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Not Going Out
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Not Going Out is a pun-heavy British sitcom starring Lee Mack that first ran from 2006 to 2014, followed by a one-off special in 2015 before resuming from 2017 to the present.The show originally focused on Lee, a perpetually unemployed layabout who prefers to spend his time hanging around with his best friend, Tim (Tim Vine), rather than finding meaningful employment. In the first series, Lee rents a room from Kate, Tim's American ex-girlfriend. From the second series, Kate is replaced with Lucy, Tim's younger sister, a consultant with whom Lee shares a combative will-they-won't-they relationship.Supporting characters during the show's original run included Barbara (Miranda Hart), Lucy's cleaner who never seemed to do much cleaning, Daisy (Katy Wix), Tim's Cloud Cuckoolander girlfriend. Cast turnovers during this time saw the departures of Barbara and Tim and the arrival of Toby (Hugh Dennis) and Anna (Abigail Cruttenden) a posh couple who spend most of their time sniping at one another and find themselves getting sucked into Lee and Lucy's lives.After a brief hiatus following Lee and Lucy's wedding in the 2014 Christmas special, the show returned with a significant Retool and an eight-year Time Skip to focus on Lee and Lucy as a married couple with three children and the promotion of Lee's dad, Frank, and Lucy's parents, Geoffrey and Wendy, to major supporting characters alongside Toby and Anna.Select episodes can be seen on Lee Mack's YouTube channel. | |
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Faux Yay | |
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Faux Yay: Lucy thinks she's offended a gay man she fancies, so she gets Lee to pretend to be gay so she can show how tolerant she is: This one has an extra layer to it as the guy Lucy thought she'd offended wasn't even gay himself. He'd said that to spare the feelings of a woman who was attracted to him. | |
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Cannot Tell a Joke: Kate. Daisy as well, due to being the Malaproper. | |
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Sorry, I'm Gay | |
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This one has an extra layer to it as the guy Lucy thought she'd offended wasn't even gay himself. He'd said that to spare the feelings of a woman who was attracted to him. | |
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Daddy's Girl | |
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Daddy's Girl: Lucy | |
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The Klutz | |
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The Klutz: Barbara, who manages to break something every time she cleans. | |
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Sit Comic | |
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Sit Comic: Lee Mack and Tim Vine | |
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Like Father, Like Son | |
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Like Father, Like Son: Lee and his dad are very similar in how they act, as much as Lee would like to think otherwise. | |
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The Diaper Change | |
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The Diaper Change: 'Give it a good scrape first' | |
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Maintain the Lie | |
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Maintain the Lie | |
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My Parents Are Dead | |
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My Parents Are Dead: As Lee backpedals from confronting a noisy psychotic neighbor he rhetorically asks 'Who am I to tell you to keep the noise down? I'm not your mum' the neighbor snaps 'My mother's dead!' Lee's response? 'You don't run a hotel with her do you?' | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Dirty Old Man: Lee's dad Frank | |
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What Did I Do Last Night? | |
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What Did I Do Last Night?: After Lee's father takes him on a Stag night they wake up in a cell. The Policeman comes in and starts talking to them in another language. It turns out he is doing this as a joke. | |
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Camp Straight | |
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Camp Straight: Tim | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles: Daisy in series 4, replacing Barbara's spot in the sequence. (Following Tim Vine's departure after series 5, in series 6 the opening titles were re-filmed to put her front and centre.) | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Lee's dad Frank | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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Face Doodling | |
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Face Doodling: Tim does this to female relatives when drunk. | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: Barbara, for Lee/Lucy. Daisy takes on this role after Barbara leaves Toby and Anna are revealed to be this for Lee and Lucy at the end of Series 7. And they actually succeed in making them admit their feelings for each other. | |
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All Psychology Is Freudian | |
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All Psychology Is Freudian: Parodied/subverted. At Kate's insistence, Lee reluctantly agrees to see a Californian therapist for one session. After answering her questions with his typical hurricane of witty quips and innuendos, she says she'd like to talk about his mother, leading to this exchange: | |
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Out of Focus | |
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Out of Focus: Lee and Lucy's children are regulars in the first post-Retool series, then steadily appear less and less, which was likely informed by the fact that any scenes with them could not be filmed in front of a live audience and had to be pre-recorded. In the 2021 series (filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, which was likely also a factor) they are entirely absent apart from one appearance from Molly and one by all three (one of whom is offscreen and voiceover-only), although they remain in the opening titles. | |
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Girl on Girl Is Hot | |
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Girl on Girl Is Hot: Lee and Tim frequently invokes this when a Lesbian couple moves downstairs. | |
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Why Are You Looking at Me Like That? | |
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Why Are You Looking at Me Like That? | |
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Out-Gambitted | |
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Out-Gambitted: Lee and Lucy get drunk together to settle an argument about whether one can get too drunk to remember things. They wake up naked in Lucy's bed in the next morning and both panic. It turns out that Lucy faked the scene to prank Lee. It also turns out that Lee was only pretending to drink. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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And Tommy Cannon appears in the 2014 Christmas Special as the vicar at Lee and Lucy's wedding. Cue an Actor Allusion about Bobby Ball's braces. | |
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The Slacker | |
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The Slacker: Lee | |
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Bedmate Reveal | |
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Bedmate Reveal: After Lee and Lucy get blind drunk on potato hooch. A variation in Lee's dream when he's in a coma (his dad shows up between him and Lucy twice) | |
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I Like My X Like I Like My Y | |
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I Like My X Like I Like My Y: Stretch uses it to charm Lucy | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: The episode with the art exhibition has Tim berating Lee: There's a lot of Lee's stag night that we don't see, aren't told about, and is probably lost to the ages thanks to alcohol-induced amnesia. | |
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Malaproper | |
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Daisy as well, due to being the Malaproper. | |
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Under the Mistletoe | |
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Under the Mistletoe | |
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"Fawlty Towers" Plot | |
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"Fawlty Towers" Plot: The lies piled up in this episode: | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: "Christmas Shopping" has the cast getting trapped in a store with an armed robber who has smashed their phones. At the end it turns out Frank had forgotten he had a phone in his hat. | |
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Walking Disaster Area | |
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Walking Disaster Area: Barbara. | |
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Episode on a Plane | |
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Episode on a Plane: "Plane" | |
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Guys are Slobs | |
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Guys are Slobs: Lee | |
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Obnoxious In-Laws | |
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Obnoxious In-Laws: Geoffrey, Lucy's Father, is this to Lee before the wedding. He makes it quite clear he hates Lee and wishes the wedding doesn't go ahead. | |
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Lazy Bum | |
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Lazy Bum | |
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Convenience Store Gift Shopping | |
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Convenience Store Gift Shopping: Lee, when he's not untying flowers from lamp posts... | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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I Have This Friend: Lee uses this to talk about his genitals in two separate episodes. | |
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May I Borrow a Cup of Sugar? | |
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May I Borrow a Cup of Sugar?: In one episode, this appears to be a Meet Cute, but turns out to be the excuse version of sorts when a young woman who thinks she is Lee's daughter appears at his door. Turns out at the end that she isn't Lee's daughter after all. When a guy shows up at the end of the episode asking to borrow some milk Lee tells him there's a Tesco nearby and shuts the door on him. | |
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Trouble Entendre | |
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Trouble Entendre: A "Fawlty Towers" Plot rendered the main characters unable to say their true meanings in order not to reveal the fact that they weren't disabled, leading to this sort of talk, which everyone else remains clueless to, even when one of them explicitly says "blackmail". | |
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I Resemble That Remark! | |
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I Resemble That Remark!: | |
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Loser Protagonist | |
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Loser Protagonist: Most of the cast to some degree, though especially Lee, the one mainstay throughout the whole show, as well as a Lazy Bum with a Never My Fault complex and a horrendous penchant for Zany Schemes. | |
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Mistaken for Gay | |
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Mistaken for Gay: In the finale Tim turns up in time for the Wedding objection and says he should be standing beside Lee (as best man). When Lee's dad objects as he is best man the Vicar says it's legal now. | |
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Country Matters | |
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Lucy ends an episode telling Lee, "You can be a real c-" *closing titles* | |
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Women Are Wiser | |
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Women Are Wiser: Downplayed, in that Lucy often calls out Lee's shenanigans and crudeness, but is usually equally shallow and unwilling to accept humiliation or bad repercussions, meaning she often ends up embroiled in cover-up schemes just as pathetically as he does. | |
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Hesitation Equals Dishonesty | |
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Hesitation Equals Dishonesty: Lee accuses Lucy of being dishonest when she hesitates over questions about her relationship with Amy. When she throws it back at him questioning him about his relationship with Tim and he hesitates he brushes it off by saying he was sickened by the suggestion. | |
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Working-Class People Are Morons | |
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Working-Class People Are Morons: Frequently leveled at Lee and Frank. | |
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Genius Ditz | |
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Genius Ditz: Daisy - who once in a while does something brilliant, like rescuing Tim and Lee from a psychopathic drug dealer. Or putting all Lee's money on a horse on a whim - and winning at enormous odds, thus rescuing him from an evil clown to whom he owes a lot of cash. It makes sense in context. | |
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Class Clown | |
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Class Clown: Lee | |
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False Reassurance | |
Not Going Out / int_5a963d1c | comment |
False Reassurance: 'All I'm trying to do is clean up'- Lee tricking Tim into thinking he wants Lucy out the flat to wash a wine stain when in fact he's renting it to a (porn) director as a set. When Lee, Geoffrey, and Frank are all missing right before Lee and Lucy's wedding, Wendy reassures Lucy that Geoffrey and Lee won't let her down. Then as soon as Lucy's out of earshot, she angrily mutters "Or I'll have the fucking bollocks off the pair of them." | |
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Not Going Out / int_5e6a495 | type |
The Problem with Pen Island | |
Not Going Out / int_5e6a495 | comment |
The Problem with Pen Island: In the Totally Radical example below. | |
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Not Going Out / int_5f0546a2 | type |
The Scrounger | |
Not Going Out / int_5f0546a2 | comment |
The Scrounger: Lee and particularly his dad | |
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Not Going Out / int_5f0546a2 | |
Not Going Out / int_5f505b82 | type |
I Was Beaten by a Girl | |
Not Going Out / int_5f505b82 | comment |
I Was Beaten by a Girl: Tim | |
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Not Going Out / int_5fcb9ad1 | type |
Time Skip | |
Not Going Out / int_5fcb9ad1 | comment |
Time Skip:There's an eight-year time skip from the 7th Series when Lee & Lucy get married to the 8th series where they have three children and have moved out of the apartment into a house. | |
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Not Going Out / int_5fe4f9db | type |
Pull the Plug on the Title | |
Not Going Out / int_5fe4f9db | comment |
Pull the Plug on the Title: The title sequence shows the words as big multiple-lightbulb signs held up by Lee, Tim and Kate(then Lucy). Lee's word goes out randomly in series 1 and 6, and either Barbara (series 2-3) or Daisy (series 4-5) is shown unplugging it. | |
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Not Going Out / int_5fe4f9db | |
Not Going Out / int_61375e57 | type |
BigDamnKiss | |
Not Going Out / int_61375e57 | comment |
Big Damn Kiss: An absolutely massive one (complete with a Glomp) from Lucy after Lee proposes. | |
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Not Going Out / int_61375e57 | |
Not Going Out / int_62907b90 | type |
Bottle Episode | |
Not Going Out / int_62907b90 | comment |
Bottle Episode: There have been several bottle episodes so far. "Skiing" was set entirely in a cable car. "Plane", in which Lee thinks there is a terrorist attack whilst on the titular plane "Lucy" was set entirely in the bar. "Escape Room" was set entirely in an escape room "Parachute" was set entirely on board a plane right before the entire main cast take part in a charity parachute jump. "Memory", "Resolutions" and "War" took place entirely in Lee and Lucy's sitting room, while "Beep" takes up the whole ground floor of the house. "Jury" is set in a small room where the members of said jury make their decision. "Hospital" only features a single ward. "Coffin"...well...speaks for itself. "Train" only has a single compartment in it. | |
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Not Going Out / int_62907b90 | |
Not Going Out / int_653c5c73 | type |
Cannot Spit It Out | |
Not Going Out / int_653c5c73 | comment |
Cannot Spit It Out: Prior to "Lucy", Lee masks his attraction to Lucy under heavy layers of sarcasm and it takes a Batman Gambit to get him to confess his feelings. | |
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Not Going Out / int_67edaf78 | type |
Gargle Blaster | |
Not Going Out / int_67edaf78 | comment |
Gargle Blaster: Potato Hooch | |
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Not Going Out / int_67edaf78 | |
Not Going Out / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
Not Going Out / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: Lucy frequently gives Lee grief about how he acts towards and treats his father, and she's probably right to. But in Lee's defence, his dad has treated him with even less consideration and care for most of his whole life. A few times putting up with Frank herself, and Lucy does seem to get where Lee is coming from. | |
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Not Going Out / int_6dbf7c8d | type |
April Fools' Plot | |
Not Going Out / int_6dbf7c8d | comment |
April Fools' Plot: This is revealed in the episode where Lucy fakes a pregnancy scare after she finds Lee masturbating in her bath. | |
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Not Going Out / int_6dbf7c8d | |
Not Going Out / int_6e0a57d6 | type |
Like an Old Married Couple | |
Not Going Out / int_6e0a57d6 | comment |
Like an Old Married Couple: Lee and Lucy naturally evolve into this, justified as they have lived together for seven years they even lampshade it in the episode concerning the Potato Hooch drinking binge in series five: | |
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Not Going Out / int_6e0a57d6 | |
Not Going Out / int_738fa379 | type |
New Job Episode | |
Not Going Out / int_738fa379 | comment |
New Job Episode | |
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Not Going Out / int_754df088 | type |
Put on a Bus | |
Not Going Out / int_754df088 | comment |
Put on a Bus:Kate leaves for America offscreen after Series 1 and Tim goes to Germany offscreen after Series 5. Although at least he returns for the wedding. | |
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Not Going Out / int_78270847 | type |
Curse Cut Short | |
Not Going Out / int_78270847 | comment |
Curse Cut Short: Several: Subverted in a series 3 episode, where Lee said "f-" before the opening titles interrupted him. After the opening, the scene picked up where it left off: "-uck." Lucy ends an episode telling Lee, "You can be a real c-" *closing titles* Another episode ends with Lucy saying to Lee "...you can get f-" *closing titles* Lee calls his Dad the same thing during a roller coaster ride, but is cut short as they plummet down a slope. | |
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Not Going Out / int_78270847 | |
Not Going Out / int_7aa858c1 | type |
Consummate Liar | |
Not Going Out / int_7aa858c1 | comment |
Consummate Liar: Lee, and Frank. And Toby as part of his plan to get Lee and Lucy together. Even he's surprised at how good he is. | |
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Not Going Out / int_7aa858c1 | |
Not Going Out / int_7b8b3def | type |
Celebrity Paradox | |
Not Going Out / int_7b8b3def | comment |
Celebrity Paradox: Lucy mentions Cannon & Ball in one episode. Bobby Ball plays Lee's dad. And Tommy Cannon appears in the 2014 Christmas Special as the vicar at Lee and Lucy's wedding. Cue an Actor Allusion about Bobby Ball's braces. | |
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Not Going Out / int_7ce3bb6d | type |
Breathless Non Sequitur | |
Not Going Out / int_7ce3bb6d | comment |
Breathless Non Sequitur | |
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Not Going Out / int_7ce3bb6d | |
Not Going Out / int_7e345221 | type |
Snowball Lie | |
Not Going Out / int_7e345221 | comment |
Snowball Lie | |
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Not Going Out / int_7e345221 | |
Not Going Out / int_7eb49b31 | type |
Almost Kiss | |
Not Going Out / int_7eb49b31 | comment |
Almost Kiss: Lee and Lucy have one of these. | |
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Not Going Out / int_7eb49b31 | |
Not Going Out / int_813e694d | type |
Continuity Cavalcade | |
Not Going Out / int_813e694d | comment |
Continuity Cavalcade: Amy (Series 3 Episode 3), Betty (Series 4 Episode 5), Debbie (Series 4 Episode 2), Guy (Series 2), Stretch (Series 5 Episode 1), Paul (Series 6 Episode 1), the psychotic upstairs neighbour (Series 3 Episode 7), and of course Tim all appear at Lee and Lucy's wedding in the 2014 Christmas Special along with flashbacks to their most memorable scenes. The last ten minutes of the 2014 Christmas Special are pretty much nothing but flashbacks to funny and heartwarming moments. | |
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Not Going Out / int_813e694d | |
Not Going Out / int_88933ad4 | type |
Parental Favoritism | |
Not Going Out / int_88933ad4 | comment |
Parental Favoritism: Lucy seems to benefit | |
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Not Going Out / int_88933ad4 | |
Not Going Out / int_8c3241aa | type |
One-Hour Work Week | |
Not Going Out / int_8c3241aa | comment |
One-Hour Work Week: Barbara the Cleaner. Lee often jokes about the last time he saw Barbara actually clean something? | |
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Not Going Out / int_8c3241aa | |
Not Going Out / int_903c0f83 | type |
IObject | |
Not Going Out / int_903c0f83 | comment |
I Object: Played for laughs twice in quick succession at Lee and Lucy's wedding in the 2014 Christmas Special. The first is Tim arriving at the last minute to take his place as Lee's best man, and the second is Frank getting petulant about no longer being the best man. | |
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Not Going Out / int_903c0f83 | |
Not Going Out / int_916ecb1 | type |
But I Can't Be Pregnant! | |
Not Going Out / int_916ecb1 | comment |
But I Can't Be Pregnant!: Lucy | |
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Not Going Out / int_916ecb1 | |
Not Going Out / int_931fc523 | type |
Back for the Finale | |
Not Going Out / int_931fc523 | comment |
Back for the Finale: Tim | |
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Not Going Out / int_931fc523 | |
Not Going Out / int_932da128 | type |
Monster Clown | |
Not Going Out / int_932da128 | comment |
Monster Clown: In "Camping," Lee, Tim, Lucy, and Daisy get stranded and find themselves surrounded by a growing group of individuals wearing ominous clown masks. Turns out, the group are at a popular dogging site and they're surrounded by people looking for people having sex to watch. | |
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Not Going Out | hasFeature |
Not Going Out / int_932da128 | |
Not Going Out / int_946f6c22 | type |
Stolen Credit Backfire | |
Not Going Out / int_946f6c22 | comment |
Stolen Credit Backfire: The 2017 Christmas Special, "The True Meaning Of Christmas" has Lucy and Lee take credit for the kids' trampoline Frank bought them after failing to get them a creditable gift, not wanting to look pathetic in front of Lucy's parents. After convincing Frank to play along, Toby and Ann come with the news that someone stole the trampoline they bought for their kids (Frank meekly reveals he actually bought his from a shady man from the pub). After a Never My Fault argument with Frank and a dismal attempt to cover up the trampoline, Lucy and Lee are left taking credit for stupidly buying their neighbours' stolen present. | |
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Not Going Out / int_946f6c22 | |
Not Going Out / int_973d220f | type |
Never My Fault | |
Not Going Out / int_973d220f | comment |
Never My Fault: A large amount of episodes, especially post-retool, devolve into escalating chaos simply because Lucy and Lee don't want to admit blame for an at-first-relatively-reasonable mistake. Generally Lucy is more willing to call out the absurdity of Lee's schemes and inability to admit his errors, though as Lee has often pointed out, she is sometimes just as willing to shirk responsibility or blame him for everything, even during times she is equally to blame. | |
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Not Going Out / int_97ee273 | type |
Momma's Boy | |
Not Going Out / int_97ee273 | comment |
Momma's Boy | |
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Not Going Out | hasFeature |
Not Going Out / int_97ee273 | |
Not Going Out / int_9dc2ee3d | type |
Ceiling Banger | |
Not Going Out / int_9dc2ee3d | comment |
Ceiling Banger: Lucy with a noisy neighbour. | |
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Not Going Out | hasFeature |
Not Going Out / int_9dc2ee3d | |
Not Going Out / int_9dd2cbc2 | type |
CloudCuckooLander | |
Not Going Out / int_9dd2cbc2 | comment |
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Daisy. | |
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Not Going Out / int_9dd2cbc2 | |
Not Going Out / int_9e447c8c | type |
Suspiciously Apropos Music | |
Not Going Out / int_9e447c8c | comment |
Suspiciously Apropos Music: The karaoke song Tim starts singing the same moment Debbie tells Lee she thinks he's her father. When Lee turns the radio on to drown out the sound of his dad getting a suppository it's "The Only Way is Up" by Yazz. | |
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Not Going Out | hasFeature |
Not Going Out / int_9e447c8c | |
Not Going Out / int_a0c38039 | type |
Refrigerator Ambush | |
Not Going Out / int_a0c38039 | comment |
Refrigerator Ambush: Neighbor | |
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Not Going Out / int_a0c38039 | |
Not Going Out / int_a41f13e5 | type |
Bad Job, Worse Uniform | |
Not Going Out / int_a41f13e5 | comment |
Bad Job, Worse Uniform: 'If there's two things I love it's handing out leaflets and looking like a nob! Who would have thought there'd be a way to combine both?' | |
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Not Going Out | hasFeature |
Not Going Out / int_a41f13e5 | |
Not Going Out / int_a4ef173d | type |
Preemptive "Shut Up" | |
Not Going Out / int_a4ef173d | comment |
Preemptive Shutup | |
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Not Going Out / int_a4ef173d | |
Not Going Out / int_a60e3252 | type |
Rule of Funny | |
Not Going Out / int_a60e3252 | comment |
Rule of Funny: In series 6, Tim's absence is Hand Waved within 10 seconds of the first episode as working in Germany, and it is never explained why his girlfriend continues to show up randomly at his sister's flat. | |
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Not Going Out / int_a60e3252 | |
Not Going Out / int_aa42306e | type |
Totally Radical | |
Not Going Out / int_aa42306e | comment |
Totally Radical: Parodied. Lee has found yet another dead-end job, so Kate asks him if he bothered to look at some career leaflets she got for him. He dismissively says that they're all aimed at kids, citing a slogan: "Do you want a career, innit?" Kate reads the leaflet; the slogan in question is actually "Do you want a career in IT?" | |
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Not Going Out / int_aa42306e | |
Not Going Out / int_ab89e132 | type |
Men Are Uncultured | |
Not Going Out / int_ab89e132 | comment |
Men Are Uncultured: Well, Lee is | |
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Not Going Out / int_ab89e132 | |
Not Going Out / int_ada72d66 | type |
Retroactive Wish | |
Not Going Out / int_ada72d66 | comment |
Retroactive Wish: | |
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Not Going Out / int_ada72d66 | |
Not Going Out / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
Not Going Out / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Everyone to an extent. | |
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Not Going Out / int_ae3d6438 | |
Not Going Out / int_b2283870 | type |
Retool | |
Not Going Out / int_b2283870 | comment |
Retool: The show underwent a massive retool in 2017, becoming a more traditional Dom Com about a married couple, their children, family, and friends. | |
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Not Going Out | hasFeature |
Not Going Out / int_b2283870 | |
Not Going Out / int_b41c411e | type |
Toilet Humour | |
Not Going Out / int_b41c411e | comment |
Toilet Humour: Used occasionally but hilariously such as when Lee and Tim are called upon to babysit Guy's grandson. | |
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Not Going Out / int_b41c411e | |
Not Going Out / int_b4a6fef1 | type |
Tough Room | |
Not Going Out / int_b4a6fef1 | comment |
Tough Crowd...: Both Tim and Lee. Lee even uses it as a catchphrase of sorts. | |
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Not Going Out | hasFeature |
Not Going Out / int_b4a6fef1 | |
Not Going Out / int_b5e62b91 | type |
Home Porn Movie | |
Not Going Out / int_b5e62b91 | comment |
Home Porn Movie: Lee and Lucy believe they've made one. | |
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1.0 | |
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Not Going Out | hasFeature |
Not Going Out / int_b5e62b91 | |
Not Going Out / int_b5f97c12 | type |
Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears | |
Not Going Out / int_b5f97c12 | comment |
Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Kate with the plush monkey | |
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Not Going Out | hasFeature |
Not Going Out / int_b5f97c12 | |
Not Going Out / int_b7403860 | type |
Enormous Engagement Ring | |
Not Going Out / int_b7403860 | comment |
Enormous Engagement Ring: Lucy is taken aback by the massive and expensive diamonds her slightly dodgy nightclub-owning boyfriend has given her as a sort of engagement gift. Her cynical and jealous flatmate Lee suggests this is all a scam to get otherwise chargeable jewellry through Customs for free as Lucy and her man are off on a dream holiday. | |
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Not Going Out / int_b7403860 | |
Not Going Out / int_bc00493f | type |
Precision F-Strike | |
Not Going Out / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: A couple through the series, including Lucy's "What the fuck is going on?" The most notable is Wendy's when Lee, Geoffrey, and Frank are missing right before Lee and Lucy's wedding. You'd never quite expect to hear the words "Or I'll have the fucking bollocks off the pair of them" from her. | |
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Not Going Out / int_bc00493f | |
Not Going Out / int_bc3cb7ff | type |
Clear My Name | |
Not Going Out / int_bc3cb7ff | comment |
Clear My Name: What Lee has to do when caught in the company of a prostitute (unknowingly) | |
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Not Going Out | hasFeature |
Not Going Out / int_bc3cb7ff | |
Not Going Out / int_bcb313b3 | type |
UnCancelled | |
Not Going Out / int_bcb313b3 | comment |
Un-Cancelled: After the third series. | |
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Prank Punishment | |
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Prank Punishment: In "Pregnant", Lucy announces that she is pregnant, much to the shock of Lee, who had ejaculated into her bathwater and now fears he is the father. When he reluctantly admits the deed to Lucy, she initially reacts with horror and tells him to Get Out!, then reveals that she knew about it the whole time, and the "pregnancy" was just a prank to get back at him for it. | |
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male | |
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Betty attacking Lee in "Fireworks". A slightly different take to usual, as Betty is elderly, frail and clearly has dementia. Averted with Miranda Hart's first appearance as an acupuncturist, which sees Lee attacking her as a background joke. | |
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Mistaken for Prostitute | |
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Mistaken for Prostitute: Mistaken for masseuse | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome:Barbara after Series 3(Due to the filming of Miranda Hart's sitcom) and Daisy between Series 7 and 8. And Tim when the show transitioned into a family sitcom | |
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Intentional Engrish for Funny | |
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Intentional Engrish for Funny | |
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It Runs in the Family | |
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It Runs in the Family: 'Who would have thought that an aptitude for scrounging was hereditary?' Lucy and Geoffrey have both threatened to wear Lee's testicles as earrings. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The cold opening to the episode "Life on Mars Bars" is a reconstruction of the opening to Life On Mars. In the latter series, a neighbour who becomes a friend of Lee is played by Hugh Dennis, who is an Outnumbered and somewhat put-upon husband and father who tries to take it all in his stride. | |
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Toxic Friend Influence | |
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Toxic Friend Influence: Tim accuses Lee of being this. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: Every episode except the Christmas specials and "Life on Mars Bars". | |
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Bad Omen Anecdote | |
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Bad Omen Anecdote: Tim recalls the plot of a slasher film when the four get lost in the woods on a camping trip. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: One recurring plot element involves Lee blundering into trouble and making things worse for himself in the end when his attempts to cover things up fall apart. | |
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Waxing Lyrical | |
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Waxing Lyrical: | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Lee and Tim. | |
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Awful Wedded Life | |
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Awful Wedded Life: Toby and Anna have a miserable marriage. Most of their onscreen time is spent lobbing potshots at the other. | |
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Think Unsexy Thoughts | |
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Think Unsexy Thoughts | |
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"Rear Window" Homage | |
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"Rear Window" Homage: In "Front Window", Lee has had a knee operation and is confined to the house, so he watches the going-ons of his neighborhood. Hilarity Ensues when he believes that one of the neighbors has killed one of the cats in the same neighbourhood. | |
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Pass the Popcorn | |
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Pass the Popcorn | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Daisy to hilarious extremes | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
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Whole-Plot Reference: The episode Life on Mars Bars is a half-hour reference to Life On Mars. | |
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Interrupted Intimacy | |
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Interrupted Intimacy: Lee pops up during an experimental moment between Lucy and Amy | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: When discussing Police falsely accusing people if they can't get them for a real crime, Frank mentions a break-in at an off-licence in 1974 along with what was stolen before catching himself. | |
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The Load | |
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The Load: Daisy is this in the finale of series 6. The entire episode centres on her, Lee, Lucy and Frank being trapped at sea. Almost everything that makes things worse is her fault. Of course, Daisy and Barbara tend to be this most of the time. | |
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Daddy DNA Test | |
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Daddy DNA Test: The plot of one series 4 episode, where a 20-year-old girl arrives claiming Lee might be her father... only for it to transpire that her mother slept with Tim in the same week. It turns out her real father is a third man from the party they were at, who had been the subject of a Running Gag throughout the episode. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Lee's way of remaining honest while engaging in duplicitous schemes | |
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Video Call Fail | |
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Video Call Fail: The punchline for the episode "Text", where Lee, who has become involved in a "Fawlty Towers" Plot involving a text message sent to the wrong person, accidentally strips off his pants trying to create a dick picture to Anna's virtual meeting. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: One episode saw Lee and Daisy participate in Pointless. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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IncrediblyLamePun | |
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Incredibly Lame Pun: At least once a minute. | |
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Innocent Innuendo | |
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Innocent Innuendo: When Lucy mentions she's planning to stay in with a bottle of wine and a "Chick Flick", Lee imagines it a completely different way. | |
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Dumbass Has a Point | |
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Dumbass Has a Point: In the 2017 Christmas Special, Lee and Lucy are furious to find out Frank carelessly brought the kids a trampoline from a dodgy man in a pub (who apparently stole Toby and Ann's gift for their kids), with Lee comparing him to a cuckoo. Frank of course is quick to snap back that the only reason they're embroiled in the problem in the first place is because they acted like cuckoos themselves and stole it from him in their own dimwitted scheme. | |
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Pungeon Master | |
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Pungeon Master: Lee more than anyone else. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Toby is one for Tim in some respects. Both are intelligent and well-off middle class Butt Monkeys who get dragged into Lee's schemes to their detriment. Though Toby is more self-assured and most of the humour comes from his being a Henpecked Husband rather than a lack of masculinity like Tim. Lucy for Kate in the sense that they were both leading female characters alongside Lee, they owned the flat and Lee was their lodger. Daisy came in just before Barbara left, and both were very quirky, comic-relief supporting characters, though Barbara was more of a physical klutz while Daisy was just a general simpleton. | |
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Strongly Worded Letter | |
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Strongly Worded Letter: Lucy leaves one for their psychotic neighbor against Lee's protests | |
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Verbal Backpedaling | |
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Verbal Backpedaling: Lee on childbirth- 'It can't be as bad as women go on about...women say... people say... stupid people!' | |
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Terrible Interviewees Montage | |
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Terrible Interviewees Montage: Lee's attempt at speed-dating. | |
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Joke Exhaustion | |
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Joke Exhaustion: If anyone tries to make a serious point to Lee Mack, his stock response is to return with a blizzard of obfuscating one-line jokes and wordplays. His co-star Tim Vine is a comedian renowned for his ability to create one-line non-sequeterial jokes practically instantaneously. | |
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"Friends" Rent Control | |
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"Friends" Rent Control: Lee is constantly between jobs and prefers hanging around the pub rather than doing any work, but is still able to afford a room in a very pricey section of London. | |
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My Sister Is Off-Limits | |
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My Sister Is Off-Limits | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: The episode "Coffin" focuses on Lee being buried alive. He is able to breathe perfectly fine after being nailed inside a coffin for over four hours and can still get mobile phone reception (albeit with the occassional interference). In the first case, Carbon Dioxide poisoning should have made breathing difficult after about three hours. In the second case, phone signals can be blocked by only a few inches of soil. One of the people facetiming him even Lampshedes this fact by asking what network he is using (Saying that the coverage is phenominal!). Another point is that Lee's friends and a priest are able to unearth coffins in barely a minute instead of half-an-hour to an hour. | |
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Will They or Won't They? | |
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Will They or Won't They?: From Series 2 onwards, this is at the core of the programme between Lee and Lucy. Finally, after seven years and some significant nudging from upstairs neighbours Toby and Anna, they do, getting a Relationship Upgrade. | |
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