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* BittersweetEnding: The show ends with "All The Best When It Comes", an incredibly bittersweet song about the year coming to end and asking if [[PerpetualPoverty the material conditions that the characters live in will ever really change even if the slums are replaced by council estates]].

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* BittersweetEnding: The show ends with "All The Best When It Comes", an incredibly bittersweet a song [[NewYearHasCome about the year coming to end end]] and asking if [[PerpetualPoverty the material conditions that the characters live in will ever really change even if the slums are replaced by council estates]].
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* BittersweetEnding: The show ends with "All The Best When It Comes", an incredibly bittersweet song about the year coming to end and asking if [[PerpetualPoverty the material conditions that the characters live in will ever really change even if the slum are replaced by council estates]].

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* BittersweetEnding: The show ends with "All The Best When It Comes", an incredibly bittersweet song about the year coming to end and asking if [[PerpetualPoverty the material conditions that the characters live in will ever really change even if the slum slums are replaced by council estates]].
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* BittersweetEnding: The show ends with "All The Best When It Comes", an incredibly bittersweet song about the year coming to end and asking if [[PerpetualPoverty the material conditions that the characters live in will ever really change even if the slum are replaced by council estates]].
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* FunetikAksent: Magrit is presumably named "Margaret", with her name as it appears in the script being a phonetic spelling.


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* SomewhereSong: "A House in Drumchapel", where Doreen sings about her hopes for a new life in a brand new council house in Drumchapel, part of comedy of the song being derived from the 1980s audience being aware of the area's [[WretchedHive reputation and general state]] as having deteriorated significantly since UsefulNotes/TheFifties.

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* SomewhereSong: "A House in Drumchapel", where Doreen sings about her hopes for a new life in a brand new council house in Drumchapel, part of comedy of the song being derived from the 1980s audience being aware of the area's [[WretchedHive reputation and general state]] as having deteriorated significantly since UsefulNotes/TheFifties. It gets a reprise later in the show that [[DarkReprise hints at the isolation and loss of the community spirit that existed in the slums]] that people often experienced when they moved out to council estates.
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* SomewhereSong: "A House in Drumchapel", where Doreen sings about her hopes for a new life in a brand new council house in Drumchapel, part of comedy of the song being derived from the 1980s audience being aware of the area's [[WretchedHive reputation and general state of repair]] as having deteriorated since UsefulNotes/TheFifties.

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* SomewhereSong: "A House in Drumchapel", where Doreen sings about her hopes for a new life in a brand new council house in Drumchapel, part of comedy of the song being derived from the 1980s audience being aware of the area's [[WretchedHive reputation and general state of repair]] state]] as having deteriorated significantly since UsefulNotes/TheFifties.
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* RaisedCatholic: Magrit is the only Catholic in the group, and answers Dolly and Doreen's questions about holidays of obligation and confession.
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* ShoutOut: The TV adaptation opens with ''Look at That Girl'' by Guy Mitchell on the soundtrack.

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* ShoutOut: The TV adaptation opens with ''Look "Look at That Girl'' Girl" by Guy Mitchell on the soundtrack.
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** The ending of "A House in Drumchapel" includes the opening notes of "[[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} When You Wish Upon a Star]]"

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** The ending of "A House in Drumchapel" includes the opening notes of "[[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} When You Wish Upon a Star]]"Star]]"
** Towards the end of the play, Andy starts drunkenly singing, "For Me and My Gal." Dolly asks him if he knows any [[Creator/AlJolson Jolson]] songs, which prompts him to [[{{Blackface}} cover his face in soot]] and sing "Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody", which the rest of the women in the steamie join in with.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: After Magrit finishes her monologue, Dolly asks her who she's talking to. She answers that she's talking to herself, before giving an AsideGlance at the camera.
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* MySecretPregnancy: The women gossip about Maureen [=McCandlish=], who supposedly had a baby out of wedlock when she was "[[StigmanticPregnancyEuphemism away working in England.]]" The pregnancy is rumoured to have been [[TheOldestProfession work-related]], since a neighbour ran into her [[RedLightDistrict Blythswood Square]], where she gets approached by a potential john from one of [[HornySailors the boats]].

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* MySecretPregnancy: The women gossip about Maureen [=McCandlish=], who supposedly had a baby out of wedlock when she was "[[StigmanticPregnancyEuphemism "[[StigmaticPregnancyEuphemism away working in England.]]" The pregnancy is rumoured to have been [[TheOldestProfession work-related]], since a neighbour ran into her [[RedLightDistrict Blythswood Square]], where she gets approached by a potential john from one of [[HornySailors the boats]].
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* MySecretPregnancy: The women gossip about Maureen [=McCandlish=], who supposedly had a baby out of wedlock when she was "[[StigmanticPregnancyEuphemism away working in England.]]" The pregnancy is rumoured to have been [[TheOldestProfession work-related]], since a neighbour ran into her [[RedLightDistrict Blythswood Square]], where she gets approached by a potential john from one of [[HornySailors the boats]].

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