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== The Kids ==

=== Anthony "Tony" Stonem ===

* [[Affably Evil]]

=== Michelle Richardson ===

* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: "Nips," Tony's less-than-flattering nickname for her.

=== Sidney "Sid" Jenkins ===

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type I.

* [[Love Hurts]]: With Cassie.

* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Plot of the very first episode.

'''Sid''': ...Shit. }}

* [[Nature Abhors a Virgin]]

=== Cassandra "Cassie" Ainsworth ===

* [[Anything That Moves]] / [[Really Gets Around]]: An [[Informed Attribute]] {{spoiler|until Season 2}}.

=== Chris Miles ===

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type I.

=== Jalander "Jal" Fazer ===

* [[Black and Nerdy]]:

* {{spoiler|[[Broken Bird]]}}: In Series 2.

* [[Closer to Earth]]

=== Maxxie Oliver ===

* [[All Gays Love Theater]]: Dancing is more his thing, but he does love the theater.

=== Anwar Kharral ===

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Maxxie.

=== Elizabeth "Effy" Stonem ===

* [[Big Brother Worship]]

* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: YMMV, but Tony and Effy give off...vibes...at times.

=== Sketch (Lucy) ===

* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Creepy and completely ignores...

=== Anthea Stonem ===

* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Useless. Ignores Tony and Effy.

=== Jim Stonem ===

* [[Bumbling Dad]]

=== Anna Richardson ===

* [[Hot Mom]]

=== Scarlett ===

* [[Daddy's Girl]]

=== Mark Jenkins ===

* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Both the receiver and giver.

=== Elizabeth Jenkins ===

=== Marcus and Margeritte Ainsworth ===

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]

=== Ronnie Fazer ===

* [[Daddy's Girl]]

=== Jal's Mother ===

* [[Parental Abandonment]]

=== Ace and Lyton Fazer ===

* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: To Jal.

=== Istiak Kharral ===

* [[Good Parents]]

=== Bibi Kharral ===

* [[Doting Parent]]

=== Uncle Muneer ===

* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parent|Amazingly Embarrassing Uncle]]

=== Walter Oliver ===

* [[Good Parents]]

== Supporting Cast ==

=== Posh Kenneth ===

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Daniel Kaluuya would later play Tealeaf in Psychoville

=== Abigail Stock ===

* [[Blondes Are Evil]]

=== Josh Stock ===

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Though it's more that he turns out to ''not be so nice'' once Tony screws him over.

=== Pandora Moon ===

* [[Corrupt the Cutie]]

=== Angie ===

* [[Hot for Student]]

=== Doug ===

* [[Cool Teacher]]: At least, he tries:

=== Josie ===

* [[Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher]]

=== Madison "Mad" Twatter ===

* [[Badass Mustache]]

=== Alan the Taxi Driver ===

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

== The Kids ==

=== Elizabeth "Effy" Stonem ===

* [[Blue Eyes]]: Like her brother, the second type.

=== Pandora "Panda" Moon ===

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Was a minor character in Series 2; now a part of the main cast.

=== Thomas Tomone ===

* [[You Fail Geography Forever]]: Is Thomas from the Republic of the Congo or the Democratic Republic of the Congo? Pandora's description of it being between Gabon and Cameroon suggests the former (the D.R.C. doesn't border either of those countries), dialogue suggests the latter. Do the writers not realize they are different countries?

=== Jonah "JJ" Jeremiah Jones ===

* [[Absent-Minded Professor]]: Cook even calls him a "nutty professor."

=== James Cook ===

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Initially appeared as a Type V, but was eventually revealed to be more of a Type I.

=== Frederick "Freddie" Mclair ===

* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: He's not a fan of Karen's decision to exploit their mother's memory to help her win Search for a Sexxbomb, but he cheers for her at her final performance, {{spoiler|comforts her when she loses}} and {{spoiler|when Cook laughs about how he and J.J. voted against her for stealing their shed, Freddie nearly punches his lights out.}}

=== Katherine "Katie" Fitch ===

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: At least, she aspires to be one. Particularly in Season 3.

=== Emily Fitch ===

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Series Four.

=== Naomi Campbell ===

* [[All Take and No Give]]: {{spoiler|Arguably Naomi's fling with Sophia. At least from Sophia's point of view.}}

== Family ==

=== Anthea Stonem ===

* [[Actor Allusion]]: She cheats on Jim with his line manager, played by David Baddiel, Banks' real life partner.

=== Jim Stonem ===

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Partway through Season 3 (when he finds out about Anthea's cheating).

=== Angela Moon ===

* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Is easily dispatched by the MDMA brownies and Pandora's friends are able to have the party they wanted.

=== Aunt Elizabeth ===

* [[Unsuspectingly Soused]]: Doesn't realize tea plants are marijuana. (Or maybe she does, given the way she's happily smoking them at the end...)

=== Celia Jones ===

* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: When she accidentally calls Lara a "slut" in JJ's Season 4 episode.

=== Edward Jones ===

* [[Hands-Off Parenting]]: He spends most of the time hiding behind a newspaper.

=== Ruth Cook ===

* [[Hands-Off Parenting]]: Hasn't seen her son since she kicked him out for selling her wedding rings for dope - until he's under house arrest in Season 4.

* [[Really Gets Around]]

=== James Cook, Sr ===

* [[Disappeared Dad]]

=== Leo Mclair ===

=== Karen Mclair ===

* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]

=== Jenna Fitch ===

* [[Break the Haughty]]: In Katie's Season 4 episode when {{spoiler|the Fitches lose their house}}.

=== Rob Fitch ===

* [[Bumbling Dad]]

=== James Fitch ===

* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: From Katie and Emily's perspectives.

=== Gina Campbell ===

* [[Hands-Off Parenting]]: Also could be lumped in with [[Missing Mom]]. Gina apparently left Naomi on her own for a year to do ... well, something. (She'd stated that she wanted to "fuck on every beach in India" before she ended up pregnant; that's the most likely explanation.) Strange because for the most part of Season 3, she was a [[Good Parents|good parent]].

=== Johnny White ===

* [[Expy]]: Plenty of people saw his character as a clone of Mad Twatter.

=== Lara Lloyd ===

* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: A mild case, but she does basically exist just to be {{spoiler|JJ's girlfriend}}.

=== Sophia Moore ===

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Way to start a season!

=== Matt Moore ===

* [[Big Brother Instinct]]

=== Dr. John Foster ===

* [[Ax Crazy]]

=== Sam ===

* [[Berserk Button]]: Unknowingly presses Katie's in her Season 4 episode. {{spoiler|Gets dumped for it.}}

=== Andrea Babajide ===

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: The show plays with this trope. The pressure Thomas is feeling from his parents and church to "stick with his culture" makes him see Andrea as the Betty to Pandora's Veronica (yes, we ''are'' talking about ''Panda'' here). By the end of the episode he realizes it's more reversed.

=== Kieran Macfoeinaiugh ===

* [[The Alleged Car]]:

'''Naomi:''' Yeah, I really would believe that. }}

* [[Apathetic Teacher]]: "Hi, I'm Kieran and I hate being a fucking teacher."

=== Harriet Lawes ===

* [[Put on a Bus]]: After Season 3.

=== David Blood ===

* [[Sadist Teacher]]: Seems to take pleasure in expelling people.

=== T. Love ===

* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: Most of his advice is derived from the work of [[Michael Jackson]].

== The Kids ==

=== Francesca "Franky" Fitzgerald ===

* [[Aborted Arc]]: The reasons behind her [[Freak-Out]] in the Season 5 finale when {{spoiler|Matty tries to have sex with her}}. As of the Season 6 premiere, {{spoiler|Matty and Franky are an [[Official Couple]] and Franky tells her friends she's "been losing her virginity lots of times."}}

=== Aloysius "Alo" Creevey ===

* [[Aerith and Bob]]

=== Richard "Rich" Hardbeck ===

* [[Beta Couple]]: With Grace.

=== Mini McGuinness ===

* [[Aborted Arc]]: {{spoiler|Mini's sexuality is arguably a case of this.}}

=== Olivia "Liv" Malone ===

* [[Bottle Fairy]]

=== Grace Violet {{spoiler|Blood}} ===

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: She has interracial parents.

=== Nicholas "Nick" Levan ===

* [[Adorkable]]: Post-[[Character Development]].

* {{spoiler|[[Ambiguously Gay|Ambiguously Bisexual]]}}: How a lot of fans are interpreting the {{spoiler|picture of him kissing new gay character Alex}} from the latter's upcoming episode.

* [[Analogy Backfire]]

Rich: "Nick’s suggesting that were a bunch of cripples and that he and Mini, are similar to a black violent LA street gang... obviously" }}

* [[Book Dumb]]

=== Matthew "Matty" {{spoiler|Levan}} ===

* [[Ambiguously Gay|Ambiguously Bisexual]]: Mainly due to [[Word of God]] indicating the character the character was originally supposed to be bisexual, that and the character profile that lists ''[[Shortbus]]'' and ''[[My Own Private Idaho]]'' as his favourite movies.

=== Alex Henley ===

* [[All Gays Are Promiscuous]]

* [[The Gambling Addict]]

== Family ==

=== Geoff Cumber and Jeff Woodburn ===

* [[Good Parents]]: At least initially, they appear to be a rare case of caring parents on the show.

* [[Happily Married]]

=== Kevin Hardbeck ===

* [[First-Name Basis]]: Rich always refers to his dad by his first name (barring the end of the episode when Rich calls him "dad" as a [[Pet the Dog]] moment).

* [[Nice Guy]]

=== Shelley McGuinness ===

* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents|Amazingly Embarrassing Parent]]

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Her views on men boils down to this.

=== Leon Levan ===

* [[Break the Motivational Speaker]]

=== Catherine Creevey ===

* [[All Take and No Give]]: Her relationship with Alo is pretty much defined by the fact that neither side wishes to compromise, making them both "takers."

=== David Blood ===

* [[Being Personal Isn't Professional]]:Why he insists on keeping his relationship with {{spoiler|his daughter Grace}} a secret so it doesn't compromise his position.

=== Gregory ===

* [[Disappeared Dad]]

=== Eric ===

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Clare Grogan's ex-partner is called Gregory.

== The Kids ==

=== Tony Schneider ===

''British Counterpart: Tony Stonem'' }}

=== Michelle Reinhart ===

''British Counterpart: Michelle Richardson'' }}

=== Stanley Lucerne ===

''British Counterpart: Sid Jenkins'' }}

=== Chris Collins ===

''British Counterpart: Chris Miles'' }}

=== Cadie Campbell ===

''British Counterpart: Cassie Ainsworth'' }}

=== Tea Marvelli ===

''British Counterpart: Maxxie Oliver'' }}

=== Daisy Valero ===

''British Counterpart: Jal Fazer'' }}

=== Abbud Siddiky ===

''British Counterpart: Anwar Kharral'' }}

=== Eura Schneider ===

''British Counterpart: Effy Stonem'' }}