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* RetroactiveRecognition: Pedro from "We'll Always Have Majorca" is played by Creator/JohnBluthal, who would later be best known for playing Frank Pickle in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''.

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Pedro from "We'll Always Have Majorca" is played by Creator/JohnBluthal, who would later be best known for playing Frank Pickle in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''.''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''.
** Duncan Carruthers from "On the Glass" is played by Creator/PeterBirch, who would later be best known for playing Jack Hathaway in ''Series/{{Casualty}}''.
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** The early series had recurring homophobia, even from the libertine Dorien. This included Tracey and Sharon getting angry when doctors or nurses thought they were a lesbian couple, Sharon calling Oscar Wilde a "woofter", Dorien suspecting that a hot personal trainer must be gay for not sleeping with her and Tracey and Dorien (though interestingly not Sharon) having a rant about how a pair of female plumbers must be "dykes".

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** The early series had recurring homophobia, even from the libertine Dorien. This included Tracey and Sharon getting angry when doctors or nurses thought they were a lesbian couple, Sharon calling Oscar Wilde a "woofter", Dorien suspecting that a hot personal trainer must be gay for not sleeping with her and Tracey and Dorien (though interestingly not Sharon) having a rant about how a pair of female plumbers must be "dykes". Even as late as 1998, Dorien emphasises rather too vigorously that she is "100% hetero", in contrast to her current boyfriend Richard's ex-wife who ran off with a female au pair.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Pedro from "We'll Always Have Majorca" is played by Creator/JohnBluthal, who would later be best known for playing Frank Pickle in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''.
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* ArtisticLicenceMedicine: In the episode "Okey-Cokey-Karaoke", Dorien goes out drinking the night before she is supposed to have breast implant surgery. Usually, for major operations you are expected to at least spend the previous night in hospital, and certainly you wouldn't go out drinking.
* EvilVsEvil: A debatable example between Dorien and Melanie Fishman, who are mutually bitchy and unfaithful.
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** In "We'll Always Have Majorca", Dorien refers to Spanish police officers as "foreign savages".
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* FairForItsDay: Interracial relationships passed by largely unnoticed even in the programme's early years: in one episode Dorien ran off with Tracey's accountant Ranjith, while later episodes had both her and Sharon dating Black men without others commenting.

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* FairForItsDay: Interracial relationships passed by largely unnoticed even in the programme's early years: in one episode Dorien ran off with Tracey's accountant Ranjith, while later episodes had both her and Sharon dating Black men without others commenting.commenting (except Tracey briefly in Sharon's case).
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* EvilVsEvil: A debatable example between Dorien and Melanie Fishman, who are mutually bitchy and unfaithful.
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* ArtisticLicenceMedicine: In the episode "Okey-Cokey-Karaoke", Dorien goes out drinking the night before she is supposed to have breast implant surgery. Usually, for major operations you are expected to at least spend the previous night in hospital, and certainly you wouldn't go out drinking.
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** In Series 9 episode "Nuptials", Sharon makes a joke in Garth's best man speech about him going through a 'transvestite stage'. Back then, transgenderism was still seen as a source of humour and ridicule in a way that would be seen as bigoted nowadays.

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