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* [[British Brevity]]: Just twelve episodes plus a Christmas special.

* [[Camp Gay]]: Damon, the staff writer/producer for ''When the Whistle Blows''. His campness irritates Andy so much that he mocks him behind his back, leading to an embarrassing confrontation. Also "Bunny" Bunton, the closeted theater director.

* [[Caustic Critic]]: Poor sitcom of Andy.

* [[Celebrity Star]]: The show runs on this. Spoofed when Chris Martin gets an illogical guest spot on Andy's show. "What are you doing here, in a factory in Wigan? It's ''mental''."

** Every episode has at least one sequence that makes you want to curl up and die, most notably Andy's attempts to worm his way out of visiting a terminally ill child at the hospital.

** Robert Lindsay cringing himself with his narcissism in front of the same ill child.

* [[The Cynic]]: Andy.

* [[The Danza]]: Parodied. Keith Chegwin's character in his guest appearance on ''When the Whistle Blows'' is renamed when he has trouble responding to Alfie, the character's original name.

* [[Dumbass Has a Point]]: As clueless as Maggie is, she's the one who allows Bunny's daughter to see how unhappy she is as well as the person to finally point out to Andy that he'll never be able to achieve enough to satisfy himself.

* [[Executive Meddling]]: In-series; Andy's smart satirical show gets mutated by producers for mass appeal into a brainless [[Catch Phrase]]-driven piece of dreck. Andy's original concept is suspiciously similar to ''[[The Office]]'', so ''When the Whistle Blows'' is a parody of what could have happened if it had been taken in the opposite direction.

* [[Kafka Komedy]]

* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Daniel Radcliffe clearly runs on this trope in his episode, given his desperation to get laid. He does claim to have had sex, although it's somewhat doubtful. Averted with Andy, who lost his virginity at 28 to a woman who looked like Ronnie Corbett.

* [[No Title]]: To the episodes.

* [[The Nudifier]]: Patrick Stewart wants to make a movie in which he plays a character with awesome psychic powers... that are used solely to cause women's clothes to fall off.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Andy

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Happens in-show to Andy playing Ray when the futility of what he's doing saps his focus. Especially noticeable when Chris Martin cameos.

* [[Straight Gay]]: The BBC producer of ''When the Whistle Blows'', revealing himself as such after Andy insults the [[Camp Gay]] staff writer Damon.

* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Andy has his unlikeable side.

 

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