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This show provides examples of:
* [[The Alleged Car]] - Pervasive throughout the books: small, mass-produced 1930s British cars were woefully underpowered, lacked the bodily integrity to keep winter drafts out (let alone heaters!) and generally weren't up to the duties called for by a quasi-emergency service in mountainous territory.
* [[All
{{quote| '''Siegfried:''' (regarding a "home treated" horse) It's hardly worth saying, I know, but if I'd pushed eighteen raw onions up yours the chances are you'd be unsteady on your feet too.}}
** Ironically, many of the standard veterinary practices of the 1930s seem only a little better to a modern audience. Trepanning (drilling holes in the head), for example.
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* [[Bad Boss]]: James once had to work for Angus Grier, a rage-prone drunken vet who makes Siegfried look like a saint.
* [[Benevolent Boss]]: Siegfried is a genuinely good guy, despite his faults. For instance, when James, on his very first professional case, is forced to put down a valuable horse because it was too far gone with an incurably agonizing twisted bowel because the estate manager couldn't be bothered to call a vet until it was too late, Siegfried backs him up all the way.
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* [[Butt Monkey]]; Life [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6EushRsDBo enjoys] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW_2ub57xBo screwing] with Tristan. Unlike [[The Woobie|James]], Tristan remains a Butt Monkey because he usually reacts with the wounded dignity of a petulant 10-year-old.
* [[Can't Hold His Liquor]]: James, at least compared to heavyweights like the Farnon brothers.
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* [[Eureka Moment]]: A tricky diagnosis is eventually solved when James is reminded that the cow looked like it was wearing spectacles.
* [[Fan Disservice]]: James and Tristan often get shirtless, and then promptly get covered in cow shit.
* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: The show is set before the 50s so Tristan smokes cigarettes and Siegfried smokes a pipe.
* [[Hands On Approach]]: With a guitar [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktp4Qo_2ZRU Here].
* [[Happily Married]]: James and Helen.
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* [[Old Dog]]: [[Tear Jerker|Mr Dean's dog Bob]].
* [[Old Retainer]]: Mrs. Hall. She's an invaluable housekeeper and cook and everyone knows it. Offending Mrs. Hall is considered a crime of the highest order.
* [[One
* [[Oop North]]: The show is set in North Yorkshire, so thickly accented farmers in flat caps are the norm.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Helen is played by Carol Drinkwater for the first part of the series and by Lynda Bellingham for the second.
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* [[The Slacker]]: It takes Tristan a long time to pass his exams.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Mrs. Greenlaw for Mrs. Hall.
* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: The dictatorial secretary Miss Harbottle, who lectures anyone who doesn't follow her system for keeping track of the receipts and hands out nagging little notes about it. When Siegfried finally [[Rant
* [[Unexplained Accent]]: Helen Alderson, born and brought [[Oop North|oop]] on the Darrowby moors, and Glaswegian James both speak with a Standard English accent. No explanation is given.
* [[A Very British Christmas]]: The Christmas Episodes.
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