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Not ymmv, unless you meant Magnificent Bastard, then it's an unapproved entry
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* ManipulativeBastard: Editor Lynda Day. To quote her best friend Sarah after one of Lynda's finest moments of manipulation: "Can you explain to me how I just argued myself into doing what you wanted me to do in the first place? You are a devious, unfeeling, calculating, manipulative bitch!" Lynda's reply? "Well, you were asking what made me a better choice for editor."
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The show started filming in the late 80s. The main cast use typewriters like it's a normal thing and it's considered a huge deal when they get a very basic desktop computer. The opening titles utilize synth music with the cast doing the classic smile at the camera freeze frame with their name underneath. The clothes, sets and most of the hairstyles are very indicative of the time it was filmed, even the extras wear brighter colours.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: From "Monday-Tuesday", there's the joint message that being nice and actually working hard is probably going to be a much more effective way of getting what you want out of life rather than trying to bully, blackmail and force people into doing things your way. Also, you never know what is going on in someone's private life or what kind of emotional state they're currently in so you should always think before you speak.
** On a similar note from "There Are Crocodiles", there is only a limited amount of responsibility you can put on other people's shoulders for the choices and mistakes you make yourself, especially when you had already been warned about the potential consequences.
** On a similar note from "There Are Crocodiles", there is only a limited amount of responsibility you can put on other people's shoulders for the choices and mistakes you make yourself, especially when you had already been warned about the potential consequences.
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not YMMV. moving
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* {{Adorkable}}: Lynda wears clothes that don't match like a polka dot skirt while wearing a jacket. She also doesn't have great social skills.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Lynda. Frequently. Granted, she's never nice about it and is as prone to making mistakes as everyone else but many of her summations (particularly her speech to the ghosts of David and "Whatshisname" in "There Are Crocodiles") fit very snugly into this trope.
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* BrokenBase: There's a minor one over whether the show was better in the first two series within the school setting or whether the show continued on a fairly even keel throughout its entire run, even though it took a noticeably increasingly grownup tone once the characters left school.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Lynda. Frequently. Granted, she's never nice about it and is as prone to making mistakes as everyone else but many of her summations (particularly her speech to the ghosts of David and "Whatshisname" in "There Are Crocodiles") fit very snugly into this trope.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Lynda. Frequently. Granted, she's never nice about it and is as prone to making mistakes as everyone else but many of her summations (particularly her speech to the ghosts of David and "Whatshisname" in "There Are Crocodiles") fit very snugly into this trope.
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: From "Monday-Tuesday", there's the joint message that being nice and actually working hard is probably going to be a much more effective way of getting what you want out of life rather than trying to bully, blackmail and force people into doing things your way. Also, you never know what is going on in someone's private life or what kind of emotional state they're currently in so you should always think before you speak.
** On a similar note from "There Are Crocodiles", there is only a limited amount of responsibility you can put on other people's shoulders for the choices and mistakes you make yourself, especially when you had already been warned about the potential consequences.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: It's fairly ambiguous exactly how sympathetic he's meant to be, but [[DrivenToSuicide regardless of how "Monday-Tuesday" ends]], David Jefford does genuinely appear to be precisely the rich jerk the main crew has him pegged as at the start, what with his blatant attempt to blackmail his way onto the writing team by threatening the future of the paper as well as almost certainly putting most of the students at risk of potentially severe disciplinary action by the school, as well as his smug and thoroughly entitled attitude throughout the episode. We're only given Mr Kerr's word for it that his life was in any way significantly unhappy beyond Lynda not giving him what he wants which can make the tragedy and the shell-shocked reaction from the main crew seem a little hollow.
** On a similar note from "There Are Crocodiles", there is only a limited amount of responsibility you can put on other people's shoulders for the choices and mistakes you make yourself, especially when you had already been warned about the potential consequences.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: It's fairly ambiguous exactly how sympathetic he's meant to be, but [[DrivenToSuicide regardless of how "Monday-Tuesday" ends]], David Jefford does genuinely appear to be precisely the rich jerk the main crew has him pegged as at the start, what with his blatant attempt to blackmail his way onto the writing team by threatening the future of the paper as well as almost certainly putting most of the students at risk of potentially severe disciplinary action by the school, as well as his smug and thoroughly entitled attitude throughout the episode. We're only given Mr Kerr's word for it that his life was in any way significantly unhappy beyond Lynda not giving him what he wants which can make the tragedy and the shell-shocked reaction from the main crew seem a little hollow.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The show was aimed at children and teenagers, was frequently hilarious...and featured topics such as glue-sniffing leading to accidental death, child sexual abuse, a gun seige at a newspaper office, a gas leak resulting in a building blowing up (half of the episode was about one survivor, trapped in the rubble, trying to keep another alive until the rescuers could get to her...which didn't work), teachers having extramarital affairs, and so on. Storylines also focussed on a suicide, a reporter coaxing a confession of manslaughter out of a half-blinded gang member over the phone, and a death by drug overdose ([[DaEditor Lynda]] was not overly sympathetic). There's a reason that its [[Creator/StevenMoffat co-creator and sole scriptwriter]] went on to become Executive Producer of Series/DoctorWho...
* TheWoobie (Kenny, who has been enduring endless amounts of personal abuse from Lynda since the age of six, has his wardrobe invaded by Colin with a recording mike, and on one occasion manages to fall in love with a wrong number)
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The show was aimed at children and teenagers, was frequently hilarious...and featured topics such as glue-sniffing leading to accidental death, child sexual abuse, a gun seige at a newspaper office, a gas leak resulting in a building blowing up (half of the episode was about one survivor, trapped in the rubble, trying to keep another alive until the rescuers could get to her...which didn't work), teachers having extramarital affairs, and so on. Storylines also focussed on a suicide, a reporter coaxing a confession of manslaughter out of a half-blinded gang member over the phone, and a death by drug overdose ([[DaEditor Lynda]] was not overly sympathetic). There's a reason that its [[Creator/StevenMoffat co-creator and sole scriptwriter]] went on to become Executive Producer of Series/DoctorWho...
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The show was aimed at children and teenagers, was frequently hilarious...and featured topics such as glue-sniffing leading to accidental death, child sexual abuse, a gun seige at a newspaper office, a gas leak resulting in a building blowing up (half of the episode was about one survivor, trapped in the rubble, trying to keep another alive until the rescuers could get to her...which didn't work), teachers having extramarital affairs, and so on. Storylines also focussed on a suicide, a reporter coaxing a confession of manslaughter out of a half-blinded gang member over the phone, and a death by drug overdose ([[DaEditor Lynda]] was not overly sympathetic). There's a reason that its [[StevenMoffat [[Creator/StevenMoffat co-creator and sole scriptwriter]] went on to become Executive Producer of Series/DoctorWho...
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* ManipulativeBastard: Editor Lynda Day. To quote her best friend Sarah after one of Lynda's finest moments of manipulation: "Can you explain to me how I just argued myself into doing what you wanted me to do in the first place? You are a devious, unfeeling, calculating, manipulative bitch!" Lynda's reply? "Well, you were asking what made me a better choice for editor."
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* {{ptitle3aa6c4mw}}: The show was aimed at children and teenagers, was frequently hilarious...and featured topics such as glue-sniffing leading to accidental death, child sexual abuse, a gun seige at a newspaper office, a gas leak resulting in a building blowing up (half of the episode was about one survivor, trapped in the rubble, trying to keep another alive until the rescuers could get to her...which didn't work), teachers having extramarital affairs, and so on. Storylines also focussed on a suicide, a reporter coaxing a confession of manslaughter out of a half-blinded gang member over the phone, and a death by drug overdose ([[DaEditor Lynda]] was not overly sympathetic). There's a reason that its [[StevenMoffat co-creator and sole scriptwriter]] went on to become Executive Producer of Series/DoctorWho...
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* {{ptitle3aa6c4mw}}: WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The show was aimed at children and teenagers, was frequently hilarious...and featured topics such as glue-sniffing leading to accidental death, child sexual abuse, a gun seige at a newspaper office, a gas leak resulting in a building blowing up (half of the episode was about one survivor, trapped in the rubble, trying to keep another alive until the rescuers could get to her...which didn't work), teachers having extramarital affairs, and so on. Storylines also focussed on a suicide, a reporter coaxing a confession of manslaughter out of a half-blinded gang member over the phone, and a death by drug overdose ([[DaEditor Lynda]] was not overly sympathetic). There's a reason that its [[StevenMoffat co-creator and sole scriptwriter]] went on to become Executive Producer of Series/DoctorWho...
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* {{ptitle3aa6c4mw}}: The show was aimed at children and teenagers, was frequently hilarious...and featured topics such as glue-sniffing leading to accidental death, child sexual abuse, a gun seige at a newspaper office, a gas leak resulting in a building blowing up (half of the episode was about one survivor, trapped in the rubble, trying to keep another alive until the rescuers could get to her...which didn't work), teachers having extramarital affairs, and so on. Storylines also focussed on a suicide, a reporter coaxing a confession of manslaughter out of a half-blinded gang member over the phone, and a death by drug overdose ([[DaEditor Lynda]] was not overly sympathetic). There's a reason that its [[StevenMoffat co-creator and sole scriptwriter]] went on to become Executive Producer of Series/DoctorWho...
