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* ArousedByTheirVoice: Combined with BadassBaritone by [[spoiler:Conroy]] in ''Prison Ain't All That Bad.''
* BigEater: Duncan

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* EmbarrassingFirstName: [[spoiler:Clive]] Simon
* FictionalPoliticalParty
* FiveManBand
** TheLeader: Jared
** TheLancer: Mel
** TheSmartGuy: Simon
** TheBigGuy: Duncan
** TheChick: Phoebe

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* FictionalPoliticalParty
* FiveManBand
** TheLeader: Jared
** TheLancer: Mel
** TheSmartGuy: Simon
** TheBigGuy: Duncan
** TheChick: Phoebe
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* [[HaveIMentionedIAmGay Have I Mentioned I Am Bi]]: [[spoiler:Mel [[Administrivia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler (Mel)]]]] came out in ''All Publicity Is Good Publicity'', but nobody ever mentioned it again, and we've never seen anything to back it up.

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* [[HaveIMentionedIAmGay Have I Mentioned I Am Bi]]: [[spoiler:Mel [[Administrivia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler (Mel)]]]] HaveIMentionedIAmGay: [[spoiler:Mel]] came out in ''All Publicity Is Good Publicity'', but nobody ever mentioned it again, and we've never seen anything to back it up.



* InformedAttribute: [[spoiler:Mel [[Administrivia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler (Mel)]]]]'s bisexuality.

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* KavorkaMan: If Jared [[UrbanLegendLoveLife really has]] slept with eight women in the past year...

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* WideEyedIdealist: All of them, to some extent.
* UsefulNotes/WithEuropeButNotOfIt: Discussed at length throughout ''The Splits.''

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* UsefulNotes/WithEuropeButNotOfIt: Discussed at length throughout ''The Splits.''
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* AltumVidetur: Gladius (pronounced '''''Glad'''''''iaaarse'')


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* GratuitousLatin: Gladius (pronounced '''''Glad'''''''iaaarse'')
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* WithEuropeButNotOfIt: Discussed at length throughout ''The Splits.''

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Party is a [[TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] sitcom about five naive students trying to set up a new political party. It was adapted by Tom Basden (of {{Radio/Cowards}}) from his play of the same name, which premièred at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Basden also co-stars as Simon. Party currently consists of three series containing four episodes each, broadcast in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

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Party is a [[TheBBC [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] sitcom about five naive students trying to set up a new political party. It was adapted by Tom Basden (of {{Radio/Cowards}}) from his play of the same name, which premièred at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Basden also co-stars as Simon. Party currently consists of three series containing four episodes each, broadcast in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
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* BritishUnis: The main cast are all undergrad students of various subjects throughout series one and two. They apparently live in Hertfordshire, and could all plausibly be attending the University of Hertfordshire.

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* BritishUnis: UsefulNotes/BritishUnis: The main cast are all undergrad students of various subjects throughout series one and two. They apparently live in Hertfordshire, and could all plausibly be attending the University of Hertfordshire.
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* [[HaveIMentionedIAmGay Have I Mentioned I Am Bi]]: [[spoiler:Mel [[Administravia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler (Mel)]]]] came out in ''All Publicity Is Good Publicity'', but nobody ever mentioned it again, and we've never seen anything to back it up.

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* [[HaveIMentionedIAmGay Have I Mentioned I Am Bi]]: [[spoiler:Mel [[Administravia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler [[Administrivia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler (Mel)]]]] came out in ''All Publicity Is Good Publicity'', but nobody ever mentioned it again, and we've never seen anything to back it up.



* InformedAttribute: [[spoiler:Mel [[Administravia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler (Mel)]]]]'s bisexuality.

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* InformedAttribute: [[spoiler:Mel [[Administravia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler [[Administrivia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler (Mel)]]]]'s bisexuality.
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* [[HaveIMentionedIAmGay Have I Mentioned I Am Bi]]: [[spoiler:Mel]] came out in ''All Publicity Is Good Publicity'', but nobody ever mentioned it again, and we've never seen anything to back it up.

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* [[HaveIMentionedIAmGay Have I Mentioned I Am Bi]]: [[spoiler:Mel]] [[spoiler:Mel [[Administravia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler (Mel)]]]] came out in ''All Publicity Is Good Publicity'', but nobody ever mentioned it again, and we've never seen anything to back it up.



* InformedAttribute: [[spoiler:Mel]]'s bisexuality.

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* InformedAttribute: [[spoiler:Mel]]'s [[spoiler:Mel [[Administravia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler (Mel)]]]]'s bisexuality.
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Party is a [[TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] sitcom about five naive students trying to set up a new political party. It was adapted by Tom Basden (of {{Radio/Cowards}} from his play of the same name, which premièred at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Basden also co-stars as Simon. Party currently consists of three series containing four episodes each, broadcast in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

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Party is a [[TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] sitcom about five naive students trying to set up a new political party. It was adapted by Tom Basden (of {{Radio/Cowards}} {{Radio/Cowards}}) from his play of the same name, which premièred at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Basden also co-stars as Simon. Party currently consists of three series containing four episodes each, broadcast in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
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Party is a [[TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] sitcom about five naive students trying to set up a new political party. It was adapted by Tom Basden from his play of the same name, which premièred at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Basden also co-stars as Simon. Party currently consists of three series containing four episodes each, broadcast in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

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Party is a [[TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] sitcom about five naive students trying to set up a new political party. It was adapted by Tom Basden (of {{Radio/Cowards}} from his play of the same name, which premièred at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Basden also co-stars as Simon. Party currently consists of three series containing four episodes each, broadcast in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
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* AccidentalPervert: How Jared accounts for his offscreen groping of a girl called Elaine, and his awkward accidental kiss with Phoebe in ''All Publicity Is Good Publicity.''


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* MistakenIdentity: [[spoiler:Duncan]] for [[spoiler:Jared]] in ''Radio.'' They play along and HilarityEnsues.
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* BritishUnis: The main cast are all undergrad students of various subjects throughout series one and two. They apparently live in Hertfordshire, and could all plausibly be attending the University of Hertfordshire.



* DumbMuscle: Duncan during series three.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: Phoebe to Duncan, ever since he came back [[InformedAttractiveness stacked]] at the start of series three.



* IWasToldThereWouldBeCake: The main reason Duncan joined the party in the first place.



* LiteralMinded: Duncan, to the frustration of his fellow characters and [[ComicallyMissingThePoint great amusement of the audience.]]
-->'''Mel:''' ''[Comparing the party to an aeroplane]'' None of us are pilots.\\
'''Phoebe:''' But we're all very much in the cockpit.\\
'''Mel:''' Exactly.\\
'''Duncan:''' So we're hijackers?
* NonSpecificallyForeign: The European stranger in ''The Splits.''
* PoliticiansKissBabies: Jared and Phoebe hatch a plan to exploit this in ''Radio.'' WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong
* PoppingButtons: Happens to Duncan at the worst possible moment during ''Radio.''
* RealTime: Every episode is a single, continuous, half-hour-long scene. Their original broadcast dates could easily be real time too, with one meeting per week and the characters ageing at an appropriate rate.



* WideEyedIdealist: All of them, to some extent.

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* WideEyedIdealist: All of them, to some extent.extent.
* WithEuropeButNotOfIt: Discussed at length throughout ''The Splits.''

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->'''Duncan:''' You can just do that, then? You can just... form a party?\\
'''Jared:''' Yeah.\\
'''Duncan:''' Right. And you don't need any... adults around?\\




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* [[HaveIMentionedIAmGay Have I Mentioned I Am Bi]]: [[spoiler:Mel]] came out in ''All Publicity Is Good Publicity'', but nobody ever mentioned it again, and we've never seen anything to back it up.
* InformedAttribute: [[spoiler:Mel]]'s bisexuality.
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[[caption-width-right:335:Clockwise from top left: [[TheDitz Duncan]], [[LoserProtagonist Simon]], [[TheFashionista Phoebe]], [[SmallNameBigEgo Jared]] and [[SoapboxSadie Mel.]]]]

Party is a [[TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] sitcom about five naive students trying to set up a new political party. It was adapted by Tom Basden from his play of the same name, which premièred at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Basden also co-stars as Simon. Party currently consists of three series containing four episodes each, broadcast in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

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!!!''Party'' contains examples of:
* AccidentalUnfortunateGesture: By Jared's mum in ''It's Technology, Stupid,'' leading to a ''very'' troubling case of NonverbalMiscommunication.
* AdaptationExpansion
* AltumVidetur: Gladius (pronounced '''''Glad'''''''iaaarse'')
* AnticlimacticParent: Mister Simon in ''Prison Ain't All That Bad.''
* ArousedByTheirVoice: Combined with BadassBaritone by [[spoiler:Conroy]] in ''Prison Ain't All That Bad.''
* BigEater: Duncan
* CrackDefeat: The results of the leadership election in Episode 1.
* CrazyHomelessPeople: At the end of Jared's parents' garden in ''Is The Party Over?''
* DeliciousDistraction: Duncan frequently derails meetings by fretting out loud about, for example, biscuits.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: [[spoiler:Clive]] Simon
* FictionalPoliticalParty
* FiveManBand
** TheLeader: Jared
** TheLancer: Mel
** TheSmartGuy: Simon
** TheBigGuy: Duncan
** TheChick: Phoebe
* InsistentTerminology: It's not a shed, it's a summer house.
* KavorkaMan: If Jared [[UrbanLegendLoveLife really has]] slept with eight women in the past year...
* SleazyPolitician: Jared, with the emphasis on the sleaze rather than the politics.
* WideEyedIdealist: All of them, to some extent.

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