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Porridge

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Porridge	label	Porridge
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Porridge	comment	Named after the slang for being imprisoned ("doing porridge"), Porridge is a prison comedy that aired on The BBC between 1973 and 1977 with three seasons, two Christmas specials and a film. It was written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who also wrote The Likely Lads and its sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.Set in the fictional Slade Prison, Porridge starred Ronnie Barker as Fletcher, a cynical and streetwise career criminal, and Richard Beckinsale as Godber, a naive first-time inmate. The plot centred around the prisoners' attempts to negotiate everyday life in prison and make it more bearable with "little victories" over the guards (primarily the stern Mr Mackay (Fulton Mackay) and the soft Mr Barrowclough (Brian Wilde)), avoid trouble with the Prison Governor (who thinks he runs the place) and avoid the wrath of Harry Grout (Peter Vaughan) (an East End gang boss who really does).For reference and interest, the prisoners and their crimes are: Fletcher (Barker) - Probably breaking and entering, although a speech that may have been a joke claims it was the theft of a lorry (five years). Godber (Beckinsale) - Breaking and entering (two years). Blanco (David Jason) - Wrongly convicted of murdering his wife, although in the episode "Pardon Me" he claimed he did kill his wife's lover, a crime for which he was not convicted (life sentence, tariff 16 years or less, had served 17 years by the time he was pardoned and released). "Genial" Harry Grout (Vaughan) - Crime and sentence unknown but required extradition from Italy. Heslop (Brian Glover) - Robbery (three years). McClaren (Tony Osoba) - Crime unknown (three years). Harris (Ronald Lacey) - Mugged an old lady but it went wrong when he found she had a brick in her handbag and successfully pinned Harris down (sentence unknown). Rawley (Maurice Denham) - Three charges: "Party to criminal conspiracy, forgery of legal documents under the Forgery Act of 1913 - 1948, and accepting an illicit payment as an officer of the crown" (three years, quashed at appeal. The judge who sent Fletcher down). "Lukewarm" (Christopher Biggins) - Crime and sentence unknown but shown to be able to steal a man's watch off his wrist with a handshake. Bernard "Horrible" Ives (Ken Jones) - Fraud (sentence unknown). Universally loathed.Came seventh in Britains Best Sitcom. The sequel, Going Straight, depicting Fletcher's life after his release, was also popular (though less so) and won a BAFTA but was limited to one series by actor Richard Beckinsale's very untimely death. In 2003, a Mockumentary, Norman Stanley Fletcher: Life Beyond The Box, gave a complete history of Fletch's life before and after the series, ending with him running a pub in Muswell Hill. This was Ronnie Barker's final TV appearance.Inspired a short-lived American TV sitcom, On The Rocks. In 2016, a one-off special, simply titled Porridge, starred Kevin Bishop as Fletcher's grandson Nigel, who finds himself in prison for computer hacking and has similarly savvy gifts as his grandfather. A six-episode series followed in 2017.
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Porridge / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
Porridge / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Warder Mr Beale and cons Oakes and Rudge only appear in the movie.
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Porridge / int_14bfa98	type	Freeze-Frame Ending
Porridge / int_14bfa98	comment	Freeze-Frame Ending: Each episode played the closing credits over a still of the final shot. Only the 1975 Christmas special added a brief continuation.
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Porridge / int_16ccd84b	type	The Old Convict
Porridge / int_16ccd84b	comment	Joe Lotterby, compared to Leonard Godber, who was young, idealistic and naive, having never been to prison before. Lotterby is a cynical (but cheerful and harmless) The Old Convict, who knows several tricks about being imprisoned, but is still quite Book Dumb, especially compared to the more academically interested Godber.
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Porridge / int_171e14be	type	London Gangster
Porridge / int_171e14be	comment	Whilst never seen, "Inky" Stevens, described by Harry Grout as "the finest forger in the country", is serving a term in Slade prison. He's so good that when Grouty needs to arrange an inmate's escape, he has a blank passport smuggled into Slade for Stevens to forge, rather than trust his contacts on the outside.
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Porridge / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Porridge / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Blanco is friendly, cheerful and in many ways a cunning man. He used his prison allotment to secretly make alcohol and he is quite well liked by most of the inmates.
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Porridge / int_1849f58e	type	Comedic Work, Serious Scene
Porridge / int_1849f58e	comment	Comedic Work, Serious Scene: Godber gets into an argument with another prisoner and intends to fight him. Fletcher is dead set against it as it will put time on his sentence. And we realise despite his flippancy Fletcher regrets the life choices he has made and doesn't want Godber to repeat them.
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Porridge / int_18d420b0	type	Lovable Coward
Porridge / int_18d420b0	comment	Lovable Coward: Mr. Barrowclough is much more timid than Mr. Mackay, and lets his fear slip out during situations he believes to be tense. He is noticeably worried when Mackay leaves him alone to supervise the prison work party, and he spends his entire encounter with the unstable Reg Urwin trembling. However, he is such a nice and friendly guy that it's hard to dislike him.
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Porridge / int_19384952	type	Master Forger
Porridge / int_19384952	comment	Master Forger: Whilst never seen, "Inky" Stevens, described by Harry Grout as "the finest forger in the country", is serving a term in Slade prison. He's so good that when Grouty needs to arrange an inmate's escape, he has a blank passport smuggled into Slade for Stevens to forge, rather than trust his contacts on the outside. Fletcher can forge Barrowclough's signature so well that even Barrowclough is fooled by it.
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Porridge / int_1bf94a24	type	The Movie
Porridge / int_1bf94a24	comment	The Movie: AKA Doing Time in the U.S. Made in 1979, featuring the same cast and writers but with no BBC involvement. Not as well-received as the series, though not as bad as some TV spin-offs. This was Richard Beckinsale's last performance before his untimely death.
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Porridge / int_1c5599e4	type	Reformed, but Rejected
Porridge / int_1c5599e4	comment	Reformed, but Rejected: Fletcher is sincere in his efforts to "go straight", but no one really believes him. Additionally, as a middle-aged ex-convict, he is doomed to a life of low-paid menial work and finds the temptation to commit another crime pervasive. Ultimately averted as at the end of Going Straight, he rejects an offer to take part in a robbery. According to Norman Stanley Fletcher: Life Beyond the Box, he stayed out of prison thereafter and ended up running a pub with his childhood sweetheart, before earning a Â£250,000 reward for helping the police recover some stolen jewellery.
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Porridge / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
Porridge / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Grouty listens to opera and has expensive tastes in food and clothes.
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Porridge / int_1d54d960	type	Disregard That Statement
Porridge / int_1d54d960	comment	Disregard That Statement: In "Rough Justice" former judge Stephen Rawley keeps saying this in his futile attempt to stop the ad hoc trial of Harris being a Kangaroo Court. No-one pays any attention.
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Porridge / int_20016429	type	Experienced Protagonist
Porridge / int_20016429	comment	Nigel Fletcher, compared to his grandfather Norman Fletcher. While inheriting his quick wit and a good portion of his savvy, Nigel is young and still learning about being incarcerated, compared to his grandfather (a habitual criminal and Experienced Protagonist). Likewise, unlike his grandfather (who was Book Dumb but very Street Smart and a cunning manipulator), Nigel is highly intelligent, being an accomplished cybercriminal, managing to build a device to remotely hack into the system from inside his cell and even quoting The Other Wiki from memory. He is nevertheless a fast learner though.
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Porridge / int_20b5cce7	type	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune
Porridge / int_20b5cce7	comment	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Performed by Fletch himself, Ronnie Barker.
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Porridge / int_20c11a5c	type	Second Episode Introduction
Porridge / int_20c11a5c	comment	Second Episode Introduction: Godber, and all other prisoners except Fletcher himself, do not appear in the pilot.
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Porridge / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
Porridge / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: As nice as Blanco is, there is still the fact his wife's lover killed her, he killed the lover and then he got sent down for the murder of his wife.
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Porridge / int_23330a99	type	Immediate Self-Contradiction
Porridge / int_23330a99	comment	Immediate Self-Contradiction: In "Pardon Me":
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Porridge / int_2562da69	type	Great Escape
Porridge / int_2562da69	comment	Great Escape: "No Way Out" centres around an attempt by an inmate to tunnel out of the prison. The movie features a more successful escape that includes an unwilling Fletcher and Godber, who then have to break back in to Slade.
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Porridge / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Porridge / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Nigel Norman Fletcher, or Fletch, as he prefers to be called, has similarly savvy gifts as his grandfather for gaming the prison system to make life a little easier for him and his fellow inmates. He even manages to give the V-sign to Meekie, just like his granddad did with Mackay.
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Porridge / int_2a2d62a0	type	Talking Down the Suicidal
Porridge / int_2a2d62a0	comment	Talking Down the Suicidal: When a suicidal prisoner climbs on to the prison roof, threatening to jump, Fletcher is asked to talk him down. Fletcher says that it is no good asking McKay to do this, as McKay loathes all prisoners, and would simply tell him to jump.
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Porridge / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Porridge / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Amongst the Prison guards, Mackay holds this reputation, as he is easily the harshest and toughest of them all. Harry Grout is feared throughout the prison, simply because everyone knows displeasing him will end with him sending one of his many heavies after you, or worse. Even Fletcher is terrified of him. Mr Wainwright, Mackay's temporary replacement, also has this reputation.
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Porridge / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
Porridge / int_2be271c7	comment	Hollywood Hacking: Fletch is a gifted computer hacker convicted of cyberfraud. Naturally, his reputation precedes him and he's forced into employing his valuable skills into cleaning up Weeksy's record so he can be paroled early. Officer Braithwaite regularly asks him for computer advice and even the prison governor comes to him when the prison's systems go berserk courtesy of Fletch accessing Meekie's computer and triggering the fire alarms through it because the system is still being run in Windows XP.
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Porridge / int_2f1bd3e7	type	Prisoner's Work
Porridge / int_2f1bd3e7	comment	Prisoner's Work: In "A Day Out", Fletcher and Godber are part of a small work party digging ditches outside the prison (though to Mr Mackay's chagrin, it's not actually a chain gang). In another episode, they have to make fishing nets.
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Porridge / int_2fd62e54	type	The Killer in Me
Porridge / int_2fd62e54	comment	The Killer in Me: Blanco is in prison for murdering his wife years ago but repeatedly protests his innocence. After eventually being granted a full pardon, he reveals he knows exactly what happened to the actual murderer: Blanco killed him before being arrested for the wrong murder.
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Porridge / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
Porridge / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: Fletch's middle name is Norman, after his grandfather.
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Porridge / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Porridge / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Jock McLaren (though he's more of a scary Scot who happens to be black).
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Porridge / int_30a52f16	type	Shadow Government
Porridge / int_30a52f16	comment	Shadow Government: Played with in The Movie. In Slade Prison, the experienced prisoner Fletcher casually comments that the prison is not run by the Governor, but by the gangster criminal Harry Grout, who has hardened allies and minions throughout the prison, and always gets his own way.
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Porridge / int_31578d72	type	Hates Everyone Equally
Porridge / int_31578d72	comment	Hates Everyone Equally: Mackay: And his (temporary) successor, Mr Wainwright:
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Porridge / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
Porridge / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: Quite literally.
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Porridge / int_34960f22	type	Vapor Wear
Porridge / int_34960f22	comment	Vapor Wear: Played for Laughs in "Heartbreak Hotel". When Fletcher's daughter, Ingrid, pays him a visit (in the open-plan visiting room), he is outraged that she's not wearing a bra and all the other prisoners can see it. Next time she visits, she puts a bra on, and just to make sure he knows it, she lifts up her t-shirt to demonstrate.
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Porridge / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
Porridge / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: At 6ft 3, Barrowclough is the tallest prison officer, and easily towers over the rest of the cast. Nevertheless he is an all-around gentle and friendly man.
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Porridge / int_375b6a06	type	That Was Objectionable
Porridge / int_375b6a06	comment	That Was Objectionable: In "Rough Justice", Stephen Rawley (a judge convicted of corruption) finds his watch has gone missing, and Fletcher decides Harris stole it, and arranges a trial with himself prosecuting, Warren defending and —Rawley (against his better judgement) on the bench. It starts well:
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Porridge / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Porridge / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Fletcher once wrote to his wife from prison, advising her to start growing vegetables and to dig up the garden as soon as possible. The next day a dozen policemen showed up at Fletch's house with shovels.
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Porridge / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Porridge / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Mackay's suspicions about the inmates are so extreme, that he canâ€™'t watch a man tie his shoes without suspecting he's hiding something in his sock. However, when it comes to Fletcher, he's nearly always right.
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Porridge / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Porridge / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: The hotelier who gives Fletch a job has never regretted giving prisoners a second chance "except on... two unfortunate occasions".
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Porridge / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Porridge / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Fletcher is something of a master at manipulation, adapting his tactics depending on his target. He plays on Mr Barrowclough's gentle nature and sympathy towards the inmates to get him to agree to things he shouldn't, such as letting him run off to town while out on a workday on a supposed mercy mission, when instead he sneaks off to the pub, or getting him extra blankets for his cell. With the Governor, he uses charm, and carefully pays attention to every piece of information he finds out about him. He finds him the perfect sized book to fix his wobbly cabinet, distracting him long enough to steal several items off his desk. When it comes to the other inmates, Fletcher just convincingly lies, knowing most of them are too stupid to realize until it's too late. For example, he convinces Ives that Little Women is an erotic classic about a tribe of sex-starved female pygmies in Malaysia, so Ives eagerly pays to borrow the book.
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Porridge / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Porridge / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Fletcher and Mackay, make no mistake both of them will never miss a chance to get one over on or humiliate the other, but there is a clear unspoken level of respect between the two. It says something that when they meet up after Fletcher is released, while starting off hostile they are soon cheerfully drinking together and reminiscing about their past. They even part on mostly friendly terms.
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Porridge / int_4764ce3a	type	Military Moonshiner
Porridge / int_4764ce3a	comment	Military Moonshiner: Not military, but still a strictly regimented, all-male institution. "The Desperate Hours" features one of the prisoners distilling hooch in one of the shower blocks. Served in a disinfectant bottle, its taste causes Fletch to comment that they should have taken the disinfectant out first.
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Porridge / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Porridge / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Fletch is a morally bankrupt career criminal who's prone to being demanding, manipulative, and rude, and views his own arrest and imprisonment as an occupational hazard in a career of housebreaking, but he takes first-timer Godber under his wing and gives him useful advice to get him through his two-year sentence, and while he does admit to having been unfaithful to his wife at one point, he does seem to care about his family.
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Porridge / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
Porridge / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: Fletch easily bonds with his new elderly cellmate Lotterby, especially since he knew his grandfather. He then reveals to Lotterby that while he was snooping in the prison records, he gave him an Age Lift so that he'll be released three years sooner.
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Porridge / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Porridge / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Ives often suffers from this, for example getting badly stung by a rare insect while out on a working party, and he almost always brings it on himself. Generally Harris' unpleasant deeds come back to bite him. He was even arrested when he tried to mug a little old lady, only for it to turn out she had a brick in her handbag.
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Porridge / int_4c506837	type	The Snack Is More Interesting
Porridge / int_4c506837	comment	The Snack Is More Interesting: Hilariously played with at the end of The Movie episode. After Fletcher and Godber have managed to sneak back into prison after accidentally escaping, McKay tells them he does not believe their alibi at all, mentioning that a farmer saw two thieves running from his apple store. Just as McKay tells them that he'll prove it one day, Fletcher and Godber glance at each other, and simultaneously bite into their stolen apples.
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Porridge / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
Porridge / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: In the event anything physical needs to be done, such as dragging Harris to a mock trial or starting a riot, it always falls to McLaren to do it. Not that he complains. There's also Crusher, the huge inmate who serves as Grouty's enforcer.
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Porridge / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Porridge / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Grouty mentions an inmate who put four prison guards in hospital because someone knocked over his jigsaw puzzle.
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Porridge / int_517d2eb8	type	Contrasting Sequel Main Character
Porridge / int_517d2eb8	comment	Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Nigel Fletcher, compared to his grandfather Norman Fletcher. While inheriting his quick wit and a good portion of his savvy, Nigel is young and still learning about being incarcerated, compared to his grandfather (a habitual criminal and Experienced Protagonist). Likewise, unlike his grandfather (who was Book Dumb but very Street Smart and a cunning manipulator), Nigel is highly intelligent, being an accomplished cybercriminal, managing to build a device to remotely hack into the system from inside his cell and even quoting The Other Wiki from memory. He is nevertheless a fast learner though. Joe Lotterby, compared to Leonard Godber, who was young, idealistic and naive, having never been to prison before. Lotterby is a cynical (but cheerful and harmless) The Old Convict, who knows several tricks about being imprisoned, but is still quite Book Dumb, especially compared to the more academically interested Godber.
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Porridge / int_51ac2a10	type	Double Knockout
Porridge / int_51ac2a10	comment	Double Knockout: During their boxing match, Godber and Nesbitt knock each other out with the first punch, having both been intimidated to lose. It works out well for Fletcher, though, as he was the only person in the prison to bet on a draw.
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Porridge / int_535156bc	type	Christmas Special
Porridge / int_535156bc	comment	Christmas Special: Two of 'em: In 1975's "No Way Out", a planned escape causes all kinds of trouble just before Christmas, and Fletch attempts to spend some valuable time in the infirmary. In 1976's "The Desperate Hours", Fletcher, Godber, Barrowclough and the governor's secretary are held hostage by a mad prisoner with a homemade gun attempting to escape.
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Porridge / int_53830d	type	The Internet Is for Porn
Porridge / int_53830d	comment	The Internet Is for Porn: While working the graveyard shift, Braithwaite is about to click on a pinup site when Fletch triggers the fire alarms from Meekie's computer.
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Porridge / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
Porridge / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: Fletcher is adept at this:
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Porridge	hasFeature	Porridge / int_54367e5d
Porridge / int_55ccbea5	type	Mystery Meat
Porridge / int_55ccbea5	comment	Mystery Meat: In the feature-length episode, the prison food is sometimes unknown, coming from a tin which says "tinned meat". This also happens with a tin labelled "fruit pie filling". Fletcher also queries the turkey served at Christmas.
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Porridge / int_55f4dd10	type	What Are You in For?
Porridge / int_55f4dd10	comment	What Are You in For?: Everyone knows that Fletch is a hacker and that he's banned from all electronics. Another inmate, Aziz, says that he stole more money than all the other inmates at Wakeley combined. Shel was convicted of drug possession, despite him claiming that he bought the drugs for his wife. He does sleep through the fire alarms because he smoked some very strong weed. Lotterby is convicted for involuntary manslaughter, for accidentally backing his gang's heist van into another member. Weeksy is a member of a Manchester crime family, and is impressed that the clan is notorious enough to have a page on The Other Wiki.
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Porridge / int_56f083a1	type	Likes Older Women
Porridge / int_56f083a1	comment	Likes Older Women: While Godber's main relationships are with young women, in "The Desperate Hours," he talks about liking mature women when admiring the governor's middle-aged secretary. He also talks at length about his crush on his Auntie Pauline.
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Porridge / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Porridge / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: In "Rough Justice" Fletch puts Harris on trial for stealing from his fellow inmates. While the judge (an actual judge, convicted of corruption) tries to maintain some degree of fairness, he's hampered by everyone else's disregard for proper procedure and firm conviction that Harris must be guilty because he's Harris. (Including the defence counsel.) It turns out they're right, and he returns the watch when MacLaren threatens to "extract" a confession.
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Porridge / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Porridge / int_6116ca8d	comment	Hellhole Prison: Averted here. As prisons go, Slade isn't that bad.
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Porridge / int_6159beb1	type	It Tastes Like Feet
Porridge / int_6159beb1	comment	It Tastes Like Feet: Fletcher often describes Godber's cooking in these terms. Fletcher and Godber's prison moonshine, stored in a disinfectant bottle, has this effect on Warren, McClaren and Tulip.
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Porridge / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
Porridge / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: In "A Day Out":
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Porridge / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Porridge / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: "A Night In" may be the ultimate example. It consists almost entirely of two men talking in a darkened room.
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Porridge	hasFeature	Porridge / int_62907b90
Porridge / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Porridge / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Mackay, who was a sergeant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders regiment, before he was a prison officer. He likewise still acts like he is.
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Porridge / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Porridge / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: McLaren still has his. The end credits mention that he is currently suspended from the Scottish parliament for nutting a Labour member during a debate.
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Porridge / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Porridge / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: 21 episodes. The show came to an end at theheight of its popularity, at Ronnie Barker's request.
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Porridge / int_678a72a9	type	And a Diet Coke
Porridge / int_678a72a9	comment	And a Diet Coke: Fletcher is offered cocoa, which he accepts, and then sugar. He refuses the biscuits, citing watching his weight, as he dumps at least four heaping spoonfuls of sugar in his already-sweet cocoa.
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Porridge / int_67edaf78	type	Gargle Blaster
Porridge / int_67edaf78	comment	Gargle Blaster: Fletcher and Godber's prison moonshine in "The Desperate Hours":
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Porridge / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
Porridge / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: Harry Grout. Peter Vaughan was told not to play it like he was in a comedy. Whenever he appears the threats hanging over Fletcher's head get a lot more serious and the show dips into more Black Comedy.
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Porridge / int_6eb1268c	type	Extreme Omnivore
Porridge / int_6eb1268c	comment	Extreme Omnivore: Evans, one of Fletcher's early cellmates, likes to eat light bulbs and even eats Fletcher's shaving mirror.
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Porridge / int_6ff7c60e	type	Queer People Are Funny
Porridge / int_6ff7c60e	comment	Queer People Are Funny: Done occasionally with Lukewarm. For example, when Fletcher has composed letters to a number of prisoners' wives, he hands them back to the men, "To Mary, my dear Sharon, (handing letter to Lukewarm) my darling Trevor..." (Huge audience laugh.) Later in the same episode, the wives are seen on the bus comparing their suspiciously identical letters and there is another huge laugh when the camera shows a man reading another such letter.
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Porridge / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
Porridge / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: In "A Storm in a Teacup", when a bottle of pills is found in Fletcher and Godber's cell, they engage in a brief round of Stereo Fibbing around "indigestion" and "nerves" before finally settling on the pills being for Fletch's "nervous indigestion. And sometimes vice versa."
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Porridge / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Porridge / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Fletcher claims that Harris is in prison for attempting to mug an old lady, but unfortunately for Harris she had a brick in her handbag and kept him pinned down until the police arrived.
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Porridge / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Porridge / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: There are many hints that Mr Barrowclough is one of these.
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Porridge / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
Porridge / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: Reg Urwin reveals that while stealing in a supermarket, he decided to commit suicide and charged the glass doors. However, the doors were automatic and opened before he hit them, so instead he just crashed into a policeman, who arrested him for attempted theft.
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Porridge / int_75588c15	type	Transatlantic Equivalent
Porridge / int_75588c15	comment	Transatlantic Equivalent: ABC's short lived On The Rocks.
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Porridge / int_758c3034	type	Prison Rape
Porridge / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: Averted. While sexual tensions and possible assaults are touched upon, they are not dwelt upon, and the main homosexual character, Lukewarm, is a harmless Pet Homosexual. Prison Rape is much rarer in the UK penal system â€” that's not to say it doesn't happen, but there's a lot less of it about. This is at least partially because the gang culture in UK prisons is less pronounced.
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Porridge / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Porridge / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Mr Kirby, only seen in the first episode, but Fletcher speaks as if he's known him throughout his stay.
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Porridge / int_7ac5c1de	type	Unishment
Porridge / int_7ac5c1de	comment	Unishment: Fletcher spends "No Peace for the Wicked" just wanting some peace and quiet alone in his cell but being constantly bothered by visitors, including other prisoners, warders and a fact-finding team from the Home Office. When the prison chaplain comes to see him he finally snaps and attacks him. He is brought before the prison Governor... who punishes him with three days' solitary confinement, causing Fletcher to ask if it can be extended to a fortnight.
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Porridge / int_7b228c31	type	"L" Is for "Dyslexia"
Porridge / int_7b228c31	comment	"L" Is for "Dyslexia": "Bunny" Warren is severely dyslexic, and indeed illiterate. He blames his condition for his incarceration.
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Porridge / int_7d1ee5b2	type	Trojan Horse
Porridge / int_7d1ee5b2	comment	Trojan Horse: In the film episode, Fletcher and Godber unwillingly escape from the prison, having been caught up in Oakes's escape plot. They are made to hide in the luggage compartment of the bus belonging to a visiting football team. Later, they use the same method to break back into the prison. Godber even comments on how this is like a Trojan horse.
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Porridge / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
Porridge / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: See the top of the page.
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Porridge / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
Porridge / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: Harry Grout only appears in three episodes (and the movie), but became one of the show's most memorable characters.
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Porridge / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Porridge / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Fletch's reaction to having to share his cell with Joe Lotterby.
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Porridge / int_835cd59b	type	No Theme Tune
Porridge / int_835cd59b	comment	No Theme Tune: The opening is the top-of-the-page quote (voiced by Ronnie Barker as the judge) over a locking-the-prisoners-up montage. There is a closing theme tune though.
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Porridge / int_84df9a79	type	Second-Face Smoke
Porridge / int_84df9a79	comment	Second-Face Smoke: Grouty blows cigar smoke in Fletcher's face, during a meeting with him, in the film episode. Fletcher responds by coughing.
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Porridge / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Porridge / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Heslop, Fletcher's original cellmate, disappears after the first series. Evans, another of Fletcher's early cellmates, also disappears after a few episodes.
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Porridge / int_8b2e9310	type	Ordered to Cheat
Porridge / int_8b2e9310	comment	Ordered to Cheat: In "The Harder They Fall", Fletcher is forced to tell Godber that Grouty wants him to take a dive in the fifth round of the prison boxing championship. Godber says he can't do it; before proving he has become more prison-smart by revealing that's because he's already promised a rival gangster to go down in the third.
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Porridge / int_8b6e817e	type	Fake Charity
Porridge / int_8b6e817e	comment	Fake Charity: "Horrible" Ives, the most despicable and untrustworthy character in Slade Prison, is now supposedly collecting for "Help The Blind Doggies".
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Porridge / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Porridge / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Urwin's escape plan. As Fletcher points out, there is very little chance his demand for a "copter and ten grand in used notes" will be granted, and nor will he end up in Acapulco.
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Porridge / int_946f6c22	type	Stolen Credit Backfire
Porridge / int_946f6c22	comment	Stolen Credit Backfire: In the movie, everyone gladly takes the praise for thinking up the inmate/celebrity football match, but quickly pass the buck when they realise it has resulted in a breakout.
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Porridge / int_959f08aa	type	Vetinari Job Security
Porridge / int_959f08aa	comment	Vetinari Job Security: When Mr Mackay is promoted, a stricter and crueler screw from a prison Fletcher was in earlier in his life replaces him and bullies both the criminals and Mr Barrowclough. The prisoners get rid of him by orchestrating an achievement for Mr Barrowclough and welcome back Mackay with a rendition of "For he's a jolly good fellow".
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Porridge / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Porridge / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Genial Harry Grout, a high up London Crime boss. He is always charming, polite and never even raises his voice. If you do a job especially well for him, he'll pay back the favour and if he's in a good mood, he might even be willing to bribe others. But fail him, anger him or just simply annoy him and he'll have one of his many heavies break your arms or beat you to blood.
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Porridge / int_96cc4848	type	"Dear John" Letter
Porridge / int_96cc4848	comment	"Dear John" Letter: The storyline of "Heartbreak Hotel" is Godber getting a letter from his girlfriend Denise.
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Porridge / int_973291cd	type	Pardon My Klingon
Porridge / int_973291cd	comment	Pardon My Klingon: "Naff". Fletcher has also referred to Warden Mackay as a "charmless Celtic nerk" at least once.
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Porridge / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Porridge / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Played With in "Pardon Me", with Barrowclough informing the prison governor of a way they can get out of a huge media event over one of the prisoners' proposed hunger strike. Instead, they can simply pardon said prisoner (his goal). Barrowclough prefaces every statement about the Penal Code with "As I'm sure you know...", but only out of politeness; it's patently obvious that the prison governor does not know:
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Porridge / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
Porridge / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Both Fletcher (cynical old timer) and Godber (naive young criminal), and Mackay (strict and nasty as they come) and Barrowclough (soft as ice cream in a Californian heatwave.)
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Porridge / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Porridge / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: Fletcher's plan to get moved to a single cell involves: 1, Ives betting him that he won't be able to set up an illegal betting game without being caught. 2, Ives informing on him to the guards. 3, The guards catching them while the game is in progress. 4, The prison governor deciding that Fletcher is a bad influence on his cellmates and moving him to a single cell. It works.
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Porridge / int_98f22e5f	type	Wardens Are Evil
Porridge / int_98f22e5f	comment	Wardens Are Evil: Averted. Barrowclaugh is a all around genial, cheerful and friendly man, who firmly believes in treating the prisoners correctly and rehabilitation. While the inmates aren't above taking advantage of his occasional naivete he nevertheless strikes up a reasonably friendly relationship with Fletcher.
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Porridge / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
Porridge / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: Fletcher has a habit of looking to the ceiling when someone enters his cell. Mr Mackay's neck twitch and very lopsided smile. He also clicks his heels before marching off.
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Porridge / int_9d3f4777	type	My Nayme Is
Porridge / int_9d3f4777	comment	My Nayme Is: Reg Urwin repeatedly mentions that his surname is spelt with a "U". Justified, as the homophonous name Irwin is much more common so Reg has probably spent his whole life doing this.
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Porridge / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Porridge / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Ingrid and Godber are still married, and he made the arrangements for Fletcher to run a "real pub, you know for geezers".
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Porridge / int_9eac471e	type	False Teeth Tomfoolery
Porridge / int_9eac471e	comment	False Teeth Tomfoolery: In the movie, McKay's false teeth fall into a vat of curry. Fletcher seizes them and frightens Godber with them. McKay sends Mr Barrowclough to bargain with Fletcher to get them back.
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Porridge / int_9f46ebc4	type	Just Got Out of Jail
Porridge / int_9f46ebc4	comment	Just Got Out of Jail: Fletcher is released from Slade in the first episode. He spends the rest of the series trying to adjust to life on the outside and avoid going back to prison.
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Porridge / int_a18042f1	type	Left the Background Music On
Porridge / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: As Fletcher finally steels himself to start an honest job for the first time in his life, the suitably dramatic overture to The Yeomen of the Guard accompanies his determined walk to his new workplace. Cut to the workplace in question, where the radio is playing the same piece.
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Porridge / int_a3509d95	type	The Password Is Always "Swordfish"
Porridge / int_a3509d95	comment	The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Governor Hallwood's password is Porridge. The look on her face when Fletch realizes it indicates that she's a bit embarrassed by this.
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Porridge / int_a55b762	type	Neverending Terror
Porridge / int_a55b762	comment	Neverending Terror: In the movie, Fletcher explains that escaping from prison is not glamorous at all, because of the constant fear of being discovered, which is why he has not tried to escape himself.
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Porridge / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Porridge / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Peter Stringfellow and Melvyn Bragg appear as themselves.
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Porridge / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Porridge / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: Averted. Fletch is sentenced to five years; as the original series ran for four, the sequel Going Straight focuses on Fletch's release back into society.
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Porridge / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Porridge / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: All the episodes begin "Going..."
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Porridge / int_ac69035c	type	Master Poisoner
Porridge / int_ac69035c	comment	Master Poisoner: Riggs, who now works in the prison kitchens.
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Porridge / int_ae2ae3	type	I Won't Say I'm Guilty
Porridge / int_ae2ae3	comment	I Won't Say I'm Guilty: A variation: Long-time convict Blanco is granted parole but bitterly refuses to accept it, insisting that he was wrongly convicted all along and wants a pardon instead.
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Porridge / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Porridge / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Fletcher reveals he once broke into his son's school the night before an exam, stole the exam papers, and went through all the questions with him. Turns out he wasted his time though, as "he still didn't bleedin' pass!"
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Porridge / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Porridge / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming:
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Porridge / int_af70c7b0	type	Prison
Porridge / int_af70c7b0	comment	Prison: The setting, though unlike most examples it's a comedy, so there's very little violence or focus on the more dangerous inmates. Instead the focus is on more average people dealing with being imprisoned, and winning the occasional little victory.
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Porridge / int_b0c4bf9b	type	Luxury Prison Suite
Porridge / int_b0c4bf9b	comment	Luxury Prison Suite: Wakeley Prison is a high tech 21st century minimum security prison, with foosball and pool tables in the common area, a clean gym, and televisions in the cells. The cells slightly resemble dorm rooms with a bunk bed, table, some shelves and a bulletin board. Officer Meekie is suspicious as to how Fletch managed to get himself a single cell within a month of arriving at Wakeley. In exchange for fixing Wakeley's computer systems, Governor Hallwood has Braithwaite install a new television in Fletch's cell. Aziz is seen listening to an mp3 player while eating breakfast with Shel and Fletch.
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Porridge / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
Porridge / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: Reg Urwin from the Christmas Special "Desperate Hours". He takes Fletcher, Godber, Mr Barrowclough and the Governor's secretary hostage and threatens to kill them. However, he turns out to be quite a pathetic figure with psychiatric issues, for which he never received treatment despite being repeatedly recommended. After Fletcher disarms Reg, he and Godber even decide to Throw the Dog a Bone and let him surrender on his own terms rather than take credit for stopping him.
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Porridge / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Porridge / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Football hooligan Jarvis, who tells a derogatory, sexual joke to prison heavy Crusher about the latter's wife. Needless to say, Crusher is not amused and reacts violently.
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Porridge / int_b5b4b485	type	The Bet
Porridge / int_b5b4b485	comment	The Bet: In "The Hustler", Fletcher bets Ives that he can run an illegal gambling game without being caught. Ives, of course, snitches on them and wins the bet. But it turns out Fletcher had also bet the entire wing that he'd get moved to a single cell by Monday, and gets his wish when the governor decides that his gambling activities make him a bad influence on his cellmates, while Ives is left to face the usual treatment that prisoners dish out to snitches.
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Porridge / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
Porridge / int_b6ec7566	comment	Twofer Token Minority: McLaren, a man with anger management issues, is both Scottish and black. He is universally known among inmates as Black Jock.
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Porridge / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Porridge / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Fletcher lectures Godber for making personal remarks about other people: Fletcher steals McLaren's orange in "Ways and Means", then is outraged when he thinks a fellow prisoner has stolen his pineapple chunks in "Just Desserts". He even steals Warren's polos whilst hectoring the others about it. There is also the fact that Fletcher himself stole the pineapple chunks from the prison kitchen. He is equally indignant when he discovers that it was actually Barrowclough who took them back during a random sweep of his cell. Fletcher is also outraged when he discovers why he can't persuade Godber to lose his upcoming boxing match (he has already been persuaded by someone else).
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Porridge / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Porridge / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Featuring McLaren, Warren, Lukewarm, Ives, Grouty and (right at the end) Fletcher himself.
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Porridge / int_b7c312ff	type	Cacophony Cover-Up
Porridge / int_b7c312ff	comment	Cacophony Cover Up: When Harry Grout is forced into organizing the digging of an escape tunnel for another prisoner, the noise of the tunneling is covered up by a choir singing Christmas carols.
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Porridge / int_b7cc315d	type	Sparse List of Rules
Porridge / int_b7cc315d	comment	Sparse List of Rules: According to Mackay, there are only two rules in Slade Prison. The first is that you do not write on the walls. The second is that you obey all the rules.
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Porridge / int_baee5ffa	type	Circular Reasoning
Porridge / int_baee5ffa	comment	Circular Reasoning: In "Rough Justice", Judge Stephen Rawley, convicted of corruption, gets out on appeal. Fletcher notes that Mackay is now calling him Mister Rawley (he only refers to prisoners by their surname).
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Porridge / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
Porridge / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: In "Disturbing the Peace", Mackay is sent away, only to be replaced by the sadistic Napper Wainwright.
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Porridge / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Porridge / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Fletcher mostly means well, and isnâ€™t truly a bad man at heart. However, he is a shameless thief and habitual criminal.
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Porridge / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
Porridge / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Barrowclough and Mackay, respectively. The former is more sympathetic and believes in rehabilitating the prisoners whilst the latter is far stricter and prefers to hand out punishments.
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Porridge / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Porridge / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: In "Pardon Me", Fletcher forms CROW, the Campaign for the Release of Old Webb. They were going to call it the the Campaign for the Release And Pardon of Old Webb, but...
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Porridge / int_c3943bf3	type	Pilot
Porridge / int_c3943bf3	comment	Pilot: Porridge was one of seven pilot episodes commissioned by the BBC as a star vehicle for Ronnie Barker. Entitled "Prisoner and Escort", it saw the newly-convicted Fletcher being escorted to Slade prison by Mackay and Barrowclough. Another of the pilots, Open All Hours, was also made into a full series.
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Porridge / int_c3c7d2e5	type	Criminal Procedural
Porridge / int_c3c7d2e5	comment	Criminal Procedural: Of the convict variety.
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Porridge / int_c4976d7c	type	Vehicular Sabotage
Porridge / int_c4976d7c	comment	Vehicular Sabotage: In the pilot episode, Fletcher urinates in the prison van's fuel tank. The van breaks down soon afterwards. It doesn't go unnoticed by Mackay:
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Porridge / int_c5dcc180	type	How Many Fingers?
Porridge / int_c5dcc180	comment	How Many Fingers?:
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Porridge / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Porridge / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: One of Fletcher's skills acquired over his years in prison, how to give an answer that is seemingly satisfactory but on later examination is either nonsensical or raises more questions than it settles...
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Porridge / int_c631f304	type	We Want Our Jerk Back!
Porridge / int_c631f304	comment	We Want Our Jerk Back!: As mentioned under Vetinari Job Security, Mr Mackay's overly-cruel replacement has the prisoners getting nostalgic.
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Porridge / int_c676a2f8	type	Blah, Blah, Blah
Porridge / int_c676a2f8	comment	Blah, Blah, Blah: Fletcher does this when reading out a letter from Warren's wife.
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Porridge / int_c70907c7	type	The Butcher
Porridge / int_c70907c7	comment	The Butcher: In The Movie, Fletch points out an inmate known as "The Mad Butcher of Eastgate".
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Porridge / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Porridge / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: McLaren is aggressive and resorts to violence far too quickly. However, his life hasn't been a happy one, growing up in Scotland as a mixed race illegitimate orphan. Fletcher even acknowledges he's had it "harder than most".
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Porridge / int_ca021a4e	type	Will Talk for a Price
Porridge / int_ca021a4e	comment	Will Talk for a Price: Warren getting Spraggon's help in "A Test Of Character":
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Porridge / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Porridge / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: In "Poetic Justice", Fletcher complains that Rawley could have rejected the jury's verdict. This goes against the Opening Narration, which states that Fletcher pleaded guilty.
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Porridge / int_cb6178fc	type	Rule #1
Porridge / int_cb6178fc	comment	Rule #1: According to Mr. Mackay, there are only two rules in Slade Prison. Rule number 1: Do not write on the walls. Rule number 2: Obey all the rules. In the same scene he also mentions a rule against more than three prisoners congregating in a cell.
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Porridge / int_ccd7abf5	type	Fakeout Escape
Porridge / int_ccd7abf5	comment	Fakeout Escape: This is the resolution of "No Way Out", where boss-prisoner Grouty is strong-armed by contacts outside the prison into organising an escape tunnel for a stupid but well-connected inmate. The tunnel progresses and the noise is masked by a choir singing Christmas carols. Grouty is pessimistic about pulling it off, while crafty convict Fletch frets that if a prisoner escapes so close to Christmas, privileges will be withdrawn to everyone and Dec 25th will become just another grim, grey, day inside. Fletch eventually comes up with a face-saving solution allowing Grouty to keep his cred with the London gangs who are pressuring him; allow the warders to discover the tunnel. They will be so pleased at finding it that they will not be looking for the escapee being smuggled out by other means, ie hidden in a garbage truck.
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Porridge / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Porridge / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Mackay may be harsh, but he sincerely believes it is in his prisoners' best interests.
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Porridge / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Porridge / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: The writers came up with the word 'Naff/Naffing' for the inmates to use as an expletive. It made front-page headlines when Princess Anne told a troublesome photographer to "Naff off!" Naff is apparently also a mild swear word in South Africa. It appears to predate Porridge. But the British Royal Family (including a juvenile Anne) used to regularly visit until it was advised it might be better if they stayed away.
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Porridge / int_d1ceb951	type	Holier Than Thou
Porridge / int_d1ceb951	comment	Holier Than Thou: Mr Banyard, a former dentist who was arrested over a possibly lethal accident involving some patients and some laughing gas, takes this attitude when Fletcher is investigating the theft of a tin of pineapple chunks from his cell, making the point that he's not a career criminal like everyone else and is therefore above suspicion. Fletch calls him out on this, pointing out that one way or another he's still a convict, and that regardless of what he thinks of his own crime, "for the ladies in question it was no laughing matter, was it?"
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Porridge / int_d1f4d528	type	Treasure Map
Porridge / int_d1f4d528	comment	Treasure Map: Blanco has a map showing where his ill-gotten gains are buried, though it turns out to be a fake cooked up by Fletcher to trade for Blanco's stolen effects. The thief, Norris, gets caught trying to dig the fake stash up in the middle of a football pitch.
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Porridge / int_d2afe41d	type	PetHomosexual
Porridge / int_d2afe41d	comment	Pet Homosexual: "Lukewarm".
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Porridge / int_d3422f70	type	Overt Rendezvous
Porridge / int_d3422f70	comment	Overt Rendezvous: When Grouty wants to discuss secret plans, he often has his meeting in a communal area, such as the doctor's waiting room, or the toilets, using his henchmen to bully the other prisoners out of the area first.
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Porridge / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Porridge / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Retasked the existing word 'naff' as an expletive, as in "naff off". Also created 'nerk' (presumably in place of 'berk') and possibly 'scrote'.
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Porridge / int_dbb23b5f	type	Spinoff Sendoff
Porridge / int_dbb23b5f	comment	Spinoff Sendoff: In the first episode Fletcher says goodbye to McLaren (the only one of his friends from Porridge still in Slade) before he gets out and catches the train to London. Then Mr Mackay turns out to be on the same train.
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Porridge / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Porridge / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Barrowclough is a fair and reasonable man, he even tells a new prison guard not to ask what a new inmate is in for, as that would lead to judging prisoners for what they've done instead of as people.
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Porridge / int_ddeaea82	type	Miscarriage of Justice
Porridge / int_ddeaea82	comment	Miscarriage of Justice: Subverted. Lifer Blanco Webb was wrongly convicted in 1957 of killing his wife. Fletch manages to get him pardoned and he's released, but it turns out he is guilty of murder, just not the murder he was convicted of.
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Porridge / int_dded28f2	type	Playful Hacker
Porridge / int_dded28f2	comment	Playful Hacker: What Fletch sees himself as, arguing (unconvincingly) that everything he has done amounts to a series of victimless crimes and that he's donated a lot of money to charity (just not his own money). The law however sees him as a dangerous cybercriminal.
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Porridge / int_de89c0a1	type	Dating What Daddy Hates
Porridge / int_de89c0a1	comment	Dating What Daddy Hates: Double Subverted. Fletcher strongly disapproves of his daughter Ingrid dating and becoming engaged to Godber. However, Fletch doesn't hate Godber, he actually likes him a lot, but he's also painfully aware that he was a poor husband and father due to being in and out of prison his whole life, and fears the same thing happening again.
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Porridge / int_df04109a	type	Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All
Porridge / int_df04109a	comment	Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All: "Genial" Harry Grout isn't necessarily shown to be running any business outside the prison, but he's certainly more in control of the prison itself than the governor is.
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Porridge / int_e06e9909	type	Going in Circles
Porridge / int_e06e9909	comment	Going in Circles: Fletcher does this in the pilot episode. After getting Barrowclough drunk in the abandoned cottage they've taken shelter in, Fletcher sees a chance to escape. He spends the night running across the moors until he comes across another cottage. It's the very same cottage.
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Porridge / int_e13cafe	type	Office Romance
Porridge / int_e13cafe	comment	Office Romance: Mr Barrowclough has apparently been having an affair with the governor's secretary.
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Porridge / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Porridge / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Nearly every inmate is exclusively referred to by their last name.
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Porridge / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Porridge / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Heslop. Warren too, to a lesser extent. Blanco also has his moments:
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Porridge / int_e484500b	type	Scary Minority Suspect
Porridge / int_e484500b	comment	Scary Minority Suspect: Ditto.
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Porridge / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Porridge / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Harry Grout bears something of a resemblance to a certain Mr. Bridger, and is apparently doing time for some sort of job in Italy...
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Porridge / int_e5fc9493	type	Decision Darts
Porridge / int_e5fc9493	comment	Decision Darts: Fletcher mentions that in his previous prison they used to run a roulette game by bribing a warden to turn a blind eye, blindfolding the "croupier" and spinning him around when he threw a dart at a dartboard covered with a list of numbers. It came to an end when the croupier got careless one night: "now the screw turns a blind eye to everything".
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Porridge / int_e7395be2	type	Stereo Fibbing
Porridge / int_e7395be2	comment	Stereo Fibbing: In "A Storm in a Teacup", the cellmates have to explain a bottle of pills found in their cell.
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Porridge / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
Porridge / int_e78842b7	comment	Black Face: In "The Hustler", Mackay arranges for a delivery of coke at the same time and place that Fletcher and his friends are playing Snakes & Ladders. They hastily exit, covered in soot.
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Porridge / int_e9a3a1ed	type	Never Learned to Read
Porridge / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	Never Learned to Read: "Bunny" Warren claims to be in prison because he could not read the sign: "Warning, Burglar Alarm". He also gets Fletcher to read him letters from his wife. In 'Rough Justice' Bunny says he's actually dyslexic.
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Porridge / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: An exchange between Mackay and Fletcher:
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Porridge / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Porridge / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Ives is a lazy, cowardly, snivelling cheat and snitch; as such, he is despised by most of the prison. Even Mackay calls him "Horrible Ives". Norris and Harris also qualify.
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Porridge / int_eba4a0e7	type	Chronic Villainy
Porridge / int_eba4a0e7	comment	Chronic Villainy: Fletcher is described as an "habitual criminal" in the opening narration, and has spent a large portion of his adult life in prison. Explored more in the sequel, as Fletcher attempts to "go straight".
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Porridge / int_ed05cfee	comment	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer: Porridge: First-time offender Godber qualifies as this, and shares a cell with serial offender Fletcher. The movie introduces the new screw Mr Beale, who tries to be stern and tough with Fletcher. Fletcher sings about him when he first sees Mr Beale, with his newly polished boots.
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Porridge / int_eeaadd10	type	From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
Porridge / int_eeaadd10	comment	From the Latin "Intro Ducere": Fletch averts it for humorous effect in this exchange with Warden Barrowclough:
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Porridge / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
Porridge / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: According to Fletcher, the prison football team has a good mix of "youth, experience, flair and brutality".
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Porridge / int_efbfe117	type	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like
Porridge / int_efbfe117	comment	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: In the film episode, Fletcher and Godber accidentally get caught up in Oakes's escape plot, and unwillingly end up going with him. Oakes thinks he is doing them a favour, but Fletcher firmly tells him this is not true, because they have less than a year to go on their sentences. He persuades Oakes to abandon them in the road, leaving them to find their way back to the prison, and to break back in.
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Porridge / int_f432c6bf	type	Glad I Thought of It
Porridge / int_f432c6bf	comment	Glad I Thought of It: In "Pardon Me", when Barrowclough suggests that the Governor pardons Blanco:
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Porridge / int_f47bdd2a	type	Violent Glaswegian
Porridge / int_f47bdd2a	comment	Violent Glaswegian: Jock McLaren, again (though he's actually from Greenock, 27 miles from Glasgow).
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Porridge / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Porridge / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Mr Meekie to Mr MacKay, both being overly suspicious, harsh Scottish prison officers who have their eyes fixed upon Fletcher. Although Meekie isn't as sharp or as experienced as MacKay. Mr Braithwaite to Mr Barraclough, fitting the softer, more caring prison officer dynamic in contrast to MacKay and Meekie's harsher one. Although Braithwaite is noticeably less naive and more cunning than Barraclough ever was.
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Porridge / int_f9051926	type	We Meet Again
Porridge / int_f9051926	comment	We Meet Again: Fletcher and Mr Wainwright. Fletcher and Judge Rawley.
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Porridge / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Porridge / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Mackay tells the new officer Beale about his pride and joy, the Prison Officers' club.
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Porridge / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Porridge / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Blanco is one of the gentlest inmates in the entire prison. However itâ€™s revealed in his final appearance that he killed the man who murdered his wife and framed him for the crime years earlier.
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Porridge / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Porridge / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Throughout the episode, Fletch tries to get a pineapple tin, only for it to be taken away from him. At the end, Officer Meekie leaves the cell with a pineapple tin again, only for Fletch to reveal to Lotterby that he succeeded in smuggling a second tin under his pillow.
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Porridge / int_febb58e2	type	Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught
Porridge / int_febb58e2	comment	Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught: Often. Fletcher delivers lines like:
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Porridge / int_ff555c8f	type	Cross-Referenced Titles
Porridge / int_ff555c8f	comment	Cross-Referenced Titles: Episodes 3 and 4 are "A Night In" and "A Day Out".
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Porridge / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Porridge / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Mackay is sometimes supportive of Godber due to his willingness to study and take part in physical activity, unlike Fletcher. Despite claiming to hate all inmates, Mackay is shown to be softer on the more well-behaved ones. For instance he's encouraging toward Kegan, even making him a trustee and giving him the job of serving the Governors coffee, despite him murdering his wife. Following Fletcher revealing the existence of an escape tunnel to him and defusing a very tense situation between the inmates and the guards, Mackay gave Fletcher a bottle of Scottish Whiskey as a Christmas present. A literal example is discussed where Mackay stroked the Governor's dog, but hilariously the dog bit Mackay.
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