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The show's ninth season aired in 2011, with two new characters, after Sheridan Smith (Janet) and Kathryn Drysdale (Louise) stated they would not be returning to their roles. This prompted... [http://z3.invisionfree.com/twopints/index.php?showtopic=2368 mixed reactions], [[Broken Base|to say the least]]. Despite the ninth series ending with the intention of the show continuing, the show was [[Left Hanging|cancelled]] a short while after it finished.
Came sixtieth in ''[[Britain's Best Sitcom
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* [[Adorkable]]: Jonny.
** Arguably, Billy McCormack is this too.
* [[Affectionate Parody]] - 'When Jonny Met Sharky'. (See [[Parody Episode]] and [[Jumping the Shark]] below.) 'When Janet Killed Jonny' may also count, as it spoofs the horror genre.
** Also 'When Janet Met Jonny', which contains many pastiches of assorted music videos and artists (including: [[Christina Aguilera]], [[
* [[Alcohol Is Poison]]: Jonny is outraged at Janet still trying to drink during pregnancy - she even cracks open a beer when she starts to go into ''labour'' (which, naturally, outrages him even more). Donna later makes an insulting comment about Corinthian, claiming that "(he) looks like (Janet) drank heavily during pregnancy".
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Brian, Louise's father. Louise later ''claims'' to have become one (or, rather, "tries too hard to become one"), thanks to the discovery that her father is one, but she doesn't keep it up for very long.
* [[Alien Lunch]] - Several people mistaking the pot pourri for crisps in the eighth season.
* [[The Alleged Car]]: Jonny's short-lived "[[Chick Magnet
* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]] - Flo.
* [[Angrish]]: Donna, on occasion. In one episode, she can't find the words to describe Louise (who was driving her absolutely crazy at that point), so she settles for unintelligible angry noises instead.
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* [[Black Comedy]]: "When Janet Killed Jonny" runs on this.
* [[Black Dude Dies First]] - [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] and spoofed by Louise (who, of course, happens to be black) in the horror special:
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(Everyone stares at her) }}
** {{spoiler|Amusingly, Louise is, of course, the first one to die.}}
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** Also, when Jonny blackmails Janet's dad in order to convince him to allow Jonny to marry her.
* [[Bloody Hilarious]] - The horror episode has some examples of this, most notably with Donna's reanimated (and bisected) corpse asking Gaz for sex.
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* [[A Bloody Mess]] - When Jonny is feeling unwell and vomits into a fruit bowl, Gaz takes a look at the mess and sees a red substance in it. He panics, believing it to be blood, until Jonny tells him that is is simply tomato ketchup that he drank when he was feeling delirious.
* [[
* [[Bondage Is Bad]] - Averted - Donna is initially disgusted when Gaz tries out BDSM, but, in the following episode, she decides to give it a try herself. She's weirded out at first, but, just as she's starting to get into her role as "the Donnanatrix", Munch walks in. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] - The live and [[Comic Relief]] specials have several fourth wall-breaking moments.
* [[Breathless Non-Sequitur]] - Louise loves this trope.
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* [[Cannot Tell a Joke]]: Janet. Her questionable impression of Trevor McDonald also fails to impress the other characters.
* [[The Cast Showoff]] - ''Everybody'' in the live episode. [[Actor Allusion|Natalie Casey (Donna) really did once sing a song called "Chick Chick Chicken"]], which made her the record holder for the youngest person to ever hit the UK Singles Charts. (She was ''3''.)
* [[Caught
* [[Chained to
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]] - Gaz has his moments.
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]] - Kelly completely disappears after the end of the sixth season with no explanation as to where she's gone (although, according to some fans who were in the studio audience when some episodes were being filmed, her disappearance was explained, but the scene was deleted from the finished episode). Munch also disappeared completely during season 5 with no explanation, only to return for season 7. However, he did not appear in season 8, and, again, no explanation has been given as to his disappearance.
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* [[Curse Cut Short]]: Visual example. In ''Borry'', Donna scratches the letters [[Country Matters|'CUN']] onto Gaz's car as revenge for him {{spoiler|having an affair}}. Gaz arrives before she can finish the word, and asks what a 'cun' is.
* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: Played with in one episode. Donna greatly resents that she and Gaz have to babysit for Corinthian, due to the possibility that Gaz may be Corinthian's biological father, but, as soon as she witnesses Corinthian's first smile...
* [[A Date
* [[Deadpan Snarker]] - Kelly definitely has her moments, as does Donna (when she's not ranting, anyway).
* [[Delivery Guy]] - When Louise gives birth in the seventh series, Munch is there to assist her in his own... unique way. After the child is born, Louise claims that she will name the baby "Louise Munch Brooks" after him. {{spoiler|It turns out that she was lying, and names the baby "Louise Louise Brooks" instead.}}
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* [[Double Entendre]]
* [[Drink Order]] - Right there in the title.
* [[Dropped a Bridge
* [[Embarrassing First Name]] - Wesley seems like a perfectly unassuming name (although Gaz finds it funny at first)... until you learn that his surname is Presley.
* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]] - Corinthian McVitie Keogh. (Arguably, also a case of [[Embarrassing First Name]].)
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* [[Half the Man He Used To Be|Half The Woman She Used To Be]]: Donna in the horror special.
* [[Happily Married]]: Janet and Jonny, to an extent.
* [[Hard Work Montage]] - Used... interestingly in the episode 'Fat', featuring Gaz's... um, [[A Date
* [[Hello, Nurse!]]: Donna's [[Whip It Good|whip-holding]] alter-ego, the Donnanatrix.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] - Gaz and Jonny.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Colin McFarlane, who plays Brian, would later appear as Police Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb in [[The Dark Knight Saga|Batman Begins and The Dark Knight]].
** [[
* [[Hilarious Outtakes]] - There is an entire [[Companion Show]] dedicated to the show's outtakes, titled ''[[Exactly What It Says
* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: Louise.
* [[Historical In-Joke]]: Janet is scouted as a cruise ship singer while performing at the pub. She sang ''My Heart Will Go On'', the ''[[Titanic]]'' theme song.
* [[Ho Yay]] - A few Gaz/Jonny moments.
* [[Hot Mom]] - Janet and Louise.
* [[I Call Him "Mister Happy"]] - Gaz names his penis "Mr. Nudge".
* [[I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You]] - Louise attempts to avoid giving any indication that {{spoiler|Gaz}} is Corinthian's father. She eventually encounters Gaz and says she's not going to tell him {{spoiler|he himself}} is the father.
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]] - In the horror special, Jonny seems remarkably keen on the idea of {{spoiler|feasting on Louise's flesh after she dies.}}
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]] - The 'special' episodes: 'When Janet Met Jonny', 'When Janet Killed Jonny', 'When Jonny Met Sharky', and 'When Janet Met Michelle'.
* [[Irritation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery]]: Kelly does this in one episode, when she decides to start dressing and acting exactly like Donna.
* [[Instant Birth, Just Add Water]]
* [[
* [[Jerkass]] - Although all of the characters have their moments, Louise fits this trope most often. Also, when he's introduced, Wesley starts off as one - he takes utter delight in deriding Donna's friends, and is constantly showing off his iPhone to lord it over them that he has a lot more money than they do. However, as the series has progressed, he spends a lot of time trying to improve himself, and becomes very friendly with Gaz and Janet.
** [[Smug Snake|Phillip]]. Dear god, ''Phillip''.
** [[Jerk
* [[Keeping Secrets Sucks]]: Louise is usually saddled with keeping sordid secrets from the rest of the group - such as Janet sleeping with Gaz, and the fact that {{spoiler|Gaz is Corinthian's father}}. She's generally very bad at it. She comes close to spilling the beans on the first secret (until Jonny eventually finds out for himself), but she's downright ''useless'' at [[I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You|keeping the second one]].
* [[Kill'Em All]] - The horror special.
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** The Donna/Gaz/Janet triangle is a big plot point of the seventh and eighth seasons.
* [[Major Injury Underreaction]]: Happens in 'When Janet Killed Jonny':
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* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]] - Played with in a few episodes - naturally, given her infamously squeaky voice, Louise gets these moments. In one episode, her screams can be heard all the way across Runcorn, rendering Kelly partially deaf for a short while, and, in another, her squealing manages to shatter a glass in the Archer.
** Also, in Season 8, Donna's yelling renders Gaz deaf for a short while after she catches him having [[A Date
* [[Masochist's Meal]]: In one episode, Gaz eats an omlette made out of slugs (or, as he likes to call it, a "sluglette").
* [[Mistaken for Gay]] - Jonny is mistaken to be gay by Louise's dad, Brian, who spends much of the episode in which he appears trying to come on to him.
* [[Mistaken for Pregnant]]: Janet, at the end of the first season, and Donna, at the beginning of the second season (the latter episode is set immediately after the former). In a mild subversion, both girls also mistakenly believe themselves to be pregnant, until Janet takes a pregnancy test and Donna gets her period. Both Jonny and Gaz freak out accordingly.
* [[The Modest Orgasm]] - Taken [[Up to Eleven]] with Kelly, whose orgasms are completely deadpan (and she gets them when she isn't even doing anything remotely sexual).
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'''Kelly''': ''(indignant)'' "Of course not!" ''(a beat; deadpan)'' "Now I am." }}
* [[Money, Dear Boy]]: Ralf Little, according to his appearance on ''Never Mind The Buzzcocks''.
* [[Montages]]: Each season tends to end with a montage depicting flashbacks to earlier events in the season. Some, but not all, are [[Tear Jerker
* [[Mood Whiplash]] - The horror episode is the very definition of this trope - although several moments in it are clearly played for laughs, the episode as a whole is a lot darker and is considered to be quite shocking and disturbing in places, especially to those who are used to the show's usual formula. Not only is the humour far darker, but there is a surprising amount of gore, at least one or two moments of [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]], and features ''all'' of the lead characters getting killed off in assorted gruesome ways.
** The show's more dramatic and tearjerking moments also count, most notably the end of the seventh season opener, in which it is revealed that {{spoiler|Jonny has died}}. Although the very end of the episode throws in some humour to lighten the mood a little, it is still an unexpectedly shocking and heartbreaking moment.
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* [[My Local]] - The Archer.
* [[Never Speak Ill of the Dead]] - Completely subverted in the horror episode, after Louise (supposedly) dies:
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* [[Newscaster Cameo]]: The episode "Dead" had ''North West Tonight'''s Gordon Burns as himself.
* [[Nice Guy]]: Wesley slowly becomes this over the course of season eight.
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* [[Obnoxious In-Laws]]: Janet's father ''really'' doesn't like Jonny and is a total asshole towards him.
* [[Obvious Pregnancy]]: Louise gets a huge bump pretty quickly, although the episode in which her bump becomes prominent is set several months after the previous episode. Being a complete [[Cloudcuckoolander]], she doesn't think that her bump is that obvious. Everyone else begs to differ.
* [[Off
* [[Only Known
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Donna takes this role on occasion.
* [[Oop North]]
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* [[Recurring Character]] - Munch, Kelly, Tim, Flo, David...
* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]
* [[Remember the New Guy?]] - Dion, Donna's unpleasant younger brother. He only appears in the sixth season finale. (Although an early season episode showed a young boy sitting at the dinner table in Donna's mother's house - it is never explained who he is, so it is quite possible that this is a younger Dion.)
* [[Right Behind Me]]: Used in one episode, in which a rather insecure Gaz is ranting to Janet about Donna's decision to start college (he feels as though she's abandoned him), then, without missing a single beat, ends it with "...and she's in the kitchen, isn't she?". The next few moments make it quite clear that Donna did indeed hear every word.
* [[Romantic False Lead]] - Kate.
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** When Gaz asks why anyone would want to jump a shark, Janet replies [[Happy Days|Fonz-style]].
** The horror special contains a reference to the Stanley Kubrick film version of ''[[The Shining]]'', when Jonny creeps up behind Janet and says the famous "Heeeeeerrrreeee's Johnny!" line.
** Jonny's "favourite lullaby" as a child was the theme tune to ''[[
** Jonny names his car [[The Love Bug|Herbie]].
* [[
* [[Sixth Ranger]] - Tim in the seventh season. Munch and Kelly may also count, although to a lesser extent.
* [[The Slacker]] - Jonny.
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* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Done deliberately and [[Played for Laughs|humourously]] in the horror special when the pub's jukebox suddenly turns on all by itself... and starts playing "Bring It All Back" by [[S Club 7]].
* [[Stripperific]]: Donna in the live special: {{spoiler|She throws off a thick coat to reveal a skimpy dancing outfit. And then she strips ''again''.}} [[Male Gaze|Not that]] [[Even the Girls Want Her|anyone is complaining, of course...]]
* [[Sure, Let's Go
* [[Surreal Horror]]: Used a few times in "When Janet Killed Jonny".
* [[Surreal Humour]]: Used on a few occasions, especially in "When Janet Killed Jonny".
* [[Surrounded
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] - Kelly for Tim. Kelly completely disappears between Season 6 and 7, and, as she has never been mentioned since then, her disappearance is a mystery.
* [[Teacher-Student Romance]]: Subverted. Donna's college tutor, Phillip, is clearly interested in her, which makes her vastly uncomfortable. He later proves just how much of a slimeball he is when he tells Donna that, unless she sleeps with him, he'll give her bad grades.
* [[Teens Are Monsters]] - Donna's younger brother, [[The Scrappy|Dion]], is a particularly nasty example of this trope. He's aggressive, spiteful, foul-mouthed, and has no problem with destroying other peoples' possessions just to be a dick (eg. Gaz's prized mechanic trophy), and threatens to call the police on Gaz when the latter quite rightfully reacts with anger during this incident. There's also the fact that he got Louise pregnant and wanted absolutely nothing to do with the baby. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Oh, and he]] [[Pretty Fly for
* [[Title Drop]] - Uttered by Donna in the very first episode.
* [[Toilet Humour]]
* [[Token Evil Teammate]] - In the later seasons, Louise seems to fill this trope.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]] - Jonny loves biscuits. A lot. So much, in fact, that he gives his son, Corinthian, the middle name of McVitie, his dream job is working in a biscuit factory, and, in one episode, Janet rubs Jammy Dodgers (Jonny's absolute ''absolute'' favourite) over her cleavage to try and seduce him.
** In an ironic twist (and played for laughs), the horror episode features a giant ''killer'' Jammy Dodger that {{spoiler|''eats Jonny's head'', and turns him into a Dodger-headed zombie. What a way to go!}}
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