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{{quote| '''Malcolm Tucker''': [[Actually Pretty Funny|Falling asleep on someone doesn't count.]]}}
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Jamie. In one famous scene he's even [[Incredibly Lame Pun|fax]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNDXc7a8p4 crazy].
* [[Bad News in Aa Good Way]]: {{spoiler|After Michael admits to leaking PWIP-PIP, Jamie later barges into his office to cheerfully inform him that he isn't fired, asking if that isn't a good thing. Michael notes that it ''sounds'' omnious. He's right too.}}
* [[Bastard Understudy]]: Jamie. "My theory is Malcolm built him in a lab, from bits of old psychopaths."
* [[Blonde Republican Sex Kitten]]: Liza Weld. Not that her party are the Republicans, of course.
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** Toby and Simon don't know in which room the meeting is being held, leading to a misunderstanding outside the {{spoiler|ladies bathroom}}.
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: "A certain vinegar-faced manipulative cowbag is about to discover that she is out of a fu-"
* [[Cut His Heart Out Withwith a Spoon]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa3eoMnMC80 "DO YOU WANT ME TO HOLEPUNCH YOUR FACE?"]
** "If you don't get me fuckin' Brian, I'm gonna come over there, I'm gonna lock you in a fuckin' floation tank and fill it full of sewage until ya fuckin' drown!"
** "I'm gonna fuckin' take your leg off, and I'll... fuckin'... the shin bone! I'm gonna take the shin bone, I'm gonna break it in two and I'm going to fucking stab you to fucking death with it..."
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* [[Eagle Land]]: Being an incredibly [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|cynical]] film the US is portrayed as being closer to Flavour 2, complete with power-crazed warmongers and an overweight American tourist... but being a rather [[Self-Deprecation|self-loathing]] film, the Brits are portrayed as being no better.
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: "How'd your team do at the weekend?" "Alright, we won!" "Yeah? Hehehehe... ''wanker''."
* [[Establishing Shot]]: The film opens with a shot of Malcolm sweeping into [[Whitehall|Number 10]] in his [[Badass Longcoat]]. It continues in this vein as the action moves between [[Whitehall]], [[The White House|the White House]], the UN building and Simon's constituency in Northamptonshire.
** It includes what [[Armando Iannucci]] refers to as "the [[Love Actually]] scene" in which Malcolm (walking past the Capitol in Washington) is seen on the phone to Judy (jogging past the Houses of Parliament in London).
** This trope is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Toby and Simon when they note that their hotel suite ''just about'' has a view of the Capitol.
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* [[Foe Yay]]: Jamie to Judy: "I'm quite aroused by the idea of giving you a long... hard... disciplinary hearing"
** Followed by a nice moment for Judy, when she actually manages to ''shut Jamie up'' by coolly remarking that she would [[Too Kinky to Torture|quite enjoy]] the "big... fat... compensation payment" she would receive as a result.
* [[Fun Withwith Acronyms]]: PWIP PIP
* [[Gilligan Cut]]: Malcolm asks Sir Jonathan Tutt to reschedule the UN vote. "It cannot be done and it will not be done", but it is. ''Twice''.
* [[Girly Run]]: "Where's the War Committee?" Malcolm gets lost in Washington... and again at the UN.
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** [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/may/08/mandelson-expenses-in-the-loop Lord Mandelson's claims] for gardening expenses revealed he had been through a "diplomatic crisis" with a neighbour over neglect of his garden. His predicament was eerily similar to Simon Foster's as he struggled with Paul Michaelson (Steve Coogan) and his collapsing garden wall.
* [[Made From Real Girl Scouts]]: Jamie assures Malcolm that he will be gentle with Simon and Toby: "Oh, you know me, Malc. Kid gloves... but made from real kids."
* [[Married to Thethe Job]]: Chad and all the young Whitehouse staffers. And Malcolm for that matter.
* [[Men Are Uncultured]]: Jamie: "What's the name of the fuck with the fiddle?" Michael Rodgers knows that it ''happens to be'' Debussy.
** Jamie's [http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24542 meditation on cinema]: "I went to see ''[[There Will Be Blood]]'' ... there wasn't any fucking blood!"
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* [[Nobody Poops]]: The writers ''really'' like subverting this trope.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Happens whenever a particularly bad piece of news is received (ie. ''very'' frequently).
** A slightly different one happens when Malcolm and General Miller finally have the face-to-face confrontation they've been building up to. Miller says [[Badass Boast|"I'll punch you in the face so hard you'll be shitting teeth"]], which Malcolm is completely unperturbed by because he makes [[Cut His Heart Out Withwith a Spoon]] threats all the time, and it would be extremely damaging to Miller's career. However, one staring match later, Malcolm realises that Miller actually would do it, regardless of the political damage. His attempt at brushing it off and ending the conversation is handled fairly well, but he is clearly backing down. This makes [[Badass|Miller]] possibly the only character in either the film or the [[The Thick of It|TV series]] to [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|make Malcolm run away from an argument.]]
* [[Older Than They Look]]: The actors playing the young [[The White House|White House]] staffers ("Your master race of highly-gifted toddlers") are all Older Than They Look. As is Chris Addison.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Steve Coogan is in the movie for probably five minutes at tops. He's nevertheless one of the best things in it, which is pretty impressive considering what he's up against.
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* [[Professional Butt-Kisser]]: Chad. His desperate methods to get closer to Linton Barwick include carrying a squash racquet in the hope that Linton will see it and fancy a game. Unfortunately he forgets to take the price tags off first. {{spoiler|Ironically, for all his sucking up and [[Smug Snake]] behaviour, he ends up being shafted and left with the losing side, whereas Liza -- who he has spent the entire movie trying to smugly lord it over -- ends up getting the position with Linton he's coveted.}}
** "He's wearing his push-up bra today!"
* [[Separated Byby a Common Language]]: The film gets in a reminder that [[Take That|no-one swears like the British]]:
{{quote| '''Karen Clarke''': "You just sat there like a... what do you call it in [[Britain Versus the UK|England]]? A ''wanker''!"<br />
'''Simon Foster''': "No, we don't call it that." }}
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