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Drop the Dead Donkey

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Drop the Dead Donkey	comment	Drop the Dead Donkey was a 1990s British TV comedy by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin, set in the newsroom of Globelink news, recently acquired by megalomaniacal billionaire Sir Royston Merchant, who has installed the sycophantic Gus Hedges (Robert Duncan) as chief executive. The station is nominally run by nervous editor George Dent (Jeff Rawle), assisted by Alex Pates (Haydn Gwynne) in Series 1-2 and Helen Cooper (Ingrid Lacey) in Series 3-6. In front of the camera are two bitter rival newsreaders, grumpy veteran Henry Davenport (David Swift) and snobbish newcomer Sally Smedley (Victoria Wicks), and amoral star field reporter Damien Day (Stephen Tompkinson). Other office staff include sub-editor Dave Charnley (Neil Pearson) and, from Series 2-6, sociopathic office assistant Joy Merryweather (Susannah Doyle). Aside from attacking politicians across the political spectrum, the show centred on the war of egos between newsreaders, the inability of editors to avoid the tabloidisation of their programme and the wickedly black banter and office terrorism between the rest of the staff.Much like South Park, the show was produced close enough to its airtime that constant Take Thats were made to weekly issues. Possibly the most cynical look at a newsroom ever—and that's with some stiff competition.Because of the show's topicality, new introductions were added for reruns and DVD releases summarising each episode's historical context.In case you were wondering, the title refers to a filler article (a story about a donkey dying) that's been lined up to pad out the bulletin, falling foul of a real story breaking.A stage adaptation called Drop the Dead Donkey: The Reawakening!, written by Hamilton and Jenkin and starring the original cast (save for the late David Swift and Haydn Gwynne), is set to premiere in January 2024.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_11630eaa	type	The Gambling Addict
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_11630eaa	comment	The Gambling Addict: Dave.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: The voice of Gerry the cameraman is writer Andy Hamilton. Also in the final episode, one of the removal men carrying out the furniture from the Globelink office is Guy Jenkin, the other writer.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Sir Royston for any media baron, e.g. Robert Maxwell or Rupert Murdoch. Wes Jasper, a TV host in the last series, is a very thinly-disguised Chris Evans (this one, not Captain America) on a equally thinly-disguised version of his show TFI Friday.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The series was always pretty dark, but the sixth and final series in 1998 dials it up to eleven, with the closure of Globelink hanging over the series. The Downer Ending that some of the characters get doesn't help matters either.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Each episode included up-to-the-minute topical gags that meant an opening narration was included in repeats to give them context.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Damien really only wants his mother to be proud of him. Shame his grammar isn't up to the task while he's being shot at.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: The Chippendales episode had this, as does the final episode of series 5.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Sir Royston Merchant, the owner of Globelink News, remains unseen and unheard (until the end of the last episode, when he finally makes an appearance). Gerry, Damien's unlucky cameraman, is likewise never seen (except once, when swathed entirely in bandages), though he is a frequent presence behind the camera. Margaret, Georgeâ€™s horrible ex-wife, is also unseen until the last episode.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: George when Deborah joins a gang of shop-lifters. He holds a toasting fork to the leader's neck and makes him sing "the birdie song".
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Gus, although it's more to serve Sir Royston than any actual bureaucracy.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_20c99f6e	type	Hidden Heart of Gold
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_20c99f6e	comment	Hidden Heart of Gold: Very possibly Joy, considering the episode with her brother, and when she stands up for Helen by beating Damien up after he ruins Helen's dinner party and causes her to break up with her girlfriend, but — really well hidden.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The team have so much to report...
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_222ca815	type	Bathroom Stall Graffiti
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_222ca815	comment	Bathroom Stall Graffiti: There's a Running Gag about insulting graffiti in the office's toilets, usually about Sally and her sex life, or Damien and his lack thereof.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Covered in it.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_235a2706	type	Baseball Episode
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_235a2706	comment	Baseball Episode: The plot of "Baseball", where Gus drafts the staff onto the baseball team to get revenge over his brother.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Woman, in this case; Alex and later Helen.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_26b2747	type	Alliterative Title
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_26b2747	comment	Alliterative Title
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_26e7f210	type	This Is My Side
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_26e7f210	comment	This Is My Side: Henry and Sally have to share a desk and get into an argument about each keeping to his or her own side. As the episode goes on, the argument takes an increasingly militaristic tone with disputes about how one of them has made excursions into the agreed-upon neutral zone in the middle of the desk. In the end, Helen removes their desk entirely and puts two kiddie tables in its place.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_27ba9b64	type	What Did I Do Last Night?
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_27ba9b64	comment	What Did I Do Last Night?: George after the Christmas party; Henry after an ex-wife remarries.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_29e6dc40	type	HypocriticalHumour
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: A constant feature. In one episode, Joy refers to Sally as a "cold-hearted bitch from Hell", which could apply at least equally to herself.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_2acd8fe4	type	Yet Another Baby Panda
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_2acd8fe4	comment	Yet Another Baby Panda: An alternative name for the TV news practice of "dropping the dead donkey". Often forced into the show by Gus so the program doesn't have any room for stories that criticize the Conservative party or Globelink's owner, Sir Royston.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Sally. Often.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_2b812abd	type	Going for the Big Scoop
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_2b812abd	comment	Going for the Big Scoop: Damien, even if he has to create one himself.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: Henry.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_31df118	comment	Attention Whore: Henry, Sally, George's daughter, and Damien, according to his mother.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_3297cfbb	type	Evolving Credits
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: Series 3 updates the opening sequence to accommodate for the replacement of Alex by Helen and the increased role of Joy, although the general idea of giving us a glimpse of the crew's antics at Globelink remains the same.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_3547bebd	type	Superficial Suggestion Box
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_3547bebd	comment	Superficial Suggestion Box: Pointy-Haired Boss Gus was very serious about his various suggestions, and sign-up schemes. It was the rest of the staff that treated them all as a joke.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: While discussing a lack of newsworthy items...
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Everyone in the series, at one point or another, with even George having his moments.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Henry loses his job as a newsreader, but finds a job as a late-night radio host, a job suited to his outspoken nature, and actually quite enjoys it, with a similarly-happy Dave working as his assistant. Helen is unable to find another job in the news industry so reluctantly works for her girlfriend's delivery company. It's implied she actually doesn't mind it too much, plus she delivers to her friends Henry and Dave's radio station. Sally is increasingly unable to find work due to becoming middle aged and losing most of her looks, the only reason she was popular in the first place, and resorts to marrying an incredibly rich but abusive old man, who she reveals has a weak heart and expects him to die soon so she inherits his wealth due to him being childless. Her relationship with Henry by this point has also cooled from outright hate to more of a rivalry, and the two of them when saying their goodbyes to one another realise they've come to enjoy bickering and insulting one another, and admit they're going to miss it. Lastly Joy becomes a successful, famous and soon-to-be-rich artist, albeit a somewhat reluctant one due to her disdain for her art and art in general, only to find that she was being conned by the man who discovered her art and she was going out with who was pretty much one of the only people she'd ever felt comfortable around, resulting in her tying him up and exhibiting him naked at her new art exhibition as revenge.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: When Gus directs a crime scene re-enactment — adding murders which didn't occur and blood splattering on a bystander's cleavage.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: Joy Merryweather. And her pet scorpions.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Dave borders on being one of these during his Pet the Dog moments.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: George.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_499499e6	type	Written-In Absence
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_499499e6	comment	Written-In Absence: The only episode where George Dent doesn't appear on-screen is "Alex and the Interpreter", with the explanation that George was on holiday.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_4d0372b	type	Everybody Knew Already
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_4d0372b	comment	Everybody Knew Already: Helen agonises for years over telling her parents that she's a lesbian. After her father's funeral, she finally tells her mother, who instantly responds "Of course you are." They figured it out years ago and were waiting for her to tell them in her own time. And later, she admits she had "a bit of a phase" in her time.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: George gives up the chance for a life of happiness with his new love in Australia to nurse his manipulative ex-wife after she has a heart attack. Sir Royston burns down the building in an insurance fraud, but even then Gus is in denial that Globelink is closing and is left sitting in the condemned office, a broken man, having been utterly abandoned by an uncaring megalomaniac he's dedicated his life to. Damien finally finds the Amazonian tribe he was seeking, producing what could be a career-defining report in the process, only to be captured and kept as a captive "god", with his camera sacrificed to him by the tribe.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Alex rather than Helen is the assistant editor in series 1 and 2, and Joy is absent from series 1 and a relatively minor character as opposed to part of the main cast in series 2. Joy is also merely cynical and surly in series 2, as opposed to her vindictive, aggressive and borderline sociopathic characterisation from series 3 onwards. George is much more competent as an editor during series 1, compared to his portrayal later as pressures both personal and work-related begin to wear him down. The early episodes of series 1 also feature some slightly fantastical elements, such as the internal thoughts of characters upon Gus' arrival. These have disappeared by the end of the series.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Henry. He might've been very good looking in his youth, but that toupee isn't doing anything for him now and he still gets his leg over every other episode.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Gus, early on.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_5027a6d5	type	The Swear Jar
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_5027a6d5	comment	The Swear Jar: The office had a "Nessun Dorma" box for anyone humming the catchy opera tune that became the unofficial theme of the Italia '90 World Cup Tournament. Followed by a "Bad Maxwell joke Box" after Robert Maxwell died.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_54428f7b	type	Ashes to Crashes
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_54428f7b	comment	Ashes to Crashes: Sally's grandmother's ashes are spilled off her desk while she is out of the room, so the others try to cover it up with nicotine.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_544eb50f	type	Spiteful Gluttony
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_544eb50f	comment	Spiteful Gluttony: When Damien is undercover as a homeless man and unable to buy food, his long-suffering crew get revenge by feasting on burgers in front of him.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_59f0de2a	type	Not Himself
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_59f0de2a	comment	Not Himself: In "Don't Mention the Arabs", Sally acts particularly strangely - whilst she is usually an abrasive Jerkass, she has started acting kindly to the others, much to their bewilderment. In truth, it's because she has experienced a call to religion in the wake of the death of her grandmother.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Henry to Sally in the last episode: "You know, I'm going to rather miss this." And in an earlier episode, when Sally recovers from her period of Evangelism, during which she was polite to people and didn't react to Henry's insults, Henry is absolutely delighted to have her back to normal.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Damien sells himself as this, but most of his stories are doctored for added drama, faked, or engineered by him including actually starting a war!
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_61c2f627	type	Break the Motivational Speaker
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_61c2f627	comment	Break the Motivational Speaker: Gus brings in a psychologist for a psychiatric evaluation of the news team. Unfortunately, he's a recovering alcoholic and the various traumas of the team drive him back to the bottle. (DTDD likes its Black Comedy.)
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: "The Graveyard Shift" features only the regular newsroom set and cast.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Sally. Vacuous, elitist, uptight, homophobic, condescending Sally.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Gus's "The Reason You Suck" Speech is abruptly ended when Sir Royston activates a remote-controlled steel door to cut him off, mid-rant, only for Sir Royston to then page his assistant and ask "Who was that man?"
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Averted, as most seasons (1-5) are 12 episodes long, and only Season 6 (filmed after the end of the 1979-97 Conservative government, and thus noticeably light on topical humour) was the standard 6 episodes long.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Inverted with the dark, rude, sarcastic, downbeat PA Joy Merryweather. Sir Royston Merchant, whose initials are RM. As are those of two Real Life media barons, newspaper proprietors seeking at the time to break into television. Rupert Murdoch and the deceased Robert Maxwell.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_6c81c95	type	True Art Is Incomprehensible
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_6c81c95	comment	True Art Is Incomprehensible: Absurdly pretentious modern art abounds as Joy mixes with artists who love her sketches. The regular characters (Joy included) think it's all a ridiculous con, and a critic at a showing of her work suggests she's too naive to understand. When she knocks him out, someone else assumes he's an installation, and this happens again later when Joy discovers that the artist promoting her is just out to screw her, in both senses, and ends up hog-tied and naked as part of an exhibition - bottom line, do not mess with Joy.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: 1991's "Xmas Party", featuring a Christmas party which goes horribly wrong.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_738f4473	type	Documentary Episode
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_738f4473	comment	Documentary Episode: In "George's Daughter", a documentary crew visits Globelink. However, things are complicated by the arrival of George's daughter Deborah, who is perfectly willing to say in front of the film crew that Gus had a mental breakdown. By the end, none is pleased with the final result, with the only good thing that they can agree it does is making Sally look like a prat. However, whilst viewing the footage, they find that Damien gave Deborah Â£50 to set fire to George's desk, at which point an enraged George asks Deborah to destroy Damien's car.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: George's daughter Deborah has done everything from arson to bullying to dissecting a rabbit while it was still alive while IN CLASS.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_7fff034b	type	Kent Brockman News
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_7fff034b	comment	Kent Brockman News: The show that makes NewsRadio look like Happy Days.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Sally, season 2, "Drunk Minister": "I do seem to be getting all the depressing items to announce again...in the last two weeks I have announced to the nation—three air crashes, two rail crashes, six serious fires, two motorway pile-ups...three famines... and a live interview with John Gummer!" Also Gus, season 6, "The Final Chapter", ranting about his unrequited devotion to Sir Royston, "You leave us with broken minds! Dead souls! ... And scorched eyebrows!!".
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Henry loves to rant and bellow.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_8709b3b7	type	MedleyExit
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_8709b3b7	comment	Medley Exit: In the final episode, to Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?"
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: Sally decides to make a bit of extra money by agreeing to do a radio ad voiceover, but because of broadcasting regulations against newsreaders doing adverts, she affects a fake accent to hide her involvement, trying first Scottish, then Welsh. When the ad hits the airwaves, Henry recognises her voice immediately and plays it for the whole office to hear. As for her fake accent, Dave's reaction sums it up well:
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_8c55e307	type	Ultimate Job Security
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_8c55e307	comment	Ultimate Job Security: Damien because he gets the highest ratings and Joy because she's "the best PA we've ever had" and she scares Gus too much for him to discipline her.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_92163e88	type	Locked in a Room
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_92163e88	comment	Locked in a Room: Damien and Dave get trapped underground while potholing.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_96d2ce42	type	In Vino Veritas
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_96d2ce42	comment	In Vino Veritas: Henry gets drunk at his award ceremony.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Gus. Also Alex and especially Damien.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_991af300	type	Poke the Poodle
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_991af300	comment	Poke the Poodle: In one episode, George tries to emulate Gordon Gekko from Wall Street and fails miserably.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_9c4a7090	type	Springtime for Hitler
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_9c4a7090	comment	Springtime for Hitler: When Globelink is about to be shut down Joy believes that her contract means she'll be better remunerated if she gets fired first, but her attempts to do it fail: she tries to be aggressive, rude and disrespectful to her employers, but they don't notice the difference, and does things like making Gus's lunch with "used Odour Eaters and soap shavings" and openly admits to them, but everyone thinks she's just being sarcastic.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_9c550e26	type	Word Salad Title
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_9c550e26	comment	Word Salad Title: Word of God has it the title is only meant to sound like something that would be said in a high-pressure newsroom and, despite journalists' claims to the contrary, was completely made up by the writers. (Originally it was "Dead Belgians Don't Count" - the Swedish version was Dead Danes Don't Count.) A popular theory had it that it refered to ITN's flagship News At Ten, where editorial policy was to end every night with some sort of lightweight, preferably animal related, story. The "Dead Donkey" related to some sort of fiesta tradition in Spain involving dropping a donkey off the church tower - British animal rights charities exposed this sort of thing regularly, much to the irritation of the Spanish, who thought it was none of their business. The other sense of "drop the dead donkey" was when serious news broke - therefore the lightweight animal story about , for instance, plucky Brits rescuing persecuted Spanish donkeys, had to be "dropped" from the run to allow more room for the big news item.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_a2940ed5	type	"Begone" Bribe
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_a2940ed5	comment	"Begone" Bribe: In "Drunk Minister", Damien is trying to record a piece to camera about the economic woes plaguing British High Streets in the early 1990s, but he keeps getting interrupted. One of those interruptions sees a homeless man wander into shot and start grinning at the camera until Damien finally bribes him to go away... whereupon he returns with a whole crowd of homeless men, forcing Damien to pay each of them to go away (including the original man for a second time). In the episode's final act, Damien has to go out live, and all of the interruptions resurface at once, including the homeless men, evidently thinking "Well, it worked twice..."
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_a31c79f3	type	Paparazzi
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_a31c79f3	comment	Paparazzi: Damien doesn't stalk celebrities, but still has every other characteristic of an evil reporter.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: The pilot was filmed in the months leading up to the first Gulf War, and Dave asks Damien for his opinion on whether or not the war will happen. Damien gives three reasons why Saddam Hussein might declare war, the third much more succinct than the first two:
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ac50474b	type	Work Com
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ac50474b	comment	Workcom
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ad3e13c5	type	The Loins Sleep Tonight
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ad3e13c5	comment	The Loins Sleep Tonight: Elderly hedonist anchorman Henry confesses to Dave (in confidence) that this happened the night before. Naturally this spreads over the office like wildfire, and when his despised co-anchor Sally quips in response to Henry's computer going down, "Maybe it's your floppy." Henry bursts out with "YES, ALL RIGHT, I'M IMPOTENT!" right in front of a television crew who've come to do a This Is Your Life-style interview with him.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Dave, Alex, Helen, and Joy. Especially Joy. To the extent that, by the final series, even Dave and Damien aren't entirely sure whether or not she's being sarcastic or serious half the time.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Gus occasionally forces Joy to act as this for the station, even though she terrifies everyone.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Every episode, every five minutes, to every notable politician during the show's run. Especially Peter Lilley MP, who spends several series as the "Slimey Git of the Week" on the office noticeboard. It should be said that "Royston Merchant"'s initials, RM, were shared by two highly unpleasant newspaper moguls who at the time were branching out into owning TV stations. While Britain's TV is regulated and all news and current affairs footage is legally required to be impartial and even-handed, Globelink TV was meant to be an awful warning about the unhealthy power an owner can exert over the media he owns. There is no such regulation over British newspapers, which explains why Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch were - and arenote In Robert Maxwell's case, only 'were', due to his death in late 1991 - allowed to get away with murder. And in America, Rupert Murdoch owns FOX News. Where there is no regulation designed to enforce even-handedness in news broadcasting... The pilot opens with a swipe at a critically-panned film:
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_b5b4b485	type	The Bet
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_b5b4b485	comment	The Bet: A constant plotline, mostly between gambling addict Dave and Jerkasses Henry and Damien as a way of relieving boredom. At one point, Dave runs a pool for several weeks on how many ceasefires there will be in the then-current Balkan conflict each day.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: In "Lady Merchant", Gus is blackmailed into nearly sleeping with his employer's wife as she threatens to have him dismissed if he doesn't. The entire scenario is played for laughs, centering around Gus's inexperience with women, but Gus himself seems terrified of so much as touching Lady Merchant and even thanks her when she decides to not have sex with him after all. If the genders were reversed, the episode would certainly not be played as a comedy â€” especially as Lady Merchant is attracted to Gus because of his perceived virginity. In one episode the men are called sexist for hiring a stripper at a party, but the girls see nothing wrong in (as Joy puts it) "hurling sexist abuse" as they watch the Chippendales.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_bb222e09	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_bb222e09	comment	Danger Takes A Back Seat: Globelink News decide to make a crimewatch program, and Gus Hedges assures the police liaison officer that it's not going to increase the public's fear of crime for cheap ratings. Cue the title sequence showing a couple moving fearfully through a darkened street, while an ominous voiceover accompanied by creepy music tells how crime is lurking everywhere, waiting to strike... The music stops as the couple make it to their car, lock the doors and sigh with relief, only for a blood-stained maniac wielding a huge knife to rise up from the backseat.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: A once-a-season use of "fuck", which is usually directed at George.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_be192f18	type	Yes-Man
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_be192f18	comment	Yes-Man: Gus to Sir Royston.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_bf95550c	type	Tie-In Novel
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_bf95550c	comment	Tie-In Novel: Drop the Dead Donkey 2000, which was released in 1994 and which depicts Globelink in the Year 2000. Notably, the novel would later be contradicted by the TV Series, which has the place closing in 1998.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_c0336f72	type	Ring-Ring-CRUNCH!
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_c0336f72	comment	Ring-Ring-CRUNCH!: Damien to a car alarm that interrupts a taping.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_c0b01	type	Set Behind the Scenes
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_c0b01	comment	Set Behind the Scenes: Set in the offices of "GlobeLink News", a fictional TV news company. This includes the TV studio, with many episodes featuring the hijinks of the anchors Henry and Sally as they prepare to go to air.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_c631f304	type	We Want Our Jerk Back!
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_c631f304	comment	We Want Our Jerk Back!: When Sally converts to evangelical Christianity, though it's mostly motivated by an office pool on when she'll finally snap.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: In "The Path of True Love", when Helen's girlfriend Amanda is confronting her in George's office over not telling her work colleagues about their relationship and suggests she invite some of them round to dinner, Helen tries to tell her that, as they work in television, they have such heavy workloads that they have barely a moment to themselves. They look through George's office window and see Damien hopping on one foot while balancing a broom on his finger as Dave times him with a stopwatch and Henry counts the number of hops.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Sally was raised by her grandmother, who psychologically abused her. Joy's father was an alcoholic who abandoned his kids. Damien's mother never paid attention to him, even when he fell out of a tree headfirst.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ca198bc3	type	Paintball Episode
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ca198bc3	comment	Paintball Episode: Exploited as Damien, Gus, Joy, and George ignore all the rules so they can work out their grudges against their colleagues.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ce090f4b	type	Translation with an Agenda
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ce090f4b	comment	Translation with an Agenda: In "Alex and the Interpreter", Alex captures the heart of a passing Russian, who wants her to marry him in spite of her protests. Unfortunately, when she tries to lay him off gently, his translator, fearing for his job, translates it to the Russian as her accepting the marriage. It's only thanks to Dave giving the guy a negative view of his new fiancee that saves her from marriage.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: Especially when contrasted with what most British news networks are like nowadays, and to some extent even then.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ce9f550c	comment	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Done twice. Once with Russian (Henry introduces himself as a pregnant cabbage to a Soviet official on a factfinding exchange) and once with Japanese (Damien tells a group of Japanese businessmen to go and have sex with a porcupine).
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_cffafc80	type	You, Get Me Coffee
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_cffafc80	comment	You, Get Me Coffee: Never try to pull this on Joy. Not because you won't get it; but she has added things to coffee in-story that would get you an attempted murder charge in reality.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: Sally, Gus, and Damien - usually complete bastards - each get an episode which shows how sad and lonely they are. And in the final series, Gus and Damien get downer endings that can't help but make the viewer feel at least a little bit sorry for them, despite their general douche-baggery.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_d5b6d628	type	Black Comedy Pet Death
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_d5b6d628	comment	Black Comedy Pet Death: In "Henry and Dido", Sally brings her pet dog Dido to work. At the end of it, an enraged Henry kills it by dropping a computer on it. Some humor is mined from the awkward reactions of the team towards it.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: In the pilot episode, Gus proves an uncharacteristically adept manipulator of the Globelink staff even as the virus he uploaded to the IT system causes chaos. When the computers display everyone's salaries, Henry and Sally are outraged to discover that he makes Â£7,840 more than she does (Henry because he thinks his seniority means the gap should be larger, Sally because she thinks her appeal to advertisers means the gap is the wrong way round). Gus meets with them separately and offers Sally a Â£7,840 pay rise (ostensibly closing the gap with Henry)... and Henry the same pay rise (ostensibly doubling the gap with Sally), telling each not to tell the other, so that they are satisfied with the end result even though the gap is the same size as before. When the computers turn to printing sensitive personal information for the entire staff (which Gus claims was purely for security clearances if high-ranking government or military personnel visit the station) and they protest the invasion of privacy, he hands over both the disk containing the information and the backup copy... waiting until he is alone in the office to reveal he kept a backup of the backup.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_d84b22a5	type	Immoral Journalist
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_d84b22a5	comment	Immoral Journalist: Damien is the sort of reporter who would happily do unethical practices if it would make for a better news story, be it abusing the Empathy Doll Shot, making a woman recount her traumatizing experience over and over again, or lacing the foodstuff of cows with Fairy Liquid in order to highlight the incidence of mad cow disease amongst them, all to the point that he's even started a war to get a news story. This is Deconstructed as the show goes on - George tries to fire him for his practices and he struggles to get another job in Series 6 thanks to his actions.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_dc3b74bc	comment	Pointy-Haired Boss: The vacuous, hero-worshipping Gus, who talks almost exclusively in management speak. He would appear to be a living, breathing example of the Adams principle.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_dd60caca	type	Severed Head Sports
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_dd60caca	comment	Severed Head Sports: After Damien finally convinces Helen that there is a lighter side to his nature, it emerges that he has done so while editing footage of some soldiers playing football with a man's head.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_e18a3c59	type	Hilarious Outtakes
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_e18a3c59	comment	Hilarious Outtakes: In-Universe, Globelink has a program of their annual goof-ups shown during their Christmas Party. Highlights include Damien's cameraman being injured in various ways and a compilation of all the times that Sally has said "Now I'm not one to complain...".
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_e4f5affb	type	The Chew Toy
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_e4f5affb	comment	The Chew Toy: Dave, and especially Jerry.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen: Eventually averted, as both Sir Royston and Margaret are shown in the final episode. Played straight with Gerry the cameraman who only appears on-screen once, covered from head to toe in bandages.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial/False Reassurance: After Joy slipped some dope into Gus's sandwiches: Used as a running joke with much of what Gus says about mental illness and loneliness.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_e7fd5cdc	type	Brain Bleach
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_e7fd5cdc	comment	Brain Bleach: When asked if he'd work with Sally on a particular project, Henry replies, "I'd rather have oral sex with a diseased warthog!" This becomes a Running Gag right up to the end of the credits because his colleagues can't get this image out of their heads.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Pretty much every character, but particularly Damien.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ed3e90f3	type	Duct Tape for Everything
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ed3e90f3	comment	Duct Tape for Everything: Even for faking executions. Or, rather, retaking executions.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f247d841	type	Intoxication Ensues
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f247d841	comment	Intoxication Ensues: Damien, after getting high off the fumes from piles of burning marijuana at a drugs raid.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: The novel Drop The Dead Donkey 2000, published in 1994. It predicted that proportonal representation would lead to a rainbow coalition of scary right-wing parties led by Conservative Seb Coe, a Civil War in Switzerland, pirates in the English Channel, and House of Cards (UK) making every UK politician incapable of saying "No comment". Non-canonical, since apart from anything else Globelink didn't survive to the turn of the millennium.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f4d00fb0	type	Deadline News
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f4d00fb0	comment	Deadline News: A Running Gag is how Damian's sensationalist field reports always result in his cameraman Jerry getting injured.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Helen replacing Alex at the start of season 3 as the Only Sane Woman.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f67171cc	type	Empathy Doll Shot
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f67171cc	comment	Empathy Doll Shot: Invoked: Damien carries a teddybear named Dimblesnote named for famous BBC news broadcaster Richard Dimbleby around with him for disaster stories. And also a blood-stained plimsoll and a Raggedy Ann doll.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: In the ending, Helen tries to talk Sally out of marrying a very rich Obviously Evil businessman, until Sally reveals that she's seen his medical records and agreed to the harsh pre-nuptial contract because it guarantees her his fortune when he dies in a year or two. The last time we see them, she's leading him up a long staircase with a rickety bannister...
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f792ffe4	type	Beleaguered Assistant
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f792ffe4	comment	Beleaguered Assistant: Joy, when she's not scaring people off, and Gus to Sir Royston. The final episode drives home how Gus has ruined his life in service to a man who doesn't recognize or care about him at all.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f8b3d078	type	True Art Is Angsty
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_f8b3d078	comment	True Art Is Angsty: invoked Joy's doodles of hideous fates for her superiors are lauded as high art.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: George takes a high-class callgirl to his manipulative ex wife's wedding to make her jealous and pays her to seduce the groom, which results in the groom being punched in the face. In payback for Gus Hedges repeatedly undercutting her wages, Gus's cleaning lady urinates in his executive coffee machine once a week.
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Drop the Dead Donkey / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: George, usually a complete wimp, has held a thug at fork-point, paid to have Damien's car damaged by his daughter with a hammer, and tied up and tortured Gus during a paintball game. Made even more hilarious by the fact that aforementioned thug was played by an as-yet-unknown Daniel Craig.
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