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* [[spoiler:BreakHisHeartToSaveHim]]: Peter's stated intention behind some of his behavior, though the full cause is more complicated.
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* AlmostKiss: Right after [[spoiler:"Stay"]].
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* AlmostKiss: Right Twice; once in "CHICKEN," when the flat plays, well, chicken. And then again, right after [[spoiler:"Stay"]].
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* GrandRomanticGesture: After [[spoiler:Balthazar, Kit, and Bea leave the flat]], the flatmates send them apology gifts. [[spoiler:It doesn't go over well]].
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* {{Flynning}}: During Peter and Costa's swordfight. Of course, they ''are'' fighting with prop swords, explicitly using stage combat techniques, so...
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* OldFlame: A significant element of Peter and Balthazar's relationship.
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* OldFlame: A significant element of Peter and Balthazar's relationship.relationships.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Freddie Kingston is one of the flatmates, while Fred Boyet is the heir to a vegan empire who allows the flatmates' friends to stay with him. To avoid confusion, the characters refer to Boyet as "Vegan Fred," and since Vegan Fred is a NiceGuy, he cheerfully adopts the nickname.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Freddie Kingston is one of the flatmates, while Fred Boyet is the heir to a vegan empire who allows the flatmates' friends to stay with him. To avoid confusion, the characters refer to Boyet as "Vegan Fred," and since Vegan Fred is a NiceGuy, he cheerfully adopts the nickname.
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* GreenEyedMonster: After [[spoiler:Balthazar, Kit, and Bea leave them, and go to stay with Vegan Fred]], the flatmates become extremely envious of--and therefore, snippy about--Vegan Fred. None more so, however, than Peter, as the flatmates sort of decide out of nowhere that Vegan Fred is his romantic rival.
-->'''Peter:''' The only lovely thing about Vegan Fred is [[ActorAllusion how much he looks like Sheep, Dog & Wolf]].
-->'''Peter:''' The only lovely thing about Vegan Fred is [[ActorAllusion how much he looks like Sheep, Dog & Wolf]].
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* DowntimeDowngrade: ''Nothing Much to Do'' ends with Pedro asking Balthazar to go outside with him. Implication: They're going to get together. ''Lovely Little Losers'' begins with Peter making out with another guy, and the revelation that he and Balthazar never did get together. [[spoiler:Much, much later on, we discover that Ben and Bea also started having relationship problems pretty much the moment the camera stopped rolling in ''Nothing Much to Do''.]]
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* ThePenance: When one of the flatmates breaks a rule, he or she is punished in some way that the others decide. Most of the punishments are fun or harmless. One of them... is not.
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* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: The punishment for [[spoiler:Peter and Balthazar kissing]] is that the video of it is uploaded to [=YouTube=]. Even [[spoiler:Benedick]] seems to realize that this is a step too far, but by that point, the flat has become such a toxic environment, nobody is capable of walking it back.
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* EmbarrassingNickname: At the beginning of the series, Peter will get ''very angry'' if you call him "Pedro," which Ben and Bea occasionally do by accident. [[spoiler: As time goes on, he stops calling people out when they forget--and eventually, he reclaims the name for himself.]]
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* LeaveMeAlone: Peter's reaction to his flatmates' attempts to rein in his self-destruction.
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* MoreHeroThanThou: Peter and John arguing over who should take the punishment for John staying in the flat.
-->'''Ben:''' Can't stop a Donaldson.
-->'''Ben:''' Can't stop a Donaldson.
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* IronicEcho: Several, but most important is Costa's unwitting echo, four months later, of Peter's words in "TOWN."
-->'''Peter:''' My choices are only affecting me.
-->[four months later]
-->'''Costa:''' Your actions affect everyone around you, whether you like it or not.
-->'''Peter:''' My choices are only affecting me.
-->[four months later]
-->'''Costa:''' Your actions affect everyone around you, whether you like it or not.
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* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: An unbalanced one, with Freddie as TheCynic, Ben as TheOptimist, Peter as TheApathetic, and Balthazar as TheConflicted. [[spoiler:In "RUSSIANFUDGE," Peter switches and becomes TheRealist.]]
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* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: An unbalanced one, with Freddie as TheCynic, Ben as TheOptimist, TheIdealist, Peter as TheApathetic, and Balthazar as TheConflicted. [[spoiler:In "RUSSIANFUDGE," Peter switches and becomes TheRealist.]]
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* RejectedApology: [[spoiler:Ben's to Bea]].
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: When Peter tells Costa that [[spoiler:he slept with Jaquie]], hoping to get himself kicked out of ''Doctor Faustus'', Costa's response disarms him, both figuratively and literally.
-->'''Costa:''' I forgive you.
-->'''Costa:''' I forgive you.
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* DysfunctionJunction: An understated one, to be sure, but it's hard to deny that everyone in the flat has some serious issues they need to work through.
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* AerithAndBob: Peter, Meg, Rosa, Paige... and Costa, Balthazar, Freddie (as a girl's name), Benedick. All the more noticeable because the characters talk about each other's names a ''lot''.
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* EasilyForgiven: Peter, when he tells Costa that [[spoiler:he slept with Jaquie]] while trying to get kicked out of the play. It's sort of a big deal.
-->'''Peter:''' It makes everything complicated!
-->'''Costa:''' No, it doesn't! I forgive you.
* EthicalSlut:Pedro Peter aspires to this.
-->'''Peter:''' It makes everything complicated!
-->'''Costa:''' No, it doesn't! I forgive you.
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* InterestingSituationDuel: In the living room of the flat, with prop swords. The dueling characters jump over furniture and throw cushions at each other. (Note: This is not a pretend duel. This is a ''real'' duel, done with fake swords.)
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* DarkReprise: [[spoiler:After Beatrice and Benedick call it off, Peter uploads a "Balth in a Bath" video of Ben and Balthazar singing "Beatrice, You're Vivacious"--the song that Ben performed in ''Nothing Much to Do'' to tell Bea that he loved her. Peter's intent is obviously to try to get them back together, but for the audience, it's a dark reminder.]]
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* SkewedPriorities: Freddie and Ben prioritize the rules over their relationships.
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* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy:
-->'''Ben:''' He only wants you for your body!
-->'''Balth:''' I don't see him that way.
-->'''Freddie:''' But he sees you that way. He thinks of you as a piece of meat!
-->'''Balth:''' He's ''vegan''!
* SkewedPriorities: Freddie and Ben prioritize the rules over their relationships.
-->'''Ben:''' He only wants you for your body!
-->'''Balth:''' I don't see him that way.
-->'''Freddie:''' But he sees you that way. He thinks of you as a piece of meat!
-->'''Balth:''' He's ''vegan''!
* SkewedPriorities: Freddie and Ben prioritize the rules over their relationships.
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* DerailedTrainOfThought: In the middle of a speech about [[spoiler:why the flat should abandon the rules that are making them all unhappy]], Peter gets sidetracked by worrying about Balthazar overworking himself.
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* DisorganizedOutlineSpeech: Balthazar can't tell a concise story to save his life.
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* DiegeticMusic: An odd case, closer to [[Film/Once ''Once'']] than anything else. The series is not a musical, but characters occasionally upload videos of songs they wrote and performed themselves, and these songs are some of the only explicit insight into the characters' inner emotional lives.
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* DiegeticMusic: An odd case, closer to [[Film/Once ''Once'']] ''{{Once}}'' than anything else. The series is not a musical, but characters occasionally upload videos of songs they wrote and performed themselves, and these songs are some of the only explicit insight into the characters' inner emotional lives.
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* DiegeticMusic: An odd case, closer to [[Film/Once ''Once'']] than anything else. The series is not a musical, but characters occasionally upload videos of songs they wrote and performed themselves, and these songs are some of the only explicit insight into the characters' inner emotional lives.
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* RewatchBonus: Between the FacialDialogue, [[MeaningfulBackgroundEvent Meaningful Background Events]], [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Guns]], and the near-total lack of exposition, it's pretty much impossible to fully understand the story from a single viewing.
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* GeekReferencePool: Averted. All the characters are total dorks, but they geek out about different things: Freddie's walls reveal a love of history, strong women, Harry Potter, and David Bowie; Peter's bookshelves are filled with manga; Balthazar is, of course heavily into music; and Ben is into ''everything''. "FELLOWSHIP" indicates that they're all Lord of the Rings geeks, but it's New Zealand, so that's to be expected.
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* AsideGlance: Occasionally from Ben, ''all the freaking time'' from Peter.
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* TimeSkip: ''Lovely Little Losers'' picks up nearly a year after the end of ''Nothing Much to Do''.
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* BingeMontage: Hidden between the lines of "TOWN" and "BALTHDAY."
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* ThinkerPose: What Ben uses to indicate that he's playing Peter during reenactments, because "he broods quite a bit."
