Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / YMMV

Alternate Character Interpretation:
- Linda most likely thinks that she can get away with homophobia because she lives with a gay man, and being an openly gay man in the late-20th century, Tom is probably used to it.
- Tom and Linda might have romantic feelings for each other, despite Tom being gay. They've had several moments of UST with each other that are no different to when two heterosexual characters go through the same thing in other stories. This could be the cause of both of them having an emotional dependence through the promise of sex. The two of them constantly fight over men (including a cold war over being the next person to have a one-night stand), but when they fail and become miserable, they begin to flirt with each other until there is a Moment Killer or a Despair Event Horizon. Would they go all the way if they had a little more oomph?
- Could a handful of Linda's claims about her extended family's wacky antics (e.g. her aunts having rickets and/or kidnapping children they babysat) be made up to make people feel sorry for her?
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The ending of the Millennium special after Tom and Linda have both passed out after drowning their sorrows had a group of men in pink shirts enter the room singing "Tomorrow" from Annie to the studio audience. This might be Justified when you consider this was a Christmas Special.
Crosses the Line Twice:
- A lot of Linda's humourous sex-capades sound like grooming, bed tricks or sexual assault.
- A notable joke from season 3 has a moment of Linda nostalgically looking through a sexy calendar she and a few girls from borstal did when they were teenagers. When she turns a page, she points out to Tom that there is a stain. She tells him that her dad spilt mayonnaise on it...
  Linda: ...Well, at least I think it's mayonnaise ... I think it smells like coronation chicken.
Ensemble Dark Horse: Beryl, who has the some of the funniest scenes and lines, and does wacky things, such as selling pirated VHS tapes.
Harsher in Hindsight: Linda's line "I haven't been this excited since Jimmy Savile came to our open day at school and sat on my face!" isn't really so funny now... though given how dark and off-colour the humour is in this show, it could possibly qualify for Hilarious in Hindsight.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- In the pilot, Tom and Linda try to remember why there was a stranger in their house, making Tom shiver in disgust at the thought of Linda sleeping with a man who was possibly their taxi driver the night before. Episodes later, she has a one-night stand with a taxi driver ... a female one, to her horror.
- Tom is excited for his birthday, but Linda's supposed forgetfulness annoys him. He tries to hint at it by saying that 30 years before, his mother was rushed to hospital because "she had something in her tummy", making Linda remember when the same thing happened to her when she had constipation, and how she "pushed and pushed for five-and-a-half hours" and "gave birth to a gonk". In the third season, it is revealed that she has an estranged son that she forgot about... who is black!
Jerkass Woobie: Linda occasionally. She's constantly rejected. She's told she's ugly and stupid by almost everyone she meets, she's publicly disowned by her celebrity sister Sugar, her father lies that he's in an iron lung as an excuse to have as little contact with her as possible, she appears to have had a loving mother, but she has passed away. She has, all in all, had a horrible life. The only reason it isn't a Tear Jerker is that she's so deluded she thinks she's gorgeous and that everyone loves her. However, sometimes that is implied to be simply a defense mechanism and that she's trying to be happy despite everything. Then there's the Downer Ending...
Moral Event Horizon:
- Tom bitching about his date mourning on the anniversary of his ex-boyfriend's suicide, saying that no matter how much the date cries, it won't bring his ex back. It was very satisfying when the date got his revenge by forcing Tom to do humiliating things for his amusement.
- Suze's antics when she was a modeling agent. When she wasn't treating Linda like scum and ordering her around like a slave, she was mocking Linda behind her back to Jez about how she'd secretly signed Linda up for a catwalk full of "ugly" people. Unfortunately, the viewers don't find out whether Linda got her vengeance or confronted Suze.
One-Scene Wonder:
- Daisy, played by Rose Keegan^note, only appeared in one episode as a factory worker on Linda's line, but she was very popular with fans and is regarded as one of the most memorable things about the whole series.
- Heidi Honeycomb also counts.
- Maddie the sweet-natured and scatty taxi driver (actress Moya Brady), who really didn't deserve to get sexually entangled with Linda, also went down well with viewers.
Retroactive Recognition: Before they were known for their appearances in popular soap operas, Elaine Lordan appeared in this show in the recurring role of Linda's sister Sugar Walls and Charlie Condou appeared in one episode as Nino.
This Is Your Premise on Drugs: As the page quote says, Amazon.co.uk called it "Will & Grace on cocaine, in a parallel universe".
Unintentional Period Piece: The show was unmistakably made in the late 1990s/early 2000s with so many references to the pop music of the time. The Millennium Special where they mention the Millennium Bug and Maureen Rees from Driving School, for example. ^note
Values Dissonance: Some of the jokes towards LGBT characters could be seen as homophobic nowadays. This immediately makes Linda even more Unintentionally Unsympathetic, since she was meant to be an Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist anyway. In an interview for the British news channel GB News in 2021, James Dreyfus is of the opinion that the show wouldn't get made made today because of this — but he also refuted any accusation that the show was homophobic, claiming that those who say that it is are just being too sensitive. Make of that what you will.

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