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* BaitAndSwitch: Martin falls in love with a nurse who happens to be a virgin. Cut to him in bed, commenting about when it's all over, you feel all happy and satisfied, suggesting that he just had sex with the nurse. Turns out that he was actually watching [=TV=] with Matt.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Martin falls in love with a nurse who happens to be a virgin. Cut to him in bed, commenting about when it's all over, you feel all happy and satisfied, suggesting that he just had sex with the nurse. Turns out that he was actually just watching [=TV=] with Matt.



* DownerEnding: The series ends this way. It focuses on Mandy and Archie's wedding. However, Archie is killed before he has a chance to go through with it. The series ends with a distraught Mandy realizing that she will probably never move out of the flat and that she's stuck with the other two for life.

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* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: In the final episode, Martin encounters a woman called Rachel, who looks a lot like his former girlfriend Claire. He immediately tries to get together with her due to her appearance, even giving her a wig and asking her to speak in an Irish accent, but is rebuked for his efforts.
* DownerEnding: The series ends this way. It show's final episode focuses on Mandy and Archie's wedding. However, Archie is killed before he has a the chance to go through with it. The series thus ends with a distraught Mandy realizing that she will probably never move out of the flat and that she's stuck with the other two for life.



* DrivenToSuicide: Mandy's response to learning that her would-be fiancee is dead is to attempt to kill herself by crashing the car.. With Martin. Martin is able to convince her not to go through with it by reminding her about the people she could harm.

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* DrivenToSuicide: Mandy's response to learning that her would-be fiancee is dead is to attempt to kill herself by crashing the car.. With Martin. car... with Martin in there as well. Thankfully, Martin is able to convince her not to go through with it by reminding her about the people she could harm.



* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Series 2 employed an X and Y titling scheme e.g "Roundheads and Cavaliers", "Heavy Bondage and Custard Creams", etc

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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Series 2 employed an X and Y titling scheme e.g "Roundheads and Cavaliers", "Heavy Bondage and Custard Creams", etcetc.



* WeddingFinale: {{Subverted}}. In the final episode, Mandy is due to marry Archie. However, before they can do so, Archie is killed whilst trying to pull over to fulfil the final challenge set by his old marine unit.

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* WeddingFinale: {{Subverted}}. In {{Subverted}}, in the final episode, which features Mandy is due about to marry a man named Archie. However, before they can do so, Archie is killed whilst trying to pull over to fulfil fulfill the final challenge set by his old marine unit.
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** Dennis and Ursula, an elderly couple who Martin borrows their car off to take Mandy to her wedding day.

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** Dennis and Ursula, an elderly couple who whose car Martin borrows their car off to take Mandy to her wedding day.for the wedding.
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* SpotOfTea: Ordered at least OnceAnEpisode.
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** '''Martin and Matthew''': "You'll always have ''us'', Mand!"

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** '''Martin -->'''Martin and Matthew''': "You'll always have ''us'', Mand!"

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%%* DownerEnding because StatusQuoIsGod
%%** "You'll always have ''us'', Mand!"

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%%* DownerEnding because StatusQuoIsGod
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* DownerEnding: The series ends this way. It focuses on Mandy and Archie's wedding. However, Archie is killed before he has a chance to go through with it. The series ends with a distraught Mandy realizing that she will probably never move out of the flat and that she's stuck with the other two for life.
** '''Martin and Matthew''':
"You'll always have ''us'', Mand!"Mand!"
* DrivenToSuicide: Mandy's response to learning that her would-be fiancee is dead is to attempt to kill herself by crashing the car.. With Martin. Martin is able to convince her not to go through with it by reminding her about the people she could harm.


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* IdenticalStranger: Martin encounters one who looks almost like his former girlfriend Claire in the series finale. He immediately buys her a nurse's outfit and wig, and gets her to speak in an Irish accent.
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* WeddingFinale: {{Subverted}}. In the final episode, Mandy is due to marry Archie. However, before they can do so, Archie is killed whilst trying to pull over to fulfil the final challenge set by his old marine unit.
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* TeenPregnancy: As revealed in "Crabs", Mandy had a daughter, named Sarah, during her teenage years with her former boyfriend, Stoat. By the time of the series, she had given the child up for adoption and said child never appears.
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* HelpImStuck: One episode had Mattew get his dick stuck up a vacuum cleaner, which is problematic because he is seeking to join the marines.

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* HelpImStuck: One episode had Mattew Matthew get his dick stuck up a vacuum cleaner, which is problematic because he is seeking to see and join the marines.marines not long afterward.
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* HelpImStuck: One episode had Mattew get his dick stuck up a vacuum cleaner, which is problematic because he is seeking to join the marines.
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* PayingInCoins: At the end of "Palms, Pigs, and Bad Debts", Mandy pays Martin her rent arrears in 50p coins (all gotten from the gains she made from the [[SwearJar Claire Box]]). There is at least a thousand paid in 50p coins and it's enough to be stored in several bags.
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* GiantNeedle: Martin tries to win Claire back by claiming that he had taken an overdose. A doctor proceeds to pull a big needle to help heal him. It's big enough that Matthew confesses to faking the overdose.

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* GiantNeedle: GiantMedicalSyringe: Martin tries to win Claire back by claiming that he had taken an overdose. A doctor proceeds to pull a big needle to help heal him. It's big enough that Matthew confesses to faking the overdose.

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* GiantNeedle: Martin tries to win Claire back by claiming that he had taken an overdose. A doctor proceeds to pull a big needle to help heal him. It's big enough that Matthew confesses to faking the overdose.



* OversizedNeedle: Martin tries to win Claire back by claiming that he had taken an overdose. A doctor proceeds to pull a big needle to help heal him. It's big enough that Matthew confesses to faking the overdose.
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* OversizedNeedle: Martin tries to win Claire back by claiming that he had taken an overdose. A doctor proceeds to pull a big needle to help heal him. It's big enough that Matthew confesses to faking the overdose.
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* TheGhost:
** Wally Bazoum, a Turkish man who is Martin's only other friend.
** Dennis and Ursula, an elderly couple who Martin borrows their car off to take Mandy to her wedding day.

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* ShootTheTelevision: At the end of one episode, the boys decide to test if a gun is actually real by aiming it at the [=TV=] and firing. It turns out to be real.



* ShootTheTelevision: At the end of one episode, the boys decide to test if a gun is actually real by aiming it at the [=TV=] and firing. It turns out to be real.
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* ShootTheTelevision: At the end of one episode, the boys decide to test if a gun is actually real by aiming it at the [=TV=] and firing. It turns out to be real.

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* SmallNameBigEgo: Mandy, whose ambition considerably outsrips her talent.

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* SmallNameBigEgo: SmallNameBigEgo:
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Mandy, whose ambition considerably outsrips her talent.
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* TheStinger: "Roundheads and Cavaliers" ended on one of these which is a reference to Matt having just been [[TheOtherDarrin Other Darrined]] that episode. It features the cast preparing to watch ''Series/{{Roseanne}}''. Martin then asks "I wonder who's playing the daughter this week?!" to which Mandy responds with: "Don't you just hate that, when they keep the same character and change the actor?" Both Mandy and Martin then look subtly yet strangely accusingly at Matt, sitting between them on the sofa, who proceeds to look worried.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Martin falls in love with a nurse who happens to be a virgin. Cut to him in bed, commenting about when it's all over, you feel all happy and satisfied, suggesting that he just had sex with the nurse. Turns out that he was actually watching [=TV=] with Matt.

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