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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin	comment	The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a 1970s British sitcom written (and developed from his own series of novels) by David Nobbs. The series starred Leonard Rossiter as Reginald "Reggie" Perrin, an advertising executive at Sunshine Desserts trapped in a dreary existence and pointless job who is in the throes of a full-blown midlife crisis. Three seasons of episodes were made under this title. The protagonist's strained and often bizarre behaviour, sometimes surreal flights of fancy and an always dark undertow — the first series ended with Perrin faking his own suicide — mean the show remains an enduring counterpoint to the more bland and straightforward sitcoms of its era. In 1996, a dozen years after Rossiter's death, a belated fourth series was made with the remaining cast under the title The Legacy of Reginald Perrin.In the '80s the show was adapted as an American sitcom called Reggie! with Richard Mulligan in the title role, and more recently remade as Reggie Perrin, with Martin Clunes in the title role.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: Reginald likes to fantasize about his secretary: suggestively licking ice cream cones with her, making love to her on his desk, in the middle of a field, etc. His doctor spends his downtime looking at porn in his office.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: The view Reggie comes to take of Grot. It was supposed to be a joke business, but it turned into a big success. His attempts to destroy it keep turning it into an even bigger success. In Legacy, the entire cast's attempt satisfy Reggie's Silly Will and do something "completely absurd" results instead in the creation of a genuine widespread political movement.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Tony and David. Great! Super!
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Although it's farcical and ridiculous, the first series especially is a catalogue of a man in the middle of a nervous breakdown.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: Reggie is quite fond of these.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_29e6dc40	type	HypocriticalHumour
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: "I'm not a petty man..." as Reggie launches into a neurotic tirade about the tea lady refusing to save him a macaroon in 1971. "I didn't get where I am today by talking in cliches", from CJ
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_2bffe89	type	Listing the Forms of Degenerates
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_2bffe89	comment	Listing the Forms of Degenerates: When Jimmy reveals he is involved with a Far-Right group looking to Make Britain Great Again, his list of all the malcontents who are destroying this once-great nation runs on and on and on. Re-runs of the series in 2022 are prefaced with a content advisory about "this series reflects the values of its times and some viewers may find this content offensive", whilst at least two categories of degenerates loathed by Jimmy are bleeped out.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_32821ceb	type	The Unintelligible
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_32821ceb	comment	The Unintelligible: Sunshine Desserts' vans are these in the book. The back double doors contain the slogan "Bring a little Sunshine into your life" — but several of the vans had the doors put on the wrong sides, with the result that they read little Bring a hine suns ur life into yo.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: One of the symptoms of Reggie's rapidly declining mental state.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The series ends with Reggie on his way back to the Dorset coast, possibly to kill himself for real. He survives long enough to appear in a 1982 Boxing day special. The Legacy of Reginald Perrin finally revealed that he did not kill himself — rather he died in a storm, struck by a falling billboard advertising health insurance.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_509de06e	comment	Unintelligible Accent: McBlane, the Scottish chef hired by Reginald when he tries to open a hotel, speaks in what could be described as "a dialect", possibly Glaswegian, and nothing else.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_524f397c	type	Madden Into Misanthropy
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_524f397c	comment	Madden Into Misanthropy: The premise of the show: Reggie one day decides he has had enough of being polite and trapped in his meaningless world, and starts cultivating an antisocial persona.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_53c3fa83	type	Granola Girl
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_53c3fa83	comment	Granola Girl: Reggie's son-in-law, Tom, who distills his own wine, smokes brier pipes, and insists that his children be treated not as children but as "tiny adults".
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Linda is often described as plump in the original book (with Jimmy mentally admitting he falls for her because he is irrationally attracted to fat sweaty women. In the series, she is definitely none of those things.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The TV series dropped some of the darker subplots from the books, such as Mark's disappearance, Linda and Jimmy's incestuous affair and the whole "Climthorpe Strangler" strand from the second book.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: After Reggie has been insulting CL, the German sales rep, since the conversation started, he finally snaps after another barb about flatulence.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: The employees of Sunshine Desserts treat the most ludicrous news on various idiotic puddings with complete professionalism.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_702c2de3	type	Line-of-Sight Alias
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_702c2de3	comment	Line-of-Sight Alias: One episode has Reggie trying to choose a new name after running away from the rat race.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Reggie becomes this in a futile effort to shock people who have become used to his eccentricities.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_7332c94f	type	Suicide by Sea
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_7332c94f	comment	Suicide by Sea: Reggie fakes his death by leaving his clothes on the beach, making it look like he has committed suicide by walking out into the sea.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: The first series included the character of Mark Perrin, Reggie's son, played by David Warwick. However, David Nobbs felt he diverted the comedy from Reggie, so he was written out by going on tour with a theatre group in Africa.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_75588c15	comment	Transatlantic Equivalent: VERY briefly adapted into an American sitcom called Reggie! starring Richard Mulligan, in The '80s at some point between his playing Burt on Soap and Dr Westin on Empty Nest.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_87d70f73	type	Reluctant Fanservice Girl
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_87d70f73	comment	Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Joan, in the book. When she and Reggie were trying to have an affair, the first thing she would do on visiting his house for a rendezvous was undress completely, whereupon Reggie's wife would inevitably turn up and Joan would be forced to spend the rest of the chapter hiding naked in whatever location was available. Toned down in the series, for obvious reasons. In recent (2022) re-runs, an element of Fan Disservice intrudes when it dawns that Joan the sexy secretary is, nearly fifty years later, the octagenarian great-grandmother Audrey in Coronation Street.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_8bb316cf	type	Video Inside, Film Outside
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_8bb316cf	comment	Video Inside, Film Outside: A prime example.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_8f7f2c6a	type	National Stereotypes
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_8f7f2c6a	comment	National Stereotypes: Intentionally invoked and later subverted with Seamus Finnegan, the Irish labourer who Reggie hires as his admin officer in a pub (quaffing Guinness, naturally). A self-confessed hard-drinking lazy gambler, he soon turns out to be hyper-competent, much to Reggie's annoyance. Also, Kenny Mc Blane's incomprehensible Scottish accent.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: The streets in Reggie Perrin's neighborhood, the signs for which he is regularly seen walking by to and from work ("Wordsworth Drive," "Tennyson Avenue" and "Coleridge Close") are named after the famous British 19th century poets, William Wordsworth, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In the last episode of the series, when Reginald Perrin has taken another executive job in a large corporation, like the one he had at the beginning of the series, the street signs when he walks to work now read Liebnitz Drive, Bertrand Russell Rise and Schopenhauer Grove. These streets are named after the philosophers Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Bertrand Arthur William Russell and Arthur Schopenhauer.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_9c4a7090	type	Springtime for Hitler
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_9c4a7090	comment	Springtime for Hitler: Grot, conceived as a Take That! to capitalism, ends up being a massive success.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: The very first episode features three days in the life of Perrin; each repeating almost exactly the same incidents with only minor variations.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: Reginald provides these all the time.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Elizabeth, who pretends not to realise that Martin is in fact Reginald.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_aa9fcfed	type	Embarrassing Middle Name
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_aa9fcfed	comment	Embarrassing Middle Name; For Reggie, 'Iolanthe'. Even worse than being embarrassing, it also makes his initials R.I.P.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Reggie.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Reggie ends up exactly where he started off; stuck in a cruel and completely nonsensical world that he can no longer stand.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Many that have entered common usage, especially in business. See Mad Libs Catch Phrase below.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_be192f18	comment	Yes-Man: Whenever Reggie or CJ suggests something, Tony and David respectively say "Great!" and "Super!"
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_c0d32460	comment	Sexy Secretary: Perrin's secretary, Joan. Reginald thinks so, anyway, and often fantasizes about her with her hair (and more) down.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_c4d09d24	comment	Couch Gag: Similarly to Fawlty Towers, the Sunshine Desserts sign was always humorously dilapidated, though losing letters rather than anagramming them.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_c660bc15	comment	In recent (2022) re-runs, an element of Fan Disservice intrudes when it dawns that Joan the sexy secretary is, nearly fifty years later, the octagenarian great-grandmother Audrey in Coronation Street.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_e4c89b67	comment	Attending Your Own Funeral: A disguised Reggie does this shortly after faking his own death, and as a result starts a romance with his own widow. She realises that it's him straightaway, but doesn't let on.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_f165cf2c	comment	Last-Second Word Swap: "... and with the coming of metrication office phone begins ringing I feel confident — no, the advent, the advent of metrication — I feel confident that the bloody phone will ring all day."
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_f3d84bc4	comment	Giftedly Bad: Tom's wine and advertising slogans for Grot.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_f47bdd2a	comment	Violent Glaswegian: Kenny McBlane, the cook from Series 3 who is always muttering indeciperable gibberish and almost always wielding something very sharp in his time on-camera.
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Spoofed in the opening credits, later played straight.
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