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Green Wing
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Green Wing was a British "medical" drama that ran from 2004-2006, and was a mixture of comedy, bizarre Soap Opera and pure absurdity that would make Scrubs blush.The series was notable in that, despite being set at the fictional East Hampton Hospital Trust (and filmed in a real-live working hospital, complete with genuine patients and doctors as extras), the plot rarely ever touched actual medicine or patient storylines. Instead, it focused on the surgeons playing games mid-operations, the Love Dodecahedron the staff are invariably trapped in and the occasional misadventures of the HR department.It won the "Comedy Of The Year" award in 2006.In April 2024 it was revived as a six episode audio series for Audible titled "Green Wing: Resuscitated." Set 12 years after the TV series, it was written by the original creators and saw the entire main cast return. | |
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Control Freak | |
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Control Freak: Angela irons her pants, and when Caroline throws a house party, she follows her boyfriend Liam around, pestering him to "line his stomach", even when he insists he's not hungry. | |
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Walk and Talk | |
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Walk and Talk: Caroline's induction at East Hampton with Joanna. | |
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Calvinball | |
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Calvinball: It's called Guyball (pronounced Gee-ball) and it is played with a basket upon the head. | |
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Sorry, I'm Gay | |
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Sorry, I'm Gay: After being dumped by their respective girlfriends, Jake and Lyndon sit in the pub drinking together. When sex-starved Joanna starts coming onto them, Jake claims they're gay. Upon her insistence, they awkwardly kiss so she'll leave them alone. She later comes back and asks if they can do it again. | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Early in the first series, Mac says to Caroline, "I think there's enough soap operas set in hospitals, don't you?" | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Martin wants some love and affection from Joanna, but she keeps her relationship with him a secret and says she's embarrassed by him. It doesn't help that he doesn't pass his doctor's exam. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Alan wins an online caption competition and suddenly thinks he's the funniest man alive, leading Joanna to decide to take him down a peg that ends up as Gone Horribly Right. | |
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Always Someone Better | |
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Always Someone Better: Joanna and Sue White have a bitter rivalry going on. Sue White usually wins, courtesy of her being freakishly insane. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: Mac, especially in the coma dream sequences (including wrestling shirtless with Guy in front of a fireplace.) | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Martin is so horrified that Guy and Joanna have disappeared off in order to have sex that he can barely string together an intelligible sentence to Mac, which is a shame because otherwise he might have arrived in time to stop them. | |
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The Tease | |
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The Tease: Mac does this to Sue to get the infamous tape back from her; "I want...what's in your pants." Sue White does this to Guy, although they have slept together at least once. Joanna to Alan. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Mac and Guy, Boyce and Martin, and Kim and Naughty Rachel. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Done extremely rarely, if ever. In the second series, Guy gives a thumbs up when he and Caroline tumble off screen while making out. But there is nobody there to see it but the audience. In the DVD commentary, Stephen Mangan says that he did that solely for the benefit of the crew—and was rather surprised when he saw that it'd made it into the show. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: When Martin finds out Guy and Joanna have gone back to his flat together, he's so shocked that he feels an urgent compulsion to drink Guinness and smoke cigarettes, even though he does neither. Caroline does this when she finds out about Mac and Holly's child. | |
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics | |
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: When Statham won an online caption competition he proudly boasted he got 100% of the votes. Only 7 people voted. | |
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Cape Swish | |
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Cape Swish: Alan spends an entire episode trying to get his lab coat to do this. Joanna is unimpressed. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: Non-violent example: Sue White eats umbilical cord sushi. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Before Caroline's date with Jake, Guy is shown stabbing an egg with a Swiss Army Knife during a conversation with Caroline. After the date, Guy throws the knife at Jake to stop them kissing. | |
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May–December Romance | |
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May–December Romance: At one point, a mentally-deteriorating Joanna inexplicably wakes up in bed with a 16-year-old schoolboy. (Hilariously, both the boy and his mum seem totally okay with it, the mum even bringing Joanna a cup of tea when she comes to wake up her son for school.) | |
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Brutal Honesty | |
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Brutal Honesty: Joanna, Guy and surprisingly, sometimes Martin. | |
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Parody Sue | |
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Parody Sue: Angela. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Pretty much just Mac and Lyndon, who are also the only two Chick Magnets. | |
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Trash of the Titans | |
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Trash of the Titans: After Joanna goes AWOL with Dr. Statham, the HR girls become Drunk with Power and go crazy trashing the office, eventually turning it into a sort of tribal sanctuary. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: When Dr. Statham goes into the Chinese takeaway there is a sign on the counter saying "NO CHEQUE'S" (sic). Later, after he's been in there some time annoying everyone, it's been replaced by a hand-written one saying "NO POMPOU'S TWAT'S". | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Karen spends the first series as a bullied, self-loathing, friendless Butt-Monkey. By the time the Special rolls around, she is a flashy, arrogant, domineering bitch who eclipses Rachel in social status and positively terrifies the rest. Granted, the last appearance of her before the special, she got knocked out of a window and nobody even noticed. (Apparently the blow to the head totally changed her personality. Though she may or may not now have a prosthetic hand). Also Angela, whose bitchiness gets turned up to eleven after she becomes the face of a TV documentary set at the hospital. | |
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What Did I Do Last Night? | |
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What Did I Do Last Night?: Caroline trying to work out all the different people she drunkenly kissed the day after her housewarming party. Dr Statham has this problem after the slave auction when he wakes up in bed, sucking on a naked Boyce's thumb. | |
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Hollywood Heart Attack | |
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Hollywood Heart Attack: Alan Statham spends an entire episode hyperventilating and suffering multiple debilitating panic attacks. He is convinced that he is dying of a heart attack, but nobody seems to give a toss. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Martin, but this is mainly because Joanna makes it difficult for them to locate each other. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Guy was abandoned by his teenage mother and doesn't know who his father was. | |
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Catapult Nightmare | |
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Catapult Nightmare: Martin on the morning of his exam. | |
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Old Windbag | |
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Old Windbag: Doesn't begin to cover Alan Statham. | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Flatmates Caroline and Angela. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Probably experienced crossbow shooter Sue White. However, Dr. Statham does psychotically beat a dwarf to death with a stuffed heron. | |
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French Jerk | |
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French Jerk: Guy Secretan is half-Swiss and a massive Jerkass, even if he is culturally Anglo. | |
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Accidental Pervert | |
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Accidental Pervert: Martin... ...accidentally walks in on Rachel weighing her boobs with a set of scales. His attempts to appear innocuous and disinterested only dig him deeper into the hole. ...accidentally becomes a pimp in Season 2. | |
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Kissing Under the Influence | |
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Kissing Under the Influence: Caroline kisses four different people at the party after 22 shots of tequila. | |
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Car Meets House | |
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Car Meets House: Not invoked as traditionally as it should, but nonetheless, Dr. Statham's Vauxhall Vectra does somehow end up being squished into his office by Mac and Boyce. (Bizarrely, although the Vectra is clearly damaged, the building seems completely unscathed). Alan phones roadside assistance and dutifully turns on his hazard lights as he should. | |
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Attack Backfire | |
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Attack Backfire: In an early episode, Joanna tells Naughty Rachel to photocopy something. When Rachel points out Ollie is using it to print out fliers for a party, Joanna instructs her to "go kick him." Rachel does, but Ollie immediately forgives her because Joanna told her to, so she was just following orders and asks her out on a date, which she accepts. | |
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Hurricane of Excuses | |
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Hurricane of Excuses: Dr. Secretan has an excuse for almost everything, ranging from sorrowful anecdotes of childhood lost to completely absurd, made-up scenarios. His poorest effort by far was simply blaming Mac for the female ranking system that he devised. | |
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Hospital Hottie | |
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Hospital Hottie: Angela, Boyce, Guy, Lyndon and Mac. | |
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Face Doodling | |
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Face Doodling: Alan does this to Mac when he's in a coma. | |
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Embarrassing Nickname | |
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Embarrassing Nickname: Common nickname for Martin is "Fartin." He also goes into a very lengthy anecdote to Caroline about how he came to be known as "Titbrain" at high school. | |
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Stuff Blowing Up | |
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Stuff Blowing Up: Surprisingly little of this happens, however, Alan and Joanna's stolen camper van does explode in the middle of nowhere after Alan tries to change it over from petroleum to fermented vodka and cow shit. | |
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I Call Him "Mister Happy" | |
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I Call Him "Mister Happy": Karen and a heavily pregnant Harriet are reading through a book of male baby names, leading everyone to believe they're discussing names for Harriet's baby. What they're actually doing is choosing a name for Martin's penis. | |
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It Doesn't Mean Anything | |
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It Doesn't Mean Anything: Caroline tells Mac that their first kiss ("lip incident") was an accident and that she doesn't even like him, but it turns out the kiss she was describing was the one she had with Guy; she didn't remember the kiss in the toilet with Mac. She eagerly pushes for details, and when he describes it to her, he downplays it as "average" (clearly teasing), but they nearly act it out again in a cupboard and end up thinking this trope and she ends up weak in the knees as she walks away. | |
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The Unintelligible | |
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The Unintelligible: One episode has Alan deciding he wants to be part of a council, so asks Sue White for advice. She promptly tells him to get a voice coach because he "sounds like a-a-a-a hysterical child that's swallowed a conker!" | |
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Significant Monogram | |
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Significant Monogram: Alan Roderick Statham is certainly an arse. | |
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The Prankster | |
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The Prankster: Boyce. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Almost literally: Harriet accidentally brings the family cat to work (and, implied, leaves one of her kids at the vet's). Upon seeing it, Joanna stomps on it and then punts it across the room. Guy reads Martin's exam results for him and tells him he's passed with merit. Martin is ecstatic and the room breaks out into a mini-party/celebration, with hugs, booze and face-licking, before Martin goes off on his merry way. Only after he's left does Guy reveal he was "joking", and that Martin failed the whole lot. When Angela leaves for Canada, Caroline reluctantly wishes her luck. Angela comments on how mature this is and says she expected Caroline to be jealous. When Caroline admits, "I hate you. I hate your clothes, I hate your success and I hate your flicky hair." Angela responds gleefully with, "I know! You're the perfect girlfriend!" before sauntering off. | |
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Green Wing / int_34f8042a | type |
Gratuitous French | |
Green Wing / int_34f8042a | comment |
Gratuitous French: Mainly used by Mac to confuse Guy. | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_34f8042a | |
Green Wing / int_361a1d26 | type |
Anguished Declaration of Love | |
Green Wing / int_361a1d26 | comment |
Anguished Declaration of Love: A played for laughs version done by Guy to Caroline. She's in the bathroom at the time and the confession is so difficult, the best he can must is that he doesn't just like her but he likes her. | |
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Green Wing / int_361a1d26 | |
Green Wing / int_38958f33 | type |
Black and Nerdy | |
Green Wing / int_38958f33 | comment |
Black and Nerdy: Hospital IT consultant Lyndon Jones, also the show's only black character. He is very intelligent and doesn't fall into the stereotypical nerd archetype as he's also a Chick Magnet. | |
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Green Wing / int_38958f33 | |
Green Wing / int_39f27cae | type |
Bedmate Reveal | |
Green Wing / int_39f27cae | comment |
Bedmate Reveal: Alan and Boyce at the end of S1E08. Whether or not anything actually happened is up for debate. | |
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Green Wing / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
Green Wing / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: When Guy orders Martin to do something (yet again), he's about to go do it when Mac asks, "You're not going to go, are you?" when Martin says he is, Mac says, "What's he going to do, attach jumper cables to your nipples?" Martin replies, "No, he'll probably do something different this time." | |
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Green Wing / int_3c51db1c | type |
Zany Scheme | |
Green Wing / int_3c51db1c | comment |
Zany Scheme: Martin decides the best way for Guy to not find out he opened private letters from Guy's father, is to travel to Switzerland and repost them from there. | |
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Green Wing / int_3c51db1c | |
Green Wing / int_3cb1d38d | type |
Bad Boss | |
Green Wing / int_3cb1d38d | comment |
Bad Boss: Joanna, who physically and verbally abuses not just her regular HR underlings, but also various doctors and surgeons around the building. And of course, Caledonian psychopath Sue White. | |
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Green Wing / int_3cb1d38d | |
Green Wing / int_3cb6468e | type |
Bad Liar | |
Green Wing / int_3cb6468e | comment |
Bad Liar: Harriet goes into involuntary spasms of blinking and facial twitching whenever she lies. Alan Statham also fits this trope, but most of the time he can't even get to the actual lying stage, and ends up blurting out the truth instead. | |
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Green Wing / int_3cb6468e | |
Green Wing / int_3cb68bd3 | type |
Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon | |
Green Wing / int_3cb68bd3 | comment |
Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Literally threatened by Guy to Mac if he tells anyone that Guy was a bridesmaid when he was five. | |
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Green Wing / int_3cb68bd3 | |
Green Wing / int_3d038b36 | type |
Rhetorical Question Blunder | |
Green Wing / int_3d038b36 | comment |
Rhetorical Question Blunder: Alan and Guy. | |
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Green Wing / int_3d038b36 | |
Green Wing / int_40652d02 | type |
The One Thing I Don't Hate About You | |
Green Wing / int_40652d02 | comment |
The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: Boyce is very keen to shovel dirt on Guy's name to Caroline in the first few episodes due to his immorality and hedonism, but concedes that "he is of course, good. Very good." Most people feel this way about Guy. | |
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Green Wing / int_40652d02 | |
Green Wing / int_40bb59d0 | type |
Blatant Lies | |
Green Wing / int_40bb59d0 | comment |
Blatant Lies: During Mac's coma, Alan draws on his face with felt pens and plays ping-pong against him. Caroline walks in and Alan claims he had nothing to do with it and it was a "tiny ping-pong man". He then chases him away. "Are you talking to me like a Nazi from a film?" "... Nothing could be further from the truth." | |
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Green Wing / int_40bb59d0 | |
Green Wing / int_40cc0c7e | type |
Bittersweet Ending | |
Green Wing / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: Mac and Caroline get married. Mac's still dying. | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_40cc0c7e | |
Green Wing / int_434d893c | type |
Funny Foreigner | |
Green Wing / int_434d893c | comment |
Funny Foreigner: Kim's unintelligible Turkish sex-slave Murat. He manages to speak enough English to compare Karen to "Queen". Not an actual queen, but Brian May from Queen. | |
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Green Wing / int_434d893c | |
Green Wing / int_43dc74d0 | type |
Sensitive Guy and Manly Man | |
Green Wing / int_43dc74d0 | comment |
Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Mac and Guy, sorta, although Guy is actually quite emotionally fragile under his macho facade. Martin and Guy. | |
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Green Wing / int_43dc74d0 | |
Green Wing / int_4435aa66 | type |
Attractive Bent-Gender | |
Green Wing / int_4435aa66 | comment |
Attractive Bent-Gender: The sight of Boyce in a nurse's uniform made Alan feel even more confused than normal. | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_4435aa66 | |
Green Wing / int_443b78cd | type |
Tranquil Fury | |
Green Wing / int_443b78cd | comment |
Tranquil Fury: Mac, when he stabs Guy. This is totally subverted when he finds out about Martin's exam results, though. | |
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Green Wing / int_443b78cd | |
Green Wing / int_44f6517d | type |
Beach Episode | |
Green Wing / int_44f6517d | comment |
Beach Episode: Doesn't actually happen, but Mac and Guy make up for it by staging a beach barbecue with sand, volleyballs and hot bikini babes on Mac's allotted car-parking space in front of the hospital. Much to Dr. Statham's fury. | |
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Green Wing / int_44f6517d | |
Green Wing / int_4523420b | type |
Love Dodecahedron | |
Green Wing / int_4523420b | comment |
Love Dodecahedron: Almost every character is romantically involved with two or more people; Caroline - fought over by Mac, Guy, Martin (sometimes), Sue (when she isn't trying to murder her) and Jake. Martin - in an on/off relationship with Karen from HR. Boyce - in a relationship with Kim from HR, yet has a love/hate relationship with Alan. He also flirts with Rachel at times, offers Martin a hand-job if he'll open his exam results, and asks for "a go" on Martin's prostitute when he briefly (and accidentally) becomes a pimp. Lyndon - fought over by pretty much everyone in the building, but especially in HR (including an affair with the heavily pregnant and married-with-four-kids Harriet. Joanna - in an on/off relationship with Alan. She has sex with various other people, including Kim's Turkish pen-pal (we assume), a sixteen-year-old boy, and her long-lost son, Guy. Sue, when Angela is trying to secure an early release. Another from Sue, to Caroline. Some subtext between Angela and Caroline, particularly when they have a fight over Angela's pants. In one episode, Angela casually slaps Caroline on the arse as she leaves the room. | |
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Green Wing / int_4523420b | |
Green Wing / int_4583a262 | type |
Shirtless Scene | |
Green Wing / int_4583a262 | comment |
Shirtless Scene: Mac and Guy wrestling shirtless in front of a big fireplace in one of Mac's dream sequences. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_4583a262 | |
Green Wing / int_46ecc454 | type |
RapeAsComedy | |
Green Wing / int_46ecc454 | comment |
Rape as Comedy: Sue White crosses a Moral Event Horizon when she forces Mac to come while he's unconscious. | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_46ecc454 | |
Green Wing / int_4781adbb | type |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
Green Wing / int_4781adbb | comment |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Guy Secretan, eventually. Kim and Rachel are often very mean to Karen, but they often try to give Harriet useful advice and help her with her problems. | |
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Green Wing / int_4781adbb | |
Green Wing / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
Green Wing / int_47fea76b | comment |
Although Joanna outright states (via Karen) that the only reason she went out with him is because she was bored. Alan also stalks Cordelia, a woman who works at the hospital chapel, but she is utterly repulsed by him. | |
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Green Wing / int_47fea76b | |
Green Wing / int_48081842 | type |
The Stinger | |
Green Wing / int_48081842 | comment |
The Stinger: In the extended version of the final episode, while Mac is flying away with Caroline on a balloon (with Guy) he has something very important to tell her, implying the disease may or may not be real. It also shows that Statham and Joanna survive the finale. | |
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Green Wing / int_48081842 | |
Green Wing / int_48b9731f | type |
Paper-Thin Disguise | |
Green Wing / int_48b9731f | comment |
Paper-Thin Disguise: When Guy is banned from visiting Mac's hospital room he wraps a black sheet round his head and pretends to be a crazy old Greek woman, Caroline is completely oblivious. She catches on after he's left, though. She does rather pointedly mention Battleships to him later. Also: Subverted when Statham dresses up as a Mountie when hiding a corpse. Joanna said it was incredibly stupid. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_48b9731f | |
Green Wing / int_497e7df | type |
Quirky Doctor | |
Green Wing / int_497e7df | comment |
Quirky Doctor: The series is loosely based on the premise that hospitals are full of people like this. (Though as they're mostly the doctors who don't do anything, being any good at their job largely falls into an Informed Attribute.) | |
Green Wing / int_497e7df | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_497e7df | |
Green Wing / int_4a30bc29 | type |
Coincidental Dodge | |
Green Wing / int_4a30bc29 | comment |
Coincidental Dodge: Guy Secretan attempts three times to hit Jake in the head with a Guyball, but Jake keeps inadvertently dodging the balls every single time. Doesn't turn out so well for Jake later on at Caroline's flat, when Guy finally succeeds in hitting him in the head. With a Swiss army knife. Happens again when Guy pushes a trolley at Lyndon after he (accidentally) pulls a woman Guy was talking to. Lyndon then walks down a different corridor, leaving the cart to crash into a random doctor. Caroline accidentally dodges a crossbow bolt that Sue fired directly at her head. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_4a30bc29 | |
Green Wing / int_4a3e547f | type |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
Green Wing / int_4a3e547f | comment |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Alan complains that a film crew is "disrupting medical science" by filming a documentary in the hospital. It is later revealed that the director of the crew is going to Toronto to make a "part-improvised doc rom-com". These comments could practically be about the show itself: Green Wing itself is a partially improvised romantic comedy about doctors that was filmed in a real hospital. | |
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Green Wing / int_4a3e547f | |
Green Wing / int_4a4d6f7c | type |
Comedic Sociopathy | |
Green Wing / int_4a4d6f7c | comment |
Comedic Sociopathy: Sue White in a nutshell. Her hobbies including stalking people, molesting people, threatening to put spells on people and shooting at people with a bow and arrow. She also gives birth to a lion cub, which raises a whole lot of questions that don't need to be answered. Also could qualify regarding Kim and Rachel's attitude towards Karen. Also, Joanna and Alan's Bonnie and Clyde-style crime spree. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_4a4d6f7c | |
Green Wing / int_4c961994 | type |
Acquired Situational Narcissism | |
Green Wing / int_4c961994 | comment |
Acquired Situational Narcissism: Martin gets all uppity for a bit after Caroline off-handedly gives him a 7 for his arse during a furious rant against Guy's female ranking system. Alan wins an online caption competition and suddenly thinks he's the funniest man alive, leading Joanna to decide to take him down a peg that ends up as Gone Horribly Right. Angela gets this when a TV crew are filming at the hospital and the director is smitten with her. | |
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Green Wing / int_4c961994 | |
Green Wing / int_4db088ab | type |
I Can't Dance | |
Green Wing / int_4db088ab | comment |
I Can't Dance: Angela's boyfriend comments, "She really is the perfect girlfriend... although, she does dance a bit like a wolf." Cue the camera panning to Angela doing just that. | |
Green Wing / int_4db088ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_4db088ab | |
Green Wing / int_4de1a4f7 | type |
Improvised Weapon | |
Green Wing / int_4de1a4f7 | comment |
Improvised Weapon: Statham kills Joanne's dwarf cousin (who was pretending to be a goblin) with a stuffed heron. | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_4de1a4f7 | |
Green Wing / int_4f62bde6 | type |
Kavorka Man | |
Green Wing / int_4f62bde6 | comment |
Kavorka Man: Jibbering twat Dr. Alan Statham is known to have had several sexually-charged conquests throughout his lifetime, despite being completely and utterly devoid of personality, looks, charm and even the most basic social skills. Although Joanna outright states (via Karen) that the only reason she went out with him is because she was bored. Alan also stalks Cordelia, a woman who works at the hospital chapel, but she is utterly repulsed by him. | |
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Green Wing / int_4f62bde6 | |
Green Wing / int_500696c6 | type |
Seinfeldian Conversation | |
Green Wing / int_500696c6 | comment |
Seinfeldian Conversation: Quite a few occur each episode. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_500696c6 | |
Green Wing / int_50ca4422 | type |
Unresolved Sexual Tension | |
Green Wing / int_50ca4422 | comment |
Unresolved Sexual Tension: After Sue and Guy blast Cluster FBombs at each other in the cloakroom, both admit to feeling extremely sexually aroused and fired up. However Sue cockteases Guy and walks out, leaving him to hurriedly finish himself off and clean up the mess. | |
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Green Wing / int_50ca4422 | |
Green Wing / int_517266f6 | type |
Kiss of Life | |
Green Wing / int_517266f6 | comment |
Kiss of Life: Alan demands one from Boyce, even though as Boyce lampshades, mouth-to-mouth is only for the specific case where someone's not breathing. Boyce gives a hard Aside Glance before going to it very vigorously. | |
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Green Wing / int_517266f6 | |
Green Wing / int_52d1f46e | type |
Not What It Looks Like | |
Green Wing / int_52d1f46e | comment |
Not What It Looks Like: Frequently. And frequently averted. | |
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-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_52d1f46e | |
Green Wing / int_5353bf39 | type |
With This Ring | |
Green Wing / int_5353bf39 | comment |
With This Ring: Preparing to propose to Caroline, Martin sews an engagement ring into a banana and forces her to open it. She takes a bite to shut him up and swallows the ring. | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_5353bf39 | |
Green Wing / int_53c3fa83 | type |
Granola Girl | |
Green Wing / int_53c3fa83 | comment |
Granola Girl: Caroline attempts to become a Granola Girl in order to impress Holly and appear superior to her, but only makes herself look like a creepy, confused twat. Karen buys vegan shoes in one episode, but she promptly freaks out and throws them out of the window when Rachel and Kim inform her that a gecko is in fact a small lizard. Karen's shoe then hits a pigeon. | |
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Green Wing / int_53c3fa83 | |
Green Wing / int_53d785c6 | type |
Fall of the House of Cards | |
Green Wing / int_53d785c6 | comment |
Fall of the House of Cards: Martin and Boyce spend their time as House Officers building large castles out of chocolate bars. Their efforts are swiftly destroyed when Sue White dives on and slides across the desk on her chest. | |
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Green Wing / int_53d785c6 | |
Green Wing / int_561dab6b | type |
Mistaken for Gay | |
Green Wing / int_561dab6b | comment |
Mistaken for Gay: In the special, while Joanna and Alan are hiding out in the caravan park, a man thinks Alan's gay because of "the shorts and 'tache", Joanna doesn't correct him and so the man promptly invites Alan on a walk by the river. Also invoked a bit too literally as "Gay Secretan" is a common error that most hospital staff seem to make. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_561dab6b | |
Green Wing / int_56240281 | type |
Country Matters | |
Green Wing / int_56240281 | comment |
Country Matters: The way in which Dr. Alan Statham's "Consultant Radiologist" name badge gets consistently defaced throughout the series. Sue White calls Guy one, which ends up getting him all hot and bothered. | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_56240281 | |
Green Wing / int_58bf7895 | type |
Eat the Evidence | |
Green Wing / int_58bf7895 | comment |
Eat the Evidence: When Dr. Statham decides to invade the operating theatre. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_58bf7895 | |
Green Wing / int_598ad6e2 | type |
Even the Guys Want Him | |
Green Wing / int_598ad6e2 | comment |
Even the Guys Want Him: Lyndon. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_598ad6e2 | |
Green Wing / int_5a23602 | type |
Big Ol' Eyebrows | |
Green Wing / int_5a23602 | comment |
Big Ol' Eyebrows: Guy. | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing / int_5a23602 | |
Green Wing / int_5a3b8032 | type |
The Un-Reveal | |
Green Wing / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: An In-Universe example has Holly calling Mac "Paul"... only for her to explain she nicknamed him after Paul McCartney. | |
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Green Wing / int_5a3b8032 | |
Green Wing / int_5b19cc1b | type |
Air-Vent Passageway | |
Green Wing / int_5b19cc1b | comment |
Air-Vent Passageway: Sue White pulls this as while trying to poison Caroline in the first episode of season 2. | |
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1.0 | |
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Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_5b19cc1b | |
Green Wing / int_5bca5a56 | type |
Surprise Incest | |
Green Wing / int_5bca5a56 | comment |
Surprise Incest: Guy and Joanna. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_5bca5a56 | |
Green Wing / int_5c0902e7 | type |
Boyish Short Hair | |
Green Wing / int_5c0902e7 | comment |
Boyish Short Hair: Caroline. | |
Green Wing / int_5c0902e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_5c0902e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_5c0902e7 | |
Green Wing / int_5cd8680b | type |
Doorstop Baby | |
Green Wing / int_5cd8680b | comment |
Doorstop Baby: Guy was left on the door of an orphanage by his then-teenage mother. | |
Green Wing / int_5cd8680b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_5cd8680b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_5cd8680b | |
Green Wing / int_5e2e55e4 | type |
The Casanova | |
Green Wing / int_5e2e55e4 | comment |
The Casanova: Arrogant, self-centered man-whore Dr. Secretan manages to get just about any woman he wants, by pretending to cry and/or ending cell phone conversations with the jet-setty "I'll see you in Zurich." Guy blurs the line between Casanova and Kavorka Man but is more of the former. Parodied when he reels off a long-winded, sorrowful cock-and-bull story in an attempt to hit on Joanna, who laughs at him for it (but still sleeps with him anyway). Subverted with his later undying love and failed attempts for Caroline, which drops him down to a Casanova Wannabe. | |
Green Wing / int_5e2e55e4 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Green Wing / int_5e2e55e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_5e2e55e4 | |
Green Wing / int_5f9d7299 | type |
EnfanteTerrible | |
Green Wing / int_5f9d7299 | comment |
Enfante Terrible: Harriet's son Robbie. According to his teacher, he likes to bite people, tells his teachers that his parents don't bleed and is very disruptive. Unless he's pretending to be dead of course, which can go on for several hours. The little shit is actually taken to the HR office by Harriet in one episode, where he delights in smashing up as many things as he can on her desk. | |
Green Wing / int_5f9d7299 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_5f9d7299 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_5f9d7299 | |
Green Wing / int_5fcb9ad1 | type |
Time Skip | |
Green Wing / int_5fcb9ad1 | comment |
Time Skip : Resuscitated was released in 2024, 17 years after the TV finale, but is only set 12 years after those events. | |
Green Wing / int_5fcb9ad1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_5fcb9ad1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_5fcb9ad1 | |
Green Wing / int_606244c2 | type |
Parental Incest | |
Green Wing / int_606244c2 | comment |
Parental Incest: Guy doesn't find out Joanna is his long-lost and presumed-dead mother until after they've slept together. And it's been caught on tape. | |
Green Wing / int_606244c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_606244c2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_606244c2 | |
Green Wing / int_61375e57 | type |
BigDamnKiss | |
Green Wing / int_61375e57 | comment |
Big Damn Kiss: Mac and Caroline after Holly leaves. | |
Green Wing / int_61375e57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_61375e57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_61375e57 | |
Green Wing / int_616f634b | type |
Ventriloquism | |
Green Wing / int_616f634b | comment |
Ventriloquism: In one episode, Sue gets a dummy who she argues with. When she's breaking into Holly's locker, the dummy is sitting on a bench and tells her not to do it. They argue again and Sue stuffs in it the locker when she leaves. | |
Green Wing / int_616f634b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_616f634b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_616f634b | |
Green Wing / int_61c7d589 | type |
Bigger Is Better in Bed | |
Green Wing / int_61c7d589 | comment |
Bigger Is Better in Bed: Sue discovers this about Martin in one episode, complete with oil painting. Sue never actually sleeps with him, though. | |
Green Wing / int_61c7d589 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_61c7d589 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_61c7d589 | |
Green Wing / int_62663d88 | type |
Men Don't Cry | |
Green Wing / int_62663d88 | comment |
Men Don't Cry: Mac successfully restrains himself from turning on the waterworks, even in the full knowledge that he's dying of an incurable disease and that he'll never marry, have children and live a full life, as a sobbing Martin Dear blubbers out to him. Subverted and lampshaded by Sue White when she catches Guy crying like a sissy in the cloakroom. | |
Green Wing / int_62663d88 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Green Wing / int_62663d88 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_62663d88 | |
Green Wing / int_63bfa45e | type |
You Go, Girl! | |
Green Wing / int_63bfa45e | comment |
You Go, Girl!: Caroline forcing Guy into signing a confession that she didn't sleep with him. | |
Green Wing / int_63bfa45e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_63bfa45e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_63bfa45e | |
Green Wing / int_643659d4 | type |
Spit Take | |
Green Wing / int_643659d4 | comment |
Spit Take: Sue White sprays coffee all over her desk in a ridiculously exaggerated fashion after finding out about the Guy-Joanna sex tape. | |
Green Wing / int_643659d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_643659d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_643659d4 | |
Green Wing / int_653c5c73 | type |
Cannot Spit It Out | |
Green Wing / int_653c5c73 | comment |
Cannot Spit It Out: Guy has a very hard time saying "Thank you", apologising and saying "I love you." And of course, Dr. Martin Dear completely loses the ability to speak coherent English altogether upon finding out Guy and Joanna had sex. | |
Green Wing / int_653c5c73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_653c5c73 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_653c5c73 | |
Green Wing / int_663f35c0 | type |
Only One Name | |
Green Wing / int_663f35c0 | comment |
Only One Name: The ubiquitous Boyce, whose first name we never hear. He never even gets referred to as "Doctor", and unlike Mac, the existence of a first name is never alluded to. He's just Boyce. Same with Rachel, although she does get the "Naughty" prefix. Not that any of the characters ever refer to her as such—she's only Naughty Rachel in the credits. | |
Green Wing / int_663f35c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_663f35c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_663f35c0 | |
Green Wing / int_66f59ad | type |
Balloonacy | |
Green Wing / int_66f59ad | comment |
Balloonacy: The special/series ends with Caroline getting lifted away by a bunch of balloons. The alternate ending has both Mac and Guy failing at bringing her back down and getting picked up themselves. | |
Green Wing / int_66f59ad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_66f59ad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_66f59ad | |
Green Wing / int_68c3842b | type |
Labcoat of Science and Medicine | |
Green Wing / int_68c3842b | comment |
Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Many of the characters wear the white coat. Alan Statham in particular is keen to make sure it "sweeps" majestically when he walks. | |
Green Wing / int_68c3842b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_68c3842b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_68c3842b | |
Green Wing / int_68e501cd | type |
Gay Bravado | |
Green Wing / int_68e501cd | comment |
Gay Bravado: Boyce does a lot of this in the company of Dr. Alan Statham. It's initially to troll him, but the two develop a genuine fondness for each other that might well be romantic. They get a Big Damn Kiss in the series 2 finale. | |
Green Wing / int_68e501cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_68e501cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_68e501cd | |
Green Wing / int_691dc915 | type |
Construction Catcalls | |
Green Wing / int_691dc915 | comment |
Construction Catcalls: Subverted. Joanna tries to get a reaction out of some burly roadworkers by strutting past them repeatedly. After they remain completely oblivious, she flashes and verbally abuses them instead. | |
Green Wing / int_691dc915 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Green Wing / int_691dc915 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_691dc915 | |
Green Wing / int_69cc2a27 | type |
Hilariously Abusive Childhood | |
Green Wing / int_69cc2a27 | comment |
Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Martin is hinted at having this. With a mother like Joanna, what would you expect? Guy is implied to have had one as well, especially as he apparently went to a boarding school at a young age and the memory reduces him to snivelling to himself in the cloakroom. | |
Green Wing / int_69cc2a27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_69cc2a27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_69cc2a27 | |
Green Wing / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Green Wing / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: When Sue impregnates herself with Mac's sperm, she names her baby Simba. Besides the obvious reference, it means "lion," referring to how she calls Mac's hair the lion's mane. However, it get even more meaningful as she gives birth to a lion. | |
Green Wing / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_6bda9a30 | |
Green Wing / int_6d089995 | type |
The Shrink | |
Green Wing / int_6d089995 | comment |
The Shrink: Jake Leaf, who is a complementary therapist. | |
Green Wing / int_6d089995 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_6d089995 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_6d089995 | |
Green Wing / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
Green Wing / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: Alan and Joanna rather romantically stride naked, hand-in-hand, into the North Sea to kill themselves to escape persecution. The extended ending shows they weren't very successful at dying though. | |
Green Wing / int_6d332aea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_6d332aea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_6d332aea | |
Green Wing / int_6ddc33 | type |
Drama Bomb Finale | |
Green Wing / int_6ddc33 | comment |
Drama Bomb Finale: The end of series two, and the tone of the series finale/special. | |
Green Wing / int_6ddc33 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_6ddc33 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_6ddc33 | |
Green Wing / int_6e5c03dc | type |
Parking Payback | |
Green Wing / int_6e5c03dc | comment |
Parking Payback: After Alan starts harassing Mac about his parking space, Mac gets his own back by somehow dropping Alan's Vauxhall Vectra into Alan's office, with assistance from Boyce. In another instance, Joanna shunts two cars out of the way in her BMW so that she can park. (This is actually part of Mac's coma fantasy, though). | |
Green Wing / int_6e5c03dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_6e5c03dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_6e5c03dc | |
Green Wing / int_6ec4232f | type |
Casting Gag | |
Green Wing / int_6ec4232f | comment |
Casting Gag: Kim and Boyce's sexually-charged relationship is a reference to The Office, where the two actors also played a young couple. They had similar relationships to each other on both shows. | |
Green Wing / int_6ec4232f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_6ec4232f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_6ec4232f | |
Green Wing / int_71105dfc | type |
Everybody Smokes | |
Green Wing / int_71105dfc | comment |
Everybody Smokes: One of the few modern comedies today that actually has several of the main protagonists portrayed as chain smokers, although they never escape criticism from others, especially due to their chosen workplace. | |
Green Wing / int_71105dfc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_71105dfc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_71105dfc | |
Green Wing / int_711714da | type |
Opposites Attract | |
Green Wing / int_711714da | comment |
Opposites Attract: Effortlessly cool Lyndon falls for sweet, scatterbrained Harriet. (Apparently, Lyndon likes "big pants"). | |
Green Wing / int_711714da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_711714da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_711714da | |
Green Wing / int_71687bca | type |
Stalker with a Test Tube | |
Green Wing / int_71687bca | comment |
Stalker with a Test Tube: Sue who eventually gives birth to a lion. | |
Green Wing / int_71687bca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_71687bca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_71687bca | |
Green Wing / int_73470774 | type |
Similar Squad | |
Green Wing / int_73470774 | comment |
Similar Squad: According to Word of God Naughty Rachel, Kim and Karen are respectively meant to be female versions of Guy, Mac and Martin. Although Kim is generally a lot more abrasive than easy-going Mac. | |
Green Wing / int_73470774 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_73470774 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_73470774 | |
Green Wing / int_741e8e7 | type |
The Cast Showoff | |
Green Wing / int_741e8e7 | comment |
The Cast Show Off: Amongst other things, Mark Heap's impressive ping-pong skills. Mark Heap started out as a professional juggler, and often uses his skills in Alan Statham's physical comedy. | |
Green Wing / int_741e8e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_741e8e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_741e8e7 | |
Green Wing / int_7426582d | type |
Token Minority | |
Green Wing / int_7426582d | comment |
Token Minority: Lyndon, the IT Guy and Chick Magnet. When Dr. Statham asks to have him removed, Sue milks the fact he's the only black character and silently suggests Statham is racist. Lyndon also has to put up with some rather pathetic racism from Martin, although it's mostly Martin being Innocently Insensitive. During the first episode, Joanna randomly asks Caroline if she's Asian because "it would really help my quota". In one episode, Guy buys curry at lunch (which he hates) only so he can wave it in the faces of two Middle Eastern "looking" women so he can mock them because it's Ramadan. One of them responds: "We're Hindu, you nipple!" | |
Green Wing / int_7426582d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_7426582d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_7426582d | |
Green Wing / int_7480eb67 | type |
Green-Eyed Epiphany | |
Green Wing / int_7480eb67 | comment |
Green-Eyed Epiphany: Mac is noticeably annoyed with Guy's lecherous antics towards Caroline at her party when she's very drunk, and hangs around once Guy leaves to help Caroline while she's ill. Guy realises he "Like-likes" Caroline when she starts dating Jake. | |
Green Wing / int_7480eb67 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_7480eb67 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_7480eb67 | |
Green Wing / int_754df088 | type |
Put on a Bus | |
Green Wing / int_754df088 | comment |
Put on a Bus: Dr. Angela Hunter gets what is probably the most generous bus-sendoff ever. That is, until she is later killed off-screen in an unexplained incident with a moose, constituting a Bus Crash. | |
Green Wing / int_754df088 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_754df088 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_754df088 | |
Green Wing / int_75d6bf40 | type |
Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
Green Wing / int_75d6bf40 | comment |
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Guy and Sue White. Kim and Boyce. Caroline and Mac, at least at first. There's some Statham/Boyce to be sure. And just a dash of Sue/Caroline. | |
Green Wing / int_75d6bf40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_75d6bf40 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_75d6bf40 | |
Green Wing / int_762b9223 | type |
Played for Laughs | |
Green Wing / int_762b9223 | comment |
Played for Laughs with all of the deaths in the finale. One woman is murdered by Alan when he holds her down in the shop while he and Joanna are robbing her; his bum is planted firmly over her face and she suffocates. | |
Green Wing / int_762b9223 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_762b9223 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_762b9223 | |
Green Wing / int_78c895c8 | type |
Amusing Injuries | |
Green Wing / int_78c895c8 | comment |
Amusing Injuries: Guy getting stabbed in the arm by Mac, and Jake getting stabbed in the head by Guy. The show loves this trope. Karen gets her hair stuck in a printer, Guy sticks his hand in a toaster, Karen falling out the window, etc. You could also count Dr. Statham's self-administered enema, using boiling hot coffee. | |
Green Wing / int_78c895c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_78c895c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_78c895c8 | |
Green Wing / int_78d0ebcf | type |
Crying Wolf | |
Green Wing / int_78d0ebcf | comment |
Crying Wolf: Naturally, Mac is totally unwilling to believe that the reason Guy lied to Mac about him and Caroline hating each other was because Sue White was blackmailing him. | |
Green Wing / int_78d0ebcf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_78d0ebcf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_78d0ebcf | |
Green Wing / int_792bb47a | type |
Heroic Bastard | |
Green Wing / int_792bb47a | comment |
Heroic Bastard: Martin, Mac and Holly's son (which isn't Mac's, but still a bastard) and Guy. | |
Green Wing / int_792bb47a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_792bb47a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_792bb47a | |
Green Wing / int_7b3ebb57 | type |
Buxom Beauty Standard | |
Green Wing / int_7b3ebb57 | comment |
Buxom Beauty Standard: Rachel weighs hers breasts in one episode. Apparently, she wants to know how much they would cost to post. Caroline makes herself a pair of huge boobs out of bubble-bath foam, but then changes her mind. | |
Green Wing / int_7b3ebb57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_7b3ebb57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_7b3ebb57 | |
Green Wing / int_7b981966 | type |
Beast in the Building | |
Green Wing / int_7b981966 | comment |
Beast in the Building: A brief, but memorable moment, is where Sue White brings a Bactrian camel into her office at the hospital, but upon learning today is not a "bring pets in" day, she panics and has to slowly escort the camel out of there. | |
Green Wing / int_7b981966 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_7b981966 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_7b981966 | |
Green Wing / int_7c8f9c6b | type |
Road Trip Across the Street | |
Green Wing / int_7c8f9c6b | comment |
Road Trip Across the Street: Quite literally. Martin Dear lives in a flat directly opposite the hospital, but he nonetheless still takes the 15 second drive on his scooter every day. | |
Green Wing / int_7c8f9c6b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_7c8f9c6b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_7c8f9c6b | |
Green Wing / int_7ce7d94d | type |
Age-Inappropriate Dress | |
Green Wing / int_7ce7d94d | comment |
Age-Inappropriate Dress: Karen dresses like a blind Sunday-school teacher. Joanna refuses to acknowledge that she's middle-aged and comes to work dressed like a teenager (at least at the time). Usually a teenager on a night out, too. | |
Green Wing / int_7ce7d94d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_7ce7d94d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_7ce7d94d | |
Green Wing / int_7dbfa45b | type |
Spy Speak | |
Green Wing / int_7dbfa45b | comment |
Spy Speak: When Alan and Joanna go on the run. | |
Green Wing / int_7dbfa45b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_7dbfa45b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_7dbfa45b | |
Green Wing / int_7eb49b31 | type |
Almost Kiss | |
Green Wing / int_7eb49b31 | comment |
Almost Kiss: Mac and Caroline, as he's describing and acting out the buildup to their first kiss (which Caroline doesn't remember). | |
Green Wing / int_7eb49b31 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_7eb49b31 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_7eb49b31 | |
Green Wing / int_7eebe99c | type |
The Alcoholic | |
Green Wing / int_7eebe99c | comment |
The Alcoholic: Most of the hospital staff, in particular Caroline, Guy and Joanna, with very few exceptions. | |
Green Wing / int_7eebe99c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_7eebe99c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_7eebe99c | |
Green Wing / int_7f298d3d | type |
Lame Comeback | |
Green Wing / int_7f298d3d | comment |
Lame Comeback: Like his bad puns, Dr. Statham loves this trope. | |
Green Wing / int_7f298d3d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_7f298d3d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_7f298d3d | |
Green Wing / int_807ceed9 | type |
Outlaw Couple | |
Green Wing / int_807ceed9 | comment |
Outlaw Couple: Alan and Joanna in the special. Most of the crimes they commit, though, are really due to their own stupidity. | |
Green Wing / int_807ceed9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_807ceed9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_807ceed9 | |
Green Wing / int_808cbaeb | type |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
Green Wing / int_808cbaeb | comment |
When Angela leaves for Canada, Caroline reluctantly wishes her luck. Angela comments on how mature this is and says she expected Caroline to be jealous. When Caroline admits, "I hate you. I hate your clothes, I hate your success and I hate your flicky hair." Angela responds gleefully with, "I know! You're the perfect girlfriend!" before sauntering off. | |
Green Wing / int_808cbaeb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_808cbaeb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_808cbaeb | |
Green Wing / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
Green Wing / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Guy, Sue White, Alan. | |
Green Wing / int_823c6e3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_823c6e3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_823c6e3e | |
Green Wing / int_828b231 | type |
We Were Rehearsing a Play | |
Green Wing / int_828b231 | comment |
We Were Rehearsing a Play: Alan and Joanna use this as an excuse when Boyce walks in on Alan shouting several inappropriate things while Joanna is interrogating him about his odd behaviour. Needless to say, he doesn't seem to buy it. | |
Green Wing / int_828b231 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Green Wing / int_828b231 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Green Wing | hasFeature |
Green Wing / int_828b231 | |
Green Wing / int_82b4f38e | type |
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist | |
Green Wing / int_82b4f38e | comment |
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: The majority of the characters could be classed as this, but mainly Guy and Statham. | |
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Whammy Bid | |
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Whammy Bid: Martin surprises all by storming in with a £4,790.82 bid on Caroline at the slave auction, not realising the previous bid was around 10 pence. | |
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Mexican Standoff | |
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Mexican Standoff: Guy vs. Mac, brandishing hot cups of tea and coffee as weapons. Another happens with arcade game guns, with Guy holding Martin at gunpoint and Mac talking him down. | |
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Nerd Glasses | |
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Nerd Glasses: Alan Statham and his 1970s box glasses. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: Caroline kisses Guy when Mac and Holly walk past hand-in-hand, prompting this: | |
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Surreal Humor | |
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Surreal Humor | |
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Literal Cliffhanger | |
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Literal Cliffhanger: The scenes were almost identical, as both occur with a large vehicle losing control in a field, swerve to miss a sheep and ends up hanging over the exact same cliff, even with two people sitting in the front seats and Martin in the back. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: Sue White is this trope. The scene in which she makes a clay statue of Dr. Mac and considers differently-sized genitalia is but one shining example. She even steals some of his genetic material while he's comatose to try to impregnate herself with his child. Joanna goes into the territory, though not quite to the extreme as Sue, with her chasing of Lyndon. | |
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Ultimate Job Security | |
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Ultimate Job Security: All four of the HR girls (except for Karen, who ends up stuck doing everything) just sit there tossing their one brain cell around the room, as Joanna so aptly puts it. Not one of them is ever fired. Martin Dear also manages to remain a full-time doctor at the hospital, despite failing all of his exams and demonstrating next-to-no competence or initiative whatsoever. | |
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Putting the "Medic" in Comedic | |
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Putting the "Medic" in Comedic | |
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Revival | |
Green Wing / int_92f863b6 | comment |
Revival: An audio revival in 2024 titled "Green Wing: Resuscitated" saw the entire main cast return for a brand new series which picks up 12 years after the events of the TV show. | |
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Tuckerization | |
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Tuckerization: Patrick Schulenburg (Assistant Producer), Rachel Alabaster (Production Manager) and Jon Jennings (Second Assistant Director). The latter's name appears on the door of the Neurosurgeon's office, where Mac finds out his devastating news. | |
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Little People Are Surreal | |
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Little People Are Surreal: Especially when painted green. | |
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DudeMagnet | |
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Dude Magnet: Caroline, despite her social awkwardness, 70s clothes and masculine haircut, manages to attract Mac, Guy, Martin and Jake, although it's obvious she is only truly interested in Mac. | |
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Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults | |
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Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults: Caroline is the most trash-talked, most bitched about person in the hospital, and ends up walking in and directly overhearing it 80% of the time too. Even darling Mac labels her "the biggest freak in town" shortly after awakening from his coma, but after she leaves he comments he'd, "Quite like a night out with Caroline Todd." | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone: Martin finally gets a date at the end of Season One, but it is Karen. | |
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Chick Magnet | |
Green Wing / int_9858c391 | comment |
Chick Magnet: Mac, who is universally adored, admired and lusted after by almost everybody at the hospital with little-to-no effort on his behalf. He spends the series being chased down by Caroline, Emmy, Holly and of course, Sue White. Lyndon is the other main example of this trope, a handsome, sweet-natured IT consultant who is regularly called out to perform mundane, bullshit tasks by regular nurses and clerks who find themselves besotted with him. Both men find themselves actively envied by Casanova Dr. Guy Secretan due to their lack of intention and effort in getting women. | |
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Ladykiller in Love | |
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Ladykiller in Love: Guy when he falls for Caroline, even though he's more of a Casanova Wannabe than a Ladykiller. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: In the first series Guy is seen talking on the phone with one of his friends who has just bought a jet ski, "Nobody buys a jet ski, you hire them, you tosser! No, how are you gonna get it on the plane? When are you ever gonna use a jet ski?!". In series 2 after the "incident" Guy has lost his driver's license and been blacklisted from using both taxis and the bus, so he ends up jet skiing to work. Then he hits a swan and is banned. In the second episode, Martin notices that the hospital bulletin board has an ad for a cello for £80, and he thinks it's a bargain. Later in the second series, Sue notices a cello for sale on the same bulletin board, but for £40 now. She thinks it's a rip-off. | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
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Overly Long Gag: "Get Brian." "Funky!" "No, Fun-kay." "Funky?" "Take it back." "Guy, did I kill anyone?" "Ye-nnn-ye-nnn-ye-nnn-ye-nnn." | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Guy just barely shows the faintest signs of this reaction after he gets drunk, has sex with his mum, stabs Martin with Botox, punches Mac, steals an ambulance and drives it off a cliff. | |
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Nerves of Steel | |
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Nerves of Steel: Mac is usually very composed in dangerous situations, the best example being when he tries calming down a hysterical Guy in the Season One finale. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: Joanna mistakes liquid paper for eye drops. In the first episode, Kim is wearing an eyepatch because she got sperm in her eye. She tells everyone she has conjunctivitis. Caroline sprays mace in Martin's eyes because she thought he was a mugger. | |
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Improv | |
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Improv: Part of the auditions were "improv battles" so naturally all of the actors had the freedom to mess around with the script as long as the end result was good. In the DVD extras the writers joked how they would create the perfect script and the actors would simply ignore it. | |
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NiceToTheWaiter | |
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Nice to the Waiter: Mac and Guy's personality differences are effectively summarized by the way they treat the working classes at the hospital. Mac seduces the dinnerladies with genuine charm and compliments, and effortlessly strikes good friendships and rapport with the janitors. Guy attempts to mimic this on several occasions but completely fails to hide his inbuilt pompousness and snobbery, and often ends up in humiliating slanging matches. | |
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Mid-Life Crisis Car | |
Green Wing / int_a3ca3b12 | comment |
Mid-Life Crisis Car: The very first scene features Joanna asking a salesman which of two cars will make her look younger: the salesman deadpans, "Neither. They are both just cars." | |
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Cool Crown | |
Green Wing / int_a5439ea9 | comment |
Cool Crown: The Crown of Confidence that Guy made, which he wears when giving himself a confidence boost. He lets Caroline borrow it. | |
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Parental Neglect | |
Green Wing / int_a54534a0 | comment |
Parental Neglect: Unintentionally, but Harriet tends to lose track of them. Once she forgot to pick Oscar up from a school trip and he ended up sleeping on a park bench. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: Used a fair bit throughout the series, notably in the cliffhangers at the end of each series. Also the core surgical team of Mac, Guy and Caroline, present together in almost every operation. | |
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Inferiority Superiority Complex | |
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Inferiority Superiority Complex: Guy. If you look underneath his arrogant alpha male bravado, it's clear he's actually quite insecure and pathetic. | |
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The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes | |
Green Wing / int_a7ddc88e | comment |
The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes The fact that medical staff have unhealthy lifestyles is not unexpected, but for people who work in a hospital, the characters seem to get precious little attention for their bizarre injuries (maybe Law of Conservation of Detail, but still. They also seem to have remarkable healing powers, though). Also, the fact that Sue receives no apparent medical attention (or any other kind of attention, actually) for her alleged pregnancy or labour—despite where she works—increases its implausibility. (Though it could be that she just didn't tell anyone she was pregnant, since she apparently did it by stealing Mac's sperm. She may not even really be pregnant—she shows no sign of it and gives birth to a lion cub.) | |
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LesYay | |
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Les Yay: Among the several people Caroline kisses during her party is Sue White.invoked | |
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Casanova Wannabe | |
Green Wing / int_a806691d | comment |
Casanova Wannabe: Martin is the polar opposite of Guy in every way, a relatively unpopular, socially awkward and rather dumb individual who spends the series in totally unrequited love with Caroline. Rachel's pet nickname for him is "Martin Dear, isn't he queer?" Mind you he does end up in a relationship with Karen Ball, but not many people would count that. Especially as he instantly regrets it when Karen turns out to be more demanding sexually than he can cope with. He accidentally becomes a pimp to "Double-D" Suzie as well. | |
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The Friend Nobody Likes | |
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The Friend Nobody Likes: Guy, on occasion. | |
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Welcome Episode | |
Green Wing / int_a8b5a55e | comment |
Welcome Episode: Dr. Caroline Todd goes to her first day at the job after sleeping in her car, locked out of her new house. She uses pine-scented air freshener as deodorant. The wacky ensues. | |
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Icy Blue Eyes | |
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Icy Blue Eyes: Boyce has "chipped ice" blue eyes, according to Alan. | |
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My Local | |
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My Local: The hospital staff are often seen sinking pints at the local boozer after work, which is never named but is always the same pub. | |
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Embarrassing Middle Name | |
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Embarrassing Middle Name: Guy's is Valerie. | |
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Redundant Romance Attempt | |
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Redundant Romance Attempt: After Martin buys Caroline at the slave auction, Mac gives him some frankly rather dubious advice to act like an arsehole, successfully destroying the entire date from the get-go. He does fix it by having Martin tell Caroline he'd been hypnotised and Caroline had accidentally said his "trigger-word." | |
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Unintentional Period Piece | |
Green Wing / int_adda84d4 | comment |
Joanna refuses to acknowledge that she's middle-aged and comes to work dressed like a teenager (at least at the time). Usually a teenager on a night out, too. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Everyone has a few moments of this, but notably Mac, Joanna, Kim and Caroline. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Guy saying "Let me finish!" after realizing he's just said something offensive, and trying to rectify it. Also "See you in Zurich" is often the prelude to his chatting somebody up. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: One episode has Alan annoyed and jealous over the fact Mac gets a parking space right next to the hospital because he's a surgeon. After spending an entire episode trying and failing to obtain the space, Mac and Boyce tell him they've gotten at "as close as we could get it" to Alan's office. Cue Alan entering his office to see his car taking up almost the whole room. | |
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Extreme Doormat | |
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Extreme Doormat: Martin lets Guy boss him around, belittle him and casually insult his girlfriend with feeble attempts to prevent it; Mac has to step in several times when Guy takes it too far. Karen. The HR staff walk all over her (Joanna forgets her name half the time) and she generally seems to be the only one who actually does any work. Caroline has a hard time saying "No," when Angela asks to move in with her, even if she finds Angela very annoying. | |
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I Ate WHAT?! | |
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I Ate WHAT?!: Guy steals Sue's lunch one day as she gets a special meal all to herself, only to learn that it's umbilical cord sushi and he leaves to throw up. Alan has second thoughts when he tries to eat a patient's gall bladder. Luckily he never swallows it. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Joanna is clearly the worst mother in the universe, but it never stops Martin from declaring his undying love for her. Although indirectly, Holly has four-year-old Mackenzie pretend he's Mac's son and dyes his hair blond. At the very least it's questionable. Guy's father apparently shoved him off to boarding school as soon as possible, and it's strongly implied Guy hated it there. | |
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Raging Stiffie | |
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Raging Stiffie: Frequently celebrated by Dr. Secretan. Alan gets one whilst playing the recorder, much to the amusement of Boyce. | |
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! | |
Green Wing / int_b7bc7d28 | comment |
Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Caroline on occasion. Boyce as well. | |
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Sequential Symptom Syndrome | |
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Sequential Symptom Syndrome: Joanna, with a donut in her mouth, walks in on Harriet describing the symptoms of pregnancy, including a craving for fatty foods, and finds herself feeling the rest of them too. Strange variation by Sue, who reads a book on pregnancy aloud to herself and overacts each symptom. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
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Some subtext between Angela and Caroline, particularly when they have a fight over Angela's pants. In one episode, Angela casually slaps Caroline on the arse as she leaves the room. | |
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Cool Bike | |
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Cool Bike: Mac's motorbike, which he likes to drive around the hospital. Naked. | |
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Born Unlucky | |
Green Wing / int_bb30961 | comment |
Born Unlucky: Caroline's first day at the hospital sums this up nicely. She is locked out of her brother's house and has to sleep in her car, Joanna pulls her hair (to "see how well she deals with stress"), everyone keeps asking her why she smells funny, "Have you been to a festival?", "What's that smell? Is that...is that mini-cabs?" Sue gropes her arse, she hears Angela telling Martin to do horrible things to "the new girl" (because Mac told her to try being jealous) Guy persuades her to come stay at his flat and so everyone assumes she slept with him when she didn't. And then there's what happens to her during the rest of the series... | |
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Tyrant Takes the Helm | |
Green Wing / int_bbe740e2 | comment |
Tyrant Takes the Helm: Subverted. Sue (and everyone else) assumes she will automatically be promoted to Director of Human Resources in Joanna's absence, allowing her to wreak even more of her sociopathic lunacy with even greater authority. Charles blocks this however, for reasons he isn't too keen to explain to her. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
Green Wing / int_bc00493f | comment |
Boyce is also left depressed and longing for after being humiliated by a devastating Precision F-Strike from Dr. Statham's replacement. | |
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Green Wing / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
Green Wing / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Normally easy-going Mac is furious when Guy lies to Martin about his exam results. Joanna does NOT like being told she's old, or her age referred to at all. | |
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Green Wing / int_bc74ef27 | |
Green Wing / int_bd0230fb | type |
Ambiguously Bi | |
Green Wing / int_bd0230fb | comment |
Ambiguously Bi: Sue White. While she's had multiple male relationships (Guy and, through the show, is after Mac) she does show some interest in women and does comment: "Maybe I am a lesbian." Boyce, mostly with his interactions with Alan Statham. It's near impossible to tell if he how he does because he wants to genuinely annoy him or because it's fun to tease him. There's also when they spent the night together and it's ambiguous if anything happened. Not to mention, that Boyce shows genuine affection for Statham in the finale and leading up to it (helping him escape the police and Alan singing to him down the phone). | |
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Green Wing / int_be6f7ae7 | type |
Brief Accent Imitation | |
Green Wing / int_be6f7ae7 | comment |
Brief Accent Imitation: The surgeons decide to spend an operation talking in Geordie accents for a laugh. Guy makes a disturbingly atrocious attempt at it. When Guy accidentally finds himself on the phone with his current lover's boyfriend, he tries being Jeff from Derbyshire. Alan's accents are... appallingly terrible. In one scene Sue White acts like a Nazi "from a film". And Caroline does an uncanny impression of Sue White's Scottish accent (plus body language) on one occasion. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
Green Wing / int_bf1255fa | comment |
Really Gets Around: Joanna, Guy and Naughty Rachel are essentially sex-workers. Caroline's brother as well, apparently. When Martin asks what he does, Caroline flippantly answers, "Oh, whatever he can get his hands on." | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
Green Wing / int_c007c53 | comment |
Cool and Unusual Punishment: Guy sellotaping Martin to the wall of a men's toilets and threatening to "phone the gays." This was punishment for Martin unintentionally giving Sue White a videotape of Guy and Joanna having sex. | |
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Green Wing / int_c2cedc1c | type |
Big "NO!" | |
Green Wing / int_c2cedc1c | comment |
Big "NO!": Sue White screams one when Mac pulls out of the Slave Auction. She then recovers and promptly buys Guy instead with little fuss. Guy does one after Caroline tells him (during a hypothetical discussion about fox hunting) that his cubs were ripped to shreds by the hounds. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
Green Wing / int_c4db6423 | comment |
Yank the Dog's Chain: Caroline, after putting up with Guy telling everyone they had sex, competing with Emmy and all the crap she gets in Season One, finally gets to kiss Mac... only for Season Two to show he ended up in a coma and loses all memory of their relationship. Two for Alan Statham: Near the end of series one, Joanna falsely believes she's pregnant with Statham's child. She tells him about it and he gets really excited about it. The next time he talks to her, she tells him it was a mix-up and she wouldn't want his child anyway. In the second series he wins an online caption contest and is really pleased with this (arguably this is the single best thing to happen to him throughout the whole show). Joanna hates how happy he is and decides to give him a real scare, by having her dwarf cousin hide under his desk and pretend to be a goblin. Statham is really scared and ends up accidentally murdering her cousin; so they now have to cope with the guilt of covering it up and eventually flee the law. | |
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Green Wing / int_c57a23c9 | type |
Harp of Femininity | |
Green Wing / int_c57a23c9 | comment |
Harp of Femininity: Angela plays one to Grade 7, while her more tomboyish housemate Caroline struggles to get a sound out of her flute: | |
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Green Wing / int_c5fe6c81 | type |
Strong Family Resemblance | |
Green Wing / int_c5fe6c81 | comment |
Strong Family Resemblance: Guy and Martin, since they are half-brothers. Martin and his father, though neither of them ever realize this. | |
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Green Wing / int_c631f304 | type |
We Want Our Jerk Back! | |
Green Wing / int_c631f304 | comment |
We Want Our Jerk Back!: While Dr. Secretan is on probation, he is replaced as anaesthetist by various socially awkward droids lacking in personality or flair. Mac and Caroline force one of them to wear a Donkey mask, to provide some reassurance. They also ask him to "say something really twattish" like "Switzerland has the highest average global sperm count." Boyce is also left depressed and longing for after being humiliated by a devastating Precision F-Strike from Dr. Statham's replacement. | |
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Green Wing / int_c6ebec3 | type |
Soap Opera | |
Green Wing / int_c6ebec3 | comment |
Soap Opera: Caroline loves Mac who's with Holly who may or may not have had his baby, meanwhile Guy and Martin love Caroline... | |
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Green Wing / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
Green Wing / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: One episode Caroline tells Guy, "Guy, you look like the donkey from Shrek." "A haaaannd-a-baaaggg!" | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father | |
Green Wing / int_c83a589c | comment |
Luke, I Am Your Father: It is revealed that one of the reasons Martin can still practice medicine despite being pretty bad is because he is Joanna's unwanted son. Exaggerated during the series one finale with Joanna discovering Guy is her son after having sex with him. | |
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The Nicknamer | |
Green Wing / int_c83cd6b8 | comment |
The Nicknamer: Some classic examples here, mostly courtesy of Sue White and Guy Secretan. Alan gets likened to C3PO, while Martin is aptly described as "the love child of Wayne Sleep and Godzilla" or "The King of the Elf-people." Sue likes to switch her nicknames for Caroline around, referring to her variously as "Dr. Trodd", "Dr. Plodd" and "Dr. Dudd". | |
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Dude Looks Like a Lady | |
Green Wing / int_ca4e037 | comment |
Dude Looks Like a Lady: Boyce is referred to as a "porcelain ladyboy". | |
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Green Wing / int_ca87e3ec | type |
No Name Given | |
Green Wing / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: Dr. 'Mac' Macartney. Lampshaded and unrevealed variously throughout the series, especially when he is looking at his medical test results: | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
Green Wing / int_ca95473c | comment |
Series Continuity Error: In series 1, we hear that Holly is pregnant. She shows up in series 2 conspicuously not pregnant, and with a four-year-old son but no baby. No explanation is given. | |
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Green Wing / int_cb0743c0 | type |
Lame Pun Reaction | |
Green Wing / int_cb0743c0 | comment |
Lame Pun Reaction: Dr Statham makes a lot of dreadful puns throughout the series. One example was when he won an online caption competition. The image was of an X-ray and his winning caption was "X-Ray Charles". Boyce could only stare at him in horror before saying it was absolutely dreadful. | |
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Green Wing / int_cbe3d017 | type |
Damned by Faint Praise | |
Green Wing / int_cbe3d017 | comment |
Damned by Faint Praise: During a bumbling speech to Joanna, Alan comments, "You may not be the youngest or even the prettiest woman in the hospital, but in this age of casual ... chlamydia ..." | |
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No Sense of Personal Space | |
Green Wing / int_cdb45c07 | comment |
No Sense of Personal Space: Holly, especially towards Mac and Caroline, the latter of whom is obviously rather uncomfortable with it. | |
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Dude, Not Funny! | |
Green Wing / int_cdd835ce | comment |
Dude, Not Funny!: When Angela confides to Guy and Martin that his ex, Holly, is not only engaged to a top surgeon at another hospital but is also pregnant (note Holly aborted her child with Mac) and asks them not to say anything. When Martin accidentally blurts it out, Guy takes the chance to start taunting him about it. After Mac gives a very understated "Fuck you." and leaves, Guy laughs it off and says Mac can't take a joke, and this is Angela and Martin's non-verbal response, to the point it makes Guy awkwardly leave. | |
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Green Wing / int_d6707631 | type |
Waxing Lyrical | |
Green Wing / int_d6707631 | comment |
Waxing Lyrical: Sue to Guy. | |
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Green Wing / int_d7fc9fd0 | type |
Vitriolic Best Buds | |
Green Wing / int_d7fc9fd0 | comment |
Vitriolic Best Buds: Mac and Guy. Caroline and Angela to an extent. | |
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Green Wing / int_d848560f | type |
Unusual Euphemism | |
Green Wing / int_d848560f | comment |
Unusual Euphemism: Dr. Statham uses these all over the place. So does Sue. She has a huge list of euphemisms for her vagina—"The old sideways smile. You know, my woman glove. My skin mitten. My panty piggy-bank." Also for giving birth—"Parcel through the letter box. Bun out the oven. Troops out the landing craft. Brick out the front shitter. Watermelon out of your Jap's eye." | |
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Green Wing / int_db212ca9 | type |
Did I Just Say That Out Loud? | |
Green Wing / int_db212ca9 | comment |
Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: A lot of characters have moments like this, but notably Caroline, Guy, Martin and Alan. | |
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Green Wing / int_db4bb2fc | type |
Harpo Does Something Funny | |
Green Wing / int_db4bb2fc | comment |
Harpo Does Something Funny: The scenes between Sue and Guy, as both of the actors are improv actors. Example. | |
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Green Wing / int_dcd423d2 | type |
Affectionate Nickname | |
Green Wing / int_dcd423d2 | comment |
Affectionate Nickname: Boyce and Martin refer to each other as "Boycie" and "Marty". Harriet gets "Hattie" from her friends. | |
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Unfortunate Names | |
Green Wing / int_dd45df38 | comment |
Unfortunate Names: Donald Twat, Martin's dad. Joanna points out Secretan sounds like "secretion." | |
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Green Wing / int_df4b69d6 | type |
Uncomfortable Elevator Moment | |
Green Wing / int_df4b69d6 | comment |
Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: Guy has to share a crowded elevator with Joanna. It is the first time they've seen each other since finding out they were mother and son shortly after having sex with each other. | |
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I Will Only Slow You Down | |
Green Wing / int_e099f0de | comment |
I Will Only Slow You Down: On the cliff's edge, Martin stoically urges Guy and Mac to save themselves and leave him to fall to his death. Jerkass Guy agrees with him and supports his decision, earning him a Precision F-Strike from Mac. | |
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The Ditz | |
Green Wing / int_e2d457 | comment |
The Ditz: Harriet Schulenburg manages to forget either her kids or an article of clothing in about every episode. She once arrived at work and a cat jumped out of her bag: Honestly, this trope applies to the whole HR department. | |
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Green Wing / int_e4318055 | type |
CloudCuckooLand | |
Green Wing / int_e4318055 | comment |
Cloud Cuckoo Land: Everyone, with the possible exception of Mac and Lyndon, is a Cloudcuckoolander, so the hospital counts as this. Bear in mind that this is a place where riding a motorbike naked through a hospital isn't considered too weird and neither is giving birth to a lion. | |
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The "Fun" in "Funeral" | |
Green Wing / int_e4f48a7f | comment |
The "Fun" in "Funeral": Sue wears a bunny costume to Angela's funeral and Martin shares his thoughts and feelings through the medium of interpretive dance. | |
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The Chew Toy | |
Green Wing / int_e4f5affb | comment |
The Chew Toy: HR clerk Karen Ball—not even the deeply pathetic Martin Dear can bring himself to be nice to her. Neither can the office copy machine or the printer. | |
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Green Wing / int_e621b159 | type |
A-Cup Angst | |
Green Wing / int_e621b159 | comment |
A-Cup Angst: One episode has Karen being bossed around by the other Human Resources girls (as usual) when she suddenly bursts out with, "NO, I WON'T! I AM NOT YOUR SLAVE!" When the other girls ask her what her problem is, she retorts, "You lot, I am sick of it, taking advantage just because I haven't got any breasts!" Then she sits back down and resumes typing like nothing happened. | |
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Green Wing / int_e624f0e8 | type |
Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
Green Wing / int_e624f0e8 | comment |
Suspiciously Specific Denial: Dr. Statham does this very often. Subverted: | |
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Freudian Slip | |
Green Wing / int_e8ca5cb3 | comment |
Freudian Slip: Joanna and Guy attempting to be normal again. Guy just seems incapable of speaking to Joanna normally after the incident. Alan is also extremely prone to these. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
Green Wing / int_ea85d6ea | comment |
All Just a Dream: Martin's dancing exam sequence. | |
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Covert Pervert | |
Green Wing / int_edfacbac | comment |
Covert Pervert: Harriet and Angela, surprisingly enough. | |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything | |
Green Wing / int_ee7ed46e | comment |
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything The doctors who rarely speak to a patient or have a work-related conversation. Not all of them (Mac, Caroline and Guy's Seinfeldian Conversation scenes are frequently over an operation, though they seldom refer to what they're doing). Combines with Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now? for the junior doctors — or rather, Shouldn't Dr. Statham Be Giving An Actual Seminar?, given that he usually swiftly goes into bickering with Boyce and sends them all out. | |
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The Glasses Gotta Go | |
Green Wing / int_eed6d1c3 | comment |
The Glasses Gotta Go: Joanna ends up needing glasses in Season 2, and although the HR department are unusually nice to her about them, she notices the wrinkles on her hands, face, etc and promptly freaks out and stomps on the glasses. Mac finds a pair of glasses in one episode and promptly puts them on Caroline, who at first finds it funny but then quickly takes them off because they "smell funny". | |
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Offhand Backhand | |
Green Wing / int_f018c5cf | comment |
Offhand Backhand: Lyndon does this to Alan after Harriet breaks up with him, and a heartbroken Caroline does this to Martin. | |
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Green Wing / int_f165cf2c | type |
Last-Second Word Swap | |
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Last-Second Word Swap: Guy and Alan are the most frequent offenders. | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Alan Statham often speaks in ridiculously complicated sentences and vocabulary, and sometimes even resorts to French and Latin just to express himself. | |
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Violent Glaswegian | |
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Violent Glaswegian: Sue White, presumably, as her actress is from Glasgow and uses her own accent. | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility: Harriet and her husband. | |
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Dude, She's Like in a Coma | |
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Dude, She's Like in a Coma: Gender-flipped, in Season 2 Sue steals some of Mac's semen and then manages to impregnate herself with it. (Possibly—she seems to believe she's pregnant, but shows no outward signs of it, and apparently gives birth to a lion cub.) | |
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Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now? | |
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Combines with Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now? for the junior doctors — or rather, Shouldn't Dr. Statham Be Giving An Actual Seminar?, given that he usually swiftly goes into bickering with Boyce and sends them all out. | |
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Terrible Interviewees Montage | |
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Terrible Interviewees Montage: When Caroline is looking for a new flatmate. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Several. Mac getting repeatedly called ginger and replying he is blond. Hair in general is running joke: Guy's gets increasingly long and curly over the series, Rachel dyes hers from blonde to brunette between season 1 and 2. Karen gets her hair trapped in the printer. Joanna dyes hers peroxide blonde which earns her comparisons to Jimmy Saville. People making fun of Alan's moustache. Guy Ball. The Human Resources department's odd games. (Like diving to the floor whenever the phone rings, drawing a hopscotch on the floor, switching desks to confuse Joanna, etc.) | |
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The Exit Is That Way | |
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The Exit Is That Way: After Caroline walks in on Angela and Liam having sex, she tries to make a swift exit but walks into a dead-end on the landing, forcing her to awkwardly backtrack past their bedroom in full sight. | |
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Romantic False Lead | |
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Romantic False Lead: Holly, who of course happens to appear just as Mac and Caroline are about to lock lips. And when that isn't enough to put the brakes on, she pulls a small child out of her sleeve. Caroline often fantasizes about shooting her. Jake to Caroline, to an extent. Emmy, again for Mac. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: After witnessing a regular chav chatting up Karen, Martin decks him with an out-of-character left hook. Martin never manages to bite back against Guy though and remains his bitch throughout the entire series. Until the Special, that is. | |
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Master of the Mixed Message | |
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Master of the Mixed Message: Mac is aware that Caroline is besotted with him and takes pleasure in teasing her over it, though he obviously does have some feelings towards her. She puts up with it for a long time but eventually confronts him about his cruel behaviour. | |
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Team Mom | |
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Team Mom: Harriet, sort of. She does help Caroline get a pen top out of her nose. She grows into this role fully in Resuscitated, where she has risen to the head of HR and actively treats all of her staff like they were her children. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Happens quite often. A prominent example: When Statham kills Joanna's dwarf cousin with a heron, Joanna gets angry with him and asks him if he realises what he's done. Statham responds: "MY HERON!" | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Lyndon finally snaps after Joanna buys him in the Slave Auction and gives her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Do NOT piss off Mac, as Guy found out the hard way. Harriet can be this when pushed too far. | |
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Accidental Murder | |
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Accidental Murder: Played for Laughs with all of the deaths in the finale. One woman is murdered by Alan when he holds her down in the shop while he and Joanna are robbing her; his bum is planted firmly over her face and she suffocates. Guy tells Martin he accidentally killed someone because he stopped a patient's real details coming in on time during a heart-transplant after sending an email about his yogurt. Of course, Guy was probably lying. Alan kills Joanna's cousin, believing he's a hallucination. Said cousin is a dwarf, painted green and screaming maniacally at him at the time, so ... | |
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Innocently Insensitive | |
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Lyndon also has to put up with some rather pathetic racism from Martin, although it's mostly Martin being Innocently Insensitive. | |
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Old Maid | |
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Old Maid: Joanna is in total denial that she's past her prime, but goes to ridiculous length to keep her actual age a secret, which is why Martin is forbidden to tell anyone they're related. | |
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Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"! | |
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Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: Guy sticks his hand in a toaster, just because Holly essentially dares him to (he believes it's broken, though). He's also always engaging in silly contests with Mac, such as coffee/tea eating, flame-fuelled arm-wrestles, running through a swimming pool and the Spoon of Destiny. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Joanna may treat Martin poorly, but she does at least send him a postcard when she and Alan go on the run. Also it's implied that she has some influence over the fact Martin still gets to work at the hospital. As long as he doesn't tell anyone she's his real mum, at least. | |
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