Men Behaving Badly: Difference between revisions

* [[Adaptation Distillation]] - The US version lasted roughly thirty seconds.

* [[All Men Are Perverts]] - Well, Gary and Tony without question but there are so many variations that they're worth mentioning too. Averted with minor characters like Ken and Les, inverted every so often with Deborah and Dorothy but the big inversion is with George; he and his wife, [[She Who Must Not Be Seen|Marjorie]], have a jar in which they must put 10p every time one of them has an unfaithful thought. In his several decades of marriage, George has only blown 50p while Marjorie has spent £2386.

* [[Beard of Evil]] - A variation, Tony grows a moustache as part of his transformation into a boring postman in the last episode, and shaves it off again at the end when he returns to normal.

* [[Cardboard Pal]] - When Tony and Gary have fallen out, Gary makes a fake Tony out of a sex doll and Tony's clothes so they can continue having their lager-fuelled conversations on the sofa.

* [[Crazy Jealous Guy]]: Played for laughs with Tony over Debra

* [[Directionless Driver]] - Gary navigating in "Cardigan".

* [[Dirty Coward]] - Gary in the thematically titled episode "Cowardice". After failing to stand up for Dorothy to a road-rager, he hires a company to send an actor to insult her in the bar and he can then pretend to beat up to regain his image. However, [[Hilarity Ensues]] when an ''actual'' thug corresponding to the description insults Dorothy and Gary manages to beat him up without realising he's not the actor.

* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: In the last episode, all the postmen have nicknames - Tony's is "Nobby No-Mates". Another has one produced by a chain of logical connections:

'''Tony:''' Abbott and Costello. Russ Abbott. Russ. Jack Russell, little dog. }}

* [[Friend Vs Lover]] - The central focus of the show. One episode uses it as the title - "Your Mate V Your Bird".

* [[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):

'''Tony''': Cheers mate! }}

* [[I Coulda Been a Contender]] - Meta version: writer Simon Nye grumbled in the published script book that he inadvertently invented ''[[The Royle Family]]'' ahead of its time with the episode ''Watching TV''.

* [[Inherently Funny Words]]: Simon Nye thought this about words such as "shed" and "cheese", inserting them wherever he could. Also the names of the foreign beers in "The Good Pub Guide":

'''Tony''': Er..."Plop". }}

* [[Jerkass]] - All of the main characters have their moments. Dorothy being the most prolific.

* [[My Local]] - The Crown.

* [[Non Sequitur]] - One of the main sources of humour.

'''Tony:''' No - Tony Blackburn! }}

* [[Porn Stash]] - at least three separate episodes (and possibly more) -

** 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...

* [[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.

* [[Sexy Whatever Outfit]] - Gary and Dorothy [[Epic Fail|attempted]] this kind of roleplaying, but...

'''Tony:''' ...[[Shaped Like Itself|She]] ''[[Shaped Like Itself|is]]'' [[Shaped Like Itself|a nurse]].<br />

'''Gary:''' ...Yeah, it didn't work really. And she asked me to dress up as a farmer and come and rescue her.<br />

* [[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.

* [[Weirdness Censor]] - Gary's office workers George and Anthea in the last episode. "No, I can't see that happening", constantly repeated when he tells them the office is closing down, in a faintly creepy, unthinking way.