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The Brittas Empire

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The Brittas Empire	comment	A Brit Com starring Chris Barrie running seven series between 1991 and 1997. It was created by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen (previously known for producing Chance in a Million), and written by them for the first five series, after which they departed and a new team of writers took over. note The commonly accepted sequence of events is that Series 5 was planned to be the last, but owing to its popularity the BBC recommissioned it anyway, and when the creators turned them down the BBC hired the new writers. The Brittas Empire is a slightly surrealist look at proud English leisure centre manager Gordon Brittas (Barrie), and his utter failure to manage the fictional Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. Brittas is an obsessive bureaucrat and a stickler for rules and procedures, no matter what the situation, resulting in catastrophes on a regular basis. According to his wife Helen (Pippa Haywood), he thinks he's the oil that keeps everything running, but he is in fact the grit in the engine. He is a talentless, tactless and hopeless case of the Pointy-Haired Boss.A large supporting cast consists of Gordon's deputy managers Laura Lancing (Julia St. John) and Colin Weatherby (Mike Burns), secretary Angie (AndrÃ©e Bernard) - who was quickly replaced by Julie Porter (Judy Flynn), receptionist Carole Parkinson (Harriet Thorpe) and pool attendants Gavin Featherly (Tim Marriott), Tim Whistler (Russell Porter) and Linda Perkin (Jill Greenacre). Other non-staff characters include Gordon's philandering, unstable, pill-popping wife Helen, sauna/solarium manageress Penny Bidmead (Anouschka Menzies) note Only in Series 6 and Councillor Jack Drugget (Stephen Churchett). Many of the characters are almost as dysfunctional as Brittas himself.Chris Barrie landed the leading role on the show during the various multi-year hiatuses between series on Red Dwarf and ultimately took a hiatus from Red Dwarf when the latter show's shooting schedule conflicted with that of The Brittas Empire, though he made a couple of appearances and returned to the series as a regular when The Brittas Empire finished.Between Series 4 and 5, a Tie-In Novel aiming to promote Brittas' philosophy of life, Gordon Brittas: Sharing the Dream, was released. After the end of the show, a short miniseries (Get Fit with Brittas) was aired in 1997, which aimed to educate the public on physical health and exercise.Came forty-seventh in Britainâ€™s Best Sitcom.
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The Brittas Empire / int_1036c075	type	Forceful Kiss
The Brittas Empire / int_1036c075	comment	Forceful Kiss: Gordon Brittas daydreams about deputy manager Laura and himself; the fantasy sequence starts with him being entirely oblivious to her desperately trying to tell him how much she loves him. Finally, she gets fed up with this and starts kissing him passionately. Just then, Brittas is jolted out of his daydream when the door opens and the real Laura comes in
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The Brittas Empire / int_116eeb4a	type	Non-Residential Residence
The Brittas Empire / int_116eeb4a	comment	Non-Residential Residence: A key element of Carol's character is that not does she sleep in and live in a room in the leisure center, but that she raises her children in the cupboards and drawers behind the reception desk.
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The Brittas Empire / int_118a41d5	type	Daydream Surprise
The Brittas Empire / int_118a41d5	comment	Daydream Surprise: Brittas has one of these in â€œUXBâ€� where Laura declares her love for him and snogs him. Naturally, the audience doesnâ€™t find out that this is a daydream until said kiss is immediately followed up by the door opening again and the real Laura coming in.
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The Brittas Empire / int_167b037a	type	Workout Fanservice
The Brittas Empire / int_167b037a	comment	Workout Fanservice: The opening credits is this, being just Gordon Brittas using various pieces of fitness equipment and exercising in shorts and a t-shirt.
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The Brittas Empire / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Brittas Empire / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The tie-in book Gordon Brittas: Sharing The Dream reveals some details about the main character that wasn't included within the show. For instance, his mother is given the name of "Jane", he is apparently the older of the twins, his brother Horatio was named after Horatio Nelson and Gordon himself was named after Charles George Gordon.
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The Brittas Empire / int_1849f58e	type	Comedic Work, Serious Scene
The Brittas Empire / int_1849f58e	comment	Comedic Work, Serious Scene: The show is usually a Work Com which treats subject matter as grim as death and suicide as Black Comedy. However, "The Last Day" features Brittas sacrificing himself to save Carole from a falling water tank. Although lightened by some jokes (such as the reveal that Julie has a Dartboard of Hate for Brittas and Brittas being eventually Kicked Out of Heaven for being too annoying), the staff's reactions to his death and Brittas' funeral are played dead seriously otherwise.
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The Brittas Empire / int_18733eb2	type	Take Off Your Clothes
The Brittas Empire / int_18733eb2	comment	Take Off Your Clothes: Gordon demands Tim take his clothes off to prove that he isn't a pregnant woman in "Pregnant!". When Tim refuses, Gordon rather disturbingly assaults him and attempts to rip his clothes off. Thankfully, Gavin comes in and punches Gordon in the face, which breaks his nose, in a bid to rescue Tim. This actually earns Gavin a permanent Deputy Manager position.
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The Brittas Empire / int_1a47a6a7	type	Chronically Crashed Car
The Brittas Empire / int_1a47a6a7	comment	Chronically Crashed Car: Gordon drives an Austin Maestro. Over the course of the series, it gets filled with concrete, has potatoes shoved up the exhaust, has its tyres slashed, has its brake lines cut, has its roof crushed and smashed by Carole in a JCB digger and is finally crashed into a lake by Helen. None of this ever stops Gordon from driving the damn thing.
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The Brittas Empire / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Brittas Empire / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Brittas' three stepchildren are mentioned a fair amount, but the most we get is a distant shot of two of them in the first episode. One of them never even gets named. Simon, an alleged "Uncle" of Helen's whom she had an affair with, was mentioned in the first series (as well as the first episode of Series 3) but never showed up.
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The Brittas Empire / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
The Brittas Empire / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Gordon Brittas died in one episode when he was crushed by a water tank that had been crashing through the building.
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The Brittas Empire / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Brittas Empire / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Brittas takes the recommendation in Sharing The Dream that his book would require a page of its contents... differently from what the publisher wanted and produces several pie charts of what it contains, including advice, discipline and weight. He is later disturbed to find out that he just needed a list of contents.
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The Brittas Empire / int_1d9af117	type	Gender-Equal Ensemble
The Brittas Empire / int_1d9af117	comment	Gender-Equal Ensemble: In Series 7, the show sports a main cast consisting of 4 females (Carole, Julie, Linda and Helen) and 4 males (the titular Gordon Brittas, Tim, Gavin, and Colin). Beforehand though, the show was a Downplayed example of this, having a slightly dominant female staff of 5 girls and 4 boys.
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The Brittas Empire / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Brittas Empire / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Councillor Druggett, who understandably wants to get rid of Gordon Brittas by any means necessary. He can be enough of a jerk that you're rooting for Brittas. Brittas himself has more than a few instances of this. Like spending well over a minute to explain why he doesn't give change for the bus (ending in "it takes too long") or refusing to let people book the badminton court for more than 40 minutes, even when no one else had even tried to book it that day.
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The Brittas Empire / int_20917b55	type	Milking the Giant Cow
The Brittas Empire / int_20917b55	comment	Milking the Giant Cow: One of the Character Tics of Brittas is to emphasise anything he says with exaggerated hand movements. Lampshaded in "Two Little Boys", where it is possible to earn points for managing to get Brittas to do one of a series of specific gestures in the "I-Spy Brittas" game.
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The Brittas Empire / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Brittas Empire / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: A big part of the series' appeal is its blend of wacky Work Com antics and pitch-black humour, with customer and worker deaths being par for the course.
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The Brittas Empire / int_224c9334	type	Satellite Family Member
The Brittas Empire / int_224c9334	comment	Satellite Family Member: Emily and Jessica are Carole's two young twin daughters. They are born at the end of Series 2 both to stir up paternity drama for Carole, who doesn't know who their father is, and to stir up drama for Brittas, who unbeknownst to them, is the actual father of the twins. However, aside from the implication in Series 6 that they are becoming somewhat bratty, they get little characterization and barely appear on-screen. Their actual personality is so little that Jessica used to be a boy called Tom before being retconned in Series 5. Brittas has five children, three of which (Jonathan, Tom, and an unnamed third) are from his wife Helen's previous marriages and the other two (Matthew and Mark) being twins born at the end of Series 3. The twins are used to set up the plots of "The Christening" (which had Helen misplace them) and "We All Fall Down" (where they fail to be picked for a nappy commercial, causing Helen to take drastic action). Meanwhile, Jonathan's relations with his teachers is used to set up Helen's subplots in "The Old, Old Story" and "Brussels Calling". However, none of the children get much characterization aside from their implication that Jonathan might be a Dumbass Teenage Son and that Tom has a poor relationship with his stepfather - the stepchildren only have a brief appearance from afar in "Laying the Foundations", whilst the twins aren't seen on-screen after "The Christening". They are so unimportant otherwise that one of the stepchildren is not only never named, but is retconned out by the time of "Shall We Dance?". Barney is the son of Laura and Michael T. Farrell III. He is the end result of Michael's Series Goal of impregnating Laura so that he can get inheritance and is also the reason why Laura is Put on a Bus, as Michael's father wants the child to be raised in Chicago rather than the UK. However, he only has one appearance, in the Flash Forward episode "In the Beginning..." and his only role in it is to provide someone who can ask why Laura meets up with the staff at the end of each year, with no personality traits other than the fact that he goes to Cambridge.
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The Brittas Empire / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
The Brittas Empire / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: One plot thread in Series 6 involves Tim's talents as a cook, running a successful catering business and trying to obtain a franchise for the canteen. It even gets to the point that he describes the photo he's taking with the rest of the staff as his "farewell photo". Come Series 7 and this thread is isn't followed up on, with Tim remaining a pool attendant with no mention of his culinary aspirations.
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The Brittas Empire / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
The Brittas Empire / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Gordon Wellesley Brittas. Sir Arthur Wellesley (better known as The Duke of Wellington) was one of the greatest English generals of all time, and never lost a battle. This is in contrast to Brittas, who has a tendency to cause chaos and is a Pointy-Haired Boss.
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The Brittas Empire / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
The Brittas Empire / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brittas' Brutal Honesty and hatred of lying is framed as a bad thing, causing more trouble and stressing people out. In contrast, whilst the elaborate schemes built upon lies conducted by the staff tend to be exposed, the core lie is retained and the person being lied to is stated to be much happier than if they had been told the truth. The lesson here is thus that sometimes, Brutal Honesty is not the way to go about things - sometimes, you have to tell a lie to spare someone's feelings, a lesson which even Brittas learns.
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The Brittas Empire / int_257ff2e7	type	Maintain the Lie
The Brittas Empire / int_257ff2e7	comment	Maintain the Lie: In â€œBiggles Tells a Lieâ€�, Colin tells his daughter he is the manager of the leisure centre, even though heâ€™s not. When she comes to visit, the other staff attempt to maintain the deception and eventually a sympathetic Brittas even joins in.
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The Brittas Empire / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
The Brittas Empire / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: When Carole is hypnotised in the episode "Mr Brittas Changes Trains", she would (sub-consciously) end every sentence she said with a noise similar to that of a bullfrog call.
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The Brittas Empire / int_274cf442	type	Credits Montage
The Brittas Empire / int_274cf442	comment	Credits Montage: The credits had stills from the episode that had just aired. The only exceptions to this was "High Noon", whose final still was a unique shot of Brittas receiving his George Medal with Helen in tow and the Christmas Specials.
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The Brittas Empire / int_27a047a6	type	Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born
The Brittas Empire / int_27a047a6	comment	Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born: An odd subversion with Carole, who initially gave birth to a boy and girl (Tom and Emily Parkinson) at the end of Series 2. Tom was then retconned to a girl (now known as Jessica) in Series 5, now making them single-gender twins. Averted with the twins Helen gives birth to at the end of Series 3, who are the male Matthew and Mark Brittas.
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The Brittas Empire / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
The Brittas Empire / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Gordon's father taught him to have an unshakable belief in his own abilities. It might have been a positive thing if he actually had any.
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The Brittas Empire / int_2963e608	type	Finding a Bra in Your Car
The Brittas Empire / int_2963e608	comment	Finding a Bra in Your Car: The plot of "Temple Of The Body" kicks off when Gordon finds a pair of underwear down the back of one of the couches in his main office, which is later revealed to be the result of a one-night stand that his wife had. Unlike most examples of this trope, Gordon never does find out that it's his wife's; he initially assumes it comes from one of his staff and he drops it once he discovers Carole's bedroom in the leisure centre.
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The Brittas Empire / int_2c17dca	type	Ends with a Smile
The Brittas Empire / int_2c17dca	comment	Ends with a Smile: "New Generations" ends with Brittas walking into his office and giving a smile, having heard that his wife Helen has become pregnant with twins and pleased to see that his legacy will continue in the form of biological offspring. "Not a Good Day" ends with Brittas giving another smile after finding out that, in spite of the nightmarish day he had involving Roman War Reenactors, he was able to give a Struggling Single Mother and child a nice day out through his rules and policies. "Curse of the Tiger Women", the final episode of the series, ends with Brittas smiling to the side as he utters his "I have a Dream..." Character Catchphrase, showing how even though the events of the series were All Just a Dream, his Dream of making the world a better place still remains.
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The Brittas Empire / int_2c3ff5e8	type	Truncated Theme Tune
The Brittas Empire / int_2c3ff5e8	comment	Truncated Theme Tune: Had its theme tune shortened from the sixth series onward, along with the removal of the creator credits from the title sequence.
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The Brittas Empire / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Brittas Empire / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Helen, already an unstable and mentally damaged woman, goes on the rampage with a fire axe when she spots undercover reporter Roger Ferguson, with who she also had an affair with.
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The Brittas Empire / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
The Brittas Empire / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: A frequent occurrence in the series, with it being most important in "Bye Bye Baby", (where Carole's husband walks out on her because he is led to believe that she had cheated on him and produced a Chocolate Baby), and "Surviving Christmas" (where a mix-up in Christmas cards leads Helen to believe that Brittas and Carole are having an affair with each other).
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The Brittas Empire / int_2e206837	type	Bed Trick
The Brittas Empire / int_2e206837	comment	Bed Trick: This was how Carole got impregnated with her twins in the first place. The encounter took place at a New Year's Eve Costume Party and unfortunately for her, both she and Helen (Gordon Brittas' wife) decided to go using the same tiger costume. This eventually led to Gordon having sex with Carole genuinely believing it was Helen under the costume.
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The Brittas Empire / int_2f52c0af	type	Accidental Pervert
The Brittas Empire / int_2f52c0af	comment	Accidental Pervert: Brittas forces Colin to hide inside a locker and spy on the staff in an attempt to weed out a suspected thief. The staff quickly find out but, assuming it's Brittas inside the locker, decide to play a prank which ends up with Colin breaking several bones.
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The Brittas Empire / int_3107a493	type	Open Heart Dentistry
The Brittas Empire / int_3107a493	comment	Open Heart Dentistry: In the finale of series two, we have a veterinarian delivering a pair of twins in the sauna and a gynaecologist delivering a calf on the squash court. Both point out that they are not really qualified.
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The Brittas Empire / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
The Brittas Empire / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: Plenty of disastrous explosions are peppered throughout the series, the biggest one being at the end of series 4. A motley collection of Chekhov's Guns build up and cause the entire leisure centre to blow up from a gas leak. The explosion completely razes the building to the ground, but miraculously, everybody survives.
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The Brittas Empire / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
The Brittas Empire / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: The final episode of Series 5, which also serves as the final appearance of main character Laura and the final episode penned by Fegan and Norriss, takes place in 2019, 25 years after the events of the previous episode. Downplayed in that the majority of it actually takes place in the last week of 1989, with the 2019 scenes serving as a Framing Device.
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The Brittas Empire / int_3324d1c8	type	Gift-Giving Gaffe
The Brittas Empire / int_3324d1c8	comment	Gift-Giving Gaffe: Gordon Brittas gives his wife Helen a moped (complete with tacky "Hi, I'm Helen" helmet) for her birthday, thinking that it would resolve the issue of her having to ask for the car. This displeases Helen so much that she almost leaves him.
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The Brittas Empire / int_3327071e	type	Horrible Honeymoon
The Brittas Empire / int_3327071e	comment	Horrible Honeymoon: According to "Snap Happy", during Brittas and Helen's honeymoon, Brittas, wanting to check out the highest diving board in the country, slipped off it and injured a troupe of synchronized swimmers, giving Helen a fear of heights. The earlier episode "Playing With Fire" had also implied that something happened on the second day which made Brittas realize that the woman he had married was...not the most mentally stable of women.
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The Brittas Empire / int_34e89418	type	A Birthday, Not a Break
The Brittas Empire / int_34e89418	comment	A Birthday, Not a Break: An epic Trauma Conga Line (including temporary blindness, death of an aunt, death of a pet, loss of life savings) for Colin is revealed halfway through to have taken place on his birthday in "Blind Devotion".
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The Brittas Empire / int_36ec2454	type	Rule of Pool
The Brittas Empire / int_36ec2454	comment	Rule of Pool: Being a sitcom centred around a Leisure Centre, the show naturally has a pool as part of the main attraction. Surprisingly though, it takes until Series 6 for someone to actually be pushed into the pool, with Tim pushing Gavin into the pool during a lovers' tiff ("Back with a Bang") and a somewhat blinded Gavin pushing a woman into the pool by mistake ("Body Language") respectively.
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The Brittas Empire / int_3754b680	type	Temporary Blindness
The Brittas Empire / int_3754b680	comment	Temporary Blindness: In the episode "Blind Devotion", Colin is rendered temporarily blinded, courtesy of his garden blowing up. This proves to be only the beginning of a Trauma Conga Line for him in that episode.
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The Brittas Empire / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Brittas Empire / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: In Episode 5 ("Stop Thief!"). Gordon's wife reveals that Gordon briefly worked for the Samaritans, on what became known as Black Friday because all four people he spoke to committed suicide. And one of them was the wrong number. In the Red Dwarf episode "The Last Day", two years earlier, Rimmer, also played by Chris Barrie, had also mentioned he worked for the Samaritans, on what became known as Lemming Sunday for the same reason, complete with the wrong number.
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The Brittas Empire / int_3982db5c	type	Revolting Rescue
The Brittas Empire / int_3982db5c	comment	Revolting Rescue: In "That Creeping Feeling", Colin gets bitten by a spider and will die unless someone sucks out the poison. Unfortunately, this involves doing so around the crotch and from a person known to be The Pigpen. Nonetheless, Brittas volunteers, which is enough for the staff, (who had been giving him the Silent Treatment earlier on for spying on them whilst they were changing to create fitness targets) to talk to him again.
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The Brittas Empire / int_3a967286	type	Handsome Lech
The Brittas Empire / int_3a967286	comment	Handsome Lech: The gynaecologist in the series 2 finale, who ropes Linda into helping him deliver a calf before smoothly asking her out to dinner. "You'll be safe...I'm a doctor..." Also John Rawlinson, the dodgy lawyer who Helen has an affair with.
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The Brittas Empire / int_3a98aac8	type	Epunymous Title
The Brittas Empire / int_3a98aac8	comment	Epunymous Title: The name of the show is a play on "The British Empire", starring a man named Gordon Brittas.
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The Brittas Empire / int_3b4f2811	type	Dangerous Workplace
The Brittas Empire / int_3b4f2811	comment	Dangerous Workplace: "Last year, 600 people visited this Center and nearly 500 returned home without any loss of life or serious injury."
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The Brittas Empire / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Brittas Empire / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: All we find out about Gordon's training at Aldershot was that he caused three and a half million pounds' worth of damage, that he had to dig people out and that he won a medal for bravery and was promoted.
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The Brittas Empire / int_3c51db1c	type	Zany Scheme
The Brittas Empire / int_3c51db1c	comment	Zany Scheme: Gordon's rehearsal for the christening of his baby twins.
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The Brittas Empire / int_3d22397d	type	War Reenactors
The Brittas Empire / int_3d22397d	comment	War Reenactors: The episode "Not A Good Day" had members of the Classical War Society (who were re-enacting the Roman era) besiege the centre (complete with an elephant).
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The Brittas Empire / int_3db32baa	type	New Baby Episode
The Brittas Empire / int_3db32baa	comment	New Baby Episode: The episode "New Generations" features Carole and a pregnant cow ingesting herbs (meant to induce pregnancy in overdue mothers) and going into labour as a result. Chaos ensues when a mix-up leads to Carole being tended to by the vet and the cow by a doctor. For bonus points, the episode ends with the reveal that Helen's pregnant with twins as well. "The Stuff of Dreams" has Helen give birth to twins in the middle of the high street whilst being tended to bypassing medical students in the latter half of the episode. Later on, "The Elephant's Child" has Julie give birth to a child in the leisure centre during a break-in orchestrated by Helen to steal her own fur-coat. She winds up naming the child after Brittas and Colin, who assisted in the delivery.
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The Brittas Empire / int_42008602	type	Story Arc
The Brittas Empire / int_42008602	comment	Even before the original writers left, Series 5, their final series, was much more continuity-driven than the previous 4 series, with an ongoing Story Arc about Brittas taking up a job in Brussels driving many of the plots of the episodes.
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The Brittas Empire / int_426398af	type	Final Season Casting
The Brittas Empire / int_426398af	comment	Final Season Casting: The show lost Laura between its fifth and sixth series. She was initially replaced with Suspiciously Similar Substitute Penny, but she only lasted a series and the show didn't replace her for its final series.
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The Brittas Empire / int_44f6517d	type	Beach Episode
The Brittas Empire / int_44f6517d	comment	Beach Episode: Brittas whisks the staff off to their regular holiday at the fictional seaside town of Burbage-on-Sea, where Gavin takes Colin's potato-powered lilo for a ride he'll never forget.
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The Brittas Empire / int_45de345c	type	The Peter Principle
The Brittas Empire / int_45de345c	comment	The Peter Principle: Gavin struggles to be respected or taken seriously by the vast majority of the staff after his promotion to Deputy Manager, and proves to be a lot more bumbling and fidgety than he ever was as a pool attendant, as he tries to adopt and embrace the buzzwords and body language of Brittas. It's referred to, though not by name, in the very first episode, and it's implied that it's the only reason Gordon got the job in the first place.
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The Brittas Empire / int_46097bd9	type	Mistaken for Santa
The Brittas Empire / int_46097bd9	comment	Mistaken for Santa: The episode "Surviving Christmas" sees a Mall Santa in pursuit of the staff with the intent of killing them, riding by bicycle. In the end, Colin sees said Mall Santa in the distance leaving behind his bicycle and is led to believe that this is the real Santa, having finally given him the bike he wanted since he was a little boy.
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The Brittas Empire / int_466f304e	type	Fear-Induced Idiocy
The Brittas Empire / int_466f304e	comment	Fear-Induced Idiocy: When Carole notices that someone has taken her baby, her actions will be clouded by her resultant fear. Special point goes to "Back from the Dead" where she ends up believing that mistakes a baby doll that Brittas had bought in Bulgaria for the aforementioned baby, to the point of attacking his car with an excavator (under the belief that he was going to use the baby as a source to both get back into the world of the living and for eternal youth) even as he shows her the doll. In "Safety First", a fire starts in the leisure centre, and the customers are misdirected by Linda (who is unaware of the fire, but currently doing safety drills for the centre) into thinking that they can't go down past the third floor. The panicking crowd end up all on the same ladder in a disused room to get down, in spite of the fact that the ladder is designed to handle only 8 people and the crowd is of a higher number than that. Special mention goes to Councillor Dapping, who tells everyone to get off as the ladder can't handle the weight... whilst on the ladder. Naturally, everyone ends up injured when the ladder breaks.
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The Brittas Empire / int_47325888	type	Latex Perfection
The Brittas Empire / int_47325888	comment	Latex Perfection: "The Stuff of Dreams" has Brittas, worrying about his mortality and wanting to push age awareness, disguise himself as an old man this way. The result is remarkably effective and it does dupe Colin (although Laura isn't convinced).
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The Brittas Empire / int_47542f3a	type	Electricity Knocks You Out
The Brittas Empire / int_47542f3a	comment	Electricity Knocks You Out: In "Opening Day", Laura is asked to bring her black friend Michael to function as a Token Minority for the Royal Opening of the leisure centre. Unfortunately, he gets trapped in the malfunctioning automated doors of the building and in his attempts to get out, uses a rod against the opening mechanisms of the doors, giving him an electric shock and zapping him unconscious.
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The Brittas Empire / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Brittas Empire / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Colin, the disgusting northern leper, who is fired and near-fired by Brittas on several occasions, and is generally liked but not at all respected by the rest of the team. Carole, who has a tendency to get into Yank the Dog's Chain situations and whose home situation is so bad that she has to raise her children in the leisure centre. Of course, it doesn't help that in the earlier series, Brittas had a tendency to call her unattractive.
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The Brittas Empire / int_4849f1d	type	Coincidence Magnet
The Brittas Empire / int_4849f1d	comment	Coincidence Magnet: Anything can happen at Whitbury New Town. Anything! From a gas leak, to an ostrich getting loose to a Roman Legion destroying the centre.
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The Brittas Empire / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
The Brittas Empire / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: Whether or not Gordon is a well-meaning but incompetent woobie or an actual bellend tends to vary. It usually evens out at well-meaning but incompetent bellend.
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The Brittas Empire / int_4c0b402a	type	Crazy Workplace
The Brittas Empire / int_4c0b402a	comment	Crazy Workplace: Among the things that have happened to Whitbury Newtown Leisure Centre are an attack by an army of Roman war re-enactors, an emu running loose inside, and a cow delivering in the squash court. This is not accounting for its employees, who include a Pointy-Haired Boss with no social skills, a receptionist who lives in the Centre (and keeps her children in the drawers behind the reception desk), and a Deputy Manager Wet who should not even be near a pool for hygienic reasons.
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The Brittas Empire / int_4d8ff0c	type	Snowed-In
The Brittas Empire / int_4d8ff0c	comment	Snowed-In: The flashback sequences in the first Christmas Episode ("In The Beginning") sees the staff stuck at the leisure centre due to a severe winter storm in the final week of 1989. The major source of drama (and comedy) comes from them having to survive when they run out of food and electricity. They ultimately survive the experience and decide to come together every New Year's Eve onwards.
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The Brittas Empire / int_4d97e2b9	type	Urine Trouble
The Brittas Empire / int_4d97e2b9	comment	Urine Trouble: In "Blind Devotion", Colin leaves the manager's office to use the bathroom. Unfortunately, he has been temporarily blinded, so he winds up going back to the office and relieves himself on one of the potted plants in the office. Right in front of Brittas and Laura too.
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The Brittas Empire / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Brittas Empire / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Series 1 has quite a few differences compared to later on: Brittas has a more nasally and posher-sounding voice, lacks his "Eeeexcccelleeeent!!!!" Catchphrase, and is much more of a Jerkass than in later series, with it not being until Series 2 that his more sympathetic side shows up. Helen hung out with next-door neighbour Pam, who undergoes Chuck Cunningham Syndrome afterwards and is replaced by a closer friendship with Laura. Carole wasn't quite living in the centre just yet - that change wouldn't occur until Series 2's "Temple of the Body". Instead, she was on the verge of losing her flat, having to bring in Ben because there was no one available to watch over him - as a consequence of this, she's portrayed as much more of a Shrinking Violet vulnerable to Inelegant Blubbering than in later series. For that matter, when she does fall pregnant at the end of Series 1, it's implied that it was her landlord who impregnated her, with it not being until Series 2 that it was established that it was Brittas' fault. Julie is absent, with her role instead being performed by similarly snarky secretary Angie. In the first series Helen was portrayed as someone whose neuroses stem entirely from her relationship with Brittas and who otherwise might be relatively normal. Later on, the show revealed that she was always something of a walking disaster even before she met Brittas and that she herself isn't so easy to live with. Additionally, she came around to the centre much less often in the first series than later on, being only there for a brief scene in "Opening Day" and not appearing at all there in "Bye Bye Baby" and "Laying the Foundations". The reception area was slightly different, lacking the cupboard which Ben would call his home in later series and not being nearly as cluttered with toys or other household stuff.
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The Brittas Empire / int_4f84b27a	type	Suck Out the Poison
The Brittas Empire / int_4f84b27a	comment	Suck Out the Poison: Colin gets bitten by a deadly tropical spider in 'That Creeping Feeling' and , due to the antidote being a considerable distance away, the only way to keep him alive long enough is to do this. Unfortunately, Colin had the misfortune of being bit near the crotch area. Brittas volunteers to do so and win back the respect of the staff, who had been refusing to speak to him at the time for creating fitness targets for them by spying on them and violating their privacy.
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The Brittas Empire / int_500c55cf	type	Series Goal
The Brittas Empire / int_500c55cf	comment	Barney is the son of Laura and Michael T. Farrell III. He is the end result of Michael's Series Goal of impregnating Laura so that he can get inheritance and is also the reason why Laura is Put on a Bus, as Michael's father wants the child to be raised in Chicago rather than the UK. However, he only has one appearance, in the Flash Forward episode "In the Beginning..." and his only role in it is to provide someone who can ask why Laura meets up with the staff at the end of each year, with no personality traits other than the fact that he goes to Cambridge.
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The Brittas Empire / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Brittas Empire / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: People do tend to over-react to Gordon's criticisms. A number of examples in the first episode include a workforce of builders going on strike, just because Brittas asked one of them to put his empty cigarette box in the bin, the cleaner quitting because of a petty squabble over a spilt coffee, and one of his staff trying to kill him because he wasn't going to put in any table tennis facilities.
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The Brittas Empire / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
The Brittas Empire / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Laura disappears to America with her husband Michael T. Farrell III to raise their baby son, Barney. After lots of flirting and time spent with each other outside of work, Gordon is left hanging. Lampshaded when he lulls himself into a Daydream Surprise, where Laura confesses her feelings to him, before climbing onto Gordon's lap and passionately snogging him.
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The Brittas Empire / int_537b29d1	type	Acquainted with Emergency Services
The Brittas Empire / int_537b29d1	comment	Acquainted with Emergency Services: It has been stated in the series that the emergency services are called so much that they would much rather leave Brittas to his latest disaster than help him in any way.
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The Brittas Empire / int_546dac59	type	Death Amnesia
The Brittas Empire / int_546dac59	comment	Death Amnesia: When Brittas initially returns from the dead, he not only does not remember his time in the afterlife, but that he even died in the first place. Once he is told that he died at one point though, it does all come flooding back to him.
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The Brittas Empire / int_5501256b	type	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
The Brittas Empire / int_5501256b	comment	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: In "Back from the Dead", Brittas is presumed to be dead. In reality, he had spent about a week in a chicken coup in Bulgaria, with the mix-up being because someone had stolen his possessions and was wearing them when they were flattened. In "Mr. Brittas Falls In Love", a girl who was having work experience at the centre, Rosemary Rawlinson, was believed to have been eaten by a shark. Thankfully, she turns out to have been huddling under a staircase and crying the whole time. Later on in "Gavin Featherly R.I.P", Gavin is also believed to be dead after he is lost at sea. In reality, he was captured by Ruthless Modern Pirates.
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The Brittas Empire / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
The Brittas Empire / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: According to Sharing the Dream, the instructions to the "Gordon Brittas Game of Life" board game is 900 pages long, complete with illustrations.
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The Brittas Empire / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
The Brittas Empire / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: Inverted. Brittas spends the majority of the series believing that Tim and Gavin are both single men who are still looking for female love. In truth, they're both gay and in a loving relationship with each other. There is an early episode where he suspects that Tim is gay at least, but he otherwise remains oblivious to both's true sexuality.
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The Brittas Empire / int_56352cc6	type	Animal Assassin
The Brittas Empire / int_56352cc6	comment	Animal Assassin: The episode â€œThat Creeping Feelingâ€� had someone try to kill Brittas by sending over a pair of highly poisonous spiders. One of them eats the other in transit, then bites Colin instead (although he survives in the end).
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The Brittas Empire / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Brittas Empire / int_58970413	comment	Coincidental Broadcast: A television in Gordon's hotel room in Brussels shows a live news report on Whitbury Leisure Centre after two bins full of weedkiller explode. Gordon is of course merrily oblivious and on the telephone at the time.
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The Brittas Empire / int_58c038c9	type	Ridiculous Repossession
The Brittas Empire / int_58c038c9	comment	Ridiculous Repossession: Several mentions are made in Series 1 and 2 of bailiffs taking Carole's bed after her husband runs off and leaves her with an unpaid mortgage on their house. Trouble is that as it is something that Carole needs to live comfortably, it's not something they should be able to take, although it does highlight how desperate Carole's situation is.
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The Brittas Empire / int_592fa231	type	Acquired Error at the Printer
The Brittas Empire / int_592fa231	comment	Acquired Error at the Printer: A Running Gag is that Gordon would order badges which would get â€˜accidentallyâ€™ misprinted to something embarrassing e.g "I've Been for a Swim in the Poo", "'S'hitbury Leisure Centre" etc
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The Brittas Empire / int_598b0106	type	And Here He Comes Now
The Brittas Empire / int_598b0106	comment	And Here He Comes Now: Happens in the episode "The Elephant's Child". Whilst trying to assist Julie through her childbirth in the leisure centre, Helen states that she wishes Gordon were there now. Cue Gordon entering the room planning to make a citizen's arrest. (they had broken into the centre in the dead of night).
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The Brittas Empire / int_59ef66e	type	Scale Model Destruction
The Brittas Empire / int_59ef66e	comment	Scale Model Destruction: Colin presents Brittas with a model of the leisure centre in â€œBack With A Bang", only for him to accidentally sit on it and destroy it twice later on.
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The Brittas Empire / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
The Brittas Empire / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: The centre has a set of ventilation ducts installed in it which Ben sometimes escapes to, which even allows him to become a Kid Hero when the centre blows up and the system breaks apart right beside a trapped Brittas in "High Noon". Ronald, a potential love interest of Carole, once tried the same to get out of the First Aid Room in "Shall We Dance?", but ended up suffering a fate of Uncertain Doom stuck in the vents.
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The Brittas Empire / int_5caef4ca	type	Chainsaw Good
The Brittas Empire / int_5caef4ca	comment	Chainsaw Good: At one point in the episode â€œThe Trialâ€�, Brittas gets his hand stuck to a chainsaw. He winds up accidentally causing grievous bodily harm to several elderly women (by slipping and sawing through their walkers) and (also accidentally) decapitates a gangster.
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The Brittas Empire / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
The Brittas Empire / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: Downplayed in the episode, â€œPlaying With Fireâ€�, when Brittas finds several small fires left by Gavin's pyromaniac fiancee Jenny. When he tries to put them out, the fire spreads onto his leg, causing him to go around with his leg on fire yelping â€œHelp me! Help me!â€�.
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The Brittas Empire / int_5ee2f7cc	type	My Secret Pregnancy
The Brittas Empire / int_5ee2f7cc	comment	My Secret Pregnancy: Carole keeps her pregnancy secret from Brittas during Series 2 as she fears that she would lose her job (and her home). Brittas winds up not finding out until she is actively giving birth. Luckily for Carole, although Brittas considers firing her, he lets her keep her job.
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The Brittas Empire / int_5f1999a0	type	Building of Adventure
The Brittas Empire / int_5f1999a0	comment	Building of Adventure: Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre, thanks to the actions of the Manager there, is a place where you could expect to see fires, rampant animals, explosions, and death on any given day. The show also rarely leaves the centre for much more than a single scene or so.
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The Brittas Empire / int_5f207a1a	type	Courtroom Episode
The Brittas Empire / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: 'The Trial' has Gordon Brittas being put on trial for the procession of drugs, the murder of seven gangsters and the grievous bodily harm of three old women, with flashbacks being used to show How We Got Here.
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The Brittas Empire / int_5fdd598e	type	Slipping into Stink
The Brittas Empire / int_5fdd598e	comment	Slipping into Stink: "The Elephant's Child" ends with Helen and Gordon Brittas falling into elephant excrement. Even worse, Gordon manages to swallow a ring that had been swallowed by the elephant sometime before.
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The Brittas Empire / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Brittas Empire / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Pretty much every single episode in the entire 7 series features some sort of disaster of catastrophic proportions that prevents Gordon from being an effective, bureaucratic leisure centre manager. The spanners are often indirectly caused by Gordon himself, even when he is away in a hotel room in Brussels.
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The Brittas Empire / int_61c2f627	type	Break the Motivational Speaker
The Brittas Empire / int_61c2f627	comment	Break the Motivational Speaker: One comes to give the staff a lecture on not turning to drugs to cope with stress. His encounter with Gordon Brittas has him popping pills in front of an audience and extolling the virtues of "the little green ones," before smashing up the projector and physically assaulting Gordon in a blind rage.
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The Brittas Empire / int_6377d6e6	type	Grievous Harm with a Body
The Brittas Empire / int_6377d6e6	comment	Grievous Harm with a Body: Brittas and Linda are attacked by a man using the body of a dead hawk after Brittas accidentally helps set up its death in â€œAn Inspector Callsâ€�.
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The Brittas Empire / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Brittas Empire / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Brittas himself; pushing someone out of the way of a collapsing roof and getting crushed himself. This allows him to get into Heaven despite all the lives he's ruined...it doesn't last, because even Saint Peter can't stand Brittas.
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The Brittas Empire / int_64d3ffd8	type	The Extremist Was Right
The Brittas Empire / int_64d3ffd8	comment	The Extremist Was Right: Brittas writes several letters to the council asking for a larger fire escape ladder from a small supply cupboard. The original ladder is capable of holding eight people, while Brittas asks for one capable of holding fourteen (a situation which should be highly unlikely). When a fire actually does break out minutes later, fourteen people attempt to escape via the ladder and are badly injured.
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The Brittas Empire / int_66f59ad	type	Balloonacy
The Brittas Empire / int_66f59ad	comment	Balloonacy: In "The Elephant's Child", Helen attempts to stop a promotional balloon from floating away after Tim and Gavin let go of it. She ends up getting airborne. She gets down by crashing into Gordon, and they fall into a pile of elephant shit.
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The Brittas Empire / int_69cc2a27	type	Hilariously Abusive Childhood
The Brittas Empire / int_69cc2a27	comment	Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Downplayed, as Carole is a genuinely loving mother and her situation is normally played sympathetically, but a fair amount of jokes are mined from the fact that she's raising her children in the very enclosed spaces that are the cupboards and drawers behind reception. This is not getting into how she almost roasted Ben alive in his drawer, or the fact that her idea of keeping him safe whilst she's away on a survival course in Wales is putting him in kennels over the Christmas period. With this in mind, no wonder he becomes a bit dangerous to others in Series 6. Then there's what Helen is like with her children - one episode has her managing to leave her twins behind on the bus, and the fact that she can't even remember how many children she has is twice Played for Laughs. Her idea of reassurance to a man whose daughter had gone missing is that when one of her own children goes missing, at least she knows that she has others at home.
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The Brittas Empire / int_6a4f3cf7	type	Took a Level in Dumbass
The Brittas Empire / int_6a4f3cf7	comment	Took a Level in Dumbass: In the first series, Colin starts out as a very mildly competent leisure centre manager, with an assortment of degrees and diplomas to his name, who just happens to suffer severely bad luck. By the time series 7 rolls around, his IQ appears to have dropped at least 70 points, and viewers are left wondering how someone like Colin could possibly acquire a job cleaning toilets, let alone a job as Deputy Manager Wet of a leisure centre.
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The Brittas Empire / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Brittas Empire / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Pretty much the entire show is based upon Gordon Brittas taking his job far, far, far too seriously. Just the kind of bureaucratic nightmare manager who insists on banning pensioners from the pool for taking too long to change. Or ousting little children from a charity swimathon because they were wading instead of swimming. Or requiring triplicate claims forms, identification and CCTV footage over a 20-pence piece in a coffee machine. The list goes on...
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The Brittas Empire / int_6e1e6488	type	Moving-Away Ending
The Brittas Empire / int_6e1e6488	comment	Moving-Away Ending: Although not shown on-screen, Series 5 (then intended to be the final series) ends with this fate for several characters. Brittas (alongside his wife Helen and children) is due to be moving to Brussels to take up the role of European Commissioner of Sports, Carole is moving to Austria to teach singing lessons to a man's children, and Laura is moving to America to raise a child with her reconciled husband. When this proved to be a Series Fauxnale, some of the fates had to be backtracked. Brittas also had a stint being dead at the end of Series 5, so this is revealed to have led to him failing the medical for said job and the man who Carole was heading off with cheated with a nun, leading to both's return. Laura's departure stuck, however, and she's never mentioned again.
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The Brittas Empire / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
The Brittas Empire / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: Two Christmas specials were made in 1994 and 1996 respectively, although neither special specifically deals with a Christmas theme. The 1994 special (In the Beginning...) is the more memorable of the two, showing the leisure centre staff in various vocations on New Year's Eve in the year 2019, as they recall New Year's Eve of 1991 when they were trapped in the centre with each other for days during a fierce blizzard. The 1996 special ("Surviving Christmas") features Brittas and the staff on a survival course in Wales where, amongst other things, they end up targeted by a serial-killing Santa Claus.
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The Brittas Empire / int_6fb5637d	type	Devastating Remark
The Brittas Empire / int_6fb5637d	comment	Devastating Remark: Gordon Brittas has an unnatural talent for these, as his attempts to engage with people prove Innocently Insensitive enough to put them into tears. The most notable example however comes from "Mums and Dads", when Colin shows off a way to get the pianist they plan to get in to play on a piano left sideways - namely through the use of a hoist for disabled swimmers. Brittas isn't amused and tells Colin to essentially bugger off by locking himself up in the attic storeroom. Colin's response after he leaves shows that, as much of a loyal Hero-Worshipper he is of Brittas, even he was hurt by this.
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The Brittas Empire / int_6ff54932	type	Hereditary Twinhood
The Brittas Empire / int_6ff54932	comment	Hereditary Twinhood: The titular character has a twin brother (Horatio Brittas), becomes a father to no less than two sets of twins over the course of the series and is apparently part of the fourth generation of twins in his family.
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The Brittas Empire / int_701cb9a5	type	Sex at Work
The Brittas Empire / int_701cb9a5	comment	Sex at Work: After discovering a pair of pants down the back of one of his couches in his main office, Brittas spends the majority of the episode trying to gather evidence that a "love nest" existed in the leisure centre. Whilst doing so, he discovers that Carole has started living in the centre, having recently been kicked out of her flat. Whilst trying to comfort her, a group of reporters (there for a different reason) barges in and, believing it to be a love nest, captures a photo and makes it headline news in the newspapers. Ultimately Subverted when the pants are revealed to have eventually come from Helen, who at this point in the series is unemployed, cheating on Brittas with another man who doesn't work in the centre.
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The Brittas Empire / int_70b3a3c9	type	The Pearly Gates
The Brittas Empire / int_70b3a3c9	comment	The Pearly Gates: Gordon Brittas shows up here after his Heroic Sacrifice in "The Last Day". He is initially denied access by Saint Peter, but after they receive word of this sacrifice, let him in. They later kick him out through said gates because he's a git.
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The Brittas Empire / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
The Brittas Empire / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: Happens twice: In "Blind Devotion", Colin becomes temporarily blinded, and loses his aunt, pet canary, and life savings in quick succession. This is revealed to occur on his birthday no less. In "Curse Of The Tiger Woman", Brittas loses his only friend to cursed cooking, finds out he is the father to Carole's twins, and is threatened with early retirement. Capping things off, the centre is about to explode, he is attacked by a goose and then finds out that the past seven series were All Just a Dream.
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The Brittas Empire / int_7390323c	type	Sticky Fingers
The Brittas Empire / int_7390323c	comment	Sticky Fingers: It is revealed in the episode "Sex, Lies, and Red Tape" that every time Helen falls pregnant, she gains the urge to shoplift unnecessary stuff (one of the things shoplifted was a wedding dress that was too small for her). She had been convicted at least seven times before the events of that episode, leading to her freaking out when she was caught.
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The Brittas Empire / int_7485b8b1	type	Accidental Adultery
The Brittas Empire / int_7485b8b1	comment	Accidental Adultery: The episode "Temple Of The Body" reveals at the end that Brittas had sex with Carole under the belief that he was bedding his wife Helen (it was a costume party and they were in the same tiger costume). This becomes an issue when Carole falls pregnant from the encounter (though neither finds out until the very end of the series).
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The Brittas Empire / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
The Brittas Empire / int_762b9223	comment	Then there's what Helen is like with her children - one episode has her managing to leave her twins behind on the bus, and the fact that she can't even remember how many children she has is twice Played for Laughs. Her idea of reassurance to a man whose daughter had gone missing is that when one of her own children goes missing, at least she knows that she has others at home.
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The Brittas Empire / int_766c1cc6	type	Who Would Be Stupid Enough?
The Brittas Empire / int_766c1cc6	comment	Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: Occurs in the first Christmas Episode:
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The Brittas Empire / int_767caf1f	type	Multiple Demographic Appeal
The Brittas Empire / int_767caf1f	comment	Multiple Demographic Appeal: Part of the reason for the BBC extending it past its planned 5 series for a total of 7 series. It has Chris Barrie, who has an established fanbase and his own personal estrogen brigade, and a supporting cast that includes his sexy, snarky Number Two, a hot gay couple who run around in shorts and a cute Genki Girl with an enthusiasm for firearms. Adding to that, the comedy is a blend of Work Com humour, absurd surrealism, and Black Comedy about death, suicide, and pill-popping.
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The Brittas Empire / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
The Brittas Empire / int_77922c8c	comment	Batter Up!: The opening minutes of the show has Brittas, in an Establishing Character Moment, confiscate a cricket bat that his stepsons (and his neighbour's son) were using and start trying to show them how to use it properly. He gets whacked below the left knee with said cricket bat in response.
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The Brittas Empire / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Brittas Empire / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Carole's situation in Series 1 and 2 - firstly, her husband runs off on her late into her first pregnancy and she's forced to go into work to pay the bills. Then, she finds out that he has left an unpaid mortgage and that her mother is more interested in giving her marriage counselling rather than pay it off. Then her husband expresses a desire to get back together with her, only to change his mind after Brittas gives him a bad impression of Carole. Then she loses her bed, her mother goes into hospital and becomes unable to look after the children, she falls pregnant again to an unknown father (this time with twins), and is finally kicked out of her apartment, forcing her to move into the leisure centre.
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The Brittas Empire / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
The Brittas Empire / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: The show's writers seem rather keen on electrocutions in particular. During Gordon's tenure at the leisure centre, both a pool full of reborn Pentecostals, and a massive hand-holding circle of children are all electrocuted to near death. Gordon himself also ends up being pumped full of electricity, when Gavin's mentally disturbed fiance Jenny ties him up to Colin's waste management system. Colin also suffers hundreds of amusing injuries off-screen, but comes into work bearing the side effects, such as concussion, memory loss and even blindness at one point. Gordon and Colin are the only two characters who receive life-threatening injuries on a routine basis, although Gavin and Tim are both prone to a good kicking from various people on occasion.
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The Brittas Empire / int_79ba6777	type	Pocket Protector
The Brittas Empire / int_79ba6777	comment	Pocket Protector: Gordon gets shot three times by Julie's police bodyguard in "Reviewing the Situation". Luckily for Gordon, all three of the bullets hit his cigarette case with "I've been to Gravesend" (given by his wife as a gift) inscribed on it.
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The Brittas Empire / int_7a784175	type	So Hideous, It's Terrifying
The Brittas Empire / int_7a784175	comment	So Hideous, It's Terrifying: Colin. He's quite grimy and not the most pleasant to look at, and it doesn't help that one of his Running Gags involves the most disgusting things happening to him. One episode had a group of fleeing pool-goers try to get his autograph because they thought that he was the monster from A Nightmare on Elm Street, whilst another had him realize that this was the case when he is replaced for an exposive documentary on the centre with a more conventionally handsome actor because his appearance was too disgusting for TV, not helped by him remembering that his face was always being covered in the school plays he was in.
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The Brittas Empire / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
The Brittas Empire / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later-Installment Weirdness: The final two series, produced after the original writers left, introduced some changes to the series: Laura was written out and replaced by a solarium/spa manager called Penny, who filled her niche of being the Only Sane Employee if much more outspoken about it. She wasn't very popular with fans however, and was both written out and not replaced for the final series. The plots become Denser and Wackier, with more fantastical elements such as Plant Aliens and doppelgangers being much more common, and there is a move away from Brittas being the instigator of episodic conflict in favour of the whole cast. Whilst up to Series 7, Councillor Drugget only tended to pop up Once a Season, he becomes a recurring character and antagonist in the final series, presumably to try to fill the Only Sane Man niche that Penny left behind. Helen becomes the centre's psychiatrist and officially part of the staff in Series 7, giving her a new reason to come to the centre after Laura and Penny had been written out. Even before the original writers left, Series 5, their final series, was much more continuity-driven than the previous 4 series, with an ongoing Story Arc about Brittas taking up a job in Brussels driving many of the plots of the episodes.
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The Brittas Empire / int_7b981966	type	Beast in the Building
The Brittas Empire / int_7b981966	comment	Beast in the Building: In "The Old, Old Story", something is attacking the customers and users of the Leisure Centre building, so the staff fear that a serial killer is on the loose. It turns out to be an emu, who was turned loose in the building by the army when Brittas refused to allow them in for the reopening of the centre. In "At the Double", a bear that belongs to the Ruthenian circus runs loose in the centre, so Brittas tells everyone to hide in the pool. Unfortunately, Helen thinks that the bear is Brittas wearing a costume for Kinky Role-Playing, and ends up on top of the bear as it bicycles down the side of the pool. In "Mr. Brittas Falls in Love", Brittas is inspired by some time spent with dolphins on a European fact-finding trip to host a "Dolphin Day", complete with a dolphin in the swimming pool. Unfortunately, a combination of Julie's poor secretary skills and Tim's desire to use only the finest ingredients for his cooking leads to a shark being put there instead. Whilst Linda tries to remove it alongside her animal rights group, chaos ensues when the shark is feared to have gobbled up a girl there on work experience. In "Wake Up the Lion Within", Colin purchases a lion with the intention of presenting it as part of his newly opened Children's Corner, all under the cover that it's a "Tasmanian Chipmunk". By the end of the episode, it ends up escaping, wandering through the centre, and hitching a ride in the car of the woman who has just given the centre a European award for Excellence.
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The Brittas Empire / int_7c47e9b9	type	Invented Invalid
The Brittas Empire / int_7c47e9b9	comment	Invented Invalid: Helen Brittas uses this excuse to get away from Gordon, who is driving her mad. She claims she is going to nurse an invalid elderly uncle for two days, but as she is seen in stockings and suspenders and dressing to kill, the audience is primed to doubt this... she does pack a "nurse's outfit", though.
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The Brittas Empire / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
The Brittas Empire / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: In series 7, Gordon gets shot three times by Julie's police bodyguard Greg, after Colin tosses a water pistol at him. All three of the bullets hit his cigarette case with "I've been to Gravesend" inscribed on it, making Gordon worried that it might upset his wife who gave him the case as a 'gift'. The first episode of series 3 features Gordon playing with what he presumably assumes to be a toy pistol, which then naturally goes off and hits a wall.
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The Brittas Empire / int_7d7ff0b0	type	Crashing Dreams
The Brittas Empire / int_7d7ff0b0	comment	Crashing Dreams: The final episode, which concludes with Gordon Brittas waking up on an ark that Colin the janitor has been secretly building in the car park of the leisure centre. After a moment, he's jolted out of the dream by Colin repeatedly calling "Tickets, please" and realizes that he's been asleep on a train... also that Colin is in fact the conductor, he's on his way to the interview for the job he's had throughout the series, and the entire fifty-odd episodes of the program have been a dream.
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The Brittas Empire / int_7e415ab5	type	Hospital Epilogue
The Brittas Empire / int_7e415ab5	comment	Hospital Epilogue: The episode "Assassin" ends with Brittas lying in intensive care after having been run over by a treacle lorry. â€œWe All Fall Downâ€� ends with Brittas visiting Helen in hospital and dropping off some blackcurrant juice for the electrocuted children in intensive care, not knowing that Helen had drugged the juice with laxatives earlier in the episode.
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The Brittas Empire / int_7e4b4b8a	type	Faking and Entering
The Brittas Empire / int_7e4b4b8a	comment	Faking and Entering: In "The Elephant's Child", Helen wants to run a business in the centre, replacing the solarium and sauna up for lease after the departure of Penny. Unfortunately, she does not have the money to do so. To resolve this issue, she engineers a break-in of the centre with Julie so that she can take her fur-coat so that she can claim it was stolen, and get insurance for it. Unfortunately for her, the plan is complicated by Julie giving birth in the centre.
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The Brittas Empire / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Brittas Empire / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Although the camera cuts away before we see the chainsaw hit flesh, Brittas manages to accidentally cut off the head of a South American gangster by complete accident in "The Trial".
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The Brittas Empire / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
The Brittas Empire / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: With the exception of Brittas note First mentioned to be 33 in "Back from the Dead" and last mentioned to be about to turn 37 in "Curse of the Tiger Women" , Helen note Stated to be 40 in "Snap Happy" , and Gavin note Said to be 24 in "Playing with Fire" before being changed to 36 for "Gavin Featherly R.I.P." , none of the ages of the characters is given. Laura at least is implied to be older than the non-management members of the staff, but younger than Brittas, possibly placing her in her late 20s to early 30s, whilst Colin is old enough to have a daughter who is at minimum in her late teens.
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The Brittas Empire / int_7f421e71	type	Mistaken for Undead
The Brittas Empire / int_7f421e71	comment	Mistaken for Undead: In the episode "Back From The Dead", Brittas is presumed to have been killed in Bulgaria. Naturally, he later turns up alive and well but a series of misunderstandings lead Carole and Colin to believe that he is a bodiless spirit and that he is trying to get back to the land of the living by taking Carole's body. Later, Carole believes that he is trying her son Ben's body for eternal youth and tries to crush Brittas' car with him inside it.
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The Brittas Empire / int_7f9ca3a9	type	DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm
The Brittas Empire / int_7f9ca3a9	comment	Does Not Understand Sarcasm: Actually, make that Does Not Understand Anything Subtler Than Total Brute Honesty.
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The Brittas Empire / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Brittas Empire / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: A couple of these in "Laying The Foundations": Gordon Brittas' first scene in has him attempt to show his stepsons how to play cricket, annoy the hell out of them and then confiscate the cricket bat when they don't listen. This displays how he is a person who tries to help but is too annoying to be truly helpful. Helen's Brittas' first scene has her wearily agreeing with everything Brittas says, then hitting the bottle once he leaves the room. This shows how she is a wife who is so broken down by her husband, that she has become an Addled Addict. Colin's first scene has him rattle off all his various infections and treatments much to the displeasure of Laura. This shows how he is basically a physically disgusting character who has a tendency to give off Too Much Information about his afflictions. Carole's first scene has her having a meltdown in reception, showing off how she is not the happiest person and that sheâ€™s perpetually struggling (especially when itâ€™s revealed that itâ€™s because her husband has left her and sheâ€™s suffering from post natal depression).
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The Brittas Empire / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Brittas Empire / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The first episode of series 3 employs this trope, showing Gordon Brittas in court being tried for murder. The episode then goes through a series of flashbacks to show just how seven gangsters wound up dead in his leisure centre. "Gavin Featherly R.I.P." ends with the staff discovering Gavin's clothes on a beach, with Brittas telling everyone that it means that Gavin is likely dead. The episode then goes back a couple of days showing just how the staff came to be in this situation.
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The Brittas Empire / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
The Brittas Empire / int_82fc5bdf	comment	There are some indicators that their time living in the leisure centre has made Ben and his younger twin sisters Emily and Jessica Bratty Half-Pints who show Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour and who are interested in inflicting violence or owning weapons. This trait can be seen in the fact that one of the toys they are shown to own in "The Last Day" is a toy rabbit hooked up to a miniature electric chair.
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The Brittas Empire / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
The Brittas Empire / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Although not outright stated, it is made very clear that Tim and Gavin are in a relationship. Most of the humour from their relationship however instead comes from Gordon Brittas' obliviousness to it and they lack the traits associated with Camp Gay.
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The Brittas Empire / int_83c7baa0	type	Step Servant
The Brittas Empire / int_83c7baa0	comment	Step Servant: Carole's stepmother forced her to give up her dreams of being a pianist, instead forcing her to go beauty school and to do domestic chores (installing a Stay in the Kitchen mindset into her, claiming that was all she was good for). Poor Carole hasn't managed to escape this fate even in adulthood, despite no longer living with her stepmother (and being homeless) as in "Mums and Dads" she forces her to clean her house, whilst taking her two daughters to a grand ball.
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The Brittas Empire / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
The Brittas Empire / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Where exactly is Whitbury? From what can be gathered, it's somewhere in Southern England and references to Ringwood (the filming location in real life) pop up from time to time, but there isn't anything definite.
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The Brittas Empire / int_853e45d1	type	Mistaken for Pregnant
The Brittas Empire / int_853e45d1	comment	Mistaken for Pregnant: Gordon Brittas spends an entire episode accusing 17 staff members of being pregnant, thanks to a mix-up in samples, including Tim Whistler. The pregnancy is eventually revealed to be Julie's. Inverted in Series 2, where Brittas thinks that Carole is gaining weight when in reality, she is pregnant.
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The Brittas Empire / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Brittas Empire / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Brittas died when a water tank fell on him. When he ascended to Heaven though, they couldn't stand him, so they dropped him back on Earth.
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The Brittas Empire / int_89897126	type	New Year Has Come
The Brittas Empire / int_89897126	comment	New Year Has Come: Although it was released as a Christmas Episode, the plot of 'In The Beginning' is closer to this. It features the former staff of Whitbury Leisure Centre coming together to celebrate New Year's Eve 2019 whilst flashing back to the time when they spent New Year's Eve 1989 snowed in the centre.
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The Brittas Empire / int_898eca04	type	Living Photo
The Brittas Empire / int_898eca04	comment	Living Photo: In "Shall We Dance?", Laura shows Brittas some photos of the time he went over to build an arbor for her. As Brittas and Laura look at the photos, one of them begins moving, seguing into a Flashback of the time in question.
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The Brittas Empire / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
The Brittas Empire / int_8a07e085	comment	The plots become Denser and Wackier, with more fantastical elements such as Plant Aliens and doppelgangers being much more common, and there is a move away from Brittas being the instigator of episodic conflict in favour of the whole cast.
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The Brittas Empire / int_8bc5b86e	type	One-Shot Character
The Brittas Empire / int_8bc5b86e	comment	P.C. Edwards (an One-Shot Character from "Reviewing The Situation") has "ASSUME THE POSITION!".
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The Brittas Empire / int_92f80196	type	The Inspector Is Coming
The Brittas Empire / int_92f80196	comment	The Inspector Is Coming: The plot of the episode "An Inspector Calls" revolves around a visit by the Southern Area Inspector. Brittas is concerned due to the abysmally low attendance figures and his case is not helped by him greeting the inspector covered in eagle blood. Luckily for Brittas, the Southern Area Inspector turns out to be just like him (believes in the dream, more interested in cleanliness and noticeboards than attendance figures etc.) so he doesn't get fired.
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The Brittas Empire / int_937fc70c	type	Chalk Outline
The Brittas Empire / int_937fc70c	comment	Chalk Outline: After Brittas is crushed to death in â€œThe Last Dayâ€�, Caroleâ€™s son Ben is seen putting flowers on a chalk outline of Brittas' body in the centre.
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The Brittas Empire / int_939a84fa	type	Embarrassing Tattoo
The Brittas Empire / int_939a84fa	comment	Embarrassing Tattoo: Helen spends the entirety of "The Boss" trying to remove a tattoo that she doesn't remember getting (the tattoo being something explicit with "I'm a Goer" written underneath it). She's eventually able to change it into a tattoo of a butterfly with I â™¥ Gordon written under it).
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The Brittas Empire / int_943b920b	type	Electrified Bathtub
The Brittas Empire / int_943b920b	comment	Electrified Bathtub: A concussed Colin once took Brittas' sarcastic statement of asking him to attach one end of the rope to a lightning conductor and the other to a trouser zip and jumping off seriously and needed to be stopped.. In the resulting kerfluffle, said conductor winds up being thrown into the pool and electrocuting a group of Pentecostalists who were being baptised.
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The Brittas Empire / int_94e7d8f	type	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!
The Brittas Empire / int_94e7d8f	comment	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!: Brittas get shot in the episode 'Reviewing the Situation' due to Collin throwing him a water pistol in front of Julie's bodyguard.
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The Brittas Empire / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
The Brittas Empire / int_95cb7004	comment	Penny, the health spa manager was an obvious replacement for Laura, with both being the female Only Sane Employee of the centre. The only real difference is that whilst Laura was liked by the staff, Penny was The Friend Nobody Likes.
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The Brittas Empire / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
The Brittas Empire / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Averted in this case - a plot point in Series 1 and 2 is Helen trying to get marriage counselling for her and Brittas, although it ends poorly when Brittas is suspected of cheating on her. Additionally, by Series 7, it's revealed that most of the staff are in therapy thanks to Brittas and a plotline during the series has Helen becoming one herself.
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The Brittas Empire / int_97069d40	type	Harmless Electrocution
The Brittas Empire / int_97069d40	comment	Harmless Electrocution: Colin gets electrocuted trying to retrieve juggling balls from a live wire in "Sex, Lies and Red Tape". Despite being electrocuted (and falling a significant height as a result) however, he's only mildly stunned, and he's okay several scenes later. Gordon himself gets electrocuted when he is linked up to one of Colin's contraptions in "Playing with Fire", but aside from a couple of twitches and slight burns, he's okay. Helen is electrocuted alongside a entire line of children at the end of "We All Fall Down", but despite ending up in hospital, she's unbothered by the experience and actually feels energised. Not so much for the actual children, who are sent to intensive care as a result of the incident.
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The Brittas Empire / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Brittas Empire / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Brittas does this a fair bit. Other characters as well, such as the once mentioned Lord Milbanks, who threw something at Brittas, missed, hit the fireplace with it, and got in a lot of trouble. He sends Brittas a parcel containing a venomous tarantula as revenge, even though it wouldn't have happened if Milbanks had just kept his temper in check.
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The Brittas Empire / int_99010fab	type	Maternity Crisis
The Brittas Empire / int_99010fab	comment	Maternity Crisis: Carole's pregnancy in Series 2 ends with her being tended to in the sauna by a vet of all people. Helen Brittas's disastrous birth of her twins in the middle of Whitbury High Street, delivered by passing transvestite medical students, after Gordon manages to get their car boxed in. Julie's pregnancy in Series 5, 6, and the first episode of 7 ends with her giving birth in the basement of the centre during a mission to burn Helen's fur coat so that Helen can collect the insurance off it.
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The Brittas Empire / int_99b1a6c5	type	Post-Adventure Adventure
The Brittas Empire / int_99b1a6c5	comment	Post-Adventure Adventure: The story begins when the titular character is Kicked Upstairs from his previous job at Aldershot Leisure Centre. What little we do hear of it suggests that his time there was just as hectic (and also his fault) as with Whitbury (for one thing, it apparently ended with Brittas having to dig up people from some rubble and getting a medal for bravery) but we never see any of it.
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The Brittas Empire / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
The Brittas Empire / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: The centre is set in a small town in the extreme south of England, and most of its staff members are locals. Colin and Julie, from Sunderland and Rotherham respectively, are the exceptions, with their funny northern accents and general lack of cohesiveness with the rest of the hard-working team.
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The Brittas Empire / int_9a692ae9	type	13 Is Unlucky
The Brittas Empire / int_9a692ae9	comment	13 Is Unlucky: The flashbacks in "The Trial", which involved the deaths of seven gangsters and the grievous bodily harm inflicted on several elderly people, is noted to have taken place on Friday the Thirteenth.
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The Brittas Empire / int_9b60b728	type	Addled Addict
The Brittas Empire / int_9b60b728	comment	Helen's Brittas' first scene has her wearily agreeing with everything Brittas says, then hitting the bottle once he leaves the room. This shows how she is a wife who is so broken down by her husband, that she has become an Addled Addict.
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The Brittas Empire / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
The Brittas Empire / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: The episode "In the Beginning" is this, flashing back to the first winter of the leisure centre and telling the tale of how everyone got snowed in over New Year's Day and bonded as a result.
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The Brittas Empire / int_9d70c212	type	Sassy Secretary
The Brittas Empire / int_9d70c212	comment	Before that, Julie was one for Angie, with both being Brittas' blonde-haired Northern sassy secretaries.
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The Brittas Empire / int_9f9540ae	type	We Can Rebuild Him
The Brittas Empire / int_9f9540ae	comment	We Can Rebuild Him: After his return from the dead, Brittas had to undergo extensive surgery. Although outwardly, he looks no different, he's stated to have a bionic butt, no belly button, and has enough metal parts within him that it wound up delaying his trip through a metal detector. He's also stated to be much stronger, gaining a Crushing Handshake and at one point lifting Linda up into the air with ease.
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The Brittas Empire / int_a10d8339	type	The Show Must Go On
The Brittas Empire / int_a10d8339	comment	The Show Must Go On: In the episode "Mums and Dads", the pianist who had been meant to play has been knocked unconscious by a piano and they need to find another one in the next half hour to start the concert planned that night. Unfortunately, a poor choice of words by Laura leads Brittas to play the piano instead. Cue Cringe Comedy.
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The Brittas Empire / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
The Brittas Empire / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: When Gordon is shot at three times by Julie's police bodyguard, one of the bullets ricochets and shoots Colin in the head, causing him to lapse into unconsciousness. However, it doesn't damage his brain more than it already is, and he's back as cheerful as ever in the next episode. Gavin gets shot in the shoulder and pinned to a door by a bumbling Colin with a harpoon gun in an earlier episode.
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The Brittas Empire / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
The Brittas Empire / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: The 1994 Christmas Special, set twenty-five years in the future, is directly contradicted by the All Just a Dream ending that the show's new writers came up with at the end of series 7.
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The Brittas Empire / int_a36fb848	type	Grand Staircase Entrance
The Brittas Empire / int_a36fb848	comment	Grand Staircase Entrance: In the 1994 Christmas Special set in the year 2019, a butler introduces Sir Gordon and Lady Brittas as they majestically walk arm-in-arm down a massive staircase in a Scottish castle.
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The Brittas Empire / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Brittas Empire / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Brittas' death and funeral in "The Last Day" is played surprisingly seriously for the show, with everyone being very sad. However, this is then followed by a scene in the afterlife which has Brittas being his usual humorous annoying self, to the point where he is actually kicked out.
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The Brittas Empire / int_a4f81481	type	Circus Episode
The Brittas Empire / int_a4f81481	comment	Circus Episode: The episode â€œAt The Doubleâ€� is about the Ruthenian State Circus coming to Whitbury as part of an EU initiative. Chaos ensues when one of the clowns performing as part of the act, Vlad, is revealed to be an Identical Stranger to Brittas.
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The Brittas Empire / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
The Brittas Empire / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: The first time Brittas was announced to be dead, 1200 people are stated to have come to his funeral, with the heavy implication that they came because of this trope. The cast doesn't seem too bothered by the death either, with Tim and Gavin at least being remarkably pleased once they hear of it.
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The Brittas Empire / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
The Brittas Empire / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: The Rt. Hon. Sebastian Coe MP shoots a small documentary at Whitbury New Town, and is roped into opening a leisure centre toilet named after himself by Gordon Brittas, with the promise of "it'll only take two minutes." Of course, he ends up chained to a stair rail while the leisure centre is pillaged and sacked by an army of Romans. In the 1994 Christmas special, the Rt. Hon. Gavin Featherly MP comments on what a fantastic job Prime Minister Sebastian Coe is doing. There's also Pam Rhodes (in real life a presenter of Songs of Praise), who shows up at the centre to organise a performance of the show. Of course, said performance is eventually wrecked by an emu crashing into it.
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The Brittas Empire / int_a6bf7a7b	type	Ambulance Chaser
The Brittas Empire / int_a6bf7a7b	comment	Ambulance Chaser: Julie drafts in John Rawlinson, a sleazy lawyer she met while stripping at the pub, to assist in acquitting Helen Brittas of attempted murder. Helen proceeds to have an affair with Rawlinson while Gordon is at a conference in Brussels.
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The Brittas Empire / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
The Brittas Empire / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: And how. The leisure centre is blown up, burned down twice, fully computerised and attacked by an army of Romans complete with war elephants but it just doesn't take. The title character dies and he's back by the end of the episode.
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The Brittas Empire / int_a91a3b48	type	Gollum Made Me Do It
The Brittas Empire / int_a91a3b48	comment	Gollum Made Me Do It: â€œWake Up the Lion Withinâ€� has Carole accidentally spawn an alter-ego when she decides to â€œroar like a lionâ€� to unlock her true potential. Said alter-ego then cajoles her into becoming the new manager of the centre and bullies the rest of the staff. Itâ€™s not until Carole stands up for herself that said alter-ego vanishes.
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The Brittas Empire / int_ab173426	type	Ruthless Modern Pirates
The Brittas Empire / int_ab173426	comment	Ruthless Modern Pirates: Gavin gets rescued and then promptly Bound and Gagged by French pirates after getting lost at sea on Colin's potato-powered lilo. He manages to call Tim for help, but nobody believes Tim when he mentions pirates.
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The Brittas Empire / int_ac09b22b	type	Group Picture Ending
The Brittas Empire / int_ac09b22b	comment	Group Picture Ending: The episode 'High Noon' ends with the staff getting a photo taken in front of the destroyed leisure centre.
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The Brittas Empire / int_acd7e590	type	Sticky Situation
The Brittas Empire / int_acd7e590	comment	Sticky Situation: Gordon gets stuck (with super-glue) to various stuff over the course of "The Trial", culminating in him getting stuck to a chainsaw.
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The Brittas Empire / int_ad6593eb	type	Cut-and-Paste Note
The Brittas Empire / int_ad6593eb	comment	Cut-and-Paste Note: The English teacher of Helen's son Jonathan accidentally receives one of these in "Brussels Calling", reading "I know where you live and I am going to get you". Since Helen had only recently attempted to murder him, he naturally believes that she's making another attempt at it. Julie also receives a series of these in "Reviewing The Situation", leading to her getting a bodyguard to protect her. They turn out to be coming from her ex-boyfriend, who wants to get back together with her.
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The Brittas Empire / int_b0021c03	type	Rodent Cellmates
The Brittas Empire / int_b0021c03	comment	Rodent Cellmates: A side plot in "Set in Concrete" involves Ben becoming friends with a mouse, much to his mother Carole's horror. It is also suggested that the reason that Ben became friends with the mouse is that, having to spend much of his time playing in a cupboard whilst Carole works behind reception, he is probably in desperate need of company.
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The Brittas Empire / int_b1191cb2	type	I Ate WHAT?!
The Brittas Empire / int_b1191cb2	comment	I Ate WHAT?!: When Linda finds out that she ate carpet foam instead of dessert topping in "Snap Happy", she pukes in a packet of crisps.
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The Brittas Empire / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Brittas Empire / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Several times: The 1994 Christmas Special shows Julie working at the centre in 1991 mere days after it first opened. This contradicts Series 1, which had the long-lost Angie working there instead. Initially, Carole's twins were a boy and a girl (Tom and Emily). However, by series 5, Tom had turned into a girl, Jessica. Also, initially, Helen and Gordon had three children, Jonathan, Tom, and an unnamed third child. This increases to five with the birth of Matthew and Mark in Series 3. However, "Shall We Dance?" retcons this away by having Helen claim to have four children, which is maintained on into the end of the series.
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The Brittas Empire / int_b2b16a23	type	Holding in Laughter
The Brittas Empire / int_b2b16a23	comment	Holding in Laughter: "Biggles Tells a Lie", Colin tells Laura that he has an illegitimate daughter, and that he has been pretending to be a Manager so that she could be proud of him. When he admits that he didn't want to tell the rest of the staff as he feared that they might have laughed, Laura reassures him that they won't, although it doesn't stop her from struggling to keep a straight face and not laughing anyway.
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The Brittas Empire / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
The Brittas Empire / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: Linda, who's also the only staff member who seems to respect and admire Brittas, apart from Colin.
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The Brittas Empire / int_b41c411e	type	Toilet Humour
The Brittas Empire / int_b41c411e	comment	Toilet Humour: Mainly focused around whatever gross physical ailment has befallen Colin this episode, but not entirely. Examples include characters falling into and being dragged through animal poop, rats being flushed down toilets, and the audience of a Christening held in one of the bathrooms ignorantly eating piss-covered cake.
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The Brittas Empire / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
The Brittas Empire / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Brittas has an awful tendency to take what are minor problems and turn them into epic failures thanks to his poor social skills and obsession with rules. Some highlights: Brittas once volunteered for the Samaritans for a night. His tenure there led to four people committing suicide after talking to him, with one of them having gotten the wrong number. Once, Brittas tried to put up a novelty clock which he had purchased for his (then former) staff. This led to the leisure centre blowing up. Brittas also tried to get a staff photo taken. Although the attempts made were all failures, the final one takes the cake - it is ruined by an exploding bomb shelter, an out-of-control car, and Helen parachuting in to the photo in that order.
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The Brittas Empire / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Brittas Empire / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The European Union, then a new political institution, is not treated very kindly by the show, especially in Series 4 and 5. In "Mr. Brittas Changes Trains", they're depicted as wasting European Funds away for lavish dinners for their committees. In "The Old, Old Story", Councillor Drugget outright calls it "a pointless bureaucracy spending vast amounts of money", which Laura doesn't seem to argue with. Laura's idea of reassurance to Helen the episode after is even that Brittas would be perfect in his new job there as European Commissioner for Sport, which gives off the impression that the EU is a perfect place for Obstructive Bureaucrats like Brittas.
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The Brittas Empire / int_b96ee227	type	Everyone Meets Everyone
The Brittas Empire / int_b96ee227	comment	Everyone Meets Everyone: The first episode ("Laying The Foundations") is about Gordon Brittas' first day on the job. Whilst there, he (and the majority of the rest of the employees) meet each other for the very first time.
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The Brittas Empire / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
The Brittas Empire / int_ba236071	comment	Later on, "The Elephant's Child" has Julie give birth to a child in the leisure centre during a break-in orchestrated by Helen to steal her own fur-coat. She winds up naming the child after Brittas and Colin, who assisted in the delivery.
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The Brittas Empire / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
The Brittas Empire / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Southern Areas Inspector Brian Kitson to Gordon Brittas. They both have had experience running a leisure centre, both have a dream, believe that attendance figures are not important in the long run and are more interested in tidy noticeboards and clean centres. This actually saves Brittas from getting fired as any other inspector would likely have closed the place down.
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The Brittas Empire / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
The Brittas Empire / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Councillor Druggett gives Brittas one of these in 'The Chop': Either he accepts responsibility for the the irregularity in the petty cash and resigns from his job, or his wife (who actually took it to buy a dog) accepts responsibility and goes to jail. He takes the blame and resigns. Luckily for Brittas, he doesn't lose it for long.
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The Brittas Empire / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
The Brittas Empire / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Gavin's secret, long-lost fiance Jessica is not only a redhead, but also a mentally disturbed pyromaniac who sets fire to things and plays with fireworks as a form of anger management.
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The Brittas Empire / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
The Brittas Empire / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: Brittas, in his actions, is intending to follow his Dream, a Dream of world peace and harmony. However, these actions tend to lead to fighting and anger. It's spelt out for him in "That Creeping Feeling" when a psychologist meets him and suggests giving up on it to ensure a happier centre. The lesson here is that, sometimes, following your dreams will lead to nothing but disappointment, especially if you don't have the skills to do so. Brittas' Brutal Honesty and hatred of lying is framed as a bad thing, causing more trouble and stressing people out. In contrast, whilst the elaborate schemes built upon lies conducted by the staff tend to be exposed, the core lie is retained and the person being lied to is stated to be much happier than if they had been told the truth. The lesson here is thus that sometimes, Brutal Honesty is not the way to go about things - sometimes, you have to tell a lie to spare someone's feelings, a lesson which even Brittas learns.
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The Brittas Empire / int_bda88535	type	Life Isn't Fair
The Brittas Empire / int_bda88535	comment	Life Isn't Fair: During "The Chop", Tim goes up to Brittas to complain that the game they were playing was unfair (as he was getting worse off despite being sensible with his money whilst Gavin was spending money like crazy and is still rich). Brittas, who is suffering from some personal issues (he has been threatened with mandatory retirement) replies with this:
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The Brittas Empire / int_bf016fce	type	Judgement of the Dead
The Brittas Empire / int_bf016fce	comment	Judgement of the Dead: One episode has Brittas dying and being sent up to heaven. He is read a List of Transgressions from Saint Peter and is subsequently prevented from going to Heaven. However, Peter then receives word of the Heroic Sacrifice he committed beforehand, which allows him in.
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The Brittas Empire / int_bf95550c	type	Tie-In Novel
The Brittas Empire / int_bf95550c	comment	Tie-In Novel: Gordon Brittas: Sharing the Dream, released in 1994, is a book that gives us Brittas' perspective of the events of the first four series, as well as his philosophy of life and how to make it in the world.
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The Brittas Empire / int_c253697	type	Good Behavior Points
The Brittas Empire / int_c253697	comment	Good Behavior Points: According to "Assassin", Brittas uses a sticker-based award system, with the eventual award of dinner at the Berni Inn with him. Of course, since Brittas is a Pointy-Haired Boss, we see Gavin trying to get out of it by removing his stickers and giving them to someone else. However, he is caught by Brittas, who gives him more stickers for what he perceives to be a good act.
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The Brittas Empire / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
The Brittas Empire / int_c25c7890	comment	In the later series, Brittas using management tools that involve Fun with Acronyms.
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The Brittas Empire / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
The Brittas Empire / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: In â€œBack From The Deadâ€�, Carole, believing that Brittas is about to take the body of her son for eternal youth, attacks his car (with him inside it) with an excavator.
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The Brittas Empire / int_c2e295cd	type	Curse
The Brittas Empire / int_c2e295cd	comment	Curse: The final episode has a gypsy put a curse on Gordon so that anything that he cooks is lethal to anyone who eats it. Casualties include a lot of birds and Councillor Druggett.
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The Brittas Empire / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
The Brittas Empire / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Helen hung out with next-door neighbour Pam, who undergoes Chuck Cunningham Syndrome afterwards and is replaced by a closer friendship with Laura.
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The Brittas Empire / int_c4976d7c	type	Vehicular Sabotage
The Brittas Empire / int_c4976d7c	comment	Vehicular Sabotage: The episode â€œAssassinâ€� revolved around a man who was trying to kill the titular character. His first attempt at doing this was to cut Brittasâ€™ car brakes. Of course, this fails, although Helen is injured as a result.
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The Brittas Empire / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
The Brittas Empire / int_c4db6423	comment	Carole, who has a tendency to get into Yank the Dog's Chain situations and whose home situation is so bad that she has to raise her children in the leisure centre. Of course, it doesn't help that in the earlier series, Brittas had a tendency to call her unattractive.
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The Brittas Empire / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
The Brittas Empire / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: The identity of the father of Caroleâ€™s twins. The audience finds out early in Series 2 that the father is Gordon Brittas, but neither Gordon nor Carole finds out until the very end of the show in Series 7.
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The Brittas Empire / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
The Brittas Empire / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: A fair amount of the humour of the show is watching the disastrous consequences that come from Gordon Brittas' poor social and management skills. A stand-out example comes from "Mums and Dads", which ends with Brittas playing a hilariously disastrous rendition of "Knock Three Times" that cringes out the audience watching.
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The Brittas Empire / int_c67e470	type	But You Were There, and You, and You
The Brittas Empire / int_c67e470	comment	But You Were There, and You, and You: The show is revealed to be the entirety of a dream at the end of the series, with Brittas using random bystanders as characters within the dream. For instance, Colin is a ticket conductor, Carole is with Gavin, Julie is an onboard caterer and Linda is a nun (and seemingly with Tim).
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The Brittas Empire / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Brittas Empire / int_c70fc0a2	comment	Pretentious Latin Motto: The centre's motto is Semper Omnibus Facultas, which Brittas translates it in "Underwater Wedding" to "Open to All".
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The Brittas Empire / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Brittas Empire / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Series 1 recycled a joke from Red Dwarf about Chris Barrie's character joining the Samaritans, and the resulting crop of suicides (one of which was a wrong number) being called "Black Friday". Also doubles as an Actor Allusion.
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The Brittas Empire / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Brittas Empire / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: The episode "Mums and Dads" in Series 2 covers these for several characters. Gordon's unbreakable self-esteem can be traced to his father having constantly showered him with praise since the day he was born. Helen's neuroses and history of depression are implied to stem from her parents' disparaging and hypercritical attitude toward her. Carole's constant woes and low sense of self-worth appear to be a result of her parents constantly discouraging her from pursuing her dreams and instead sending her to Beauty School so she could learn to make herself more attractive to men.
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The Brittas Empire / int_c92bd7ed	type	Spiders Are Scary
The Brittas Empire / int_c92bd7ed	comment	Spiders Are Scary: "That Creeping Feeling" had someone try to assassinate Brittas by sending over a mating pair of extremely (as in, the poison kills in minutes) venomous spiders to the centre. The female ate the male in transit and eventually bit Colin in an unmentionable area, leading to Brittas having to Suck Out the Poison in order to save his life.
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The Brittas Empire / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
The Brittas Empire / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Brittas has traits of this. For starters, his entire purpose in life is to spread peace and harmony throughout the world. Additionally, Series 5 starts with him being betrayed by one of his best friends, like Judas betraying Jesus, and ends with him committing a Heroic Sacrifice and dying before being resurrected. This is of course Played for Laughs - Brittas is more likely to spread chaos and disharmony than unity and the entire reason he was resurrected was that he proved to be Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth.
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The Brittas Empire / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
The Brittas Empire / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Gordon Brittas, who finds time to hold morning singalongs and team-building exercises, even while stranded for days in a blizzard with no food, electricity or heat. Colin is farther out than Brittas. Remember when he saw aliens and hung himself from a coat rack in defence?
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The Brittas Empire / int_cc8e6ce1	type	Politician Guest-Star
The Brittas Empire / int_cc8e6ce1	comment	Politician Guest-Star: One episode had an appearance by MP at the time Sebastian Coe. He winds up chained to a side rail whilst an army of Romans rampage through the centre.
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The Brittas Empire / int_cd149b1e	type	Silent Treatment
The Brittas Empire / int_cd149b1e	comment	Silent Treatment: In â€œThat Creeping Feelingâ€�, the majority of the staff refuse to speak to Brittas after he obtains their personal fitness targets through privacy-violating ways. They eventually start talking to him again after Brittas sucks the poison out of a spider-inflicted wound around Colin's crotch.
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The Brittas Empire / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
The Brittas Empire / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: Laura, so much. Every time Brittas leaves her in charge, business booms and the centre runs like clockwork. The thought of her leaving is enough to reduce Helen to tears.
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The Brittas Empire / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Brittas Empire / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: The series is 100% white for pretty much its entire run, a good representation of semi-rural England.
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The Brittas Empire / int_ce90c792	type	No Title
The Brittas Empire / int_ce90c792	comment	No Title: The first series didn't go out with any names. Averted come Series 2, which had titles provided for it via Radio Times listings, and from Series 3 onwards, where the title for the episode shows up in the episode proper.
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The Brittas Empire / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
The Brittas Empire / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: Shockingly, despite the fact that Carole's children are being raised in actual drawers and cupboards in the unstable environment that is the leisure centre, it takes five series for someone from social services to actually come in and look into the issue. Whilst the person does take the issue seriously and is eventually convinced to take Carole on as a music teacher after listening to the children singing, Series 6 has her back at the centre after he broke up with her, said man seemingly not caring that the children have just gone back into that unstable life, and no-one looks into the issue again in spite of the fact that Ben starts exhibiting violent behaviour apparently thanks to said upbringing.
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The Brittas Empire / int_cfbdf361	type	Surprise Multiple Birth
The Brittas Empire / int_cfbdf361	comment	Surprise Multiple Birth: A plot point in Series 2 revolves around Carole being pregnant. "New Generations" has her give birth and to everyone's surprise, it turns out to be twins. Justified in that Carole hadn't had any further check-ups with her doctor since the initial announcement, with the hope that the pregnancy would terminate naturally.
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The Brittas Empire / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Brittas Empire / int_d06305ff	comment	Talking with Signs: The beginning of the episode "Sex, Lies and Red Tape", has Gordon go on a sponsored silence to fund raise for a trampoline. As a result, to continue running the centre, he communicates with the staff through the usage of written signs, which becomes problematic when he has to take a call for Helen.
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The Brittas Empire / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
The Brittas Empire / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: In the episode, "Sex, Lies, and Red Tape", Laura gives the confused Mr. Brittas a rather strong kiss after yelling about her unrelenting hatred of his idiocy.
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The Brittas Empire / int_d2c125f3	type	Gypsy Curse
The Brittas Empire / int_d2c125f3	comment	Gypsy Curse: The final episode has an angry gypsy curse Gordon so that his cooking becomes lethal to anyone who eats it.
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The Brittas Empire / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
The Brittas Empire / int_d308cbb0	comment	"Curse of the Tiger Women", the final episode of the series, ends with Brittas smiling to the side as he utters his "I have a Dream..." Character Catchphrase, showing how even though the events of the series were All Just a Dream, his Dream of making the world a better place still remains.
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The Brittas Empire / int_d3a49315	type	Toy-Based Characterization
The Brittas Empire / int_d3a49315	comment	Toy-Based Characterization: In "The Trial", Brittas briefly plays with a gun which he seemingly believes to be a toy, only hiding it when Linda shows up. This indicates that he is a straight-faced man who prioritises work over slacking off, but does have a more innocent if hidden side. Consequently, when he is hypnotised in "Mr. Brittas Changes Trains" the indicator that it has worked is when he plays trains with Ben, showing that he has lightened up and is more willing to embrace that innocent side. There are some indicators that their time living in the leisure centre has made Ben and his younger twin sisters Emily and Jessica Bratty Half-Pints who show Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour and who are interested in inflicting violence or owning weapons. This trait can be seen in the fact that one of the toys they are shown to own in "The Last Day" is a toy rabbit hooked up to a miniature electric chair.
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The Brittas Empire / int_d40d7fc1	type	Hypno Fool
The Brittas Empire / int_d40d7fc1	comment	Hypno Fool: The episode "Mr. Brittas Changes Trains" opens on the outcome of a stage hypnotist, leading to the staff exhibiting strange behaviour for 24 hours. For instance, Patrick gets a Potty Emergency when he hears a bell, Colin says â€œI love youâ€� when someone mentions â€˜needâ€™, Carole makes a noise like a bullfrog at the end of each sentence, and Linda barks like a dog. Later, when Brittas sends in the hypnotist to try to cure Helenâ€™s stress-related paralysis, it ends up backfiring and hypnotising him into a better person, albeit temporarily.
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The Brittas Empire / int_d46899fc	type	Business Trip Adultery
The Brittas Empire / int_d46899fc	comment	Business Trip Adultery: In "Brussels Calling", Helen has an affair with a lawyer (drafted in when she tried to kill a teacher) whilst her husband is away on a job interview in Brussels. In the next episode, everyone tries to cover up the affair on his return.
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The Brittas Empire / int_d4e9de59	type	Dreadful Musician
The Brittas Empire / int_d4e9de59	comment	Dreadful Musician: Gordon is revealed to be absolutely terrible with the piano in "Mums and Dads", with his wife having to burn their piano just to stop him from playing it. We later on in the episode get to hear him play a horrible rendition of "Knock Three Times", which is shown to cause mass cringing amongst those present.
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The Brittas Empire / int_d54f84cb	type	Dream Within a Dream
The Brittas Empire / int_d54f84cb	comment	Dream Within a Dream: Near the end of the series finale, Gordon is knocked unconscious by an angry goose. He initially wakes up in Noah's Ark, with Julie, Helen, and Carole telling Brittas that they have to use him to repopulate the world with him. After this, he then wakes up on his way to the interview for the centre, revealing that the entirety of the series was All Just a Dream. The strangest part is that Brittas' literal dreams have been important plot points in earlier episodes, leading to a dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream scenario.
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The Brittas Empire / int_d63fc7ae	type	Embarrassing Last Name
The Brittas Empire / int_d63fc7ae	comment	Embarrassing Last Name: "Reviewing The Situation" reveals that Tim Whistler's true last name is actually GÃ¶ebbels. Making matters worse, Tim is also revealed to have been born in East Germany. With this in mind, it's not hard to see why he illegally changed his surname out of shame.
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The Brittas Empire / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
The Brittas Empire / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: After Gavin is promoted to Acting Deputy Manager, Gordon puts him through extreme "disaster training". Poor Gavin is led to believe a tanker full of ethanol chloride has crashed into a milk float outside the centre and caused a spillage of hydrochloric acid, a bus full of school children are trapped in the acid spill, a serious fire has broken out in the squash courts and a woman has become trapped inside a sunbed with only minutes left to live...on his first day. Gavin doesn't handle it very well and has a mini-breakdown at the end of the episode.
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The Brittas Empire / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
The Brittas Empire / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: It is hinted at by various characters that both Gordon and Colin landed in their Manager roles due to their appalling but well-meaning incompetence at previous leisure centres. Gordon even (almost) becomes a high-ranking EU Commissioner, with three European mansions and a limousine, in a desperate attempt by Councillor Druggett to remove him from the leisure centre.
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The Brittas Empire / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
The Brittas Empire / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: Get Fit with Brittas, a short miniseries released in 1997 which focuses on Brittas giving out exercise tips to the general public.
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The Brittas Empire / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Brittas Empire / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: The normally sweet and innocent Linda is capable of leaving her senses and transforming into a militant badass whenever required. Examples include a SWAT uniform complete with a shotgun when an ostrich runs rampant in the centre, and organizing a radical animal rights group full of hippies in protest of Gordon's swimming with dolphins initiative. She even keeps Tim Whistler hostage inside a chicken coop as a bargaining chip.
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The Brittas Empire / int_daee232f	type	Who's Your Daddy?
The Brittas Empire / int_daee232f	comment	Who's Your Daddy?: Carole spends a considerable portion of the episode "Temple Of The Body" trying to find out the father of her unborn twins. Unfortunately for her, all she knows is that it was conceived at a New Year's party (the father had been wearing an animal suit at the time). Not helping matters was that the rugby team had gatecrashed the party, expanding the list of potential fathers considerably. It is revealed in the episode that the father was none other than Gordon Brittas himself, although he and Carole don't find out until the very end of the show.
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The Brittas Empire / int_db1ab4b1	type	Just a Stupid Accent
The Brittas Empire / int_db1ab4b1	comment	Just a Stupid Accent: In "The Disappearing Act", Gordon claims to know French when answering a phone call. He proceeds to simply put on a silly French accent.
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The Brittas Empire / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Brittas Empire / int_dc3b74bc	comment	Pointy-Haired Boss: Gordon, natch. An interesting case in that while he is totally incompetent and a stickler for his pedantic rules, he is well-intentioned and not actually a bad person. Just an idiot.
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The Brittas Empire / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
The Brittas Empire / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Gordon Brittas frequently refers to his wife Helen as â€œmy darlingâ€� (and to a rarer extent â€œmy loveâ€�).
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The Brittas Empire / int_dd53c52b	type	Crushing Handshake
The Brittas Empire / int_dd53c52b	comment	Crushing Handshake: After he is revived, Gordon Brittas is shown to have become so strong that a casual handshake from him causes male members of staff to wince in pain and fall to the floor.
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The Brittas Empire / int_de763115	type	Hollywood Board Games
The Brittas Empire / int_de763115	comment	Hollywood Board Games: At the beginning of "Back From the Dead", Colin and Gavin are playing checkers. Colin manages to get into a position that allows Gavin to quickly take his pieces, which is an indicator of his status as The Ditz.
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The Brittas Empire / int_e0443d9a	type	Criminal DoppelgÃ¤nger
The Brittas Empire / int_e0443d9a	comment	Criminal DoppelgÃ¤nger: Not exactly a criminal, but a dubious doppelganger nonetheless - a dodgy Eastern European clown working for the Ruthenian State Circus, who looks just like Gordon Brittas, ends up in Whitbury as a result of an EU initiative. He sets out to chat up and seduce all of Whitbury's ladies, including Linda, Carole and Helen Brittas herself. Chaos ensues.
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The Brittas Empire / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Brittas Empire / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: When Carole thinks her baby is in danger, she's perfectly capable of commandeering a digger and using it to smash up Brittas' car. With him inside it.
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The Brittas Empire / int_e18a3c59	type	Hilarious Outtakes
The Brittas Empire / int_e18a3c59	comment	Hilarious Outtakes: The Series 6 DVD includes some outtakes from Series 4 as extras, with outtakes for other series scattered throughout the various editions of Auntie's Bloomers. The most notable part of them is a chance to see Chris Barrie's Kenneth Williams impression.
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The Brittas Empire / int_e2f7ab99	type	Assassin Outclassin'
The Brittas Empire / int_e2f7ab99	comment	Assassin Outclassin': The plot of "Assassin" has a man named Larry Whittaker try to kill Brittas because he was having a negative impact on the attendance figures of the local choir. Unfortunately for him, all of his attempts to kill him (cutting the brakes, trying to trip him down the stairs with wire, trying to electrocute him down the roof) fail in some way or another and he ends up accidentally being electrocuted and falling off the building himself. Someone tried to kill Brittas by sending over a poisonous spider. It bit Colin instead. Who survived in the end.
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The Brittas Empire / int_e3226029	type	Bag of Holding
The Brittas Empire / int_e3226029	comment	Bag of Holding: One episode dealt with Helen having a primal desire to go shoplifting when she becomes pregnant. After a significant amount of stuff is extracted from her coat, Brittas asks if there is anything else stored there.Helen lifts her coat up from the back and...
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The Brittas Empire / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
The Brittas Empire / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: The 1994 Christmas Special, which is partially set in the then-far-off year of 2019, reveals that Tim, who hadn't been shown to previously have an interest in cooking, is due to become a successful chef in the future. Afterwards, several Series 6 episodes, which are set in the then-present year of 1996, see Tim as trying to pursue a career in cooking, running a successful catering business and trying to get a franchise for the canteen.
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The Brittas Empire / int_e4157ffd	type	May It Never Happen Again
The Brittas Empire / int_e4157ffd	comment	May It Never Happen Again: In "New Generations", Carole gives birth, but thanks to Brittas, she ends up being tended to in a sauna by a vet. A series later, in "The Stuff of Dreams", Helen, remembering this incident, asks Laura to take her to the hospital for when she gives birth, figuring that with Brittas out of the way, she would get a normal delivery. Of course, Brittas ends up driving her and she ends up giving birth in the middle of the high street anyway.
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The Brittas Empire / int_e4c89b67	type	Attending Your Own Funeral
The Brittas Empire / int_e4c89b67	comment	Attending Your Own Funeral: Occurs twice: One episode has Gordon Brittas (who was genuinely dead) revive in the middle of his funeral. The rest of the attendants there find out when he begins knocking on the door of his casket. A later episode ends with Gavin, who had been captured by pirates for the episode, showing up at his funeral wondering who it's for (since the staff had assumed that he had been lost at sea).
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The Brittas Empire / int_e4d1b37d	type	Load-Bearing Hero
The Brittas Empire / int_e4d1b37d	comment	Load-Bearing Hero: ...Because the ceiling fell on him while he had a barbell stuffed down the back of his suit.
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The Brittas Empire / int_e542d80a	type	Gonk
The Brittas Empire / int_e542d80a	comment	Gonk: Throughout the series, Colin looks like he's just crawled out of a coal mine in 1970s Newcastle. He has a septic, diseased right hand covered in moldy bandages, which complements the massive boil on his right cheek, his disgustingly greasy, matted hair, filthy clothes and persistent bad body odour. He retains these "characteristics" for the show's entire run. Subverted in one episode where Colin turns up clean-shaven in a suit, tie and blazer, impersonating Gordon Brittas for a day while his illegitimate Australian daughter is visiting him.
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The Brittas Empire / int_e69efe7f	type	Lysistrata Gambit
The Brittas Empire / int_e69efe7f	comment	Lysistrata Gambit: Subverted when Mr Brittas's wife Helen tries withholding sex as a sign of displeasure at a proposed move to Belgium in "Blind Devotion". A few weeks later she admits to Laura that "it's been Hell!" for her while he hasn't even noticed.
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The Brittas Empire / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
The Brittas Empire / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Brittas has a more nasally and posher-sounding voice, lacks his "Eeeexcccelleeeent!!!!" Catchphrase, and is much more of a Jerkass than in later series, with it not being until Series 2 that his more sympathetic side shows up.
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The Brittas Empire / int_e8b295de	type	PlayedWith
The Brittas Empire / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With as it isn't actually his birthday yet, but Carole throws a birthday party for Ben in "Body Language". Hilarity ensues when two of the party guests escape and are mistaken for aliens by Colin.
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The Brittas Empire / int_e9327f58	type	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
The Brittas Empire / int_e9327f58	comment	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: During "The Last Day", Gordon Brittas dies and goes into Heaven. After some time, Saint Peter and the other denziens of heaven become annoyed by Brittas' annoying personality and they get orders from upstairs to return him back to earth for another couple of decades.
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The Brittas Empire / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
The Brittas Empire / int_ea85d6ea	comment	In "Curse Of The Tiger Woman", Brittas loses his only friend to cursed cooking, finds out he is the father to Carole's twins, and is threatened with early retirement. Capping things off, the centre is about to explode, he is attacked by a goose and then finds out that the past seven series were All Just a Dream.
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The Brittas Empire / int_ea8ba51d	type	No Full Name Given
The Brittas Empire / int_ea8ba51d	comment	No Full Name Given: Angie (Brittas' secretary in the first series) is only referred to by her first name during her time on the show.
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The Brittas Empire / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Brittas Empire / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: A frequent source of physical pain for male characters, especially early on in the series. Colin gets it the worst, getting a button hole right through it off-screen in "The Boss", punching himself in the dick to get rid of a fly in "UXB", and getting a jet of scalding tea to his cock in "The Last Day". Oddly enough, Brittas himself doesn't get one until the short-lived spin-off ''Get Fit With Brittas", when Lesley Joseph decks him there to shut him up.
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The Brittas Empire / int_eb002293	type	Shrinking Violet
The Brittas Empire / int_eb002293	comment	Carole wasn't quite living in the centre just yet - that change wouldn't occur until Series 2's "Temple of the Body". Instead, she was on the verge of losing her flat, having to bring in Ben because there was no one available to watch over him - as a consequence of this, she's portrayed as much more of a Shrinking Violet vulnerable to Inelegant Blubbering than in later series. For that matter, when she does fall pregnant at the end of Series 1, it's implied that it was her landlord who impregnated her, with it not being until Series 2 that it was established that it was Brittas' fault.
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The Brittas Empire / int_eb4f0f1e	type	Fictional Board Game
The Brittas Empire / int_eb4f0f1e	comment	Fictional Board Game: "The Chop" begins with the staff playing a game called the "Gordon Brittas Game Of Life" which as the name suggests, was invented by the titular character. From what we see of it, it involves designating characters as a "Wise Virgin" or "Foolish Virgin" as well as each character having to suffer a catastrophe each year.
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The Brittas Empire / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
The Brittas Empire / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Guy: Tim, to the more level-headed Gavin - he has a tendency to believe that Gavin is cheating on him with another person and freak out as a result.
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The Brittas Empire / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
The Brittas Empire / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: Helen walking into the leisure centre covered in vomit and baby food after a lovely family trip to Cornwall.
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The Brittas Empire / int_edbb1357	type	List of Transgressions
The Brittas Empire / int_edbb1357	comment	List of Transgressions: Gordon Brittas has quite a long list when he turns up in heaven including 115 separate acts of manslaughter, cause of 4 suicides, and 23 people driven clinically insane. They'd been counting up a while before he arrived too. Luckily for Gordon, he gets in anyway due to a Heroic Sacrifice performed just beforehand.
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The Brittas Empire / int_ee77d3e2	type	Dead Pet Sketch
The Brittas Empire / int_ee77d3e2	comment	Dead Pet Sketch: In "Blind Devotion", Gordon Brittas accidentally kills Colin's pet canary (by closing a door whilst it was getting out and becoming crushed as a result). He immediately gets Tim to buy a replacement canary. We never do find out if Colin fell for it (as he was blind for the episode) but Brittas does complain that it looked too yellow for his liking.
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The Brittas Empire / int_ef20dac5	type	Servile Snarker
The Brittas Empire / int_ef20dac5	comment	Servile Snarker: Laura. She likes Brittas more than most, but she still needs some heavy snarking at his expense to get through the day.
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The Brittas Empire / int_f27ec906	type	Identical Stranger
The Brittas Empire / int_f27ec906	comment	Identical Stranger: One episode has a dodgy East European acrobat appear in the centre who looks just like Gordon Brittas. Chaos ensues when he tries to seduce all the women.
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The Brittas Empire / int_f332d990	type	Too Much Information
The Brittas Empire / int_f332d990	comment	Colin's first scene has him rattle off all his various infections and treatments much to the displeasure of Laura. This shows how he is basically a physically disgusting character who has a tendency to give off Too Much Information about his afflictions.
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The Brittas Empire / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
The Brittas Empire / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Penny, the health spa manager was an obvious replacement for Laura, with both being the female Only Sane Employee of the centre. The only real difference is that whilst Laura was liked by the staff, Penny was The Friend Nobody Likes. Before that, Julie was one for Angie, with both being Brittas' blonde-haired Northern sassy secretaries.
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The Brittas Empire / int_f7a458c3	type	Dartboard of Hate
The Brittas Empire / int_f7a458c3	comment	Dartboard of Hate: In â€œThe Last Dayâ€�, Julie is revealed to have a photo of him in her locker for this purpose, which she takes down in response to his death. Amusingly all the darts are embedded in the crotch area.
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The Brittas Empire / int_f8e52439	comment	Birthday Episode: Considering the large size of the cast, this occurs on a fairly frequent occasion: Helen celebrates hers in "An Inspector Calls", where in a subplot, she almost leaves Brittas when he gives her a crappy moped as a gift. Laura's is in "Sex, Lies, and Red Tape", where she has to deal with her slimy ex-husband bothering her. Colin's is in "Blind Devotion", which turns out to be one of the only good things to happen to him during a day involving an epic Trauma Conga Line. Carole's one becomes part of an intricate web of lies to cover the truth of Helen's affairs from Brittas in "The Lies Have It", although it being Carole's, the actual event ends up being a Forgotten Birthday for her. Played With as it isn't actually his birthday yet, but Carole throws a birthday party for Ben in "Body Language". Hilarity ensues when two of the party guests escape and are mistaken for aliens by Colin. Although they're not for the main cast, birthday parties are also thrown in "Brussels Calling" (where the staff's attempts to host a birthday party whilst Brittas is in Brussels end in an explosion) and "The Disappearing Act" (where a party held for Julie's niece Melanie goes horribly wrong when Colin thinks he's made the birthday girl disappear).
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The Brittas Empire / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Brittas Empire / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Brittas ordering leisure centre badges that get 'accidentally' misprinted as a matter of routine: Colin going to shake someone's hand and having his plaster come off on them. Gordon constantly instructing Helen to buy herself a drink and a doughnut when she's upset. Colin being late to every single staff meeting, then despite Gordon's protests ("Colin..."), proceeds to interrupt the meeting and go into a very lengthy and graphic story about his latest serious injury or disease. Colin bursting into Brittas' office, and then knocking on the door. In the first 5 series, Brittas being conveniently interrupted just as he is about to wax about his Dream. In the later series, Brittas using management tools that involve Fun with Acronyms.
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The Brittas Empire / int_fa75f33e	comment	Road Apples: General rule of thumb; if an animal appears on screen, expect their poop to be mentioned. Notable examples include a pigeon, a dog, and a cat pooping all over the gymnasium in â€œAn Inspector Callsâ€�, Brittas being dragged through emu poop in â€œThe Old Old Storyâ€�, and both Brittas and Helen falling into elephant poop in â€œThe Elephantâ€™s Childâ€�.
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The Brittas Empire / int_fa7d3dfe	comment	Number Two: For chrissakes, her name is even Laura Lancing.
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The Brittas Empire / int_faa71569	type	Romantic False Lead
The Brittas Empire / int_faa71569	comment	Romantic False Lead: Michael T. Farrell III, Laura's sleazy, estranged, billionaire American husband, who magically turns up in Whitbury just as the sexual tension between Laura and Gordon begins to take hold. Gordon is understandably pissed off.
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The Brittas Empire / int_fb1c80c	comment	Photo Memento: In "Shall We Dance?", Laura gives Brittas some photographs from the time he spent building an arbour for her, with the intention that he keeps these photos as a memento of the hard work he did. After a dramatic climax where Brittas saves several people from the burning ruins of the leisure centre (leading to him getting a George Medal and his job back) in "High Noon", the episode ends with the cast getting a photo taken of themselves sometime later in front of said centre.
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The Brittas Empire / int_fb724048	comment	Real After All: Colin spends the duration of the episode â€œBody Languageâ€� believing that aliens not only exist but are about to invade the centre due to a series of misunderstandings. At the end of the episode, however, it is revealed that a plant brought in by Helen was actually an alien. It concludes that there is No Intelligent Life Here before warping out in front of a shocked Colin.
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The Brittas Empire / int_fcf82917	type	Wacky Cravings
The Brittas Empire / int_fcf82917	comment	Wacky Cravings: After Julie's pregnancy begins to take hold, she starts compulsively eating paper, rubbers, pencils and coal. Those crazy Yorkshire lasses...
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The Brittas Empire / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: A fair amount of the deaths that occur are examples of this trope. For example, the episode â€œThe Trialâ€� has Brittas, glued to a chainsaw and trying to help a gangster who is unconscious on the other side of the door, accidentally cutting his head off with a chainsaw instead.
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The Brittas Empire / int_fdc83c2c	comment	Dead Hat Shot: After Brittas is crushed to death by a falling water tank, the only part of him that can still be seen is his tie sticking out from the water tank.
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The Brittas Empire / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: Gordon Brittas. Yes, he is an absolute prick, insults people and can start fights very easily, but the show makes it clear that he only ever has good intentions and that it is more a combination of his stupidity and lack of people skills that leads to chaos.
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The Brittas Empire / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Gordon sacks Colin after he splits open Tim's skull and nearly kills two customers in the pool while trying to save a drowning youngster. After protests and outcry from the rest of the team at his sacking, Gordon instead decides to "promote" Colin from Deputy Manager Wet (an actual management position) to "Manager of Building Fabric" (basically a toilet cleaner). Carole also receives a similar sacking-followed-by-a-"promotion", from Receptionist to "Manageress of the Creche", essentially an excuse to keep her kids behind the reception desk. Laura is the one responsible for changing Gordon's mind about both sackings, true to her role as the Only Sane Employee.
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The Brittas Empire / int_ff9e9dde	comment	Whilst up to Series 7, Councillor Drugget only tended to pop up Once a Season, he becomes a recurring character and antagonist in the final series, presumably to try to fill the Only Sane Man niche that Penny left behind.
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The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Privacy by Distraction / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Product Delivery Ordeal / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Proxy Breakup / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Queer Character, Queer Actor / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Real Award, Fictional Character / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Relatively Flimsy Excuse / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Revolting Rescue / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Road Apples / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Rodent Cellmates / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Romantic False Lead / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Rule of Pool / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Satellite Family Member / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Scale Model Destruction / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Scolded by a Stranger / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Secret Squatter / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Sequel Reset / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Servile Snarker / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Sex at Work / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Sexy Secretary / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Shark Fin of Doom / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Shoo Out the New Guy / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet! / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Silent Treatment / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Simple Solution Won't Work / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Single Serving Friend / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Sleep Learning / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Slipping into Stink / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Smithical Marriage / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Snowed-In / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	So Hideous, It's Terrifying / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Something We Forgot / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Spiders Are Scary / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Spin-Off / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Squashed Flat / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Stab the Picture / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Stage Names / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Step Servant / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Sticky Fingers / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Sticky Situation / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Story Arc / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Straight Gay / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Struggling Single Mother / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Suck Out the Poison / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Sudden Name Change / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Surprise Multiple Birth / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Sweet Polly Oliver / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Swirlie / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Take Off Your Clothes / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Taken Off Life Support / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Talking with Signs / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Tear Dryer / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	The Diaper Change / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	The Extremist Was Right / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	The Inspector Is Coming / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	The Last Title / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	The Pearly Gates / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	13 Is Unlucky / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Torch the Franchise and Run / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Totally Trusting Love Interest / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Trapped In a Tanning Bed / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Truncated Theme Tune / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Two-Timing with the Bestie / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Ultimate Job Security / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Umpteenth Customer / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Urine Trouble / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Vehicular Sabotage / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Vetinari Job Security / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Viewer Name Confusion / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Vomit Discretion Shot / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Wacky Cravings / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Wanted a Son Instead / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	War Reenactors / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Wardrobe Malfunction / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	We Can Rebuild Him / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	We Hardly Knew Ye / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Wealthy Ever After / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Wedding Episode / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	When the Clock Strikes Twelve / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Whole Episode Flashback / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Who's Your Daddy? / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Woman Scorned / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Work Com / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Workout Fanservice / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Written-In Absence / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Wrong Bathroom Incident / int_8fc868f5
The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	You, Get Me Coffee / int_8fc868f5

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