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[[File:keen_eddie_2996_1508.jpg|frame|"I'm Eddie. How do you like me so far?"]]
|Eddie's fortune.}}
''[[Keen Eddie]]'' was a [[Screwed
▲{{quote|''"Even in darkness, a keen spirit discovers light."''|Eddie's fortune.}}
▲Keen Eddie was a [[Screwed By the Network|short lived]] [[Cop Show|cop show]] from the early noughties starring Mark Valley, Sienna Miller and Julian Rhind-Tutt. Eddie Arlette, a detective from Manhattan, is taken in when he develops feelings for a [[Femme Fatal|duplicitous informant]]. She, along with a convincing co-star, tricks him into planning a drug-bust for the wrong warehouse, and as a result of his mistake, inadvertently supplies London's drug lords with a year's worth of oxycodone. But Eddie's the only one who can ID the chemist, so he's forced to follow them off to merry old England and atone for the mess he made. He arrives to discover that Fiona Bickerton, the [[Ice Queen|beautiful but prickly]] daughter of the people he's subletting his flat from, is still living there while she's supposed to be at university, and due to their circumstances, the two become unwilling roommates.
Fiona despises Eddie, and that seems to be a sentiment shared by the rest of London, give or take, including the criminal element and the Metropolitan Police Department (Scotland Yard). Eddie's boss, superintendent Nathaniel Johnson, is a [[Jerkass Facade|stoic hardass]] with an over-developed ambition for career advancement, who doesn't seem amused by Eddie's American ways. Even Eddie's dog, [[Ax Crazy|Pete]], bites him regularly. About the only person in town who doesn't want Eddie's head on a plate is his partner, Inspector Monty Pippin, a deceptively spiffy mod with a [[Handsome Lech|wild private life]]. He makes Eddie seem like a prude in comparison, and has little interest in controlling himself, but Eddie [[Hidden Depths|sees the good in him]], and they still manage to get along fine. Together they take down the oxycodone ring and manage to do a lonely man a good turn.
Somewhere between [[Moonlighting]] and [[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]] in tone, this isn't exactly a [[Fish Out of Water]] show so much as a [[They Fight Crime]] situation. In the first few episodes, the show tends to be more in the [[Guy Ritchie]] line than anything else, with blingy editing, techno music, outlandish fight scenes, glamor and sex-appeal riding the surface, desperately trying to look cool. But beneath all the flash is a story about [[The Paragon|a man who clings to his belief in humanity]] and gravitates toward lost souls, risking life and limb to bring them back from the edge. He does everything he can to help people -- not just the victims of crime, but criminals as well. Even his friends aren't safe from the [[Care Bear Stare]] that is Eddie Arlette. All of this becomes obvious within a few episodes, but by the time the show hit it's stride, it was too late. Only thirteen episodes were made and, due to being [[Screwed
The last few episodes of ''Keen Eddie'' make the relationship arcs apparent and give the viewer an idea of what they could have expected in the second season: Eddie's only mechanism for coping with change is to force his surroundings to adapt to him, but London actually seems to be warming to the idea. His dog still bites him, though.
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* [[Adrenaline Time]]
* [[Adventure Duo]]: Eddie and Monty
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* [[Freudian Slip]]: Three good ones, including Fiona telling Eddie the secret ingredient in the soup she made him was "Love," Eddie accidently calling Carol "Ms. Hornypenny," and Monty telling Eddie "I love you," instead of "I'll leave you."
* [[Gay Bravado]]: Monty to Eddie a few times, and Eddie to Monty once.
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: Done to Jimmy Fishkin by the cops and his criminal bosses.
* [[Hello, Nurse!]]: Carol Ross, aka "Ms. Moneypenny"
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]
* [[I Need to Go Iron My Dog]]: Monty tends to pull this as a means of escape when Eddie and Nathaniel are fighting, but is usually thwarted when one of them makes him stay.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: The forty year-old dirty slut, who will do anything... ''for money''!
** "A '''blood''' feud."
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Eddie's dog, Pete. Well, sort of:
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** [[Anything That Moves]]: Although the moving part isn't a requirement. Pete's seen "dating" Fiona's fur coat.
* [[Loveable Sex Maniac]]: We get hints of this from Monty when he starts chatting about his esteem for porn (internet porn, 70s porn, etc.) Given some of his behavior, though, he's edging toward [[Anything That Moves]].
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* [[The Pornomancer]]: Monty, by way of the shotgun effect.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]
* [[Running Gag]]: There are several, one being Eddie's fantasies about Carol coming on to him, which he assumes are really happening. Usually results in him [[Distracted
** A more subtle running gag happens several times when Nathaniel insults Eddie. Eddie gets Nathaniel back, but his insults usually go too far and are always completely serious. Nathaniel tends to take this in his stride, but Monty -- who's more-or-less terrified of Nathaniel -- has a silent meltdown.
** There's a few from "Horse Heir": The euphemisms used by anyone attempting to describe the "event" surrounding the extraction of a racehorse's seed, and the reaction people have to the manual's instructions on how to do it being "unnatural" followed by someone pointing out that the manual says otherwise.
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