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* [[Ho Yay]]: There always seemed to be ''something'' between Tony and Gary, for all they talked about girls. [[Word of God]] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2002/oct/21/broadcasting.tvandradio confirms it] saying "''Men Behaving Badly'' was about a same-sex relationship. Everyone latched on to the lad thing, but to me there was always a significant homoerotic content in the relationship between Gary and Tony. You always got the impression that they'd rather be left alone together, but that was something that they could never admit to themselves."
** When Gary is soon to be married (later called off):
{{quote|'''Tony''': Gary...if ''I'' was a girl...with a girl's bottom and everything... would you marry me?
'''Gary''': ''(stares at him for a moment in an awkward silence, then answers instantly)'': Course mate!
'''Tony''': Cheers mate!}}
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* [[Medium Awareness]]: In "Sofa", Gary and Tony seem to be very aware of the flashbacks and knowingly trigger them by looking upwards towards the ceiling.
* [[My Local]]: The Crown.
* [[Non Sequitur]]: One of the main sources of
{{quote|(Gary and Tony have been discussing Dorothy's new boyfriend Jamie
'''Tony:''' What a bastard
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** Once in the "Last Orders" trilogy where Gary and Dorothy are trying for a baby and Gary trying to overcome his impotence when trying to perform on demand is used as an excuse to "get a picture of the whole genre."
** In the last episode, Dorothy, probably in a [[Shout-Out|throwback]] to the Season 4 episode, finds Tony's old stash. Then, in the absolutely last scene...
{{quote|'''Dorothy (to her newborn baby)''': This is Tony... you're going to have his old room where he's had lots of adventures... most of them involving ''Razzle'' magazine!}}
* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]: In the second installment of "Last Orders", the hotel is the... Groyne View.
* [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]: A lot of the sofa conversations at the end of the episode are like this.
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* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Averted when Ken replaced Les as the landlord of the Crown; they devoted an episode to the shift, and Ken was written as a very different character.
* [[Terrible Interviewees Montage]]: In the first episode of the second series, where Gary's looking for a new flatmate. The interviewees include an incomprehensible Geordie, a catatonic man (played by writer Simon Nye) and a seemingly normal man who turns out to have a disturbing fetish.
* [[The Unfair Sex]]: Diminished in the later series' but very frequent early on. One particular episode has Tony mending the fence in the back garden three times and Gary fetching something from the chemist to cure Dorothy's indigestion twice -- ''in the middle of the night in their
* [[Unwanted Glasses Plot]]: Not only does Tony refuse to wear them, due to mockery from everyone else, but he has equally huge problems with contact lenses. In the end, he simply decides to go without.
* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: When Tony is persuading Gary he should get back together with Dorothy.
{{quote|'''Tony''': She loves you, mate. [[The Beatles|And with a love like that, you know you should be glad]].}}
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