Gavin and Stacey: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 13:
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Bryn.
* [[Beach Episode]]: The 2009 Christmas special.
** Also, the
* [[Beauty Inversion]]: Look for a clip of [[Big Beautiful Woman|Ruth Jones]] when she's ''not'' playing Nessa, and then quietly marvel at how much effort must have gone into making her look that rough.
* [[Big Eater]]: Smithy.
Line 20:
* [[Catch Phrase]]:
** "O!, what's occurrin'?"; "Truth be told..."
** "I won't lie to you."
** "Lush!"
** "Oh my Christ!"
** "GAVLAR!"
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: In the Christmas special, Mick asks when [[Eastenders]] is on - which the actor has also starred in.
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: A mild case in
* [[Children Raise You]]: With a dash of [[Coming of Age Story]] for Smithy... eventually.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Smithy's [[The Ditz|ditzy]] friend and fellow builder Deano sometimes strays into this, as when he refuses to go bowling as he's 'scared of the shoes
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "Little Baby Neil, the baby..."
* [[Dirty Old Woman]]: Doris.
* [[Drama Bomb]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] thusly: "It's like living in [[Holly Oaks]]!"
* [[The Ghost]]: Smithy's girlfriend Lucy.
Line 39:
** Nessa to a lesser extent. Her behaviour fluctuates between being a good friend and being a cheapskate who has no problem using scams to gain money.
* [[The Ladette]]: Rudi, Smithy's sister, who wears [http://www.heelys.com/Pages/Welcome.aspx Heelys].
* [[Law of Inverse Fertility]]: Played both ways. When Stacey fails to get pregnant, Gavin is told that due to his low sperm count, it's going to be very hard for him and Stacey to conceive naturally. Of course, Stacey ends up pregnant when they're not even trying.
** Also, Nessa gets pregnant from a one night stand.
* [[Long-Distance Relationship]]: By UK standards, at least..
* [[Malaproper]]: Pam.
* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: [[Torture Cellar|The Wests]], the [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Shipmans]], and the [[Jack the Ripoff|Sutcliffes]]. [[Theme Naming|See a pattern?]]
* [[The Not-Secret]]: In the [[Christmas Episode]], it is revealed that everyone except for Gwen knew that {{spoiler|Pam isn't really a vegetarian
* [[Noodle Incident]]: The unspecified (but heavily [[Ho Yay|hinted]] [[Incest Is Relative|at]]) incident between Bryn and Jason during a fishing trip.
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: The writers clearly hate these because they show up a ''lot'', including Gavin's overzealous line manager who (inadvertently) nearly splits the title couple up, an overzealous platform guard at Paddington Station who ends up siccing armed police on Gavin when he goes onto the platform to propose to Stacey, and an overzealous tollbooth attendant at the Severn Bridge who Gavin and Smithy get a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] by lifting the ticket barrier and driving past when they get fed up of arguing about 10p.
Line 60:
* [[Twin Telepathy]]: Smithy and his sister aren't twins, but their minds work on an almost creepily similar wavelength.
* [[Two Words: Obvious Trope]]: The stag party organiser.
* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Three families share a surname with an infamous serial killer, a fact which gets the inevitable [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] hung on it in the
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]
{{reflist}}
| |||