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'''Charles''': Not only can you represent the buyer and the seller, but you can steal all the light bulbs, pee in the sink and then go and live in the house after they’ve bought it. PR means never having to say you’re wrong. }}

 

* [[Brand X]]: The UK's bestselling [[British Newspapers|newspaper]], a redtop famous for pictures of women's breasts, is called the ''Daily News''.

* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Martin doesn't feel he was put on this earth to earn a living, and was rather looking forward to Prentiss McCabe folding in bankruptcy because it would mean he could spend more time at his club. He's successful mostly through his association with Charles Prentiss's lust for money and shark-like killer instincts. Once he ''does'' decide to do something, however, there's [[Determinator|apparently no stopping him]]. Charles puts in long hours and tries to make it look effortless, Martin lazes about for days on end but is able to come up with the perfect marketing solution at a stroke. [[Running Gag|And he did get a first at Cambridge.]]

* [[Bumbling Sidekick]]: Clive

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Martin, a bit. He sometimes has very, very good ideas, which explains why Charles keeps him around.

*** And then he hangs up. "And that's all of that you'll be getting for the next twenty years."

** The radio series proper ends on a cozy note. Charles has finally been given his chance in America, working on the Bush reelection campaign, while Martin stews in London. But they're reunited in the end:

'''Martin''': Because! ... I don't know quite how to say this without being sick, but I thought if I went just a ''bit'' peculiar, Archie might, ''might'' feel impelled to call you back. }}

* [[Glad I Thought of It]]: Martin's ideas usually become Charles' ideas by the time the client hears them.

* [[Grammar Nazi]]: Charles, mostly. Martin as well, depending on how snarky he's feeling at any particular moment.

** Charles has also demonstrated a tendency toward this in ''Latin''.

'''Charles:''' Brute! Brut'''e'''! It's vocative, for God's sake. }}

*** And he's quite merciless about Archie's poor French pronunciation. ("Try that accent in Paris, and you'll find whole new vistas of loneliness opening up...")

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: When {{spoiler|the police arrive for Charles}}, he gives an uncharacteristically straightforward "Oh shit."

* [[Pungeon Master|Pungeon Masters]]: Charles and Martin's speech is liberally peppered with puns.

'''Martin:''' A whole bowlful. }}

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: "Crash and Burn"

* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Charles.

* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: Frequently, usually cited as "a quotation from the classics."

'''Martin:''' '[[Pet Shop Boys|I've got the looks, you've got the brains, let's make lots of money.]]' }}

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: The nearly-villainous Charles Prentiss.

'''Charles''': We've all died and gone to our own particular hell. }}

* [[Woman Scorned]]: Gayle in the radio version, who's determined to see Prentiss McCabe fail because of her former relationship with Charles. (He left her when she told him she was married.)

** Also a [[Subverted Trope]] in the case of Martin's ex-wife. She seems scorned, but it seems she wasn't very bothered, and mostly wrote a very slanderous story based on him purely for the money.

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