History Series / PhoneShop

* TeamDad: Lance, if only because he's somewhat older than the others.

** Despite being the newest employee, Christopher knows ''a lot'' about the history of the [=PhoneShop=] Group (granted, this is evidently part of the company's training as fellow-newbie Rochelle from the Croydon branch knows a fair bit as well, but his knowledge proves to be better than hers).

* PsychoExGirlfriend: A couple of these are encountered. Ashley is horrified when he realises that the pretty blonde he's just secured a date with is the nutcase with the owl tattoo [[note]] an owl? [[/note]] who Jerwayne had previously mentioned. In the same episode, Christopher dates Amanda, who in a case of BewareTheNiceOnes turns out to have previously dated Ashley and Jerwayne, who (respectively) knew her as French Connecky Becky (who did a shit in a store window display) and Lisa Blake (who set fire to Jerwayne's cousin's hair).

* MistakenForGay: Happens to Jerwayne with the girls from Zara. He decides to go along with it in the hope of hooking up with one of them by way of claiming that she has 'converted' him to heterosexuality. They, though, are trying to hook him up with a gay friend of theirs, [[spoiler: but in a final twist, this friend is revealed to be a straight man who is attempting the same thing as Jerwayne]].

** Ashley is a more of a s being a white man who speaks with what can best be described as a London West Indian accent and who who is best friends with a black man (Jerwayne); it's perfectly possible (likely, even) that he was raised in a predominantly black neighbourhood and so has grown up with that culture.

** Jerwayne himself can come across as this towards Janine.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Paul from the Croydon branch, if Christopher's hints are anything to go by.

** Also, is the Elite Selling Crew a real thing, or just something Razz made up to intimidate the store managers (since they are said to be deployed to failing stores) and inspire the sales teams (since they are said to consist only of the best phone salesmen from across the company)?

* BadBoss: Lance doesn't really qualify for this, as he's merely unsuited for a management role. Razz, who as the area manager is Lance's boss, is a more straightforward example, given that he tries to encourage Christopher to spy on Lance in order to get the guy fired, in addition to which he treats his personal assistant rather badly.

** Ashley is a more justified example, being a white man who speaks with what can best be described as a London West Indian accent and who who is best friends with a black man (Jerwayne); it's perfectly possible (likely, even) that he was raised in a predominantly black neighbourhood and so has grown up with that culture.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: A couple of these are encountered. Ashley is horrified when he realises that the pretty blonde he's just secured a date with is the nutcase with the owl tattoo [[note]] a owl? [[/note]] who Jerwayne had previously mentioned. In the same episode, Christopher dates Amanda, who in a case of BewareTheNiceOnes turns out to have previously dated Ashley and Jerwayne, who (respectively) knew her as French Connecky Becky (who did a shit in a store window display) and Lisa Blake (who set fire to Jerwayne's cousin's hair).

** Lance's encounters with Sandra, a woman who works elsewhere on the high street and who likes to mock him when things aren't looking good for the [=PhoneShop=], always end with him telling her to fuck off. This gets a few variations, as she tells him to fuck off after she has to wear a mascot costume on the high street, and on another occasion Jerwayne and Lance simultaneously tell her to fuck off.

** When Lance smokes dope at work in a bid to make himself come across as less boring, he plays the theme from ''Series/{{QI}}'' on the shop's PA system.

** When Lance smokes dope at work in a bid to make himself come across as less boring, he plays the theme from ''Series/QI'' on the shop's PA system.

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Lance thought this of mobile phones.

-->'''Jerwayne:''' What we're working with is under-the-counter quad-shot ristretto. This shit here? [[BannedInChina Banned in Milan]]. It killed ''a priest''.

** Ashley is a more justified example, being a white man who speaks with what can best be described as a London West Indian accent and who who is best friends with a black man (Jerwayne); it's perfectly possible that he was raised in a predominantly black neighbourhood and so has grown up with that culture.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: A couple of these are encountered. Ashley is horrified when he realises that the pretty blonde he's just secured a date with is the nutcase with the owl tattoo [[note]] an owl? [[/note]] who Jerwayne had previously mentioned. In the same episode, Christopher dates Amanda, who in a case of BewareTheNiceOnes turns out to have previously dated Ashley and Jerwayne, who (respectively) knew her as French Connecky Becky (who did a shit in a store window display) and Lisa Blake (who set fire to Jerwayne's cousin's hair).

** Lance's encounters with Sandra, a woman who works elsewhere on the high street and who likes to mock him when things aren't looking good for the [=PhoneShop=], always end with him telling her to fuck off. This gets a few variations, as she tells him to fuck off after she has to wear a mascot costume, and on another occasion Jerwayne and Lance simultaneously tell her to fuck off.

** Ashley is also an example of this, being a white man who speaks with what can best be described as a London West Indian accent, although given his friendship with Jerwayne, it's perfectly possible that he was raised in a predominantly black part of South London.

* TheBully: Little Gary, who clearly intimated and coerced customers into buying inflexible phone packages, still intimidates Lance from behind bars and is implied to have bullied Jerwayne. Razz Prince also has shades of this in addition to being an AxCrazy CloudCuckoolander. In the final episode, Jerwayne runs into Cuzzy, who used to bully him in Sunday school.

* MemeticMutation: In-universe; Jerwayne becomes an Internet sensation after a video of him sleeping goes viral in "The Sleepyman". People come from Scotland and Continental Europe to see him.

** Christopher is mocked for dating a receptionist from a hair salon as a woman in such a job is seen as being beneath a [=PhoneShop=] employee in the high street hierarchy. When she gets promoted to stylist, though, she dumps Christopher as she now considers [=PhoneShop=] employees to be beneath ''her''.

** Christopher tells parents that he's the store manager, which is fairly harmless until they come along to the shop's sales seminar evening. Rather than embarrass him, though, his colleagues play along with the notion that he's the manager, a deception they continue to pull off even when the police get called in.

* TheBully: Little Gary, who clearly intimated and coerced customers into buying inflexible phone packages, still intimidates Lance from behind bars and is implied to have bullied Jerwayne. Razz Prince also has shades of this in addition to being an AxCrazy CloudCuckoolander. The In the final episode, Jerwayne runs into Cuzzy, who used to bully him in Sunday school.

* TheBully: Little Gary, who intimidates Lance from behind bars and is implied to have bullied Jerwayne. Razz Prince also has shades of this in addition to being an AxCrazy CloudCuckoolander. The In the final episode, Jerwayne runs into Cuzzy, who used to bully him in Sunday school.

* TheAce: Despite being in prison, Little Gary Patel -- branch assistant manager and phone salesman extraordinaire -- is seen as this by the rest of the Sutton Branch. He even manages to retain his Salesman of the Month crown ''while doing time'', presumably as a result of selling phones to his fellow-inmates in addition to intimidating Lance.

* DirtyCop: Somewhat downplayed, but Lance does have to pay off the police officers who find that there are two men in their underwear imprisoned in the store's cage. Another cop is only too happy to sell him some confiscated weed in order to help him get in with the White Man Reggae Club.

* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: The White Man Reggae Club is roundly mocked by Ashley and Jerwayne for being this, although Lance points out that it's really just a place where middle-aged white men who happen to like reggae music can dance to it "without fear of ridicule".
* PsychoExGirlfriend: A couple of these are encountered. Ashley is horrified when he realises that the pretty blonde he's just secured a date with is the nutcase with the owl tattoo [[note]] a owl? [[/note]] who Jerwayne had previously mentioned. In the same episode, Christopher dates Amanda, who in a case of BewareTheNiceOnes turns out to have previously dated Ashley and Jerwayne, who (respectively) knew her as French Connecky Becky (who did a shit in a store window display) and Lisa Blake (who set fire to Jerwayne's cousin's hair).