History Series / CitizenKhan

** In Series 2, Mrs. Khan declares that the family will be celebrating the Christian holiday (even though the Khans are Muslim) because it will probably be the last winter the family will be together and she want to do something special. Of course Mr. Khan goes and makes a mess of things.
** The Series 3 Christmas Special was intended as a finale for a 3 series plan that Adil Ray had from the show's inception. Birmingham is preparing an interfaith Christmas ceremony and Mr. Khan is to have the honor of placing the star on top of the city's Christmas tree. Shazia goes into labor early, though, and the ensuing chain of events turns into a comedic retelling of the story of Jesus' birth.

** Series 5 had a retelling of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' based around what would have happened to Sparkhill had Mr. Khan not decided to stay 25 years prior.

* FunnyForeigner: Mr. Khan is viewed in this light by white British viewers - as a first generation immigrant who makes frequent amusing cultural misunderstandings. His savvier children are alternately embarrassed and horrified.
** Omar counts as an example to the Pakistani characters, being from Somalia. The main joke behind him being, the characters react to his accent and stories of home, much the same way you would expect the English to react to the Pakistanis.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Discussed InUniverse. According to Mr. Khan, Pakistanis love British journalist Clare Balding because because she "loves her sport, she's very healthy, and friends with Mo Farah". He admires her so much that he gives a signed photo of her pride of place in the living room. One wonders what he might do if he realized that she's also a lesbian.
* GetRichQuickScheme: Mr. Khan is always getting himself caught up in these. He even abuses his wife's staff discount card at the local supermarket to stock up on baby diapers and selling them to local mothers at a profit after said store set up a quota system.

* HiddenDepths: Mr. Khan can seem to be quite callous to those around him, not appearing to care about how his actions affect his loved ones as long as he can try and increase his standing in the community. But, unlike many sitcom husbands, he actually remembers romantic milestones he shares with his wife and even recreates the first meal they shared as a married couple on their anniversary without any of the usual last minute panic.

** Mrs Khan's snobby rival Mrs Malik ends up on the end of this after her snobbish insistence on Amjad abandoning the 'lesser' Khan family causes her to go into a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and end up being arrested for assaulting a police officer.

** Mr. Khan wasn't always like that. Apparently he was quite the dandy in his youth in Pakistan.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: During Series 3's Christmas Special, Mr. Khan makes the family's Christmas chicken curry extra extra spicy because Amjad says that it tastes mild and he doesn't want to look unmanly in front of his son in law. Unfortunately, the result is so spicy that it induces early labor in Shazia.

* OneSteveLimit: Following a set of humorous misunderstandings, the police have to arrest a Mr. Khan at an international cricket match at Edgebaston. All the arresting officers have to go on is that the arrestee is a Pakistani called Khan. Which at an international fixture involving the Pakistani side means the list of suspects is about ten thousand long. The man arrested - by another set of humorous misunderstandings - is the Citizen Khan who in RealLife had just been elected Mayor of London. The arresting coppers refuse to believe this. Meanwhile, a third set of humorous misunderstandings have ''our'' Citizen Khan mistaken for RealLife Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan...

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Series 1 had a red-headed mosque manager named Dave who converted to Islam later in life. In Series 2, he's replaced by a red-headed mosque manager named Dave who converted to Islam later in life. These are distinct characters, not an example of TheOtherDarrin. One suspects that the writers had Series 2 almost completed when Kris Marshall decided to leave and and only added a few lines introducing Matthew Cottle's version of Dave into Series 2's first episode to avoid having to go back and make more extensive changes.
* TooMuchInformation: When Mr. Khan tries to diplomatically probe to see if Shazia and Amjad are having any "marital issues", Amjad cheerfully tells him that they have no problems in that department and proceeds to talk about the voracoius amounts of sex they're having before Mr. Khan can tell him to shut up.
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Naani and Mr. Khan are both very fond of custard creams, which is occasionally a source of tension between them. In one instance, Mr. Kahn is shown to hide them in his pockets to stop Naani eating them.

** Mr. Khan initially tried to be tough around Scabby, Alia's boyfriend in Series 4 and 5, but ends up being won over by the fact that Scabby is actually a nice boy with a genuine interest in Islam and Pakistan.

* VerbalTic: Mr. Khan loudly clears his throat whenever he lies. Sometimes Mrs. Khan might glare at him suspiciously, but no one ever directly calls him out over this tell.

* BilingualDialogue: In Series 2 Naani spoke almost entirely in unsbutitled Punjabi (with the occasional bits of English to let viewers get the gist of what she was saying) while everyone else spoke to her in English. She started speaking in English in Series 3.

* DartboardOfHate: Naani has one of Mr Khan in her trunk.

* FunnyForeigner: Mr Khan is viewed in this light by white British viewers - as a first generation immigrant who makes frequent amusing cultural misunderstandings. His savvier children are alternately embarrassed and horrified.

* OneSteveLimit: Following a set of humorous misunderstandings, the police have to arrest a Mr Khan at an international cricket match at Edgebaston. All the arresting officers have to go on is that the arrestee is a Pakistani called Khan. Which at an international fixture involving the Pakistani side means the list of suspects is about ten thousand long. The man arrested - by another set of humorous misunderstandings - is the Citizen Khan who in RealLife had just been elected Mayor of London. The arresting coppers refuse to believe this. Meanwhile, a third set of humorous misunderstandings have ''our'' Citizen Khan mistaken for RealLife Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan...
* TheDitz: Amjad.
* TheScrooge: Mr Khan. As well as being tightfisted in general, he also exploits the free photocopier in the Mosque's office and generally takes advantage of Keith's, his neighbor, good-naturedness, even stealing Keith's Christmas lights:
-->'''Mr Khan:''' Keith, have you changed your internet password?

-->'''Mr Khan:''' Well bloody well change it back again!

* TheUnfavorite: Shazia. She is the target of frequent criticism from her father even though she is the good girl of the family, with a decent job and preparing to get married. Mr. Khan's affections and money, instead, are heaped upon Alia, Shazia's sister, who's failed out of school, sneaks out at night, and only pays lip service to her religion and culture.

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Naani and Mr Khan are both very fond of custard creams, which is occasionally a source of tension between them. In one instance, Mr Kahn is shown to hide them in his pockets to stop Naani eating them.

* AcceptableTargets:
** Anything and ''everything'' that has to do with India is given a skewering on the show. In fact, Mr. Khan finds it distasteful to even be in the same building as an Indian.
** Redheads don't fair much better, either.

** Mr. Khan often exclaims "Oh, twadi!" whenever his lies and schemes start to fall apart. People might assume that this is GettingCrapPastTheRadar, but it's simply Punjabi for "Oh, dear/shoot".

** Omar counts as an example to the Pakistani characters, being from Somalia. The main joke behind him being, the characters react to his accent and stories of home, much the same way you would expect the English to react to the Pakistani's.

''Citizen Khan'' is a sitcom airing on BBC One. Created by, written by, and starring Adil Ray, the show is about the titular Mr. Khan, a self-styled 'community leader' within Sparkhill, Birmingham's Pakistani community. Episodes usually revolve around Mr. Khan attempting to throw his weight around, getting into trouble as a result, and trying to keep the fallout a secret from his wife.

* ChristmasEpisode: Series 2 had a Christmas Special. Mrs. Khan declares that the family will be celebrating the Christian holiday (even though the Khans are Muslim) because it will probably be the last winter the family will be together and she want to do something special. Of course Mr. Khan goes and makes a mess of things.
** Series 3 also had a Christmas Special, intended as a finale for a 3 series plan that Adil Ray had from the show's inception. Birmingham is preparing an interfaith Christmas ceremony and Mr. Khan is to have the honor of placing the star on top of the city's Christmas tree. Shazia goes into labor early, though, and the ensuing chain of events turns into a comedic retelling of the story of Jesus' birth.

** Amjad becomes a Police Community Support Officer in Series 3 and begins training to become a fully-qualified police officer in Series 4.

** Amjad becomes a Police Community Support Officer in Series 3.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Naani was originally a grumpy old woman who spoke mostly in Punjabi. Starting in Sereis 3, however, she started speaking exclusively in English and became a much more animated character with hints of a dirty sense of humor. Her rivalry with Mr. Khan continues unabated, however.

* GrowingTheBeard: The show became increasingly confident in its use of humor with each subsequent series, with jokes about things like sex and body issues being delivered head on in Series 3 while they were tiptoed around in Series 1.

* HypocriticalHumour: A recurring gag is Mr. Khan is very anti-immigration, despite being an immigrant himself (something he disagree's with on the grounds he's been in England for forty years).

* OneSteveLimit: Following a set of humorous misunderstandings, the police have to arrest a Mr Khan at an international cricket match at Edgebaston. All the arresting officers have to go is that the arestee is a Pakistani called Khan. Which at an international fixture involving the Pakistani side means the list of suspects is about ten thousand long. The man arrested - by another set of humorous misunderstandings - is the Citizen Khan who in RealLife had just been elected Mayor of London. The arresting coppers refuse to believe this. Meanwhile, a third set of humorous misunderstandings have ''our'' Citizen Khan mistaken for RealLife Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan...

->"Welcome to Sparkhill, Birmingham: the capitol of British Pakistan. They all know me! Like my suit? Number one! Citizen Khan!"
-->''Opening Narration''

This series provides examples of:

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* DodgyToupee: Mr. Malik wears a truly awful hairpiece and Mr. Khan struggles with [[FreudianSlip Freudian slips]] it when they're together.