A family with wildly divergent social views - including ardent Brexit supporter Dawn (Sarah Parish), her well-meaning but dopey husband Mick (Steve Pemberton), Dawn's sister Penny (Debra Gillett), her liberal husband Brian (Reese Shearsmith), and Dawn and Penny's Alzheimers-ridden father Ralph (Julian Glover) gather for a Last Night at the Proms party.
Tropes:
- 20 Minutes into the Past: The episode is set in 2018 (the Proms are from then, Oliver wears an England World Cup scarf, and the dates line up).
- Adaptational Villainy: Penny is an expy of Mary Magdalene. However, while Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, Penny essentially sexually assaults Yusuf.
- Ambiguous Ending: Penny either has a visitation from Jesus or goes insane and starts hallucinating in the final scene.
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Penny tries to get Yusuf to touch her indecently.
- Artistic Licence – Law: Brian apparently thinks he's living in Victorian Britain and illegitimate children are still banned from inheriting, as he brags that he'll get Mick and Dawn's house once Ralph dies now that Dawn has been found to not actually be Ralph's daughter.
- Bait-and-Switch: From the setup, you would assume Mick and Dawn to be the ones who would react negatively to Yusuf's presence; however despite being ignorant to a certain degree (offering him milk and bread as you would a wild animal) they express no bigotry or hatred towards him...in contrast to 'liberal' Brian, who is immediately terrified of him.
- Carpet-Rolled Corpse: Ralph and Mick roll the body of Yusuf into a Union Flag before carrying him out into the car.
- Closet Gay: Despite being married to a woman and having a son, Brian is more or less stated to be gay, although he feebly denies it. Whether he's in a Transparent Closet depends on your reading of whether he really is cheating on Penny with the man from the gym or not.
- Delicious Distraction: Yusuf throws Boris some leftover food in order to make him stop barking.
- Depraved Homosexual: Brian (see Closet Gay) sexually assaults the stranger, and in front of his son at that.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Yusuf dies in Penny's arms. Their pose straddles the line to Pietà Plagiarism.
- Domestic Abuse: Implied with Brian, who physically pushes his wife to the floor in one scene, with the other characters reactions (or lack thereof) indicating they're used to it.
- Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Penny uses Yusuf against his will for her own pleasure. It's played for laughs.
- Fan of the Past: Downplayed. Both Mick and Ralph are rather old-fashioned and do agree on the notion that sometimes the old ways are the best.
- Halfway Plot Switch: The plot changes rapidly with the appearance of Yusuf in the living room.
- Hypocrite: Brian claims to be a liberal person and looks down on "little Englanders" (i.e. lower-class people) for being unenlightened and bigoted, but the moment Yusef appears he reacts with fear and insists on patting him down for weapons while the supposed "little Englanders" are much more welcoming, if slightly insensitive.
- Innocently Insensitive: Mick and Dawn try to be welcoming towards Yusef, but come off as rather ignorant, offering him milk and bread as you would a wild animal.
- Jerkass: Brian is nothing but sullen and antagonistic towards the rest of the characters, including his wife, and openly looks down on people who watch the Proms or have different taste in music to him.
- Karma Houdini: The family appear to get away with Yusef's death and the disposal of his body.
- Kick the Dog: Brian has several moments like this, including shoving Penny to the floor, spitefully revealing to Dawn that she's an illegitimate child born from her mother's affair with a German before ranting about how he'll get her house as a result, admitting during an argument that he doesn't love his wife, and dismissing Yusef's death as self-defence after dumping his body.
- Kick Them While They Are Down: Brian repeatedly stabs Yusef when he's bleeding out on the floor while trying to get Penny away from him.
- Looks Like Jesus: Yusuf does. The family is unsure whether he actually is the real deal because of his Impaled Palms and other miracles performed.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's left to the audience's interpretation if Yusuf really is the second coming of Christ or not.
- Messianic Archetype: The Middle Eastern long-haired Yusuf who performs miracles.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Sharing his shaggy hair, Dawn and Mick's dog (an Old English sheepdog) seems to have been named after Boris Johnson.
- Not Actually His Child: Dawn isn't Ralph's daughter.
- Paper Destruction of Anger: Dawn tears the paper with her DNA test results to shreds.
- Phoneaholic Teenager: Oliver is listening to music on his phone while the family watches the Proms.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Brian immediately assumes that Yusef is a burglar and justifies his death as being self-defence against a dangerous intruder, and goes on a rant about how much he hates lower-class "little Englanders" for supposedly being unenlightened and bigoted.
- Poor Communication Kills: Ralph's first thought when Yusef appears is that he's come to take him away (presumably to either a hospital or Heaven). In the confusion that follows, no-one thinks to reassure him that isn't the case, and he ends up panicking and skewering Yusef with a gardening fork.
- Racist Grandpa: Ralph hates Germans, going way back to World War Two. Ironically, one of the obscenities he shouts while on his medication is "Sieg Heil!".
- Rich Sibling, Poor Sibling: Brian implies that this is the case for Penny (poor) and Dawn (rich) but it may just have been his drunkenness and status as The Resenter.
- Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Ralph shouts out obscenities constantly, but seems genuinely unable to stop it as he seems to have some form of dementia.
- Second Coming: There are a lot of the signs: Yusuf has stigmata, he turns Oliver's water into wine, and then he's murdered and comes Back from the Dead, and then ascends (maybe).
- Straw Liberal: Brian, who openly hates lower-class people, views anyone more patriotic than him as unenlightened "little Englanders" and talks a big game about treating immigrants with respect but reacts with undisguised fear the second he actually meets one.
- X Meets Y: "Abigail's Party" meets The Bible.
- Vomit Discretion Shot: Oliver's puking is hidden from the camera.
- You Are What You Hate:
- Dawn hates Germans, not knowing that she is half-German from her mother's affair.
- Brian hates so-called "little Britain" despite being no more enlightened than they are and in fact even quicker to turn on the stranger.
