable persona he has at the start of his sketch and ends up screaming at the woman he's advertising to and pushing Anne to the ground.
* JerkAss: What little we see of Terry paints him as a very unpleasant individual, from his sleazy sales tactics to his violent and explosive temper.
* Womanchild: Anne is quite possibly ''the'' most mentally deficient character in the entire franchise. She covers her face in fear of a simplistic drawing of Hell, has to be pulled away from a door by Terry when no one answers it and barely reacts when Terry later pushes her to the ground.
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A wealthy couple and the over competeative parents (or in Nancy's case, step-parent) to child pageant entrant, Casey Glass. It's rather obvious they're only enter Casey into the pageants for the sake of Nancy's ego.
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* StealingTheCredit: After seeing another girl in the pageant in a Cleopatra costume they can later be heard telling their private costume design to make a Cleopatra costume for Casey's next pageant.
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[[caption-width-right:738:"Casey, speak when you're spoken to!"]]
->Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, respectively
A wealthy couple and the over competeative parents (or in Nancy's case, step-parent) to child pageant entrant, Casey Glass. It's rather obvious they're only enter Casey into the pageants for the sake of Nancy's ego.
* AbusiveParents: The fact the essentially treat their daughter as an item to use in contests and yell at her almost every time they address her, best seen when they answer questions for her and, when she ask for directions to the toilet, they scream at her, telling her to only speak when spoken to.
* BaldOfEvil: Noel is one of the most abusive parents in the show and has a rather prominent bald spot which he usually covers up with a wide-brimmed hat.
* HappilyMarried: If the couple can be said to have any positive qualities, it's that they really do love each other.
* HateSink: Every scene they're in just sets the bar for their behavior lower and lower.
* StageMom: In a rare example, applies to both parents, though Nancy does have more emotional investment in the pageants, as she's using them to live vicariously.
* VicariouslyAmbitious: Nancy specifically, as when Noel is speaking on the phone to their costume designer saying that "she won" he hands the phone to Nancy so she can express her excitement while holding the trophy that was awarded to Casey.
* WickedStepmother: Not only is Nancy just as abusive to Casey as Noel is, but it's implied the reason Noel started acting that way in the first place is because his new wife was [[VicariouslyAmbitious Vicariously Ambitious]].
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* OlderThanTheyLook: [[PlayedFowLaughs]]. He looks to be in his mid to late fifties but is in fact 40.[[spoiler: Immediately after revealing this information he suffers a fatal heart attack, which leads to the deaths of the other sexplorers]].
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* OlderThanTheyLook: [[PlayedFowLaughs]].[[PlayedForLaughs Played For Laughs]]. He looks to be in his mid to late fifties but is in fact 40.[[spoiler: Immediately after revealing this information he suffers a fatal heart attack, which leads to the deaths of the other sexplorers]].
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* SeriousBuisness: He takes erotic experiments so seriously that before he reveals his creation, he gives a presentation on the history of auto-erotic asphyxiation.
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[[caption-width-right:394:"Mr Steele?... I beleive you are expecting me."]]
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A secretive "sex scientist" whose come to The Windermiere to demonstrate his latest creation, an auto-erotic asphyxiation device known as ''The Medusa''.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: {{Zigzagged}} as he's the only guest at The Windermiere who doesn't die in the medusa, whovever, his last words before his fatal heart attack imply it may have been caused be him testing the device on himself.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[PlayedFowLaughs]]. He looks to be in his mid to late fifties but is in fact 40.[[spoiler: Immediately after revealing this information he suffers a fatal heart attack, which leads to the deaths of the other sexplorers]].
* SeriousBuisness: He takes erotic experiments so seriously that before he reveals his creation, he gives a presentation on the history of auto-erotic asphyxiation.
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->Steve Pemberton
A secretive "sex scientist" whose come to The Windermiere to demonstrate his latest creation, an auto-erotic asphyxiation device known as ''The Medusa''.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: {{Zigzagged}} as he's the only guest at The Windermiere who doesn't die in the medusa, whovever, his last words before his fatal heart attack imply it may have been caused be him testing the device on himself.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[PlayedFowLaughs]]. He looks to be in his mid to late fifties but is in fact 40.[[spoiler: Immediately after revealing this information he suffers a fatal heart attack, which leads to the deaths of the other sexplorers]].
* SeriousBuisness: He takes erotic experiments so seriously that before he reveals his creation, he gives a presentation on the history of auto-erotic asphyxiation.
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An employee and Royston Vasey's garden center and mistress to Alvin Steele in his feature episode in series 3.
* TheBore: Just like Alvin, she isn't exactly good at keeping people interested. In her case it's even worse given her completely flat voice.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: When we're first introduced to Judith she's pitching an insecticide to a customer at the garden center by listing pests it's effective against. The last species she lists off? Domestic cats.
* CreepyMonotone: {{Downplayed}}, but her voice can certainly come across as off, [[spoiler: especially when she incredibly calmly discusses hiding 10 dead bodies with Alvin and proves how [[GenreSavvy Genre Savvy]] she is]].
* GenreSavvy: She instantly realizes [[spoiler: that no one would believe her and Alvin if they told the authorities what really happened to the sexplorers and the they would be [[MistakenForMurder Mistaken For Murder]]]].
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* StepfordSmiler: As soon as it becomes apparent that the person he's speaking to is going to seer the topic of discussion towards the sexual, Alvin's smile instantly becomes noticeably forced and completely fades in a few seconds. This tends to happen ''a lot''.
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* [[spoiler: RevealingCoverup]]: [[spoiler: Alvin's attempt at hiding the bodies of the sexplorers under the dining room tables doesn't go as planned, mainly due to the bodies still being in vacuum suits which produce farts sounds at the slightest movement.]]
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The owner of The Windermiere hotel and passionate gardener. Despite his mild mannered personality he's married to Sunny, a self proclaimed "sexplorer" and has forced him into that lifestyle due to his reluctance.
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The owner of The Windermiere hotel and passionate gardener. Despite his mild mannered personality he's married to Sunny, a self proclaimed "sexplorer" and who has forced him into that lifestyle due to in spite of his reluctance.
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* TheBore: Alvin's fondness for telling the story about him and Sunny seeing a one man performance of Robin Hood not only makes him this but is based almost verbatim on a story told to Mark Gatiss by a hotel owner once. He is also this in the context of Sunny's swinger life style, best seen in series 3, where, while everyone else is talking about something sexual, Alvin is discussing his gardening.
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* UselessAccessory: Alvin's neck brace serves only as a distinguishing prop to make him recognizable at a glance compared to Mark's other characters.
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* GiftedlyBad: At the swinger life-style Sunny has roped him into, partly due to his slightly prudish nature, but mostly because of his cartoonishly boring interests and long winded stories.
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->Mark Gatiss
The owner of The Windermiere hotel and passionate gardener. Despite his mild mannered personality he's married to Sunny, a self proclaimed "sexplorer" and has forced him into that lifestyle due to his reluctance.
* ADayInTheLimelight: He only has a sub plot in one series 2 episode before starring in the fourth episode of series 3.
* HenpeckedHusband: Judith outright [[LampshadeHanging calls him this]] in series 3, adding a "pathetic" in front of it, just for good mesure.
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->Mark Gatiss
The owner of The Windermiere hotel and passionate gardener. Despite his mild mannered personality he's married to Sunny, a self proclaimed "sexplorer" and has forced him into that lifestyle due to his reluctance.
* ADayInTheLimelight: He only has a sub plot in one series 2 episode before starring in the fourth episode of series 3.
* HenpeckedHusband: Judith outright [[LampshadeHanging calls him this]] in series 3, adding a "pathetic" in front of it, just for good mesure.
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* 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.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Why Phil ever became friends with Tish is a '''really''' good question consider considering she just drags him around to listen to her stereotyping ramblings about gay men.
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* [[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.]]
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* [[spoiler: GreaterScopeVillain]]: [[spoiler: Him choosing to use Geoff in his car-bombing plot results in Geoff stealing the Legz Akmibo Akimbo van and causing the car crash all the main plots revolve around.]]
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: During her sketch in the ''Live at Drury Lane'' stage show she has blonde hair tied in pigtails, while in series 3 she sports messy, dark brown hair with blue and red dyed streaks.
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* [spoiler: TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler: His plan to frame Geoff for the car-bombing goes off without a hitch.]]
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* [fspoiler: TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler: His plan to frame Geoff for the car-bombing goes off without a hitch.]]
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* MotorMouth: Tish almost never lets anyone around her get a word before she goes on another tangent.
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* TellHimImNotSpeakingToHim: It's a [[RunningGag Running Gag]] throughout all of their skits in the first 2 series.
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* MadLibsCatchphrase: "[some random tangent or stereotype] D'you know what I mean by that?"
