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Fleabag

723 statements
141 feature instances
20 referencing feature instances

Fleabag	type	TVTItem
Fleabag	label	Fleabag
Fleabag	page	Fleabag
Fleabag	comment	Fleabag is a 2016 Brit Com created by, written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge as the namesake character, a dry-witted Lovable Sex Maniac proprietor of an unsuccessful London cafe struggling to cope with her Dysfunctional Family and the death of her best friend Boo.Originally an award-winning play for the Edinburgh Fringe, the show was commissioned by BBC Three as an iPlayer-only exclusive before being picked up by Amazon Originals for international distribution, with US distribution being handled through Prime Video. A second (and final) series aired on BBC Three in March 2019.
Fleabag	fetched	2023-07-27T14:31:23Z
Fleabag	parsed	2023-07-27T14:31:23Z
Fleabag	processingComment	Dropped link to AnAesop: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Fleabag	processingComment	Dropped link to AvertedTrope: Not a Feature - IGNORE
Fleabag	processingComment	Dropped link to Broadchurch: Not a Feature - ITEM
Fleabag	processingComment	Dropped link to CallBack: Not a Feature - ITEM
Fleabag	processingComment	Dropped link to ForeignRemake: Not a Feature - ITEM
Fleabag	processingComment	Dropped link to MissingMum: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
Fleabag	processingComment	Dropped link to StealthInsult: Not a Feature - ITEM
Fleabag	processingComment	Dropped link to TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
Fleabag	processingUnknown	MissingMum
Fleabag	processingUnknown	TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour
Fleabag	isPartOf	DBTropes
Fleabag / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Fleabag / int_143939c1	comment	Something of a meta-example, with the main image used by Amazon to promote the show in the US (and subsequently chosen for the front of the UK DVD) being a striking still of Fleabag with her make-up running, which is from the last third of the last episode. It's not really a spoiler because it tells you nothing specific about the show, but does mean that the whole series is effectively leading up to the reveal of what that image is about.
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Fleabag / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Fleabag / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: What she doesn't tell us is as important as what she does.
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Fleabag / int_188802c0	type	Spurned into Suicide
Fleabag / int_188802c0	comment	Spurned into Suicide: Boo, though she was only trying to injure herself.
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Fleabag / int_1a09b4f9	type	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
Fleabag / int_1a09b4f9	comment	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Between sisters Claire (Smart) and Fleabag (Pretty). While both sisters are considered attractive and make efforts to get along, Claire is serious, driven, and aloof, while Fleabag is charming and vivacious. However, people tend to have a higher opinion of Claire because she's successful.
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Fleabag / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Fleabag / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Stepmother excuses her real fur handbag saying it's OK because the animal had a stroke... whilst stroking it.
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Fleabag / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Fleabag / int_1e1afc1b	comment	The cafe itself. The play follows the last three days leading up to the cafe closing, and has a Framing Device of the newly unemployed Fleabag attending a job interview after this has happened. In the series, the job interview was replaced with the loan application interview (with largely the same dialogue), allowing the cafe to be rescued after all. Extended into Series 2, where the cafe has actually become quite successful.
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Fleabag / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
Fleabag / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Claire has given up booze in order to show solidarity with her husband who's trying to quit, but after the evening descends into chaos she hits the bottle. She also wasn't drinking because she was pregnant, but suffers a miscarriage. She needs the drink.
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Fleabag / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
Fleabag / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: The theme music for S2 is based on this.
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Fleabag / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Fleabag / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Fleabag's dad genuinely tries to do good by her, but her general... Fleabag-ness means that he's struggling to connect with her more often than not.
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Fleabag / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Fleabag / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Several of the men Fleabag dates act as if they're a protagonist in a more straight-forward romance, or a Rom Com, justifying their self-involved behaviour.
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Fleabag / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Fleabag / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Used frequently both in the show and in-universe. The end of the first episode has a drunken Fleabag cackling away to her cabbie about how Boo killed herself. He doesn't see the funny side. Fleabag dressing up as a masked attacker and jumping on Harry in the shower with a knife. "Surprise!"
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Fleabag / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Fleabag / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: As the series was adapted from a one-hour, one-woman stage play, which concentrates more on the cafe and Fleabag's sexual encounters, and not so much on her family, naturally a lot of extra content was added. In particular, Godmother is only mentioned in passing in the play so everything involving her was added for the series, including the statuette subplot and the sexhibition; and Claire is quite an important character in the play but it's suggested she and Fleabag don't really get along, whereas the TV series softens and expands their relationship considerably.
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Fleabag / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Fleabag / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: The Priest ends the wedding sermon with Psalms 31:25.
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Fleabag / int_25b4ad2f	type	Surprisingly Happy Ending
Fleabag / int_25b4ad2f	comment	Series 1: Although it's a Surprisingly Happy Ending for the protagonist, it's not so much for anyone else. Both Claire and her father are still in relationships with truly horrible people, Claire has turned down her dream job, Martin has turned Claire against her sister, and the Fourth Wall that went up between us and the protagonist during the final episode is still in place. The last at least is undone by the start of series 2.
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Fleabag / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Fleabag / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: A woman at the silent retreat in episode 4 is seen frantically attempting to shoo away a wasp without making any noise. Gets a call back in the following scene; someone has written "I've been stung by a wasp!" on the blackboard.
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Fleabag / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Fleabag / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Godmother, by the bucketload. She's relentlessly condescending, rude or overtly offensive towards Fleabag, but almost never drops her chipper demeanour.
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Fleabag / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Fleabag / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The Ominous Latin Chanting in the theme music for S2 is made up of Latin words for the genitalia and sexual congress.
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Fleabag / int_29ad1d69	type	Facial Dialogue
Fleabag / int_29ad1d69	comment	Facial Dialogue: Fleabag would be a very different show were it not for Phoebe Waller-Bridge's talent for this. Given a disturbing twist in the second episode of season 2, when her counsellor challenges her on her claim that she has no friends.
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Fleabag / int_2a4e8051	type	Sexual Karma
Fleabag / int_2a4e8051	comment	Sexual Karma: Arsehole Guy and Bus Rodent are both unpleasant people who also end up being lousy lovers. In contrast, when Fleabag and the Priest finally have sex, it's the first time sex is shown as intimate and emotionally charged on the show, lacking the usual comedy of the show's sex scenes. Plus Fleabag refuses to let the audience see it, showing she thinks it's special and refusing the normal voyeuristic element. This is Played With with the Hot Misogynist who is attractive and a Sex God, but that doesn't really make up for his obvious personality defects and Fleabag still dumps him for The Priest.
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Fleabag / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Fleabag / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: The lead character calls herself Fleabag in the original stage play. Although the TV show keeps the title, the character herself is never called anything at all. A real-life artefact no less; Fleabag is Phoebe Waller-Bridge's childhood family nickname.
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Fleabag / int_2cc5703c	type	Potty Emergency
Fleabag / int_2cc5703c	comment	What appears to be a Potty Emergency for Claire is actually a miscarriage.
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Fleabag / int_2f5790f5	type	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine
Fleabag / int_2f5790f5	comment	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Phoebe Waller-Bridge played a major supporting character in Broadchurch, in which Olivia Colman was one of the leads. The two had also appeared on stage together. Maddy Rice, who plays the needy waitress in S02E01, played Fleabag in the touring version of the stage play.
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Fleabag / int_2fc21a19	type	Distaff Counterpart
Fleabag / int_2fc21a19	comment	Distaff Counterpart: Fleabag and the bank manager. At first glance they couldn't seem more different, but both are dealing with the same crippling problems and guilt in their personal lives brought on by their own sexual impropriety. Their mutual acknowledgement of this helps them both Earn Your Happy Ending.
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Fleabag / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Fleabag / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Fleabag is intrigued by the idea of Claire and Klare and enables and encourages her sister to go after him.
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Fleabag / int_322426f8	type	Not Good with Rejection
Fleabag / int_322426f8	comment	Not Good with Rejection: Boo. She may have been the Only Sane Woman in Fleabag's life, but walking out into traffic as a deliberate act of Self-Harm in order to guilt-trip your unfaithful boyfriend into coming back to you? That's really not a good way of dealing with the situation.
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Fleabag / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Fleabag / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Most of what's in the play survived to the TV series in one form or another, but regular cafe customer Joenote a salt-of-the-earth type who rejects Fleabag's advances was cut, with some of his dialogue being given to Belinda in Series 2 instead. The play also hints that Boo knew it was Fleabag who slept with her boyfriend, which the series doesn't. In the play the guinea pig doesn't make it; it gets seriously injured when Tube Rodent (as he is in the play) mistakes it for a rat, and eventually Fleabag kills it in the middle of her finale breakdown
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Fleabag / int_33d5c59d	type	Relationship Revolving Door
Fleabag / int_33d5c59d	comment	Relationship Revolving Door: Apparently, Harry broke off and came back to Fleabag numerous times. Fleabag has observed that when he takes his stuff away, he always leaves behind a dinosaur toy. When they break up again, he takes the dinosaur, signifying that for this time, it's final.
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Fleabag / int_351205d2	type	Friends with Benefits
Fleabag / int_351205d2	comment	Friends with Benefits: Arsehole Guy.
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Fleabag / int_3573371e	type	Dinner and a Show
Fleabag / int_3573371e	comment	The second series begins with Fleabag tending a bloodied nose in a restaurant toilet and we're then treated to the Dinner and a Show leading up to it.
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Fleabag / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Fleabag / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: The main character's speech in the final scene of the first series manages to use the F word as noun, verb, adjective and interjection.
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Fleabag / int_3a3489f	type	Fourth-Wall Observer
Fleabag / int_3a3489f	comment	Fourth-Wall Observer: The protagonist is the only character who breaks the fourth wall, but she does it all the time. The Priest is seemingly able to observe Fleabag talking to the fourth wall, although perhaps only when tipsy. It's not clear what he sees; it may just be an awareness of her briefly zoning out, but at one point he glances in confusion in the same direction as her own Aside Glance. At the end of the penultimate episode, Fleabag actually forces a Sexy Discretion Shot by reaching out and tilting the camera.
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Fleabag / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
Fleabag / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall: Fleabag frequently speaks directly to the audience via Aside Glance, creating a relationship between herself and the viewers and giving them a deeper insight to her dysfunction. Significantly, her love interest the priest is the only one to notice this.
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Fleabag / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
Fleabag / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse/Distracted by My Own Sexy: Arsehole Guy is referred to as either "good-looking", "very good-looking", "really good-looking" or "almost too good looking" by everyone and is unashamedly aware of the fact. He has a huge photo of himself hanging on his bedroom wall.
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Fleabag / int_3be1cf38	type	Gag Haircut
Fleabag / int_3be1cf38	comment	Gag Haircut: Claire gets a bad haircut which leaves her traumatised and leads to Fleabag and Claire marching into the hairdresser's shop to demand compensation. When the hairdresser shows them the reference photo he was working from, it turns out that the style was actually exactly what she asked for—it just looks terrible on her. Subverted when it turns out that the colleagues she was trying to impress actually like it anyway.
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Fleabag / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Fleabag / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: In finest Brit Com tradition, almost all of the people appearing in the show are, to a greater or lesser degree, irredeemably horrible. Only Boo, Fleabag and the Bank Manager seem to show any sign of having the potential to be good. In Season 2, Fleabag is trying to be a better person. Claire also becomes nicer, and the Priest seems to be a genuinely nice guy. Martin has, if anything, become much worse.
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Fleabag / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Fleabag / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Series 1: Although it's a Surprisingly Happy Ending for the protagonist, it's not so much for anyone else. Both Claire and her father are still in relationships with truly horrible people, Claire has turned down her dream job, Martin has turned Claire against her sister, and the Fourth Wall that went up between us and the protagonist during the final episode is still in place. The last at least is undone by the start of series 2. Series 2: Fleabag and the Priest break up, but say "I love you" first. Fleabag walks away from the audience, showing less reliance on us. Claire chases after Klare. Dad and Godmother get married, but Fleabag's pre-wedding conversation with Dad has brought them closer.
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Fleabag / int_469e49de	type	Booze-Based Buff
Fleabag / int_469e49de	comment	The Priest is seemingly able to observe Fleabag talking to the fourth wall, although perhaps only when tipsy. It's not clear what he sees; it may just be an awareness of her briefly zoning out, but at one point he glances in confusion in the same direction as her own Aside Glance.
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Fleabag / int_4733b5a5	type	Saying Too Much
Fleabag / int_4733b5a5	comment	Saying Too Much: Boo seems to have been frequently guilty of this. After trying out some clothes in a shop, Boo rails in disgust at Fleabag's horrible dress. Fleabag points out she's been wearing it all day. When discussing what about themselves they'd change...
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Fleabag / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Fleabag / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: About the only exception is Godmother, who is a Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk all the way through: Fleabag herself sleeps around, including cheating with her best friend's boyfriend, and ruins every single relationship she's in. However, she's also very charming and—by Season 2—surprisingly moral. Claire, Fleabag's Aloof Big Sister. She is very repressed, sour, and snarky (especially to Fleabag) and blames her after Martin forces a kiss on her, but she also deeply loves her, and even wants it to work with Martin. Fleabag and Claire's father is a Useless Bystander Parent with regards to Godmother's manipulations, but it clearly comes from his deep grief over their mother, and he often tries hard with Fleabag, he's just too inarticulate to get it out.
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Fleabag / int_4864031b	type	Informed Attractiveness
Fleabag / int_4864031b	comment	Informed Attractiveness: Played for Laughs during the flashback to Fleabag's mother's funeral. Fleabag laments that she looks too good for the occasion, and everyone she meets (even Godmother) remarks upon just how stunning she looks. Of course, she looks exactly the same as every other time we see her.
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Fleabag / int_489b4e34	type	In-Universe Camera
Fleabag / int_489b4e34	comment	In-Universe Camera: The Wham Shot which concludes the penultimate episode takes Fleabag's Fourth-Wall Observer status to a different level by having her reach out and physically tilt the camera.
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Fleabag / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Fleabag / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Claire in the Season 1 finale, after Fleabag begs her to believe her about her husband trying to kiss her: Claire drops one in the Series 2 premiere: In Season 2, when the Priest first seems to briefly notice Fleabag breaking the fourth wall.
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Fleabag / int_4eb2ce94	type	Sensitivity Training
Fleabag / int_4eb2ce94	comment	Sensitivity Training: The "Better Man" course in episode 4, where men learn how not to treat their female co-workers.
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Fleabag / int_5103ab7b	type	Sexy Backless Outfit
Fleabag / int_5103ab7b	comment	Sexy Backless Outfit: The first shot of series 2 shows Fleabag wearing one of these, and a front shot shows the same jumpsuit also features a Navel-Deep Neckline. The effect is somewhat spoilt by the profusely bloody nose however.
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Fleabag / int_51509ce7	type	Convenient Miscarriage
Fleabag / int_51509ce7	comment	Convenient Miscarriage: Claire has one in Season 2, Episode 1, as she seems to want to leave Martin and is becoming more and more unhappy in her marriage, she loses her pregnancy in a restaurant toilet.
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Fleabag / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Fleabag / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: After running to make her meeting with the bank manager, a hot and flustered Fleabag removes her top... only to reveal nothing but underwear underneath. Given the bank's recent brush with a sexual harassment lawsuit, she's immediately asked to leave.
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Fleabag / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Fleabag / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The first and last epsiodes feature Fleabag breaking up with a partner, being told by Dad that she takes after her mother, and stealing Godmother's statuette.
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Fleabag / int_53c3fa83	type	Granola Girl
Fleabag / int_53c3fa83	comment	Granola Girl: Claire has shades of this.
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Fleabag / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Fleabag / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Fleabag calls Godmother this at one point. It's hard to disagree with her.
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Fleabag / int_5670cddb	type	Troubled Backstory Flashback
Fleabag / int_5670cddb	comment	Troubled Backstory Flashback: What happened to Boo is gradually revealed through a series of these.
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Fleabag / int_5a10c081	type	Brit Com
Fleabag / int_5a10c081	comment	In finest Brit Com tradition, almost all of the people appearing in the show are, to a greater or lesser degree, irredeemably horrible. Only Boo, Fleabag and the Bank Manager seem to show any sign of having the potential to be good.
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Fleabag / int_5a194444	type	But Not Too Bi
Fleabag / int_5a194444	comment	But Not Too Bi: Fleabag is clearly very attracted to Belinda and kisses her, but despite the fact that she Really Gets Around, she is never shown sleeping with a woman or even admitting attraction to them except Belinda. Perhaps the only other example is her Pseudo-Romantic Friendship with Boo.
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Fleabag / int_618dc1ea	type	Parent with New Paramour
Fleabag / int_618dc1ea	comment	Parent with New Paramour: There is a great deal of friction between Fleabag, her dad and her stepmother due to this.
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Fleabag / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Fleabag / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: For a series with so much discussion of sex and so many sex scenes, "bits" are never really exposed. But take a close look at the newspaper the protagonist is reading when she first meets Bus Rodent, and you'll see it has an advert on the front page with a definitely Not Safe for Work image. Apparently, it's selling mortgages.
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Fleabag / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
Fleabag / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: Played for Drama. Fleabag is unable to admit how much she depends on Harry in Series 1, which eventually drives him away from her. Platonically, their father finds it impossible to ever stick up for his daughters or tell them how he feels. The Priest, on the other hand, is unable to spit it out, because that would mean admitting that he wants to break his vow of chastity with Fleabag.
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Fleabag / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Fleabag / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Two six-episode long seasons, each thirty minutes.
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Fleabag / int_66805a18	type	Race for Your Love
Fleabag / int_66805a18	comment	Race for Your Love: Discussed Trope in the S2 finale, ultimately leading to Claire doing this (offscreen) for Klare.
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Fleabag / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Fleabag / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Godmother points out That Fleabag's father is only getting older and do the sisters really want to be taking care of him all by themselves.
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Fleabag / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Fleabag / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Claire calls Fleabag in tears, and tells her that something awful has happened and she needs to come. It turns out that she got a bad haircut. (Fleabag doesn't think that she's overreacting).
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Fleabag / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Fleabag / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: As Dad and Fleabag prepare to meet mourners after Mum's funeral, he tells her "Buck up. Smile. Charm." Fleabag uses the same line back to him as she helps him out of the attic before his wedding to Godmother.
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Fleabag / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Fleabag / int_6d332aea	comment	In S01E06, there is a set-up which appears to be leading to the protagonist committing suicide in the same way as Boo. She doesn't.
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Fleabag / int_711714da	type	Opposites Attract
Fleabag / int_711714da	comment	Opposites Attract: In S2. Atheist recovering sex maniac, meet celibate priest.
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Fleabag / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Fleabag / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: When The BBC commissioned the series, one condition was that unlike the original stage play, the series couldn't kill off Hilary the guinea pig at the end (though there's a Bait-and-Switch moment for those who've seen the play and think they know what's going to happen). Waller-Bridge admits this was probably a good call. The cafe itself. The play follows the last three days leading up to the cafe closing, and has a Framing Device of the newly unemployed Fleabag attending a job interview after this has happened. In the series, the job interview was replaced with the loan application interview (with largely the same dialogue), allowing the cafe to be rescued after all. Extended into Series 2, where the cafe has actually become quite successful.
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Fleabag / int_7b50237d	type	Distinction Without a Difference
Fleabag / int_7b50237d	comment	Distinction Without a Difference: Martin tries to justify his behaviour by claiming "I'm not a bad guy. I just have a bad personality." It doesn't wash.
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Fleabag / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Fleabag / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Martin drinks far too much far too regularly, and is wildly inappropriate along with it. People don't mind because he's funny. Implied: The Priest is frequently seen drinking and offering drinks at all hours of the day, and hides bottles. His parents were alcoholic, and he's baffled by Martin & Claire's decision to quit.
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Fleabag / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Fleabag / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Fleabag accidentally instigated the death of her best friend and moral compass whilst Bank Manager destroyed his marriage over a drunken clinch. Neither have half a clue on how to make amends.
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Fleabag / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Fleabag / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: Something of a meta-example, with the main image used by Amazon to promote the show in the US (and subsequently chosen for the front of the UK DVD) being a striking still of Fleabag with her make-up running, which is from the last third of the last episode. It's not really a spoiler because it tells you nothing specific about the show, but does mean that the whole series is effectively leading up to the reveal of what that image is about. The second series begins with Fleabag tending a bloodied nose in a restaurant toilet and we're then treated to the Dinner and a Show leading up to it.
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Fleabag / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Fleabag / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Claire breaks out into an uncharacteristic guffaw at the silent retreat in response to one of Fleabag's jokes.
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Fleabag / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
Fleabag / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: At first Fleabag seems like a perky, quirky and somewhat brazen young lady, but quickly surges into this trope. In her defence, many of her friends and family turn out to be worse, and with even less self-awareness about it.
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Fleabag / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Fleabag / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Our narrator is gradually revealed as this.
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Fleabag / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Fleabag / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: We see nothing that would corroborate our narrator's belief that Martin watches extreme porn—she's probably just projecting her own faults onto him. And she does have selfish, financial reasons for wanting Claire to take the Finland job. But ultimately she's right about Martin stifling Claire's ambitions.
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Fleabag / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Fleabag / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In S01E06, there is a set-up which appears to be leading to the protagonist committing suicide in the same way as Boo. She doesn't. At the end of the same scene, Fleabag rants at the Bank Manager about how she fucked everything up in life and how alone she feels. The Bank Manager leaves her cafe, seemingly put off by her behavior. He's actually just going out to his car to get the paperwork for her loan application.
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Fleabag / int_88359b23	type	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
Fleabag / int_88359b23	comment	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Fleabag is tall, bawdy, and emotionally repressed, while Harry is shorter, more fond of romance, and prone to fits of tears and histrionic displays.
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Fleabag / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
Fleabag / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: The main character gives asides to camera all the time. At least, until matters come to a head halfway through episode six. Then she stops talking to us and starts giving looks of resentment that we're watching her, and after the confrontation with Claire and Martin she is actively trying to escape our gaze. After that the fourth wall goes up and stays up for the rest of the episode. In Season 2, she's still giving asides to camera. This is the first sign that she's backslid, somewhat, since the end of Season 1. Then, towards the end of episode three, this happens while she and the Priest are having a friendly conversation in the grounds of his church:
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Fleabag / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Fleabag / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Boo is only seen in flashback.
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Fleabag / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Fleabag / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: When Fleabag finds dad in the attic before his wedding, he tells her "I can't get out, I can't! It's a trap, I'm stuck!". Fleabag assumes he's talking about the wedding and assures him "everyone will understand" if he calls it off. But he's literally got his foot stuck in a mousetrap. To what extent he subconsciously feels the same way about the wedding is open to interpretation.
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Fleabag / int_8d0461e2	type	Destructive Romance
Fleabag / int_8d0461e2	comment	Destructive Romance: Between Harry and Fleabag. Harry's trying to be a kind and conscientious partner but Fleabag is in the middle of a slow-motion nervous breakdown and ends up treating him as an Extreme Doormat. Eventually he snaps out of the self-destructive cycle and decides Why Would Anyone Take Her Back?
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Fleabag / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Fleabag / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Things fall apart in a spectacularly rapid fashion in the final episode of series 1.
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Fleabag / int_8fe6b348	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Fleabag / int_8fe6b348	comment	Sir Swearsalot: Andrew Scott plays a very handsome and charming but particularly foul-mouthed priest.
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Fleabag / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Fleabag / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Martin gets hit with this. After Fleabag covers for Claire's miscarriage by claiming she instead suffered one, Martin callously states how it was probably the baby's choice to not be born. In the series finale, Claire not only reveals that she was the one who suffered a miscarriage, but throws the insult back in Martin's face before announcing that she is leaving him. After trying to turn Claire against her sister and being a general jerkass, its difficult to feel sorry for Martin.
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Fleabag / int_9182ea54	type	Crazy Cat Lady
Fleabag / int_9182ea54	comment	Crazy Cat Lady: Boo turns into a variant of this trope after Fleabag buys her a guinea pig as a present, and she proceeds to decorate the café accordingly. Martin points out how the café resembles a Room Full of Crazy.
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Fleabag / int_93b92ca4	type	Lousy Lovers Are Losers
Fleabag / int_93b92ca4	comment	Lousy Lovers Are Losers: A recurrent trait with Fleabag's Love Interests. Arsehole Guy is a Proud Beauty who's vain and self-involved and ends up being dull in bed. Bus Rodent is an awkward and posh Upper-Class Twit who seems clueless about anything related to sex, not even knowing what to do with a vibrator. Unsurprisingly, he turns out to be awful in bed. Averted to the point of parody with the Hot Misogynist, an arrogant misogynist douche whom Fleabag is sure will turn out to be a Handsome Lech who's awful in bed. But then he turns out to be a Sex God who gives nine orgasms in a single night. This actually makes her dislike him more, due to the idea that such a Jerkass being good in bed feels wrong.
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Fleabag / int_95f92a7b	type	Interclass Friendship
Fleabag / int_95f92a7b	comment	Interclass Friendship: Boo seems to be a lot less posh than Fleabag.
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Fleabag / int_9629d473	type	Vulgar Humor
Fleabag / int_9629d473	comment	Vulgar Humor: Usually of the filth kind—the very first scene of the show is an anal sex joke.
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Fleabag / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Fleabag / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Averted in series 2, where Fleabag is given a voucher for therapy by her dad and attends a session after initially intending to ask for a cash exchange.
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Fleabag / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Fleabag / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: It takes a second viewing to pick up on all the ways the lead character is using her Fourth-Wall Observer status to lie to us and herself.
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Fleabag / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Fleabag / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: The guinea pig pictures that adorn the walls of the cafe are tragic keepsakes of Boo. As is the actual guinea pig.
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Fleabag / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Fleabag / int_9cc1a329	comment	Bus Rodent is an awkward and posh Upper-Class Twit who seems clueless about anything related to sex, not even knowing what to do with a vibrator. Unsurprisingly, he turns out to be awful in bed.
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Fleabag / int_9cdef1ef	type	Lovable Sex Maniac
Fleabag / int_9cdef1ef	comment	Lovable Sex Maniac: The lead character, in spades. Or at least, that's the persona she tries to present to us.
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Fleabag / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
Fleabag / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: Harry's statue at the "sexibition", much to his concern.
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Fleabag / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Fleabag / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The first episodes of series 1 and 2 both end with Fleabag in the back of a cab, smiling at the camera at the end of a Wham Scene. The series 2 premiere also contains several shots that echo shots in the series 1 finale, such as Fleabag's confrontation with Martin and the long walk away from a disastrous family gathering (with her make-up running in the S1 finale, and a nosebleed in the S2 premiere).
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Fleabag / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Fleabag / int_9e0c3153	comment	Godmother shrieks "What. A. CUNT!" after the Priest withdraws from officiating her wedding.
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Fleabag / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Fleabag / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly-Long Gag: We spend nearly a minute watching as a freeloading "customer" in the cafe takes various electronic devices and adaptors from his bag and plugs them into the wall.
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Fleabag / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
Fleabag / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Harry, in spades, even though he's already going out with Fleabag she seems to have little emotional involvement with him.
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Fleabag / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
Fleabag / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: The show's sex scenes are tastefully done but when Fleabag and The Priest have sex for the first time, Fleabag forces a discretion shot by reaching out and tilting the camera away. Not only does this show that there's something special about this relationship, it also indicates that Fleabag is at last learning to have some control over her fourth wall breaking.
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Fleabag / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
Fleabag / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: The waitress at the restaurant is very annoying but everyone at the table tries to remain polite towards her even after she's punched in the face.
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Fleabag / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Fleabag / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: As a gleefully cynical Black Comedy, this should be expected. The opening of the second series lets us know we’re back in Fleabag territory with several of these in short order: showing our protagonist looking into a mirror in a glamorous outfit and setting, then revealing that she’s nursing a massive nosebleed; then revealing the other woman slumped, also bleeding, next to her; then Fleabag’s attention snaps to the camera, her expression suddenly shifts from rueful preoccupation to smirking glee and she tells us "This is a love story." What appears to be a Potty Emergency for Claire is actually a miscarriage.
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Fleabag / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Fleabag / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Claire's Finnish counterpart and love interest, Klare. It is a female name, but Klare is male. It leads to him being one of the nominees for the "Women in Business" award.
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Fleabag / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Fleabag / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Godmother is only mentioned in passing in the original play and has no part in the plot. In the TV series, she's a major recurring character and played by one of the most popular and acclaimed actors on British TV, Olivia Colman.
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Fleabag / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Fleabag / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Godmother is cruel, cold and condescending throughout the series. But ultimately ends the series with everything she wanted.
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Fleabag / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
Fleabag / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: The Priest in series 2 is a Catholic, and of course there is a Confessional scene, though we do also see a Quaker meeting.
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Fleabag / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
Fleabag / int_b070362d	comment	"She's not an evil stepmother. She's just a cunt."
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Fleabag / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Fleabag / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Martin might be a smug, sleazy jerk, but he's peeved at the idea that he would ever hurt one of Fleabag's guinea pigs. (Then again, she did just return to her cafe to see him creepily petting one of them in his arms, so it was a reasonable assumption to make.)
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Fleabag / int_b6cc7fc0	type	Dysfunctional Family
Fleabag / int_b6cc7fc0	comment	Dysfunctional Family: Not only Fleabag herself but literally every member of her extended family is seriously messed-up in some way. The priest's family seem to be this as well according to his descriptions of them.
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Fleabag / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Fleabag / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: About half of the recurring characters. And Fleabag isn't even the worst. That dishonour has to go to Godmother:
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Fleabag / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Fleabag / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision C Strike: "She's not an evil stepmother. She's just a cunt." The bank manager's reflexive "Slut!" probably counts as a Precision S Strike. Godmother shrieks "What. A. CUNT!" after the Priest withdraws from officiating her wedding.
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Fleabag / int_be977433	type	Good-Times Montage
Fleabag / int_be977433	comment	Good-Times Montage: Nobody else is getting any good times in this show, so the one character who gets a Good Times Montage is Hilary the guinea pig.
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Fleabag / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Fleabag / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Fleabag herself, in the Classical Anti-Hero mould.
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Fleabag / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Fleabag / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Klare. Claires Finnish work colleague. He is pleasant, enthusiastic, and supportive.
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Fleabag / int_c6a83b97	type	Rapid-Fire Descriptors
Fleabag / int_c6a83b97	comment	Rapid-Fire Descriptors: Fleabag uses this pattern sometimes when she talks to other people or when breaks the fourth wall and talks to us, the viewers. Describing herself in a humorous self-deprecation combined with genuine self-loathing: "I have a horrible feeling that I'm a greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt woman who can't even call herself a feminist." (To which her father replies that she gets all that from her mother.) Fleabag's rapid-fire description of her successful, highly strung sister: "The only thing harder than having to tell your super-high-powered, perfect, anorexic, rich super-sister that you've run out of money is having to ask her to bail you out.
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Fleabag / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Fleabag / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The protagonist is never named. Although the publicity calls her "Fleabag", even the nickname is never used in-universe and the credits simply say "Starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge" without referring to the character by any name at all. Several other major characters; "Dad", "Godmother", "Bank Manager", "The Priest", and recurring love interests "Bus Rodent" and "Arsehole Guy". Lampshaded in the final episode when Godmother is introducing her friends to Dad, struggles because she can't bring his name to mind, and ends up saying "well, I always call you 'Darling', don't I?".
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Fleabag / int_cd914c2e	type	AloofBigSister
Fleabag / int_cd914c2e	comment	Claire, Fleabag's Aloof Big Sister. She is very repressed, sour, and snarky (especially to Fleabag) and blames her after Martin forces a kiss on her, but she also deeply loves her, and even wants it to work with Martin.
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Fleabag / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Fleabag / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: There's sweetness in season 1, and bitterness in season 2, but generally, falling in love with a priest is easier to cope with than guilt over contributing to her best friend's death.
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Fleabag / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Fleabag / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: The cafe gets away with charging ridiculous amounts for sandwiches, and everyone just puts it down to London prices.
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Fleabag / int_d6b5f05f	type	Friendship Moment
Fleabag / int_d6b5f05f	comment	Friendship Moment: There's a lot of tension between Claire and Fleabag, but they're sisters who genuinely love each other.
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Fleabag / int_da4d59ae	type	Memento MacGuffin
Fleabag / int_da4d59ae	comment	Memento MacGuffin: Godmother's statuette appears as a recurring Plot Coupon throughout, but ends up as this following the final-episode revelation that it is based on Fleabag's mother.
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Fleabag / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Fleabag / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The apparent One-Scene Wonder bank manager turns out to be this.
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Fleabag / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Fleabag / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Fleabag makes a beeline for this towards the end of the final episode of series 1. She also seems to have crossed it before, when Boo killed herself.
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Fleabag / int_df4b69d6	type	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment
Fleabag / int_df4b69d6	comment	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: Fleabag, Claire and the delicious aroma of some canapés.
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Fleabag / int_dfb77c08	type	Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation
Fleabag / int_dfb77c08	comment	Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation: What Claire's "job in Finland" entails is so vague that her family all incorrectly assume she's a lawyer, because she's employed by a law firm. When she corrects them, they won't have it, Dad insisting "You are a solicitor."
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Fleabag / int_e11e88b6	type	Thousand-Yard Stare
Fleabag / int_e11e88b6	comment	Thousand-Yard Stare: Evident in the long walk back from the disastrous art exhibition. A still of this was the main image used by Amazon to promote the show.
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Fleabag / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Fleabag / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: Martin when Claire breaks up with him by getting down on her knees. Martin is defeated and goes along with it.
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Fleabag / int_e24e15a6	type	Has a Type
Fleabag / int_e24e15a6	comment	Has a Type: Harry aside. Fleabag mainly goes for aloof alpha-males.
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Fleabag / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Fleabag / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: One of the main reasons the lead character is lost without Boo is that Boo fulfilled this role for her. This is largely the fault of the protagonist and Boo's boyfriend sleeping together.
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Fleabag / int_e4b82f6f	type	Fascinating Eyebrow
Fleabag / int_e4b82f6f	comment	Fascinating Eyebrow / Eye Take: If the entries under Aside Glance and Facial Dialogue hadn't clued you in yet, Fleabag also gets a lot of use out of these tropes.
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Fleabag / int_e621b159	type	A-Cup Angst
Fleabag / int_e621b159	comment	A-Cup Angst: A running theme for our antiheroine. Arsehole Guy appears to have something of a fetish for this.
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Fleabag / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Fleabag / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: The bank manager in the first episode makes repeated suspiciously specific denials about his history of sexual harrassment.
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Fleabag / int_e87dcc7d	type	Emotion Suppression
Fleabag / int_e87dcc7d	comment	Emotion Suppression: Claire comes out with this corker: In Season 2, we see where this comes from: in a flashback to the day of Fleabag's mum's funeral, she's been putting on a brave face all day but then she finds her dad sitting on the bed looking lost. She sits next to him:
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Fleabag / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
Fleabag / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: Fleabag is exceedingly good at these, see also Facial Dialogue below.
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Fleabag / int_e9e28bd7	type	Sexy Priest
Fleabag / int_e9e28bd7	comment	Sexy Priest: Fleabag's main romantic interest in Season 2, played by Andrew Scott. Fans have even taken to unofficially calling him "Hot Priest".
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Fleabag / int_ec1572fb	type	Useless Bystander Parent
Fleabag / int_ec1572fb	comment	Fleabag and Claire's father is a Useless Bystander Parent with regards to Godmother's manipulations, but it clearly comes from his deep grief over their mother, and he often tries hard with Fleabag, he's just too inarticulate to get it out.
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Fleabag / int_f47bdd2a	type	Violent Glaswegian
Fleabag / int_f47bdd2a	comment	Martin is Scottish (with the implication of being a Violent Glaswegian) in the play but American in the series.
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Fleabag / int_f567146c	type	Aside Comment
Fleabag / int_f567146c	comment	Aside Comment: A stalwart of the shows' theatrical roots along with the...
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Fleabag / int_f568d693	type	Proud Beauty
Fleabag / int_f568d693	comment	Arsehole Guy is a Proud Beauty who's vain and self-involved and ends up being dull in bed.
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Fleabag / int_f688816f	type	Priceless Ming Vase
Fleabag / int_f688816f	comment	Priceless Ming Vase: The "Women In Business Award" trophy, which Claire warns Fleabag not to touch as it's very expensive. As soon as Claire is out of the room, Fleabag takes it out of its box to look at it, and immediately drops it on the glass table. The table is undamaged, while the trophy shatters into hundreds of tiny pieces.
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Fleabag / int_fbd1aeb	type	Living Emotional Crutch
Fleabag / int_fbd1aeb	comment	Living Emotional Crutch: For the protagonist, Boo, Harry, Claire, and you, the viewer all serve(d) as living emotional crutches. In series two she seems (initially) determined not to let the Priest fill the same role.
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Fleabag / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Fleabag / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In the fourth episode, the leader of the silent retreat tells those gathered that they can use a blackboard at the front of the room if they really need to communicate something. The next scene, a woman runs afoul of a wasp's nest, and in the scene after that the blackboard reads "I've been stung by a wasp" in the background.
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Fleabag / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Fleabag / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Despite being a heavy drinker (bordering on The Alcoholic) who really sleeps around, and, as she is at lengths to point out, not in romantic or healthy situations, Fleabag never looks even slightly worse for wear, as the Your Makeup Is Running page still shows. In Series 2, everyone remarks on Fleabag looking remarkably good at her mother's funeral. (She hardly looks any different.)
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Fleabag / int_feaf12e8	type	Survivor Guilt
Fleabag / int_feaf12e8	comment	Survivor Guilt: The main character and her father both have heavy doses of this. The former over Boo's accident-suicide, the latter over his wife's death from cancer.
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Fleabag / int_ff6d8ad9	type	Adaptational Nationality
Fleabag / int_ff6d8ad9	comment	Adaptational Nationality: Martin is Scottish (with the implication of being a Violent Glaswegian) in the play but American in the series. Dad, on the other hand, seems to be Scottish in the show, probably because he's played by Bill Paterson, a real Glaswegian.
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Fleabag	hasFeature	Audience? What Audience? / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	Beauty Is Never Tarnished / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	Breakthrough Hit / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	Ends with a Smile / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	Fourth-Wall Observer / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	Hot for Preacher / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	I Let Gwen Stacy Die / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	In-Universe Camera / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	Irish Priest / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	Lousy Lovers Are Losers / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	Lovable Sex Maniac / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	Nameless Narrative / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	No Fourth Wall / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	Pedophile Priest / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	Rapid-Fire Descriptors / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	"Ray of Hope" Ending / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	Sexy Discretion Shot / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	Spurned into Suicide / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	Transatlantic Equivalent / int_ec48eddf
Fleabag	hasFeature	Vulgar Humor / int_ec48eddf

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