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'''Annie''': You haven't got one.
'''Jim''': That's what you think. *''Turns, opens a red box''* Who said nothing good ever came out of Whitehall?}}
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: During "The Official Visit", the first episode aired after the pilot, Sir Humphrey makes comments that are both straightforward and deliberately humourous. It's most obvious during [[The State Room Sketch]].
* [[Expospeak Gag]]: Humphrey's overly long speeches are a hallmark of the series.
* [[Eye Take]]: Humphrey's reaction whenever Hacker has a particularly ambitious, unexpected, and ill-advised idea.
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** Hacker's worry about being assigned to [[The Troubles|Northern Ireland]] is not an example of this, as the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland was and is based in London, but the post was regarded as one of the most troublesome in the cabinet and one of the few which carried a significant risk of assassination, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s.
** In "The Bishop's Gambit", it's revealed that the bishopric of Truro is a similar position for the Church of England; because it's 'very remote' it's where they like to send their more troublesome or irritating bishops (such as those who are either utterly incompetent or actually vocally believe in God).
* [[Revival]]: As a [[Theater|stage show]] in 2011, then as a six-episode series in 2013 with much of the same cast as the stage show.
* [[Running Gag]]: The fact that Hacker's studies at the LSE don't compare to the [[Oxbridge]] education of Sir Humphrey.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: The Permanent Secretaries talking about merging department responsibilities:
{{quote|Arts and Television together? What do they got to do with each other?}}
* [[Self-Insert Fic]] Possibly the only time the author of a [[Self-Insert Fic]] performed alongside the stars. Helps if you're [[Margaret Thatcher]].
* [[Servile Snarker]]: Guess who? (No, not Bernard.)
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Sir Humphrey's (and occasionally Bernard's) preferred method of communication.
* [[Sleazy Politician]]: Averted! For all his attempts to win popularity in the most self-serving and underhanded ways imaginable
* [[The State Room Sketch]]: Done with a really small rail carriage and an endless series of visitors, one of whom is very fat.
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Subverted, in that while Hacker never really achieves much and the things that he does achieve are so inconsequential that you can understand why they're never mentioned again, this all has a specific cause -- namely Sir Humphrey and the Civil Service's constant stymieing of Hacker's attempts to push reforms through.
** Occasionally he achieves something noteworthy
*** [[Truth in Television]]. John Major's excellent management of the economy (politely excusing Black Wednesday) was pretty much completely forgotten in the 1997 election, and New Labour's introduction of the minimum wage and legalizing gay marriage didn't prevent them from being killed in the 2010 election.
** In the pilot episode, it's mentioned that the Department of Administrative Affairs is a political graveyard, and it's implied that the reason is that Humphrey was too good at blocking the Ministers' policies for them to ever advance any further.
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