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* [[Drama Bomb]]: When Joan is [[Killed Off for Real]] at the start of season 5.
* [[Dropped a Bridge On Her]]: Aunt Joan. Killed off offscreen with a heart attack in her jeep, which was found crashed into a gorse thicket.
* [[Dr. Jerk]] [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold|With A Heart Of Gold]].
{{quote| "It was easy to find you, I just followed the trail of outraged people".}}
** The [[Dr. Jerk]] is played straight in the 4th series with the character of Dr. Edith Montgomery, who not only shares Martin's lack of bedside manner but has even less care or empathy for her patients.
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* [[Instant Birth, Just Add Water]] with [[Screaming Birth]]: Louisa, although to be fair she had just been in a car accident, but less than half an hour had passed between waters breaking and delivery.
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: The Doc
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: While the Doc has a habit of being extraordinarily rude to people, it's clear that he ''does'' care about their well-being, but is frustrated by the fact that they never follow directions. He also clearly loves his Aunt, Louisa, and even Pauline. This is most obviously expressed in the episode where he and Louisa become engaged, as he tells off Pauline's mum for accusing Pauline of being a criminal when really she just has a gambling addiction, and where he tells Louisa that he can't bear to live without her.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|Auntie Joan}} dies of a heart attack offscreen during the hiatus between seasons 4 and 5.
* [[Licked Byby the Dog]]: Martin in basically every episode. Some episodes almost use the dog as a link.
* [[Loan Shark]]: It turns out that Bert has had to go to some loan sharks to keep his restaurant afloat.
* [[My Local|The Local]]: The Crab and Lobster.
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* [[Parental Abandoment]]: The Ellinghams took every opportunity to not have to raise Martin, sending him to boarding school at age six and having him spend summers with Aunt Joan (until his father decided that Joan was too immoral). Louisa's mother walked out on the family when she was ten and she became estranged from her gambling-addict father when she was an adult. {{spoiler|Her father eventually becomes a criminal, causing a second estrangement. Her mother returned to become a cast member in season 5.}}
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Martin writes a prescription<ref>vitamin pills</ref> to the town's ranger, a traumatised war veteran. Later, he does the same<ref>with breath mints</ref> for a teenage girl who is suffering largely from being a teenager.
* [[Recycled: Thethe Series]]: Kind of an odd example. A character, played by Clunes appeared in a film ''Saving Grace'' and later two prequel miniseries. In making this series, the character was given a [[Retool]] with [[Doctor Jerk]] added to the character (who was originally just a [[Fish Out of Water]]), and his last name was changed to Ellingham (an [[Significant Anagram|anagram]] of the last name of the show's writer Dominic Minghella).
** [[Ascended Extra]]
* [[Running Gag]]: The dog that follows Martin around.
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*** Morwena is very much one for Pauline though.
** Averted with the replacement for Aunt Joan, Martin's Aunt Ruth is a very different person.
* [[Ten -Minute Retirement]]: Martin's replacement at the end of season 4 is so stunningly incompetent he feels he has to take over again.
* [[The West Country]]
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Blood.
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