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* WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode: In "The Swap", the usually strait-laced Stan and Sheila do a "life swap" with Jimmy and Flo to try out their hippie lifestyle.
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The series was never repeated after its initial run, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes has never been released on home media, and is currently not available to watch online]]. However, the theme tune is available to listen to on Platform/YouTube, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq13xQbU3OQ here]].
Not to be mistaken for the later BBC {{Sitcom}}, ''Three Up, Two Down'', which aired six years later.
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The series was never repeated after its initial run, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes has never been released on home media, and is currently not available to watch online]]. However, the theme tune is available to listen to on Platform/YouTube, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq13xQbU3OQ com/watch?v=ub6CmoPk_4M here]].
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* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The series' theme was sung by Paul Nicholas in character as Jimmy.
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* RoommateCom: The series' premise is that two married couples share a house, the pair who own the house (Stan and Sheila) and their squatters (Jimmy and Flo).
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[[caption-width-right:799:Jimmy and Flo, [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave the squatters]].]]
->''We got two up, two down,''
->''We found ourselves a place in the heart of town.''
->''We got two up, two down,''
->''Two up, two down.''
-->-- '''Theme tune'''.
''Two Up, Two Down'' is a {{Britcom}} that aired on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC1]] in 1979, starring Paul Nicholas and Creator/SuPollard.
Stan (Norman Tipton) and Sheila (Claire Faulconbridge) are a pair of strait-laced newlyweds moving into their first home together. Jimmy (Nicholas) and Flo (Pollard) are members of the alternative society, a pair of NewAgeRetroHippie squatters living out of a house that hasn't been moved into yet... which turns out to be Stan and Sheila's.
Stan and Sheila want [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave Jimmy and Flo]] out of their home, but with the law dragging its feet at evicting them, Stan and Sheila decide to share the house and learn to live with their squatters, finding their lifestyle fascinating.
The series was never repeated after its initial run, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes has never been released on home media, and is currently not available to watch online]]. However, the theme tune is available to listen to on Platform/YouTube, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq13xQbU3OQ here]].
Not to be mistaken for the later BBC {{Sitcom}}, ''Three Up, Two Down'', which aired six years later.
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!! Two Up, Tropes Down:
* BritishBrevity: Only one series of six episodes was made.
* CorruptPolitician: In "Paper Tigers", Jimmy gets his bike crushed at the golf club by Councillor Foley, so in retaliation, Jimmy sets out to expose the corruption in high places.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Sheila is a typical example, happy with being in the kitchen and content to spend a morning going through her spice rack, whereas Flo, a more unconventional woman, does nothing of the sort.
* FiveFingerDiscount: Jimmy has no problem with shoplifting, seeing it as "self-sufficiency".
* InsaneTrollLogic: How does Jimmy excuse his shoplifting habit? He claims it is an example of "self-sufficiency".
* MinimalistCast: Both "The Swap" and "Pyramidiocy" featured only the four leads: Jimmy, Flo, Stan, and Sheila.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Jimmy and Flo live a hippie lifestyle, taking a relaxed view towards how society expects them to act and gladly squatting in Stan and Sheila's house.
* NoFullNameGiven: We don't get to find out any of the four lead character's last names.
* OddCouple: Stan and Sheila couldn't be any more different from Jimmy and Flo if they tried: Stan is strait-laced and holds on to conventional concepts of property, whereas Jimmy is a free-spirited Anarchist-Leninist who has no problem with squatting or shoplifting; Sheila is content with a typical life in the kitchen, while Flo is more "out there" and makes her own smocks out of "special Third World material, all hand-woven, all organic, all recycled".
* OneWordTitle: Episodes four and six were "Pyramidiocy" and "Meadowlarks".
* ThePollyanna: Jimmy and Flo are relentlessly enthusiastic and good-willed, which makes it all harder for Stan and Sheila to evict them.
* ShortRunners: The series ran for only six episodes.
* StatusQuoIsGod: In "I Know What You're Thinking", Stan decides that he and Sheila need to be less ordinary after seeing Hoover's telepathic display. This goes back to normal by the end of the episode, with Stan and Sheila once more becoming the reserved ones in comparison to Jimmy and Flo.
* SwappedRoles: "The Swap" revolves around Jimmy and Flo asking Stan and Sheila to try out a "life swap" with them.
* {{Telepathy}}: In "I Know What You're Thinking", a visitor from America, Hoover, shows off his telepathic powers to the four, which leads Stan to decide that he and Sheila need to stop being so ordinary all the time.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: In the first episode, "What's Yours is Mine", Stan and Sheila move into their new home only to find Jimmy and Flo squatting in it. The former two are unable to get rid of the latter two, setting up the situation for the rest of the series.
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[[caption-width-right:799:Jimmy and Flo, [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave the squatters]].]]
->''We got two up, two down,''
->''We found ourselves a place in the heart of town.''
->''We got two up, two down,''
->''Two up, two down.''
-->-- '''Theme tune'''.
''Two Up, Two Down'' is a {{Britcom}} that aired on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC1]] in 1979, starring Paul Nicholas and Creator/SuPollard.
Stan (Norman Tipton) and Sheila (Claire Faulconbridge) are a pair of strait-laced newlyweds moving into their first home together. Jimmy (Nicholas) and Flo (Pollard) are members of the alternative society, a pair of NewAgeRetroHippie squatters living out of a house that hasn't been moved into yet... which turns out to be Stan and Sheila's.
Stan and Sheila want [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave Jimmy and Flo]] out of their home, but with the law dragging its feet at evicting them, Stan and Sheila decide to share the house and learn to live with their squatters, finding their lifestyle fascinating.
The series was never repeated after its initial run, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes has never been released on home media, and is currently not available to watch online]]. However, the theme tune is available to listen to on Platform/YouTube, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq13xQbU3OQ here]].
Not to be mistaken for the later BBC {{Sitcom}}, ''Three Up, Two Down'', which aired six years later.
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!! Two Up, Tropes Down:
* BritishBrevity: Only one series of six episodes was made.
* CorruptPolitician: In "Paper Tigers", Jimmy gets his bike crushed at the golf club by Councillor Foley, so in retaliation, Jimmy sets out to expose the corruption in high places.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Sheila is a typical example, happy with being in the kitchen and content to spend a morning going through her spice rack, whereas Flo, a more unconventional woman, does nothing of the sort.
* FiveFingerDiscount: Jimmy has no problem with shoplifting, seeing it as "self-sufficiency".
* InsaneTrollLogic: How does Jimmy excuse his shoplifting habit? He claims it is an example of "self-sufficiency".
* MinimalistCast: Both "The Swap" and "Pyramidiocy" featured only the four leads: Jimmy, Flo, Stan, and Sheila.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Jimmy and Flo live a hippie lifestyle, taking a relaxed view towards how society expects them to act and gladly squatting in Stan and Sheila's house.
* NoFullNameGiven: We don't get to find out any of the four lead character's last names.
* OddCouple: Stan and Sheila couldn't be any more different from Jimmy and Flo if they tried: Stan is strait-laced and holds on to conventional concepts of property, whereas Jimmy is a free-spirited Anarchist-Leninist who has no problem with squatting or shoplifting; Sheila is content with a typical life in the kitchen, while Flo is more "out there" and makes her own smocks out of "special Third World material, all hand-woven, all organic, all recycled".
* OneWordTitle: Episodes four and six were "Pyramidiocy" and "Meadowlarks".
* ThePollyanna: Jimmy and Flo are relentlessly enthusiastic and good-willed, which makes it all harder for Stan and Sheila to evict them.
* ShortRunners: The series ran for only six episodes.
* StatusQuoIsGod: In "I Know What You're Thinking", Stan decides that he and Sheila need to be less ordinary after seeing Hoover's telepathic display. This goes back to normal by the end of the episode, with Stan and Sheila once more becoming the reserved ones in comparison to Jimmy and Flo.
* SwappedRoles: "The Swap" revolves around Jimmy and Flo asking Stan and Sheila to try out a "life swap" with them.
* {{Telepathy}}: In "I Know What You're Thinking", a visitor from America, Hoover, shows off his telepathic powers to the four, which leads Stan to decide that he and Sheila need to stop being so ordinary all the time.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: In the first episode, "What's Yours is Mine", Stan and Sheila move into their new home only to find Jimmy and Flo squatting in it. The former two are unable to get rid of the latter two, setting up the situation for the rest of the series.
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