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Desmond's (1989–94) was a British sitcom by Channel Four; it was one of their longest sitcoms of all time and managed to have a brief spin-off series in 1995.Desmond's was set in a hair salon in Peckham, South-London and had a large black ensemble cast, which was one of the first in British televisionnote The absolute earliest was The Fosters, which ran from 1976-77, and also starred Norman Beaton as the head of the family. It centered around the Ambrose family, but mostly the owner of salon Desmond Ambrose, who is constantly called out as a terrible barber by his family. The rest of his family provided the rest of the comedy, which came from the generation and culture gap between the very West Indian parents Desmond and Shirley, and their very English children, Michael, Gloria and Sean. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: Matthew and Porkpie. | |
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Second Episode Introduction | |
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Second Episode Introduction: Michael first appeared in the second episode while Tony is introduced in the third. | |
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Maintain the Lie | |
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Maintain the Lie: In the episode "Porkpies", the gang rally round to convince perpetual student Matthew's sister and brother-in-law that he's graduated and is a successful businessman. | |
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Out of Focus | |
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Out of Focus: Gloria and Sean featured noticeably less often than before in the last three series. | |
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Out with a Bang | |
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Out with a Bang: Sweetsticks, the former bandmate turned rival of Desmond and Porkpie, reportedly dies while having sex with a younger woman. | |
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Clark Kent Outfit | |
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Clark Kent Outfit: Sean, Michael and Lee are rather more muscular than their clothes usually suggest. | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Susu and Shirley respectively. | |
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British Brevity | |
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British Brevity: A considerable aversion, by Brit Com standards. All seasons except the first ran for 13 episodes, ending up with a total of 71 over six years - and it would have run for longer if star Norman Beaton hadn't suddenly died. | |
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Where da White Women At? | |
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Where da White Women At?: At least half of Michael's lovers, including his eventual wife Mandy, are White. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
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Christmas Episode: Was also the final episode of the final series. | |
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Token White | |
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Token White: Tony, whose addition to the cast was due to executive meddling. (At least, according to The Other Wiki). Also, Gloria's friend Louise. | |
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The Whitest Black Guy | |
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The Whitest Black Guy: Desmond's son fails a school assignment for writing an essay on being young, black and British because his teacher feels it has too much of a middle-class perspective. Or as his sister puts it "They're saying he's not black enough!" | |
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'80s Hair | |
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'80s Hair: Plenty of biiiiiiig hair, particularly since it's a show set in a salon. | |
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Thematic Theme Tune | |
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Thematic Theme Tune: | |
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Rich Language, Poor Language | |
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Rich Language, Poor Language: Michael and to a lesser extent Matthew versus most other characters. | |
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Person with the Clothing | |
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Person with the Clothing: Porkpie, so named because of his porkpie hat. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Matthew had "There's an old African saying..." There was also the routine where the others ask him what his university lecture of the day is, and he replies with something pretentious, to which the others respond "aww". Desmond will often respond to praise and compliments with a smug "Me know." | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: Porkpie, who has an history of infidelity, is nevertheless disgusted by Matthew and his support for polygamy. | |
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Double Standard | |
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Double Standard: Matthew, who is himself married and with children back in the Gambia, gets angry when he learns his Nigerian girlfriend Shola is also married back in Lagos. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
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Really Gets Around: Michael and allegedly Lee. Also guest star Melissa, who dates those two men and another one at the same time. | |
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The '80s | |
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The '80s: Michael is the archetypal 80s Yuppie, with double-breasted suit and enormous and presumably madly expensive mobile phone. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: There are references to The Cosby Show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and You've Been Framed. Joseph Marcell from the second of those programmes guest stars in one episode as a pompous African businessman. | |
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Frivolous Lawsuit | |
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Frivolous Lawsuit: An American pastor whose wife left him over suspicions of adultery, and who was subsequently defrocked, decides that the trim he got from Desmond is the root cause of all his problems and proceeds to sue. | |
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Spin-Off | |
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Spinoff: Porkpie, in which the titular character wins the lottery shortly after Desmond's death. It ran for two series (12 episodes in total). | |
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Composite Character | |
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Composite Character: In Series 6, there was a pompous slut called Hyacinth Green, whose name and character traits are a hybrid of Hyacinth Bucket of Keeping Up Appearances and Dorien Green of Birds of a Feather. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Sean's friend Spider, when renouncing his own career in Slackness music, says "I don't wanna be Britain's answer to Shabba Ranks. I am not ugly". | |
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