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The Smoking Room
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The Smoking Room is a British television sitcom written by Brian Dooley, who won a BAFTA for the series in 2005. It centres around a group of people working in an office somewhere in London, taking their breaks in the titular smoking room. The first series, consisting of eight episodes, was originally transmitted on BBC Three between 29 June and 17 August 2004. The Christmas Special was first transmitted on the same channel on 20 December 2004. A second series of eight episodes began airing on 26 July 2005. | |
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Embarrassing Nickname | |
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Embarrassing Nickname: Janet and her nephew Dominic have a rather curious greeting for one another, one that might have been cute when he was five, but which hasn't aged well now he's in college: | |
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Forced Out of the Closet | |
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Forced Out of the Closet: Janet finally snaps and outs Robin after he pours scorn on her engagement to a man in her church's congregation. | |
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Transparent Closet: Robin. | |
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Seinfeldian Conversation | |
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Seinfeldian Conversation: Often. | |
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Domestic Abuse | |
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Domestic Abuse: Heidi's comments about Keith heavily imply she's in an abusive relationship. | |
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Break the Motivational Speaker | |
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Break the Motivational Speaker: One episode has a smoking cessation workshop, "CigZowt", in the smoking room. The hapless speaker struggles to control the staff, and their short attention spans and snarkiness eventually cause him to lose his temper. | |
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Crossword Puzzle | |
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Crossword Puzzle: Barry is always doing one, even though he's awful at them; Robin tends to get the clues as soon as he reads them out. | |
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The Unseen: Any of the characters mentioned by the cast but who never come into the smoking room. Recurring example include Ben from the post room, and Len's junior Ranjit. | |
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Everybody Smokes | |
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Everybody Smokes: Obviously, given the setting. | |
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Those Two Girls: Annie and Sally | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Sharon particularly, who says she doesn't even own a television, but also Janet to a lesser extent. In one episode, Janet thinks Clint's Yoda impersonation is him mocking a Japanese visitor's accent. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: Gordon, who was in recovery until his wife left him. Bad day to hold a birthday party in the smoking room, sparkling wine included... | |
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Ultimate Job Security | |
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Ultimate Job Security: Everyone, apparently, but especially Clint. | |
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Sir Swears-a-Lot | |
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Sir Swears-a-Lot: Len. His grandson Ethan has taken to calling him "Grandad Fuck-Off". | |
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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places | |
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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Annie, Lillian. | |
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My Local | |
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My Local: A pub called the Nag's Head is often mentioned. This may be a clue as to the location of the office, since there is a Nag's Head near Covent Garden. Or it could be in Peckham. | |
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Work Com | |
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Work Com: Set in a workplace smoking room, allowing for interaction between people from different departments (the only thing uniting them is that they all, well, smoke). | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: The normally strait-laced Janet, when particularly stressed out because the staff Christmas variety show isn't going well, unleashes one on Clint that makes him jump out of his chair. | |
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Yes-Man | |
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Yes-Man: Janet. | |
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ReasonYouSuckSpeech | |
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"Reason You Suck" Speech: Janet's nephew Dominic, who is shadowing Robin for his psychology class, gives a gloriously passive-aggressive one to Robin under the guise of an analysis. | |
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Waxing Lyrical | |
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Waxing Lyrical: Cleverly done when Annie returns to the smoking room after she stormed out in tears: | |
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Prone to Tears | |
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Prone to Tears: Annie, who frequently bursts into tears at the slightest provocation. | |
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Pointy-Haired Boss | |
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Pointy-Haired Boss: Sharon. | |
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Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation | |
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Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation: It's never made clear what industry the company is involved in, or even the name of the company. Understandable, given the "no shop-talk" rule in the smoking room. | |
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Biting-the-Hand Humor | |
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Biting-the-Hand Humor: Sort-of - "You couldn't get on TV with that act. Not even digital..." | |
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Intoxication Ensues | |
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Intoxication Ensues: Len absentmindedly sniffs at some glue Clint was using to fix a floor tile, and before long he's away with the fairies. | |
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You Put the "X" in "XY": The CigZowt smoking cessation speaker has a particularly ill-thought-out version of this, which the smokers quickly dissect. | |
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You Put the "X" in "XY" / int_505c1d1d |
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