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  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The series is hugely popular in Hungary.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Mr. Barnes is played by Ivor Roberts, who would later be best known for playing Arnold Thomas in Oh, Doctor Beeching!.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
    • Mrs Lipton during the end of Series 2 and the beginning of Series 3. The sympathetic way Alf and James treat her after Poppy criticises her cooking implies that the audience is supposed to be on their side. However, considering the stuck-up, elitist, borderline abusive way Mrs Lipton treats Mabel and Henry, she's less The Woobie of that story arc and more a bullying crybaby who can't handle a taste of her own medicine.
    • James, when he stands up for Mrs Lipton against Poppy's criticism. Considering that he treats Henry like dirt and Mabel less than dirt, he isn't a "valiant hero", taking a stand against a "tyrant", but a huge hypocrite who can't practice what he preaches about people "knowing their station in life". Especially since he always tells Ivy off for voicing her opinions to the family.
  • The Woobie:
    • Henry, especially when courting Ivy.
    • And of course, Ivy, when James rejects her again and again.

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