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The Men from the Ministry (Radio)

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The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	comment	The Men from the Ministry is a radio sitcom and political satire produced by The BBC which ran from 1962 to 1977, with one additional series made of re-recordings produced by BBC Transcription Services in 1980, which was never aired. This radio forerunner to the Yes, Minister was created by Edward Taylor and starred Wilfrid Hyde-White and Richard Murdoch as civil servants Roland Hamilton-Jones (â€œOneâ€�) and Richard Lamb (â€œTwoâ€�), with the former leaving after two series and being replaced by Deryck Guyler's Deryck Lennox-Brown (Also referred to as â€œOneâ€�). Other characters of the show are the duo's secretary Mildred Murfin (Norma Ronald) and their rather tyrannical, self-centered boss and Permanent Under-secretary, Sir Gregory Pitkin (Roy Dotrice on the first two series, Ronald Baddiley third series onward).The show is set on the Ministry's â€œGeneral Assistance Department,â€� an office in Whitehall that is designed to help other offices when they are overloaded with too much work. Typical episodes are centered around one or two assignments given by other offices. The staff of General Assistance Department are lazy and incompetent people determined to tangle in every bureaucratic thing, and Hilarity Ensues: Assignments are mixed up, there are memos and letters that end up to the wrong people and misunderstandings resulting from communication problems. The result is usually complete chaos, ranging from traffic wardens ending up with ballerina outfits to the whole of Britain losing all physical currency.Outside of its fifteen-year run in Britain the show had a version produced in Sweden by Svergies Radio (SR) in 1963-1971. From there a bunch of scripts ended up in the archives of Finland's Yleisradio (YLE). A Finnish version was first produced in 1979 and ended up being the third most popular radio show of the country, lasting for 30 years.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_10886580	type	Dub Species Change
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_10886580	comment	Dub Species Change: Finnish version of "Seal of Office" changes the episode's circus seal into a circus bear, since the plot requires it to be confused with something else via a pun. In the original General Assistance Department wants a seal for the envelope they are about to send to NATO headquarters, whereas in the Finnish version they're waiting for a collection letter for their delayed payment on the shipment (collection letter is "karhukirje" in Finnish, literally meaning "bear letter").
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_14a8974a	comment	Love Potion: The duo accidentally mixes chicken's virility powder in the nation's milk reserves; everyone who drinks milk temporarily turns into a sex-obsessed maniac, even during a news broadcast.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_15395adc	type	The Mistress
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_15395adc	comment	The Mistress: Ms. Bentwater is this to Sir Gregory. Sir Clive drools after Paris Stilton.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_186a97ab	type	Do-It-Yourself Plumbing Project
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_186a97ab	comment	Do-It-Yourself Plumbing Project: Since Sir Gregory has given Ministry's welfare funds only 85 pence, the Welfare Committee's leader Mr. Wilkins, being a "do-it-yourself-handyman" by his own words, offers to fix the Ministry's plumbing himself over the weekend. Being the Cloudcuckoolander that he is, Mr. Wilkins naturally ends up destroying the Ministry's plumbing in the process.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_191535aa	type	Eiffel Tower Effect
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_191535aa	comment	Eiffel Tower Effect: Every episode begins with the knell of Big Ben, establishing the setting as London.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: When Lamb is depressed by the utter boredom of his life, Mildred and Lennox-Brown decide to make him take dancing lessons so that he will find more joy in his life. He does find dancing very enjoyable, so much so that he plans to quit his job in the Ministry and become a professional dancer.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Mr. Lamb's landlord Mrs. Bardby is talked about a lot, but never physically appears in the series. There is also Mr. Rudge from the Board of Trade, who's a subject of many Noodle Incidents. The hall-porter Mathews is also this in most episodes, though he actually appears in the flesh in a couple of them.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Staple of the show's humor: poorly worded notes end up causing havoc, telephone conversations are misinterpreted due to being heard only from one end and out-of-context, and instructions aren't laid out properly leading to big misunderstandings among other things.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1c751b35	type	The Vicar
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1c751b35	comment	The Vicar: The Vicar of One's hometown is mentioned frequently, with Lennox-Brown often participating in Noodle Incidents as they attempt to fix a hole in the roof of the village church.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1c9537cd	type	The Main Characters Do Everything
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1c9537cd	comment	The Main Characters Do Everything: By Word of God, the "General Assistance Department" was created so that episodes wouldn't be dependent on the work of only one type of State Administration.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1d2b0c27	type	Hamster-Wheel Power
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1d2b0c27	comment	Hamster-Wheel Power: "A Sense of Power" ends with Britain getting a new power source in the form of thousands of hamsters spinning a wheel machine.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: One and Two, while having the occasional arguments, are the closest friends each other has.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: What's Lennox-Brown's reaction after finding out that they've not only destroyed Sir Gregory's house, but also put a Victorian public loo in its place?
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Constant source of comedy: whenever One and Two oversee the businesses of others, they tend to attach to the smallest of regulations and orders no matter how irrelevant they are. The two also often create forms full of questions that A) have nothing to do with the thing the form is about, and B) are impossible to answer.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Hamilton-Jones and Lamb in one episode come up with lots of creative ways to detect Sir Gregory's approach into the Office and repel his advances, including sprinkling sugar on the liner and smearing grease on the sill. Sir Gregory ends up simply calling the Office via telephone.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_22867424	type	Strike Episode
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_22867424	comment	Strike Episode: After tea and coffee drinking in the Ministry is completely forbidden by Sir Gregory, all of the civil servants go on a strike to get tea breaks back. It takes three weeks for anyone to notice anything.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: Sir Clive is explicitly stated to be Lord Stilton's nephew.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: All the original BBC-produced episodes were restricted to 25-30 minutes so scripts were sometimes cut heavily... however, YLE gave no such restrictions during the production of the Finnish version, leading to episodes being anywhere from 25 to 48 minutes, often featuring full versions of gags which were either partially or completely left out from the originals.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: April essentially plays this role in Series 1. This might've been a factor to her disappearance in Series 2, since she doesn't get much material in the comedy (apart from the episode "Moderately Important Person", where she's the main focus of Prince Salim's lust).
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Sir Gregory is after young women of the Ministry, especially Ms. Daphney Bentwater from the typing pool.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Mildred has a habit of saying "righty-ho" in place of "right away", which annoys One greatly. In one episode, Sir Gregory says it as well. She also has a habit of saying "Oo-er" every time a mistake is made. Mr. Crawley always forgets the names of basic everyday things and calls them "Whats-Its-Names."
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_27ec6351	type	Like Is, Like, a Comma
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_27ec6351	comment	Like Is, Like, a Comma: The weird modern artist Ted Sponge in the episode "Torn to Shreds" uses the word "like" very excessively, and even manages to get Mr. Lamb to do it just as he leaves the office.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_29429eec	type	Community-Threatening Construction
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_29429eec	comment	Community-Threatening Construction: At least two episodes cover this (a village in Sussex making way for an airport in "Customs of the Country" and a Scottish village making way for a hydroelectric dam in "A Sense of Power"). On both occasions, the villagers vehemently resist...until they discover the compensation payments they'd receive.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_29718d62	type	Accent Adaptation
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_29718d62	comment	Accent Adaptation: In the Finnish version American characters speak mostly in Helsinki slang, due to its "modern" sound and use of foreign loanwords creating a nice substitute for an American accent. The other native English accents from the original show such as Scottish or Irish are not adapted.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_29e6dc40	type	HypocriticalHumour
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: When planning on giving a petition about the poor quality of the Ministry's bathrooms Mr. Crawley says that they have to stand up to Sir Gregory. After talking with him about it: Government wants to promote the use of British products and cut down unnecessary imports by distributing "Buy British"-lapel badges... Made in Japan, of course.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_2b5ab7c1	type	Analogy Backfire
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: Invoked by Sir Gregory in the Finnish version of "Flushed with Success". After Lamb presents him with a petition by the civil servants to fix the Ministry's plumbing, Sir Gregory asks if Lamb believes himself to be a new Spartacus leading a slave uprising. When Lamb reluctantly answers yes, Sir Gregory devilishly points out that Spartacus was executed.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_2e3ab929	type	Assumed Win
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_2e3ab929	comment	Assumed Win: When Lamb is applying for the executive post of the Junior-Assistance-Deputy to the Assistant-Deputy-Junior to the Deputy-Junior-Assistant, he assumes that he has got the job from the get-go because he is fifteen years senior to all other applicants. Upon receiving the letter from Staff Appointments, he doesn't even bother opening it until Lennox-Brown convinces him to at least read what exactly they are saying about his acceptance. Turns out Mr. Haggit from the canteen got the job instead.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_304f9e0b	type	Flowery Insults
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_304f9e0b	comment	Flowery Insults: Sir Gregory's main weapon against One and Two
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_306dece3	type	Office Golf
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_306dece3	comment	Office Golf: Besides making paper darts out of assignment papers, this is One and Two's favorite pass time in the office.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_30bda262	type	Moustache de Plume
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_30bda262	comment	Moustache de Plume: In-Universe Gender Flip occurs in the episode "A Problem Shared", where Lennox-Brown uses a pen name "Aunt Eveling" when answering an agony column on staff magazine since he and the editor agreed that woman's advice are more acceptable.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_314afdb	type	In-Universe Factoid Failure
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_314afdb	comment	In-Universe Factoid Failure: In-Universe, in "The Big Big Big Ben Bungle" Lamb refers to the "Hunchback of Amsterdam".
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Subverted. Sir Gregory wants One and Two to somehow get rid of Ms. Bentwater's overbearing mother, and this exchange occurs.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_31fa019d	type	All Psychology Is Freudian
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_31fa019d	comment	All Psychology Is Freudian: Pretty much played straight in "Birmingham is Revolting". All civil servants have an appointment with Dr. Schwein who mostly asks them questions about their childhood. Lennox-Brown's stories end up making him fall asleep.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_3288c08	type	Foreigner for a Day
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_3288c08	comment	Foreigner for a Day: In the (sadly lost in original English) episode "Rebel in Regents Park" an old gardener of the titular park refuses to retire on Ministry's orders, instead creating his own country on a small island in the middle of park's Duck Pond. Turns out that back in 1818 Prince Edward gave away the island to his family for all time.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_339b3062	type	Quintessential British Gentleman
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_339b3062	comment	Quintessential British Gentleman: One and Two fit this trope to a T, with their bowler hats, pin-striped trousers, and umbrellas.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Despite being Adapted Out, April Adams appears in one Finnish episode. Oddly enough, said episode (The War with the Isle of Wight) ended up being one of the last scripts of the original BBC run to be translated into Finnish, a weird time to bring back a previously unheard character.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef: Mrs. Bradby makes consistently terrible food. At one point Lamb describes having shepherd's pie and rhubarb custard... on the same plate. Mildred is sometimes portrayed as a dabbling baker, and occasionally brings pastries she made to the office — whether or not they're actually edible depends on the episode.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_375e702b	type	Brits Love Tea
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_375e702b	comment	Brits Love Tea: One and Two love tea beyond anything as the British gentlemen they are.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_380faa43	type	Your Tomcat Is Pregnant
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_380faa43	comment	Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: When Lamb's new pet hamster Harry in the episode "A Sense of Power" is acting restless, he decides to buy another one called Charlie for company before leaving to Scotland for negotiations with the locals. When he and Lennox-Brown return it turns out that Charlie has had a litter.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Several times the plan to hide the non-existence of an accidentally made-up Super-Ship or British astronaut hinges on the assumption that anyone who'd normally know about it won't admit that they've never heard about it out of fear of missing the information of its development.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_39eba631	comment	The Slacker: The staff of General Assistance Department tends to avoid work at all costs, only completing it at the last minute.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_3b4e5e81	type	Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_3b4e5e81	comment	Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: A common gag.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Never-seen bunglings and events of the General Assistance Department and other offices are often referenced.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss/Mean Boss: Sir Gregory tends to be a rather huge Jerkass to One and Two and often hits them in his anger.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_3cb6468e	type	Bad Liar
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_3cb6468e	comment	Bad Liar: Mr. Lamb by his only admission doesn't know how to lie.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_3dbdb0d5	type	Rudely Hanging Up
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_3dbdb0d5	comment	Rudely Hanging Up: Sir Gregory ends most of his phone calls to the General Assistance Department by hanging up on One whenever he's halfway through his sentence.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4310c3d6	type	To Make a Long Story Short
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4310c3d6	comment	To Make a Long Story Short: Mr. Lamb often tries to do this when forced to explain a complicated situation. However, he always just takes random segments from the events that don't make any sense at all when combined.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_43273c71	type	LongRunner
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_43273c71	comment	Long Runner: British version 1962-1977, fifteen years. Finnish version 1979-2008, twenty-eight years.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4435aa66	type	Attractive Bent-Gender
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4435aa66	comment	Attractive Bent-Gender: Lamb becomes one when he is forced to pose as a receptionist in "Thoroughly Modern Ministry". Several civil servants bring him gifts like chocolate and roses, and Sir Gregory even tries to seduce "Raquel" at the end of the day and is only stopped in his advances because he'll have to leave to meet his wife.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: After Lamb accidentally buys a thousand pounds worth of light Stilton cheese, Sir Gregory is pretty much this. Even more so in the Finnish version, where he delivers the death threat with complete serenity.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4540f0b9	type	Mistaken for Dying
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4540f0b9	comment	Mistaken for Dying: Lamb and Mildred end up thinking that Lennox-Brown is dying in the episode "A Rotten System" after hearing Ministry's doctor and engineer Lambry converse about the heating system in Lennox-Brown's room out-of-context.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_461038e6	type	Mistaken for Spies
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_461038e6	comment	Mistaken for Spies: During a trip to New York two poorly-worded notes One and Two left in their hotel and office back in London leave FBI and the British Government thinking the two are spies planning on defecting to USSR. Happens a lot really; whenever there's a leak somewhere in the ministry, one and two get suspicious of each other, and usually Mildred and Sir Gregory join opposite sides; For example, Lamb and Mildred might search HJ's office, which HJ and Gregory use as evidence.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4782e60f	type	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4782e60f	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Sir Gregory's one in and out. While he may be pleased and friendly in some episodes, it's only because of some outside event giving him a good mood and makes no secret that he utterly loathes One and Two for their incompetence and laziness.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4a0f49cf	type	Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4a0f49cf	comment	Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You: Following Lamb and Mildred's mistaken belief that Lennox-Brown is deathly ill, doctor Cribble calls the Office to inform the General Assistance Department that the Ministry's heating system has finally shattered that morning. Lamb and Mildred naturally assume that Lennox-Brown has died, and start collecting money for his wreath... only for Lennox-Brown to enter the office at that moment, leading to a priceless Double Take from Lamb.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4b5817c1	type	Truth Serums
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4b5817c1	comment	Truth Serums: Mistaking that the General Assistance Department is the head of British Intelligence, two Soviet spies use their new experimental truth serum on Mr. Lamb in order to get information. Hidden in sugar, nobody realizes what causes them to blurt out the truth until Sir Gregory starts showing the side effects (hysterical laughter), after which they offer him more. Another one ends up being injected to all civil servants and government officials instead of the annual flu vaccine, leading to the entire Whitehall speaking nothing but the truth with hilarious results.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4cecb933	type	Signs of Disrepair
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4cecb933	comment	Signs of Disrepair: As Britain is struggling with an energy crisis, Sir Gregory comes up with an idea to cut fuel consumption by ordering the West End's neon signs to be shown only half the time. Unfortunately, General Assistance Department fails to relay his orders properly, instead ordering the advertisement to show half the words.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4e07ef21	type	Acid Reflux Nightmare
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4e07ef21	comment	Acid Reflux Nightmare: When Mr. Lamb informs the rest of the General Assistance Department that he has been made the new Permanent Under-Secretary (or so he thinks), Lennox-Brown assumes he's having a nightmare caused by the Stilton he had for lunch.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4ef62a4d	type	Full-Circle Revolution
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4ef62a4d	comment	Full-Circle Revolution: Played for Laughs when Mr. Lamb goes to negotiate with an attachÃ© of a Banana Republic about importing of a pelican. The attachÃ© refuses on the grounds that the Minister of Economy is at the office only on Thursdays, and the next Thursday is a national holiday during which they celebrate their people's liberator Pancho Manuel Gonzales. When Lamb suggests Thursday after that, the attachÃ© says it's another holiday during which they celebrate the fall of tyrant Pancho Manuel Gonzales.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4fdd0d29	type	Place Worse Than Death
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_4fdd0d29	comment	Place Worse Than Death: Outer Hebrides are considered the worst possible place to go; apparently bowler hats will get moldy in a week and the climate is so cold that even germs can't live there.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_570f2124	type	Minor Injury Overreaction
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_570f2124	comment	Minor Injury Overreaction: According to Mr. Lamb, after his thumb was trapped in a paperclip, he was off sick for a week.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: Since civil servants can't be fired, Sir Gregory frequently threatens to reassign One and Two to the Outer Hebrides due to their constant bungling.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_58bf7895	type	Eat the Evidence
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_58bf7895	comment	Eat the Evidence: At the end of "Moving Target" Mr. Lamb quickly eats the note for Ministry's library that Sir Gregory mistook for a death threat, and was going to take it to Scotland Yard for handwriting analysis.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: In the Finnish version of "Ban the Wotsit", One and Two are being interviewed on the TV after the Soviets manage to "replicate" the super-weapon Wotsit (which was really a pram full of junk mistaken for a weapon). The interviewer asks Lamb if he thinks the Soviet weapon is as powerful as the original, to which he answers that he is sure it is just as powerful, no more or less.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_5c8d980b	type	Secret Pet Plot
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_5c8d980b	comment	Secret Pet Plot: In several episodes, the staff of the General Assistance Department are forced to keep a pet in their office, including a hamster, a dog and a parrot. Since Sir Gregory despises all animals great amount of hijinks ensue trying to hide their existence: this includes Mr. Lamb pretending to have a cold when the parrot starts talking in the file cabinet, and being forced to eat the animals' food in order to fool Sir Gregory into thinking it's just his breakfast.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_5c8e6330	type	Thrifty Scot
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_5c8e6330	comment	Thrifty Scot: Several ones pop up throughout the series, such as Sir Calvin McFrugal, the financial advisor of the Ministry of Works who considers having two chocolate biscuits during the elevenses insane extravagance.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_5f251b1b	type	Poor Man's Porn
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_5f251b1b	comment	Poor Man's Porn: It is sometimes mentioned that Mr. Lamb apparently has a habit of going up and down the Underground escalators while staring at the underwear advertisements on the walls.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6267a414	type	Stamp of Rejection
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6267a414	comment	Stamp of Rejection: "Permission Refused" stamp is one of the most common and valuable tools the Whitehall bureaucrats use, and often forms are automatically rejected and sent back without even reading them. In fact, "Permission Granted" is stated in one episode to be one of the rarest stamps in existence.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_62b65869	type	And I'm the Queen of Sheba
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_62b65869	comment	And I'm the Queen of Sheba: As General Assistance Department is trying to clear room in Hyde Park for a statue of a deceased industrialist, a hassle with a crazy speaker erupts and gets the attention of a park guard. When Lennox-Brown claims that they are working for the Department of the Environment, the guard responds by quipping that he's the archbishop of Manchester, which Lamb naturally assumes to be true.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Hamilton-Jones pulls this off when he attempts to halt the redecoration of the Ministry that's endangering the pigeon nest at the window ledge. He has April call the Traffic Director of Scotland Yard and claims to be the "Duke of Bridlington" from the Office of State Occasions. He then claims that the Sultan of Yuwait is planning on a state visit tomorrow which includes a trip to the House of Commons and that the Director must have obviously heard about it unless he was lazy at his job. Traffic Director, being the slacker that all public servants in the show are, naturally swallows the claim and HJ manages to get Scotland Yard to halt all traffic near Whitehall for a couple of days, allowing the pigeon chicks time to learn how to fly.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_64b303c0	type	Drunk with Power
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_64b303c0	comment	Drunk with Power: When Sir Gregory decides to go on an extended weekend he leaves Mr. Lamb in charge of a lot of minor jobs that have to be done. Lamb, however, misunderstands his instructions and thinks Sir Gregory is retiring and making him the new Permanent undersecretary. He immediately turns into a ruthless tyrant forcing all staff of the General Assistance Department to work 10+ hours a day and insults pretty much everyone within the Ministry within a few days.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6566a884	type	My God, You Are Serious!
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6566a884	comment	My God, You Are Serious!: When Sir Gregory is first reluctantly informed by Lennox-Brown that the surplus of 75 pence has somehow ballooned into 800 000 pounds, he immediately starts laughing and congratulates LB on his amazing sense of humor. It's only after Lennox-Brown gives him the receipt that he realizes that it's true, and the revelation causes him to have an episode.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: The series in total had 159 episodes made during over fifteen years, with individual series' episode count ranging everywhere from 5th series' six episodes to 6th and 14th series' fourteen episodes.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6a85e9e1	type	Dub-Induced Plot Hole
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6a85e9e1	comment	Dub-Induced Plot Hole: Apparently the translator Kersti Juva forgot the Dub Species Change while translating a Call-Back in a later episode; because of this, a character references the time the duo had a seal in their office, something that never happened during the Finnish series. Inverted in the Finnish version of "The Finger of Suspicion" which includes an explanation to where exactly the discrepancy in the Ministry's funds came from: Sir Calvin forgot that British money had been decimalized, and was still using the old counting system.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6c8ce91f	type	Insult to Rocks
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6c8ce91f	comment	Insult to Rocks: In one of the episodes written exclusively for YLE Mildred's boyfriend compares Lamb's mind to a sieve. Mildred protests, as something actually sometimes stays in a sieve.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6e1b226c	type	Speak Friend and Enter
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6e1b226c	comment	Speak Friend and Enter: In the episode "Cheesed Off" offices are faced with an infestation of mice. Lennox-Brown suggests using high-tech methods to get rid of them such as laser beams or ultrasonics. Mildred suggests a cat.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6e287af	type	Janitor Impersonation Infiltration
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6e287af	comment	Janitor Impersonation Infiltration: In order to get into the American Embassy to retrieve a vital document that was accidentally left in an old Ministry's desk that was sold onwards, Lennox-Brown and Lamb disguise themselves as charladies. It doesn't work for long since the embassy member sees through their charade fairly quickly and the duo have to run for their lives across the London rooftops.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: There were three, Series 1's "The Magic Carpet" (lost but fortunately re-recorded in Series 14 as "The Christmas Spirit"), a special episode "A Present For Norman" (that is completely lost) aired between the first two series and Series 3's "The Post Office Pantomime".
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6f2bab6e	type	Eating Pet Food
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_6f2bab6e	comment	Eating Pet Food: Whenever One and Two are hiding an animal in the office from Sir Gregory, Mr. Lamb is sometimes forced to eat the animal's food to fool Sir Gregory into thinking it's his breakfast/medicine.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_71098e78	type	Hammer and Sickle Removed for Your Protection
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_71098e78	comment	Hammer and Sickle Removed for Your Protection: Some of the episodes of the Finnish version recorded in the '80s remove the references to the USSR and the Russians, replacing them with simply "the other one" or "country of unfriendly relations", or not explicitly naming their nationalities.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: During an episode of the tv program Panorama dedicated entirely to the Civil Service Sir Gregory is being interviewed on Ministry's Hospitality budgets. However, due to a mistake caused by the General Assistance Department, the Interviewer Robin Gay thinks he is interviewing Sir Gregory about sex in the civil service. The result is as hilarious as you think:
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_723606c4	type	Adaptational Early Appearance
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_723606c4	comment	Adaptational Early Appearance: Since the Finnish version ended up adapting the episodes completely out of order thanks to its Status Quo Is God nature, Daphne Bentwater (who debuted in Series 9), Lord Stilton (who debuted in Series 6) and Mr. Crawley/Mr. Wilkins (who debuted in Series 9 and 12, respectively) all ended up appearing within the first 30~ episodes.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: After losing 600 000 pound win on the football pools, Mr. Lamb repeatedly attempts to hang himself on his braces, naturally failing because they're too elastic.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_7484b619	type	Herr Doktor
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_7484b619	comment	Herr Doktor: Ministry's psychiatrist is a man called Dr. Schwein who speaks with a heavy German accent.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_778076f9	type	Upside-Down Blueprints
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_778076f9	comment	Upside-Down Blueprints: Invoked by Mr. Lamb in one episode. After transport people return the plans for a potential flyover wanting instead an underpass, Lamb orders Mildred to send the plans back turned upside down.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Despite being Adapted Out, April Adams appears in one Finnish episode. Oddly enough, said episode (The War with the Isle of Wight) ended up being one of the last scripts of the original BBC run to be translated into Finnish, a weird time to bring back a previously unheard character. Lennox-Brown simply appears in the Finnish dub without much fanfare, and characters treat him like he's always been there.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Not that the series had any real overarching storylines, but the Finnish dub has a brief plotline that permanently replaced Sir Gregory with Sir Clive, due to Sir Gregory's voice actor YrjÃ¶ JÃ¤rvinen retiring. This is especially noticeable as the change in leadership is openly acknowledged In-Universe with characters still referencing Sir Gregory and comparing him with his replacement, while the earlier change from Hamilton-Jones to Lennox-Brown wasn't addressed at all.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_7bfa91bf	type	Failure Gambit
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_7bfa91bf	comment	Failure Gambit: In "Confidence Trick", Lord Stilton and Sir Gregory send Lamb, Lennox-Brown, and Mildred to Paris' international conference to buy pieces of Venus in hopes that they'll screw up and end up with nothing (They can't afford to have landowning-rights on Venus you see). In this case, it fails since the trio are so incompetent that they end up getting the whole planet, not to mention every other nation had the same idea.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: Every episode opens with the narrator explaining something about Ministry and/or its workers.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_7fff034b	type	Kent Brockman News
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_7fff034b	comment	Kent Brockman News: The Newsreader John Curle/Bryan Martin, who often delivers the news of the problems One and Two's bungling has caused, always with complete serenity no matter how insane they are. There's also Forth Robinson, a Welsh reporter who often ends up witnessing the chaos the General Assistance Department causes first-hand.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_8084141a	type	Out-of-Context Eavesdropping
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_8084141a	comment	Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: See Mistaken for Dying above. After Lennox-Brown and Lamb have an argument over the below-mentioned Stilton cheese purchase, he and Mr. Crawley hear Lennox-Brown and Mildred discussing killing a mouse that pests the office, which they interpret as Lennox-Brown and Mildred trying to kill Lamb.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_808cbaeb	comment	Sir Clive (Replaces Sir Gregory in the Finnish version following actor YrjÃ¶ JÃ¤rvinen's retirement) differs from his predecessor by his voice, he has an affair with a different secretary, and has a poodle. Unlike the previous examples, he's however clearly a different character in-universe, becoming the new Permanent Under-Secretary after Sir Gregory is Kicked Upstairs off-screen.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_855154d5	type	Prank Call
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_855154d5	comment	Prank Call: After Lamb (thinks he) has been made the Permanent Under-Secretary, he spends most of his time making prank calls all across the ministry insulting and mocking pretty much everyone.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_87e661e8	type	Absurdly Spacious Sewer
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_87e661e8	comment	Absurdly Spacious Sewer: In "Night We Crept into the Crypt" Lennox-Brown and Lamb have to get to the House of Commons while it's being surrounded by the police and military, and they do it by traveling through a sewer which is big enough to house them both.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: Lord Stilton sometimes plays this role to Sir Gregory.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_88fa35e0	comment	Walking Techbane: If there's a way to get a machine malfunctioning or make an error while using it, Mr. Lamb can and will do it. This even gets him noticed by the Technology Insitute in one episode, as they (unsuccessfully) try to make him a test user for their newest machinery.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_8b49514e	type	Magical Computer
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_8b49514e	comment	Magical Computer: In the episode "The Trouble with Cecil" a computer named CECIL (Central Electronic Computer Information-Liaison) can talk and solve any logical problem, accurately predicting eight draws on the football pools.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_8bbf7b51	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_8bbf7b51	comment	Hamilton-Jones's/Lennox-Brown's character varies a bit between episodes. For example, his fondness of Lamb can range from panicking after mistaking Lamb's antics for a suicide attempt, to being onboard with Sir Gregory's plan to let Lamb perform a rocket-launching ceremony after he received death threats towards whomever was performing it. In addition, while they are usually said to be Happily Married to their respective wives, sometimes they are more than happy to flirt with other women.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_8bc4a55d	type	Went to the Great X in the Sky
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_8bc4a55d	comment	Went to the Great X in the Sky: Dying is often used with a euphemism of "Going to the Great Ministry in the Sky."
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_8c30ad0	type	The Television Talks Back
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_8c30ad0	comment	The Television Talks Back: When listening to a horse race on the radio all of a sudden the speaker informs that horse My Wotsit (which everyone thought was going to lose) starts to move up. Lamb says that they said that My Wotsit didn't have a chance, and the speaker replies that he was wrong in his earlier statement about My Wotsit's chances.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_8c55e307	type	Ultimate Job Security
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_8c55e307	comment	Ultimate Job Security: Civil servants simply cannot be fired no matter what. When Lamb temporarily resigns in one episode Sir Gregory even merrily states that he has tried several times to find a way with no success. The worst punishment Ministry Men can get is to be reassigned into the archives of the Outer Hebrides.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_8f10ec79	type	Weather-Control Machine
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_8f10ec79	comment	Weather-Control Machine: One is the center of the episode "The Man Who Made it Rain". Somewhat of a deconstruction, since rapidly and suddenly changing the climate in a small area ends up having much larger consequences elsewhere, with the problems growing worse and worse each time the machine is used to fix the previous problems.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_91495e52	type	Heads or Tails?
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_91495e52	comment	Heads or Tails?: The "old and traditional way" to make difficult decisions at the General Assistance Department is to toss a coin over it.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_927ccbc4	type	Accidental Art
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_927ccbc4	comment	Accidental Art: Mr. Lamb's bicycle apparently was run over by a truck, and after leaving it in the Ministry of Art's lobby it had been displayed the next day as modern art.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_92f80196	type	The Inspector Is Coming
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_92f80196	comment	The Inspector Is Coming: The plotline of multiple episodes, with the General Assistance Department always desperately attempting to make it look like they're doing a lot of work instead of slacking all day.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_9432b844	type	Best Out of Infinity
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_9432b844	comment	Best Out of Infinity: While the supercomputer CECIL is being installed on the General Assistance Department One and Two have ended up in a series of chess matches against the Foreign Office, with the Foreign Office having won the first 60 games. During the episode, the Foreign Office wins the 61st game, but at the end of the episode CECIL manages to defeat them 10 times in a row.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Sir Gregory can sometimes be rather friendly when things go well, but it's always just a mask of his loathing of One and Two, and he'll make a 180-degree turn once things start to go downhill.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: When something goes wrong, One will sometimes blame Two for what has happened, even when he is just as (or even solely) responsible.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_97c8b5b0	type	Tyop on the Cover
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_97c8b5b0	comment	Tyop on the Cover: invokedMildred is bound to make typos, leading to this:
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_98aaf983	type	Comically Small Bribe
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_98aaf983	comment	Comically Small Bribe: When discussing how the Postman refused to give them back the letter they accidentally send to the wrong person, Two credits the Postman's honesty, as he threw One's five-pence bribe to the gutter.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_99dfd4fc	type	Nothing Is the Same Anymore
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_99dfd4fc	comment	Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Very downplayed; The Finnish dub went out of its way and wrote a brief plotline that permanently replaces Sir Gregory with Sir Clive, and the change in leadership is openly discussed In-Universe (unlike the quite sudden change from Hamilton-Jones to Lennox-Brown). That said, his replacement is still pretty much the same character with minor changes, so while there is a change to the status quo it doesn't affect that much.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: The majority of the episodes "A Back-dated Problem" and "The Fastest Brolly in the West" are spent on the two pairs of One and Two's ancestors, who worked on the General Assistance Department during the Elizabethan era and the Wild West era, respectively.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_9ecbcb36	type	ComicallySerious
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_9ecbcb36	comment	Comically Serious: The newsreader Bryan Martin will report the most ridiculous things caused by One and Two's bunglings with utter seriousness.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: "The Great Trouser Troubles" has a lot of fun with this with China's ambassador Hu Flang.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_a22ae9a5	type	Hat Damage
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_a22ae9a5	comment	Hat Damage: Something happening to bowler hats is a bit of a Running Gag in the show.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_a448674	type	Gratuitous Latin
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_a448674	comment	Gratuitous Latin: The pen name Lennox-Brown uses when writing to The Times' letter column is "Pro Bono Publico", meaning "for the public good".
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: Episode "Bare Necessities" has One and Two stripping down in order to negotiate with the owner of a Nudist colony about buying the land, but since they do it in the night they keep going into the wrong houses in the dark.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_aa9fcfed	type	Embarrassing Middle Name
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_aa9fcfed	comment	Embarrassing Middle Name: Mr. Lamb has several, including Valentino, Cantebury, and Hieronymous.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ac8cc568	type	Acronym Confusion
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ac8cc568	comment	Acronym Confusion: When being interrogated by an FBI agent, Lennox-Brown assumes he is from Federal British Industries.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: At one point Sir Gregory, thinking he's in grave danger in an inoperable underwater submarine, calls Lennox-Brown "Frederik." In the Finnish version, he calls him (in this case Hamilton Jones) "Attila."note As mentioned below, Hamilton Jones' first name in the Finnish version is Hannibal. Happens quite often to Sir Gregory. Whenever One and Two are speaking about him in an insulting manner, he naturally storms into the office moments later and is greeted with a said insult: for example, as Lennox-Brown has just called Sir Gregory "a proper little Hitler", he accidentally greets him as Sir Adolf.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: This ends up being what saves the day in "Rebel in Regents Park". While yes, the gardener does legally own the island and has every right to establish his own country inside its borders, the lake the island is on belongs to England. If the water were to rise enough to cover the island, the latter would become part of the lake.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: After ending up with a surplus of 75 pence, Sir Gregory demands that it must be lost or else there will be budget cuts. General Assistance Department's attempt at getting rid of it ends up with the surplus of 800 000 000 pounds.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_b52a20be	type	Take Five
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_b52a20be	comment	Take Five: When One and Two are about to have a heated argument, One usually tells Mildred to answer the telephone in the outer office, even though it's never actually ringing.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_b64ea263	type	Westminster Chimes
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_b64ea263	comment	Westminster Chimes: As mentioned in Eiffel Tower Effect, the intro to every episode begins with the chime of Big Ben.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_b7209ae1	type	Beef Bandage
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_b7209ae1	comment	Beef Bandage: After receiving a beating from Sir Gregory, Mr. Lamb is dabbing his eye with a frozen rissole, since he couldn't afford a raw steak.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ba236071	comment	At one point Sir Gregory, thinking he's in grave danger in an inoperable underwater submarine, calls Lennox-Brown "Frederik." In the Finnish version, he calls him (in this case Hamilton Jones) "Attila."note As mentioned below, Hamilton Jones' first name in the Finnish version is Hannibal.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_baee5ffa	type	Circular Reasoning
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_baee5ffa	comment	Circular Reasoning: How does Lamb remember to read the notes on the blotter? He has a notebook in which he writes notes to look a the blotter. How does he remember to look at the notebook? He has a reminder on the blotter.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: If Sir Gregory thinks One and/or Two are in mortal danger, he'll often get very worried... since their deaths might end up hurting his chances of getting a promotion.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_bc74ef27	comment	A few episodes, instead of Sir Gregory, feature a similar character named Sir Hector Gunn, who hates people making jokes about his name. The Finnish version just changes him to Sir Gregory.BecauseIn a case of translation luck, "pitkin" means "along" in Finnish.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_bcfc7495	type	Cowboy Episode
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_bcfc7495	comment	Cowboy Episode: "Fastest Brolly in the West", which focuses on Lennox Brown's and Lamb's great-grandparents, who are traveling across the West in 1870 and end up becoming sheriffs tasked to protect a small town after being Mistaken for Badass. In the end, they're driven away by the townsfolk who prefer the approaching criminals to their petty bureaucracy and regulations.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_bd1faab9	type	Accidental Hero
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_bd1faab9	comment	Accidental Hero: During the arrest of a couple of shop owners in Hackney for ridiculously small irregularities in their products that go against the norms set out by the government, General Assistance Department accidentally blows the cover of two Soviet spies, allowing MI5 to catch them.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_bd7d0416	type	Beleaguered Bureaucrat
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_bd7d0416	comment	Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Mildred becomes one when she's promoted from secretary to civil servant in "I Want My Mummy". As an acting junior executive, she doesn't have immunity yet and everyone else dumps their work on her, and because of the workload she ends up mixing the British Museum's Egypt exhibition and Mr. Crawley's order for traffic warden uniforms together, as well as accidentally sending the exhibition's mummy to a hotel in Paris.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: America is visited on several episodes, and it's always New York, apart from one Wild West Whole Episode Flashback.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Hamilton-Jones/Lennox-Brown is happily married to a loving wife.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c0b6ded	type	Lie Back and Think of England
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c0b6ded	comment	Lie Back and Think of England: Lennox-Brown pretty much says this to Mr. Lamb at the end of the episode "Claws" when he is forced to share cage with a horny female panda while in a panda-costume in order to please the Chinese government.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c0bfb059	type	Against My Religion
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c0bfb059	comment	Against My Religion: Mr. Crawley got himself excused from Ministry's flu vaccination since he is a member of Portsmouth's Puritans who are against injections, though Lennox-Brown mockingly calls him a "devout coward."
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c1d5b78	type	Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c1d5b78	comment	Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: In the episode "Getting it Taped" Mr. Lamb appears in an amateur play:
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c2d5b652	type	Playing Both Sides
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c2d5b652	comment	Playing Both Sides: Mr. Lamb accidentally pulls this off in "Bringing the House Down" by first helping Mildred fight against City Council's attempt to re-house Mildred's family (since they want to clear the entire street and build a new office building in its place) and then helping the City Council to force a stubborn family to leave. He never makes the connection because of his focus on cleaning the department office as well as general idiocy.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: April Adams, General Assistance Department's second secretary, disappeared without a word after the first series, and was replaced by Mr. Crawley/Wilkins and other characters in the 1980 re-recordings and the Finnish translations. Hamilton-Jones is written out of the series and replaced with Lennox-Brown, who's essentially the same character. In the Finnish dub, this was sadly necessary due to Hamilton-Jones' actor passing away.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c57f0d4f	type	Natural Disaster Cascade
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c57f0d4f	comment	Natural Disaster Cascade: The cast using a Weather-Control Machine to alter the weather to their benefit in certain areas goes awry by causing the weather to detrimentally change in other places, and their attempts to rectify the problem make it continuously worse.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Mr. Lamb asked his landlady to charge less rent for the benefit of both of them. When Mildred questions how it brings help to her, Lamb says that in weeks he can't pay she loses less money. According to Sir Gregory, it is said that one person in four is mentally unstable. Therefore if you're on the bus and the nearest three people look sane, it must be you.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c6a9c7bd	type	Sea Mine
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c6a9c7bd	comment	Sea Mine: The episode "The Thing on the Beach" revolves around a sea mine on an English beach resort that Mr. Lamb is forced to defuse. It turns out to be a mine-shaped collecting box.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "The Man Who Made it Rain" has this exchange: In "A Motley Crew" General Assistance Department is set to inspect an oil rig. As Sir Gregory tells, all oil rigs have names, there's the Penelope rig, there's the Veronica rig, and GAD is set to go on the Diana rig.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Mr. Lamb is often described by the narrator as "an eager young executive". In the show proper, he is just as lazy as every other civil servant of the Ministry.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The Christmas Episode "The Christmas Spirit" ends this way; the episode features One upsetting Father Christmas and the main duo traveling to Christmas Land and escaping eventually with a red carpet. The episode ends with Two awakening One from a sleep, but the carpet has appeared in Two's room...
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ce1d78bc	type	Foreign Queasine
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ce1d78bc	comment	Foreign Queasine: In the episode "Getting the Bird" Lamb attempts to import a pelican from the attachÃ© of a Banana Republic, who suggests exporting his country's national delicacy to Britain as part of the deal. Later, back at the office...
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ceabe589	type	Incoming Ham
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ceabe589	comment	Incoming Ham: Whenever Sir Gregory enters the office, he makes his arrival clear to everyone.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_d2e4289b	type	Calling Me a Logarithm
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_d2e4289b	comment	Calling Me a Logarithm: When assessing Mr. Lamb, Ministry's psychiatrist Dr. Schwein states that he has many latent aptitudes and unplunged propensities. Lamb immediately assumes that Schwein is insulting him, and Lennox-Brown has to tell him that Schwein is complimenting him.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: One and Two are masters of this when it comes to explaining their huge screw-ups as official "government experiments" etc.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_d4fbe5c4	type	Delegation Relay
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_d4fbe5c4	comment	Delegation Relay: After a fiery argument over the quality of Two's recent play for the Ministry's amateur theater, he and One refuse to talk to each other and try to use Mildred as a relay. She, however, isn't having any of it and quickly forces them to make an agreement.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_d69956f8	type	Two Rights Make a Wrong
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_d69956f8	comment	Two Rights Make a Wrong: As two Mayors of different London boroughs are tied into a fierce argument over fluoridation of a shared reservoir, Hamilton-Jones decides to make one of them change their mind on the matter. Unfortunately, Lamb, thinking HJ isn't going to do anything about it, does the same to the other mayor, which takes the whole debate back to its starting point.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: This happens to Sir Gregory in the Finnish run after his actor YrjÃ¶ JÃ¤rvinen retired from acting in 2001. He ends up spending too much government money, and as a result, gets sent to the House of Lords.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_d7f6f486	type	The Other Darrin
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_d7f6f486	comment	Hamilton-Jones and Lennox-Brown are practically the same characters with just different names and voice actors. It almost crosses over to The Other Darrin since the change is never acknowledged In-Universe and the narrative pretty much treats them as a single character.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_d9563969	type	Failed Attempt at Drama
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_d9563969	comment	Failed Attempt at Drama: While testing the new armored van for the Ministry, Mr. Lennox-Brown tries to sound serious:
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_da881108	type	Irish Explosives Expert
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_da881108	comment	Irish Explosives Expert: A non-violent example shows up in the episode "A Slight Case of Demolition" with O'haggoti's Demolition Company Ltd., an Irish demolition company that manages to knock down the Potters Green public convenience very efficiently in a single weekend. Too bad Lamb accidentally gave them the address of Sir Gregory's new house instead of the toilet...
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: If the General Assistance Department has made an error, Mr. Lamb is always the one primarily responsible, since according to Lennox-Brown as the junior executive it's his job to take the blame.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Daphne Bentwater calls Sir Gregory "bunny". Sir Gregory in turn calls her "lotus blossom".
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_de32093	type	Injection Plot
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_de32093	comment	Injection Plot: "Don't Let Them Needle You" revolves around flu vaccination that's going to be injected into all civil servants. Both Lennox-Brown and Lamb try in vain as hard as possible to avoid the shot, and Hilarity Ensues: in the hassle, a new truth drug meant to clear the minds of a couple of British astronauts gets mixed up with the vaccine, and as a result, all the staff in Whitehall begin to tell the truth.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Sir Gregory does not like Lady Pitkin at all and tries to avoid her as much as possible, and the feeling is mostly mutual from her side.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_dfc36a26	type	Dashingly Dapper Derby
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_dfc36a26	comment	Dashingly Dapper Derby: All civil servants wear nice, black bowler hats.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: Mr. Lamb is prone to these.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e2a622a7	type	Beleaguered Boss
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e2a622a7	comment	Beleaguered Boss: As much as he's a Bad Boss, all of Sir Gregory's subordinates are complete morons and he is often on the verge of a breakdown.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: The Finnish version has a lot of these. Most notably from Sir Gregory to Sir Henry, Roland to Hannibal, and Lamb to Lamm. In addition, all but 17 of the 120 episodes originally featuring Lennox-Brown were aired with Hamilton-Jones in his place (and three episodes vice versa), and the change was only made due due to the actor Kauko Helovirta's death in 1997.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e3585b3d	type	No Party Given
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e3585b3d	comment	No Party Given: The current ruling party of the House of Commons is never specified in the show, and "the opposition" is always referred to as just that. That being said, the Prime Minister is clearly a caricature of Wilson in the original BBC run, and in the episodes of the Finnish run recorded in the 80's she's clearly a caricature of Thatcher.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e42e91b4	type	Godwin's Law
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e42e91b4	comment	Happens quite often to Sir Gregory. Whenever One and Two are speaking about him in an insulting manner, he naturally storms into the office moments later and is greeted with a said insult: for example, as Lennox-Brown has just called Sir Gregory "a proper little Hitler", he accidentally greets him as Sir Adolf.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e4616e62	type	Not so Dire
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e4616e62	comment	Not so Dire: One episode opens with Hamilton-Jones and Lamb talking about an alarming national catastrophe that's threatening the entire nation's pride. Then we find out they're talking about losing a cricket match to Australia.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e4965307	comment	Series 9, 10, 11, and 14 feature Mr. Crawley, an odd man from the neighboring office that has many quirks. In Series 12 and 13 he is absent and is replaced by Mr. Wilkins, an odd man from the neighboring office with many quirks. The Finnish version simply makes them the same character.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e4ba33fc	comment	Disaster Dominoes: "A Sticky Business" features an epic one, where a series of misunderstandings and mishaps starting with a broken teacup end with the whole London Underground being filled with cold water.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Ministry's janitor Mrs. Banting is not a charwoman, she's a hygiene operative.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Mr. Lamb does this often when he has something to hide.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ea5c413d	type	Biting-the-Hand Humor
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ea5c413d	comment	Biting-the-Hand Humor: The episode "Not on your Telly" spends a few bits making fun of the BBC and its inner workings, with the staff being incompetent enough not to realize that they've been given the wrong documents and accidentally raising the tv license to 850Â£/month.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ec8290b6	type	Snap Back
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ec8290b6	comment	Snap Back: Doesn't quite enter Negative Continuity as some events are referenced in later episodes, but no matter what our "heroes" manage to screw up, everything is always back to normal by the next episode.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ec9d3eb7	type	Explosive Stupidity
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ec9d3eb7	comment	Explosive Stupidity: At one point One and Two have to get to the House of Parliament through the sewers because the package Mr. Lamb left there during their inspection has been mistaken for a bomb and the area is sealed by police and military. After snatching the package and attempting to leave Lennox-Brown drops the flashlight in water, and Lamb lights up a match to help, not realizing it'll lit the flammable gasses of the sewers.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_eda30d58	type	0% Approval Rating
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_eda30d58	comment	0% Approval Rating: Pretty much none of the civil servants in the Ministry like Sir Gregory. As Lamb puts it, "It's not he hasn't got friends it's just that they all hate him."
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_eda30d58	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ef7cae6f	type	Ditzy Secretary
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_ef7cae6f	comment	Ditzy Secretary: Mildred is not the brightest secretary in the Ministry, to say the least. Daphne Bentwater even more so when she temporarily becomes General Assistance Department's secretary. When she attempts to write in shorthand a few-sentence notice Lennox-Brown dictates in ten seconds, she only manages to get down "Dear sir".
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: Lennox-Brown's car is this.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_f432c6bf	type	Glad I Thought of It
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_f432c6bf	comment	Glad I Thought of It: Pretty much every higher-up will take their employees' and subordinates' good ideas and claim credit for them, only to blame them if it goes wrong.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Hamilton-Jones and Lennox-Brown are practically the same characters with just different names and voice actors. It almost crosses over to The Other Darrin since the change is never acknowledged In-Universe and the narrative pretty much treats them as a single character. Series 9, 10, 11, and 14 feature Mr. Crawley, an odd man from the neighboring office that has many quirks. In Series 12 and 13 he is absent and is replaced by Mr. Wilkins, an odd man from the neighboring office with many quirks. The Finnish version simply makes them the same character. Sir Clive (Replaces Sir Gregory in the Finnish version following actor YrjÃ¶ JÃ¤rvinen's retirement) differs from his predecessor by his voice, he has an affair with a different secretary, and has a poodle. Unlike the previous examples, he's however clearly a different character in-universe, becoming the new Permanent Under-Secretary after Sir Gregory is Kicked Upstairs off-screen. A few episodes, instead of Sir Gregory, feature a similar character named Sir Hector Gunn, who hates people making jokes about his name. The Finnish version just changes him to Sir Gregory.BecauseIn a case of translation luck, "pitkin" means "along" in Finnish.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_f7a458c3	type	Dartboard of Hate
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_f7a458c3	comment	Dartboard of Hate: Throwing darts at a picture of Sir Gregory is sometimes referenced as a common pastime.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: Hilariously inverted in "Something About a Soldier": General Assistance Department finds out that the demobilization order of Burgenhead Light Infantry was accidentally lost under the file cabinet in 1945, and that 20+ years later the troops, located deep in Welsh wilderness and having their communications cut off, are still under the belief that the Second World War is going on and that a German invasion might be imminent. When the Bavarian Birdwatching Society arrives from the east at their stations the Major of the unit immediately assumes that rest of Britain has been overrun and tries to assault the German tourists.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_fb17af62	type	Rhymes on a Dime
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_fb17af62	comment	Rhymes on a Dime: Mildred has a habit of saying things such as "Raise a cheer, tea is here!"
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: After Lamb scolds Mildred over the typos in a recent memo, this exchange occurs:
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Depending on the Writer: Or episode, since Edward Taylor wrote all of them. Hamilton-Jones's/Lennox-Brown's character varies a bit between episodes. For example, his fondness of Lamb can range from panicking after mistaking Lamb's antics for a suicide attempt, to being onboard with Sir Gregory's plan to let Lamb perform a rocket-launching ceremony after he received death threats towards whomever was performing it. In addition, while they are usually said to be Happily Married to their respective wives, sometimes they are more than happy to flirt with other women. How self-serving and/or corrupt Lord Stilton is also varies, as sometimes he's on board with Sir Gregory's morally questionable antics and sometimes he finds them appalling. Due to the fact that the Finnish version merged the characters of Mr. Crawley and Mr. Wilkins into one, the resulting version of Mr. Wilkins ends up having slightly inconsistent characterization, sometimes having his Verbal Tic and sometimes not.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: After a christmas pudding that Lamb accidentally placed in Big Ben's leaver is removed from the machinery, Lennox-Brown tosses it out of the clock tower's window and dismisses Lamb's worries that it might've hit someone. Later on during a news broadcast, the newsreader mentions that the Prime Minister was hit in the head by a christmas pudding near the House of Commons.
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Accidental Art / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Accidental Hero / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Accidental Misnaming / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Acid Reflux Nightmare / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Acronym Confusion / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Adaptation Expansion / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Affectionate Nickname / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Against My Religion / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	All Psychology Is Freudian / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Always a Bigger Fish / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Analogy Backfire / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	And I'm the Queen of Sheba / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Assumed Win / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Attractive Bent-Gender / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Awful Wedded Life / int_9ff7441c
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Bad Liar / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Bavarian Fire Drill / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Beef Bandage / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Beleaguered Bureaucrat / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Best Out of Infinity / int_9ff7441c
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Christmas Episode / int_9ff7441c
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Community-Threatening Construction / int_9ff7441c
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Dashingly Dapper Derby / int_9ff7441c
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Irish Explosives Expert / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Janitor Impersonation Infiltration / int_9ff7441c
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Mistaken for Spies / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Moustache de Plume / int_9ff7441c
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Naked People Are Funny / int_9ff7441c
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	No Party Given / int_9ff7441c
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Not so Dire / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_9ff7441c
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	The Inspector Is Coming / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	The Main Characters Do Everything / int_9ff7441c
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	The Vicar / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Thrifty Scot / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	To Make a Long Story Short / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Tranquil Fury / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Truth Serums / int_9ff7441c
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The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Tyop on the Cover / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Ultimate Job Security / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Unintentionally Sympathetic / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Upside-Down Blueprints / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Verbal Tic / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Walking Techbane / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Weather-Control Machine / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Went to the Great X in the Sky / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Westminster Chimes / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Whole Episode Flashback / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Who's on First? / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Work Com / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Your Tomcat Is Pregnant / int_9ff7441c
The Men from the Ministry (Radio)	hasFeature	Suspiciously Similar Substitute / int_9ff7441c

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