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* OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe: Rachael mistakes the bulge in Mick's pants with him having a RagingStiffie, and because it's so big she also thinks he has GagPenis.
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* OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe: Rachael mistakes the bulge in Mick's pants with him having a RagingStiffie, and because it's so big she also thinks he has GagPenis. [[EntertaininglyWrong The real reason is because his testicle is swollen]].
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* ShoddyShindig: When Mick first gets into Tommy's WildTeenParty, he's distressed to find out Tommy and Conor just playing board games.
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* ShoddyShindig: When Mick first gets into Tommy's WildTeenParty, he's distressed to find out Tommy and Conor just playing board games. The party only really starts once Conor's cousin arrives with beer.
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* TheTopicOfCancer: Mick and his mother and both terrified that the swollen means he has cancer, and even though it turns out not to be in the end, the story as a DiseasePreventionAesop about how important it is to deal with this issue early, even with it's embarrassing to do so.
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* TheTopicOfCancer: Mick and his mother and both terrified that the swollen testicle he has means he has cancer, and even though it turns out not to be in the end, the story as a DiseasePreventionAesop about how important it is to deal with this issue early, even with it's embarrassing to do so.
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* AfraidOfDoctors: {{Justified|Trope}}. Patricia hates hospitals and doctors due to the trauma of having to spend a long time on them while her husband slowly died.
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* AfraidOfDoctors: {{Justified|Trope}}. Patricia hates hospitals and doctors due to the trauma of having to spend a long time on them doing futile exams and treatments while her husband slowly died. died.
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* {{Blackmail}}: When Mick finds out Lucy got a tattoo without telling their mom, he blackmails her into taking him to the WildTeenParty.
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* {{Blackmail}}: When Mick finds out Lucy got a tattoo without telling their mom, he blackmails her into taking him to the Tommy's WildTeenParty.
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* ButtMonkey: Mick's constantly being put into awkward and embarrassing situations is a constant source of CringeComedy.
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* ButtMonkey: Mick's constantly being put into awkward and embarrassing situations is a constant source of CringeComedy.CringeComedy, starting with the very premise of the story with his left testicle becoming incredibly swollen.
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* ComingOfAgeStory: The story deals with Mick's puberty and transition to maturity with the added "bonus" added 'bonus' of facing a potentially life-threatening illness and dealing with the loss of a parent.
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* ComingOfAgeStory: The story deals with Mick's puberty and transition to maturity with the added "bonus" added 'bonus' of facing a [[TheTopicOfCancer potentially life-threatening illness illness]] and dealing with the loss of a parent.
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* DeadPersonConversation: After the surgery to fix his testicle, Mick has a dreamlike conversation with his deceased father.
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* DeadPersonConversation: After the surgery to fix his testicle, the comatose Mick has a dreamlike conversation with his deceased father.
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* DiseasePreventionAesop: The show has an Aesop about not putting off going to the doctor when you have an embarrassing ailment.
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* DiseasePreventionAesop: The show has an Aesop about not putting off going to the doctor when you have an embarrassing ailment.ailment, such as Mick's swollen testicle.
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* HospitalHottie: When getting his testicles examined, Mick worries about the doctor being an attractive woman who will give him a RagingStiffie, thus humiliating him. To his horror, his fears seem to come true when an attractive woman calls him to the doctor's office, but then she reveals she's only a medical student and the actual doctor is a man, and Mick is audibly relieved. But then he ends up naked in front of her ''anyway'' when the doctor calls in all the students to check on his swelling, prompting him to ThinkUnsexyThoughts through the examination.
* InternalReveal: It's only in the last episode that Mick confesses while having a nervous back that he might have cancer to his school friends, who are all promptly horrified.
* InternalReveal: It's only in the last episode that Mick confesses while having a nervous back that he might have cancer to his school friends, who are all promptly horrified.
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* HospitalHottie: When getting his testicles examined, Mick worries about the doctor being an attractive a hot woman who will accidentally give him a RagingStiffie, thus humiliating him. To his horror, his fears seem to come true when an attractive woman calls him to the doctor's office, but then she reveals she's only a medical student and the actual doctor is a man, and Mick is audibly relieved. But then he ends up naked in front of her ''anyway'' when the doctor calls in all the students to check on his swelling, prompting him to ThinkUnsexyThoughts through the examination.
* InternalReveal: It's only in the last episode that Mick confesseswhile (while having a nervous back breakdown) that he might have cancer to his school friends, who are all promptly horrified. horrified.
* InternalReveal: It's only in the last episode that Mick confesses
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/my_left_nut_1.jpg]]
''My Left Nut'' is a 2020 Northern Irish {{Dramedy}} miniseries by Creator/TheBBC. It was written by Creator/MichaelPatrick and Creator/OisinKearney based on a stage play by the same name that they also wrote.
The story follows 15-year-old Michael "Mick" Campbell ([[Creator/NathanQuinnORawe Nathan Quinn O'Rawe]]) whose tumultuous teenage life is drastically changed when he discovers a swelling on his left testicle. Fearing it to be cancer, he struggles with plucking up the courage to tell his mother Patricia (Creator/SineadKeenan) and sister Lucy (Creator/LolaPetticrew) about his problem, due to his father having died of motor neurone disease a few years ago. Meanwhile, he tries to keep his swollen testicle a secret at school, even from his best friends Tommy (Creator/OliverAnthony) and Conor ([[Creator/LeviOSullivan Levi O'Sullivan]]), but this becomes difficult when his crush Rachael (Creator/JessicaReynolds) starts making advances on him.
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!!''My Left Nut'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AfraidOfDoctors: {{Justified|Trope}}. Patricia hates hospitals and doctors due to the trauma of having to spend a long time on them while her husband slowly died.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Lucy's boyfriend Danny is a typical rude and violent bad boy who acts rude to her and her family. She only dumps him when he crosses the line by cheating on her and punching her little brother.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: When the rumor spreads around school that Mick's bulge is actually because he's incredibly well endowed, he gets the attention of several female students. Conor and Tommy also call him a "legend" for it and are both excited at the prospect of having a friend with a huge dick.
-->'''Tommy:''' Every group gotta have a lad with a big dick in it. Gives us prestige.
* BigSisterInstinct: When Lucy finds out her boyfriend punched her little boyfriend, she dumps him on the spot and [[GroinAttack knees him in the groin]].
* BlackComedy: The show is a {{Dramedy}} about [[TheTopicOfCancer a teenager thinking he has testicular cancer]].
* {{Blackmail}}: When Mick finds out Lucy got a tattoo without telling their mom, he blackmails her into taking him to the WildTeenParty.
* BritishBrevity: The series only has 3 episodes.
* BromanticFoil: Tommy serves as Mick's romantic foil, being a confident CasanovaWannabe who is abhorred by Siobhan to contrast with Mick's shy but wholesome behavior that endears him to Rachael.
* ButtMonkey: Mick's constantly being put into awkward and embarrassing situations is a constant source of CringeComedy.
* CasanovaWannabe: Tommy acts like he's a player and a ChickMagnet, but his perverted way of acting only repulses girls. Siobhan later explicitly says she only went out with him on a DoubleDate because Rachael wanted to go out with Mick, and she doesn't actually like Tommy at all.
* ComingOfAgeStory: The story deals with Mick's puberty and transition to maturity with the added "bonus" added 'bonus' of facing a potentially life-threatening illness and dealing with the loss of a parent.
* CommonalityConnection: Mick and Rachael have their first bonding moment when they share their experiences about having fights with their parents.
* DeadPersonConversation: After the surgery to fix his testicle, Mick has a dreamlike conversation with his deceased father.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Mick's deceased father is only ever spoken of as a great parent and husband.
* DelayedDiagnosis: Patricia dislikes doctors because she claims they act enigmatically about diagnosis until they're 100% certain, which can make families suffer needlessly.
-->'''Patricia:''' We'd been in and out of here for months. Doing tests and tests and more tests. And they never said what was wrong. So one day your dad just says to them: "Is it motor neurone disease" 'cos I think he kinda knew. But the doctor wouldn't say. So Jimmy plagued him and plagued him and the doctor still wouldn't say even though it was pretty obvious because the junior doctor was sitting crying. And eventually Jimmy turned around and says, in your opinion, is it motor neurone disease, and the doctor says yes.
* DisappearedDad: Mick's dad died of motor neurone disease when he was very young, so Mick struggles with many of the things that fathers teach their sons while growing up, such as not knowing how to shave properly.
* DiseasePreventionAesop: The show has an Aesop about not putting off going to the doctor when you have an embarrassing ailment.
* DoubleDate: Mick and Tommy go on a double date with Rachael and Siobhan. Later Siobhan reveals she set it up because Rachael was too chicken to ask Mick on her own.
* DrJerk: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The doctor who sees Mick acts friendly to him, but it's obviously either uncaring or clueless to the obvious discomfort Mick has in being used as a guinea pig to his medical students. And when he seemingly acts supportive and respectful at the end of the exam, the moment Patricia and Mick leave his office, he calls a colleague to gossip about Mick's comical problem.
* DrowningMySorrows: Mick ends up drinking a ''lot'' in the WildTeenParty, due to his fear of having cancer and fumbling his relationship with Rachael.
* ExtremeDoormat: Mick finds himself unable to say no to the doctor when he asks Mick if he's comfortable showing his swollen testicle to the medical students.
* EmbarrassingTattoo: Lucy gets a tattoo with the name of her boyfriend on it. She obviously regrets it when she has to dump him for being a massive {{Jerkass}}.
* FascinatingEyebrow: The [[HospitalHottie attractive medical student]] has this reaction followed by a teasing MeaningfulLook upon noticing Mick's [[TeenyWeenie shrinkage]], much to his horror.
* GagPenis: Rachael mistakes the bulge in Mick's pants (caused by his swollen testicles) for him having a massive penis.
* GirlfriendInCanada: Conor constantly talks about his girlfriend Niamh, but the fact Mick and Tommy never met her because she lives in another city and is constantly busy makes them both think she's an InventedIndividual.But this gets {{Subverted|Trope}} in the very last scene, where she shows up with Conor when visiting Mick in the hospital, much to Mick's shock.
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Danny is portrayed as a major {{Jerkass}} when he cheats on Lucy with Siobhan, who is a minor. When Mick tries to confront him about it, he acts dismissive and even punches Mick in the face for it, and later when Rachael and Mick snitch on him, he attempts to [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslight]] Lucy into not believing it.
* GossipEvolution: When Mick and Conor are wondering about how the rumor that Rachael gave Mick a blowjob got spread, Conor (correctly) assumes it was a case of gossip evolving. Rachael told Siobhan that Mick has a GagPenis, and Siobhan (who's a GossipyHens) told a bunch of other people until the truth got twisted. Rachael herself admits this is likely true, and is miffed that her BestFriend ended up being the one behind her SlutShaming rumors.
* GossipyHens: Siobhan is a massive gossip, so when Rachael tells her she thinks Mick has a GagPenis, by the next day everyone in school already knows. Unfortunately, this also causes a GossipEvolution that ends up getting Rachael {{Slut Sham|ing}}ed.
* GroinAttack: When Lucy finds out Danny cheated on her and punched her little brother, she punches him in the face and then knees him in the groin.
* {{Jerkass}}: Lucy's boyfriend Danny, who not only cheats on her (with a minor, no less) but punches her brother when he threatens to tell on him.
* JumpingToConclusionsDiagnosis: Mick becomes convinced he has testicular cancer after the first few exams and thinks his [[YourDaysAreNumbered days are numbered]], which causes a great negative impact on his social life.
* HospitalHottie: When getting his testicles examined, Mick worries about the doctor being an attractive woman who will give him a RagingStiffie, thus humiliating him. To his horror, his fears seem to come true when an attractive woman calls him to the doctor's office, but then she reveals she's only a medical student and the actual doctor is a man, and Mick is audibly relieved. But then he ends up naked in front of her ''anyway'' when the doctor calls in all the students to check on his swelling, prompting him to ThinkUnsexyThoughts through the examination.
* InternalReveal: It's only in the last episode that Mick confesses while having a nervous back that he might have cancer to his school friends, who are all promptly horrified.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Mick walks in on his sister's boyfriend Danny having sex with Siobhan during the WildTeenParty.
* InventedIndividual: Mick and Tommy are pretty convinced Conor's [[GirlfriendInCanada girlfriend Niamh doesn't actually exist]] due to her never being able to meet them. But this gets {{Subverted|Trope}} in the very last scene of the series where Mick's shocked to find out she's indeed real.
* HoldingHands: {{Discussed|Trope}} when Conor is giving Mick advice about the "rules" of hand-holding before Mick's date with Rachael.
-->'''Conor:''' Right. You’re in the cinema, she's sitting next to you. The film starts up. Your hands are very close together. You probably should reach out and hold it?\\
'''Mick:''' Right yeah.\\
'''Conor:''' How long do you hold it for?\\
'''Mick:''' Oh um... Just like a while?\\
'''Conor:''' Well, you can’t let go. She’ll be offended. So now you're stuck holding her hand for the whole film. 120 minutes of your hand getting sweatier and sweatier and sweatier, until she thinks you’ve got some kind of sweatin' disease, and that it’s contagious and she never holds your hand again!\\
'''Mick:''' Ummm... So how long should I hold her hand for?\\
'''Conor:''' On average, I'd say you tease it for the first half-hour. Then hold it for the next half-hour, then finally you start kissing. You should be doing that for the final half-hour of the film.
* TheIrishMob: Tommy is frequently teased for his dad supposedly being a member of the IRA.
* LaymansTerms: When the doctor reveals Mick's diagnosis as a case of hydrocele, Mick and his mother are so terrified that they can't understand any of the medical jargon, prompting the doctor to just say it's harmless liquid.
* LoveInterest: Rachael is the prospective girlfriend of TheProtagonist Mick.
* MistakenForDisease: The premise of the story is Mick believing he has testicular cancer after his left nut becomes incredibly swollen, but in the end, it's revealed to be a case of hydrocele, which is a fairly harmless ailment.
* MistakenForMasturbating: Mick's mother walks in while he is checking his testicles and assumes he was masturbating.
* MustNotDieAVirgin: Shy Mick gets a surge of courage in his relationship with Rachael when he believes he has cancer, and decides to have sex with her so he won't die a virgin.
-->'''Mick:''' Fuck it. Everyone dies. They just don’t think about it. So I'll just put it out of my mind. This is gonna be a big night. My last party with the lads. My last chance to get with Rachael. I’m not gonna die a virgin. Giant ball or no giant ball.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Mick's embarrassment in having to show his penis and testicle to a group of medical interns is PlayedForLaughs.
* OneHeadTaller: Mick is very tall for his age, towering over his LoveInterest Rachael, who needs to stand on her toes to kiss him.
* OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe: Rachael mistakes the bulge in Mick's pants with him having a RagingStiffie, and because it's so big she also thinks he has GagPenis.
* ParentsAsPeople: Mick's mother Patricia is a StrugglingSingleMother who misses her husband just as much as Mick misses his dad, and she struggles to bond with her son, especially with things that a father usually teaches his son, such as shaving or dating.
* RagingStiffie
** During their first date, Rachael mistakes the huge bulge in Mick's pants as a GagPenis erection, but it's actually his swollen left testicle.
** During the medical exam, Mick gets extremely paranoid about having an erection in the middle of it.
-->'''Mick:''' I hope I don’t get an erection. What if the [[HospitalHottie doctor is a really hot woman]], and she’s touching my balls? I'll definitely pop a root. Or what if it's a creepy auld man and I still get a boner?! Please. Please God. Please don't give me an erection.
* ShoddyShindig: When Mick first gets into Tommy's WildTeenParty, he's distressed to find out Tommy and Conor just playing board games.
* ShouldersUpNudity: Whenever Mick or the doctors are checking his testicle, we only see him from the waist up.
* SlutShaming: Alongside the rumors that Mick has a GagPenis comes the one Rachael found out by giving him a blowjob in the parking lot during the DoubleDate, which didn't happen. Rachael gets shamed by the other studies for being an "easy whore" and is terribly hurt because she thinks it was Mick who spread the rumors. She ends up forgiving him later when she realizes it was probably a case of GossipEvolution caused by Siobhan.
* SmashCut: When the doctor asks Mick if he's comfortable showing his swollen testicles to the medical students, Mick thinks to himself "Just say no, just say no". Cue a sudden cut to a pantless and distressed Mick's testicle is getting examined by the doctor and all the students.
* StrugglingSingleMother: Mick's mother Patricia became one after her husband died. It's implied she's only overworked, but struggling to raise Mick properly due to her inability to teach or bond with him about male puberty issues.
* TakeOurWordForIt: Given the miniseries rating, there's no actual shot of Mick's unclothed swollen testicle. Every time he's "exposed" we only see people's reactions to it while he's only shown from [[ShouldersUpNudity the waist up]].
* TeenyWeenie: When Mick is having his testicles examined by the doctors, he's scared of [[RagingStiffie getting an erection]] so he ThinkUnsexyThoughts... unfortunately he does it too well and experiences shrinkage instead. The HospitalHottie student even gives him a [[FascinatingEyebrow amused look]] when their eyes meet, [[NakedFreakOut much to his horror]].
* TheirFirstTime: Because he [[YourDaysAreNumbered thinks he's going to die]], Mick tries to rush his relationship with Rachael because [[MustNotDieAVirgin he doesn't want to die a virgin]]. But in rushing things he ends up screwing things up alienating Rachael just as they're about to have sex. But by the end he also ends up ''not'' having cancer and patches things up with her and they have a RelationshipUpgrade, but [[LetsWaitAWhile now taking the relationship slow]] since he no longer has to worry about dying.
* ThinkUnsexyThoughts: When the doctor is showing Mick's swollen testicle to the medical students, Mick is busy worrying about not getting a RagingStiffie, especially since the [[HospitalHottie attractive medical student]] is also there. He keeps thinking about cold water to keep himself in control... but amusingly ends up having [[TeenyWeenie shrinkage]] instead of an erection.
-->'''Mick:''' Jumping in the sea in Donegal. Jumping in the freezing cold Atlantic ocean in Donegal. The absolutely baltic freezing cold ocean covering my balls.\\
''[Mick sneaks a glance down at his penis]''\\
'''Mick:''' Shite! Not that cold. Warm. Warm. Warm thoughts.
* TheTopicOfCancer: Mick and his mother and both terrified that the swollen means he has cancer, and even though it turns out not to be in the end, the story as a DiseasePreventionAesop about how important it is to deal with this issue early, even with it's embarrassing to do so.
* TwiceShy: Both Rachael and Mick are awkward and shy around each other, despite their obvious attraction, prompting Siobhan to get into a DoubleDate with Tommy in order to help out her friend.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: When the drunk Mick gets sick in the WildTeenParty, he vomits all over the inside of Tommy's front door, though we don't see it.
* WildTeenParty: Tommy throws a party at his house in episode 3 when his dad's away. Mick, who fears he's dying of cancer, plans to use the opportunity to party hard and [[MustNotDieAVirgin lose his virginity to Rachael]].
* WrongAssumption:
** Rachael thinks the bulge in Mick's pants means he has a [[BiggerIsBetterInBed giant dick]] but it's actually his swollen testicle.
** Mick and his mother, both traumatized by the death of Mick's father, become convinced his swollen testicle is cancer, but it turns out to be a relatively harmless case of hydrocele.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Due to trauma about his father's slow death by motor neurone disease, Mick [[JumpingToConclusionsDiagnosis becomes convinced his swollen testicle means he's got cancer]] and he's going to die soon, which ends up with him acting more and more neurotic, which damages his social life. He ends up finding out its not cancer by the end and his friends ultimately forgive him for his neurotic behavior.
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''My Left Nut'' is a 2020 Northern Irish {{Dramedy}} miniseries by Creator/TheBBC. It was written by Creator/MichaelPatrick and Creator/OisinKearney based on a stage play by the same name that they also wrote.
The story follows 15-year-old Michael "Mick" Campbell ([[Creator/NathanQuinnORawe Nathan Quinn O'Rawe]]) whose tumultuous teenage life is drastically changed when he discovers a swelling on his left testicle. Fearing it to be cancer, he struggles with plucking up the courage to tell his mother Patricia (Creator/SineadKeenan) and sister Lucy (Creator/LolaPetticrew) about his problem, due to his father having died of motor neurone disease a few years ago. Meanwhile, he tries to keep his swollen testicle a secret at school, even from his best friends Tommy (Creator/OliverAnthony) and Conor ([[Creator/LeviOSullivan Levi O'Sullivan]]), but this becomes difficult when his crush Rachael (Creator/JessicaReynolds) starts making advances on him.
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!!''My Left Nut'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AfraidOfDoctors: {{Justified|Trope}}. Patricia hates hospitals and doctors due to the trauma of having to spend a long time on them while her husband slowly died.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Lucy's boyfriend Danny is a typical rude and violent bad boy who acts rude to her and her family. She only dumps him when he crosses the line by cheating on her and punching her little brother.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: When the rumor spreads around school that Mick's bulge is actually because he's incredibly well endowed, he gets the attention of several female students. Conor and Tommy also call him a "legend" for it and are both excited at the prospect of having a friend with a huge dick.
-->'''Tommy:''' Every group gotta have a lad with a big dick in it. Gives us prestige.
* BigSisterInstinct: When Lucy finds out her boyfriend punched her little boyfriend, she dumps him on the spot and [[GroinAttack knees him in the groin]].
* BlackComedy: The show is a {{Dramedy}} about [[TheTopicOfCancer a teenager thinking he has testicular cancer]].
* {{Blackmail}}: When Mick finds out Lucy got a tattoo without telling their mom, he blackmails her into taking him to the WildTeenParty.
* BritishBrevity: The series only has 3 episodes.
* BromanticFoil: Tommy serves as Mick's romantic foil, being a confident CasanovaWannabe who is abhorred by Siobhan to contrast with Mick's shy but wholesome behavior that endears him to Rachael.
* ButtMonkey: Mick's constantly being put into awkward and embarrassing situations is a constant source of CringeComedy.
* CasanovaWannabe: Tommy acts like he's a player and a ChickMagnet, but his perverted way of acting only repulses girls. Siobhan later explicitly says she only went out with him on a DoubleDate because Rachael wanted to go out with Mick, and she doesn't actually like Tommy at all.
* ComingOfAgeStory: The story deals with Mick's puberty and transition to maturity with the added "bonus" added 'bonus' of facing a potentially life-threatening illness and dealing with the loss of a parent.
* CommonalityConnection: Mick and Rachael have their first bonding moment when they share their experiences about having fights with their parents.
* DeadPersonConversation: After the surgery to fix his testicle, Mick has a dreamlike conversation with his deceased father.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Mick's deceased father is only ever spoken of as a great parent and husband.
* DelayedDiagnosis: Patricia dislikes doctors because she claims they act enigmatically about diagnosis until they're 100% certain, which can make families suffer needlessly.
-->'''Patricia:''' We'd been in and out of here for months. Doing tests and tests and more tests. And they never said what was wrong. So one day your dad just says to them: "Is it motor neurone disease" 'cos I think he kinda knew. But the doctor wouldn't say. So Jimmy plagued him and plagued him and the doctor still wouldn't say even though it was pretty obvious because the junior doctor was sitting crying. And eventually Jimmy turned around and says, in your opinion, is it motor neurone disease, and the doctor says yes.
* DisappearedDad: Mick's dad died of motor neurone disease when he was very young, so Mick struggles with many of the things that fathers teach their sons while growing up, such as not knowing how to shave properly.
* DiseasePreventionAesop: The show has an Aesop about not putting off going to the doctor when you have an embarrassing ailment.
* DoubleDate: Mick and Tommy go on a double date with Rachael and Siobhan. Later Siobhan reveals she set it up because Rachael was too chicken to ask Mick on her own.
* DrJerk: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The doctor who sees Mick acts friendly to him, but it's obviously either uncaring or clueless to the obvious discomfort Mick has in being used as a guinea pig to his medical students. And when he seemingly acts supportive and respectful at the end of the exam, the moment Patricia and Mick leave his office, he calls a colleague to gossip about Mick's comical problem.
* DrowningMySorrows: Mick ends up drinking a ''lot'' in the WildTeenParty, due to his fear of having cancer and fumbling his relationship with Rachael.
* ExtremeDoormat: Mick finds himself unable to say no to the doctor when he asks Mick if he's comfortable showing his swollen testicle to the medical students.
* EmbarrassingTattoo: Lucy gets a tattoo with the name of her boyfriend on it. She obviously regrets it when she has to dump him for being a massive {{Jerkass}}.
* FascinatingEyebrow: The [[HospitalHottie attractive medical student]] has this reaction followed by a teasing MeaningfulLook upon noticing Mick's [[TeenyWeenie shrinkage]], much to his horror.
* GagPenis: Rachael mistakes the bulge in Mick's pants (caused by his swollen testicles) for him having a massive penis.
* GirlfriendInCanada: Conor constantly talks about his girlfriend Niamh, but the fact Mick and Tommy never met her because she lives in another city and is constantly busy makes them both think she's an InventedIndividual.But this gets {{Subverted|Trope}} in the very last scene, where she shows up with Conor when visiting Mick in the hospital, much to Mick's shock.
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Danny is portrayed as a major {{Jerkass}} when he cheats on Lucy with Siobhan, who is a minor. When Mick tries to confront him about it, he acts dismissive and even punches Mick in the face for it, and later when Rachael and Mick snitch on him, he attempts to [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslight]] Lucy into not believing it.
* GossipEvolution: When Mick and Conor are wondering about how the rumor that Rachael gave Mick a blowjob got spread, Conor (correctly) assumes it was a case of gossip evolving. Rachael told Siobhan that Mick has a GagPenis, and Siobhan (who's a GossipyHens) told a bunch of other people until the truth got twisted. Rachael herself admits this is likely true, and is miffed that her BestFriend ended up being the one behind her SlutShaming rumors.
* GossipyHens: Siobhan is a massive gossip, so when Rachael tells her she thinks Mick has a GagPenis, by the next day everyone in school already knows. Unfortunately, this also causes a GossipEvolution that ends up getting Rachael {{Slut Sham|ing}}ed.
* GroinAttack: When Lucy finds out Danny cheated on her and punched her little brother, she punches him in the face and then knees him in the groin.
* {{Jerkass}}: Lucy's boyfriend Danny, who not only cheats on her (with a minor, no less) but punches her brother when he threatens to tell on him.
* JumpingToConclusionsDiagnosis: Mick becomes convinced he has testicular cancer after the first few exams and thinks his [[YourDaysAreNumbered days are numbered]], which causes a great negative impact on his social life.
* HospitalHottie: When getting his testicles examined, Mick worries about the doctor being an attractive woman who will give him a RagingStiffie, thus humiliating him. To his horror, his fears seem to come true when an attractive woman calls him to the doctor's office, but then she reveals she's only a medical student and the actual doctor is a man, and Mick is audibly relieved. But then he ends up naked in front of her ''anyway'' when the doctor calls in all the students to check on his swelling, prompting him to ThinkUnsexyThoughts through the examination.
* InternalReveal: It's only in the last episode that Mick confesses while having a nervous back that he might have cancer to his school friends, who are all promptly horrified.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Mick walks in on his sister's boyfriend Danny having sex with Siobhan during the WildTeenParty.
* InventedIndividual: Mick and Tommy are pretty convinced Conor's [[GirlfriendInCanada girlfriend Niamh doesn't actually exist]] due to her never being able to meet them. But this gets {{Subverted|Trope}} in the very last scene of the series where Mick's shocked to find out she's indeed real.
* HoldingHands: {{Discussed|Trope}} when Conor is giving Mick advice about the "rules" of hand-holding before Mick's date with Rachael.
-->'''Conor:''' Right. You’re in the cinema, she's sitting next to you. The film starts up. Your hands are very close together. You probably should reach out and hold it?\\
'''Mick:''' Right yeah.\\
'''Conor:''' How long do you hold it for?\\
'''Mick:''' Oh um... Just like a while?\\
'''Conor:''' Well, you can’t let go. She’ll be offended. So now you're stuck holding her hand for the whole film. 120 minutes of your hand getting sweatier and sweatier and sweatier, until she thinks you’ve got some kind of sweatin' disease, and that it’s contagious and she never holds your hand again!\\
'''Mick:''' Ummm... So how long should I hold her hand for?\\
'''Conor:''' On average, I'd say you tease it for the first half-hour. Then hold it for the next half-hour, then finally you start kissing. You should be doing that for the final half-hour of the film.
* TheIrishMob: Tommy is frequently teased for his dad supposedly being a member of the IRA.
* LaymansTerms: When the doctor reveals Mick's diagnosis as a case of hydrocele, Mick and his mother are so terrified that they can't understand any of the medical jargon, prompting the doctor to just say it's harmless liquid.
* LoveInterest: Rachael is the prospective girlfriend of TheProtagonist Mick.
* MistakenForDisease: The premise of the story is Mick believing he has testicular cancer after his left nut becomes incredibly swollen, but in the end, it's revealed to be a case of hydrocele, which is a fairly harmless ailment.
* MistakenForMasturbating: Mick's mother walks in while he is checking his testicles and assumes he was masturbating.
* MustNotDieAVirgin: Shy Mick gets a surge of courage in his relationship with Rachael when he believes he has cancer, and decides to have sex with her so he won't die a virgin.
-->'''Mick:''' Fuck it. Everyone dies. They just don’t think about it. So I'll just put it out of my mind. This is gonna be a big night. My last party with the lads. My last chance to get with Rachael. I’m not gonna die a virgin. Giant ball or no giant ball.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Mick's embarrassment in having to show his penis and testicle to a group of medical interns is PlayedForLaughs.
* OneHeadTaller: Mick is very tall for his age, towering over his LoveInterest Rachael, who needs to stand on her toes to kiss him.
* OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe: Rachael mistakes the bulge in Mick's pants with him having a RagingStiffie, and because it's so big she also thinks he has GagPenis.
* ParentsAsPeople: Mick's mother Patricia is a StrugglingSingleMother who misses her husband just as much as Mick misses his dad, and she struggles to bond with her son, especially with things that a father usually teaches his son, such as shaving or dating.
* RagingStiffie
** During their first date, Rachael mistakes the huge bulge in Mick's pants as a GagPenis erection, but it's actually his swollen left testicle.
** During the medical exam, Mick gets extremely paranoid about having an erection in the middle of it.
-->'''Mick:''' I hope I don’t get an erection. What if the [[HospitalHottie doctor is a really hot woman]], and she’s touching my balls? I'll definitely pop a root. Or what if it's a creepy auld man and I still get a boner?! Please. Please God. Please don't give me an erection.
* ShoddyShindig: When Mick first gets into Tommy's WildTeenParty, he's distressed to find out Tommy and Conor just playing board games.
* ShouldersUpNudity: Whenever Mick or the doctors are checking his testicle, we only see him from the waist up.
* SlutShaming: Alongside the rumors that Mick has a GagPenis comes the one Rachael found out by giving him a blowjob in the parking lot during the DoubleDate, which didn't happen. Rachael gets shamed by the other studies for being an "easy whore" and is terribly hurt because she thinks it was Mick who spread the rumors. She ends up forgiving him later when she realizes it was probably a case of GossipEvolution caused by Siobhan.
* SmashCut: When the doctor asks Mick if he's comfortable showing his swollen testicles to the medical students, Mick thinks to himself "Just say no, just say no". Cue a sudden cut to a pantless and distressed Mick's testicle is getting examined by the doctor and all the students.
* StrugglingSingleMother: Mick's mother Patricia became one after her husband died. It's implied she's only overworked, but struggling to raise Mick properly due to her inability to teach or bond with him about male puberty issues.
* TakeOurWordForIt: Given the miniseries rating, there's no actual shot of Mick's unclothed swollen testicle. Every time he's "exposed" we only see people's reactions to it while he's only shown from [[ShouldersUpNudity the waist up]].
* TeenyWeenie: When Mick is having his testicles examined by the doctors, he's scared of [[RagingStiffie getting an erection]] so he ThinkUnsexyThoughts... unfortunately he does it too well and experiences shrinkage instead. The HospitalHottie student even gives him a [[FascinatingEyebrow amused look]] when their eyes meet, [[NakedFreakOut much to his horror]].
* TheirFirstTime: Because he [[YourDaysAreNumbered thinks he's going to die]], Mick tries to rush his relationship with Rachael because [[MustNotDieAVirgin he doesn't want to die a virgin]]. But in rushing things he ends up screwing things up alienating Rachael just as they're about to have sex. But by the end he also ends up ''not'' having cancer and patches things up with her and they have a RelationshipUpgrade, but [[LetsWaitAWhile now taking the relationship slow]] since he no longer has to worry about dying.
* ThinkUnsexyThoughts: When the doctor is showing Mick's swollen testicle to the medical students, Mick is busy worrying about not getting a RagingStiffie, especially since the [[HospitalHottie attractive medical student]] is also there. He keeps thinking about cold water to keep himself in control... but amusingly ends up having [[TeenyWeenie shrinkage]] instead of an erection.
-->'''Mick:''' Jumping in the sea in Donegal. Jumping in the freezing cold Atlantic ocean in Donegal. The absolutely baltic freezing cold ocean covering my balls.\\
''[Mick sneaks a glance down at his penis]''\\
'''Mick:''' Shite! Not that cold. Warm. Warm. Warm thoughts.
* TheTopicOfCancer: Mick and his mother and both terrified that the swollen means he has cancer, and even though it turns out not to be in the end, the story as a DiseasePreventionAesop about how important it is to deal with this issue early, even with it's embarrassing to do so.
* TwiceShy: Both Rachael and Mick are awkward and shy around each other, despite their obvious attraction, prompting Siobhan to get into a DoubleDate with Tommy in order to help out her friend.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: When the drunk Mick gets sick in the WildTeenParty, he vomits all over the inside of Tommy's front door, though we don't see it.
* WildTeenParty: Tommy throws a party at his house in episode 3 when his dad's away. Mick, who fears he's dying of cancer, plans to use the opportunity to party hard and [[MustNotDieAVirgin lose his virginity to Rachael]].
* WrongAssumption:
** Rachael thinks the bulge in Mick's pants means he has a [[BiggerIsBetterInBed giant dick]] but it's actually his swollen testicle.
** Mick and his mother, both traumatized by the death of Mick's father, become convinced his swollen testicle is cancer, but it turns out to be a relatively harmless case of hydrocele.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Due to trauma about his father's slow death by motor neurone disease, Mick [[JumpingToConclusionsDiagnosis becomes convinced his swollen testicle means he's got cancer]] and he's going to die soon, which ends up with him acting more and more neurotic, which damages his social life. He ends up finding out its not cancer by the end and his friends ultimately forgive him for his neurotic behavior.
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