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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/OldGuysTomRoy_9372.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:Tom and Roy]]
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4	->''"I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy. I'm happy, I'm happy, '''and I'll punch the man who says I'm not.'''"''
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6	''The Old Guys'' is a sitcom starring Creator/CliveSwift and Creator/RogerLloydPack and was created by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, the minds behind ''Series/PeepShow''. The show follows Tom (Lloyd-Pack) and Roy (Swift) as they navigate their twilight years. Sounds idyllic, right? They're basically expies of [[Series/PeepShow Mark and Jeremy]], so their twilight years consist of verbal abuse, lusting after unattainable women, and FailureIsTheOnlyOption.
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8	!!This show provides examples of:
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10	%%* ComedicSociopathy: Sally and Tom.
11	%%* CringeComedy
12	* DeadpanSnarker: Roy. "Partial rather than abject humiliation, hurray."
13	* {{Expy}}: Picture Jeremy and Mark in 30 years. Actually, just check the top of the page!
14	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: If Roy tries to convince everyone that he is not a doddering old man whose mind is going, he will invariably end up on the floor of a public toilet, having just accidentally peeked on a man with his trousers down, pretending that he's senile to escape the usual fallout.
15	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Tom and Roy. One episode involves Tom trying to get Roy to marry him as part of a pension scam, and Roy agrees after Tom promises "No bed stuff!"
16	* NotSoAboveItAll: Roy appears very sophisticated, but he's not above getting involved in childish tests of will, like who will break and do the big shop first.
17	* SilverVixen: Sally, the next-door object of the boys' desperate affections. Also "Sexy Barbara", the HotLibrarian.
18	* VitriolicBestBuds: Tom and Roy again. Roy is normally polite, but Tom is a {{jerkass}}.

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