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* [[George Jetson Job Security]]: {{spoiler|Pippa}} who is forced to reapply for her own job... and fails to get it.
* [[George Jetson Job Security]]: {{spoiler|Pippa}} who is forced to reapply for her own job... and fails to get it.
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Hilary.
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Hilary.
* [[Hey It's That Guy]]: Who could have imagined [[The Thick of It|Terri Coverly]] and [[The Thick of It|Malcolm Tucker]] in the caring professions?
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Who could have imagined [[The Thick of It|Terri Coverly]] and [[The Thick of It|Malcolm Tucker]] in the caring professions?
* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Peter the psychiatrist, who is swooned over by the female staff, Pippa is something of an [[Abhorrent Admirer]].
* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Peter the psychiatrist, who is swooned over by the female staff, Pippa is something of an [[Abhorrent Admirer]].
* [[Jittercam]]
* [[Jittercam]]

Revision as of 19:17, 25 January 2014

Hello Nurse!

Getting On (2009-) is a British sitcom set in a hospital ward a million miles away from Princeton General. Situated right at the wrong end of the Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty, the series is centred on a general ward and the unglamorous lives of its long-suffering staff. The series is written by its three female leads: Jo Brand as Nurse Kim Wilde, Joanna Scanlan as Sister Den Flixter, and Vicki Pepperdine as Dr Pippa Moore. The show is intended to be a realistic portrayal of hospital life with naturalistic dialogue and shaky camera movements. Its director Peter Capaldi may have learned a few tricks from his time working with Armando Iannucci on The Thick of It.

Kim has returned to nursing after some time away, and is struggling to cope with the changes the NHS has been through in the meantime. New regulations stop her from providing good old-fashioned patient care and constantly throw up problems, not least of which is the oversensitive Matron Hilary Loftus.

Tropes used in Getting On include:


  Peter Healy: "Well, it's only technically a poor score..."