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A Brit Com starring Real Life best friends Linda Robson and Pauline Quirke as sisters with Lesley Joseph as their flamboyant man-eater of a friend/neighbour.Tracey Stubbs (Robson) is Happily Married to successful builder Darryl Stubbs (Alun Lewis, then Douglas McFerran) and has a big house, plenty of money and a son, Garth (Simon Nash, then Matthew Savage), at boarding school. Sharon Theodopolopodous (Quirke) is unhappily married to the lazy Chris (David Cardy, then Peter Polycarpou) and has a cheap council flat and a job in a supermarket. However, Darryl's business isn't as successful as he makes out and he and Chris are arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to twelve years in prison. Tracey feels unable to cope on her own so Sharon, partly to comfort her and partly to get away from her own miserable life, moves in with her. The two spend their days adjusting to life without husbands, trying to earn money and taking the mick out of their snobby, over-sexed neighbour, Dorien Green (Joseph), who is forever having affairs behind the back of her accountant husband, Marcus (Nickolas Grace).The original series aired on The BBC from 1989 to 1998. A new series started on ITV in 2014, 16 years after the "final" episode. It starts off with Tracey still in her Big Fancy House with only her youngest son, Travis (Charlie Quirke), for company, Sharon back in her council flat and Dorien writing novels under the name "Foxy Cohen", until events conspire to bring the Birds back together, alongside Garth (now Matt Willis, then Samuel James) who now has a wife, Marcie (Camilla Beeput), and stepdaughter, Poppy (Bethany Attrup). The revival lasted for three series (2014-2016) followed by two Christmas specials, one in 2017 and a further one in 2020 (without Quirke, who'd taken a hiatus from acting to concentrate on her performing arts academy). The series was permanently cancelled after the 2020 special.
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Perverse Sexual Lust
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Perverse Sexual Lust: According to "Tattoo You", Dorien is quite partial to the Benedict Cumberbatch version of Sherlock.
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene: The show is usually a comedy that focuses on two sisters living together after the arrest of their husbands. However, "Women's Troubles", which concerns Sharon falling pregnant, ends with a scene Played for Drama in which she breaks down whilst admitting to Tracey that she has just had an abortion.
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Title Drop: When Tracey and Sharon were attempting to start up a cleaning business in "The Essex Patient", Tracey suggested "Birds of a Feather" as a name for it.
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The Ghost
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It can be jarring watching an episode in Series 8 and 9 and noticing that Chris and Darryl, who used to get their own subplots, have almost completely become The Ghost. It may also be a surprise to see Dorien divorced from her husband, Tracey a lot more bitter concerning Darryl, and everyone living away from their original homes.
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Oblivious to His Own Description
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Oblivious to His Own Description: In a skit for Comic Relief, Tracy has hired two cleaners, who turn out to be French and Saunders doing near-perfect Sharon and Tracy impressions. Tracy's reaction to them is a contemptuous "South Londoners!"
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Breaking the Fourth Wall
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the end of the Clip Show, "The Chigwell Years", Dorien asks Tracey and Sharon if the little girls in the footage over the end credits are actually them, to which they smile at each other.
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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I Need a Freaking Drink: In "Ghost", Sharon's reaction to the idea that the reason her VHS player is recording programs starring dead people is that the VHS player in question is haunted is to go to the kitchen and have a beer.
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I'm a Humanitarian
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I'm a Humanitarian: Dorien begins developing cannibalistic thoughts when locked inside a parking garage with Tracey and Sharon in "Sunday". Tracey and Sharon then flip it back on her.
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Satellite Family Member: Ralph is Tracey's second husband, who she married after she divorced Darryl, and he is used to provide a reason as to why Sharon isn't living with Tracey by the time of the revival. However, he gets no characterization outside of the fact that he's a Gold Digger and he both gets no physical appearances or is even mentioned after the first episode of the revival.
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Aborted Arc
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Aborted Arc: The Series 3 Christmas special, "We'll Always Have Majorca", ends with Tracey pregnant with Darryl's baby. This plot point isn't brought up in Series 4 and Tracey doesn't get pregnant again until Series 7.
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: Dorien in "Ghost". Tracey and Sharon are too frightened to be rational, and Dorien manages to host a successful séance to remove the ghost from their VHS player.
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Practically Different Generations
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Practically Different Generations: Garth is about 22 years old when younger brother Travis is born in "Holy Ground".
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Fat and Skinny
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Fat and Skinny: The sisters. Tracey is short and skinny, and Sharon is tall and fat.
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Prisoner Performance
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Prisoner Performance: "We'll Always Have Majorca" opens in the middle of a Christmas performance by a prison rock band, with Chris and Darryl (who were jailed at the beginning of the series) being part of the band. Darryl is eventually able to briefly escape from jail through a gig with said rock band.
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Disappeared Dad
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Disappeared Dad: Sharon and Tracey's father, who went missing when they were little, leaving them to be brought up by various other relatives after their mother died. In the Series 5 Christmas special, "It Happened In Hollywood", they discovered his name was George Hamilton and, at Sharon's insistence, wasted a trip tracking down the film star George Hamilton (As Himself) and never found their real father.
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Hypocritical Humour: In Series 9 episode "Mummies and Daddies", Tracey chastises Sharon by saying, "you can be so vulgar sometimes. It really gets on my tits".
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Lampshade Hanging
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Lampshade Hanging: In the newer ITV series, one of the clips in the theme song depicting Tracey and Sharon growing up is from the BBC series, since even the original series is over a decade old.
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Bland-Name Product: In the new series, Dorien has found fame as the author of Sixty Shades of Green. Subverted Trope when she gets sued for plagiarism by E. L. James. Dorien and Sharon work in "World of Quid" a fictionalised version of Poundland. For extra points, the shop is clearly a former Woolworths with some of the letters still used in the sign - Poundland is the largest owner of former Woolies stores.
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Got Me Doing It
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Got Me Doing It: Dorien briefly picks up Tracey and Sharon's common talk in "Sunday".
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Evolving Credits
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Evolving Credits: The first series-opening was a sombre affair depicting the sisters walking down a darkened hallway and standing together. The second series-opening changes this to an opening depicting pictures of the sisters as they grew up over the years. The revival's opening updates the footage, incorporating video footage and even a scene from the original series into the opening. Finally, the final Christmas Special (which aired in 2020) just used a Title-Only Opening.
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Out of Focus: Chris and Darryl, the sisters' husbands, were usually featured heavily in each episode of the first 7 series. After Series 7 however, their appearances were dropped drastically, with Chris only appearing in two episodes afterward and Darryl becoming The Ghost until his off-screen death in Series 12.
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Out with a Bang
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Out with a Bang: Marcus nearly dies in "Still Waters Run Deep" of a heart attack while having sex with another woman.
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Hysterical Woman
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Hysterical Woman: Tracey and Sharon spend most of "Ghost" in a panic when they think their house is haunted while Dorien tries to bring them back to reality. Tracey and Dorien freak out when they get locked inside a parking garage in "Sunday", and Sharon is now the one to calm them down.
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In the 1997 Christmas special "Reservoir Birds", when the casino owner's real identity is revealed his hitherto RP accent suddenly sounds a lot more Cockney.
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Actor Allusion: In the opening scene of the episode "Tattoo You", Tracey and Sharon are watching a murder mystery show on TV where a body is discovered on a beach next to a burning boat. Pauline Quirke, who plays Sharon, appeared in Broadchurch, an 8-part television series that aired in the UK, about the murder of a young boy whose body was discovered on a beach near a boat that had been set on fire.
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Story Arc: In Series 7, Marcus catches Dorien having one of her affairs and begins divorce proceedings, only for Dorien to discover that Marcus had been having an affair of his own, with a bastard lovechild to boot!
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Intergenerational Friendship: Between the sisters and Dorien. Dorien won't admit to it though and gets highly insulted whenever someone mistakes her for the girls' mother.
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Big Fancy House
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Big Fancy House: Tracey and Dorien both have one, at least by UK standards, until midway through Series 7 when financial circumstances force them all to downsize.
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Artistic Licence Medicine: In the episode "Okey-Cokey-Karaoke", Dorien goes out drinking the night before she is supposed to have breast implant surgery. Usually, for major operations you are expected to at least spend the previous night in hospital, and certainly you wouldn't go out drinking.
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Cabin Fever: The girls get locked inside a parking garage in "Sunday" and begin to lose it.
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Written-In Absence: Sharon’s absence is explained as being due to being quarantined in Costa Rica during the events of the final Christmas Episode. The real life reason for this is because her actor had decided to retire from acting to focus on her performing arts academy.
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Obnoxious In-Laws: Sharon and Tracey certainly don't have an overly wonderful relationship with Darryl's parents Les and Olive, who are always trapped in the past and try to make Tracey in particular feel guilt about her comfortable living conditions, going on about "bouncing Darryl on my knee" and his bed-wetting. All the same, Sharon's relationship with her Greek Cypriot in-laws is, if anything, even more tumultuous, especially Chris' mother, who hates Sharon for not providing her with any grandchildren.
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The first series had a very odd title sequence, showing Sharon and Tracey standing together in a darkened room in a way that made them look more like lovers than sisters, while the theme song was performed by a man, in a very downbeat manner. Starting with the second series, this was changed to the more familiar sequence showing pictures of them growing up together, and in the third series the theme song was now sung by the actresses in a slightly more up-tempo fashion.
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Christmas Special
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"Sailing" (Christmas Special).
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Happy Ending Override
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Happy Ending Override: The original BBC finale had the three ladies strongly united and running a business, Tracey giving birth to Travis in an Irish stable, Garth married to pregnant Kimberley, and Dorien in a committed relationship with Richard. Fast forward to the 2014 ITV revival and Sharon and Tracey hadn't spoken to each other in months, neither had spoken to Dorien in years, the girls were now in different jobs with no mention of their previous business, Garth has returned from Australia with a new wife and stepdaughter, and neither Richard nor Kimberley were anywhere to be seen.
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Darryl has a poor relationship with both Sharon and Dorien, regarding them both as embarrassing and holding Tracey back (in different ways). Dorien and her supposed 'friend' Melanie Fishman, who are always gossiping about each other and seeking one-upmanship against each other.
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Tracey has a nice house and a nice life, while Sharon is living off her since she can't afford her horrible flat any more, and doesn't seem to think through the consequences of her actions. Although Tracey's "respectability" isn't portrayed positively, and she's often shown to be foolish in different ways.
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Ambiguous Syntax
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Ambiguous Syntax: When discussing how to get help to escape a locked parking garage in "Sunday":
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Trivial Tragedy
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Trivial Tragedy: Played for Drama in "Nuptials" when Dorien starts crying over the fact that her champagne has become flat, seeing as it's a sign that she's severely depressed.
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Oireland
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Oireland: The last-ever BBC episode was incredibly so.
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Parent with New Paramour
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Parent with New Paramour: During Series 8 and 9, Dorien falls into a relationship with a man named Richard and tries to have a loving relationship with his children from a previous marriage. Problem is that neither get along very well - Dorien calls the children spawns of hell, whilst Richard's daughter calls her a witch bitch. It's this poor relationship that is the leading factor in the collapse of the relationship by "Mummies and Daddies".
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Limited Social Circle
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Limited Social Circle: Lampshaded by Sharon's husband Chris in the revival, when he astutely observed how the three women are nearly always together and seldom seem to have any other friends.
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Bottle Episode
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Bottle Episode: The first and third episodes of Series 9, which involved a seance and being trapped in a car park respectively.
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Maligned Mixed Marriage
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Maligned Mixed Marriage: A sort-of example. In Series 7 episode "Three's Company", Dorien blackmails Marcus by threatening to tell his mother that he is leaving her for a Gentile.
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British Brevity
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British Brevity: Actually averted between Series 2 and 7, while the rest were only 6-8 episodes long.
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Gilligan Cut
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Gilligan Cut: Occurs in "Muesli" when Tracey and Sharon are trying to escape a locked room. Sharon decides to go to the roof via the window, to which Tracey says she refuses to go on the roof. Smash cut to the two on the roof yelling at Dorien.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: Darryl in "Never the Twain" when he realises Tracey has finally had enough of him and isn't going to wait for him to get out of prison. Luckily, he is sent to prison hospital and recovers.
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Christmas Episode
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Christmas Episode: Several. "Sailing" (Series 1). "Falling in Love Again" (Series 2). "We'll Always Have Majorca" (Series 3). "The Chigwell Connection" (Series 4). "It Happened In Hollywood" (Series 5). "Christmas In Dreamland" (Series 6). "Reservoir Birds" (Series 8). "Holy Ground" (Series 9). "Birds on a Plane" (Series 11). "There's a Girl in My Souk" (Series 12). "The House For The Rising Sons" (Series 12). "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" (Series 12).
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Unseen No More
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Unseen No More: Dorien's old toyboy Luke from the early series finally makes his only appearance in Series 8's "Baggage".
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Everybody Smokes
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Everybody Smokes: And all over the expensive furniture. Darryl smokes cigars while everyone else sticks to cigarettes.
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Put on a Bus
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Put on a Bus: Sharon is absent from the final episode, "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", due to being trapped in Costa Rica due to Covid-19.
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Slobs Versus Snobs
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Slobs Versus Snobs: Up to a point, though in comparison to e.g. Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances, Dorien's snobbery is rather milder and more sporadic.
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Delicate and Sickly
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Aunt Sylvie, a Delicate and Sickly elderly woman, gets annoyed when her grandnephew Garth doesn't let her spell an existing word differently. This goes along with the obnoxious attitude she's taken with the purpose of making her hosts let her go to a retirement home.
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Later-Installment Weirdness
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Later-Installment Weirdness: It can be jarring watching an episode in Series 8 and 9 and noticing that Chris and Darryl, who used to get their own subplots, have almost completely become The Ghost. It may also be a surprise to see Dorien divorced from her husband, Tracey a lot more bitter concerning Darryl, and everyone living away from their original homes. The Revival makes its own changes as well - for example, it can also be rather jarring seeing Dorien go from the Nosy Neighbour of the original run to outright living with the two sisters.
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In the 1991 Christmas special "We'll Always Have Majorca", Dorien calls Garth "a deceitful duplicitous delinquent...with a downmarket name".
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Pun
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Pun: Often dropped by Sharon. For example, while playing Monopoly in "The Beautiful Game", she referred to "Dorien's Boobs, also known as The Community Chest.".
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Your Door Was Open
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Your Door Was Open: Parodied, where Dorien had a habit of just walking into her neighbors' house. In "An Inspector Stays", they locked the door. She smashed the glass panel next to the lock, undid it, and came in anyway, while they were standing right there staring at her in disbelief.
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Cruise Episode
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Cruise Episode: The plot of the first Christmas Episode, "Sailing", has Tracy receive tickets to a romantic cruise on the Dana Anglia from her convicted husband. Although she initially refuses to go, Dorien devises a plan to get her and Sharon on board the ship. The last minutes of the episode are also set on the ship as they prepare to enjoy the cruise.
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Overly Long Name
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Overly Long Name: Theodopolopodous is at least two syllables longer than a surname really ought to be. Not surprisingly, Sharon hates it.
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But I Can't Be Pregnant!
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But I Can't Be Pregnant!: Sharon in "Women's Troubles" from Series 1. After Chris' arrest, she started seeing another man and was shocked when he managed to knock her up, believing herself to be infertile. Turned out it was Chris who was infertile.
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Revival
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The Revival makes its own changes as well - for example, it can also be rather jarring seeing Dorien go from the Nosy Neighbour of the original run to outright living with the two sisters.
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Embarrassing Tattoo
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Embarrassing Tattoo: "Tattoo You" reveals that Sharon has, unbeknownst to her, had a tattoo of Norman Parker inside her butt for about 40 years. Once this is pointed out to her, she lies about her age so that she can get money meant for free hearing aids and uses said money to remove the tattoo instead.
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Age Cut
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Age Cut: The opening credits, from season two, shows the two sisters growing up (using real photos since, while not sisters, the actresses really did grow up together).
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Haunted Technology
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Haunted Technology: The plot of "Ghost" has the girls dealing with a haunted VHS player.
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Screen-to-Stage Adaptation
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Screen-to-Stage Adaptation: The show was adapted for the stage in 2012 by The Comedy Theatre Company, with the original actors reprising their roles (alongside Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson's real-life children playing Travis).
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Continuity Nod
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Continuity Nod: In "Cheers", Darryl is released from prison and returns to Dalentrace and is shocked to see that the kitchen is different, to which Garth explains that Sharon blew it up two series ago in "Bang". In Series 7 episode "Stand By Your Man", Dorien mocks Sharon for being thrown out by a soon-to-be-released Darren by quoting the lyrics from I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor, which Sharon sung in a karaoke contest in Series 4 episode "Okey-Cokey-Karaoke". In Series 6 episode "Appreciation Society", Sharon and Tracey reference how Dorien provided them little support when they received abusive and accusatory letters in the episode "Absent Friends" during the previous series. In Series 8 episode "Can't Judge A Book", Tracey mentions Chris dumping Sharon for the manipulative Cypriot Tina several series ago.
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Wacky Parent, Serious Child
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Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Sharon and Tracey's extremely common and vulgar (even for them) cousin Chas and his daughter Dawn respectively.
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EvilVsEvil
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Evil vs. Evil: A debatable example between Dorien and Melanie Fishman, who are mutually bitchy and unfaithful.
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The episode titles of Series 7 are named after Sitcoms e.g "Cheers", "Are You Being Served?", etc. The episode titles of Series 10 are references to The Rolling Stones songs. The episode titles of Series 12 are references to Bob Dylan songs.
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Rich Language, Poor Language
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Rich Language, Poor Language: Chris, Sharon, Darryl and Tracey (despite the latter two having become wealthy through his activities - both licit and illicit) versus Dorien and most other Chigwell residents. During the ITV revival, Sharon and Tracey's accents are at least a little milder than in the original BBC series.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Sharon, often at Dorien's expense.
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Accidental Misnaming
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Accidental Misnaming: People do have a tendency to accidentally misname Dorien as "Doreen". This is normally done by Darryl and Chris, but other people, including Lorraine Kelly in one episode, have also misnamed her. A hunky man also calls Dorien "Deirdre" once. Dorien accidentally calls Darryl "Derek" in "Relative Strangers".
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Everyone Has Standards
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Everyone Has Standards: At Maidstone Prison, there is a prisoner called Watson who used to be involved in illegal adoptions and is regarded by all other prisoners as 'scum'.
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It's All About Me
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It's All About Me: Dorien. One particularly striking occasion was in "Okey-Cokey-Karaoke", when Tracey and Sharon are weeping over not having enough money for a cheap holiday, to which Dorien coldly replies "Ah what a pity. Anyway, onto me", and starts discussing her plans to have breast implants.
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Away in a Manger
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Away in a Manger: Tracey gives birth in a stable in the Series 9 Christmas special, "Holy Ground".
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Drop-In Character
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Drop-In Character: Dorien. In "An Inspector Stays", she smashes a window to get through the locked door and when Sharon confronts her, she simply asks how she was supposed to get in if the door was locked.
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Happily Married
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Happily Married: Tracey and Darryl, in contrast to Sharon and Chris. This changes over the course of the series, and by Series 10, they're divorced.
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Faint in Shock
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Faint in Shock: Dorien does this after her nails are chopped with a meat cleaver in the Series 2 Christmas special, "Falling in Love Again".
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Really Gets Around
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Really Gets Around: Dorien, very much so.
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Tie-In Novel
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Tie-In Novel: Released in 1993, Dorien's Diary: My Secret Confessions is a Defictionalisation of Dorien's diary as she details her misadventures.
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Subverted Trope
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In the new series, Dorien has found fame as the author of Sixty Shades of Green. Subverted Trope when she gets sued for plagiarism by E. L. James.
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Good Cop/Bad Cop
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Good Cop/Bad Cop: Tracey and Sharon's attempt to get Dorien out of her car in "Sunday".
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Nice, Mean, and In-Between
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Nice Mean And In Between: Tracey is the Nice, being the one most likely to criticize the schemes and scams of the other two women (although she has her moments). Sharon is the "In-Between", nicer than Dorien but more foolish than Tracey, and more likely to fall for or create schemes than her. Dorien is the "Mean", usually seen snarking and mocking the other two, and having an It's All About Me attitude in general (to say nothing of her numerous affairs...).
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Garth's wife Kimberley and their baby are not even mentioned again when the series was revived on ITV.
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Shout-Out: When Dorien undergoes the menopause in "Time and Tides", she lists all her lovers, beginning with Gary and Tony, aka Men Behaving Badly. Seeing as "Ghost" revolves around a haunted VHS player, several shows either get mentioned by name or have their theme played (Minder, Absolutely Fabulous, Terry and June, Dad's Army and Steptoe and Son). Later in the episode, Dorien suggests watching A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). In "Still Waters Run Deep", Tracey is shocked by how old the temporary builders hired by Sharon are, exclaiming "it is like Dad's Army meets Last of the Summer Wine in there!" The 1994 Christmas special has Dorien talk about taping Dead Again, which was in real life shown then. Darryl and Chris are incarcerated at Slade prison in season 7.
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Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: When the girls get locked in a dingy parking garage in "Sunday", Dorien tries to keep a level head, until her phone's battery dies and she loudly begins panicking. Sharon then slaps her to shut her up.
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Cassandra Truth
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Cassandra Truth: In Series 9 episode "Nuptials", Tracey and Garth don't believe Sharon that Dorien is depressed and mentally unstable, until towards the end of the episode when she seemingly attempts suicide in her flat.
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Mrs. Robinson
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Mrs. Robinson: Dorien, most of her lovers are somewhat younger than her, not that any of them ever complain. In the revival, the much-older Dorien is called this by Tracey's son Travis. There is an actual episode called "Mrs Robinson", where Garth has a relationship with an older woman called Linda, who later on bonds strongly with Tracey (much to Garth's annoyance).
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One-Word Title: Several through the series: "Nicked", "Shift", "Cheat!" and "Substitute" (Series 1). "Muesli", "Mice", "Trust" and "Parting" (Series 2). "Confidence", "History", "Cuckoo", "Schooling" and "Business" (Series 3). "Breadwinner", "Commitments", "Caring", "Belongings" and "Loyalty" (Series 4). "Bang" (Series 5). "Compulsion", "Moving" and "Out" (Series 6). "Cheers" and "Porridge" (Series 7). "Baggage" and "Money" (Series 8). "Ghost", "Sunday", "Model" and "Nuptials" (Series 9). "Slave" (Series 10). "Sailing" (Christmas Special).
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Age Insecurity: It's a bit of a minor gag with Dorien that she lies about her real age to the girls, partially out of embarassment over the fact that she is aging and partially out of vanity. For instance, "Nearest and Dearest" has her clearly about to tell Sharon that she tries to keep on the right side of 50 but, realizing what she's about to say, she amends it to say the right side of 40 instead. Meanwhile, "Forever Young" suggests that she's edited her Wikipedia page so that it claims that she's only 37, even though she's now closer to 70.
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Hypno Fool: Dorien puts Sharon under in "Mind Over Matter" in an attempt to cure her phobia of dentists. This doesn't work and makes Sharon think she's working at a McDonald's.
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Hypocrite: Dorien was utterly outraged that Marcus had an affair for several years and even produced a child with his mistress, despite her own inglorious record of infidelity. A debatable one regarding Dorien getting angry about a boss of Tracey's sexually harassing her, given the way she treats a lot of men. In "High Fidelity", Tracey fancies an illiterate but attractive man, so Sharon reminds her that she is still married. This is despite the fact Sharon has also had at least an equal number of boyfriends while their husbands have been in prison as has Tracey. Sharon also becomes very moralistic in "Rising Damp" when Tracey goes out looking for men when Darryl gets sent back to prison, while ironically Sharon stands by Chris.
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Estranged Soap Family: The 2020 Christmas special, "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", only features Tracey and Dorien of the original characters, with Sharon quarantined in Costa Rica due to Covid. Garth and Travis are also absent with no explanation given to their whereabouts.
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Housewife: Tracey and Dorien, the perk of having rich husbands. Although Tracey later starts working.
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Sharon and Tracey may snark at Dorien (and vice versa), but they will always be there when any of the others are in need.
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Affectionate Nickname: Each of the main characters has an affectionate nickname used by the others, normally a shortened variation of their actual name. Sharon has "Shal", Tracey has "Trace", Dorien has "Dor", and Garth is usually "Garthie". (Although Dorien seldom if ever uses these names when talking to the others).
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Hollywood Board Games: In "Mice", playing Scrabble is depicted as the nail in the coffin of a boring, horrible camping trip. The sisters are kids and, due to unfortunate circumstances, can only play that game to pass the time. "Caring": Dorien doesn't think Sharon is literate enough to play Scrabble. She acknowledges that she's not the sharpest knife in the shed but makes clear that she knows enough to play. Aunt Sylvie, a Delicate and Sickly elderly woman, gets annoyed when her grandnephew Garth doesn't let her spell an existing word differently. This goes along with the obnoxious attitude she's taken with the purpose of making her hosts let her go to a retirement home.
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Awful Wedded Life: Sharon and Chris, in contrast to Tracey and Darryl. Tracey describes Sharon as, "The most mistreated wife since Anne Boleyn." Presumably Dorien and Marcus' marriage isn't very happy either but we don't see enough of Marcus to be sure. Later switched when they're released: Chris decides to go straight for Sharon's sake, and Darryl gets them both arrested again. Tracy tells Darryl (whom she previously believed to be innocent) that this time she won't be waiting for him.
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Continuity Snarl: In Series 5 episode "Dead Loss", Chris' mother dies and the episode revolves around her funeral. However, in the revival when Chris makes a guest appearance, he has a party which includes his mother insulting Sharon.
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The "Fun" in "Funeral"
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The "Fun" in "Funeral": In Series 7 episode "Nearest and Dearest", Sharon pretends to be attending a funeral in order to get away from a day out planned by Dorien. Eventually, Dorien invites herself to attend the funeral with Sharon at a hippy gathering where neither of them knows anyone there. Later on, in Series 12 episode "Knocking On Heaven's Door", Darryl dies and, just before the funeral, Dorien has sex with a man at the back of the hearse, with the horse running away in response to a loose gunshot.
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Expy Coexistence: Dorien's book "Sixty Shades of Green" is a play on Fifty Shades of Grey. She ends up in legal trouble from the publishers of the latter thinking she is plagiarising their book.
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Breakfast in Bed
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Breakfast in Bed: In "An Inspector Stays", Garth makes Tracey breakfast in bed, but this worries her because it's a sign that he's acting too nice to her.
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The Vamp
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The Vamp: Dorien.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: Dorien returns to save Tracey and Sharon from the parking garage they were trapped in on "Sunday". (Although she did find an exit hours ago and just didn't tell them because she wanted to have a bath).
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Rich Sibling, Poor Sibling
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Rich Sibling, Poor Sibling: At the start of the series, Tracey is living in an upmarket house in Chigwell whilst Sharon (her sister) was poorer and lived in a council flat in Edmonton.
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Role Swap Plot: In the 1994 Christmas special, Sharon dreams about being a wealthy, glamorous wife to successful singer Chris, while Tracey, Darryl and Garth are in a council flat and Dorien is a virginal cleaner.
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Jewish American Princess
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Jewish American Princess: Dorien, a middle-aged Jewish divorcee who acts as if she is still in her twenties, has a sense of entitlement a mile high, sees the other two women as a combination of personal servants and people who are there to make her life easier; she refuses to scale down her expectations and believes the world is there to meet her demands. Dorien is a middle-aged British JAP who has never grown up.
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Digging Yourself Deeper: Chris at his trial in "Nicked". When the judge has trouble pronouncing his surname, Chris calls him a "stupid old fart", the judge holds him in contempt of court and Chris responds, "Big deal, I'm down for a ten year stretch anyway, aren't I?" resulting in his and Darryl's sentences being increased to twelve years.
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Died on Their Birthday
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Died on Their Birthday: In "Nuptials", Dorien, who is experiencing Milestone Birthday Angst over her 50th birthday, attempts to kill herself come the day. Thankfully, the other girls come across her and stop her.
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Gold Digger: Dorien, regarding Marcus. Money is the only thing she gets out of the marriage.
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Series Fauxnale: The series was supposed to end once and for all with Tracey giving birth in an Irish stable on Christmas Day, but it was revived sixteen years later on a different channel.
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Running Gag: Dorien initially claiming she is doing something entirely of her own free will, such as having breast implants or giving away lots of money to charity, then revealing she is doing it to beat her frenemy Melanie Fishman at something. Dorien pretending to be Sharon, whether singing on her behalf in front of a live audience when she was sick, claiming to be her when writing a sexy book or lying about her identity when meeting Marcus' lover.
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Comically Missing the Point: In Series 9 episode "Nuptials", when Tracey, Sharon and Richard go to Dorien's flat when she is depressed, they find a bunch of birthday cards and a cake. Tracey says "Oh no, no wonder she is depressed. She's fifty", to which Sharon exclaims, "you mean she weren't already?"
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Department of Redundancy Department: Tracey when learning about Darryl's release in "Stand By Your Man" - "A fortnight? That's only two weeks away!" Furthermore, in Series 8 episode "Money", Tracey said "I used to bath Garth in this bath".
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