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Bletchley Park, 1941. As WWII rolls on, the men and women at Bletchley work tirelessly to break German codes, matching wits with the fabled Enigma Machine.
When they aren't too busy bickering with one another, and otherwise having the most ridiculous war imaginable.
Archie (Tom Goodman-Hill) is a working-class Geordie who was rejected from Oxford by a pompous don for not knowing how to use a fish fork properly. Years later, this don re-enters his life when Charles (Robert Bathurst) is assigned to act as their hut's resident linguistics expert. Mutual hate ensues between the working-class, socialist Archie, and arrogant, old-monied, conservative Charles.
Also stationed in Hut 33 are young prodigy Gordon (Fergus Craig), IQ 196, whose mother won't let him wear proper trousers until he turns 18, and the ever-silent Winstanley. They are overseen by Third Lieutenant Joshua Fanshawe-Marshall ([[The Thick of It|Alex MacQueen]]), kicked upstairs for driving an entire tank regiment into the sea ("The colours on the map were very misleading. I honestly thought that blue meant 'sky'."). Polish resistance fighter Minka (Olivia Colman) often drops in -- with varying degrees of literalness -- and rounding out the cast is cheerful, lascivious Mrs. Best (Lill Roughley), proprietor of the local pub.
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Mrs. B to Charles.
* [[Action Girl]]: Minka.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Minka, who carries a Bren gun everywhere and is delighted to be presented with rusty barbed wire as a Christmas present.
* [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys]]: Charles and Minka's opinion of the French. Minka's opinion of the [[La Résistance|French Resistance]] is equally unflattering.
{{quote|'''Minka:''' Ooh, I am French Resistance! I work in cafe in Paris, and sometimes I serve Nazi officers croissant that is not quite fresh!}}
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: 3rd Lieutenant Josh Fanshawe-Marshall, who was equally sad to find out that Santa and Winston Churchill don't exist, and reports that the Germans are fielding [[The Wizard of Oz (film)|armies of flying monkeys]] after seeing a "newsreel" in London. His advice during a bombing raid is to "stand very still. They'll go away!"
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* [[Extended Disarming]]: Applies to Minka on several occasions.
* [[Gentleman Snarker]]: Charles
* [[I Call
* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: The "I-tube", an inter-hut communications system. Gordon envisions it one day spanning the globe in a massive interconnected network, and it will be called ... "[[Last-Second Word Swap|The World Wide Spider!]]"
** Charles' higher cause: "Of course I don't want Germany to win. Imagine what Europe would be like if everything got standardized, measured and regulated! I'm fighting this war to make sure that never happens."
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* [[Really Gets Around]]: Mrs. Best. Name any prominent figure of the period and she will announce, "I've had 'im."
* [[Running Gag]]: Several.
** Minka [[Drop
** Mrs. Best turns out to have had sex with someone famous.
** Charles turns out to have known a famous Nazi.
* [[Stiff Upper Lip]]: Charles, as a consummate gentleman, likes to believe he has this.
* [[Take That]]: Numerous.
** From the time the team was nearly sent to Iraq: "Even the Nazis wouldn't be so barbaric as to bomb an ancient city like Baghdad!"
** Minka: "Cardiff make me homesick. It look just like Warsaw, after Nazi destroy it."
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[[Category:Radio]]
[[Category:Radio of the 2000s]]
[[Category:Hut 33]]
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