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But he's not all bad, he has deep and profound thoughts about life and philosophy, and will expound them to any passer-by with the help of his rolled-up newspaper. He wanders the streets of Govan (a district in Glasgow) in a dirty blue suit and string vest, always with his trademark dirty bandage around his head from some long-forgotten head wound. Together with his eternal scheming friend, Jamesie Cotter (and his long suffering wife Ella) Rab introduces us to a myriad of colourful and downright scary Glasgow characters.
Although comedy in intent, the series explored many dark topics, including marital breakup, murder, long term unemployment, infertility, cannibalism and child abuse. Through several flashback sequences, we see the young Rab and his siblings putting up with a violent father who took his life failures out on his family. Rab's own family life is far from idyllic, Mary leaving him to fend for himself on various occasions, and the kids running away to London.
The final series was aired in 1998. The entire run of series is currently (2007) being repeated on Paramount Comedy in the UK.
In 2008, the character returned for a one-off, 45-minute special at Christmas 2008. As of January 2010, a forthcoming new series has just started airing.
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* Series Eight (6) 14 May-18 June 1999, [[BBC 2]] Fri 9.30pm
* Christmas special, 23 December 2008, [[BBC 2]] 9pm
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Pete the Warlock. For that matter, all the Satanists who appear in that episode come off as this. Sure, they may sacrifice goats, deflower virgins and on occasion daub their naked flesh with the warm blood of animals and engage in unspeakable acts of sexual depravity, but they do lots of wonderful work for charity.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Rab, constantly.
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** Wormtail is a suicidal jailbird.
** Yaxley is a Satanist with a goatee!
** Several actors who went on to appear in ''[[Still Game]]'', another popular Scottish Sitcom, such as Ford Kiernan, Gavin Mitchell, Paul Young, and even Sanjeev Kholi in Series 9.
* [[Revival]]: A [[Christmas Special]] ten years after the show first went off air, followed by a full series the year after.
* [[Large Ham]]: The Pie mafia Boss in series 5.
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* [[Overly Long Name]]: [[I'm a Humanitarian|John William Pure Mad Mental Intae Your Body Simpson Craig Gemmell Chib The Bam Rib-Racker No Real Young Rebel Ya Bas St. John McGurn aka Young Young McGurn]].
* [[The Philosopher]]
* [[Similar Squad]]: On holiday in the Costa Del Sol, Rab is delighted to see a Spanish man in a vest and bandaged head, ranting incomprehensibly at nobody.
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* [[The Stoner]]: Gash
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'''Gash Nesbitt''': Uh, Thursday. }}
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: After Burnie was written out by [[Author Existence Failure|Actor Existence Failure]] Rab has to take care of his nephew Screech.
* [[Tie-in Novel]]: ''[[Short Title: Long Elaborate Subtitle|A Stranger Here Myself: Being the Life Story and Revelations of Mister Rab C. Nesbitt of Govan]]''.
* [[Violent Glaswegian]]: Where to begin?
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