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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme

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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	comment	A BritCom about Tom, a Camp Gay man (James Dreyfus), and Linda, a loud, overweight trashy straight woman (Kathy Burke), sharing a flat. Often compared with Will & Grace, which had a similar gay man/straight woman roommates idea, but the style and humour were a little different. Both leads were Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists...Actually, maybe that isn't so different.The characters live in a grotty run-down flat, that they rent from an ex-prostitute, rather than a plush apartment, and generally, the characters were less middle-class and the humour broader and more risquÃ©. This is an example of a typical British reaction to those impossibly glossy and unlikely American sitcoms such as Will & Grace, stripping off the American gloss and deliberately replacing it with more familiar grot.Tom and Linda were former clubbing fanatics in their youth, who met in a club one night absolutely stoned, and decided to be roommates. They appear to hate each other, but what bonds them is the fact that, pretty much, no-one else can stand either of them.It was created by Beautiful Thing writer Jonathan Harvey, who developed the series with actress Kathy Burke, who played Linda.Gimme, Gimme, Gimme came 48th in Britains Best Sitcom. Named after the ABBA song, "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man After Midnight)".
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Linda's entire family have shades of this, according to her frequent stories about them. Tom's parents turned up in "Dirty 30". Tom claims that they're the dullest people in the world — even trying to say that they died in a car accident so that no one would try to meet them — but when trying to make them leave, Tom discovers a disturbing (at least, to him it is) side to his supposed-dull mother and father.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Tom has many. Linda, meanwhile, has an epic one when she realises that had a drunken lesbian experience with a taxi driver.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_149ff4b0	type	HilarityEnsues
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_149ff4b0	comment	Linda grumpily takes it out for a walk much later, leading to members of the public showing horrified concern over how aggressively she is treating her "child".
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_151f47fc	type	Roommate Com
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_151f47fc	comment	Roommate Com: The show is about a Camp Gay man and his Fag Hag friend sharing a flat near in the Home Counties. They said that they've been roommates for years ever since they met up at a nightclub whilst intoxicated on drugs.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_181c8a41	type	Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_181c8a41	comment	Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: Subverted; when they get to that part of the ceremony, everyone gasps and looks expectantly at Linda; who has been objecting to the whole thing. She doesn't object and just moans at them to get on with it.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: Linda and Sharon (aka famous model Sugar Walls), to the point of Tom not even knowing the two of them were related because of Linda's avoidance of the subject. Linda blames Sharon for tearing the family apart, and Sharon blames the family for being an embarrassment which led to her running away and disowning them.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_1af2b763	type	Celebrity Resemblance
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_1af2b763	comment	Celebrity Resemblance: There's a running gag of Linda being compared to actress Su Pollard, and then Hilarity Ensues when Su (portraying Heidi Honeycomb) turns up as Tom's vocal coach.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: Tom becomes this to the American tourist Gloria because she wants to stay in the UK legally and be with her girlfriend India. They eventually marry, despite Linda's jealousy and attempts of sabotage.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Both Tom and Linda's parents. Linda's parents are justified because her mother died prior to the series and her father refuses to see her, claiming that his "iron lung" ventilator prevents him to do so, however, we later meet Tom's parents on his 30th birthday.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_1c3d047e	type	The Rival
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_1c3d047e	comment	The Rival: Tom has a hatred for Robert Carlyle, who (apparently) wins all the roles he auditions for.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: They did this a few times. One notable one was Linda saying to Tom as she gestures at a magazine, "Remember Sugar? My sister from the last series?"
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_2110d8ac	type	Egg Sitting
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_2110d8ac	comment	Egg Sitting: Tom and Linda are given the neighbours' doll to look after while they're away because they're practising how to look after a baby for the possible future. Linda grumpily takes it out for a walk much later, leading to members of the public showing horrified concern over how aggressively she is treating her "child".
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In "Stiff", where they find Beryl's body in a coffin in their living room, Beryl's boyfriend asks Linda whether she is Beryl's sister but then dismisses the idea because Linda is "too ugly". This seems like a throwaway joke at first, but the fact that Beryl has a sister comes back when Beryl turns up and announces it was her "bitch twin sister" who has died, and not her. When Jez and Suze make Linda (and Tom) look after a doll as they go out for the day, Tom orders Linda to take it out for fresh air when she's distracting him and her sister. Linda protests that she'll look like an idiot in the street, but Tom snaps that it might be a doll that explodes if it's not looked after like a baby.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Beryl has a much younger toyboy lover in "Stiff", who she met on holiday in the Mediterranean.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Suze (although she has a mixture of Beware the Nice Ones, as well). She can prove to be really quite cruel towards Linda. Perhaps justified as vengeance after Linda's nastiness towards her.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_27c09b00	type	Camp Straight
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_27c09b00	comment	Camp Straight: Vic Cheesecloth from the couch commercials, who prances around and talks with a stuffy, posh voice, making Tom fall in love with him. Then it's revealed that Vic's Happily Married to a woman.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_27dc05b2	type	LGBT Fanbase
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_27dc05b2	comment	LGBT Fanbase: invoked Sugar Walls is a gay icon, according to Tom. When Linda claims that she is as well, Tom points out that a gay icon and a Fag Hag are completely different things. Simon Shephard, Tom's acting idol, but it turns out that Shepard's legion of gay fans was the result of a (untrue) rumour from a rival actor which claimed that he was an Armored Closet Gay. When Tom finds out, his Broken Smile resembles someone who wants the ground to swallow him up at that moment. For someone who is extremely homophobic about lesbians, Linda loves making jokes about one day being famous enough to have an army of fans like this.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Both Tom and Linda, which is probably why no one can bear to be around them.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_29e6dc40	type	HypocriticalHumour
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: Linda: "I ain't "phobic" about homos; just can't stand the sight of them." Tom's first quarter-life crisis in the series ends in one. Linda claims leaving a decorated Christmas tree up for a certain number of days is bad luck, which Tom dismisses as "superstitious claptrap". Two episodes later, he's yelling at Linda for not running home fast enough because he saw two nuns and didn't want any bad luck.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: Tom is this, and goes out of his way to make Linda believe that he's the poster child of this, despite spending his youth going to cheap nightclubs and taking illegal street drugs, and befriending someone with a social status like Linda, which is something that a middle-class person wouldn't (stereotypically) do.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_304f9e0b	type	Flowery Insults
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_304f9e0b	comment	Flowery Insults: Tom's insults are full of these, and there are probably enough to fill a book. Most are directed towards Linda, who he's called a "galumphing great Gibbon", "silly, fat tart" and "a ginger fag hag with enough cellulite to cover Japan", to name a few.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: Sometimes, Tom's snarks about Linda's life turn out to be accurate.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_30eb40ec	type	Stern Nun
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_30eb40ec	comment	Stern Nun: The nuns at Linda's Catholic school. Sister Contraception was an alleged pervert and Sister Brian May seemingly relished in bullying Linda, due to how awful her mother had been decades before.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_31fd8c52	type	Performance Artist
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_31fd8c52	comment	Performance Artist: Tom is a struggling actor trying to make it in show business. His most "memorable" role was playing a member of the public in the marketplace of EastEnders in 1994.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_34e15b76	type	Kindhearted Cat Lover
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_34e15b76	comment	Tom convinces Linda that being a Kindhearted Cat Lover isn't as strange as she assumes. Most people aren't immune to befriending "fluffy animals".
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Su Pollard's character, Heidi Honeycomb, is greeted by everyone with: "Heidi, Hi!"
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_39f27cae	type	Bedmate Reveal
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_39f27cae	comment	Bedmate Reveal: Linda pulls back the covers in a season two episode to discovers the taxi driver in her underwear waking up next to her.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_3abe36c6	type	Effeminate Misogynistic Guy
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_3abe36c6	comment	Effeminate Misogynistic Guy: A lot of Tom's snide is directed at women and Linda is often the butt of it. Linda herself is just as misogynistic, and appears to be what the two of them have in common the most.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_3bf27a8d	type	Right Through the Wall
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_3bf27a8d	comment	Right Through the Wall: Much of Jez and Suze's intimacy is heard through Linda and Tom's floor. Amusingly, Linda briefly uses a cup to eavesdrop, even though it's loud enough to hear if she attached herself to the ceiling.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Many of Tom's recent acting jobs. Many episodes focus on Tom struggling to find work between jobs, constantly reminding Linda that he does get work. He'll talk about being in Silent Witness and mentions being in the musical version of Silence of the Lambs as Linda either pretends to listen or is too focused on her own woes to pay attention. Some of Linda's stories about her family. Tom either ignores her or treats it as a Non Sequitur.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_3e8a368e	type	Imaginary Love Triangle
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_3e8a368e	comment	Suze being in the way of Linda's Imaginary Love Triangle led to her receiving many of Linda's snide comments and stealth insults. In season 3, it appears she knew all along that Linda disliked her and it's implied her bullying Linda when she becomes a catwalk agent is to invoke Linda's Karma Houdini Warranty.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_3eba1249	type	"Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_3eba1249	comment	"Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation: This gem from the first episode:
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_40bb59d0	comment	Shown mostly through the second episode of the third season. Tom is set to appear in a production that boasts acting appearances from Hollywood, and spends the entire episode boasting at Linda of getting an enormous part, sharing the stage with Tom Cruise, and how he'll prepare to walk the stage. When it unsurprisingly fails, he sets upon the production team for greenlighting a shitty play (that he was praising moments before) and how shit the director was (despite calling her one of the best playwrights of all time), and then snapped at Linda for saying The Scottish Play (despite saying the word about three times, when she assumed it was "Brigadoon", and walking under a ladder several times).
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: In the first episode, Linda suspects that the stranger in hers and Tom's flat slept with her instead of Tom because she's much more attractive, with her claim that "Miss Marple would have a field day" if she examined both rooms.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_44e350a4	type	Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_44e350a4	comment	Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The final episode of the first season is called "I Do I Do I Do", which is also named after an ABBA song (although the original song title has 5 "I Do"-s and not 3 like the episode's.)
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten: Linda, a few times.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_4c6e3b05	type	Uncanny Valley Makeup
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_4c6e3b05	comment	Uncanny Valley Makeup: Being too busy bragging to Linda about going to act alongside Tom Cruise, Tom throws so much make-up on his face, making his face black with red eyes and lips, dusty hair, and a sink stuck to his bottom.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: In the last episode, Tom gets a job on the 2000s reboot of the soap opera Crossroads and leaves the flat. It manages to get a last laugh in, revealing that Linda's infamous red hair is actually a wig and she is completely bald, but it still ends on a very sad note with her sitting alone on her bed and turning the lights off. The 1999 Christmas Special, where Tom and Linda have absolutely no invitations to any New Year's Eve parties, and get morosely drunk together, finally passing out with alcohol and missing the countdown to 2000.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_4e3d253b	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_4e3d253b
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_4fff0dfe	type	Sarcasm-Blind
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_4fff0dfe	comment	Sarcasm-Blind: Linda, who takes a lot of Tom's insults as compliments.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_4fff0dfe	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_4fff0dfe	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_4fff0dfe
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_52488c54	comment	The 1999 Christmas Special, where Tom and Linda have absolutely no invitations to any New Year's Eve parties, and get morosely drunk together, finally passing out with alcohol and missing the countdown to 2000.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_52488c54	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_52488c54	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_52488c54
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Linda often goes on tirades about loathing lesbians and doesn't hide her prejudices whenever she's around one. She also doesn't hold back on calling Tom homophobic slurs in order to mock him during his many rants. Although a Rule of Funny as for the sake of puns, it could be misinterpreted as offensive these days.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_55232afa	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_55232afa	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_55232afa
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Subverted, although it didn't stop the series from throwing in references to it through Spoonerisms. In the last episode, Beryl announces that she has "a cunning stunt", which makes Tom and Linda smirk at each other. There is a double subversion when Linda goes into a rant in episode two: "The slightest hint of a Cockney accent doesn't mean I go around coshing old ladies, you condescending runt!"
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_56240281	featureApplicability	-0.3
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_56240281	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_56240281
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_5679208c	type	No Bisexuals
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_5679208c	comment	No Bisexuals: Zigzags with this trope. When Tom discovers Linda's one-night stand with a woman, he suggests that she's bisexual, but he accuses Vic Cheesecloth of hiding behind the hetero-normative ideology because he "cannot admit" that he's in love with Tom while he's married to a woman.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_5679208c	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_5679208c	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_5679208c
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_57980ca0	type	Smoking Hot Sex
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_57980ca0	comment	Smoking Hot Sex: After his one-night stand with his "Italian" nightclub friend in episode 5, Tom is seen in bed gazing lovingly at the stranger with a cigarette in his mouth. After a one-night stand with Linda, the female taxi driver asks for a cigarette, but Linda refuses to give her one. Tom and Linda have a (very unattractive) kiss before the new year, and both light a cigarette when they're finished. Linda compares the kiss to the accidental one she had with a horse, claiming that Tom was worse.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_57980ca0	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_57980ca0	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_57980ca0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: Most of Linda and Tom's arguments.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_583ec33e	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_583ec33e	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_583ec33e
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_58dc613c	type	Poster-Gallery Bedroom
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_58dc613c	comment	Poster-Gallery Bedroom: Linda's bedroom is covered in her favourite pop stars that change every season. Season 1 was Liam Gallagher, the second season was Robbie Williams, and the third season was members of Hear'Say.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_58dc613c	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_58dc613c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_59196f87	type	Baby Talk
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_59196f87	comment	Baby Talk: Whenever Linda talks about her family (in a possible attempt to seem cute), she occasionally lapses into a wistful babyish squeak, despite talking about how much her family enjoyed abusing her. When she calls her father for New Year's Eve, she starts hobbling about on her heels and talking with a lisp, as if she was a five year old.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_59196f87	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_59196f87	featureConfidence	1.0
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_60426489	type	Citizenship Marriage
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_60426489	comment	Citizenship Marriage: In "I Do, I Do, I Do" Tom marries an American lesbian so she can stay in the country.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_60426489	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_60426489	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_60426489
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_615fdb1f	comment	In Tom's Dream Sequence of being Oscar Wilde's lover, he helps Wilde try and name his new play. Then Linda suddenly shows up in the room to shriek, "A handbag?!"
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_615fdb1f	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_615fdb1f	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_615fdb1f
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Most of Tom and Linda's fights include Tom spitting ad hominem about Linda's underclass background. Although part of the reason he lives with Linda is to escape animosity between him and his parents, he often acts like living in a council estate is worse than Hell. When he speculates the rich and successful Vic Cheesecloth is planning to move him into the Cheesecloth mansion, Tom can't hide his brown-nosing, which comes off like he can't wait for Vic to adopt him, at times.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_644eca71	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_644eca71	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_644eca71
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_66d725ef	type	All the Good Men Are Gay
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_66d725ef	comment	All the Good Men Are Gay: In the first episode, Tom and Linda retrace their steps back to the night before when they went to a nightclub to celebrate their achievements, in which Tom tells Linda that it was a "gay-friendly" night when she claimed it was a gay bar. Linda is furious she wasn't told earlier. Linda meets Ron in a factory and falls for his joke about "having a man in his life". Linda rages about being surrounded by homosexuals until Ron says that he was referring to being close with his father.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_66d725ef	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_66d725ef	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_66d725ef
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_69cc2a27	type	Hilariously Abusive Childhood
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_69cc2a27	comment	Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Linda usually mentions hers at least Once an Episode. Moments include: Her mother gave birth to her on top of a crate of beers in Romford Market. Family members didn't know she was a female baby and kept calling her the name of the type of beer that her mother was lying on. Her father tied her to the roof of the family car and sped around the island. Her mother also locked her in the trunk when the family went to a hot country for a two-week vacation. When going to nursery (kindergarten), Linda was tied to a pole in the school garden during classes, and then thrown raw meat for lunch. When she was eight, the family made her sleep in a dog kennel because she was a Motor Mouth at bedtime. At borstal, the other girls attacked her, tied her to the back of a bus, and the leader of the most violent gang in the building broke her knees. One of Linda's roommates hanged herself when she discovered who she was sharing her bedroom with.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_69cc2a27	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_69cc2a27	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_69cc2a27
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_6cb5fcec	type	Distracted by My Own Sexy
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_6cb5fcec	comment	Distracted by My Own Sexy: Linda might as well be the poster child of this trope. Being an overweight, frizzy-haired, redheaded woman who wears skimpy outfits and ugly glasses (when she removes them, she becomes Comically Cross-Eyed), she claims that she has the "body of an angel" and compares herself to slimmer and attractive celebrities note She claims that Marilyn Monroe was fatter than her, she looks like a redheaded Catherine Zeta-Jones, and believes that Courteney Cox could convincingly be her in a biopic on Tom's life. It confuses her why she hasn't been successful with men and why no one can take her seriously, believing it's down to jealousy. This often leads to her lack of understanding mixed signals during her sexual encounters. She assumes that men like to have sex in the dark because they prefer it (when they actually don't want to look at her face), assumes that all men cry post-coitus because they're insecure about having a one-night stand (when they're traumatised by her looks), and assumes that being strangled is how men like to arouse women.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_6cb5fcec	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_6cb5fcec	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_6cb5fcec
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_6d332aea	comment	At borstal, the other girls attacked her, tied her to the back of a bus, and the leader of the most violent gang in the building broke her knees. One of Linda's roommates hanged herself when she discovered who she was sharing her bedroom with.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_6d332aea	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_6d332aea	featureConfidence	1.0
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Tom began his acting career in the television industry as an extra in EastEnders. Linda makes references to it, making Tom snap at her.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_6e37c196	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_6e37c196	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_6e37c196
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: Only Tom and Linda smoke. One exercise routine shows them stepping on and off a coffin while moving their cigarette hand back and forth.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_71105dfc	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_71105dfc	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_71105dfc
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: The frequent source of jokes, due to the giant egos of Tom and Linda, which stretch to the point of them basically monologing to each other instead of having a simple conversation. Tom usually drifts off about his acting career/celebrity he is reminded of/the current situation, just as Linda is simultaneously talking about her family or a strange sexual encounter she had once. Somewhat lampshaded in the episode "Stiff".
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_71152dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_71152dd	featureConfidence	1.0
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_717d735a	type	Suicide by Pills
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_717d735a	comment	Suicide by Pills: Played for Laughs in "Dirty 30". Tom, realizing that he drove away his parents after they did something really nice for him, tries to kill himself by swallowing some of Beryl's pills. Beryl quickly points out that said pills are multivitamins.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_717d735a	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_717d735a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Tom, leading Linda to tease: "Ooh, you big fat homo."
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_722b3319	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_722b3319	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_722b3319
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_770f2097	type	Page Three Stunna
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_770f2097	comment	Page Three Stunna: Sugar Walls. Tom and Linda make off-hand comments of her posing topless and underwear for magazines and newspapers.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_770f2097	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_770f2097	featureConfidence	1.0
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_77425f01	type	YouDontWantToKnow
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_77425f01	comment	Some of Linda's stories about her family. Tom either ignores her or treats it as a Non Sequitur.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_77425f01	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_77425f01	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_77425f01
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Played with in the Citizenship Marriage episode. The viewer might sympathise with Linda acting confused as Tom condescendingly tells her about his friend Gloria as if this is the hundredth time he's mentioned it, considering this is the first time she's been mentioned in the series.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_77b03c0a	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_77b03c0a	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_77b03c0a
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: There is a very clear realisation that only a gay scriptwriter could get away with some of the characterisation and dialogue - had this been written by a heterosexual it would have been strangled at birth as homophobic.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_7815ba15	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_7815ba15	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_7815ba15
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: Linda tries everything to make Jez cheat on Suze — even trying to impress him with her knowledge on black music artists. Tom has a crush on his gay childhood friend Degsy. Ironically, Degsy doesn't feel the same way, and has feelings for a woman!!
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_7a82c3d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_7a82c3d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_7a82c3d2
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_7edab847	type	Screwball Comedy
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_7edab847	comment	Screwball Comedy: A non-romantic, but subtle example. Tom and Linda are completely different opposite sides of the British social spectrum who live together in a flat, but the only things they have in common is that they're sexually attracted to men and enjoy going to nightclubs at the weekend (that's even how they became friends in the first place.) There are occasions when one of them has to have the haughty broken out of them by the other, though, especially when it comes to fighting over men.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_7edab847	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_7edab847	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_7edab847
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8084141a	type	Out-of-Context Eavesdropping
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8084141a	comment	Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: When Linda is revealed in a newspaper as Sugar Walls' dysfunctional sister, Linda overhears Sugar snapping at the stalking paparazzi that she doesn't have siblings because she's an orphan, as she's stated in her autobiography. Linda sees this as Sharon being up to her old tricks of playing victim and disowning her family, and makes her leave the apartment without telling Tom.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8084141a	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8084141a	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8084141a
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_82518cf7	comment	When she was eight, the family made her sleep in a dog kennel because she was a Motor Mouth at bedtime.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_82518cf7	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_82518cf7	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_82518cf7
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: The only people in the show that have a pass on this are Jez and Beryl, whereas Suze has moments of being as nasty as Linda and Tom.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_82b4f38e	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_82b4f38e	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_82b4f38e
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: The hired bodyguard for Tom that his agent got is The Voiceless, but when he eventually speaks, he has a camp voice and puts the moves on Tom.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_83b44e80	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_83b44e80	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_83b44e80
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_85bcc5a8	type	Lampshaded Double Entendre
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_85bcc5a8	comment	Lampshaded Double Entendre: How Daisy talks in the episode "Sofa Man".
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_85bcc5a8	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_85bcc5a8	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_85bcc5a8
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: Every character has their moments, but mostly Tom towards Linda.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_85f0f0fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_85f0f0fb
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_88359b23	type	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_88359b23	comment	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Linda and Tom. When they both try to change each other for the sake of understanding the struggles of the other's gender, it ends hilariously. One episode includes Tom trying to teach Linda etiquette when she's dating, only for Linda to criticise his gestures and effeminate behaviour.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_88359b23	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_88359b23	featureConfidence	1.0
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Sugar was a mild version. While she hated her family (as well as the implied abuse that Linda got for being slow), she runs away from home and believes that she unselfishly did the right thing, despite Linda's claims of their mother having a mental breakdown because of it. There's also an implication that their parents began abusing Linda because of her little sister's disappearance.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8a1215e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8a1215e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8a1215e0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Beryl, occasionally. It often happens whenever someone's being condescending.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8c681acc	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8c681acc	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8c681acc
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: Suze is a downplayed version. She may have clueless moments, but she's apparently competent enough to get jobs like a catwalk agent. Although, her middle-class background might have something to do with it...
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8e4a0f15	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8e4a0f15	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8e4a0f15
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8eccfae2	type	Delusions of Beauty
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8eccfae2	comment	Delusions of Beauty: Linda seems to think that she's beautiful, despite being played by an actress whose livelihood depends on her rather homely looks (and not in the Hollywood Homely type). As her despairing sister says:
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8eccfae2	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8eccfae2	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8eccfae2
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8faea0c5	type	Comically Cross-Eyed
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8faea0c5	comment	Being an overweight, frizzy-haired, redheaded woman who wears skimpy outfits and ugly glasses (when she removes them, she becomes Comically Cross-Eyed), she claims that she has the "body of an angel" and compares herself to slimmer and attractive celebrities note She claims that Marilyn Monroe was fatter than her, she looks like a redheaded Catherine Zeta-Jones, and believes that Courteney Cox could convincingly be her in a biopic on Tom's life. It confuses her why she hasn't been successful with men and why no one can take her seriously, believing it's down to jealousy.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8faea0c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8faea0c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme	hasFeature	Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_8faea0c5
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_962fd8e5	type	Exposition Party
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_962fd8e5	comment	Exposition Party: The end of the first season celebrates the wedding of Tom and Gloria. Here, we learn that Tom has a crush on his gay friend Degsy (and through One Dialogue, Two Conversations, Tom believes Degsy confirmed his love for him too), and that Linda has been asked to appear in a bawdy upcoming TV show called Poor White Trash Gettin' It On, as well as other things.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_962fd8e5	featureApplicability	1.0
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_962fd8e5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Tom blames everyone but himself if a situation goes wrong. Linda is possibly an easy target because of her literal-mindedness and stupidity. Shown mostly through the second episode of the third season. Tom is set to appear in a production that boasts acting appearances from Hollywood, and spends the entire episode boasting at Linda of getting an enormous part, sharing the stage with Tom Cruise, and how he'll prepare to walk the stage. When it unsurprisingly fails, he sets upon the production team for greenlighting a shitty play (that he was praising moments before) and how shit the director was (despite calling her one of the best playwrights of all time), and then snapped at Linda for saying The Scottish Play (despite saying the word about three times, when she assumed it was "Brigadoon", and walking under a ladder several times).
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: Linda's ideology about lesbians. When she meets some, she thinks that they want to rape her and goes out of her way to try and scare them away. She sometimes has this view about gay men too, despite being friends with one.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_9cad69bf	featureApplicability	1.0
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: Although middle-class, both Tom and Suze have their moments.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_9d6f3607	type	Fag Hag
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_9d6f3607	comment	Sugar Walls is a gay icon, according to Tom. When Linda claims that she is as well, Tom points out that a gay icon and a Fag Hag are completely different things.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_9fc04a54	type	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_9fc04a54	comment	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Linda has a drunken one-night stand with a female taxi driver. Tom has his fun by calling said driver "Linda's girlfriend" and playfully assumes that this was why Linda made it very clear that she didn't like lesbians. Linda spends the rest of the episode bothering attractive men in the street, begging them for sex.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Both Tom and Linda have friends, but they are so repulsive to be around, the friends ditch them when they have the chance. The best example is the Christmas special, in which Linda is told that her friend's party was cancelled, and none of Tom's friends arrive at the flat as agreed weeks ago.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_aba0cd10	type	Cloudcuckoolander's Minder
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_aba0cd10	comment	Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Jez to his wife Suze, who goes along with her beliefs, no matter how much everyone else finds them weird.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Being used to being a self-made orphan that ran away from her family problems, Sugar Walls sneaks away when she feels smothered by anyone that gives her affection (even though she's a celebrity), which probably explains her ManEater status in the media.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_adf1dcc2	type	Promoted Fanboy
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_adf1dcc2	comment	Promoted Fanboy: invoked Tom, of Sugar Walls (who he meets twice because she is Linda's sister) and Simon Shepherd (who he meets, along with Linda's borstal bully). Linda, of Liam Gallagher from Oasis. Sugar Walls gave her his phone number.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_aeea541c	type	Baby-Doll Baby
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_aeea541c	comment	Baby-Doll Baby: Invoked. Suze and Jez keep a doll one episode in order to practice looking after children if they consider having any in the future. When Linda screws everything up (to the point of being in the local newspaper as a "mentally-challenged sibling of Sugar Walls"), they threaten to call the police for kidnapping when Linda refuses to give their "child" back.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Tom has, "big, fat, hairy bollocks!" when something doesn't go his way. Linda has, "Bugger!"
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b5060b63	type	The Lad-ette
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b5060b63	comment	The Lad-ette: Subverted and exploited with Linda. She thinks this is how to bag a man and heightens this trope around them, but she's aggressive and overly vulgar (as well as unattractive) to the point where it is an immediate turn-off (if she had a chance, anyway).
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: To impossibly glossy American sitcom Will & Grace, which is also about an unconventional red-haired woman sharing life with a gay man. But seen through an inverting lens... Many times about other (real-life) celebrities. Tom convinces Linda that being a Kindhearted Cat Lover isn't as strange as she assumes. Most people aren't immune to befriending "fluffy animals". When Linda talks about how much she hates her sister, she says that "there's two names" that should never be said in a positive light: Sugar Walls (Linda's sister) and Cheryl Baker (member of pop band Bucks Fizz). Tom makes Jez and Suze guess who is going to turn up to his apartment. When they fail to name her twice, Tom clues them with "dirty old slapper who's been on TV", making the couple say, "Ulrika Johnsson?" note Ulrika Johnson was a weather presenter, best known by the British public as a woman mocked in the media because she had four children with four different fathers. When Tom hopes to move in with Vic, Linda is confused. Much of the humour is co-written by Kathy Burke (Linda's actress), so who knows whether she was the one that constantly wrote in Tom's crude insults towards Linda...
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b54fe3ce	type	Classically-Trained Extra
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b54fe3ce	comment	Classically-Trained Extra: Tom, who studied acting for four years at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He sometimes gets the chance to get important roles but he always hits an obstacle (one shown is him slipping on the floor and breaking his leg on the way to his audition for Crimewatch).
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b579ecc6	type	Gave Up Too Soon
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b579ecc6	comment	Gave Up Too Soon: A variation. Tom and Linda hear an answering message from Tom's agent Norma, who announces he's got an acting role in Toothache as a worker at a petrol station that pays Â£5,000 a show. The two of them decide to go and celebrate, but Norma calls back once the front door closes. She tells Tom to ignore her last message because she mixed up the names with a famous comedian called Tom Marrow.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Linda and Suze. After being told that Beryl is the woman in the coffin, when Beryl is seen alive and kicking, Suze assumes it's Beryl's ghost that's come to see her body off. Suze also believed that disguised Sugar Walls' was poet Pam Ayres after Walls tells them to not reveal her name to any paparazzo sneaking around, saying that they should call her Pam, leading to Suze wondering whether Pam was hiding in Tom and Linda's apartment when Sugar Walls was staying for the week. Linda was convinced that the abuse she got from her parents was how a child is meant to be treated note although, this is a case for many abuse victims, as well as believing that the photograph of a sideboard was her father's lung that was transplanted, and taking Tom's snide, conspicuous insults as compliments. In the pilot, she takes Tom's suggestion that someone behind the locked bathroom door is deaf and asks "Are you deaf?" and waits for a response.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b6cc7fc0	type	Dysfunctional Family
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b6cc7fc0	comment	Dysfunctional Family: The LaHughes family. Linda was the implied "problem daughter" who had to be sent to borstal, where she got abused more there than she did at home. The family was the most hated residents on the street, to the point of being bombarded by bricks being thrown through the windows, and faeces being shoved through the letterbox. After the electrics went out (due to the family's failed Christmas decorations) in the neighbourhood, it only got worse. One of Linda's uncles was an enthused photographer. Linda's mother was obese. She died after being electrocuted from her weight-loss equipment. Linda's uncle was arrested for "accidentally" flashing schoolgirls. Linda's father dressed as a teddy bear in his youth and was sent to a mental institution. When Linda's mother died, he was found in a ditch singing to himself with the woman's underwear on his face. Linda's aunt got arrested for babysitting too long. Sharon secretly planned to disown her childhood and ran away from home when she was young. When the family recognised her when she became famous as Sugar Walls, her mother had a mental breakdown, according to Linda.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b7209ae1	type	Beef Bandage
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_b7209ae1	comment	Beef Bandage: Linda and Suze give this to Tom after he was punched in the fifth episode.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Tom and Linda, who argue over which one is the most extreme version of this trope. Specifically, in one episode, Tom manages to get a date at the hospital. Still shaken by the suicide of an old boyfriend, the date cannot stop talking about how much he misses him, angering Tom. Stupidly, Tom starts throwing a tantrum and snaps that the date should get over his boyfriend's suicide because the boyfriend cannot come back. The date gets his revenge by making Tom do humiliating things around the apartment.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Quite a few, often being the only time in the episode that "fuck" and "wanker" is said in the episode.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Suze loathes when she's referred to as working-class. When the newspapers call the apartment a council estate, she snaps at her husband that they should sue the editors. The death of Beryl makes the residents assume that she committed suicide and wonder if she left a note in her apartment. Suze suggests that someone should break in, but doesn't volunteer herself because she's a middle-class citizen that "used to own ponies." Tom hates to be called working-class as well, implying that he stereotypes working-class people as identical to the dim-witted Linda. However, his claims of being middle-class could be false and just claims to be middle-class because he lived a better life than Linda by comparison. When Linda assumes that Tom is lying about his social class, Tom defends this by saying that he's worn jodhpurs, but fails to explain what they are when Linda's confused. Tom also gets rather annoyed whenever Linda teases him about his first TV role being an extra on EastEnders.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Jez and Suze.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Sugar Walls. Tom assumes that the media made up stories about her dating several movie stars and sports personalities for controversy, but when Sugar confirms it, Tom cannot hide his shock.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_c3286b8e	type	Uptown Girl
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_c3286b8e	comment	Inter-Class Romance: The middle-class Suze and her (unspecified class) husband Jez. The fact that Suze claimed that her family owned horses yet she's living in a council flat, implies that she is Dating What Daddy Hates.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_c34f8d07	type	LOL, 69
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_c34f8d07	comment	LOL, 69: The door number of the flat is 69 Paradise Passage. Jez and Suze would live in apartment 69A and Linda and Tom would live in apartment 69B, with Beryl in 69C. This trope is very common for door numbers in many British sitcoms.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Several, whether obvious or subtle. In Tom's Dream Sequence of being Oscar Wilde's lover, he helps Wilde try and name his new play. Then Linda suddenly shows up in the room to shriek, "A handbag?!" When in despair (or, one time, when he was drunk), Tom will moan "Oooh, I'm a good girl, I am!"
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_c8490cbe	type	Voodoo Doll
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_c8490cbe	comment	Voodoo Doll: In the first season, Linda is obsessed over Liam Gallagher and has his posters all over her room. She also has a Barbie doll that she's named Patsy (the name of Gallagher's spouse at the time) that she often sticks pins in. Later, she makes one of Suze after discovering that Jez is married.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_c9597a03	comment	Much of the humour is co-written by Kathy Burke (Linda's actress), so who knows whether she was the one that constantly wrote in Tom's crude insults towards Linda...
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_c972d624	comment	Tom makes Jez and Suze guess who is going to turn up to his apartment. When they fail to name her twice, Tom clues them with "dirty old slapper who's been on TV", making the couple say, "Ulrika Johnsson?" note Ulrika Johnson was a weather presenter, best known by the British public as a woman mocked in the media because she had four children with four different fathers.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_d2afe41d	type	PetHomosexual
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_d2afe41d	comment	When talking about slumber parties with girls, he says that he loves how he was the centre of their attention as their Pet Homosexual: "They're always like, 'Tom! Tom! How's my haircut looking?' 'Tom! Tom! How come the boys don't dance with us at the school disco?' 'Tom! Tom! Why are you wearing Beverly's bra?' ... I mean, uh—"
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Beryl, the retired prostitute-turned-landlady.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds:invoked Although Tom and Linda seem to loathe each other as much as everyone else does, there are moments when they appear to genuinely show a strong friendship, such as Linda making an effort for Tom to have a good birthday, and the Millennium Special, in which Tom and Linda are the only characters to appear (dream sequences and the Big-Lipped Alligator Moment notwithstanding), is full of them.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_d80e9526	type	Sex for Services
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_d80e9526	comment	There are also questionable decisions, such as willingly sharing a bed with each other and Tom agrees to sleep with Linda in order to share her campsite earnings.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Plenty, from Heidi Honeycomb saying "I need lubrication" instead of "I'm thirsty", to Linda calling pooping "parking your breakfast".
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_d8bee10a	type	Cash-Cow Franchise
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_d8bee10a	comment	Cash-Cow Franchise: invoked In season 2, Sugar Walls returns to the flat to prepare for an upcoming appearance in a new West End stage production called Toothache, written by Ben Elton. She says that the story will be released as a stage production, a movie adaptation, a novelisation, a television series, a radio adaptation, and a Dance Sensation ... at the same time.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: When Tom and Linda discover that their front door has been unlocked while they were out, Tom panics and believes that they might've been robbed. Then this happens:
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_db212ca9	type	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_db212ca9	comment	Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Often, when Tom is ranting, he reveals a memory (whether dark or just plain embarrassing) and then gets angry at himself for saying it. Gems include: When talking about slumber parties with girls, he says that he loves how he was the centre of their attention as their Pet Homosexual: "They're always like, 'Tom! Tom! How's my haircut looking?' 'Tom! Tom! How come the boys don't dance with us at the school disco?' 'Tom! Tom! Why are you wearing Beverly's bra?' ... I mean, uh—" On imagining having parental issues in school: "Are you [Linda] happy now?! I'm from a broken home! If I was back at school, I'd have to have free school meals! [...] All the kids would come up to me and be like, 'Your parents are split!' Uh, 'You poo your pants!' ... 'You looked at [another boy's] willy in the school toilets! That's why he hit you! That's why he hits you!' Oh God! Why am I telling you this?!" In fear of the garden turning into a holiday camp, Tom snaps at the council that if they don't take action, "Before you know it, they'll be knobbly knees contests, gardening on Geity Green, a bloke called Freddy standing in the toilets with his pecker out..."
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Bizarrely between Linda and Tom, despite Tom's homosexuality. There are several moments when their relationship gets very close to Will They or Won't They? territory. The New Year's Eve kiss. Linda claimed that she was only doing that because she felt sorry for Tom, but they were both drunk and on the onset of depression. They also wanted the night to be special with the possibility of getting laid at their planned parties. In season 2 finale, Tom and Linda act out dating scenarios to practise their flirting skills. This ends with Linda (pretending to be a builder who's asked Tom out) escorting Tom out of the room. And then the end credits roll before the audience can make any assumptions. There are also questionable decisions, such as willingly sharing a bed with each other and Tom agrees to sleep with Linda in order to share her campsite earnings.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Tom has a couple of these, leading him to go on wild antics that get him into even more trouble, eventually making him appreciate Status Quo Is God by the end of the episode.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Unfortunately, by series 3, this had well and truly set in. Both Tom and Linda had become much, much more stupid than they were when the series started.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_e85976d4	type	Not That There's Anything Wrong with That
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_e85976d4	comment	Not That There's Anything Wrong with That: Linda and Suze both try and impress Jez and Tom with their knowledge on race and sexuality. At a dinner party, Suze asks Tom if he knows any gay strangers that she's spoken to. Tom angrily snaps that just because he's gay it doesn't mean he knows a lot of gay men. Linda tries to seduce Jez by talking about her favourite black musicians. Jez sees through it and leaves.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_f21d434a	type	New Job as the Plot Demands
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_f21d434a	comment	Tom's acting career goes from strength to strength, the first episode mentioning he had just gained an agent (the reason he and Linda woke up hungover after partying the night before to celebrate) and the rest of season one is mostly him waiting around for something to happen. Season two has frequent mentions of him finding acting gigs (offscreen, at least) but he also goes through New Job as the Plot Demands as he contemplates whether he'd ever be successful. Season three becomes his big break as he gets hired in a heavily publicised stage play, meets his acting idol, and ends with him facing a dilemma that could make or break his friendships. However, all this also contributes to his attitude, making him become egotistical, arrogant, and snobbish to the other characters as the show progresses.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_f288cf3	type	Innocent Innuendo
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_f288cf3	comment	Tom reacts like this to some of Linda's comments. At one point, he actually vomits.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_f2a5f7f2	type	Expospeak Gag
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_f2a5f7f2	comment	Expospeak Gag: When Tom tries to explain his reasons for marrying an American lesbian to Linda, this occurs:
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_f332d990	type	Too Much Information
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_f332d990	comment	Too Much Information: Tom reacts like this to some of Linda's comments. At one point, he actually vomits. In the Millennium Special, Tom is outraged that Linda has been banned from going to her party, in fear that she will unintentionally sabotage his. He tries to defy this by warning her not to talk about the thrilling tales of the "LaHughes family history".
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_f567146c	type	Aside Comment
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_f567146c	comment	Linda has, "Bugger!"
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_fb4c41b4	type	"Friends" Rent Control
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme / int_fb4c41b4	comment	"Friends" Rent Control: How Beryl hasn't chucked them out is a mystery. Although Tom is an actor with an agent, he and Linda are rarely seen working, but Tom's recent appearances on television and on stage are usually mentioned whenever Tom wants to remind Linda that he does get employed. Linda, meanwhile, claimed she had just got a job working at a call center in the pilot, but gets fired two episodes later. Then we don't see her going to work until the season finale of season 2, and then nothing after that.
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