History YMMV / DocMartin

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Martin locking a nervous surgeon in a cupboard.
-->'''Martin:''' Would you step in here for moment please?\\
* The surgeon does so*\\

* Martin grabs a mop from the cupboard, shuts the doors, and shoves the mop through the handles to jam it shut.\\
'''Martin:''' (Deadpan) No.

* ParanoiaFuel: Some of the medical problems arrising from seemingly-innocuous incidents. For example, did your kid fall off the monkey bars at school? ''Make sure he didn't rupture his spleen.''

** The group of teenaged girls who mocks and laugh at Dr. Martin in almost every episode. They exist to laugh at the misfortune of others, though it's usually targeted towards the doctor, and each girls have no character of their own other than being [[JerkAss rude to anyone who passes by them for no real reason other than that they can]], and overall they have no real importance to the series whatsoever.

* TheWoobie: Martin, sometimes becomes one especially when his parents are involved.

* GrowsTheBeard: Getting rid of Elaine Denham improved the show immensely.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Dr. Martin Ellingham is a stuffy JerkWithAHeartOfGold who considers dogs to be unhygienic menaces at best. Martin Clunes is well-known for his long-standing love of dogs.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Martin realises that [[spoiler: Louisa]] has a malformation in her brain that no other doctor has spotted. He rushes to the airport and stops her flying to Spain (which would have caused the malformation to bleed) and when she is about to undergo surgery, the very young surgeon is both nervous and star-struck by Martin. Not trusting him to perform the operation, Martin locks him in a cupboard and performs the operation himself. He does it with the utmost professionalism despite the patient being [[spoiler: his wife]] and it's a complete success. When his fear of blood inevitably flares up during the surgery, he takes a few seconds to vomit into a bin, goes back to the operating table, and carries on after first ordering someone to change the bin.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Martin locking the nervous surgeon from the CrowningMomentOfAwesome in a cupboard.
-->'''Martin:''' Would you step in here for moment please?
-->*The surgeon does so*
-->'''Surgeon:''' Is this one of those relaxation things?
-->*Martin grabs a mop from the cupboard, shuts the doors, and shoves the mop through the handles to jam it shut.
-->'''Martin:''' (Deadpan) No.

* TheScrappy: The group of teenaged girls who mocks and laugh at Dr. Martin in almost every episode. They exist to laugh at the misfortune of others, though it's usually targeted towards the doctor, and each girls have no character of their own other than being [[JerkAss rude to anyone who passes by them for no real reason other than that they can]], and overall they have no real importance to the series whatsoever.

* MoralEventHorizon: Martin's mother was always portrayed as a narcissistic hedonist who somehow managed to have even less empathy toward other people than her son. But after his father dies, she doesn't bother to call to let Martin know, instead turning up unannounced at his house two weeks later and freeloads off him before trying to guilt-trip him into giving her money. After he refuses, she steals his antique clock in order to sell it.

* TheWoobie: Martin, especially when his parents are around.

* TheWoobie: Martin especially when his parents are around.

* TheWoobie Martin

* ReplacementScrappy: Penhale in place of Mylow. While Mylow wasn't brilliant, he was still good at his job, friendly, and generally likable. Penhale is down another ten IQ points, narcoleptic, and unable to effectively do his job due to agoraphobia. He also introduces himself to multiple nicer characters by assuming they've committed some sort of crime.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Martin spots that [[spoiler: Louisa]] has a malformation in her brain that no other doctor has spotted. He rushes to the airport and stops her flying to Spain (which would have caused the malformation to bleed) and when she is about to undergo surgery, the very young surgeon is both nervous and star-struck by Martin. Not trusting him to perform the operation, Martin locks him in a cupboard and performs the operation himself. He does it with the utmost professionalism despite the patient being [[spoiler: his wife]] and it's a complete success. When his fear of blood inevitably flares up during the surgery, he takes a few seconds to vomit into a bin, goes back to the operating table, and carries on after first ordering someone to change the bin.

* CompleteMonster: Martin's mother; her cruelty explains a lot about how he got to be the way he is.

* FridgeLogic: Martin has a somewhat old fashioned view on the surface; he thinks that Louisa should stay at home to raise their child, rather than get back into work. It makes sense, however. Given how his own parents showed no interest in raising him, after all.
** That said, he also looks into boarding schools, although in his case, it seems to be more about getting his child the best possible education than avoiding raising his son.
** Martin seems to become grumpier as the series go on. In the first series, he's a tiny bit friendlier in some respects, at least until someone manages to earn his ire or prove they're idiots. It might seem like Flanderization, but then you wonder about if Martin is ultimately frustrated by the idiocy of the villagers, the utter differences between his emotionally reticent self and said villagers, their ability to get any kind of disease, no matter how implausible or improbable, sometimes due to the fact that they seem unwilling to take his advice seriously, and possibly his and Louisa's inability to keep their relationships going due to him being emotionally reticent and perhaps her inability to stand it..

** Martin seems to become grumpier as the series go on. In the first series, he's a tiny bit friendlier in some respects, at least until someone manages to earn his ire or prove they're idiots. It might seem like Flanderization, but then you wonder about if Martin is ultimately frustrated by the idiocy of the villagers, the utter differences between his emotionally reticent self and said villagers, their ability to get any kind of disease, no matter how implausible or improbable, sometimes due to the fact that they seem unwilling to take his advice seriously, and possibly his and Louisa's inability to keep their relationships going due to him being emotionally reticent and perhaps her inability to stand it..

** Martin seems to become grumpier as the series go on. In the first series, he's a tiny bit friendlier in some respects, at least until someone manages to earn his ire or prove they're idiots. It might seem like Flanderization, but then you wonder about if Martin is ultimately frustrated by the idiocy of the villagers, their inability to actually take his advice. the utter differences between his emotionally reticent self and said villagers, their ability to get any kind of disease, no matter how implausible or improbable, and possibly his and Louisa's inability to keep their relationships going due to him being emotionally reticent and perhaps her inability to stand it..

** Martin seems to become grumpier as the series go on. In the first series, he's a tiny bit friendlier in some respects, at least until someone manages to earn his ire or prove they're idiots. It might seem like Flanderization, but then you wonder about if Martin is ultimately frustrated by the idiocy of the villagers, the utter differences between his emotionally reticent self and said villagers, their ability to get any kind of disease, no matter how implausible or improbable, and possibly his and Louisa's inability to keep their relationships going due to him being emotionally reticent and perhaps her inability to stand it..

** That said, he also looks into boarding schools, although in his case, it seems to be more about getting his child the best possible education than avoiding raising his son.

* FridgeLogic: Martin has a somewhat old fashioned view on the surface; he thinks that Louisa should stay at home to raise their child, rather than get back into work. It makes sense, however. Given how his own parents showed no interest in raising him, after all.