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Coupling

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Coupling	label	Coupling
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Coupling	comment	Coupling was a 2000â€“04 BBC sitcom about a circle of friends in their 30s and their complicated sex lives. Written by Steven Moffat, produced by his wife Sue Vertue, and based very loosely on their early relationship. (The Word of God is that Steve and Susan went on to make a sitcom about their lives, after which Steve worked on "some old kids' show they recently pulled out of mothballs".)The series was notable for its meticulously-crafted plots, revolving around lies and misunderstandings in the "Fawlty Towers" Plot and Three Is Company veins, and hilarious cases of Digging Yourself Deeper. Each episode was very detailed and expansive on matters such as impotence, masturbation, pornography and lesbianism.The characters are intended to represent a spectrum of confidence and paranoia in relationships among men and women. They are: Steve Taylor (Jack Davenport): A nice, if somewhat neurotic everyman, who starts dating Susan after breaking up with Jane. Susan Walker (Sarah Alexander): A snarky and practical blonde with the occasional mean streak, who starts dating Steve after breaking up with Patrick. Jeff Murdock (Richard Coyle): Steve's best friend. A paranoid Manchild who provides the show's most awkward moments, generally by overthinking everything. Sally Harper (Kate Isitt): Susan's beauty-obsessed best friend. Although originally written as a one-note character, she gets plenty of serious character development after the first series. Patrick Maitland (Ben Miles): Susan's ex, a laid-back casanova who does have his heart in the right place on occasion. He is also very well-endowed (a "tripod", apparently). Although he's not too bright, he has his serious moments. Jane Christie (Gina Bellman): Steve's ex. A walking mess of crazy with many hidden layers of even more crazy, although hidden underneath all of that crazy, she seems to be a very sweet, very scared woman. Oliver Morris (Richard Mylan): The final series' replacement of Jeff. Owns a fantasy/sci-fi store and is worse with the opposite gender than the rest of the cast combined. Notably, even Jane thinks he's crazy.It had an American remake on NBC, which lasted for only four episodes in the US before being pulled (though the full season of 13 episodes was broadcast in the UK, ironically enough). There was also a Greek version that ran for a full series of 10 episodes.Came fifty-fourth in Britains Best Sitcom.There are some commented out Zero-Context Examples.
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Coupling / int_13b7c384	type	Pizza Boy Special Delivery
Coupling / int_13b7c384	comment	Pizza Boy Special Delivery: In the season 3 finale, Jane does this in Jeff's flat.
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Coupling / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
Coupling / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: Used by Steve in "Sex, Death and Nudity" to hide his erection when Jane starts talking suggestively about threesomes during her aunt's funeral.
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Coupling / int_177ecc0f	type	Unexpected Positive
Coupling / int_177ecc0f	comment	Unexpected Positive: In the season 3 finale, Sally buys three pregnancy tests because she doesn't know what a negative test looks like and asks Susan and Jane to take one each. The entire episode builds up to the reveal of whose test is positive.
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Coupling / int_1d9af117	type	Gender-Equal Ensemble
Coupling / int_1d9af117	comment	Gender-Equal Ensemble: Three guys (Steve, Patrick and Jeff) and three gals (Sally, Susan and Jane).
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Coupling / int_1ed73929	type	The Friends Who Never Hang
Coupling / int_1ed73929	comment	The Friends Who Never Hang: The Cast Calculus generally splits the gang into guys and girls, apart from the various, well, couplings that arise, plus Steve/Jane and Susan/Patrick occasionally interacting as exes. Jane also attempts to have sex with Patrick at one point, but it's implied that it never goes beyond that (the show's final episode confirms that they did in fact have sex multiple times, without any of the others being aware of it until much later), leaving Jeff and Sally as the only pair who never really interact together, and she seems to fairly openly dislike him.
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Coupling / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Coupling / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Jeff and Jane were implied to have an interest in each other at the end of series 3, but Richard Coyle left the show and this was never mentioned again. This was, however, salvaged for Oliver in the fourth series.
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Coupling / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Coupling / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: From "The Girl With Two Breasts": "Where are you going" and "up to you" in Season 2's finale, "The End of the Line." Steve feels like he's constantly being asked, "Where are you going?" while Susan is annoyed at Steve's indecisiveness, answering "It's up to you" whenever he's asked to express an opinion. This is Played for Laughs until the end of the episode, where Susan is left uncertain of their commitment to one another and leaves Steve's apartment. Steve asks her, "Where are you going?" to which she replies, "It's up to you."
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Coupling / int_26a924fb	type	Multitasked Conversation
Coupling / int_26a924fb	comment	Combined with Multitasked Conversation with Jeff in "Faithless" when his co-worker asks him if he fancies her, while Julia asks him on the phone if he loves her. He simply answers, "Yes."
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Coupling / int_275d19ee	type	Birds of a Feather
Coupling / int_275d19ee	comment	Birds of a Feather: As the pairing develops: Only Sane Man Susan and Steve, shallow and vain Sally and Patrick, Cloudcuckoolander Jane and Jeff/Oliver.
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Coupling / int_2791ae1e	type	Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Coupling / int_2791ae1e	comment	Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: As shown in "Remember This", Jeff is clean-shaven in the present, but in a flashback to about two years earlier he has a goatee and shorter hair. He also has 5000 fewer synonyms for 'breasts' in his collection.
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Coupling / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Coupling / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: "The Girl With Two Breasts" plays with this, the latter half showing the same conversation twice: once from Jeff's perspective, then again from his Israeli crush's. (Her side has Jeff speaking improvised mock-Spanish, though he speaks English with a Welsh accent.)
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Coupling / int_2bbcd1c2	type	Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest
Coupling / int_2bbcd1c2	comment	Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: In "The Melty Man Cometh", Patrick doesn't succeed getting an erection during a hookup with Sally because he was falling in love with her.
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Coupling / int_2c3ec06e	type	Better as Friends
Coupling / int_2c3ec06e	comment	Better as Friends: Susan and Patrick only saw each other once a week while they were dating, and Susan wasnâ€™t even being faithful. They get along quite famously after separating.
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Coupling / int_2cc736e4	type	Bondage Is Bad
Coupling / int_2cc736e4	comment	Bondage Is Bad: Averted in the episode "The Freckle, the Key, and the Couple Who Weren't". Jeff and his girlfriend are shown to take part in bondage as part of their relationship and it is shown as part of a Safe, Sane, and Consensual relationship... or would be if Jeff weren't so bad at it. Also discussed in that Julia's possessive ex-boyfriend walks in on them and misunderstands what's going on.
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Coupling / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Coupling / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Jane. Compared to Susan she's still pretty shallow but she's actually less insane and more sensitive to others' feelings than she appears to be. She is, however, still an Attention Whore. Susan, on the other hand, is actually more shallow than she appears to be.
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Coupling / int_2e285a8b	type	Person as Verb
Coupling / int_2e285a8b	comment	Person as Verb: From "The Cupboard of Patrick's Love", when Sally complains that if Jane sleeps with Patrick, she (Sally) will be the only one who hasn't slept with him: Jeff does this in "My Dinner in Hell", and Patrick follows suit after Jeff explains:
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Coupling / int_2e5e04c0	type	Must Make Amends
Coupling / int_2e5e04c0	comment	Must Make Amends: Steve does this a lot. He's actually pretty good at it; even while drunk, as seen in "Split".
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Coupling / int_31c87ac	type	I Call Him "Mister Happy"
Coupling / int_31c87ac	comment	I Call Him "Mister Happy": In "My Dinner in Hell", he calls it "Junior Patrick".
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Coupling / int_33db913f	type	Open Mouth, Insert Foot
Coupling / int_33db913f	comment	Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Jeff when he talks to any woman always inserts two feet and then some.
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Coupling / int_340575a7	type	Girl on Girl Is Hot
Coupling / int_340575a7	comment	Girl on Girl Is Hot: Noted by every main male character, Steve in particular. So crucial is lesbianism to Steve's (ahem) solo sex life that he finds himself unable to give a sample at a clinic until Jeff fetches some porn from home to supplement the material provided. In "Nine and a Half Minutes", when Susan complains that Steve doesn't find her attractive anymore after becoming pregnant, she kisses Jane in front of him.
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Coupling / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Coupling / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Sally's reaction to discovering Patrick's engagement ring in the series finale.
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Coupling / int_387c103d	type	I Banged Your Mom
Coupling / int_387c103d	comment	I Banged Your Mom: A variant occurs when Patrick sees an ex of his in the bar, and wants to avoid her because he also had sex with her daughter. Turns out, though, that she actually is the daughter.
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Coupling / int_38b33e8d	type	Love Epiphany
Coupling / int_38b33e8d	comment	Love Epiphany: After Sally and Patrick unsuccessfully try to sleep together for the first time, Sally visits again and the two get worked-up to try it again. As the two privately think about it, the two have imaginary conversations where they both realize that they fancy each other. The revelation also "fixes" Patrick who suddenly has his "partner" ready.
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Coupling / int_39cee4cc	type	Team Power Walk
Coupling / int_39cee4cc	comment	Team Power Walk: Parodied in "Sex, Death and Nudity": "Stop playing Reservoir Dogs!"
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Coupling / int_3bf27a8d	type	Right Through the Wall
Coupling / int_3bf27a8d	comment	Right Through the Wall: From "Her Best Friend's Bottom":
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Coupling / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Coupling / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Jane's "long story" about her crazy twin in the season 2 finale.
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Coupling / int_3cb6468e	type	Bad Liar
Coupling / int_3cb6468e	comment	Bad Liar: Patrick has this problem, leaving him unable to keep secret the fact that he recorded another woman over his sex tape with Susan.
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Coupling / int_3d7b1b61	type	Twice Shy
Coupling / int_3d7b1b61	comment	Twice Shy: Jeff and Julia in "Naked". We even see their respective Imagine Spots of the terrible things they thought would happen if they kissed in the stationery cupboard.
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Coupling / int_42a055ac	type	Happy Place
Coupling / int_42a055ac	comment	Happy Place: In "Circus of the Epidurals", when Susan tries to talk to her birth partner Sally about the possibility of the doctors having to make "an incision", we cut to Sally sipping champagne in a white room, looking serene as a string quartet play Madame Butterfly. Susan's voice calling her then starts to fade in, then the scene cuts back to Susan shaking her awake. "Sorry... I went to my safe place." A later attempt to retreat there is interrupted by a giant scalpel blade literally cutting it apart.
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Coupling / int_4394b4be	type	Messy Hair
Coupling / int_4394b4be	comment	Messy Hair: Jeff. Lampshaded in "The Cupboard of Patrick's Love", when Jeff reminisces about his obsession with the television:
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Coupling / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Coupling / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: According to Jane, this is how she got the way she is. She went on holiday, pretended to be her own imaginary insane twin sister, and eventually it just stuck.
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Coupling / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
Coupling / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten: Some of the humorous bits of the show are of this nature: From "Size Matters": Steve himself gives one in "My Dinner in Hell": Happens twice in "Her Best Friend's Bottom" after Steve inadvertently sees Sally naked, and she insists he stop thinking about her bottom: Later in the same conversation: Patrick makes a strange one in "Dressed": Sally gives one in "Split":
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Coupling / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Coupling / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: Every male lead gets at least one, though Steve's are rather conservative.
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Coupling / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
Coupling / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: No reference is made to Steve's job during the series, but in a invoked DVD Commentary, Moffat mentions that Steve is, like him, a writer.
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Coupling / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Coupling / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the episode "Split", during Steve's unsuccessful attempts to call Susan after they broke up, the characters realize that they can confirm that Steve is the one phoning Susan by dialing 1471. Before they come to that realization, Sally asks, "Shall we say it together?", after which even the men say it with Sally and Susan.
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Coupling / int_4ab35cdc	type	Dead TV Remote Gag
Coupling / int_4ab35cdc	comment	Dead TV Remote Gag: One time Steve checks the TV remote just to discover that there are no batteries in it. He tells his new girlfriend Susan of this and is surprised when she goes to her nightstand to retrieve some batteries but finds those are also dead before opening upÂ a drawer to reveal several hugeÂ multipacks of spare batteries.
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Coupling / int_4dc88e20	type	Stop Being Stereotypical
Coupling / int_4dc88e20	comment	Stop Being Stereotypical: In "Size Matters", Sally gets mad when Howard, a gay friend (whom Jane believes to be her boyfriend) agrees with Jeff's eccentric views on the advantages of homosexuality, and exclaims "That's homophobic, you stupid queen!" Howard may well have just been winding Sally up anyway, because she got really snarky about him being a Tory earlier in the scene.
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Coupling / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Coupling / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness : in the pilot Susan's implied to be more of the player that Patrick eventually became, whereas Patrick is totally into his monogamous relation with Susan, even "saving up" for Susan instead of masturbating.
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Coupling / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
Coupling / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Plenty of women have slept with Patrick despite finding him intellectually, politically and/or personally repellent, if not physically unattractive, apparently just because he's so well hung. He's even described as not being great in bed.
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Coupling / int_53c3fa83	type	Granola Girl
Coupling / int_53c3fa83	comment	Granola Girl: Jane, though it's debatable though in how far this is just another mask she uses to manipulate the people around her.
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Coupling / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Coupling / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: Sally, by Patrick's girlfriend, probably because Patrick told her "that Sally is the sort of woman who...is a lesbian." She is oblivious to this, however, and it leads to a wacky misunderstanding, of course. See One Dialogue, Two Conversations. Happens earlier in "Inferno" when the gang mistakes Jane's therapist for her lesbian lover and the therapist mistakes Patrick for gay due to his haircut. Also happens to Patrick in "Gotcha", when an old flame seemingly mistakes him for an old friend of hers who's gay. Jeff is perhaps a little too quick to play along by pretending to be Patrick's boyfriend. It's eventually revealed that said old flame knew all along that it was Patrick, and she was just messing with him to get back at him for the fact that he shagged her mum as well.
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Coupling / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Coupling / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: When Susan is in labor in the series finale, she wants to have a natural birth, but tells Steve to ask her three times if she wants the drugs. Midway through, though, she changes her mind about this:
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Coupling / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
Coupling / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: In "Sex, Death and Nudity", Sally gets into this with an old woman who claims that Sally looked like her when she got married:
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Coupling / int_598dae92	type	Retargeted Lust
Coupling / int_598dae92	comment	Retargeted Lust: Jane doles out (possibly fictitious) stories of her past encounters with women in order to interest men.
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Coupling / int_59938d30	type	Better than Sex
Coupling / int_59938d30	comment	Better than Sex: Jeff once said this in "The Cupboard of Patrick's Love" of a childhood activity that involved writing the word "naked" hundreds of times on a sheet of paper and rubbing his face in it.
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Coupling / int_5a10c081	type	Brit Com
Coupling / int_5a10c081	comment	Brit Com
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Coupling / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Coupling / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Patrick is unashamed about his "love 'em and leave 'em" approach to women. Once he has succeeded in getting a woman into bed, he invents whatever excuse he can to get out of the relationship so that he can move on to his next conquest. Steve and Jeff note that he almost never refers to his latest partner as his "girlfriend" as a result, as it implies a level of emotional attachment he rarely forms.
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Coupling / int_5e965a73	type	Nice, Mean, and In-Between
Coupling / int_5e965a73	comment	Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Jane and Jeff are nice. While Jeff is a socially inept Cloudcuckoolander and Jane is an eccentric Attention Whore, both are actually very sweet and typically kind if a bit blunt. Hapless nerd Oliver also eventually falls into this category. Sally and Patrick are mean. Patrick is often oafish and rude, treats women like playthings, and has very low emotional intelligence, while Sally is incredibly catty and superficial and snaps at people at the slightest provocation. Steve and Susan are in between. Steve has his moments of surly, aggressive behavior and Susan can be an emotionally manipulative control freak, but both are capable, grounded people who care about their friends and are committed to making their relationship work.
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Coupling / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Coupling / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Patrick, in the series 3 finale. It's epic. And a subversion.
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Coupling / int_61c7d589	type	Bigger Is Better in Bed
Coupling / int_61c7d589	comment	Bigger Is Better in Bed: Patrick, so much so that a former girlfriend used him as a model for a sex aid—without his knowledge. In his personal opinion, he's also "got technique". Woman don't always agree - he's been advised that, when kissing, he should stop considering the epiglottis at the back of the throat a target and that he should stop trying to make nipples revolve like the knobs on an etch-a-sketch.
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Coupling / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
Coupling / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: Both the women and the men in "The Naked Living Room" when Jane/Oliver tells them Jane and Oliver were taking a stroll toward Oliver's apartment and Jane asked: "Can I come up?"
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Coupling / int_6563aeb6	type	Shameless Fanservice Girl
Coupling / int_6563aeb6	comment	Shameless Fanservice Girl: When Jane and Oliver finally open up to each other and Jane suggests that they watch some porn, while he's looking for something to watch she announces that she'll go and make tea, and leaves the room. When she returns, she stands in the doorway completely naked, and he is temporarily robbed of the power of comprehension. She talks to him casually for a couple of minutes, inviting him to her flat the following day, and when he's recovered his wits she smirks at him and saunters out to get dressed and go home, saying "You didn't have any nice tea anyway."
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Coupling / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Coupling / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Four series, and a total of 28 episodes, just barely more than a single American season of 22.
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Coupling / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Coupling / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Steve. Susan is an example of that more rarely seen species, the Producer Avatar.
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Coupling / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Coupling / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: When Jane tries to invite her therapist to a dinner party;
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Coupling / int_69cc2a27	type	Hilariously Abusive Childhood
Coupling / int_69cc2a27	comment	Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Jeff. Among other things, his mother threatened to cut off his penis with a guillotine. He still has nightmares about it.
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Coupling / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Coupling / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: The Sock Gap, as explained by Jeff in "Size Matters":
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Coupling / int_6c3f8ca8	type	Drama Queen
Coupling / int_6c3f8ca8	comment	Drama Queen: Steve, with his hypochondria and his passionate speeches about everyday annoyances.
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Coupling / int_6d0b942	type	Unexplained Accent
Coupling / int_6d0b942	comment	Unexplained Accent: Richard Coyle (Jeff) doesn't have a Welsh accent, and he was never asked to do one for the show. Jeff's mother has a very RP English accent, though we never hear his father speak. According to Steve Moffat in one of the commentaries, Coyle simply showed up on set doing the accent, and since he wasn't a well-known actor, no-one noticed for ages until they got to know him better, by which point the first episode had been filmed and there was nothing they could do. Most likely Rule of Funny - while it sounds pretty authentic and so isn't really a 'comedy accent', there is no denying that it gives a certain something to Jeff's bizarre sexual metaphors. Conversely, Jeff's replacement, Oliver, was played by a Welsh actor (Richard Mylan) who had to do an English accent in order to avoid the character being too similar to Jeff.
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Coupling / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Coupling / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: The series ends with the birth of Steve and Susan's child.
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Coupling / int_6da90c4d	type	Full-Name Ultimatum
Coupling / int_6da90c4d	comment	Full-Name Ultimatum: Jeff's mother's reaction to the (very many) times she caught him doing something embarrassing was always "Oh, Jeffrey..."
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Coupling / int_6ddc33	type	Drama Bomb Finale
Coupling / int_6ddc33	comment	Drama Bomb Finale: A rare Happy Ending version of the trope.
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Coupling / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
Coupling / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Moffat loves this trope. There's dozens of little tidbits in this and other scribblings that rely on One Dialogue, Two Conversations; here it's used to cement the "Fawlty Towers" Plot. The award-winning episode "The Girl With Two Breasts" is a variation, showing Jeff's cross-linguistic conversation with an Israeli woman from each of their perspectives. Combined with Multitasked Conversation with Jeff in "Faithless" when his co-worker asks him if he fancies her, while Julia asks him on the phone if he loves her. He simply answers, "Yes." Happens in "The Girl with One Heart" to Sally with Patrick's Girl of the Week Jennifer - Sally thinks Jennifer was fooling around with Jeff, but that she's aware that Sally is in love with Patrick. Jennifer thinks Sally is a lesbian and is coming on to her. Which is something she's totally okay with.
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Coupling / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Coupling / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: In "The End of the Line", Steve has been freaking out the whole episode about how he needs to intercept the phone so he can tell the woman he gave his phone number to that it's the wrong number. But when she actually does call, he freezes up, refuses to answer it, and does nothing as Susan puts her on speaker-phone and lets the whole room know what he did.
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Coupling / int_73bb403	type	Magnetic Girlfriend
Coupling / int_73bb403	comment	Magnetic Girlfriend: When Jeff gets a girlfriend, he is offered a hookup on a silver platter.
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Coupling / int_741e8e7	type	The Cast Showoff
Coupling / int_741e8e7	comment	The Cast Show Off: In the U.S. version, Chris Moynihan showcases his juggling and balancing talents in one episode.
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Coupling / int_74c3078d	type	TheRashomon
Coupling / int_74c3078d	comment	The Rashomon: Several times. "The End of the Line" is divided into several sections: "The End of the Line", where Susan tells off her French client Giselle and hears that there's a bar named after her owned by an Australian; "The Other End of the Line", where the Australian that Susan talks to is revealed to be Steve; "The Beginning of the Line", where it turns out that the Frenchwoman Susan was talking to in the beginning was actually Jeff's girlfriend Julia; and "The End", where all the misunderstandings of the episode are finally clarified for everyone. "Remember This" elaborates on the story of Patrick and Sally's first meeting (and first kiss) at a party in Susan's office: From Patrick's recollection of the story: From Sally's recollection of the story: "Nine and a Half Minutes" tells a nine-and-a-half-minute-long story from three different perspectives: Sally and Patrick, Susan and Steve, and Jane and Oliver.
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Coupling / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Coupling / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Jeff is Put On A Plane... to Lesbos.
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Coupling / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Coupling / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Sally and Patrick, from the first episode right up until they become an official couple at the end of season three.
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Coupling / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Coupling / int_762b9223	comment	"Where are you going" and "up to you" in Season 2's finale, "The End of the Line." Steve feels like he's constantly being asked, "Where are you going?" while Susan is annoyed at Steve's indecisiveness, answering "It's up to you" whenever he's asked to express an opinion. This is Played for Laughs until the end of the episode, where Susan is left uncertain of their commitment to one another and leaves Steve's apartment. Steve asks her, "Where are you going?" to which she replies, "It's up to you."
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Coupling / int_76e4fed3	type	Rant Comedy
Coupling / int_76e4fed3	comment	Rant Comedy: When Steve is allowed to break out of Deadpan Snarker mode, get ready to Pass the Popcorn.
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Coupling / int_7a21fc07	type	New Old Flame
Coupling / int_7a21fc07	comment	New Old Flame: Julia's scary squaddie ex shows up while Jeff rather unfortunately has her tied to the bed. After the episode resolves, Julia says the two of them have a lot of stuff to work out, and that ends up being the last we see of her. Apparently they moved to Bolton together.
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Coupling / int_7ab37e1	type	Miss Conception
Coupling / int_7ab37e1	comment	Miss Conception: Jane apparently believed that you couldn't get pregnant 'if you didn't really know the man'.
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Coupling / int_7b2118c5	type	Bait-and-Switch Comparison
Coupling / int_7b2118c5	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comparison: Part of Susan's snarky repertoire. From "The Girl With Two Breasts": Susan even does this in Sally's head in "The Melty Man Cometh": She gives a very mean-spirited one in "Gotcha", in response to Jane seemingly implying that she's better at turning Steve on than her. Even the audience reacts at her retort:
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Coupling / int_7b4240c8	type	Your Little Dismissive Diminutive
Coupling / int_7b4240c8	comment	Your Little Dismissive Diminutive: Sally has a tendency to use this a lot. Susan does this a few times, usually when annoyed at Steve talking about something with his friends.
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Coupling / int_80204ff5	type	Verbed Title
Coupling / int_80204ff5	comment	Verbed Title: The episode, "Flushed."
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Coupling / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
Coupling / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: The finale of season 2 ends with Susan discovering that Steve gave his number to another woman he met in a bar and breaking up with him as a result; Steve chases after her to try to make amends. Cue end credits.
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Coupling / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Coupling / int_8409a385	comment	"Nine and a Half Minutes" tells a nine-and-a-half-minute-long story from three different perspectives: Sally and Patrick, Susan and Steve, and Jane and Oliver.
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Coupling / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Coupling / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: The girls react this way when they nitpick at the appearance of the Israeli woman in "The Girl With Two Breasts":
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Coupling / int_8c3241aa	type	One-Hour Work Week
Coupling / int_8c3241aa	comment	One-Hour Work Week: Neatly averted, as most episodes either take place in the pub where the characters meet in the evening after work, or (more rarely) in one of their workplaces.
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Coupling / int_8cb01d0e	type	Category Traitor
Coupling / int_8cb01d0e	comment	Category Traitor: In "Size Matters", Sally accuses a gay man of being a traitor because he supports the Conservatives.
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Coupling / int_94274db1	type	Life Embellished
Coupling / int_94274db1	comment	Life Embellished: Moffat calls the series "my life as told by a drunk". In a specific example, he says that he wrote "Inferno" based on a similar situation where he was caught with porn in his VCR; however, he admits to adding the "spanking" part because it made the whole thing just a little more twisted.
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Coupling / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
Coupling / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: Jeff finally getting a girlfriend in Julia (averting Minor Flaw, Major Breakup after their first date is a disaster), which even manages to avert invoked Shipping Bed Death by mining the comedy of this poor woman having to manage a relationship with Jeff.
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Coupling / int_9ad6ea63	type	Depth Deception
Coupling / int_9ad6ea63	comment	Depth Deception: Jeff being dragged up to the invoked miniature guillotine.
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Coupling / int_9b7a0921	type	Split Screen
Coupling / int_9b7a0921	comment	Split Screen: Done beautifully in the episode titled, well, "Split". The two screens follow the women and the men, managing to keep the conversation and the story going on both sides even while focusing on only one group at a time. In the latter part of the episode, the split screens follow Steve and Susan an hour apart at the same place.
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Coupling / int_9da6354b	type	Reality Has No Subtitles
Coupling / int_9da6354b	comment	Reality Has No Subtitles: Played With in the episode "The Woman with Two Breasts". The Israeli woman that Jeff is talking to speaks no English, and no subtitles are provided because he, like we, has no real idea what she's saying. Then, in the second half, when the whole sequence is run again with her speaking English and Jeff speaking nonsense, we again get no subtitles, and have to rely on our memories of what his side of the conversation was. Plus, we get to find out that some of his assumptions about what she was saying were... less than accurate.
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Coupling / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Coupling / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Jane. Compared to Susan she's still pretty shallow but she's actually less insane and more sensitive to others' feelings than she appears to be. She is, however, still an Attention Whore.
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Coupling / int_9fdb1baf	type	Cannot Talk to Women
Coupling / int_9fdb1baf	comment	Cannot Talk to Women: This is one of Jeff's defining characteristics. It inevitably leads to him panicking when talking to women, leading to (among other things) him claiming to only have one leg, which the lady in question actually finds endearing.
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Coupling / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Coupling / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Pretty much Susan's specialty. She frequently goes from faking outrage (as an impish prank) to genuine outrage, which is especially awkward when the thing that she's now actually angry about turns out not to be the case and she's angry for no reason, but stays angry. Several of the series finales end with one of the couples seeming to break up for real (killing the comedic atmosphere) only to have them come back together with such speed and ferocity that it can make your head spin.
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Coupling / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
Coupling / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Jane is Steve's ex; Susan seems to genuinely loathe her, Steve is uncomfortable around her and no-one else seems to particularly like her, but she continues to hang out with them apparently out of sheer obliviousness to how they feel. Averted with Patrick. His relationship with Susan was never serious and once they break up, he almost immediately becomes friends with Steve and Jeff and is generally supportive of Steve's relationship with Susan.
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Coupling / int_a89efdf8	type	Wife-Basher Basher
Coupling / int_a89efdf8	comment	Wife-Basher Basher: Julia's soldier ex doesn't like men who hurt women, which creates a problem when he walks in on her and Jeff's bondage-session-gone-innocently-awry and mistakes it for something else.
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Coupling / int_ab17f66	type	Big Brother Mentor
Coupling / int_ab17f66	comment	Big Brother Mentor: Jeff tries to be this to Steve, even though they're the same age and Jeff is presented as pretty incompetent in his encounters with women.
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Coupling / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
Coupling / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: Steve, about Once A Series - topics include pornography ("Inferno"), the pointlessness of cushions ("Her Best Friend's Bottom"), and the sanctity of the toilet ("The Girl With One Heart"). From "Inferno", when Steve is forced to justify owning a VCR tape of lesbian porn: Even Susan has one in "Split":
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Coupling / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Coupling / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: There were several episodes titled "The [Man/Girl] With [X] [Body part]", such as: "The Girl With Two Breasts" "Her Best Friend's Bottom"
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Coupling / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Coupling / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The Melty Man, who holds his Evil Gloating speech to Patrick, not knowing that Patrick hasn't realized his feelings for Sally yet.
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Coupling / int_ad3e13c5	type	The Loins Sleep Tonight
Coupling / int_ad3e13c5	comment	The Loins Sleep Tonight: As personified by the Melty Man, whom Steve and Jeff explain to Patrick after he and Sally first attempt to sleep together, only for Patrick to have a "failure" for what he claims is the first time ever.
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Coupling / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
Coupling / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: Steve "It's up to you" Taylor, at least where women are concerned. Can't say no to girls in bars, can't stand up to his girlfriend, and couldn't break up with his ex without assistance.
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Coupling / int_b2b16a23	type	Holding in Laughter
Coupling / int_b2b16a23	comment	Holding in Laughter: In "Sex, Death, & Nudity", Jeff explains to his friends Steve and Patrick the concept of "the giggle loop". During a very solemn occasion, a person can create a mental feedback loop of thinking how inappropriate it would be to laugh, and then laughing at how inappropriate it would be if they had just laughed. Later, they're put to the test when Jane's aunt dies and they have to attend the wake. A giggle loop begins during the minute's silence, and all three men fidget, sweat, and hold hands to keep their laughter inside, until finally ... Jane bursts out laughing. When the rest of the room look at her, she says, "Well, you've got to laugh!"
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Coupling / int_b3d5d61	type	Real-Person Cameo
Coupling / int_b3d5d61	comment	Real-Person Cameo: Mariella Frostrup and Angus Deayton appear in a weird, possibly imaginary sequence in "Size Matters"; Mariella appears in a later episode ("My Dinner in Hell") for real. Later, Mariella reappears in another dream of Steve's in "Split".
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Coupling / int_b414c9e8	type	SitCom
Coupling / int_b414c9e8	comment	Sitcom
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Coupling / int_b42669c9	type	Porn Without Plot
Coupling / int_b42669c9	comment	Porn Without Plot: Discussed at length in "Inferno" when Steve is grilled by the women over the discovery of a tape of lesbian porn in his possession, which he gamely tries to defend as artistic "erotica" before eventually conceding that it's this.
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Coupling / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Coupling / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Sally's punchline to this speech in "Size Matters":
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Coupling / int_b7c45771	type	Single Malt Vision
Coupling / int_b7c45771	comment	Single Malt Vision: Subtly done in one of the many sequences involving a Perspective Flip; Sally is at a party and some people, especially Patrick, are acting in an odd or annoying fashion. However, it's eventually revealed that Sally is actually completely trolleyed and Patrick and his friend are actually the same person.
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Coupling / int_b892dd2d	type	Girl of the Week
Coupling / int_b892dd2d	comment	Happens in "The Girl with One Heart" to Sally with Patrick's Girl of the Week Jennifer - Sally thinks Jennifer was fooling around with Jeff, but that she's aware that Sally is in love with Patrick. Jennifer thinks Sally is a lesbian and is coming on to her. Which is something she's totally okay with.
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Coupling / int_b9d42f06	type	Plug 'n' Play Friends
Coupling / int_b9d42f06	comment	Plug 'n' Play Friends: Oliver is introduced as a blind date for Jane at coincidentally the same time Jeff leaves, and immediately after his introductory episode starts hanging out all the time with Jeff's oldest friend Steve and more recent friend Patrick.
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Coupling / int_bbb3a5a0	type	Splash of Color
Coupling / int_bbb3a5a0	comment	Splash of Color: In "Faithless", Jane has a black-and-white flashback to the first time she saw James, in which he's driving a bright red, very phallic convertible into a very tight parking space. Freud Was Right; Jane intends her ice-breaker to refer to his car, but instead, this happens:
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Coupling / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Coupling / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Susan, Jane, Sally.
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Coupling / int_c06ec61e	type	Corpsing
Coupling / int_c06ec61e	comment	Corpsing: In-Universe, thanks to Jeff introducing the concept of the Giggle Loop, the other guys start having this problem at Jane's aunt's funeral. However, the only one shown to break is Jane herself, despite not being in the initial conversation.
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Coupling / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Coupling / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": In "Faithless", Jane lets one out when she realizes that the guy she likes is against premarital sex.
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Coupling / int_c6074d96	type	I Am Spartacus
Coupling / int_c6074d96	comment	I Am Spartacus: From "The End of the Line": "I'm Giselle!" "In that case, I'm Dick Darlington!"
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Coupling / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
Coupling / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Every series ends this way.
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Coupling / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Coupling / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Steve Taylor almost shares a name with Steven Taylor, a companion on Doctor Who. Oliver also has Doctor Who merchandise in his bookshop, and when going to a dinner with the gang in "Bed Time", wears a sweater reading "Bring Back Doctor Who" on the back. Which became hilarious in hindsight after Steven Moffat started working for the Doctor Who TV series (although he was already involved in its Expanded Universe) and eventually became its Show Runner. From "Her Best Friend's Bottom": The Melty Man in "The Melty Man Cometh" is referred to as "Darth Vader without the helmet." In an imaginary scene with Patrick, another more specific Star Wars reference turns up: The whole show is laden with these, all highlighting Moffat's geeky nature: Steve describing the deep meaning of Alien to men everywhere, the Melty Man being shown as a Darth Vader parody, as well as various references to comic book superheroes.
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Coupling / int_c852ac43	type	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast
Coupling / int_c852ac43	comment	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast: Plot and humour both tend to rely heavily on this, particularly Steve's Character Filibusters.
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Coupling / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Coupling / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Jeff's mental stability is largely a result of the way his mother raised him.
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Coupling / int_c91408cb	type	Everything Sounds Sexier in French
Coupling / int_c91408cb	comment	Everything Sounds Sexier in French: In "The End of the Line", it's mentioned that Susan has a bad weakness for an Aussie accent. According to Sally, when they were visiting Australia, they always knew it was time to leave town when a new bar was named after her. As the episode plays out, it turns out that the French woman that Susan was talking to at the start of the episode was Julia invoking this trope on who she thought was Jeff.
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Coupling / int_ca03acbc	type	Freudian Slippery Slope
Coupling / int_ca03acbc	comment	Freudian Slippery Slope: Patrick gets stuck in one in the episode "Her Best Friend's Bottom": Happens to Jane in "Faithless":
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Coupling / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Coupling / int_caa28b82	comment	Jane and Jeff are nice. While Jeff is a socially inept Cloudcuckoolander and Jane is an eccentric Attention Whore, both are actually very sweet and typically kind if a bit blunt. Hapless nerd Oliver also eventually falls into this category.
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Coupling / int_cb092754	type	Musical Pastiche
Coupling / int_cb092754	comment	Musical Pastiche: In the intro to Jane & Oliver's segment of the episode "Nine and a Half Minutes", shortly after Steve elaborates on "the John Hurt scene", the show's jazzy score quotes the eerie, echoing, siren-like Leitmotif from Alien.
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Coupling / int_cbbf302c	type	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends
Coupling / int_cbbf302c	comment	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: The finale of series 3 had Patrick and Sally finally getting together, and series 4 gave Jane a love interest in the form of Jeff's Suspiciously Similar Substitute Oliver.
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Coupling / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Coupling / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: Started rearing its head in series 3 with the increasing Patrick/Sally tension, but became more noticeable after Jeff left. Jeff himself was going through this just before he left, especially in his last conversation with Jane - it's filled with plenty of jokes but it slowly becomes clear just how lonely and deeply unhappy they both are, especially when they get onto talking about their love interests who are supposedly 'exploring their feelings' which as Jeff sadly points out means they are actually being dumped.
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Coupling / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Coupling / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: The show itself, about couples becoming couples. Episodes: "Inferno" "Faithless"
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Coupling / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
Coupling / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: Some of the humor in the series comes from the characters falling into this trope. From "The Cupboard of Patrick's Love": Happens to Sally in "Her Best Friend's Bottom":
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Coupling / int_d2fe0360	type	Earpiece Conversation
Coupling / int_d2fe0360	comment	Earpiece Conversation: Jeff gets talked through a possibly-a-date with a co-worker in the consecutive episodes "Faithless" and "Unconditional Sex".
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Coupling / int_d41b202e	type	Birthday Suit Surprise Party
Coupling / int_d41b202e	comment	Birthday Suit Surprise Party: Happens in the aptly-titled episode "Naked". Oh, Jeffrey.
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Coupling / int_d4408b5d	type	Fidelity Test
Coupling / int_d4408b5d	comment	Fidelity Test: The plot of "Faithless" involves a rumor about businesses that sent actors to tempt people into cheating, so their spouses know if they're faithful. Jeff fears he's being targeted by his girlfriend when another woman comes on to him. Since this is Coupling, rather than do anything sane and reasonable, the others equip him with a radio and talk him through the encounter like he's an undercover cop trying to bust a drug kingpin.
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Coupling / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Coupling / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: Sally and Patrick have their moments when the Rule of Funny demands, but Jeff and Jane have bought a 2-bedroom maisonette in Cloud Cuckoo Land and only return to reality once a month to collect their mail.
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Coupling / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Coupling / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Jeff has one for everything sex-related. In the first episode ("Flushed") he introduces "The Boyfriend Zone"note the stage of a relationship where the man is entitled to certain sexual favors from the woman and "Unflushable"note a person who just can't seem to be dumped in the opening five minutes. There's also the Sock Gapnote the point where a man who's undressing has to deal with removing his socks lest he end up naked except for them, the Nudity Buffernote the time period between seeing a woman for the first time and getting stuck with the mental image of them naked and the (non-sex-related) Giggle Loopnote a thought during a mandated silence where you contemplate the awkwardness of you laughing in the midst of the silence, and every time you suppress that thought, the laugh you're holding back gets bigger and bigger. The others got in on it, too. Susan explains "The Fuck-me Fork"note a man's dilemma of either agreeing to sleep with a woman he isn't supposed to or implying to her that he doesn't find her attractive in the episode "Unconditional Sex". In "My Dinner in Hell", due to Steve's very awkward reaction to a BBC show explaining how men continue masturbating even while in a relationship, the characters refer to his habit as "whistling".
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Coupling / int_da9131af	type	The Baby Trap
Coupling / int_da9131af	comment	The Baby Trap: Discussed by Jane in "Gotcha": Susan attempts this with Steve:
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Coupling / int_db212ca9	type	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?
Coupling / int_db212ca9	comment	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Happens to Sally quite often. From "Flushed": In "The Girl With Two Breasts", when the girls look jealously at the Israeli woman at the bar:
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Coupling / int_db695dfd	type	If You Die, I Call Your Stuff
Coupling / int_db695dfd	comment	If You Die, I Call Your Stuff: According to Jeff in "Flushed", "porn buddies" are a variation in which the surviving buddy has to retrieve all the porn from the dead one's flat before their family goes through their effects, to spare the dead man's post-mortem embarrassment and help the survivor through the grieving process. Getting to keep said collection is of course merely a bonus.
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Coupling / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Coupling / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Jane has a strange moment like this in "Faithless" in discussing her job as a morning traffic reporter riding a helicopter.
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Coupling / int_e135b3de	type	Pass the Popcorn
Coupling / int_e135b3de	comment	Pass the Popcorn: Jeff is clearly very used to Steve's little rants. In "Inferno", he's not only sitting back and enjoying the show, he actually applauds at the end.
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Coupling / int_e13cafe	type	Office Romance
Coupling / int_e13cafe	comment	Office Romance: Late in Series 2, Jeff starts a relationship with his and Susan's new boss Julia. While Julia expresses concern about the ethics of this, forcing them to keep it a secret, the other girls don't see an issue with it, with Susan in particular becoming a Shipper on Deck from them.
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Coupling / int_e21715e8	type	Subtext
Coupling / int_e21715e8	comment	We do talk about Captain Subtext, but only when we mean something else...
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Coupling / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
Coupling / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": The "Giggle Loop"; also the memorable "Will you three stop playing Reservoir Dogs?" As well as Jane's very snarky (living) aunt.
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Coupling / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Coupling / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Jeff has many, the funniest of which is: A non-verbal variant is explained by Jeff in "Her Best Friend's Bottom" with "the prickles, the blurts, and the head laugh". Patrick and Sally once spent over a minute explaining to Jane's boyfriend how they weren't a couple. The comment that prompted this? 'Hello'. Also this, from "Unconditional Sex":
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Coupling / int_e8ca5cb3	type	Freudian Slip
Coupling / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: Lampshaded with Captain Subtext in "Her Best Friend's Bottom". From "Size Matters", after a discussion about when "dinner" really means "sex"; Occurs frequently in "Gotcha": Susan makes one in "The End of the Line":
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Coupling / int_ea0a3d	type	The Tell
Coupling / int_ea0a3d	comment	The Tell: Steve, to Susan; "You only say 'apparently' when you're annoyed about something." In "Her Best Friend's Bottom", Jeff discusses the pattern when someone is lying; "The prickles, the blurts, and the head laugh."
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Coupling / int_f09afb0	type	Digging Yourself Deeper
Coupling / int_f09afb0	comment	Digging Yourself Deeper: Jeff, in spades - the trope was formerly named for Jeff's epic "Bucket of Ears" speech in "The Girl With Two Breasts". Steve has his moments, too.
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Coupling / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Coupling / int_f5a3e496	comment	Conversely, Jeff's replacement, Oliver, was played by a Welsh actor (Richard Mylan) who had to do an English accent in order to avoid the character being too similar to Jeff.
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Coupling / int_f61d4485	type	Waking Non Sequitur
Coupling / int_f61d4485	comment	Waking Non Sequitur: In "Circus of the Epidurals", when Susan attempts to have a frank conversation with Sally about how the doctors may need to make an incision to facilitate her giving birth, Sally tries to retreat to her Happy Place. A giant scalpel intrudes on her serenity, and she snaps out of it screaming, "Mummy, I'll be good!"
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Coupling / int_f76b8969	type	Anthropomorphic Personification
Coupling / int_f76b8969	comment	Anthropomorphic Personification: We do not talk about the Melty Man! We do talk about Captain Subtext, but only when we mean something else...
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Coupling / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
Coupling / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: Jane on the "paracetamol" in Jane & The Truth Snake.
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Coupling / int_fa712e27	type	Gay Conservative
Coupling / int_fa712e27	comment	Gay Conservative: Howard, Jane's "date" in "Size Matters".
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Coupling / int_fb72ee2e	type	Swallow the Key
Coupling / int_fb72ee2e	comment	Swallow the Key: Done accidentally in "The Freckle, The Key, and The Couple Who Weren't", when Jeff Murdock holds the key to his girlfriend's handcuffs in his mouth and then does his best Darth Vader impression. He spends the episode trying to find a way to get it out before she realizes what's gone wrong.
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Coupling / int_fb7cc1ff	type	Master of the Mixed Message
Coupling / int_fb7cc1ff	comment	Master of the Mixed Message: Played with; one episode revolves around Jeff, who has a girlfriend, being convinced a work colleague is one of these, when she's really very up-front about the fact that she wants to have an affair with him. Gets to the point where the whole gang, sitting on the other end of an Earpiece Conversation (with the women there to "translate"), hear the following:
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Coupling / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
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Coupling / int_ff555c8f	comment	Cross-Referenced Titles: Stephen Moffat is rather fond of this trope, hence... "The Girl With Two Breasts", "The Man With Two Legs" and "The Girl With One Heart". Two consecutive episodes titled "Naked" and "Dressed". The final series begins with "9 And A Half Minutes" and ends with "9 And A Half Months".
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