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As Time Goes By

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As Time Goes By	comment	As Time Goes By follows the somewhat unusual love story of Jean (Judi Dench) and Lionel (Geoffrey Palmer), two former lovers who reunite unexpectedly thirty-eight years after their romance during The Korean War. In the opening episode, Lionel has divorced his wife and returned to England from a coffee plantation in Kenya and is seeking a secretary to help with his autobiography My Life in Kenya. He requests one from the "Type for You" secretarial agency, not realizing that it is run by his old flame Jean, who by this time is widowed and has a grown daughter, Judith (Moira Brooker). After Lionel asks Judith on a date and the two main characters finally meet, Lionel and Jean both realize the other's identity. We find out that their relationship ended not from any loss of affection, but as the result of the post office losing a letter that Lionel had sent to Jean. Although they part on good terms never intending to meet again because they feel it is simply too late and that they are both too old for that sort of thing, they are thrown back together by circumstances.Lionel and Jean's romance gets off to a slow start, with each being the object of youthful affection during the first series, he from her daughter Judith and she from his wealthy and flamboyant publisher Alistair (Philip Bretherton). At the conclusion of the first series, Lionel and Jean share their first kiss (again). By series three — after some hilarious miscommunications — Lionel has moved into Jean's house, and they finally marry in series four. Along the way, Lionel writes a mini-series about their romance for American television which fails spectacularly (not through any fault of his own), Jean opens a second branch of her secretarial agency and eventually retires, and the two acquire a country house from Lionel's somewhat unconventional father.The series also focuses on the adventures of Judith, Jean's daughter, Sandy (Jenny Funnell), one of Jean's employees who eventually comes to live with them, and Alistair, Lionel's publisher. The three "young people", as they are sometimes called, provide much consternation for Jean, who tries more than once to play matchmaker, and much hilarity for the audience. Judith and Alistair, after being on and off for nine years, get married in the final series of the show. Sandy, who moves in with the Hardcastle/Pargetter clan after a bad break-up, starts dating a policeman named Harry (David Michaels, later Daniel Ryan), whom she eventually accompanies to Canada.Adding extra sparkle to the show are Lionel's father and stepmother Rocky (Frank Middlemass) and Madge (Joan Sims), who though in their '80s remain young at heart and are firmly determined to act less than their age, and their housekeeper Mrs. Bale (Janet Henfrey), a Mrs. Danvers-esque figure who is somewhat obsessed with the weather in the English Channel and gives unusually precise times for when she will be serving meals.Jean's somewhat overbearing sister-in-law from her first marriage Penny (Moyra Fraser) and Penny's rather dim husband Stephen (Paul Chapman) are also recurring characters.The series lasted from January, 1992 to December, 2005. It consists of nine seasons of 30 minute episodes and two reunion specials. Came twenty-ninth in Britains Best Sitcom.
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As Time Goes By / int_14180452	type	Instantly Proven Wrong
As Time Goes By / int_14180452	comment	Instantly Proven Wrong: The dialogue version happens when Lionel's ex-wife visits. Lionel finishes reassuring Jean that she's not competing with anything because Margaret was so drab and unglamorous. Then Margaret turns up in a beautifully tailored outfit, expensively-styled hair, and a few dozen diamonds on her hands, neck, and ears.
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As Time Goes By / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
As Time Goes By / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: After discovering that Mrs Flack is "tidying" the house unasked-for, Lionel declares that he's definitely going to let her go and that nothing she says or does can make him go soft... then she turns up on crutches.
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As Time Goes By / int_1618ca18	type	Picnic Episode
As Time Goes By / int_1618ca18	comment	Picnic Episode: "The Picnic."
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As Time Goes By / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
As Time Goes By / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Lionel's father likes to "boogie" at the Hard Rock Cafe, frequently travels the world, and is constantly encouraging the gang to "Rock on!"
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As Time Goes By / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
As Time Goes By / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Played with at the beginning of the series. Judy is attracted to Lionel and Alistair is attracted to Jean. While Jean and Lionel are flattered by the attentions of young, attractive people, they also judge each other for inviting them. Much later, Judy briefly dates a bookshop owner who's at least ten years older than Jean and Lionel.
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As Time Goes By / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
As Time Goes By / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: This often applies to Lionel, especially when Jean, Judith, and Sandy are participating in feminine behaviour which is totally mysterious to him. For example, the episode in which Judy and Sandy are each trying to set the other up with Alistair.
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As Time Goes By / int_2c7416bb	type	Acting Unnatural
As Time Goes By / int_2c7416bb	comment	Acting Unnatural: More than once, such as waiting for Judy to bring in her boyfriend or Jean to return from the psychotherapist: they are waiting but they shouldn't look like it!
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As Time Goes By / int_2d047747	type	Gossip Evolution
As Time Goes By / int_2d047747	comment	Gossip Evolution: A staple in the village. After sternly telling off the posh townies, Jean and Lionel return the next weekend to find that Lionel holds the Victoria Cross (Jean invented the "KBM"note Kicked By Mule medal for him during the argument), that Jean put out the barbecue with a fire extinguisher, and that she and Lionel threw six of them over the hedge. Jean eventually "admits" that Lionel only threw two, because a little notoriety never hurts.
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As Time Goes By / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
As Time Goes By / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Alastair is a careless womanizer and is inevitably described as "flash" by everyone who meets him, but he really does care about Lionel, Jean, Judy, and Sandy. Judy notes after the failure of the television series that he actually seems real when he's feeling low.
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As Time Goes By / int_304e16ed	type	Smithical Marriage
As Time Goes By / int_304e16ed	comment	Smithical Marriage: When Lionel and Jean slept together for the first time in their youth, Lionel checked them into the bed & breakfast as Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Smith in the faint hope that the unusual first name would make them more plausible. But they figure the employees probably figured it out from their evident nervousness and lack of luggage.
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As Time Goes By / int_30de7a51	type	Chivalrous Pervert
As Time Goes By / int_30de7a51	comment	Chivalrous Pervert: Alistair flirts with every woman he see and vocally fantasizes about Judy and Sandy being in states of undress (at one point he unrealstically speculates they might try to get information out of him by stripping). Judy cites his constantly pulling other women one of the times that she dumps him. However, he does genuinely care about the family and puts himself out of his way to help them on multiple occasions.
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As Time Goes By / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
As Time Goes By / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: In "An Old Flame", Lionel jokingly asks if the secretive phone call Jean was making was part of a mission for MI-5. At the time, of course, Judi Dench was also playing M, the head of MI-6, in the James Bond films.
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As Time Goes By / int_39798793	type	Ludicrous Precision
As Time Goes By / int_39798793	comment	Ludicrous Precision: A mild example, but Mrs Bale always says lunch will be served in an odd number of minutes, or "X and a half" minutes, in an unnatural way.
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As Time Goes By / int_3a967286	type	Handsome Lech
As Time Goes By / int_3a967286	comment	Handsome Lech: Alistair, during the later seasons. When he's not with Judy he still hits on any woman in his vicinity, but finds much less success.
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As Time Goes By / int_3aa2ac42	type	G-Rated Drug
As Time Goes By / int_3aa2ac42	comment	G-Rated Drug: In series 5, Stephen attempts to give up newspapers after realising he just finds the news depressing, but after getting it down to a few days a week 'I got withdrawal symptoms and now I'm back on two a day'.
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As Time Goes By / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
As Time Goes By / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Lampshaded by Jean in "The Mini-Series". Daisy has to actually deal with this, though, when she realizes Sally Curtis is describing her as "bright and attractive," and assigning her only to male clients.
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As Time Goes By / int_3e662b4e	type	ThePollyAnna
As Time Goes By / int_3e662b4e	comment	The Polly Anna: Alistair is usually enthusiastically positive about everything. On the rare occasions when he isn't, it's treated as a big deal.
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As Time Goes By / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
As Time Goes By / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious (also bit of a Running Gag)
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As Time Goes By / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
As Time Goes By / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: In his first appearance, Stephen is rather more astute than his wife and knows immediately that the "met on the dodgems" story is a lie for Penny's benefit. After that he's switched into friendly but dull and a bit dim, and in a blatant Retcon is astonished at the real story of their meeting (and calls that a fiction).
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As Time Goes By / int_4864031b	type	Informed Attractiveness
As Time Goes By / int_4864031b	comment	Informed Attractiveness: "Ms. Icecubes," the new woman at Type for You is described by all the characters as incredibly beautiful.
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As Time Goes By / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
As Time Goes By / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: When Jean tries to cheer up young newlywed Anne on their Paris holiday, Lionel winds up meeting husband Terry and having to haul him up to their room, drunk. When Jean arrives later she tries to help him clean up when Anne unexpectedly calls—and sees Terry half-dressed behind Jean.
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As Time Goes By / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
As Time Goes By / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: When Lionel is wondering why he clears his throat whenever he turns the page of a book and asks Jean what she thinks it is, she answers "annoying."
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As Time Goes By / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
As Time Goes By / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Rocky and Madge function as the Beta Couple in the beginning of the series, bringing to the forefront Lionel and Jean's concerns that its too late for them to fall in love and get married. Indeed, it is at Rocky and Madge's wedding that the two decide to live together. After Lionel and Jean's marriage, however, Judith and Alistair are the primary Beta Couple, and Jean spends much of her time managing their On-Again, Off-Again Relationship.
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As Time Goes By / int_5fddf001	type	Germans Love David Hasselhoff
As Time Goes By / int_5fddf001	comment	Amusingly, the miniseries gets high ratings in Idaho.
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As Time Goes By / int_611a1a5e	type	Nosy Neighbor
As Time Goes By / int_611a1a5e	comment	Nosy Neighbor: Jean, to an extent, whenever someone new moves in next door. Dies down a bit once she meets them, but her curiosity is usually channeled in other directions.
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As Time Goes By / int_62700738	type	Ear Trumpet
As Time Goes By / int_62700738	comment	Ear Trumpet: Referenced by Lionel in the episode when he's having difficulty hearing: "I'm not having an ear trumpet!"
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As Time Goes By / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
As Time Goes By / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: Margaret's much younger boyfriend Gary, who Lionel and Jean later describe as a "toy boy" without much brain.
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As Time Goes By / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
As Time Goes By / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Of a sort; each series is only about seven episodes long, but there are nine series (ten if you include the series 10 specials), meaning it still met a healthy 69 episode total.
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As Time Goes By / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
As Time Goes By / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: In one episode Alistair's publishing company collapses and he has to cope with living on the same level as the rest of the cast. In the end, he remembers he forgot one of his regional stations and still has a million pounds or so to build back up from (which is essentially treated as a Reset Button).
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As Time Goes By / int_675ff0f1	type	Apologises a Lot
As Time Goes By / int_675ff0f1	comment	Apologises a Lot: In one episode, Sandy dates a guy who is always apologising, sometimes preemptively just in case something goes wrong. She leaves him when she realises this is an aspect of a fetish he has.
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As Time Goes By / int_6a6e2a10	type	Don't Call Me "Sir"
As Time Goes By / int_6a6e2a10	comment	Don't Call Me "Sir": Harry habitually calls Lionel "sir", to Lionel's dismay.
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As Time Goes By / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
As Time Goes By / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Jean's ex-sister-in-law Penny abuses her poor husband Stephen to no end. Because of Penny's incessant talking, Stephen can never get a word in edgewise, except in the episode when Lionel and Jean conspire to keep Stephen talking in order to avoid unpleasant personal inquiries from Penny. Ironically, their marriage is improved when Stephen pretends that he had an affair, but this is counteracted when he admits the truth.
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As Time Goes By / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
As Time Goes By / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: ''My Life In Kenya", Lionel's (dull) book about running a coffee plantation, ends up with a cover featuring him holding a rifle with a beautiful woman hanging onto his leg.
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As Time Goes By / int_74ba7be	type	Mirthless Laughter
As Time Goes By / int_74ba7be	comment	Mirthless Laughter: In one episode, Judy says that Jean seems to know where her life is going. Jean's reply is "You've heard of a hollow laugh? If I knew how to do one, I'd do it."
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As Time Goes By / int_74e2ef76	type	Orphaned Punchline
As Time Goes By / int_74e2ef76	comment	Orphaned Punchline: Lionel's "I got so excited I fell off my perch" joke that several people convince him to omit during his best man speech at his father's wedding. He says it's about a parrot with no legs, but the full joke is never revealed to the audience. Just as well since the humor is in the Chirping Crickets reaction it invariably receives.
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As Time Goes By / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
As Time Goes By / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: A Real Life Writes the Plot example. Joan Sims (Madge) became very ill by the end of the series and was unable to appear in the finale, and passed away before the reunion special. Her absence was explained as going on vacation to places Rocky wasn't interested in.
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As Time Goes By / int_7886d4d0	type	Decemberâ€“December Romance
As Time Goes By / int_7886d4d0	comment	Decemberâ€“December Romance: Madge and Rocky, who had been having an affair for ten years before tying the knot. Lionel and Jean are a lesser version (maybe October or November).
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As Time Goes By / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
As Time Goes By / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: Played with in Lionel. Rocky's house in the country (and Lionel's childhood home) suggests that the family had wealth to some degree - and still does, if the exotic nature of Rocky and Madge's travels is any indication. However, Lionel worries later in the series that he doesn't have a pension fund. He did make money of his own from his coffee plantation in Kenya, but was unable to withdraw any assets from the country.
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As Time Goes By / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
As Time Goes By / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Jean and Lionel deliver a blistering one to the townies after finding that they had their gardener Lol beaten up for getting mad at their off-roading through his garden. Jean ends by threatening to set the dogs on them—no, they don't have any dogs, but for the townies they'll get some.
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As Time Goes By / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
As Time Goes By / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Madge gets a brilliant one: overtaking Alistair on the road to Rocky's house while driving a pink Cadillac with pronghorns mounted on the front and a "Land of Dixie" car horn, and dressed in a cowgirl outfit complete with hat.
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As Time Goes By / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
As Time Goes By / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: During the third series, Lionel learns his father, Rocky, is terminally ill and is not expected to last out the year. He apparently got better, because eleven years later he was still around for the reunion special, and suffering no apparent effects from his illness. Although this could be logically explained if you assume the doctor on the other end of the line is the same doctor who made Mrs. Bale and Lionel feel absolutely rotten in one latter-season episode; if he could make Mrs. Bale feel like a used-up old rag (instead of feeling general exhaustion) and Lionel feel like he's on his last legs (instead of suffering from a minor illness), he could certainly convince Lionel that his father was close to his death bed (instead of going through a major but completely recoverable illness).
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As Time Goes By / int_896459e2	type	Adaptation Decay
As Time Goes By / int_896459e2	comment	Adaptation Decay: The adaptation of Lionel's book is an in-universe example, a parody of Executive Meddling-plagued American adaptations of British works which seemed ubiquitous at the time.
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As Time Goes By / int_8bb316cf	comment	Video Inside, Film Outside: In the first few series.
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As Time Goes By / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: In later seasons, Lionel is the Only Sane Man... except when his hearing starts to become erratic and he resists every sensible and well-meaning entreaty to have his ears checked.
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As Time Goes By / int_97b4c1fd	comment	Cut Himself Shaving: Lol's repeated claims that he "fell over" after getting beaten up by the townies' goons.
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As Time Goes By / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: The "gang" of townies in the country that Jean and Lionel eventually tell off for their rude behavior. And Alistair of course, but at least he's likeable, more or less. (He seems to be rich more by work than by inheritance.)
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As Time Goes By / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In a first-season episode, Lionel sarcastically remarks that his never-delivered letter to Jean is probably in the Imperial War Museum. It is.
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As Time Goes By / int_9d70c212	comment	Sassy Secretary: Sandy is definitely sassy, often gossiping with Judy about Jean's PL (personal life), and offering sage dating advice to her boss. She gets away with it because of her warm heart and skill at her job.
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As Time Goes By / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Mrs Bale, the housekeeper for the country house. She cared for Lionel when he was a boy. She also has aspects of The Jeeves, although her employers are not stupid.
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As Time Goes By / int_9f80e1da	comment	Played with in the first season with Lionel and Jean: Lionel actually dates Judith at the beginning (because that's not creepy at all) and Jean dates Alistair. This is resolved rather early, and Lionel and Judith don't get very far. But this arguably makes the whole series one long game of Pair the Spares.
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As Time Goes By / int_a0797fb3	comment	Stunned Silence: When Alistair starts to suggest that Judy move in with him, she tells him to clear off and then gives him a blistering "The Reason You Suck" Speech about his habit of disappearing from her life for weeks and then expecting her to put everything on hold for his convenience. He's left sitting dumbfounded at the kitchen table.
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As Time Goes By / int_a503c97b	type	Paying It Forward
As Time Goes By / int_a503c97b	comment	Paying It Forward: Lionel's book is published as a favour to Lionel's father, who loaned Alastair's father the money to start the family publishing company.
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As Time Goes By / int_a6a6de9a	type	Humble Hero
As Time Goes By / int_a6a6de9a	comment	Humble Hero: As revealed in the reunion special, when Lionel was in Kenya years ago he took on the financial burdens of supporting the family of a man who worked on his plantation but died, so all the kids could go to school and the mother would be well off. For this, the family calls him "Father." He never once spoke of it to Jean or mentions it in his book My Life in Kenya, despite being sure it must have come up at one point, but when Jean insists he never talked about it, Lionel just accepts he might not have and leaves the matter to rest. He just did what he saw as the right thing to do and did it.
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As Time Goes By / int_a6e57875	comment	Scrabble Babble: (Series 5, Episode 1) During a game of Scrabble, after disagreements over furzes and an attempt to change cottage to pottage, Jean places flug and claims it's Old English.
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As Time Goes By / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Lionel is apt to make sarcastic comments, especially when everything around him (often from the intervention of Jean) is going completely mad. Example: It's not just Lionel. Something like 90% of the show's humour comes from this.
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As Time Goes By / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Alistair has a few, including "Hey, hey..." Rocky's "Rock on!" Mrs. Bale: "(Lunch/Dinner) will be served in _____ and a half minutes"
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As Time Goes By / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
As Time Goes By / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: Lionel and Jean's old trick for getting a park bench to themselves: clap their hands, slap their knees, and make other eccentric hand gestures while staring forward with expressionless faces.
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As Time Goes By / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
As Time Goes By / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The aforementioned miniseries is a none-too-subtle dig at American television.
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As Time Goes By / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
As Time Goes By / int_b6de94d1	comment	Executive Meddling: In-Universe, the reason for the disastrous outcome of Lionel's series Just Two People. Includes tropes like Cliché Storm, "London, England" Syndrome, and Viewers Are Morons (specifically, that their target demographic is 'a potato farmer in Idaho'). Amusingly, the miniseries gets high ratings in Idaho.
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As Time Goes By / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
As Time Goes By / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Inverted when Judy and Sandy each (unknowingly) try to set the other up with Alistair, to Jean and Lionel's amusement. He feels rather put out when it falls apart.
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As Time Goes By / int_ba0b808e	type	Tantrum Throwing
As Time Goes By / int_ba0b808e	comment	Tantrum Throwing: At the very beginning of the series, a woman dismissed from the agency throws a shoe at the office window.
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As Time Goes By / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
As Time Goes By / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Rocky and Madge definitely fit the bill, traveling the world together from the Nashville to Tibet and never thinking they're too old for pretty much anything. The two are as devoted as they come and true soul-mates.
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As Time Goes By / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
As Time Goes By / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Alistair gives Lionel a Romanian novel, Thunder and the Moon, to read with the idea of Lionel maybe writing a TV script from it. The first line of the book is: "I am alone with my sheep. But my sheep are not alone with me."
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As Time Goes By / int_c0d32460	type	Sexy Secretary
As Time Goes By / int_c0d32460	comment	Sexy Secretary: When Lionel hires a temp from Jean's second branch to help him revise his book, Jean is furious to learn that they have sent him a gorgeous secretary named Daisy. Although she is temporarily replaced by the distinctly non-sexy and endlessly talkative Gwen Flack, Daisy returns after Mrs. Flack relieves them all by going to live with her cousin in Dorset. Daisy is well-aware of this trope and not happy with it, as Sally Curtis had been sending her out to male clients with the recommendation of "bright and attractive" rather than just "bright".
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As Time Goes By / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Lionel's miniseries "Just Two People" based on his romance with Jean is featured prominently in the show. The miniseries tanks (thanks to some terrible acting and re-writes), but not before we get to see portions of just how awful it is.
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As Time Goes By / int_c2ecf3b8	type	Show Some Leg
As Time Goes By / int_c2ecf3b8	comment	Show Some Leg: This is hinted at rather innocently a number of times. In an early episode, Jean suggests that her daughter Judy cross her legs while apologizing to a man. She does this when speaking with Lionel, who notices, and asks her if she always does that. After being turned down for a promotion, Judy complains about feeling like her main job in the office is to be "knees and dimples" for unsatisfied customers.
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As Time Goes By / int_c3c77510	type	There Is Only One Bed
As Time Goes By / int_c3c77510	comment	There Is Only One Bed: Lionel and Jean rekindle their romance when Jean, in her efforts to stop Penny's poor-Jeaning, says that she is already in a romantic relationship with him. As a result, Penny insists on moving them into the master bedroom. Lionel refuses to sleep in the chair and suggests they just deal with the situation like grown-ups by sharing the bed without comment. Then, once he and Jean are settled in, they lock eyes.
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As Time Goes By / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
As Time Goes By / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Sandy tells Lionel to tell Harry she doesn't want to see him when he visits after they have an argument. Harry assents and leaves...just as Sandy comes down the stairs, disappointed that he didn't put up a fight.
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As Time Goes By / int_c681d59b	type	Rushed Inverted Reading
As Time Goes By / int_c681d59b	comment	Rushed Inverted Reading: Jean quickly grabs a book and shoves one at Lionel to pretend they've been reading rather than sleeping when one of the girls knocks on the door.
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As Time Goes By / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
As Time Goes By / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: Alistair constantly annoys Lionel by calling him "Ly". He also call Jean "Lovely Lady," but she doesn't seem to mind.
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As Time Goes By / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
As Time Goes By / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: When Lionel agrees (very reluctantly) to treat Stephen in his fake-capacity as a psychiatrist (Jean had told her in-laws that he was one in an attempt to change the subject), he breaks down and tells Stephen that he's not a psychiatrist. Stephen responds by taking this to be some sort of healing method and declares "If you're not at the top of your profession, Lionel, I'd like to know who is." In the episode with Lionel's "deeply personal problem," Lionel decides to end the whole situation by telling Judy and Sandy the truth: that Jean only said there was one because Judy accused her of trying to meddle in her and Alastair's break-up. And the real reason Alastair visited was to sell Lionel on marketing his book in Japan. Judy and Sandy don't believe a word of it.
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As Time Goes By / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
As Time Goes By / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Madge, Rocky's country-singing, drum-playing wife, whom he marries in Series Three.
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As Time Goes By / int_d5656fbe	comment	The Unpronounceable: "Mrs Thing" is referred to as that for this reason.
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As Time Goes By / int_d7a17494	type	Coupled Couples
As Time Goes By / int_d7a17494	comment	Coupled Couples: Played with in the first season, with potential ships between Lionel and Judy, and Alistair and Jean. The four exchange partners and get married later on.
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As Time Goes By / int_d9c4365c	type	Reset Button
As Time Goes By / int_d9c4365c	comment	Reset Button: Used much more sparingly than in most sitcoms, with many actions having consequences and being referenced later. See Brought Down to Normal for an exception.
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As Time Goes By / int_dd554d47	type	Did Not Do the Bloody Research
As Time Goes By / int_dd554d47	comment	Did Not Do the Bloody Research: Inverted in the episodes where Lionel and Jean are in Los Angeles. Americans do know what "take a leak" means, thank you so much.
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As Time Goes By / int_dd9fba61	type	A Rare Sentence
As Time Goes By / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: For a secretarial agency office, at least. "It's a gorilla!"
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As Time Goes By / int_e201cc	type	The Bore
As Time Goes By / int_e201cc	comment	The Bore: Stephen's chief quality is his tendency to chatter on about the most mundane subjects with intense interest (for instance, his attempt to give up newspapers), although he's rather sweet-natured. Jean and Lionel use this to their advantage in one episode. Mrs. Flack, Lionel's replacement secretary, talks so much that it's completely impossible for him to get any writing done. However, she's so well-intentioned and cheerful that he can't manage to fire her. Judy's brief, much-older boyfriend Eric is a very nice man, but also terribly dull. She's half-relieved that he ends up breaking it off, because she "didn't have the heart to give him the push." Lionel is often accused of this, especially compared to (and by) his Cool Old Guy father.
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As Time Goes By / int_e2a6569a	comment	Forever Fling: The story centers on a couple that reconnects unexpectedly 38 years after their wartime romance and slowly falls back in love.
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As Time Goes By / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
As Time Goes By / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Jean gets much sillier by the later seasons, starting a Lies Snowball as a matter of routine, and Lionel is almost always the Only Sane Man to the messes she creates with her meddling. Stephen is perfectly sensible in the first episode he appears in, but is simply an introvert who talks less than Penny. From the second episode he is in, he starts turning into the Cloudcuckoolander we know and love.
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As Time Goes By / int_e6055047	comment	Translator Buddy: Judy sometimes serves as this between Alastair and Lionel.
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As Time Goes By / int_ea51fa45	type	I Never Got Any Letters
As Time Goes By / int_ea51fa45	comment	I Never Got Any Letters: Plays an integral part in Lionel and Jean's relationship. Lionel's (misdirected?) letter to Jean ends their relationship; if the letter had gotten to Jean they probably would have gotten married. They both start off rather cross with each other until they talk about it; fortunately they believe each other. Later, they find the missing letter in a wartime museum.
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As Time Goes By / int_ed559872	comment	Numerous episode plots in later seasons resulted from Jean's reflexive creation of a Lies Snowball and Lionel either refusing to play along or doing it under protest.
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As Time Goes By / int_f22dda19	type	The City vs. the Country
As Time Goes By / int_f22dda19	comment	The City vs. the Country: A variation, as Jean and Lionel are embraced by the locals in the country at Rocky's old house (as they are happy to embrace the simple life), while the other "townies" that come down for weekends are frowned upon for their energy, rudeness, and "gang-like" socializing.
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As Time Goes By / int_f2ced7b8	type	Surprise Party
As Time Goes By / int_f2ced7b8	comment	Surprise Party: Stephen tries to throw a surprise anniversary party for Penny. When she notices his furtive behavior, she assumes he's having an affair—and he goes along with it because...
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As Time Goes By / int_f791e275	comment	Roadside Wave: Judy and Sandy get splashed in a rainstorm after an already-bad week thanks to Alastair and Harry. Lionel's unsympathetic reaction helps to kick off that episode's plot.
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As Time Goes By / int_fb4c41b4	comment	"Friends" Rent Control: No matter how successful Jean's business was, it almost defies belief that someone who started as a solo temp after being widowed could afford to keep a house in Holland Park, one of London's most exclusive neighbourhoods.
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As Time Goes By / int_fdc1e848	type	Will They or Won't They?
As Time Goes By / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: There was some question as to whether Judy and Alistair would get together. The two ping-ponged from dating to fighting to just friends, and after one offer to move in and two proposals scattered throughout the series, the two finally tie the knot in the final season. And Sandy and her on-again-off-again cop beau. Played with in the first season with Lionel and Jean: Lionel actually dates Judith at the beginning (because that's not creepy at all) and Jean dates Alistair. This is resolved rather early, and Lionel and Judith don't get very far. But this arguably makes the whole series one long game of Pair the Spares.
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As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Birds of a Feather / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Bridal Carry / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Brit Com / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Catholic School Girls Rule / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Cool Old Lady / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Coupled Couples / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Covers Always Lie / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Creepy Housekeeper / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Decemberâ€“December Romance / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Did Not Do the Bloody Research / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Did You Die? / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Ear Trumpet / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Forever Fling / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Fun for Some / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Gossip Evolution / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Hollywood Military Uniform / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Humble Hero / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	I Can't Believe I'm Saying This / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	I Never Got Any Letters / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	I'm Standing Right Here / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Impossible Pickle Jar / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	It's a Costume Party, I Swear! / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Leg Cling / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Mirthless Laughter / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	No Longer with Us / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Old Flame / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Orphaned Punchline / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Photo Montage / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Playing Drunk / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Real Song Theme Tune / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Recursive Canon / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Scrabble Babble / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Sexy Packaging / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Smithical Marriage / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Snowball Lie / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Surprise Party / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Tantrum Throwing / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	The Bore / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	There Is Only One Bed / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Thriving Ex-Crush / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Uncle Pennybags / int_d8ce1c33
As Time Goes By	hasFeature	Video Inside, Film Outside / int_d8ce1c33

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