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| 3 | ''The Happy Apple'' is a 1983 BritCom created by Keith Waterhouse for Creator/{{ITV}}, based on a 1970 play by Jack Pulman of the same title. It stars Leslie Ash, Jeremy Child, Nicky Henson, and John Nettleton. |
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| 5 | Nancy Gray (Leslie Ash) works as a secretary for advertising agency Murray, Maine & Spender. The agency is in decline, with only one major client remaining and little prospect of attracting new ones. Then it's discovered that Nancy (who is 'more average than average') has an uncanny knack for recognising successful products and advertising slogans. |
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| 7 | !!Tropes used in ''The Happy Apple'': |
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| 9 | * AdvertisingTropes: Each episode featured jokes based on different advertising techniques as the agency tried to figure out the best method for selling their latest product or service. |
| 10 | * BritishBrevity: One series of 7 episodes. |
| 11 | * ExpositoryThemeTune: The one thing anyone who has seen this series remembers is the expository theme tune set ToTheTuneOf ''Music/EineKleineNachtmusik'': |
| 12 | -->''Nancy is junior secretary\ |
| 13 | In an advertising agency...'' |
| 14 | * FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: Nancy accidentally becomes cultured after accompanying the firm's cultural advisor to a number of high class such as the ballet and the opera. (Originally, one of the bosses was supposed to attending to improve his own knowledge of high culture, but kept dodging the engagements so the advisor kept finding himself with a spare ticket.) However, the firm then discovers a cultured Nancy is no longer 'average' and cannot predict winning advertising campaigns. Facing potential ruin, they return Nancy to 'average' by locking her in a sauna and force reading her trashy romance novels. |
| 15 | * PluckyOfficeGirl: Nancy is a young secretary whose power of 'being more average than average' is the secret of the agency's success. |
| 16 | * ToTheTuneOf: The show has an ExpositoryThemeTune set to the tune of Mozart's ''Eine kleine Nachtmusik''. |
| 17 | * TrivialTitle: "The Happy Apple" refers to a line in the first episode about how it is easier to sell "a happy apple" than "a sad fig". |
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