In the Loop: Difference between revisions

* [[Angrish]]: Malcolm's gift for baroque swearing briefly deserts him in the Meditation Room.

* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: This is how Malcolm sees the use of the word "purview" by Simon's aide, Judy Malloy:

* [[Armchair Military]]: General Miller currently, though he admits to having killed people 15 years ago so it presumably didn't always apply.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Jamie. In one famous scene he's even [[Incredibly Lame Pun|fax]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNDXc7a8p4 crazy].

* [[Bad News in a Good Way]]: {{spoiler|After Michael admits to leaking PWIP-PIP, Jamie later barges into his office to cheerfully inform him that he isn't fired, asking if that isn't a good thing. Michael notes that it ''sounds'' omnious. He's right too.}}

* [[Chewing the Scenery]]:

** While he's certainly no [[Large Ham]], Peter Capaldi acts so hard his temple veins start throbbing:

** General Miller

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Linton Barwick is an extremely unsettling version. His casual disregard for reality (changing minutes and wholesale rewriting of intelligence reports) mirrors Malcolm's attitude toward spin and damage control, but ''without any of the irony''. As Karen Clarke puts it, the voices in his head are "singing barbershop together". And apart from his [[Ice Cream Koan|Ice Cream Koans]], there are his odd almost-but-not-quite non sequiturs.

'''Linton:''' ''Frosting is on cakes.'' }}

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: "Hey buddy, [[Lampshade Hanging|enough of the curse words]], alright?" No, it's not alright: practically every line uttered by Malcolm or Jamie is a [[Cluster F-Bomb]]. Malcolm's response to the gentleman who confronts him about this is no exception: {{spoiler|"Kiss my sweaty balls, you fat fuck!"}}

** "I'm gonna fuckin' take your leg off, and I'll... fuckin'... the shin bone! I'm gonna take the shin bone, I'm gonna break it in two and I'm going to fucking stab you to fucking death with it..."

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Pretty much everyone (except Jamie and Malcolm, who prefer to shout instead), but particularly Karen and Gen. Miller.

* [[Determinator]]: Malcom. He may be a sonofabitch, but he's devoted to his job to the point of near-insanity.

* [[Dirty Coward]]: So very many, from Toby giving PWIP PIP to his ex-girlfriend so he doesn't have to leak it himself, to Michael Rodgers MP following Jamie's orders so he can save his political career. The Doves all know how they can stop the war, but would rather go along with it and save their careers.

** "I'm on the verge of taking a stand."

** Toby bursting in late smelling like a pissed seaside donkey.

* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Jamie seems permanently pissed off and ready to explode into violent rage at the drop of a pin.

'''Jamie''': '''''Shut it, ''[[Love Actually]]''! DO YOU WANT ME TO HOLEPUNCH YOUR FACE?!''''' }}

** Paul Michaelson also has a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]], primed to take offense at ''anything anyone'' says.

* [[I Call Him "Mister Happy"]]: "Little Toby is staying very much in his hammock this evening..."

* [[Ice Cream Koan]]: "In the Kingdom of Truth, the man with one fact is king." Linton likes to deliver these, which is probably why his [[Professional Butt-Kisser|butt kisser]] Chad is fond of them too. Chad's tend to be much, much worse, though:

'''Malcolm Tucker:''' "All roads lead to Munich?" What the fuck does that mean? }}

* [[Improv]]

* [[Newspeak]]: It's not the 'War' Committee; it's the 'Future Planning Committee'.

* [[The Nicknamer]]: Toby's name is not Foetus Boy, [[Harry Potter|Ron Weasely]], Twatboy Slim or The Baby From [[Eraserhead]], but Malcolm doesn't seem to care. He extends this selective amnesia to practically everyone he encounters, including Baldemort, General Flintstone and J Edgar fuckin' Hoover.

** Toby also receives a "Go fuck yourself, Frodo" from General Miller.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]

** "He's wearing his push-up bra today!"

* [[Separated by a Common Language]]: The film gets in a reminder that [[Take That|no-one swears like the British]]:

'''Simon Foster''': "No, we don't call it that." }}

* [[Shown Their Work]]: [[Armando Iannucci]] ensured he could create a realistic portrayal of the US State Department [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5295148/Comedian-sneaks-into-US-State-department.html by illegally infiltrating it]. By using a fake BBC pass he was able to get past security and spend an hour inside taking photographs: "Part of me thought it was fun, another part thought it was probably international espionage."

* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQrqMkCuHqA The UK trailer] is pretty much the whole film condensed into two minutes. Lucky non-UK audiences got the delightful ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]''-inspired trailer instead.

* [[Unnecessary Censorship]]: Linton, who hates cursing to the extent of calling Malcolm a "useless piece of ''S-star-star-T''". Malcolm's later response is fantastic:

* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Most of the cast but Toby arguably comes across as the most dislikable, being the particularly obnoxious combination of selfish, weak ''and'' self righteous.

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]:

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Malcolm. In the series he's more of a [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type V]] [[Anti-Hero]].

* [[Villainous BSOD]]: In the Meditation Room Malcolm finds himself lost for words, unable to think of a decent threat for Olly, before Olly leaves him staring into space.