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British Stuffiness

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British Stuffiness	comment	The American media often presents people from Britain as overly stuffy and conservative, to the point of being uptight and unable to cope with breaks from the way they believe things should be. Of course, one need only watch modern British television, with its abundance of drama and open-mindedness, to see this trope averted. Not only averted, but in many cases, inverted. However, rationality in the face of adversity is a British virtue. The British sense of humour can also form a stumbling block; in many cases, it tends to work on ironic understatement and dry wit that can easily fly under the radar of people who aren't used to it. Compare with Quintessential British Gentleman. Contrast also with Evil Brit, who is often Wicked Cultured and hence more open-minded, whereas the Stuffy Brit may be a protagonist, but is portrayed as merely temperamentally handicapped. When up against an American for his love's affections in an American work of fiction, expect him to be a Jerkass suitor (assuming she won't Lie Back and Think of England), because All Girls Want Bad Boys. But in the end he'll Just Want Her To Be Happy. For the more positive variant, see Stiff Upper Lip. This trope also applies more specifically to upper-class British people, and middle-class people who aspire to be like them. Lower-class Brits will often be rowdy and bawdy - unless their Nonconformist or Evangelical religious beliefs are being played up. It's worth noting that there's something of a continuum of National Stereotypes involved with this trope. Americans themselves may be portrayed as the stuffy ones when contrasted with anyone from the Mediterranean or the Middle East. For the British, the "comically uptight" stereotype often goes to the Germans, and once upon a time to the Japanese.
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British Stuffiness / int_11bd93f4	comment	Family Affair: Uncle Bill's valet, Mr. French (Sebastian Cabot), tends to be fastidious and cranky in unfamiliar situations, but overall he is a very polite and virtuous person.
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British Stuffiness / int_12a8bb73	comment	One place that this seems to be inverted, however, is talk shows. On American shows like Letterman or Leno, the host is usually behind a big desk, and everything sounds a little formal (barring certain circumstances like the guest and host being longtime friends, or the guest just being a little wacky, then things will usually go a little off the rails.) On British shows like Graham Norton, the set is made up like someone's living room, there's usually drinks available, and everything seems a little more informal and chatty.
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British Stuffiness / int_135f97c9	comment	In Emma, when John Knightley and his wife visit Hartfield, he and his brother John greet with a handshake and a simple "how d'ye do" which Austen notes as "the classic English mode" of almost entirely concealing brotherly affection that would have them drop everything the instant the other needed help.
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British Stuffiness / int_1b49ce18	comment	Uncle Waldo from The Aristocats, when he explains to Thomas O'Malley about his obsession with Sherry wine.
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British Stuffiness / int_20191a57	comment	Bleak Expectations: A Running Gag with the series' narrator, Sir Phillip Bin, who shrugs off any acknowledgement of his awful youth by saying he ignores it, often via drinking, and that this is "the British way". Curiously, his past self is not usually an example of this, often being very emotive. Except in one instance when his sister is being a Mood-Swinger, which makes Pip declare his desire to "go down to the pub with a crossword and not talk to anyone for a month" in response. Also played for laughs with Harry Biscuit, after apparently fixing his marriage in series 4, series 5 begins with him and his wife on the outs, which Harry explains is because as an English gentleman, it's taken him fifteen years to process his emotions, and now that he has, he's broken up. Note that Harry is as far from a "typical" English gentleman as it's possible to be. Also also done when one of Big Bad Mr. Benevolent's schemes is to have British explorers melt the Antarctic, by exposing them to London call girls — their embarrassed awkwardness is what's going to melt the ice.
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British Stuffiness / int_2250e67e	comment	Star Trek: Enterprise had tactical officer Malcolm Reed, who was noticeably more reserved than his mostly American crew mates. The contrast was particularly noticeable when he became good friends with the very emotive Trip Tucker.
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British Stuffiness / int_2777c062	comment	Are You Being Served?: Captain Peacock walks and talks this trope. He is extremely old fashioned and easily embarrassed about all the things going on in the clothing store. He is also very prone of accidentally touching a female model, a bra or a pair of knickers and only realizing it when it's already too late.
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British Stuffiness / int_2874ef33	comment	Mrs. Herriton and her daughter Harriet are this in spades in Where Angels Fear to Tread. It's Played for Laughs although it has tragic consequences.
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British Stuffiness / int_29e77392	comment	Horrible Histories frequently plays this for laughs, although the show's goofy energy, as far from stuffy as possible, always shines through.
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British Stuffiness / int_2cbad284	comment	Left POOR Dead: Reginald and Tippy have this in spades.
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British Stuffiness / int_33fdae4d	comment	Lane Pryce, and just about every other British character on Mad Men - with the exception of Jaguar representative Edwin. Lane tries to approach his fellow ex-pat as a kindred spirit, but fails. It turns out he's just as debauched as Roger or Pete, and his idea of a fun night involves visiting a brothel. This backfires spectacularly when Edwin's wife finds out and Lane is the first to hear of the deal being called off.
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British Stuffiness / int_3a219aa4	comment	Peep Show: Mark Corrigan is this to a T, often getting himself into embarrassing situations because he just won't say how he feels.
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British Stuffiness / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Vernon Dursley is a prime example, via his portrayal of a member of the aspiring middle classes. Thus feeding the American media, but not a product of it. Vernon may be stuffy and concerned with appearance, but he is very much not reserved, and is implied to be telling raunchy jokes in mixed company with his 12-year old son around. The second film also adds Robert Hardy as Cornelius Fudge, who works him much stuffier than in the book. Percy is pretty stuffy as well, as evidenced by the fact he calls his parents "Mother and Father" rather than "Mum and Dad" like his siblings. Of course, this has more to do with him being a pompous, ambitious prefect with No Sense of Humor who has his eyes set on becoming Minister for Magic rather than his nationality.
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British Stuffiness / int_40103bc1	comment	Assassin's Creed: Valhalla: Joking invoked by Shaun Hastings when talking about Loki and his mistress Angrboda, saying they got up to things he's "too British to mention" (meaning having sex. Lots of sex). Not that Shaun is usually that stuffy, just snarky, even making a crack about what his wife said about their wedding night.
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British Stuffiness / int_404622d6	comment	Mr. Herriman (pictured above), from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends has never been to Britain, but has a British accent from pure stuffiness.
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British Stuffiness / int_46823c49	comment	In Moriarty the Patriot, Mycroft Holmes, Secretary of State of Great Britain is very much The Stoic and the very act of him quietly spilling a few drops of tea while pouring it into a cup is a sign hes majorly shaken up emotionally.
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British Stuffiness / int_47e1a76	comment	Samuel the camel from Willa's Wild Life.
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British Stuffiness / int_4c4e08ca	comment	The Benny Hill Show: One of the most famous displays of British people poking fun at this image were the sketches of Benny Hill. He was always chasing behind or chasing from cute young women and getting involved in embarrassing situations where people suddenly were exposed in their underwear.
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British Stuffiness / int_4c99197e	comment	Not so bizarre when you consider Thunderbirds was an expensive show to make — Lord Grade, as with so many shows he commissioned, saw first showing in Britain as irrelevant compared with lucrative resale to the USA, and insisted it be made primarily with the American market in mind. Therefore all the action heroes speak with American accents and the British characters were tailored to American expectations — toffs and Dick van Dyke cockneys. The Muppet Show was a later example: the guest star was nearly always an American celebrity, often virtually unknown in Britain.
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British Stuffiness / int_513e22f6	comment	Played quite straight in Scandinavia and the World with its own Moe Anthropomorphism for England. The problem is, this is also his attitude to his kids, which is pretty much the reason they're so screwed up (America being the boisterous rebel, Canada being the intelligent yet weak "favorite" of sons who was adopted from France when he was a teenager, Australia is the wacky problem child, and New Zealand is a sheep). And their being uptight about sex comes across in one strip where England's Internal Monologue berates himself for being a rapist... for brushing Denmark's hair with his hand while stretching. And according to the Author's Note for that strip, it's apparently Truth in Television (though not quite to that extent).
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British Stuffiness / int_52071c09	comment	Carry On Up the Khyber (1968): the climactic dinner party sequence.
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British Stuffiness / int_5ada53ed	comment	In the James Bond film canon, Q is a rather cranky version of this trope. Also, the original M was quite gruff, with only a few flashes of paternal affection toward Bond. Bond, of course, is the exact opposite of this trope. Well, Bond is sexually uninhibited, at least, but in the movies he never cries or shows much emotion, and in the novels he's much less openly emotional than the Black or American characters (although he does weep on two occasions). While not stuffy, he is definitely less openly emotional... compare him to American counterparts such as Jack Bauer.
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British Stuffiness / int_5b110617	comment	The Carry On franchise made a fortune dwelling on this stereotype. When the series reach the 1960s, the cast always got caught into embarrassing sexual situations and double entendres, and because it was on the big screen they could get away with far more Ms. Fanservice nudity than on TV. While many British people laughed at this Self-Deprecation comedy, others were embarrassed by the success of this franchise. Many who basically were the kind of people satirized in these comedies.
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British Stuffiness / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Excalibur from Soul Eater (who's at the very least From United Kingnote I'm looking for him! I'm going to California!) has a list of 1000 conditions anyone who wants to wield him must follow. As such, there are two known people who could put up with this madness. One of them finally got rid of him because he couldn't put up with his constant sneezing. The other was King Arthur himself. Lord only knows how he did it.
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British Stuffiness / int_5e11dafe	comment	Chopping Block discusses how to get the guards at the royal palace to show emotion.
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British Stuffiness / int_63b09416	comment	Lynda in Wish You Were Here (1987) calls out the stuffy conventions of postwar English society when she gets on top of a table at the cafe where she works and goes on an epic rant about her pregnancy and sex.
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British Stuffiness / int_64bf8c91	comment	Balthazar Cavendish from Milo Murphy's Law is the uptight Straight Man to Vinnie Dakota's Wise Guy. This doesn't stop him from going full Agent Mulder in Season 2.
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British Stuffiness / int_6d1e3c97	comment	An American Werewolf in London has more than a little of this. Especially the impossible-to-insult policeman. The xenophobic villagers are also worth recognizing, as is their 'opening-up' via humor (if we decide to like you, we'll make fun of you).
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British Stuffiness / int_6d87b845	comment	All British people in A Fish Called Wanda, with the exception of George and Ken. Archie does warm up though.
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British Stuffiness / int_7680545c	comment	Often lampshaded by Max on The Nanny when he uses this as an excuse for why he is unable to show his feelings. He and his entire family are perfect examples of this, with the exception of his brother Nigel, who has been shown to be very passionate and exuberant, although he was considered the black sheep of the family, and supposed to be the exception that proves the rule.
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British Stuffiness / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Alfred Pennyworth often comes across as a Stuffy Brit, which carries over to most adaptations. The most prominent exception is Batman Begins, where he's given a British army sergeant's accent and backstory. In the comics he also had plenty of backstory: at one point it was that he was an SOE agent/saboteur for England during WWII and had a kid with a beautiful French Resistance named Mademoiselle Marie, but that's been dropped because of timeline considerations. (Humorously, one of the standard portrayals of Alfred was on Batman: The Animated Series — where, except for the first few episodes, he was voiced by an American actor!)
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British Stuffiness / int_7b2ca7a2	comment	In his review of Bayonetta, Yahtzee admits to this. This doesn't save him from Freudian Slipping several times throughout the review.
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British Stuffiness / int_7c038c18	comment	Ferb Fletcher from Phineas and Ferb is a subversion. He's got plenty of warmth, fun, and weirdness in him, he just doesn't show it very often.
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British Stuffiness / int_7c4f1adb	comment	Our Miss Brooks: The very British public school headmaster in "Hello, Mr. Chips." While quintessentially British, he's a youngish man who gets around fairly well with everyone at Madison. Mr. Conklin, interesting enough, was expecting a much stricter man and had even dictated that Miss Brooks (and the rest of the faculty) wear funereal black so as not to hurt his sensibilities.
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British Stuffiness / int_7d122312	comment	The Flintstones: When Fred Flintstone attempted to pass himself off as uppercrust and well-mannered, he affected a British accent.
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British Stuffiness / int_7d80238d	comment	On a Clear Day You Can See Forever averts this with eighteenth-century England. "You know, it's funny," Daisy says, "I thought the British only got sexy lately."
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British Stuffiness / int_8089bf4a	comment	The Buccaneers (2023): The English are a cold, unaffectionate people who look down on the American girls' casual and freewheeling mannerisms.
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British Stuffiness / int_80ec188c	comment	Doc Martin: Martin, is almost a caricature of the emotionally repressed Brit. From his stiff as a board posture, to his constant inability to handle emotions (well, positive emotions anyway, he has a better handle on the negative ones).
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British Stuffiness / int_82aa0b9e	comment	Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriot's play "No Sex Please, We're British" sums this trope up best. It's fitting that this farce also was turned into an Awful British Sex Comedy later.
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British Stuffiness / int_83d41855	comment	Owen Burnett, Xanatos' butler on Gargoyles. This was totally on purpose, though, since Puck copied his alter ego from another, equally-wooden, majordomo and just slapped on an accent for better effect.
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British Stuffiness / int_89c084b2	comment	"Some Girls" from The Rolling Stones' Some Girls:
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British Stuffiness / int_8a5b7ac3	comment	The A&E version of The Lost World had both Robert Hardy and James Fox, as feuding professors of paleontology, which causes the VHS copy to smell like tea and tweed and pipe tobacco. However, it starred the somewhat more jovial Bob Hoskins as a sort of adventurer paleontologist, along with some dinosaurs, which lightened the mood somewhat.
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British Stuffiness / int_8c05f749	comment	Death in Paradise has Detective Inspector Richard Poole, who sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the residents of fictional Caribbean island Saint Marie. He is even considered stuffy by the vast majority of the other British characters, who downplay, subvert or even avert this trope more often than they play it straight.
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British Stuffiness / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: Superman: True Brit, an Elseworlds comic where Superman lands in Great Britain, is absolutely loaded with examples and subversions.
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British Stuffiness / int_93fe76e2	comment	In Anne of the Thousand Days, the French-educated Anne looks down upon Englishmen as barbaric, lacking in culture, and too secretive on the subject of sex.
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British Stuffiness / int_94e7b3a4	comment	The whole premise of What a Girl Wants: Amanda Bynes vs. British Stuffiness. Incidentally, the above page quote from this film was reportedly ad-libbed by Eileen Atkins. Ironically, Bynes was known for her squeaky clean and chaste image. In an interview, she also admitted that Britain is "not as different as we portray it in the film."
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British Stuffiness / int_952d2e68	comment	Directly referenced in the American Girls book "Happy Birthday, Molly!" when Molly's mother explains to her why the English girl who is visiting is so quiet. Her explanation is that "English children are taught to be reserved—very polite and quiet." Since the girl was one of the Blitz Evacuees watching London be bombed may have something to do with her quietness. Molly's mother also invokes the stereotype at first, and one of Molly's friends also expects Emily to curtsey because that's what English girls do, according to her stereotypes.
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British Stuffiness / int_992df2cd	comment	Tear of Grace channels this in one of his Middle-earth: Shadow of War videos where he throws an Uruk off a sheer cliff for refusing to introduce himself before or during their fight.
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British Stuffiness / int_99c003af	comment	The "Dapper Crackhead" from The Boondocks: "Sir, Sir! There is no need to be rude! I paid good money for this crack, and it is all burnt up, look!"
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British Stuffiness / int_9b7e31d	comment	Bizarrely enough, in Thunderbirds (which is a British-made programme), many of the British characters were quite stereotypically uppercrust, like Lady Penelope. "I say, open this door at once; we're British!", Sir Jeremy Hodge, "The Perils of Penelope", a brilliantly bad example. Parker, Lady Penelope's driver and manservant may be a subversion. He affects what he may believe is a "posh" accent, but only indicates his London cockney origins. He's based upon a real man the Thunderbirds production members met running a pub. Jeff Tracy wears morning dress and affects a British accent to go to an airshow in one episode. "Oh, bang on; jolly good show!" Wonderfully wrong. Penny is too pleased to correct him. All the more impressive since Jeff was played by Peter Dyneley, a British actor with a Canadian accent, playing an American trying to affect a stuffy British accent and doing it badly. Not so bizarre when you consider Thunderbirds was an expensive show to make — Lord Grade, as with so many shows he commissioned, saw first showing in Britain as irrelevant compared with lucrative resale to the USA, and insisted it be made primarily with the American market in mind. Therefore all the action heroes speak with American accents and the British characters were tailored to American expectations — toffs and Dick van Dyke cockneys. The Muppet Show was a later example: the guest star was nearly always an American celebrity, often virtually unknown in Britain.
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British Stuffiness / int_9c149552	comment	The Circle: Elizabeth describes her husband Arnold, an English lord, as "an old woman." He tries to talk her out of leaving him by saying "You might force me to do something rashâ€”and I'd dislike that frightfully."
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British Stuffiness / int_9d9c71a4	comment	Spike in My Little Pony (G3).
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British Stuffiness / int_9e876c22	comment	Aziraphale from Good Omens has cultivated a strong aura of this, in spite of being an angel and therefore not British at all. (Fanon likes to state that he was always like this, and that he actually introduced the concept to Earth.) However, Aziraphale has trouble living up to the above-it-all aspects of this stereotype, and he tends to come off as extremely sensitive and worried on top of being extremely British. As well as... er... something else.
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British Stuffiness / int_9e90c6b3	comment	The Queen is basically about British Reserve encountering the modern age.
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British Stuffiness / int_a0ae470	comment	Mr. Pricklepants from Toy Story 3, who even quotes Shakespeare.
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British Stuffiness / int_a2abcb5e	comment	Vernon Dursley is a prime example, via his portrayal of a member of the aspiring middle classes. Thus feeding the American media, but not a product of it. Vernon may be stuffy and concerned with appearance, but he is very much not reserved, and is implied to be telling raunchy jokes in mixed company with his 12-year old son around.
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British Stuffiness / int_a54eef52	comment	The character representing England in Hetalia: Axis Powers is not necessarily "stuffy" as such, but does display a disapproving and often despairing attitude towards his compatriots, with his neurosis usually triggered in reaction to their behavior. He is otherwise a knowledgeable and amiable chap, if a bit irritable. He does at least try to be a gentleman. It just doesn't work out with his real personality. However, the English dub plays this straight, making the character speak with a stereotypical (RP) English accent (apparently), and he sounds much "stuffier'' there.
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British Stuffiness / int_a5f98cbf	comment	In Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, when Death comes to a dinner party to take away the guests, the British host firmly but calmly reprimands him for his bad manners. When the Grim Reaper reveals they were all killed by tainted salmon, all the host's wife can say is "I'm most dreadfully embarrassed".
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British Stuffiness / int_ad417bd5	comment	Sarah, the British journalist and later American immigrant from Liberty's Kids is initially like this.
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British Stuffiness / int_aeeee67a	comment	The second film also adds Robert Hardy as Cornelius Fudge, who works him much stuffier than in the book.
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British Stuffiness / int_af10f209	comment	Portrait in Sepia: Frederick Williams, who goes from being Paulina del Valle's butler to being her husband in a Marriage of Convenience, possesses this quality, giving the impression of being from English nobility (he does not bother to correct whoever thinks that) and making people wonder what the heck did he see in overbearing Paulina del Valle other than possibly her money. He does warm up to Paulina and her granddaughter Aurora.
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British Stuffiness / int_af7aead4	comment	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver frequently mentions this, mostly in segments about the United Kingdom but sometimes just when it allows for Self-Deprecation. ("Thereâ€™s no way I would be happier giving eight hugs a day. Iâ€™m English! Thatâ€™s four lifetimesâ€™ worth of hugs.â€�)
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British Stuffiness / int_b0cf0ed6	comment	Inverted in the 2015 version of Danger Mouse when Danger Mouse meets his American Distaff Counterpart, Jeopardy Mouse. She is much more serious and no-nonsense than he is, which becomes a point of conflict between them. She even points out that he's not a very secretive "secret" agent if he's on a billboard doing a cereal ad.
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British Stuffiness / int_b1c94339	comment	In Horatio Hornblower, Mr. Bush is perplexed when Lady Barbara notes that he's fond of Captain Hornblower because it's hard to fit such a sentimental notion into his fundamentally British way of thinking (although she's quite right).
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British Stuffiness / int_b4882594	comment	80 Days: Fogg plays this trope fairly straight, preferring to communicate via slight eyebrow movements and dry remarks.
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British Stuffiness / int_b5942ee6	comment	Pumbaa's "smart" version from Timon & Pumbaa (which Timon accidentally turns the "normal" Pumbaa into in the episode "Beetle Romania" by plugging his brain back in) rather-fittingly combines this trope with Insufferable Genius; needless to say, Timon is hilariously-visibly annoyed by Smart Pumbaa's arrogance.
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British Stuffiness / int_b962c879	comment	Carla in the dub of Fairy Tail has a light accent, reflecting her initial personality.
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British Stuffiness / int_b96564e6	comment	Fawlty Towers' Basil Fawlty, played mainly for comedic effect as he tries to be this but his constant run of bad luck leads to less desirable results, especially in "The Wedding Party". "You know something? You disgust me. I know what people like you get up to, and I think it's disgusting!" In "The Psychiatrist", he suspects a young couple of sharing the same room together despite his rules on keeping unmarried people separate. He even tries to spy on them to catch them red handed.
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British Stuffiness / int_ba666650	comment	Subverted in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, where Zero at first seems cold and snarky like this trope, but as time goes on he's shown to be really quite emotional (shown especially in him eventually becoming a Stalker with a Crush in Metal Gear Solid 4 and Peace Walker), and kind of a Cloud Cuckoo Lander. The last part's probably based on the other stereotype of the British sense of humor.
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British Stuffiness / int_bb3fde3d	comment	One episode of Danny Phantom where the Fentons have the usual stiff British butler.
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British Stuffiness / int_bc1dc95a	comment	Commodore Norrington experiences similar problems in Pirates of the Caribbean, and handles them in a similar manner in At World's End.
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British Stuffiness / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: It usually blows this away, especially hiring such energetic and expressive actors as David Tennant and Catherine Tate, but they did play with it in "The Idiot's Lantern". Lampshaded in "The Unicorn and the Wasp". When Donna wonders about how everyone involved is going to deal with the weirdness of the episode, the Doctor says, "They'll never speak of it again, they're too British." Somewhat enforced by Executive Meddling during Peter Davison's tenure, with the whole No Hugging, No Kissing thing. The Doctor, said in "The Daleks' Master Plan", "I am a citizen of the universe and a gentleman to boot" which was to represent 19th century British ideals. Professor Chronotis in "Shada" implies that he's been able to hang around Cambridge for 300 years because all the other professors are too polite ever to bring it up.
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British Stuffiness / int_c511c682	comment	Asterix: In Asterix in Britain the Britons are utterly stiff except in the presence of ball games or young bards who look suspiciously like The Beatles. Averted in the cases of some of them — for example, the Badass Bystander British gardener. Even then, he's only angry because people keep walking on his lawn! (Approximate dialogue.)
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British Stuffiness / int_c66f52d9	comment	In Todd in the Shadows' One Hit Wonderland episode for "The Monster Mash", he mentions that the BBC banned it for being too macabre — "And people say the Brits have a stick up their ass! Pshaw!"
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British Stuffiness / int_c73c5656	comment	John from Christmas in Connecticut has the plummy RP accent of Reginald Gardiner, is fussy and uptight in an Ambiguously Gay way, and says things like "I say!" when catching his fiancÃ©e in the arms of another man.
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British Stuffiness / int_cfeb3aa	comment	Sea Catch in "The White Seal" conveys an astounding upper-class stuffiness despite being a seal.
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British Stuffiness / int_dd3b837b	comment	The erotic novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, written by an Englishman DH Lawrence, was famously banned in the United Kingdom for more than 30 years!
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British Stuffiness / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Giles was presented very much in this manner to begin with and was contrasted with younger, hipper, computer-literate Jenny Calendar. He lightened up as the series went on. Then Wesley arrived and took on the stuffy role, before he Took a Level in Badass after moving over to Angel. Both turned into Badass Bookworms over time, although in Giles' case, it was revealed he had earned the nickname "Ripper" in his younger days for dabbling in necromancy and other not-so-legal things, before he joined the Watchers Council, so he had always been someone you didn't want to cross, and had merely hidden it under the tweed-clad librarian persona.
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British Stuffiness / int_e46658ae	comment	Love in the Villa: Lampshaded by Charlie when he's uncomfortable at the American Julie's Inelegant Blubbering.
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British Stuffiness / int_e5feb1e	comment	Whether or not Miles Edgeworth is an example of this is the subject of much debate in the Ace Attorney fandom. He spent part of his childhood in America and his teen years in Germany, but there's room to suggest he was born British, and his behavior and speech patterns certainly fit. His voiceover in Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice even has the right accent. Also, he can get quite emotional but usually keeps it under wraps unless it's sheer exasperation.
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British Stuffiness / int_e82f1138	comment	The film Wild Child is looking like a rip-off of What a Girl Wants in which the British Stuffiness will be even worse.
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British Stuffiness / int_e8cc91dd	comment	Titli of Titli's Busy Kitchen parodies these tendencies in several of her videos.
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British Stuffiness / int_e99cad83	comment	The Ted & Ralph sketches from The Fast Show are a British-made example, combining country-squire Ralph's man-crush on Ted, his gamekeeper, with some genuinely moving British stuffiness. Such as when Ralph tries to ask Ted out: "Do you... like Tina Turner, Ted?"... "I wouldn't know about that sir". Best of all, the scene where Ralph must tell Ted that his wife has died, without breaking the rules of the absurd pub-game, because that would embarrass Ted.
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British Stuffiness / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy's use of "high-class British porn".
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British Stuffiness / int_ea922658	comment	While it is an American/British co-production, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day has an air of this about it. The eponymous Miss Pettigrew is an uptight, strait-laced Vicar's daughter, and her counterpoint is the wild American Delysia Lafosse. Most of the other British characters are also fairly flighty, though, and Delysia's free-spirited nature isn't entirely admirable. It was averted in the original novel, where Delysia is English.
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British Stuffiness / int_eb0aba59	comment	A fine example of Britons poking fun at this image are the greeting cards made by Donald McGill. They were traditionally sold at beach resorts and featured saucy Double Entendre images and jokes.
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British Stuffiness / int_eb3f769d	comment	The Aubrey-Maturin novels are great subverters of this trope. In the Georgian Age (the 18th century through the early 19th century), open displays of emotion were considered much more acceptable in English culture than during the later Victorian and Edwardian eras. In fact, Stephen Maturin gently chides his friend Jack Aubrey on several occasions for being overly emotional, and in his private thoughts and diary entries notes emotionalism as being a weakness of the English psychological makeup. Stiff Upper Lip, though, is in full play, as demonstrated during many sea battle scenes.
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British Stuffiness / int_ec80dae4	comment	Zero Punctuation: In his review of Bayonetta, Yahtzee admits to this. This doesn't save him from Freudian Slipping several times throughout the review. During a Let's Play of the adventure game Normality, Gabriel got him to crack up by simply singing a fake Will.i.am lyric.
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British Stuffiness / int_ef661e97	type	British Stuffiness
British Stuffiness / int_ef661e97	comment	Mostly averted, especially in beat 'em ups, where the British female characters, including Cammy from Street Fighter, Ivy from the SoulCalibur series, Christie from Dead or Alive and of course Lara Croft, are all easily amongst the most fanservicey. All of them tend to be fairly no-nonsense in demeanor however, and speak with the applicable RP accent, so perhaps not a complete aversion of this trope. However, when it comes to the men, Brits Dudley and Eagle (both Street Fighter) fit the bill perfectly.
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Street Fighter (Franchise)	hasFeature	British Stuffiness / int_ef661e97
British Stuffiness / int_f655ed11	type	British Stuffiness
British Stuffiness / int_f655ed11	comment	Inverted in Frasier, where it was the two main American characters who were stuffy and elitist, while most of the British characters who appeared were cheerfully working-class (albeit with a host of mismatched regional accents). Though, in an interesting example of how entrenched the British/stuffy association is in the US, people have been known to refer to Frasier and Niles's posh inflections as "British accents." This is likely because the accents of the Anglophonic nations (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA) sound more English the more upper-class a character is. All "posh accents" of the Anglosphere sound more similar to original English RP. Although, in one episode, when Roz incredulously questions that Daphne hasn't yet slept with her then-current boyfriend, Frasier simply responds, "She's English."
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British Stuffiness / int_f7c7e66c	type	British Stuffiness
British Stuffiness / int_f7c7e66c	comment	7 Days in Hell: Aaron gets away with a ridiculous amount of blatant athletic misconduct, from snorting cocaine during the match to having sex with a pair of streakers on the court, because the British hosts are too polite to point any of this out.
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British Stuffiness / int_fc4cce34	comment	In On Chesil Beach, Edward and Florenceâ€™s story plays out in England in an era when repressive attitudes toward sex and sexuality were still prevalent.
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British Stuffiness / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation has Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who despite technically being French, still fits the bill, being overly reserved and unwilling to truly connect with the people around him.
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British Stuffiness	processingCategory2	Comedy Tropes
British Stuffiness	processingCategory2	Europe Index
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Boom! Studios) (Comic Book) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Knight and Squire (Comic Book) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Dennis the Menace (UK) (Comic Strip) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Mutt and Jeff (Comic Strip) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Pearls Before Swine (Comic Strip) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Willie and Joe (Comic Strip) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Touhou Doujin: Dawitsu's Folly / Fan Fic / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Chaos Theory Z (Fanfic) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
A Fish Called Wanda / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
An American Werewolf in London / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Anaconda / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Annie (1982) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Atlantic Wall / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Sweeney Todd / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Back to School / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Berserk	seeAlso	British Stuffiness
Berserk! (1967) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Carry On... Series / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Carry On Up the Khyber / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Chariots of Fire / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Christmas in Connecticut / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
For Your Eyes Only / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Frenzy (1972) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
It Happened One Night / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Layer Cake / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Love in the Villa / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Most Dangerous Game / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
My Fair Lady / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Northwest Passage / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
On Chesil Beach / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Picnic at Hanging Rock / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Prudence and the Pill / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Royal Rendezvous / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
See How They Run / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
7 Days in Hell / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Sirens / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Sister Act / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Starter for 10 / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Stoned / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Circle (1925) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Devil Wears Prada / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Great Muppet Caper / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The King's Speech / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Last of the Mohicans / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Parent Trap (1998) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
TheRemainsOfTheDay	seeAlso	British Stuffiness
Thor: The Dark World / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Topper / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Victor Frankenstein / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Wee Willie Winkie / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
What a Girl Wants / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Wish You Were Here / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Wish You Were Here (1987) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Zorba the Greek / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
A Murder Is Announced / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
A Night in Terror Tower / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
After the Revolution / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
American Girls Collection / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Asian Saga / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Evensong / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
ForMrFuturePublishedPoetry	seeAlso	British Stuffiness
Hic Sunt Dracones / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Horatio Hornblower / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Mapp And Lucia / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Small World (David Lodge novel) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Spectral Shadows / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The American Credo / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Coronation / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Far Pavilions / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Knight in Screaming Armor / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Minds of Billy Milligan / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Railway Series / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Dinnerladies	seeAlso	British Stuffiness
Mezzamine	seeAlso	British Stuffiness
Nausicaa	seeAlso	British Stuffiness
Speed Sex / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
TrippingOverYou	seeAlso	British Stuffiness
Some Girls (Music) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
No Such Thing As A Fish (Podcast) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Meat Blockade (Podcast) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Bleak Expectations (Radio) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
John Finnemore's Double Acts (Radio) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Big Damn Roleplay (Roleplay) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Casualty 1906 / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Danger 5 / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Death in Paradise / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Dick & Dom in da Bungalow / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
dinnerladies / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Dragons' Den / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Fawlty Towers / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
500 Questions / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Horrible Histories / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Magnum, P.I. / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Maude / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Michel Strogoff	seeAlso	British Stuffiness
Mozart in the Jungle / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Neighbours / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Parks and Recreation / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Root Into Europe	seeAlso	British Stuffiness
Rules of Engagement / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Shadow Chasers / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Spitting Image / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Buccaneers (2023) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Catherine Tate Show / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Fast Show / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Lost World (2001) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Mallorca Files / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Savage Eye / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
You're the Worst / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Space 1889 (Tabletop Game) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Bullshot	seeAlso	British Stuffiness
My Fair Lady (Theatre) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
1776 (Theatre) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
BioShock 2 (Video Game) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Card City Nights (Video Game) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (Video Game) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Criminal Case: World Edition (Video Game) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
80 Days (Video Game) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Marvel: Avengers Alliance (Video Game) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Sir, You Are Being Hunted (Video Game) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Tacoma (Video Game) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The BOSS: A Jacksepticeye Fan Game (Video Game) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Fairly OddParents: Shadow Showdown (Video Game) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Jackbox Party Pack (Video Game) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Titanfall (Video Game) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Fully Ramblomatic (Web Animation) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Chappers And The Captain At Andertons (Web Video) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Guaranteed* Video (Web Video) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Angels 2200 (Webcomic) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Polandball (Webcomic) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Star Guys (Webcomic) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Asterix in Britain / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Hector's House / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Jackie Chan Adventures / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Liberty's Kids / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
My Little Pony (G3) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Now Hear This / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Odd Job Jack / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Peter Pan / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Scary Godmother / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Beatles / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Beatles (1965) / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
The Prince and the Pauper / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Toy Story 3 / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Wallace & Gromit / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness

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