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* [[Couch Gag]]: similarly to ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'', the Sunshine Desserts sign was always humourously delapidated.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Reggie.
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"I'm not ''trying'' to tell you, I'm succeeding. If I'd said 'I like squashy bananas' I would have been failing to say 'I am providing a valuable social service', but I didn't say 'I like squashy bananas', I said 'I am providing a valuable social service', thus succeeding brilliantly in saying 'I am providing a valuable social service'." }}
* [[Downer Ending]]: The series ends with Reggie on his way back to the Dorset coast, possibly to kill himself for real.
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* [[Faking the Dead]]: Spoofed in the opening credits, later played straight.
* [[Giftedly Bad]]: Tom's wine and advertising slogans for Grot.
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'''Tom:''': "Thank you. Well, I'll just give you one more, perhaps: 'Grot is the ideal place for gifts, because they're all on one floor, so there aren't any lifts.' They aren't all of that standard, of course." }}
* [[Granola Girl]]: Reggie's son-in-law, Tom, who distills his own wine, smokes brier pipes, and insists that his children be treated not as children but as "tiny adults".
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey, It's That Guy]]:
** [[As Time Goes By|Geoffrey Palmer]] as Reggie's brother-in-law, Jimmy.
** CJ is played by John Barron, who later had a recurring role as Sir Ian Whitchurch on ''[[Yes Minister]]''
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Reggie is quite fond of these.
* [[Hypocritical Humour]]: "I'm not a petty man..." as Reggie launches into a neurotic tirade about the tea lady refusing to save him a macaroon in 1971.
** "I didn't get where I am today by talking in cliches
* [[Imagine Spot]]: [[Mr. Imagination|Reginald provides these all the time]].
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: After Reggie has been insulting CL, the German sales rep, since the conversation started, he finally snaps after another barb about flatulence.
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* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]: "... and with the coming of metrication *office phone begins ringing* I feel confident -- no, the advent, the advent of metrication -- I feel confident that the bloody phone will ring all day."
* [[Mad Libs Catchphrase]]: Lots, which have [[Memetic Mutation|entered everyday use]].
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'''CJ:''' "Neither I, nor Mrs CJ, have ever [action]"
'''Jimmy:''' "Bit of a cock-up on the ____ front"
'''Tom:''' "I'm not really an ____ person" }}
* [[Madden Into Misanthropy]]: The premise of the show: Reggie one day decides he has had enough of being polite and trapped in his meaningless world, and starts cultivating an antisocial persona.
* [[Malaproper]]: One of the symptoms of Reggie's rapidly declining mental state.
* [[Metaphorgotten]]: CJ is quite prone to these.
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* [[National Stereotypes]]: Intentionally invoked and later subverted with Seamus Finnegan, the Irish labourer who Reggie hires as his admin officer in a pub (quaffing Guiness, naturally). A self-confessed hard-drinking lazy gambler, he soon turns out to be [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|hyper-competent]], much to Reggie's annoyance.
* [[Not That There's Anything Wrong
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Elizabeth, who pretends not to realise that Martin is in fact Reginald.
* [[Running Gag]]: Plenty, often [[Once an Episode]] at least. One example is Reggie drifting into an [[Imagine Spot]] of a hippo wallowing in mud every time his mother-in-law is mentioned.
** 18 minutes late, correcting [[TV Tropes]] entry, missed 7:15 train, had to wait for 7:30 train.
** I didn't get where I am today by modifying [[TV Tropes]] pages for 40-year-old shows during my lunch hour!
* [[Serious Business]]: The employees of Sunshine Desserts treat the most ludicrous news on various idiotic puddings with complete professionalism.
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* [[Sexy Secretary]]: Perrin's secretary, Joan. Reginald thinks so, anyway, and often fantasizes about her with her hair (and more) down.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: David
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** Great!
** Super!
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* [[Violent Glaswegian]]: Kenny McBlane, the cook from Series Three who is always muttering indeciperable gibberish and almost always weilding something very sharp in his time on-camera.
* [[Yes-Man]]: Whenever Reggie or CJ suggests something, [[Those Two Guys|Tony and David]] respectively say "Great!" and "Super!"
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