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Fresh Meat is a British comedy series from the creators of Peep Show that aired on Channel 4 for four series between 2011 and 2016. The show centres around 6 students attending university in Manchester who miss out on accommodation in halls and so are forced to share a house together.Hilarity Ensues.The main characters are: Kingsley, a Dogged Nice Guy with a crush on Josie, who isn't as innocent as she appears; Howard, a social recluse with only a slight grasp on normal human behaviour; Vod, Deadpan Snarker Lad-ette and self-proclaimed slut; Oregon, a pampered-yet-sweet-but-also-neurotic girl trying to escape her privileged upbringing; and JP - affluent but a bit of an idiot, who tries far too hard to impress those around him. | |
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Headphones Equal Isolation | |
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Headphones Equal Isolation: Vod, occasionally. At one point she fails to realise that the hoover she's using is turned off. Kingsley also has some, they are stolen when the house gets burgled in the second season. | |
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The Millstone | |
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The Millstone: Vod's mother firmly believes Vod is this, as she claims Vod ruined her life by being born, and even nicknames her "Milly". | |
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Brotherhood of Funny Hats | |
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Brotherhood of Funny Hats: The Stowe-Aways, embarrasing Initiation Ceremony included. | |
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Drunk Driver | |
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Drunk Driver: When a paralytic Josie decides to drive from Cornwall to Wales to gatecrash her ex's wedding, the less-drunk-but-still-a-bit-drunk Kingsley ends up driving her instead. | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Howard's, by his own admission, are said to be "excruciatingly embarrassing" in the final episode. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Brian's (platonic) pursuit of Howard definitely has shades of stalking. | |
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Gratuitous Spanish: Vod had a summer fling with Javier while she and Oregon were travelling in South America, but since Vod can't speak Spanish, Oregon had to translate for her. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: JP has a distant relationship with his father, which never gets a chance to improve because his father dies. It is implied Ralph has a similar problem. He says he wishes to go into politics as "it keeps the old man happy." Gender-Inverted with Oregon and her mother, which makes it particularly sweet when Vod sticks up for Oregon in front of Oregon's overbearing mother. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Professor Shales in the first episode, during his introductory class: | |
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I "Uh" You, Too | |
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I "Uh" You, Too: In the Series 2 finale: | |
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The Ghost | |
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Series 1: Paul Lamb the Invisible Man, who the viewers never see and the housemates claim not to. Revealed in the first season finale that he was around the whole time and had a mental breakdown because nobody ever noticed him, hence him leaving the house. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: When Howard decides to go to the pub as "a wolf in sheep's clothing" to learn about normal human behaviour, he is wearing a jumper with a sheep pattern on it. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Sabine, who became a new room-mate at the start of series two due to a misunderstanding everyone was too socially awkward to sort out. She knows she's disliked in the house, and this is not helped by the fact she dislikes the housemates and gives up attempting to talk to them after a few episodes. She's got a friend in Howard though, after they become "fuck buddies" at least. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: JP and Kingsley. Gender-flipped with Vod and Oregon. | |
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Gender-Equal Ensemble | |
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Gender-Equal Ensemble: Played straight with the six leads, with three guys (JP, Kingsley and Howard) and three girls (Oregon, Vod and Josie). Subverted when you include the other housemates they've had: Paul Lamb, Sabine, Candace and Javier. | |
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Fingore | |
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Fingore: Vod tells the others of a break-in where someone got tied to a chair and his fingers were cut off one by one until his gave up his PIN. | |
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Take Our Word for It | |
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Take Our Word for It: The homophobic rant Vod gives at a student union hustings in order to sabotage her campaign. All we see is "Here's what I think about the gays..." and "...And that's what I think we should do with the gays. Any questions?" | |
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The Friends Who Never Hang | |
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The Friends Who Never Hang: Howard and Oregon have almost no scenes together without the other members of the group present. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: After Oregon finds out her perfect boyfriend Dylan is Shales' son, she returns to the house and immediately starts knocking back tequila and whisky miniatures in very short order. Later on, Dylan himself reacts in the same way when he finds out Oregon had sex with his father. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Josie uncovers a picture in JP's room that he drew of himself hanging from a noose. He says he drew it for fun because of the stress of the upcoming finals. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Alpha Bitch: "King" Ralph is a male one, Boy Posse and all. JP tries to establish himself as one with Kingsley and Howard as his wingmen in season 3 ("The good [Kingsley], the bad [JP], and the ugly [Howard]"), but it doesn't really take. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The "freak out" episode has JP fish out a couple of shotguns when he's planning to defend the house against the people his mother intends to sell it to. Not only do he and Vod proceed to wave them around in a decidedly irresponsible manner for the rest of the episode while everyone gets steadily drunk, but JP then reveals he once shot a man accidentally on a pheasant hunt. In the end, the trope is subverted — nobody gets shot. In the burglary episode, Al the handyman gives JP advice that JP gives to the second handyman at the end, involving bolts, screw blades and socket heads. From the same episode, Sabine suggests that they could look for their stolen possessions in a skip. Josie is seen doing this in the final scene and find's JP's father's urn, much to her relief, before accidentally spilling the ashes out of it. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: A long-running gag throughout the series with proud posho JP. In the first episode, JP is the last housemate to arrive at Hartnell, and so gets the worst room... until he offers to pay Vod £20 a week to switch. In series two, he loses out on an invite to the BP dinner with Howard and Vod, but turns up anyway and actually gets in: Inverted in series three. After destroying Sam's charity fundraising efforts, he tries to placate her with money, but is flatly rebuffed: | |
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May–December Romance | |
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May–December Romance: Several examples (see Age-Gap Romance above) but the most significant one is Oregon and her affair with her English tutor, the married, middle-aged father Professor Tony Shales. It comes back to haunt her, again and again, all the way through to the series' finale. | |
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Mistaken for Murderer | |
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Mistaken for Murderer: Vod, by Howard. | |
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Girl Posse | |
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Boy Posse: The Stowe-aways, a group of hugely entitled posh boys and JP's fellow Stowe School graduates who engage in cruel hazing, bizarre sexual games and look down on anyone who isn't them. JP is desperate for their approval. | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: JP's posh-boy slang, which, among other things, consists of him adding adding "-ers" on the end of absolutely anything. At one point he refers to his dad's heart attack as a "hearters." Howard likes the word "classic" a lot. The Stowe-aways seem to use the word "rape" to mean "cool" or "awesome." | |
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The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction | |
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The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction: Howard warns Kingsley about this when he pulls a beautiful blonde girl on their first night at the pub ("This does not happen! It's a trap! When you wake up missing a kidney, don't say I didn't warn you.") Turns out she's not an organ thief... she's an evangelical Christian, who talks Kingsley into setting up a standing order. | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely | |
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She Cleans Up Nicely: Vod gets dolled up in a pink dress and heels (belonging to Oregon) when Howard takes her to a swanky party hosted by BP. Turns out to be a set-up for a protest. Kingsley and Josie, early on. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: To The Inbetweeners. Joe Thomas plays more or less the same character in both shows, at different stages of higher education. Fresh Meat can easily be thought of as "Simon's adventures at uni" (whereas Will has gone into writing advertising jingles.) In terms of premise and characters, the show has a lot of similarities to Community, in that it's an ensemble cast comedy set at an institution of higher learning, featuring a Deadpan Snarker who puts in as little effort as possible most of the time (Vod & Jeff), a somewhat robotic introvert with possible Autism Spectrum Disorder (Howard & Abed), a Team Mom who doesn't understand the difference between being sweet and being nice (Josie & Shirley), a deeply neurotic overachiever who wants to make a difference but goes about in unproductive ways (Oregon & Annie), and a clueless rich guy who just wants to be included (JP & Pierce). Functions as a spiritual predecessor to Bad Education, which some fans see as JP becoming—of all things—a schoolteacher. | |
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Hufflepuff House | |
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Hufflepuff House: Kingsley refers to the gang in this way at the beginning of the show, arguing that JP is more of a Slytherin. | |
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School of No Studying | |
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School of No Studying: Count how many times you see anyone study. You won't need to use your other hand. No wonder Vod fails first year. This is taken up to eleven in seasons 3 and 4, where education takes such a backseat that you'd be forgiven for forgetting what the protagonists are even studying, and the character arcs almost never intersect with anything education-related. Then again, eventually most of the group's final grades are pretty mediocre. | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles: Jelka van Houten (Sabine) and Tony Gardner (Professor Shales), as of series three, replacing the spot normally reserved for Robert Webb (Dan). Strangely enough, Jelka van Houten only gets this promotion after being demoted from the seventh housemate to an infrequent guest. Faye Marsay (Candice), who replaces van Houten as the seventh housemate and main character, is never listed on the titles and ultimately treated as a guest. | |
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Femininity Failure | |
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Femininity Failure: When Vod dresses up for Al the handyman, she actually looks quite nice, except she ruins it with her obvious self-consciousness, her weird infatuation-induced sweatiness, and the fact she awkwardly removes everything including her hair extensions and false eyelashes before shagging him. | |
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A Party, Also Known as an Orgy | |
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A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: JP fondly likes to imagine that this is going to happen, despite a towering mass of evidence to the contrary. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Kingsley discovers Josie is sleeping in the same bed as him and Heather, causing him to splutter, "Why is she in our bed?!" | |
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Captain Oblivious | |
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Captain Oblivious: Oregon's "Insufficient funds? What does that mean? Is it the bank? Does the bank have insufficient funds to pay me?" | |
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Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense | |
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Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: JP, who is easily manipulated out of money by his frenemies, King Ralph and the Stowe-Aways. Oregon is so sheltered and spoiled, that when a cash machine displays "Insufficient Funds", she thinks it means the bank does not have sufficient funds to pay her. | |
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Artifact Title | |
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Artifact Title: Made more sense when they were actually freshers; as of series 3, most of them are in their second year. Candice still technically counts as Fresh Meat, especially as she becomes taken with Professor Shales just like Oregon did. Also in series 3, Howard starts working at an abattoir, and gets to bring home "spares". | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Pretty much everyone - at least, hidden from each other. | |
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Kissing Under the Influence | |
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Kissing Under the Influence: A wasted Vod yanks singer Riz by the shoulder and gives him a massive snog, only to find out to her horror that it's actually drummer Mark. | |
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Full-Name Basis | |
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Full-Name Basis: When someone refers to Paul Lamb the Invisible Man as "Paul", JP has no idea who they're talking about. Despite the fact he lives in the same house. | |
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Face Doodling | |
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Face Doodling: JP draws a massive cock on Howard's forehead in the very first episode. | |
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Embarrassing Nickname | |
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Embarrassing Nickname: Kingsley briefly tries to reinvent himself as "The Pussyman", and J.P. never lets him forget it. Vod (real name Violet)'s mother calls her "Milly", to her friends' confusion. It later becomes apparent that it's because she was born when her mother was a teenager and was her "little Milly millstone round my neck". More of a Painfully Cruel Nickname, really. JP is referred to variously as "J-Penis" or "J-Paedo" by his friends from Stowe. JP calls Howard "Preparation H" at one point in the third series, in front of his crush Sam no less. | |
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Training Montage | |
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Training Montage: Parodied and conversed when Howard is challenged to a fight over a library book and tries to prepare for it. We see him boxing with a beanbag tied to the ceiling, and he says "now I know why in the movies they always train in a montage — it's exhausting." | |
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Dresses the Same | |
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Dresses the Same: For a while in the first series, Oregon begins copying Vod's fashion and buying the same clothes, much to Vod's chagrin. Josie then does the exact same thing in series four, with her new "Jobbo" persona. Vod is even less pleased with this than with Oregon. | |
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Walk-In Chime-In | |
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Walk-In Chime-In: All the housemates come back from the hospital together, and while Josie tries to explain to Kingsley what happened to Heather in a way that absolves her of as much responsibility as possible, they walk in one by one, always just in time to correct her story; "No, you broke her arm". | |
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Girl on Girl Is Hot | |
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Girl on Girl Is Hot: When the possibility arises of a curious Oregon snogging a drunk Josie, JP is delighted. When they tell them they'll only do it if JP kisses Kingsley first, he goes for it. (While Kingsley has to be convinced. At shotgun-point.) | |
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Gender Flip | |
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Gender flipped with Vod when she falls in Love at First Sight with the handyman. | |
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Long-Distance Relationship | |
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Long-Distance Relationship: Josie and Dave. Dave is somewhat more committed to it than Josie is. Josie has a year left of her degree at the end of the series, while JP graduates and starts a job elsewhere, meaning they'll have to do this. The likelihood of them actually accomplishing this is probably dubious at best, given her track record with Dave... | |
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The Fellowship Has Ended | |
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The Fellowship Has Ended: The final episode, where most of the housemates finish their degrees and part ways, though downplayed in that some of the group do stay paired up. Howard lands an internship that requires him living in London, Vod and Oregon are off to Laos to teach and write a book respectively, and JP and Kingsley are planning on living together, with the former planning on using his connections to get employment and the latter living rent-free with an unpaid internship. Only Josie is left behind and alone to finish her degree, a prospect she isn't looking forward to. | |
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Official Couple | |
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JP and Josie hook up frequently over the course of Season 4, but both are reluctant to start a real relationship. They're an Official Couple during the finale, but are fated to a long distance relationship thanks to their different circumstances. | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love: JP does this in almost every interaction with Sam, from their one-night stand onwards. | |
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Annoying Patient | |
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Annoying Patient: JP comes down with mumps in series 2, and nobody wants to go near him. | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse: J.P., towards Kingsley, when the latter seems to be moving in on his crush Sam. He drops an iron off the staircase that almost hits him, serves him a bowl of risotto with shards of glass in it, and ultimately threatens him with a breadknife. Played for Laughs... at least at first. | |
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False Start | |
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False Start: Kingsley and Josie. Repeatedly. | |
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Brits Love Tea | |
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Brits Love Tea: Britishness is showing. With tea-drinking. Vod drinks tea, despite being the opposite of the stereotypical tea drinker. Candice starts making daily cups of tea for Howard for seemingly no reason; the faint sparks of their romance to come, in spite of Howard's paranoia and geek logic. | |
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False Rape Accusation | |
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False Rape Accusation: Not exactly, but Josie tells Dave that Kingsley "molested her mind" to get her to have sex with him. | |
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Does Not Know His Own Strength | |
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Doesn't Know Her Own Strength: Josie, annoyed at Heather constantly gushing about her new relationship with Kingsley, takes their self-defence class with Sabine a little too seriously and breaks Heather's arm. | |
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Bedmate Reveal | |
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Bedmate Reveal: A bedridden JP acts a bit weird and antisocial towards Kingsley. After K leaves, Vod's mum Chris pops her head out from under the covers. Kingsley discovers Josie is sleeping in the same bed as him and Heather, causing him to splutter, "Why is she in our bed?!" | |
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Right Through the Wall | |
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Right Through the Wall: The wall between Kingsley and Josie's rooms is particularly devoid of soundproofing. It clearly used to be a single room that has been cheaply divided in two, and there's a conspicuous "glory hole" between them. Kingsley is rather annoyed at hearing Josie with her boyfriend Dave. Later, when Kingsley starts dating Heather, Josie swaps rooms with Sabine to get away from the noise. | |
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Bad Liar | |
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Bad Liar: Oregon flat out lies to her parents about her degree and her union presidency, knowing full well it will end in tears. | |
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Twice Shy | |
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Twice Shy: Howard and Candice. Finally get together in the third series finale. | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: When Oregon stops having sex with Hasan and sees blood on her hand from his penis, she remarks, "That can't be good." | |
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Smart People Wear Glasses | |
Fresh Meat / int_3f4613f8 | comment |
Smart People Wear Glasses: Howards wears them. He's Proud to Be a Geek and in the final episode, he gets the highest grade of all the graduating housemates. | |
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Morton's Fork | |
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Morton's Fork: Kingsley gives Josie one at the end of the burglary episode: either she confesses to accidentally causing the burglary by leaving her keys in the front door and thus making her look bad in front of everyone, or Kingsley will do it for her and make Josie look worse for not confessing. Josie has a Heel Realization moment and chooses to confess. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Most of what Oregon claims she has done. Josie accidentally drills through a patient's cheek in her dentistry practical, the bit then comes off the drill when she tries to remove it, and then she finds the bit is stuck in the girl's cheek. Josie assures her that everything's totally fine. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
Fresh Meat / int_40c57041 | comment |
Manipulative Bastard: "King" Ralph, who among other things successfully manipulates JP out of several thousand pounds of his inheritance from his late father, and at a time when he's feeling particularly vulnerable. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
Fresh Meat / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: The group (sans Josie) ends their academic careers with varying degrees of success, though it's underscored by overall mediocrity, save for Howard. Still, they end on a (mostly) good note, save for Josie, who closes the series with a sweep of the now-empty house as she's clearly saddened by the prospect of a year alone as she finishes her degree. The song playing during the scenenote Carina Round's "Backseat" underscores the mood, describing relationships that "should have been forever" but are now just memories from one stage of your life. Anyone who's lost or is losing contact with friends they hung out with daily in college can feel this scene hit hard. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: Kingsley's venture into being a singer/songwriter. | |
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Big Brother Bully | |
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Big Brother Bully: Tomothy to JP in a downplayed example. He comes across as a Big Brother Mentor to JP and has set up a job for him in London, only to pressure JP into taking the job when JP doesn't want it, talking down to JP, ignoring his advice and even emotionally blackmailing him by bringing up their dead father. | |
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Heroes Gone Fishing | |
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Heroes Gone Fishing: Obviously, every time the group is seen in the pub. At the start of the second series, JP is shopping with Giles and taking selfies of him. Kingsley is seen practising his guitar a few times. | |
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InterClassRomance | |
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Interclass Romance: Josie and JP end the series as an Official Couple even though she has made plenty of derisive jabs about his posh status. | |
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Love Dodecahedron | |
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Love Dodecahedron: Howard's birthday party sees one come to a head: Josie is dating Kingsley, whose ex Heather has just turned up to find out that they dated for a while before she and Kingsley broke up; in front of both of them, J.P. accuses Kingsley of having an (emotional) affair with Sam, who J.P. believes he has "dibs" on. Much face-slapping ensues. | |
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Teen Pregnancy | |
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Teen Pregnancy: Grimly deconstructed. Vod's Hard-Drinking Party Girl mum had her at nineteen, and Vod describes their relationship as being more like sisters. Except she's resentful of having Vod, and tells her so frequently, even making a jokey nickname out of it. She admits to Vod's face that she went to get an abortion but was told she was too late. When Vod wasn't being the grown-up in the relationship she was hiding under the bed from "The Beast's" violent rages. | |
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Light Feminine and Dark Feminine | |
Fresh Meat / int_45a387bc | comment |
Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Josie is light, Vod is dark, and Oregon is somewhere in between. Deconstructed in that Josie isn't as nice as she seems, while Vod is the opposite. | |
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Exact Eavesdropping | |
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Exact Eavesdropping: Josie wakes up to overhear Kingsley's Anguished Declaration of Love while they're alone in a car, and feigns still being asleep. What she can't see is that he's on the phone to Heather. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
Fresh Meat / int_4781adbb | comment |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Arguably all six main characters, though JP and Vod are probably the most obvious examples. All of them think It's All About Me from time to time (particularly JP and Josie), have done their fair share of stupid, selfish, heartless, and nasty things (sometimes all four at once), but they're good people inside and are clearly capable of acts of kindness. See Everyone Has Standards and the Heartwarming page for examples. JP even gets called this when Kingsley agrees with Josie that "[JP] is a dick, but for a dick he's surprisingly all right." | |
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Bait the Dog | |
Fresh Meat / int_4783acfa | comment |
Tomothy has good reason for trying to set JP up in a job in London, in that JP is lazy, has bad habits and poor career choices. However, he does go the wrong way about doing it. | |
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Big Fancy House | |
Fresh Meat / int_4814d132 | comment |
Discussing whether JP's Big Fancy House might have a gardener, Oregon remarks "Excellent... bit of Mellors action!" | |
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Cabin Fever | |
Fresh Meat / int_493ff3c0 | comment |
Cabin Fever: When Vod first enters the house and catches a pant-less Howard drying Peking ducks with a hairdryer, he "explains" that he hasn't spoken to another human being "for some time". | |
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Big "WHAT?!" | |
Fresh Meat / int_4a8c4e5f | comment |
Big "WHAT?!": Tomothy, then Oregon, when Vod tells them she thinks she gave Tomothy a dodgy pill. | |
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Be Yourself | |
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Be Yourself: Parodied - JP attempts to teach Howard how to be a "real person." Naturally, he doesn't get very far: | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
Fresh Meat / int_4c851777 | comment |
Black Comedy Rape: Vod on Riz: "I might rape him." In-universe, Oregon does this a lot when she's trying to demonstrate her edginess. An early season one plot has JP concerned that he might have assaulted someone after he blacks out drunk during sex. There's a moral message about JP learning to respect women and the vulnerability of university freshmen, but it's mostly played for laughs. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Vod: Violet Nordstrom. Though her full first name is given as Voderika at some point in the first series. | |
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Sarcasm-Blind | |
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Sarcasm-Blind: Howard has a moment of this. After Oregon fails to come up with any other suspects other than Al, Kingsley sarcastically remarks that it might be quicker to look him in a dark room and torture him until he confesses. Howard takes it seriously and writes it down. | |
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Experimented in College | |
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Experimented in College: "Dorm rules" in JP's public school. Paraphrased; At one point, Oregon decides she needs to do this in order to prove she's not homophobic. See Test Kiss below. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Dan is very angry about Kingsley issuing an official complaint about the quality of his teaching, so at the end of a field trip, he forces Kingsley to chase after the van and then drives off without him, leaving him stranded in the Pennines. The kicker (no pun intended)? Kingsley had a broken leg (after JP fell on him when he escaped off a ledge he was previously trapped on). | |
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Do Not Call Me "Paul" | |
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Do Not Call Me "Paul": Oregon. | |
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Drowning My Sorrows | |
Fresh Meat / int_52488c54 | comment |
Drowning My Sorrows: After Josie is kicked off her dentistry course, she turns to the alcohol for comfort. This was also after she had accidentally caused the burglary earlier in the same episode. She is seen getting a bottle of vodka out of the freezer and Heather remarks to Kingsley on how fragile Josie is. Vod's mother does this, being The Alcoholic, and becomes "The Beast" when she drinks too much, which amounts to flying into a drunken rage and caused Vod to have to hide under her bed until her mother passed out. This happened a lot. | |
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Love Father, Love Son | |
Fresh Meat / int_5311aa2d | comment |
Love Father, Love Son: Oregon is appalled to discover that when she finally falls in Love at First Sight with a guy (enough that she introduces herself by her real name), and who's so generally lovely that even a suspicious Vod signs off as "Mr. Perfect"... he turns out to be the son of none other than her old flame, Tony Shales. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
Fresh Meat / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: Howard using a hairdryer to air-dry Peking ducks at the beginning of series 1, and to defrost a frozen Christmas turkey at the end. One episode opens with Vod frantically cleaning the living room in preparation for her mother's arrival. It ends with everyone else cleaning up the living room after her mother smashes it up in a drunken fury. | |
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I Resemble That Remark! | |
Fresh Meat / int_535865be | comment |
I Resemble That Remark!: Sabine accuses Josie of deliberately breaking Heather's arm, and when Josie denies it, Sabine says she thinks Josie isn't a nice person. Josie's response: "Fuck you." | |
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Happy Ending Override | |
Fresh Meat / int_53c5f30e | comment |
Happy Ending Override: In the final episode of season 3, after a lengthy period of Unresolved Sexual Tension, Candace and Howard finally hook up. But by the first episode of season 4 Candace has been Put on a Bus, so she breaks up with him over the phone. | |
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Ashes to Crashes | |
Fresh Meat / int_54428f7b | comment |
Ashes to Crashes: JP takes his father's urn back to the flat with him when his mother sells the house. The next episode it's stolen in the course of a robbery. Feeling guilty, and based on an anecdote she hears, Josie goes rooting through a skip to see if the burglars dumped it. She finds it, intact... and promptly spills the ashes into the skip. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_54bb502b | type |
Nobody Poops | |
Fresh Meat / int_54bb502b | comment |
Nobody Poops: Thoroughly averted, to the point that some men's room scenes open with a closeup of a stream of wee hitting a urinal. Oregon remarks in season 4 when they're all trapped in the cellar that she really needs the loo after eating a bag of dried cranberries, but refuses to do it in a bucket. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_55232afa | type |
Politically Incorrect Hero | |
Fresh Meat / int_55232afa | comment |
Politically Incorrect Hero: JP takes this trope up to eleven. Among other things, he claims that he could have ruled India had he been born a century earlier, dresses as Hitler for Halloween, and asks if anyone would be offended if he "deployed the n-word." | |
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Fresh Meat / int_555d6a8b | type |
Locked in the Bathroom | |
Fresh Meat / int_555d6a8b | comment |
Locked in the Bathroom: In S1 Ep 7, when Dave finds out that Kingsley and JP both slept with Josie, they both panic and lock themselves in the bathroom to get away from him. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_55ccbea5 | type |
Mystery Meat | |
Fresh Meat / int_55ccbea5 | comment |
Mystery Meat: The stuff Howard gets free as surplus from his job at the abbatoir. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_598ad6e2 | type |
Even the Guys Want Him | |
Fresh Meat / int_598ad6e2 | comment |
Even the Guys Want Him: Javier, who is an object of lust for the entire flat. He is oblivious to this. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_5b92d2f | type |
Virgin-Shaming | |
Fresh Meat / int_5b92d2f | comment |
Virgin-Shaming: When Kingsley admits to Josie that he's actually a virgin, she's shocked and tries to suggest ways for him to fix it, like it's a mistake. Though her surprise is at least somewhat understandable as the average age of losing virginity in the UK is about 15. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_5c0902e7 | type |
Boyish Short Hair | |
Fresh Meat / int_5c0902e7 | comment |
Boyish Short Hair: Vod throughout most of her stint at Manchester Medlock, a summation of her outrageously ladette personality. Averted when she dons some hair extensions in one episode, when she falls in love with Al the Handyman. In Season 4 she finally grows long, feminine hair, although she keeps one side shaven and retains her boyish punk clothes. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_5e2e55e4 | type |
The Casanova | |
Fresh Meat / int_5e2e55e4 | comment |
Kingsley briefly tries to reinvent himself as "The Pussyman", and J.P. never lets him forget it. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_5fcb9ad1 | type |
Time Skip | |
Fresh Meat / int_5fcb9ad1 | comment |
Time Skip: Each season is analogous to one semester at university. However, the show abruptly skips from year 2, semester 1 (season 3) to the final semester of year 3 (season 4), leaving a whole year of Fresh Meat lost to the imagination. The creators intended for the show to run a full six seasons and cover three full years, however it was likely Screwed by the Network (plus difficulties with cast availability meant over two years passed between the third and fourth seasons). | |
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Fresh Meat / int_60426489 | type |
Citizenship Marriage | |
Fresh Meat / int_60426489 | comment |
Citizenship Marriage: Vod and Javier. In a subversion, Vod only wants him to be a citizen so he can get a job and make enough money to catch a plane back to Venezuela... Javier, on the other hand, is genuinely in love with her and thinks it's for real. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_60a66fb1 | type |
Head-Tiltingly Kinky | |
Fresh Meat / int_60a66fb1 | comment |
Head-Tiltingly Kinky: A "Rafael Nadal backhand" is witnessed in Paul Lamb the Invisible Man's secretly filmed moment of masturbation. It gets a synchronised three-man head-tilt from the Stowe-Aways. ...as does the photo of JP's dad and his lover: "We don't know if they were doing it... oh yeah, they were definitely doing it" | |
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Fresh Meat / int_61066d95 | type |
Fictional Counterpart | |
Fresh Meat / int_61066d95 | comment |
Fictional Counterpart: While clearly set and filmed around Mancunian universities, the students themselves attend the fictional Manchester Medlock University. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_61375e57 | type |
BigDamnKiss | |
Fresh Meat / int_61375e57 | comment |
Big Damn Kiss: Josie and Kingsley in the series 2 finale. See I "Uh" You, Too below. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_61375e57 | |
Fresh Meat / int_619a1f52 | type |
Limited Social Circle | |
Fresh Meat / int_619a1f52 | comment |
Limited Social Circle: Justified with the six main characters, as they've all moved to Manchester from other parts of Britain, so they wouldn't have any friends there beyond their uni mates. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_627264e0 | type |
Death Glare | |
Fresh Meat / int_627264e0 | comment |
Death Glare: Oregon gives Vod one after suggesting in the final episode they go for a masters. In fact it's because Oregon got a lower grade that Vod did. Oregon got a 2:2, while Vod got a 2:1. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_635e1bff | type |
Sycophantic Servant | |
Fresh Meat / int_635e1bff | comment |
Sycophantic Servant: Ralph's "mates". He treats them more like slaves, barking orders for them to do his bidding, but they are unquestioningly loyal to him. Even the one he insists on referring to as "Cunty". | |
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Fresh Meat / int_63b02752 | type |
Hair-Trigger Temper | |
Fresh Meat / int_63b02752 | comment |
Hair-Trigger Temper: Dave. | |
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I Have My Ways | |
Fresh Meat / int_63ff08fc | comment |
I Have My Ways: How Howard lost his virginity, "technically speaking." | |
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Fresh Meat / int_64dc65f1 | type |
Literally Loving Thy Neighbor | |
Fresh Meat / int_64dc65f1 | comment |
Literally Loving Thy Neighbor: Kingsley and Josie, with adjoining bedrooms. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_6537cc1a | type |
All Girls Like Ponies | |
Fresh Meat / int_6537cc1a | comment |
All Girls Like Ponies: Oregon is revealed to own one, as part of her former life as a sheltered rich girl. Averted with Josie when she quits her zoology degree; she "just really doesn't give a fuck about any animal". | |
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Fresh Meat / int_654f1e92 | type |
Don't Come A-Knockin' | |
Fresh Meat / int_654f1e92 | comment |
Don't Come A-Knockin': Various objects in the house are shown falling over as Howard and Sabine "make fuck buddies." | |
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Fresh Meat / int_657f77e4 | type |
Caught with Your Pants Down | |
Fresh Meat / int_657f77e4 | comment |
After walking in on everyone masturbating when bringing them tea, Josie walks in on JP and she expresses surprise that he isn't masturbating too. He remarks that he's tired of it, and the tiredness in his voice implies he's serious. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_688238d6 | type |
Wimp Fight | |
Fresh Meat / int_688238d6 | comment |
Wimp Fight: Howard gets into an argument with a big, tough-looking bloke over a library geology textbook. He agrees to meet outside the library for to fight it out, but manages to get it put off a week... and spends the week desperately trying to learn how to fight, beginning with finding out whether you keep your thumb in or out when making a fist. The fight finally comes along... and it's over in five seconds when the other bloke dislocates his thumb, and Howard takes him to hospital. Turns out he didn't know how to make a fist either. Howard's birthday ends in a massive scrap between Kingsley (dressed as George Harrison) and JP (dressed as a Hooters girl). At one point, George pins the Hooters girl down and tries to smother him with his own foam boob. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_68cf9795 | type |
Ironic Nickname | |
Fresh Meat / int_68cf9795 | comment |
Ironic Nickname: Kingsley has two, both stemming from the first episode: "Knutsford" (after he tries to get away from JP by claiming he's attending a different university) and "The Pussy Man". He has only himself to blame for either of them. The Pussy Man falls out of use somewhere around season 3, but he continues to be called Knutsford through to the very end, including subtle variations like Knutsack. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_68e501cd | type |
Gay Bravado | |
Fresh Meat / int_68e501cd | comment |
Gay Bravado: JP's is put to the test when he discovers one of his old public school mates is actually gay. Also, due to this trope (plus a dash of Selective Obliviousness from JP), Giles' attempts to explain this fact to him turn into an Overly Long Gag. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_6941e30b | type |
Room Full of Crazy | |
Fresh Meat / int_6941e30b | comment |
Room Full of Crazy: JP, under stress from the upcoming finals, wrote the word "igneous" on thousands of bits of card and put them up all over his wall. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_69cc2a27 | type |
Hilariously Abusive Childhood | |
Fresh Meat / int_69cc2a27 | comment |
Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Deconstructed with Vod: the revelations of how her Hard-Drinking Party Girl mother brought her up are initially played like this, with even Vod herself trying to laugh them off ("Mums eh? You know what mums are like.") But it gradually becomes clear just how awful her mum is, and just how much it affected Vod. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
Fresh Meat / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: This happens a few times, especially with JP. During the burglary episode, Oregon firmly suspects that Al the handyman is responsible, after an observation from Howard. JP points out the outrageousness and unprecedented nature of her claims, especially as Oregon has no evidence, which he also later points out. JP also called Tomothy out for being unfaithful to his wife because he adulterated with Oregon. Tomothy ignores him and carries on regardless. JP later does the same thing when Tomothy gets drunk and makes unwelcome moves towards Josie. Tomothy has good reason for trying to set JP up in a job in London, in that JP is lazy, has bad habits and poor career choices. However, he does go the wrong way about doing it. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
Fresh Meat / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Howard gets into an argument with a big, tough-looking bloke over a library geology textbook. He agrees to meet outside the library for to fight it out, but manages to get it put off a week... and spends the week desperately trying to learn how to fight, beginning with finding out whether you keep your thumb in or out when making a fist. The fight finally comes along... and it's over in five seconds when the other bloke dislocates his thumb, and Howard takes him to hospital. Turns out he didn't know how to make a fist either. | |
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Unstoppable Rage | |
Fresh Meat / int_6b983bf7 | comment |
Unstoppable Rage: Chris flies into one after Vod gives her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech. It even freaks Vod out to such an extent that she orders the others to get out before anyone gets hurt. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Fresh Meat / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Lampshaded by Oregon with a character in her play having a very unsubtle example of this. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_6c1cc4b | type |
Everyone Looks Sexier if French | |
Fresh Meat / int_6c1cc4b | comment |
Everyone Looks Sexier if French: JP falls for the French cousin of one of the Stowe-aways. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_6d892421 | type |
Teacher/Student Romance | |
Fresh Meat / int_6d892421 | comment |
Teacher/Student Romance: Oregon and Professor Tony Shales. | |
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Full-Name Ultimatum | |
Fresh Meat / int_6da90c4d | comment |
Full-Name Ultimatum: Josie gets this in a text message when she's summoned to a disciplinary hearing after getting kicked off her dentistry course, as it refers to her as "Josephine Jones". | |
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Fresh Meat / int_6f393c7 | type |
Calling Shot Gun | |
Fresh Meat / int_6f393c7 | comment |
Calling Shotgun: King Ralph does this when he and JP meet Tobes' sexy French cousin, and calls JP getting friendly with her "infringing on his copyright". | |
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Fresh Meat / int_6f44042b | type |
The Immodest Orgasm | |
Fresh Meat / int_6f44042b | comment |
Howard's climactic ejaculation: "Jumanjiiiiii!" | |
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Fresh Meat / int_714342fb | type |
Erotic Eating | |
Fresh Meat / int_714342fb | comment |
Erotic Eating: Vod does this to a colleague of Shales' to piss off Oregon. It's not entirely clear if she's trying to make it disgusting or if she's just really bad at it... When JP tries to take a break from masturbating, he gets extremely flustered at seeing Oregon eat a banana. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_729c69f3 | type |
Politically Incorrect Villain | |
Fresh Meat / int_729c69f3 | comment |
Politically Incorrect Villain: Ralph, who amongst other things believes the problem with modern politics is that no-one is racist or homophobic enough. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_72d30083 | type |
Cheaters Never Prosper | |
Fresh Meat / int_72d30083 | comment |
Cheaters Never Prosper: JP tries to get out of his geology exam in the first series, but decides to sit it after bribing Dan to reveal the questions to him. When he finally sits the exam, he finds that Dan had lied about what the questions were. At the pub quiz final, JP buzzes in with the correct answer... to the next question, having missed a line when he was reading the answer sheet. Sam is not impressed. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_735b3587 | type |
Naked First Impression | |
Fresh Meat / int_735b3587 | comment |
Naked First Impression: Vod first meets Howard as he's standing in the living room, drying duck carcasses, wearing a woolly sweater and nothing below the waist. He claims he's got used to wearing "trousers of the mind." | |
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Fresh Meat / int_7390323c | type |
Sticky Fingers | |
Fresh Meat / int_7390323c | comment |
Sticky Fingers: At the start of S2 E3, JP is seen pocketing free pens. Vod has a habit of borrowing Oregon's things without permission, including a dress, a skirt, and even her passport. | |
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The Cast Showoff | |
Fresh Meat / int_741e8e7 | comment |
The Cast Show Off: Oregon's impromptu rendition of "Black Velvet", especially after Kingsley's attempts at singing. Both play the guitar, too. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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In series 4, Candice is Put on a Bus, the room is finally left vacant and the group returns to the original group of series 1. | |
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Played for Laughs | |
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Deconstructed (albeit For Laughs) in the finale: apparently Paul Lamb the Invisible Man has been around the whole time, but the housemates have just been completely oblivious to him. He moved out after (understandably) having a nervous breakdown, and no-one noticed. | |
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty | |
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty: Under JP's ownership, the house rapidly begins to become a derelict, slug-infested shithole, leading Josie to take asylum in Noah's clean, tidy, shiny, perfect house next door. Also there's clean-shaven, professional Series 1 Tony Shales, compared to stubbly, smelly, homeless Series 3 Tony Shales. | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
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Josie three times in quick succession when, in her dentistry practical, she accidentally drills through a patient's cheek, then the bit comes off the drill, and she finds the bit is stuck in the girl's cheek and she can't remove it. Uh-oh... | |
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Amusing Injuries | |
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Amusing Injuries: At the university sit-in/protest, Oregon fucks Hasan with so much gusto and force that he snaps the frenulum of his penis (aka the Banjo String). This is also only about half an hour after Oregon declares that sex is banned at the sit-in. | |
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Mistaken for Racist | |
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Mistaken for Racist: Vod for kissing Mark after spending all night trying to pull his friend Riz. When she tries to explain that this was only because they were both wearing identical jackets and definitely wasn't because they're both Asian, she just ends up digging herself deeper. | |
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Auto Erotica | |
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Auto Erotica: In one episode, Shales wants to have sex with Oregon in his car before they go to a tapas bar for dinner. She refuses because she doesn't like the idea. | |
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Pronoun Trouble | |
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Pronoun Trouble: Oregon knocks on her tutor's door, a woman answers it and she asks for Professor Shales, only to be told "I'm Professor Shales." She meant Tony, "the other Professor Shales". This is then subverted in the second series, when Oregon goes to see "Shales" (looking "sexy as hell" according to JP), who turns out to be Jean Shales. | |
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Hot Librarian | |
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Hot Librarian: Dylan is a male example, and Oregon falls for him in the burglary episode, so much so she introduces herself to him using her real name. Unfortunately, it turns out he's the son of Tony Shales, giving Oregon an Oh, Crap! when she finds out. | |
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Ridiculously Long Phone Hold | |
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Ridiculously Long Phone Hold: In one episode, Howard is on hold for 48 hours while everyone else is at JP's Big Fancy House. When they finally pick up, Howard is busy hooking up with Sabine. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Vod gives one to her mother, with a voice full of tears, which basically amounts to Calling the Old Man Out. She calls Chris a shit mother who made Vod feel like she was nothing, and blaming her for the way Vod turned out. | |
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Faking and Entering | |
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Faking and Entering: Josie and Heather, when they try to cover up their being responsible for the burglary. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Buttmonkey: Oregon. Throughout the series, most of her endeavours wind up failing in one way or another, and her few successes are revealed to have been orchestrated by her ex-lover Tony Shales. Meanwhile, her romantic relationships fail more spectacularly than those of any of the other characters. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
Fresh Meat / int_7eebe99c | comment |
Chris forgot to buy the duck for dinner and blames Vod for not reminding her to do so. Vod points out that it was Chris's fault, and that she did remember to get cocaine and eight bottles of wine. | |
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Every Man Has His Price | |
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Every Man Has His Price: How JP secures the nicest room in the house in the first episode. | |
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Expository Hairstyle Change | |
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Expository Hairstyle Change: Oregon's frequent hairstyle changes as she tries out new personas. Kingsley's post-heartbreak soul patch. | |
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Vague Age | |
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Vague Age: Howard is older than the others (he's been in the house for several years when they start their first year), and presumably younger than Sabine. When Candice asks him how old he is, he whispers in her ear. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Oregon's rules for the university sit-in. | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Evil Matriarch: Chris, Vod's mother. She is a huge Jerkass who says, in Vod's presence, that she wanted an abortion but was too late, and has regretted it every day since, and she does this while laughing about it. She is also The Alcoholic, insults her daughter to her face, calls her "Milly" (for "millstone") and goes on huge drunken tirades blaming other people for her own mistakes. | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: The housemates seem to take turns in this role. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Oregon in the last episode. She's forced to explain to her mother that she was removed from her post as President of the Student Union, under-performed everybody except JP in her exams, had affairs with Tony Shales and his son, and accidentally broke another student's dick (and got him deported in the process). To make matters worse, her acceptance into a master's degree course in Creative Writing is revealed to have been masterminded by Shales, who switched out Oregon's writing sample with one of his own. | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
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Broken Pedestal: Averted. While staying in JP's house, Vod finds a series of letters from JP's father to a lover he had. Knowing that it would result in this trope if JP found out, Vod burns the letters. | |
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The Big Board | |
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The Big Board: When Howard turns Amateur Sleuth following a break-in. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: When JP's dad is dying, Oregon gets a call that someone close to her is dying, and looks at a picture of a man with a horse, leading the viewer to assume that her dad will pass away soon, too. It turns out it's her favourite horse that's dying, and she takes a detour to say goodbye to him, preventing JP from getting his own goodbye. | |
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Hipster | |
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Hipster: Heather is the biggest example. She wears trendy clothes, has an unusual haircut, and speaks almost entirely in sarcasm and irony. The housemates actually take the piss out of her behind her back for it. Kingsley sheds his dorkiness after season 1 and adopts a fedora, a soul patch, a guitar and a massive dose of pretentiousness. Oregon is fond of oversized glasses and bureaucratic haircuts. | |
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Proud to Be a Geek | |
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Proud to Be a Geek: Howard. Oregon has to come to terms with it. | |
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Humiliation Conga | |
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Humiliation Conga: Series 2 as a whole is a very long conga for Josie, as her love life, her friendships and her career all rapidly start to fall apart. Oregon in the last episode. She's forced to explain to her mother that she was removed from her post as President of the Student Union, under-performed everybody except JP in her exams, had affairs with Tony Shales and his son, and accidentally broke another student's dick (and got him deported in the process). To make matters worse, her acceptance into a master's degree course in Creative Writing is revealed to have been masterminded by Shales, who switched out Oregon's writing sample with one of his own. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: A bunch of poshos, geeks and Vod. | |
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Did Not Get the Girl | |
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Did Not Get the Girl: JP and Howard are both crushingly rejected by Sam, despite both thinking they had a big chance of scoring. Howard almost dates Lauren the Geology Girl, but is left devastated when she rejects him (thanks to Brian freaking her out). | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Despite her pretty awful final grades, Oregon is determined to get a Masters in creative writing, and is ecstatic to get accepted into a program in Manchester. Only to find out that Tony Shales submitted his own work instead of hers in order to guarantee her a spot in the program, all so that she can be in his class. Needless to say, she declines. | |
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Zig-Zagging Trope | |
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Zig-zagged: Howard convinces Kingsley that Heather is stalking him, which causes him to investigate her "stalking" in a way that strongly resembles stalking. Then Kingsley decides she isn't stalking him, and they start going out... but by then Josie has decided she was, aided partly by a touch of Green-Eyed Monster. The whole time this is going on, Shales is actually stalking Oregon. | |
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I Need to Go Iron My Dog | |
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I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Vod and JP do this after Josie reveals she opened Oregon's letter and just told Oregon she has been rejected from her Fulbright scholarship (Oregon said she wanted to wait until after her finals to open it). Knowing the situation has just gone very bad, Vod says she needs to open a window, while JP says he is going to hide behind the box he's sitting against. Neither actually do it, as Oregon starts sobbing and they all hug her. | |
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Sex Equals Love | |
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Sex Equals Love: Inverted. Vod falls in love with Al, goes out with him and they have sex. When she wakes up the following morning, she's lost interest in him, claiming to Oregon, "Love is a poison. Sex is a cure.". | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: Kingsley drops out of Geology only weeks in, and transfers to Drama, based on nothing other than a) lots of hot girls being in the Drama class, and b) JP verbally committing to do the same. When JP naturally flakes out, he's left studying for a course he hates, with no friends and nothing in common with any of his classmates. | |
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National Stereotypes | |
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National Stereotypes: Oregon (admiringly) on Jean Shales calmly accepting her husband's affair: "That is so French". | |
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Ignored Epiphany | |
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JP also called Tomothy out for being unfaithful to his wife because he adulterated with Oregon. Tomothy ignores him and carries on regardless. JP later does the same thing when Tomothy gets drunk and makes unwelcome moves towards Josie. | |
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Justified Trope | |
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JP and Oregon are the only major characters who don't sound "regional," though this is justified since they are the posh ones in the house. | |
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Screwed by the Network | |
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The creators intended for the show to run a full six seasons and cover three full years, however it was likely Screwed by the Network (plus difficulties with cast availability meant over two years passed between the third and fourth seasons). | |
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Pop-Star Composer | |
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Pop-Star Composer: Graham Coxon from Blur and Dot Allison wrote two songs performed by Kingsley and Oregon respectively. | |
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Betty and Veronica | |
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Betty and Veronica: Josie and Ruth respectively to Kingsley, in series 1. Then in series 2, Heather is the new Betty and Josie has become the Veronica. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: More or less forced upon Josie by Kingsley in the episode where the house gets burgled. Josie had left her key in the door by accident while heading out and Sabine got the blame from Howard because of Howard nursing a spite against her. Kingsley got the truth out of Heather and decided to keep quiet, but when Howard pointed the finger of blame at Sabine, Kingsley confronted her and chewed her out outside, and in the next scene, so did everyone else after Josie revealed the truth. Includes Tears of Remorse. | |
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Vulgar Humor | |
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Vulgar Humor: Double Subverted with the "spunk ice cubes". At first everyone thinks Sabine is chilling her bruise with them, but then she reveals she emptied the other ice cube tray into a glass because it looked "mouldy", and she's using her own ice. Then Vod happily gives said glass to JP as revenge for making her put the stuff in the freezer to begin with. | |
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Real Vehicle Reveal | |
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Real Vehicle Reveal: Inverted. Oregon has a brand new car purchased by her posh, well-to-do parents. She spends the first few episodes of season 1 denying its existence and pretending she walks everywhere. She's crudely exposed when Vod accidentally presses the key fob while holding Oregon's handbag. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: Josie regarding kicking Heather so hard in a self-defence lesson that she breaks her arm. First it's Sabine's fault for not teaching her the move properly, then it's Heather's fault for... some reason. Josie also blamed her breakup with Dave on Kingsley even though she was the one who committed the infidelity — Kingsley thought she and Dave had already split up. JP regarding the time he accidentally shot a guy, who later died from donor-organ complications that are implied to be connected to the original injury. It'd be alright if he was at least regretful, but he's totally blasé about the whole thing... Hasan blames Oregon for snapping the banjo string of his penis. Oregon points out that it's not the time to start pointing fingers. Chris forgot to buy the duck for dinner and blames Vod for not reminding her to do so. Vod points out that it was Chris's fault, and that she did remember to get cocaine and eight bottles of wine. In a far worse example, Chris firmly blames Vod for ruining her life by being born. Howard tells Vod that she didn't choose to be born, because no one does. This causes Vod to call her out on her actions and give her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Unfortunately, it causes Chris to completely flip out at all of them. | |
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Test Kiss | |
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Test Kiss: Oregon starts getting accused of homophobia on Twitter after she gets a competing magazine shut down which happened to be about LGBT issues. Worried they might be right, she decides that the best way to prove she's not a homophobe is to kiss another girl. Vod is dead against it (she can tell Oregon's straight "because of your shoulders"), but Josie is just drunk enough to be convinced. The boys are delighted, but when it's pointed out that "kissing for the benefit of straight men isn't gay", they decide to do it in private. Oregon also kisses Kingsley in the series finale to see if there's any chemistry they may have missed during the time they lived together. There isn't. | |
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DudeMagnet | |
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Dude Magnet: New fresher Sam becomes the object of desire for JP, Howard and Kingsley in season 3, even when the latter is in a fully committed relationship with Josie. She sleeps with JP once, but ultimately rejects all three of them. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: JP suggests that he and Oregon are this when he learns that she owns a horse: "You're one of me!". | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone: Sabine's talent at martial arts, her promiscuity, and her suggestion that stolen goods are often found in skips, make her temporarily popular with the housemates. Also, Howard is the only housemate to get a super happy ending at the end of series 3, finally finding love with Candice. In the final episode, JP decides to become an estate agent. During the Skype call he ends a call that obviously went well for him. | |
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Ladykiller in Love | |
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Ladykiller in Love: Gender flipped with Vod when she falls in Love at First Sight with the handyman. J.P., for Sam: | |
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Oop North | |
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Oop North: While set in Manchester, none of the main characters are actually Mancunians, or even northerners in general. New fresher Candice, in series 3, is the first main character to be a local, with a particularly harsh accent to boot. Oregon especially harbours suspicious prejudices against the locals; she reports Al the Handyman to the police for burglary, purely because of his Mancunian accent. | |
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Springtime for Hitler | |
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Springtime for Hitler: During the Student Union presidential elections, Vod realizes how much her successful campaign as a joke candidate is hurting Oregon, who's running for real. To make amends, Vod tries to sabotage her own campaign at the last minute, with increasingly stupid and offensive policies, which all just make people cheer even louder for her. Oregon tells Vod to announce the one thing that would really make her a hate target, which overwhemingly succeeds in doing so: | |
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Upper-Class Twit | |
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Upper-Class Twit: JP, his so-called friends 'King' Ralph and Tobes even more so. | |
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Summation Gathering | |
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Summation Gathering: The house meeting Howard calls after working out who in the house staged a burglary. He wrongly accuses Sabine. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: Many, but a notable one is JP continuing to call Kingsley "Knutsford" well into the third season, based on a brief gag in the opening minutes of the pilot. Similarly, all the housemates disparagingly refer to Kingsley as "The Pussy Man" intermittently throughout the series after a similar entirely erroneous admission in the same scene of the pilot. The penultimate episode of series three sees tensions boiling over, and everything everyone has done to piss the others off gets dragged out into the open. | |
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Quit Your Whining | |
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Quit Your Whining: While trapped in the cellar with everyone else and suffering from an ocular migraine, Kingsley loudly laments how he is blind, single, has a low libido, and can't revise for his geology finals the following morning. Josie shouts at him to stop it. He points out he has reason to be unhappy. | |
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Gaydar | |
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Gaydar: Vod can tell Oregon isn't gay "because of your shoulders. I don't know, it's something about your shoulders."]] | |
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Get Out! | |
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Get Out!: Chris yells at everyone to fuck off when she flips out and starts tearing the place apart. In the final episode, JP tells Tomothy to fuck off after having had enough of him. Also in the final episode, Vod orders everyone out of the house party when the house starts cracking up (no, really, cracks start appearing in the walls and plaster is shaken down from the ceiling!) due to the sheer amount of people inside. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
Fresh Meat / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: Josie at the end of the burglary episode. When it looks like Sabine will be blamed for it, Kingsley calls Josie out. Josie breaks down in tears. Josie gets one in series 4 in the truth tent when she gets angry at Vod and smacks her in the face. She immediately regrets it and fearfully apologises, only for Vod to lose her temper and try to attack her. | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: JP reveals he once shot a beater (and the father of their current gardener) during a pheasant hunt. The guy died, but it was "a couple of years later when he rejected an organ" (implied to have been required because of the injury), so it's not like it's JP's fault. Most worryingly, it doesn't seem to have taught him any lessons about Gun Safety. | |
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Dogged Nice Guy | |
Fresh Meat / int_a2492aff | comment |
JP, after Sam has made it clear on several occasions she thinks he's a dick, seems to see himself as the Dogged Nice Guy in a rom-com who just has to win her over. | |
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It's All Junk | |
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It's All Junk: JP burning his childhood possessions when he finds out his mother is selling their Big Fancy House. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
Fresh Meat / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: Dylan tells Oregon that he's come to terms with the fact that she slept with his father, and they kiss each other. He instantly pulls back and states that nope, it's still "too weird" after all and abruptly walks away. JP's awkward reaction ("That woman is clearly delusional") after Vod's mum spills his inability to, erm, lift the drawbridge turns pretty quickly to her flying into a drunken rage, destroying both the kitchen and her relationship with her daughter. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
Fresh Meat / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Thoroughly averted. If a character does something idiotic, expect them to suffer the full consequences. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
Fresh Meat / int_a7850fbf | comment |
Only Known by Their Nickname: Three of the housemates have very distinct nicknames. JP: Jonathan Pembersley. Oregon: Melissa Shawcross. She's not keen on people knowing her plain, boring actual first name. Vod: Violet Nordstrom. Though her full first name is given as Voderika at some point in the first series. | |
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Inferiority Superiority Complex | |
Fresh Meat / int_a7ba94de | comment |
Inferiority Superiority Complex: There are many instances of JP flip-flopping between cocky, alpha male dickhead and sorrowful, depressed, insecure sadact, often within the same episode. | |
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Casanova Wannabe | |
Fresh Meat / int_a806691d | comment |
JP is the only member of the house who hasn't had a meaningful relationship. But even his sex life starts to look pretty bleak. | |
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Meet Cute | |
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Meet Cute: Kingsley and Josie, through the glory hole. | |
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The Friend Nobody Likes | |
Fresh Meat / int_a861560f | comment |
The Friend Nobody Likes: JP in series one, but they get used to him. It even gets Lampshaded by him. Sabine, who became a new room-mate at the start of series two due to a misunderstanding everyone was too socially awkward to sort out. She knows she's disliked in the house, and this is not helped by the fact she dislikes the housemates and gives up attempting to talk to them after a few episodes. She's got a friend in Howard though, after they become "fuck buddies" at least. Howard tends to be better-received than JP is, but even the other housemates are often put off by his occasionally bizarre behavior, and Josie admits near the end of Season 4 that she can usually only tolerate him for a few minutes at a time. Also, nobody is interested in his suggestion of living together in London. | |
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Juggling Loaded Guns | |
Fresh Meat / int_a8a0603e | comment |
Juggling Loaded Guns: All through the episode at JP's house, after he digs out a pair of shotguns (while everyone's already drunk). Chekhov would be spinning in his grave: they never go off. | |
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Odd Friendship | |
Fresh Meat / int_a94eaaa4 | comment |
Odd Friendship: Vod and Howard. Also JP and Kingsley, JP and Josie... JP and anyone really. | |
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My Local | |
Fresh Meat / int_aa4cbf9a | comment |
My Local: The local boozer that the students hang out at is the real-life The Kings Arms in Salford. | |
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Big Brother Mentor | |
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Big Brother Mentor: Tomothy takes on this role for JP in season 4, though it eventually becomes clear that Tomothy is trying to force JP to take a job he himself doesn't want. | |
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Ominously Open Door | |
Fresh Meat / int_ac1156ea | comment |
Ominously Open Door: This is what greets Josie and Heather after Josie leaves her keys in the door when they rush back to get them. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
Fresh Meat / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oregon falls for Dylan in the burglary episode, so much so that she uses her real name when she introduces herself to him. In the next episode, she finds out that he is the son of Tony Shales, who she had an affair with in the previous season. Understandably, she panics, and the relationship does not survive past the end of the season. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
Fresh Meat / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: JP, Vod and Howard are the biggest offenders, but all of the housemates do this from time to time too, such as Kingsley in the burglary episode. | |
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Fish out of Water | |
Fresh Meat / int_af696bef | comment |
Fish out of Water: Kingsley is shown to be a loner and an outcast in his Drama course, with only the promiscuous, manipulative Ruth acknowledging his existence. During an animal dancing session, he is made to stand in place as a single quiet sheep, while the entire rest of the class bounces around pretending to be loud monkeys. | |
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GenderInverted | |
Fresh Meat / int_afdbb1fb | comment |
Gender-Inverted with Oregon and her mother, which makes it particularly sweet when Vod sticks up for Oregon in front of Oregon's overbearing mother. | |
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Loners Are Freaks | |
Fresh Meat / int_b04fdcc4 | comment |
Loners Are Freaks: Howard. Brian even more so. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: In her bid to become President of the Student Union, Oregon works her arse off day and night on campaigning and canvassing, as well as fending off fierce competition from Vod, almost losing her friendship in the process. Her hard work pays off and she wins the election, only to be immediately saddled with union debts, financial irregularities and active lawsuits. | |
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Extreme Doormat | |
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Josie also blamed her breakup with Dave on Kingsley even though she was the one who committed the infidelity — Kingsley thought she and Dave had already split up. | |
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Selective Obliviousness | |
Fresh Meat / int_b0bce7aa | comment |
Selective Obliviousness: Josie when she gets kicked off her dentistry course for drilling through a patient's cheek. She attempts to go to class as though nothing has happened, until her professor tells her in no uncertain terms that he will call security if she shows up again. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Vod’s mother is a cruel, irresponsible and vindictive woman who terrorised Vod throughout her childhood, blaming her for ‘ruining her life’ and saying - in her presence - that she regrets having her. When Vod calls her out for her behaviour, she flies into a violent rage and wrecks much of the kitchen. | |
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ArchNemesis | |
Fresh Meat / int_b2c0ecb3 | comment |
Brian, a fairly pivotal side character in the later episodes of Season 1, and set up to be a sort of Arch-Nemesis to Howard, completely vanishes after Season 1 Episode 7 with absolutely no explanation. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: While each of the housemates has done their share of nasty and selfish things, they're all visibly horrified when they realize what an awful, abusive person Vod's mom is, and how terrible her childhood must've been. | |
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Everybody Has Lots of Sex | |
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Everybody Has Lots of Sex: Pretty much every single character is incredibly sexually active and few act otherwise. Even socially awkward house loner Howard unexpectedly gets in on the action with multiple girls. | |
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My Beloved Smother | |
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My Beloved Smother: Kingsley's mother, who he suspects frequently exaggerates her ails in order to keep him near. | |
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Corrupt the Cutie | |
Fresh Meat / int_b5c56995 | comment |
Corrupt the Cutie: Candice joins the house as a frumpy, mousy, sheltered girl from a religious family, wearing almost Amish-like clothes. Over the course of season 3, as she experiences life in the house, she becomes a radical feminist, then latterly a goth, and then begins a relationship with Howard. Dylan Shales is a happy, laid-back, friendly gentleman with a zest for life, and he is made up when he begins dating Oregon. By the end of season 2, his relationship with his father is destroyed, and he sets his mattress on fire and gets drunk on hard liquor, before telling Oregon to do one. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
Fresh Meat / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: Soon after Sabine arrives, Josie remarks early on that they should probably talk to Sabine. No one can actually bring themselves to do so when Sabine enters the room. | |
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Five-Token Band | |
Fresh Meat / int_b7e74b77 | comment |
Five-Token Band: Each member of the cast is from a different part of the UK, and from a different social class. A lot of the humour is from the Values Dissonance between them all. Very much Truth in Television for British unis. | |
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Everyone Meets Everyone | |
Fresh Meat / int_b96ee227 | comment |
Everyone Meets Everyone: The six housemates all hail from completely different areas of the UK, as well as different social classes, and all meet each other for the first time in episode 1. A key part of the show's earlier series was capturing that horrifying first year awkwardness, that most British university students often throw themselves into. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: Eventually revealed to be the case in season 4 with the Pembersley brothers: Tomothy (his mother wanted to call him Tom, his father wanted to call him Timothy) and Jonathan (JP). | |
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Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue" | |
Fresh Meat / int_b9f1f587 | comment |
Her Codename Was Mary Sue: Oregon writes a play ("We Had to Kill Her") in which a girl called Delphine puts up with a cavalcade of idiots like Gwen, a Welsh simpleton who has sex with anyone and wears a sack, her boyfriend "Ainsley" (also in love with Delphine, as is everyone), a pair of villains who are described as "a posh twat and a Scottish slob", and the main villain, Hilda, who deceives a guy called Alfonso into marrying her for selfish reasons and ends up getting smothered to death by Delphine. The housemates find out about it... and, self-serving as it is, it actually serves as a pretty effective What the Hell, Hero? to several of them, including Oregon. | |
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Tantrum Throwing | |
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Tantrum Throwing: Vod's mum. Played for Drama. Then J.P. smashes up the kitchen again after Howard's party. | |
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! | |
Fresh Meat / int_ba0ff694 | comment |
You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Shales when he gets surrounded by hoodies and ends up getting mugged. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
Fresh Meat / int_ba236071 | comment |
In the Skype call after the final episode, Oregon has one when Vod tells her she thinks she is in Vietnam and has Oregon's passport. | |
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It's All About Me | |
Fresh Meat / int_bb18a227 | comment |
It's All About Me: JP is usually entitled, selfish and largely oblivious of anyone else's needs. Though all the housemates are guilty of this from time to time, especially Josie. | |
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Berserk Button | |
Fresh Meat / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Few of the main students really have this trait. Howard explodes a couple of times when people infer that, just because he's a nerd, he must like Lord of the Rings. He really, really doesn't. Beyond the main cast, Vod's alcoholic mum does though; she suddenly transforms into the aforementioned 'Beast' when she realizes she forgot to buy the duck for dinner. | |
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Desperately Craves Affection | |
Fresh Meat / int_bce904b2 | comment |
Desperately Craves Affection: Desperate Dan the Geology Tutor Man. JP is the only member of the house who hasn't had a meaningful relationship. But even his sex life starts to look pretty bleak. | |
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Ambiguously Bi | |
Fresh Meat / int_bd0230fb | comment |
Ambiguously Bi: Although JP is only ever explicitly shown being attracted to girls, he can be surprisingly affectionate with Kingsley, and draws oddly detailed cocks on everything. | |
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Binge Montage | |
Fresh Meat / int_bf75c797 | comment |
Binge Montage: The "freak out", notably including a shot of red wine to the eyeball and JP hotboxing an antique knight's helmet. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_c07e2029 | type |
Europeans Are Kinky | |
Fresh Meat / int_c07e2029 | comment |
Europeans Are Kinky: Sabine is extremely pragmatic about sex and very up-front about having a fuckbuddy. When her usual guy doesn't show up on time, she matter-of-factly invites Howard to fill in. He obliges. "Jumanji!". | |
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Show Within a Show | |
Fresh Meat / int_c2393191 | comment |
Show Within a Show: Oregon's play with characters who are obviously based on her housemates. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
Fresh Meat / int_c33ba0a8 | comment |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Only a minor example, but Dan the Geology Man disappears after season two and is never mentioned again by any of his students. Brian, a fairly pivotal side character in the later episodes of Season 1, and set up to be a sort of Arch-Nemesis to Howard, completely vanishes after Season 1 Episode 7 with absolutely no explanation. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
Fresh Meat / int_c4db6423 | comment |
Yank the Dog's Chain: At his birthday party, Howard is almost about to break-through with Candice, but Sabine calls him over, and proposes they rekindle their fuckbuddy relationship. Howard politely declines and returns to Candice, only to find her suddenly dating Goth Gary out of nowhere. A bewildered Howard then backflips and returns to Sabine again, only to find she has now also got a date - with a Howard impersonator, no less. Oregon falls for Dylan in the burglary episode, so much so that she uses her real name when she introduces herself to him. In the next episode, she finds out that he is the son of Tony Shales, who she had an affair with in the previous season. Understandably, she panics, and the relationship does not survive past the end of the season. Despite her pretty awful final grades, Oregon is determined to get a Masters in creative writing, and is ecstatic to get accepted into a program in Manchester. Only to find out that Tony Shales submitted his own work instead of hers in order to guarantee her a spot in the program, all so that she can be in his class. Needless to say, she declines. | |
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Harp of Femininity | |
Fresh Meat / int_c57a23c9 | comment |
Harp of Femininity: Ruth has a Harp of Femininity in her dorm room, apparently for decorative purposes. Kingsley is utterly amazed by it. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_c5ef2d50 | type |
Cringe Comedy | |
Fresh Meat / int_c5ef2d50 | comment |
Cringe Comedy: Kingsley's interpretive dance for his Drama class is met with a horribly awkward silence. JP hyping his DJ set in the Series 1 finale: "DJ Rape is gonna rock them whether they like it or not". | |
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Insane Troll Logic | |
Fresh Meat / int_c5f0119c | comment |
Josie regarding kicking Heather so hard in a self-defence lesson that she breaks her arm. First it's Sabine's fault for not teaching her the move properly, then it's Heather's fault for... some reason. | |
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I Am Spartacus | |
Fresh Meat / int_c6074d96 | comment |
I Am Spartacus: Howard claiming responsibility for Paul Lamb the Invisible Man's "Rafael Nadal backhand" | |
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Fresh Meat / int_c660bc15 | type |
Fan Disservice | |
Fresh Meat / int_c660bc15 | comment |
Vod does this to a colleague of Shales' to piss off Oregon. It's not entirely clear if she's trying to make it disgusting or if she's just really bad at it... | |
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Shout-Out | |
Fresh Meat / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Vod refers to Shales as "the slutty professor". 'King' Ralph. Discussing whether JP's Big Fancy House might have a gardener, Oregon remarks "Excellent... bit of Mellors action!" Howard's climactic ejaculation: "Jumanjiiiiii!" Vod does her makeup exactly like Ziggy Stardust to attend a poetry reading. For bonus points, the music playing in the scene is "Panic in Detroit" from Aladdin Sane. One of the band names Oregon comes up with is "Time Bandits". Kingsley reads The Game (2005) at one point. His new trilby, facial hair and (attempted) dismissive attitude towards women are also references to the pick-up artist subculture. While Vod is being counselled she gets angry at the therapist, which leads her to say this; "Are you not getting this? I mean, I'm giving you everything! This is fucking 'We Need to Talk About Vod'! Many shout outs in season 3, episode 7. Howard mentions Minecraft when talking about hosting a LAN party, and many famous characters are costume-referenced at Candice's H' character' party, almost none of them explained (except for Kingsley, who is obviously'' George Harrison. Obviously!) Vod explaining why she wants Howard to pretend to be her boyfriend: "I put my hand down The Wrong Trousers, Gromit!" The chorus of Kingsley's protest song, about a lonely military drone over Tunisia: "Well if androids dream of electric sheep....do drones dream of electric peeps?" In a moment of anger after taking what is presumed to be a dodgy pill made by Sabine, Tomothy refers to Howard as Stig of the Dump. Only afterwards does he get clarification from Sabine herself that the pill is safe. | |
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Guy on Guy Is Hot | |
Fresh Meat / int_c80c751d | comment |
Guy on Guy Is Hot: Vod’s response to seeing JP kiss Kingsley is an approving “Hot.� | |
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Portmanteau Couple Name | |
Fresh Meat / int_c8146364 | comment |
Portmanteau Couple Name: An in-universe example. A jealous Josie disparagingly refers to Heather and Kingsley as "Heathsley" behind their backs. | |
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Rage Breaking Point | |
Fresh Meat / int_c819533b | comment |
Rage Breaking Point: JP reaches his when Tomothy not only tries to pressure him into taking a job in London he doesn't want, but also makes unwelcome advances towards Josie while drunk (remember, Josie was in a relationship with JP earlier in the series) and also tries to emotionally blackmail JP into taking the job by bringing up their dead father, most likely knowing JP was a "Well Done, Son" Guy who Never Got to Say Goodbye to their father before he died. After that, JP decides he has had enough of Tomothy and shouts at him to fuck off. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_c83751cb | type |
Description Cut | |
Fresh Meat / int_c83751cb | comment |
Description Cut: Kingsley, JP and Howard are about to head out for a boys' night out, with no girls allowed, and they start dancing, singing and getting rowdy. One cut later, they're quietly drinking in a deserted pub with Vod and Oregon. | |
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Slut-Shaming | |
Fresh Meat / int_c972d624 | comment |
Slut-Shaming: Josie's "Pope Kingsley" rant is against this, as she assumes he thinks she's a slut for having sex with JP despite him being a stranger to her at the time. Subverted, as Kingsley's only really upset because he had feelings for her. And her rant does lose a lot of its thunder when it's revealed that she has a boyfriend she's been cheating on (before and after the audience knows of his existence). | |
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Fresh Meat / int_c972d624 | |
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Last-Minute Hookup | |
Fresh Meat / int_c9c317cd | comment |
Last-Minute Hookup: Howard and Candice in the Season 3 finale, but it doesn't survive into the fourth season. Josie and JP decide to become an Official Couple in the series finale after a season of Will They or Won't They?. | |
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Never Lend to a Friend | |
Fresh Meat / int_c9ebcaae | comment |
Never Lend to a Friend: In the series 2 opener Oregon starts getting annoyed at Vod not paying her back all the money she's borrowed... and soon she discovers all the housemates (except JP) have been lending her money, so they have a house meeting. | |
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Foreign Queasine | |
Fresh Meat / int_ce1d78bc | comment |
Foreign Queasine: Josie’s speciality dish of “Munge.� | |
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Defensive "What?" | |
Fresh Meat / int_cf083392 | comment |
Defensive "What?": Josie to Heather and Kingsley after they stare at her taking a bottle of vodka out of the freezer. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_d129e13e | type |
"Eureka!" Moment | |
Fresh Meat / int_d129e13e | comment |
"Eureka!" Moment: Howard has one in the burglary episode when recalling Josie's comment about Oregon accusing the housemates of doing it. | |
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Played for Drama | |
Fresh Meat / int_d1da2c36 | comment |
Vod's mum. Played for Drama. | |
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Lampshaded | |
Fresh Meat / int_d332bf54 | comment |
JP in series one, but they get used to him. It even gets Lampshaded by him. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
Fresh Meat / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Towards the end of both the first two series, the seventh housemate leaves as a direct result of the others being frankly horrible people. Towards the end of the third, they all call each other out on the horrible things they've been doing to each other. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_d52d28b6 | type |
Hypocrite | |
Fresh Meat / int_d52d28b6 | comment |
Hypocrite: Among many other examples, J.P. has a go at Kingsley for pursuing Sam when J.P. "had dibs". He's getting confused; the only "dibs" arrangement was when he offered to play wingman to Howard but asked Sam out for himself because she was too good for him. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_d52d28b6 | |
Fresh Meat / int_d6b5f05f | type |
Friendship Moment | |
Fresh Meat / int_d6b5f05f | comment |
Friendship Moment: The gang driving JP up to his Dad's funeral and sticking up for him at the party. When Kingsley gives Howard his invite to the BP 'promising students' dinner. Vod and JP have one at his family's home when he talks about his two "crying steps". It even ends with Vod hesitantly lying her head on his shoulder to comfort him. Vod and Oregon share many such moments throughout the series. Their friendship is by far the most volatile, and is really put to the test on many occasions. However, no matter how bitter or spiteful they become to each other, they always warmly embrace and make up with each other in the end. | |
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Shower of Awkward | |
Fresh Meat / int_d6c074b | comment |
Shower of Awkward: Played with a couple of times. In the first episode, JP tries to claim first dibs on the upstairs bathroom, but Howard refuses to be bought off. This leads to a game of chicken where JP uses the shower while Howard sits on the toilet, each waiting to see who'll break first. It's JP; "you're using my humanity against me, you beast!" In a callback in series 2, Heather starts brushing her teeth while JP is in the shower, and he yells at her to get out. Instead she pulls the curtain aside to take a peek, and her complimentary comments on his... endowment make him entirely forget his annoyance. | |
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Graduation for Everyone | |
Fresh Meat / int_d8affc41 | comment |
Graduation for Everyone: Averted; at the finale, Josie still has a year left for her degree, which, sadly, leaves her the only one left behind as everyone else moves on to the next stage of their lives. Not that it's an instant happy ending for all: Howard received the highest marks, with most of the other group receiving realistically mediocre or poor marks due to their academic habits. | |
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Sixth Ranger | |
Fresh Meat / int_dabc7a46 | comment |
Sixth Ranger: The house has seven bedrooms; one too many for the six students who form the main cast. The last room is occupied by different guest characters in different series: Series 1: Paul Lamb the Invisible Man, who the viewers never see and the housemates claim not to. Revealed in the first season finale that he was around the whole time and had a mental breakdown because nobody ever noticed him, hence him leaving the house. Series 2: Ph.D student Sabine, who is older, foreign, and more introverted than the rest. Only Howard forms any kind of relationship with her (although Josie becomes her friend in the next series) and she moves out before the series' end. Series 3: New fresher Candice moves in and, unlike Paul and Sabine, she becomes a true Seventh Ranger, joining the group on various clubbing nights, house parties and pub crawls. Vod's temporary husband Javier also becomes the Eighth Ranger for a while at the same time! In series 4, Candice is Put on a Bus, the room is finally left vacant and the group returns to the original group of series 1. | |
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Tears of Remorse | |
Fresh Meat / int_de04e30c | comment |
Tears of Remorse: Josie when she has her Heel Realization after the house is burgled and she can lie about it no longer. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_deea2fb5 | type |
Idle Rich | |
Fresh Meat / int_deea2fb5 | comment |
Idle Rich: Proud, flamboyant posho JP has a seemingly limitless supply of cash from his rich parents and brother, and often just buys his way out of any problem that may arise. He is shown to possess zero appreciation for the value of money. Fellow posho Oregon is very similar, but tries desperately to suppress and obscure her richness. | |
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Fresh Meat / int_df4b69d6 | type |
Uncomfortable Elevator Moment | |
Fresh Meat / int_df4b69d6 | comment |
Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: Josie and Kingsley get into an elevator after Oregon's play, seconds after a) Kingsley reveals he didn't dump Heather for weeks after he started dating Josie, and b) Josie reveals she had sex with Baz a few weeks after she started dating Kingsley. To say their faces look awkward in the elevator is an understatement. | |
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Typecasting | |
Fresh Meat / int_dfd18c4 | comment |
Typecasting: Joe Thomas as a Dogged Nice Guy, similar to Simon in The Inbetweeners, Martin in White Gold, and Nick in The Festival. | |
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1.0 | |
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Even Nerds Have Standards | |
Fresh Meat / int_e0804063 | comment |
Even Nerds Have Standards: Howard thinks Brian is a weirdo. Everyone else thinks Howard is a weirdo. | |
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Has a Type | |
Fresh Meat / int_e24e15a6 | comment |
Has a Type: Kingsley falls for two girls of East Asian descent. | |
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Last-Name Basis | |
Fresh Meat / int_e28f88b8 | comment |
Last-Name Basis: At his Summation Gathering in the burglary episode, Howard insists on using everyone's surnames, which is the first time we learn several of them. | |
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Manchild | |
Fresh Meat / int_e313b4e7 | comment |
Manchild: JP. | |
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The "Fun" in "Funeral" | |
Fresh Meat / int_e4f48a7f | comment |
The "Fun" in "Funeral": The students attend JP's dad's funeral in 1x8, partly as a show of support to JP, partly for other reasons. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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In a far worse example, Chris firmly blames Vod for ruining her life by being born. Howard tells Vod that she didn't choose to be born, because no one does. This causes Vod to call her out on her actions and give her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Unfortunately, it causes Chris to completely flip out at all of them. | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: "It's not a human head. It's the same shape and weight as a human head, but it's not one." | |
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Meaningful Rename: Oregon. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Vod, when she briefly becomes infatuated with Al the Handyman. She begins wearing hair extensions and Oregon's clothing, and is generally reduced to a nervous wreck. She gets over it by the end of the episode, though. Oregon introduces herself to Dylan using her real name, Melissa. Shame it doesn't last... After walking in on everyone masturbating when bringing them tea, Josie walks in on JP and she expresses surprise that he isn't masturbating too. He remarks that he's tired of it, and the tiredness in his voice implies he's serious. | |
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Exact Words: This happened as part of an event in Vod's childhood, where Vod told her mother not to get drunk on one of her sports days. She didn't get drunk. She took acid instead, mistook another child (a boy, no less) for Vod, tried to take him home, and the police got involved. According to Vod, this was normal for her. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Chris, Vod's mum, is a big one. She nicknames Vod "Milly" (for millstone, which she sees Vod as), is The Alcoholic, attempts to get off with JP even though he wants no part of it, tells Kingsley and Josie their relationship is doomed, and wishes Vod was aborted, voicing this out loud within earshot of Vod and laughing about it, and blowing up at other people for her own mistakes. Vod's attempt to call her out on it ("You're a shit mother." - she really is) results in Chris flying into a drunken rage and wrecking half the house. Who can blame Vod for burning everything that reminds her of her mum or her childhood afterwards? Tomothy, JP's older brother. He cheats on his wife with Oregon and later tries to do the same with Josie, who isn't interested, mocks JP's (admittedly ridiculous) career ambitions and attempts to emotionally blackmail him when JP refuses the job Tomothy set up for him. By the way, all of that is basically emotional abuse. After said blackmail, JP decides he's had enough of Tomothy. The Stowe-aways, JP's posh acquaintances, are unrepentant assholes with basically no redeeming qualities whatsoever. | |
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Digging Yourself Deeper | |
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Digging Yourself Deeper: When Dylan finds out about the affair that Oregon had with Shales (Dylan's father), Oregon blurts that she also had a bit of a crush on his mother, too. | |
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Bizarro Universe | |
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Bizarro Universe: Noah and his four mates live in the house next door, and they are all handsome, fashionable, ultra-clean and basically the polar opposite of the main characters. Josie steps into this universe and lives like a queen with them for an episode. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Howard's frustration at everyone's blanket assumption that he's a The Lord of the Rings fan. Josie and JP clumsily having drunk sex with each other starts off as a running, throwaway gag, especially as Josie goes on to regret it and pretend it never happened, every single time. However, it eventually becomes a main storyline in the final season. | |
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Informed Poverty | |
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Informed Poverty: Kingsley can come across as being this. JP refers to him as "poor" but in Series 2 he arrives back on campus with a completely new wardrobe and two guitars. It's more likely that he's working-class but is considered poor by the absurdly-rich JP. | |
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Romantic False Lead: Candice's on-off boyfriend Goth Gary, who she only seems to hang out with to get a reaction out of Howard. | |
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Team Mom | |
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Team Mom: Josie takes on this role in S4 E5, so as to try and help the others prepare for their finals, considering herself this. It's also because she wants to try and get at least one of them to stay after they graduate, as she doesn't want to spend another year in the house on her own. Oregon points out that it was more like trying to poke her beak into everyone else's business rather than worrying about her own life. | |
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Friend Versus Lover | |
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Friend Versus Lover: Kingsley and Josie, over Heather. They form up a custody agreement as to who gets to have her on different nights of the week. | |
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Break-Up Bonfire | |
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Break-Up Bonfire: Non-romantic variation, after Vod falls out with her mother, she burns anything that reminds her of her on the barbecue. | |
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With Friends Like These... | |
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With Friends Like These...: JP's old Stowe buddies are absolutely horrible to him, but he still considers them to be some of his best friends. | |
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Will They or Won't They? | |
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Will They or Won't They? / Unresolved Sexual Tension: Kingsley and Josie in series 1. Subverted in the final episode, but hints of the UST remain in the second series while Kingsley is dating Heather. In Series 3, they finally end up together... but Kingsley hasn't technically broken up with Heather, who is staying with family in Hong Kong for an indeterminate amount of time. Ultimately their relationship deteriorates and they break up for good. JP and Josie hook up frequently over the course of Season 4, but both are reluctant to start a real relationship. They're an Official Couple during the finale, but are fated to a long distance relationship thanks to their different circumstances. | |
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Gross-Up Close-Up | |
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Gross-Up Close-Up: Sabine rubbing an ice cube on her bruised face (and sucking on it) that both the viewer and the housemates think is made from JP's frozen spunk. It isn't. JP unknowingly downs them at the end of the episode to the rest of the house's horror/delight. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Vod gets the idea to get Al the handyman to come back to the house by attempting to flush a pair of jeans down the toilet. At the end, Howard answers the door to a different handyman (as Oregon reported Al for the burglary offscreen) who was called out to remove said jeans from the toilet. | |
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All Gays are Promiscuous | |
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All Gays are Promiscuous: JP's reaction when Giles comes out is to assume that he wants to have sex with him. This may actually be because he believes All Men Are Perverts; when Giles tries to explain by asking "Do you want to shag every woman you know?" JP responds "Yes, of course!" | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: When everyone is trapped in the cellar in season 4, JP jumps to Josie's defence when Kingsley starts laying into her. This causes him to realise the two were having sex, and he is quite hurt to discover he was the only one who didn't previously know. Everyone (bar Kingsley, who is suffering from an ocular migraine) hugging Oregon who's crying over the rejection of her Fulbright scholarship. JP also gets very concerned when Kingsley's condition worsens later, and orders Vod to give up the money so not only can they make it to their finals in the morning, but also because it looks like Kingsley is about to suffer a stroke. He's genuinely concerned for his friend. Vod sticking up for Oregon in front of Oregon's overbearing mother. | |
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