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The Thin Blue Line

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The Thin Blue Line	comment	A 1995â€“96 BBC One sitcom set in a small-town police station, created by longtime Blackadder co-writer Ben Elton and featuring that show's star, Rowan Atkinson.Atkinson plays the old-fashioned, repressed, but basically decent Police Inspector Raymond Fowler. His nemesis in the series was Detective Inspector Derek Grim (David Haig), a proto-Gene Hunt type but without the brains. The other regulars were all fellow police officers, including Fowler's long-term and long-suffering cohab girlfriend, Sergeant Patricia Dawkins (Serena Evans); elderly Constable Frank Gladstone (Rudolph Walker); junior constables Kevin Goody (James Dreyfus) and Maggie Habib (Mina Anwar); and Grim's henchman, Detective Constable Robert Kray (Kevin Allen), who was replaced in Series Two by Detective Constable Gary Boyle (Mark Addy).The series was apparently modelled on the classic World War II-themed show Dad's Army, an ambitious target to live up to even without the inevitable Blackadder comparisons. The BBC's website sums up the show thusly: "Should've worked. Didn't."Not to be confused with the Errol Morris documentary, nor The Thin Red Line.Came thirty-fourth in Britains Best Sitcom.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_1086f287	type	Sure, Let's Go with That
The Thin Blue Line / int_1086f287	comment	Sure, Let's Go with That: "Honey Trap" features Grim and Fowler using Habib as a Honey Trap to capture a criminal. Dawkins thinks Fowler and Habib are having an affair and, in retaliation, breaks Fowler's new royal crest, which he claims represents all the values he stands for. She then replies he doesn't stand for any and mentions knowing what he and Maggie are doing. Wrongly believing she figured out about the Honey Trap, he comments about it, revealing to her the truth. She then lets him think he was right, and he tells her he agrees with her reaction. In "Rag Week", Dawkins is venting her frustration with Fowler's near complete lack of interest in sex by answering his reverie about doing something "splendidly heroic" to make her "proud and happy" by saying he could make her happy by "occasionally giving [her] a damn good rogering!" Gladstone walks in during the last three words and is almost as embarrassed as Fowler and Dawkins; Fowler fumbles an explanation about their "damn good" friend "Roger Ring", and Dawkins plays along but snipes about how little they see of him (or his Swedish cousin Bonk). Gladstone, who just wants to forget the whole thing, accepts their explanation, and, having completely forgotten why he wanted to talk to Fowler, quietly leaves.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Thin Blue Line / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Ben Elton appeared in the Christmas Special "Yuletide Spirit". In the first series the "WANTED" poster behind Fowler's desk in the briefing room is an E-FIT of Elton.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_12b796e	type	Phoney Call
The Thin Blue Line / int_12b796e	comment	Phoney Call: In "Fly on the Wall", the documentary crew from The BBC accompany Grim and Boyle on patrol. Inevitably, they get no calls whatsoever, and eventually even Grim gets bored of his narration, so he pretends urgent calls are coming through on the radio (calls that don't include such details as where the supposed crimes are occurring), and continues the charade back at the station (the one call that actually comes through is for the camera crew).
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The Thin Blue Line / int_13556074	type	Brotherhood of Funny Hats
The Thin Blue Line / int_13556074	comment	In "Ism Ism Ism", Dawkins shows Fowler surveillance footage of what looks like a domestic abuse incident; on the one hand, Fowler wants to arrest the abuser, but on the other hand, he feels guilty about how they got the evidence. At the end of the episode, she takes him by the house in the footage, and we see what looks like another attack through the window; this time, Fowler says he doesn't care how they got the evidence, and they charge into the room... to find Grim wearing a dress and being flagellated as part of his initiation ceremony into the Todgers.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_135c6de7	type	Cannot Tell a Joke
The Thin Blue Line / int_135c6de7	comment	Cannot Tell a Joke: Not only does Grim not find anyone else's ideas of humour remotely funny, he can't tell jokes of his own without getting them wrong. In "Rag Week", he tries telling the joke about a man walking into a bar and saying "Ouch!" as it was an iron bar, but he messes up the punchline by saying it was a public bar.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_15aa0cd	type	Spy-Tux Reveal
The Thin Blue Line / int_15aa0cd	comment	Spy-Tux Reveal: Played with in "Road Rage". Dawkins falls for a radical environmentalist, only to find he's an MI5 Agent Provocateur when he comes out of Fowler's office wearing a James Bond tuxedo. Also played with in "Rag Week". Having infiltrated a bank robbery by dressing as a pizza delivery boy, he takes off the jacket and hat to reveal his police uniform.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
The Thin Blue Line / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: In the episode "Fly on the Wall", the precinct is being filmed for a documentary on what usually happens at police stations. Inspector Fowler isn't keen on this at all, and thinking that he isn't being recorded, expresses to his officers what he really feels about the crew being there, not realizing in the middle of his rambling they've come up behind him, despite subtle hints from his fellow officers. His reaction when he does notice them? To smile sheepishly and say "At least that's what I've heard".
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The Thin Blue Line / int_1818d1af	type	Protest By Obstruction
The Thin Blue Line / int_1818d1af	comment	Protest by Obstruction: In "Road Rage", the officers go to break up a group protesting the building of a bypass. Officer Goody encounters one protester who has tied herself to a tree, and ends up joining her.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_1849f58e	type	Comedic Work, Serious Scene
The Thin Blue Line / int_1849f58e	comment	Comedic Work, Serious Scene: The episode "Kids Today" from the first series has two serious moments, when Fowler is very grave indeed, and nobody else is laughing: when Fowler speaks to Goody about punching a handcuffed teenager, and later when Fowler addresses the teenagers on the camping trip about abandoning a baby.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Thin Blue Line / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In the very first episode.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_1c712be8	type	Yaoi Fangirl
The Thin Blue Line / int_1c712be8	comment	Yaoi Fangirl: Constable Maggie Habib is very keen on the homoerotic aspects of football and in one episode speculates on the relationship between both Biggles and Ginger and Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson ("sometimes there's months between cases - what do they do then?"). The somewhat old-fashioned Fowler is horrified ("They chat! They smoke their pipes!").
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The Thin Blue Line / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
The Thin Blue Line / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: The episodes of the second series started with Inspector Fowler delivering a short intro to the audience (parodying the same technique being used by Dixon of Dock Green), often ending with a very strange simile. For example, in "The Green Eyed Monster", he has this to say about taking things or people for granted:
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The Thin Blue Line / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Thin Blue Line / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Fowler. To be fair, his rigid adherence to proper procedure is rooted in a heartfelt belief in things like due process, rule of law, work ethics and other unglamourous but socially beneficial principles. He just has a tendency to take it a teensy bit too far at times....
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The Thin Blue Line / int_20c99f6e	type	Hidden Heart of Gold
The Thin Blue Line / int_20c99f6e	comment	Grim is an even more unpleasant individual, but, while his Hidden Heart of Gold surfaces less often, even he isn't all bad.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
The Thin Blue Line / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: In "Court In The Act", Grim is desperate to convict a drug dealer; Boyle suggests that evidence can be found — "found", in inverted commas. Fowler finds out about the frame up and, unable to prove the drug dealer has been framed, tells the criminal's barrister that Goody, who found the planted evidence (but didn't know about the frame-up), was wearing a new uniform that wasn't an official police uniform, thus invalidating any incriminating evidence found during the search and allowing the drug dealer to get Off on a Technicality.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
The Thin Blue Line / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: "Ism Ism Ism" has Grim wanting to join a secret society called the "Todgers". He proudly rattles off a list of why he thinks they are better than the Freemasons, including better costumes and ceremonies — until Boyle chips in with "...better nepotism."
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The Thin Blue Line / int_233da103	type	Cordon Bleugh Chef
The Thin Blue Line / int_233da103	comment	Cordon Bleugh Chef: Patricia seems incapable of cooking anything properly, and the best that Raymond can say about her food is that it is "intriguing". In "Fire and Terror", Raymond compliments her on a lamb dish that she says was supposed to be chicken chasseur, while "Yuletide Spirit" opens with Raymond congratulating Patricia on a dish of Å“ufs Ã la mayonnaise... with no eggs (she broke them all) and no mayonnaise (it had curdled), leaving what he calls the best plate of "Ã la" he's ever had.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Thin Blue Line / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: In "Honey Trap", when Fowler finally settles the ethical dilemma that's been troubling him over the title sting that Grim has set up and declares he wants no further part in the operation, Grim gloatingly replies that he'll hold Fowler to his promise that Grim will get 'full and complete credit' for the operation. Then, Habib drags the mark in, appearing to validate Grim — until the mark points out that he's seen through Habib and has in fact dragged her in as part of a citizen's arrest. Fowler decides it a good time to remind Grim that he's now taking 'full and complete credit' for the operation. In "Night Shift", Fowler is waxing rhapsodic on the duties and perils of nighttime police work, and when Goody quotes the Star Trek: The Original Series opening, "To boldly go where no man has gone before", he chides Goody for splitting the infinitive "to go". In the episode's final scene, Fowler offers his son Bill and the latter's girlfriend Rona a couple of tickets to an all-night rave that he confiscated from Grim's delinquent son Darren; Bill declines, and Fowler asks, "Are you sure you can't be persuaded to wildly prance off with your pal?"
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The Thin Blue Line / int_23f1384a	type	Babies Make Everything Better
The Thin Blue Line / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: In "Kids Today", a baby is abandoned outside the police station. Patrica takes care of the baby, and clearly enjoys doing so; and although she denies it, she later wants a baby, to Raymond's disapproval.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Thin Blue Line / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Although Fowler usually has his head screwed on straight enough, Habib's a lot more down-to-earth and self-aware.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
The Thin Blue Line / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: In "Fly on the Wall", the police get mistakenly called out to the home of an old man who's waiting for an agency escort. He lasciviously says he'd requested for her to be dressed as a nurse but he'll take Habib instead, adding when the real escort shows up, "I'd love to have you both, but I can't afford two on my pension!" All while the BBC films them for a documentary.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_27c09b00	type	Camp Straight
The Thin Blue Line / int_27c09b00	comment	Camp Straight: Constable Kevin Goody exhibits all the mannerisms of a Camp Gay (his actor, James Dreyfus, fits this trope in Real Life) but is actually a Dogged Nice Guy to WPC Habib, whom he hits on in every episode (and is very surprised that his colleagues might have thought he was gay).
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The Thin Blue Line / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
The Thin Blue Line / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love: Strangely, while Fowler and Dawkins have been together for ten years, he doesn't seem to be aware of her advances at times. Clearly Patricia loves Raymond, and he must return her affections otherwise they wouldn't be in a relationship, but it seems that to him she's just... there. This is at least in part because Fowler both believes very heavily in professionalism and maintaining an official distance at all times and is incredibly repressed and poor at expressing emotions in an almost stereotypically British fashion.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_2a2d62a0	type	Talking Down the Suicidal
The Thin Blue Line / int_2a2d62a0	comment	Talking Down the Suicidal: Played for laughs in the first episode, when a burglary victim climbs on to a high ledge, and asks for a reason not to jump. Fowler tells him officiously that he is standing above a public pavement, and pedestrians should not have to dodge him.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_2c5bfae3	type	My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting
The Thin Blue Line / int_2c5bfae3	comment	My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: In "Rag Week", Fowler rants about how misbehaving students are a stain on Britain's reputation.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
The Thin Blue Line / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: In "Honey Trap", Dawkins thinks Fowler and Habib are having an affair and parading it right in front of her, but it turns out that A. Raymond just wants Maggie on his pub quiz team and B. Maggie is also being set up as a Honey Trap. While it is true that Fowler kissed Habib, it was a completely platonic spur-of-the-moment thing when she won the previous pub quiz for their team.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_2dd7a113	type	French Jerk
The Thin Blue Line / int_2dd7a113	comment	French Jerk: In "Ism Ism Ism", everyone at the police station is forced to attend diversity training, but when they're instructed to arrest an illegal immigrant, they get the wrong guy - causing a major incident because he is actually the European Commissioner for Human Rights (and black). The man turns out to be a French Jerk and instantly starts complaining about everything in Britain: "You British! No wonder we all hate you. Your chocolate isn't chocolatey enough. Your bananas are too long and bendy. And you insist on eating prawn cocktail crisps despite the fact that we have told you not to!"
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The Thin Blue Line / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
The Thin Blue Line / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: The Mayor is the small-town version of this, a terrifying woman who wants to turn the town into "the sweatshop capital of Britain." On the other hand, Fowler at one point argues that the actual Queen of England is quite a Benevolent Boss, as bosses go.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_30643e22	type	Bathroom Break-Out
The Thin Blue Line / int_30643e22	comment	Bathroom Break-Out: When Grim and Boyle attend an illegal pub lock-in, they try the "old copper's trick" of escaping through the bathroom window, when the police arrive. Unfortunately for them, they find Inspector Fowler sitting inside the toilet stall, who says "the problem with old copper's tricks is that old coppers know 'em".
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The Thin Blue Line / int_31b47c7e	type	Paying in Coins
The Thin Blue Line / int_31b47c7e	comment	Paying in Coins: In "Rag Week", Fowler and Goody are in an slow queue at the bank, headed by a customer paying in coins, very slowly. When Fowler suddenly shouts at Goody after getting sick of his prattle, the customer knocks over his pile of coins, and has to start again.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_31c3bb94	type	Firemen Are Hot
The Thin Blue Line / int_31c3bb94	comment	Firemen Are Hot: In "Fire and Terror", Maggie has the hots for a hunky firefighter who unfortunately turns out to have the hots for Kevin. Hilarity Ensues.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_323e47e2	type	Chain of Corrections
The Thin Blue Line / int_323e47e2	comment	Chain of Corrections: During a discussion of the title object in "The Queen's Birthday Present":
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The Thin Blue Line / int_3403abfc	type	Mugged for Disguise
The Thin Blue Line / int_3403abfc	comment	Mugged for Disguise: In "Rag Week", a pizza delivery boy in shorts and T-shirt tells Grim he wants to make a complaint about police harrassment; then we see Fowler wearing the delivery boy's uniform, and riding his motorbike.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_35ab4cec	type	You Watch Too Much X
The Thin Blue Line / int_35ab4cec	comment	You Watch Too Much X: When Grim wants to buy a water cooler for the CID in "The Green-Eyed Monster", Fowler responds, "You just want to walk around with a paper cup in your hand like an American police officer. You watch too much television".
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The Thin Blue Line / int_38bf28e3	type	Engineered Public Confession
The Thin Blue Line / int_38bf28e3	comment	After Boyle sets Fowler straight in "Court in the Act" (see Engineered Public Confession), the Mayoress comes in, looking for a plea bargain. The conversation, in which she demands that Raymond "give it [the plea bargain] to me" and his assurances that she'll be "more than satisfied" (with the loophole of Goody wearing an unofficial uniform during the bust) gets recorded over Patricia's morning workout.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_3b21fe98	type	Boldly Coming
The Thin Blue Line / int_3b21fe98	comment	Boldly Coming: Brought up briefly during the briefing in "Ism Ism Ism".
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The Thin Blue Line / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Thin Blue Line / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Several references are made to Gladstone's marriage, including his objecting at his own ceremony.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_3cb68bd3	type	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
The Thin Blue Line / int_3cb68bd3	comment	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Patrica, to an armed bank robber in "Rag Week".
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The Thin Blue Line / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
The Thin Blue Line / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder: A Rule of Three gag in "Ism Ism Ism", when Grim gets annoyed by Fowler's political correctness lecture.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
The Thin Blue Line / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Played for laughs; Inspector Grim wants to be this trope so bad, but it's not helped by either the fact that he works in a fairly quiet small town rather than the gritty streets of London or the fact that he's not particularly competent.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_3eecf8f	type	Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
The Thin Blue Line / int_3eecf8f	comment	Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?: Habib is getting into character for an entrapment operation in "Honey Trap", and uses the line on Goody - a naive manchild type character with a crush on her. After collapsing in embarrassment, he replies that "Actually, it's a Mars Bar".
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The Thin Blue Line / int_3fac55ce	type	Old-Fashioned Copper
The Thin Blue Line / int_3fac55ce	comment	Old-Fashioned Copper Derek Grim acts the part with his loathing of modern "fannying about", but is mostly a wannabe, not to mention a buffoon. Fowler's an even more old-fashioned cop; he, however, is old-fashioned in the Dixon of Dock Green fashion.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_3fc3406b	type	Haggis Is Horrible
The Thin Blue Line / int_3fc3406b	comment	Haggis Is Horrible: Grim's "reasoning" when suspecting a domestic terrorist organization, the St Neduts of Egelloc, of being Scottish extremists in "Rag Week".
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The Thin Blue Line / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
The Thin Blue Line / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: At the end of "Rag Week", Fowler and Dawkins have foiled a robbery at their bank (although Fowler thought it was a prank), and the manager congratulates them on their courage and asks if there's anything he can do in return. Dawkins notes that between understaffing and the robbery, they were unable to renew their standing orders (which must be done that day to avoid incurring penalties)... and the manager says it's three minutes after closing time, so he can't help them.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
The Thin Blue Line / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Inspector Grim. He once described a suspect as being "slippery, like an owl".
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The Thin Blue Line / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
The Thin Blue Line / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: In "Rag Week", Fowler is queueing up at the bank (behind an arcade manager who is depositing a huge number of coins) and is joined by Goody, who asks, "Visiting the bank?" A fed up Fowler snarks, "Oh, thank you for pointing that out, Constable Goody; I was about to ask for two tickets to Lawrence of Arabia."
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The Thin Blue Line / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Thin Blue Line / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Fowler may be pompous, uptight and officious, but he means well, and has a good heart underneath it all. Grim is an even more unpleasant individual, but, while his Hidden Heart of Gold surfaces less often, even he isn't all bad.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_48cffdb7	type	I Want My Mommy!
The Thin Blue Line / int_48cffdb7	comment	In "Kids Today", Goody punches a racist teenager, who then breaks down and sobs, saying he wants his mummy. Later, the boy's mother turns up to press charges, and ends up hitting him over the head herself when he refuses to cooperate, bringing on the same reaction as before.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_49c62f72	type	Agent Provocateur
The Thin Blue Line / int_49c62f72	comment	Played with in "Road Rage". Dawkins falls for a radical environmentalist, only to find he's an MI5 Agent Provocateur when he comes out of Fowler's office wearing a James Bond tuxedo.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_4cacfcc3	type	Honey Trap
The Thin Blue Line / int_4cacfcc3	comment	"Honey Trap" features Grim and Fowler using Habib as a Honey Trap to capture a criminal. Dawkins thinks Fowler and Habib are having an affair and, in retaliation, breaks Fowler's new royal crest, which he claims represents all the values he stands for. She then replies he doesn't stand for any and mentions knowing what he and Maggie are doing. Wrongly believing she figured out about the Honey Trap, he comments about it, revealing to her the truth. She then lets him think he was right, and he tells her he agrees with her reaction.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_4ff31e76	type	Playing a Tree
The Thin Blue Line / int_4ff31e76	comment	Playing a Tree: Inspector Fowler is a bit luckier: in the annual Peter Pan performance at Christmas, he always gets the part of the crocodile who swallowed a clock. Tick. Tock. He does, however, end up literally playing a tree in a training role-play exercise in "Road Rage". A tree to which his fellow officers pretend to tie themselves in the role of militant environmentalists. He really gets into the role.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
The Thin Blue Line / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: After Boyle sets Fowler straight in "Court in the Act" (see Engineered Public Confession), the Mayoress comes in, looking for a plea bargain. The conversation, in which she demands that Raymond "give it [the plea bargain] to me" and his assurances that she'll be "more than satisfied" (with the loophole of Goody wearing an unofficial uniform during the bust) gets recorded over Patricia's morning workout. In "Ism Ism Ism", Dawkins shows Fowler surveillance footage of what looks like a domestic abuse incident; on the one hand, Fowler wants to arrest the abuser, but on the other hand, he feels guilty about how they got the evidence. At the end of the episode, she takes him by the house in the footage, and we see what looks like another attack through the window; this time, Fowler says he doesn't care how they got the evidence, and they charge into the room... to find Grim wearing a dress and being flagellated as part of his initiation ceremony into the Todgers.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
The Thin Blue Line / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: Constable Goody suffers badly from this trope. His speech, his mannerisms, his hobbies (gladiators) and many of the things he says give off the distinct impression that he's as gay as Christmas wrapper paper. In fact, he only has one non-stereotypically-gay characteristic: He lusts after women.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
The Thin Blue Line / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Habib, and to a lesser extent Patricia, are more sensible and less often the butt of jokes than the male characters.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_5a365ed2	type	Incompatible Orientation
The Thin Blue Line / int_5a365ed2	comment	In "Fire and Terror", firefighter Gary is telling Habib, who has a massive crush on him (unaware of their Incompatible Orientation despite his frequent questions about Goody), about rescuing six children from a burning house. Habib says "Gosh, Gary! Amazing!" after every detail as Dawkins rolls her eyes. The third time, Dawkins sarcastically says "Gosh, Gary! Amazing!" in unison with Habib, who shoots her a Death Glare.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
The Thin Blue Line / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Grim's vision of reversing the principle of innocent until proven guilty.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_5e126c79	type	The Joy of X
The Thin Blue Line / int_5e126c79	comment	The Joy of X
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The Thin Blue Line / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
The Thin Blue Line / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In "The Green-Eyed Monster", Fowler is distraught when Dawkins finally breaks up with him, and becomes doubly so when he hears her telling Habib about Toby, whom he assumes is the new man in her life (he's actually her new pet dog). Gladstone suggests Fowler should put up a fight for her, but Fowler says that as long as Dawkins is happy with Toby and he looks after her and never hurts her, that's all he wants for her.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_658854ee	type	I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder
The Thin Blue Line / int_658854ee	comment	I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: In "Kids Today", when Fowler organises a camping trip for young offenders, he asks Grim if he can be persuaded to come. Grim replies:
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The Thin Blue Line / int_691dc915	type	Construction Catcalls
The Thin Blue Line / int_691dc915	comment	In the third act of "Come On You Blues", the mayoress of Gasforth (a former schoolmate and crush of Fowler's) is hoping to impress a group of foreign investors (specifically, sweatshop owners) at Gasforth Town FC's third round FA Cup tie at home to Chelsea. On the Friday, three of the episode's subplots climax as Dawkins arrests a group of builders for making lewd remarks toward her, an undercover Grim and Boyle arrest a group of pizzeria customers talking in hushed voices about turning "those Chelsea scum" into dust and sticking to the plan, and Fowler sends Habib, Gladstone, and Goody to arrest a group of revellers having a loud party. On the Saturday, the club chairman tells the mayoress they have to forfeit the match, as none of the players have turned up. He can't understand it - they were fine the previous day, with three of them at work on a building site (cue Dawkins looking worried), four of them talking tactics at a pizzeria (cue Grim looking worried), and the others holding a pre-match party (cue Fowler looking worried). The investors promptly leave, and the mayoress rounds on the police officers... who have beaten a very hasty retreat.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_69d46274	type	Justice by Other Legal Means
The Thin Blue Line / int_69d46274	comment	Justice by Other Legal Means: When an Engineered Public Confession doesn't work in "Court in the Act", Fowler gets the case thrown out by revealing that Goody was still wearing the prototype uniform that he was modelling when he found the planted evidence.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_6b8c8d72	type	Our Slogan Is Terrible
The Thin Blue Line / int_6b8c8d72	comment	Our Slogan Is Terrible: The town has the slogan "It's not as bad as you think".
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The Thin Blue Line / int_6bc2726f	type	Baby Fever Trigger
The Thin Blue Line / int_6bc2726f	comment	Baby Fever Trigger: In "Kids Today", Kray says that all women have baby fever when they turn thirty. Habib asks Patricia is she wants a baby; Patricia replies that she could take it or leave it. Later, she briefly cares for a baby which is abandoned outside their police station; baby fever descends, and she buys a pair of baby socks on a whim, to persuade her partner Fowler to become a parent. When he flatly refuses, she hits him over the head with a large frozen fish.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_6c8ce33c	type	Lower Half Reveal
The Thin Blue Line / int_6c8ce33c	comment	Lower Half Reveal: In "Kids Today", the normally highly regimented and uniformed Inspector Fowler surprises everyone by wearing shorts, just before taking young offenders on a camping trip. Detective Inspector Grim mocks him with "lovely legs, Raymond".
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The Thin Blue Line / int_6ccba96b	type	Talking in Bed
The Thin Blue Line / int_6ccba96b	comment	Talking in Bed: Several episodes feature bedtime conversations between Fowler and Dawkins, usually with the latter trying unsuccessfully to inflame the former's ardour while he'd rather just read a bit and then go to sleep.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
The Thin Blue Line / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: "Yuletide Spirit" is set on Christmas Eve. Grim has been cast as Captain Hook in the Gasforth Amateur Drama Society's Christmas pantomime (with Fowler as his understudy), Grim and Kray are trying to collar a gang of thieves who pose as carol singers, Goody's gifts for Habib (sexy lingerie) and Fowler (a puncture repair kit for his bicycle) get mixed up and Dawkins assumes the gift is for her (and heartily approves), and a homeless hippie goes into labour when she and her boyfriend show up at the station to protest the impoundment of their van.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_6fb59931	type	Being Personal Isn't Professional
The Thin Blue Line / int_6fb59931	comment	Being Personal Isn't Professional: Inspector Fowler at times, in one instance pointing out that, as Dawkins wanted his advice partly as her commanding officer and partly as her boyfriend, he will have to give her one opinion now and one at lunch, as he is not being paid to be her boyfriend.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
The Thin Blue Line / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Twice, both involving Goody. The first is when Fowler accidentally gets the gift of lingerie he'd meant for Habib in "Yuletide Spirit", and the second is when he tries to decide whether or not to go to an illegal lock-in in "Alternative Culture".
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The Thin Blue Line / int_725a80b2	type	Mistaken for an Imposter
The Thin Blue Line / int_725a80b2	comment	Mistaken for an Imposter: After a succession of student pranks for the title event in "Rag Week", Inspector Fowler single-handedly arrests (and insults) a group of armed, masked bank robbers, assuming it's another joke. During the robbery, Constable Goody is mistaken for a prankster by people who assume he's too young to be a real police officer.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
The Thin Blue Line / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Habib (Asian and Muslim) and Gladstone (black Caribbean). Of course, this is modern day Britain, so an ethnically diverse workplace makes sense.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_74a7d2d	type	Creator's Culture Carryover
The Thin Blue Line / int_74a7d2d	comment	Creator's Culture Carryover: In "Ism Ism Ism", Inspector Fowler, chief of a British Police station, attempts to teach his men the importance or political correctness, and at one point utters, "That would be the pot calling the kettle... errr, African-American." Almost certainly intentional, to show how over the top he is being. "Black" isn't even considered offensive in the UK when applied to people of African descent, isn't offensive anywhere when used as a purely descriptive adjective to describe the colour of an object, and the correct term if he was being really careful would be "Afro-Caribbean" (since fallen out of use because most British black people now either think of themselves as completely British or skipped the "Caribbean" part).
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The Thin Blue Line / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
The Thin Blue Line / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: In "Rag Week", when Grim reveals the contents of a demand for autonomy from the "St Neduts of Egelloc". Grim is convinced the name is Celtic, but when Habib suggests it sounds Anglo-Saxon, Grim patronisingly says that she has a "good little brain" and they might make a detective of her yet. Fowler cuts off her inevitably acerbic reply before she gets them all in trouble:
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The Thin Blue Line / int_7833ecb3	type	Cat Up a Tree
The Thin Blue Line / int_7833ecb3	comment	Cat Up a Tree: In "Fire and Terror", just as Fowler is trying to persuade Grim that uniformed police officer work is just as important as detective work, Gladstone gets a phone call...
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The Thin Blue Line / int_796bffea	type	Mistaken for Racist
The Thin Blue Line / int_796bffea	comment	Mistaken for Racist: When the Mayoress orders Raymond to arrest an illegal immigrant in "Ism Ism Ism", she forgets to give him a description of what the man looks like, so he and his officers just arrest the man who opened the door. Unfortunately, he not only isn't the illegal alien, he's also black and the European Commissioner for Human Rights. Learning of the man's real identity, Raymond is horrified: "A Frenchman? In my station?!"
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The Thin Blue Line / int_7a368a80	type	Comic Role Play
The Thin Blue Line / int_7a368a80	comment	Comic Role Play: This happens several times. In "Honey Trap", Grim thinks that Habib is not being seductive enough when trying to make Terry the Tank confess, so he demonstrates, saying everyone will have to imagine the skirt, and speaks in a silly voice. Disgusted, Raymond says "Are we trying to make him confess, or throw up?" In "Court in the Act", Raymond role plays a defence barrister, complete with a mop on his head for a wig, and yells ruthlessly at Goody, who weeps because Raymond is being so mean. Habib in Gladstone join in as the prosecution barrister and the judge: Habib with a tea cosy on her head, and Gladstone with packing material on his head. When Raymond tries to tell him what to do, Gladstone replies "Who is the judge here?". In "Ism ism ism", Raymond pretends to be an alien from outer space, telling his team to imagine the alien features. He makes alien noises, interspersed with English.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_7ae994c5	type	Delivery Guy Infiltration
The Thin Blue Line / int_7ae994c5	comment	Delivery Guy Infiltration: Inspector Fowler does this in "Rag Week" to get into a bank robbery that has turned into a hostage situation.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_7e1184d8	type	Suspect Is Hatless
The Thin Blue Line / int_7e1184d8	comment	Suspect Is Hatless: After Kray and Grim spot the fake carol singers in "Yuletide Spirit" doing their thing, the latter decides to call in for backup, not wanting to get in a fight. Unfortunately, the only description he gives dispatch is that they're 'highly dangerous carol singers', which leads them to arrest a group of real carol-singers - the chief constable, the local MP, their wives, and the Bishop of Gasforth.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_817736c1	type	Covering Up Your Gray
The Thin Blue Line / int_817736c1	comment	Covering Up Your Gray: In "Fly on the Wall", when a documentary is being filmed in the police station, Inspector Fowler has berated everybody for doing themselves up for television. However, Patricia discovers that he has bought a product called "Grey Away". Moments before the cameras appear, he accidentally puts it on his teeth, turning them black.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_83a8d697	type	Oblivious Guilt Slinging
The Thin Blue Line / int_83a8d697	comment	Oblivious Guilt Slinging: While talking about the teenager they picked up for "joy-riding" in "Night Shift", Goody rambles briefly about the trouble broken families lead to before remembering that Fowler is a divorced father.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_847257ff	type	My Biological Clock Is Ticking
The Thin Blue Line / int_847257ff	comment	My Biological Clock Is Ticking: Patricia Dawkins is anxious to have children. Unfortunately, Fowler is less interested in obliging, partly as he already has a teenage son with his ex-wife, Susan, and partly because he is overly devoted to his job as a policeman.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
The Thin Blue Line / int_8cb4ea46	comment	By-the-Book Cop: Fowler, to an almost absurd degree. He regards even the slightest deviation from police regulations with absolute horror.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_902ff525	type	Sdrawkcab Alias
The Thin Blue Line / int_902ff525	comment	Sdrawkcab Alias: In "Rag Week", Grim receives what he thinks is a legitimate threat from a separatist group calling themselves the "St Neduts of Egelloc". Fowler can scarcely contain his glee in pointing out that Grim has fallen for a rag week prank: "St Neduts" and "Egelloc" are "Students" and "College" spelled backwards, while their weapon, "Dratsuc", is "custard" spelled backwards. (Grim, inevitably, pretends that he already knew and was wondering how long it would take the uniformed officers to work it out - a lie that is exposed by Kray telling him he has the Home Office and Armed Response Unit on standby.)
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The Thin Blue Line / int_912714cc	type	Edible Bludgeon
The Thin Blue Line / int_912714cc	comment	Edible Bludgeon: In "Kids Today", Patricia hits Raymond over the head with a large fish. Just before he faints, Raymond comments that it's a good thing they were not about to eat a leg of lamb.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_920b5728	type	Sleeping with the Boss
The Thin Blue Line / int_920b5728	comment	Sleeping with the Boss: Sergeant Dawkins is Inspector Fowler's live-in girlfriend. Given Fowler's outlook on his duties, however, this is not a major issue. At one point he offers Dawkins some advice, half now (as her senior officer) and half when he is on break (as her boyfriend, as he is not being paid to advise people as their boyfriends and so cannot do so during work hours.).
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The Thin Blue Line / int_943f7a7e	type	Wiki Walk
The Thin Blue Line / int_943f7a7e	comment	Wiki Walk: Constable Frank Gladstone is a master of this, often omitting the intervening steps and just announcing his seemingly random conclusions to his perplexed comrades. For example: His theory behind rampant graffiti in "Kids Today"?...Fridge magnets and the parents who use them to put their toddler's childish drawings on the fridge as adorable mementos, which causes the now teen kids to use graffiti as a method of gaining that familiar adoration from standing around the fridge.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_94ac3e9b	type	Cutting the Electronic Leash
The Thin Blue Line / int_94ac3e9b	comment	Cutting the Electronic Leash: Played for laughs in "Kids Today", when the eccentric mountain guide Brigadier Blaster-Sump is interrupted by his mobile phone.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
The Thin Blue Line / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: In "Fly on the Wall", Fowler is aghast as, one by one, he sees Dawkins with a new hairstyle, Habib wearing a short skirt, Goody with a perm, Boyle in a sharp suit and sunglasses, and Gladstone in his father's police dress uniform from Trinidad, and berates them all for obsessing over looking good for the TV cameras. Then Dawkins notices that the bag he's just brought back from Boots includes "Grey Away" hair dye...
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The Thin Blue Line / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Thin Blue Line / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: In "Yuletide Spirit", Grim is too busy obsessing over his role as Captain Hook in the Gasforth Amateur Drama Society's Christmas pantomime to listen to Kray telling him about a rash of burglaries that involve using carol singers as a distraction... until Kray tells him that Division have demanded to know what Grim is doing about it, whereupon Grim berates Kray for obsessing over the panto.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
The Thin Blue Line / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Ironically, despite Fowler's page quote above, he has his own Odd Couple-style relationship with Grim, the CID inspector. Fowler is the By-the-Book Cop Parody who acts like he's in Dixon of Dock Green, Grim is the Wannabe Cowboy Cop who thinks he's in The Sweeney.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_9b53f32	type	Exposed to the Elements
The Thin Blue Line / int_9b53f32	comment	Exposed to the Elements: Inspector Grim on why the orienteer Brigadier Blaster-Sump is a loony:
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The Thin Blue Line / int_9e80f156	type	Unfortunate Item Swap
The Thin Blue Line / int_9e80f156	comment	Unfortunate Item Swap: In "Yuletide Spirit", Goody has bought Christmas gifts for Fowler and Habib: a puncture repair kit for the former's bicycle and some lacy red lingerie for the latter. However, he puts them in identical boxes, so Habib gets the puncture repair kit and Fowler gets the lingerie. Matters are complicated further when Dawkins finds the lingerie in Fowler's office and assumes they're his gift to her... and then complicated still further when Fowler only discovers after swapping the gifts back that Dawkins enthusiastically approved of the lingerie.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_9fb02235	type	We Should Get Another Tape
The Thin Blue Line / int_9fb02235	comment	We Should Get Another Tape: In "Court in the Act", Inspector Fowler attempts to record Inspector Grim confessing to planting evidence, but when he triumphantly plays back the cassette, all they hear is his girlfriend's work-out routine. Boyle, Grim's crony, points out that Fowler needed to push down "play" and "record" for it to work. At the end of the episode, as Patricia does her work-out, she hears what was recorded afterwards: the mayoress apparently propositioning Fowler.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
The Thin Blue Line / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: Fowler breaks the fourth wall in the second series, beginning each episode by briefly addressing the audience directly, in the style of Dixon of Dock Green.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_a3df8e61	type	And You Thought It Was a Game
The Thin Blue Line / int_a3df8e61	comment	And You Thought It Was a Game: Inverted in "Fire and Terror" when a serial hoaxer comes in and briefly convinces all the other cops he's armed with a gun; Fowler, who knows full well he's just a pest, walks right up to him, 'disarms' himnote his 'gun' turns out to be a spoon and tells him to get lost. In "Rag Week", Fowler confronts and talks down a group of dangerous bank robbers, while under the impression they were students playing a prank. Inverted in "Fly on the Wall" — after Fowler talks down the old man with the gun, it turns out that he was going to turn it in to the weapons amnesty program and possibly get on television.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_a3eb0c53	type	Confusing Multiple Negatives
The Thin Blue Line / int_a3eb0c53	comment	Confusing Multiple Negatives: In "Night Shift" in the first series, a young man Darren uses double negatives when speaking to Raymond. The second time he does this, Raymond ignores the double negative.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Thin Blue Line / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: In "Fire and Terror", firefighter Gary is telling Habib, who has a massive crush on him (unaware of their Incompatible Orientation despite his frequent questions about Goody), about rescuing six children from a burning house. Habib says "Gosh, Gary! Amazing!" after every detail as Dawkins rolls her eyes. The third time, Dawkins sarcastically says "Gosh, Gary! Amazing!" in unison with Habib, who shoots her a Death Glare. When Raymond believes Patricia might be annoyed with him at the beginning of "Honey Trap":
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The Thin Blue Line / int_a8aba532	type	Football Hooligans
The Thin Blue Line / int_a8aba532	comment	Football Hooligans: "Come on You Blues" has the police worried about a possible outbreak of football hooliganism due to an upcoming FA Cup tie between Gasforth Town FC and Chelsea. In arresting various troublemaking elements, they end up locking up the entire local club.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Thin Blue Line / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: In "Fire and Terror", a drunk stumbles into the squad room and is about to be sick; Fowler shouts to Goody to get the man something to be sick into, so Goody grabs the first thing to hand: Fowler's cap. The officers are then told that their superior from Special Branch has arrived to investigate the supposed terrorist they have in custody, and Fowler reflexively grabs his cap and puts it on... and gets the look of a man who knows he's stuck between a rock and a hard place when he feels the contents all over his head. In the third act of "Come On You Blues", the mayoress of Gasforth (a former schoolmate and crush of Fowler's) is hoping to impress a group of foreign investors (specifically, sweatshop owners) at Gasforth Town FC's third round FA Cup tie at home to Chelsea. On the Friday, three of the episode's subplots climax as Dawkins arrests a group of builders for making lewd remarks toward her, an undercover Grim and Boyle arrest a group of pizzeria customers talking in hushed voices about turning "those Chelsea scum" into dust and sticking to the plan, and Fowler sends Habib, Gladstone, and Goody to arrest a group of revellers having a loud party. On the Saturday, the club chairman tells the mayoress they have to forfeit the match, as none of the players have turned up. He can't understand it - they were fine the previous day, with three of them at work on a building site (cue Dawkins looking worried), four of them talking tactics at a pizzeria (cue Grim looking worried), and the others holding a pre-match party (cue Fowler looking worried). The investors promptly leave, and the mayoress rounds on the police officers... who have beaten a very hasty retreat. In "The Green-Eyed Monster", Boyle is taking a phone call from a medical emergency, "potential fatality", but Grim is more concerned with the amount of time he has spent on hold to the water cooler repair hotline. In the background, Boyle's body language suggests he is trying to calm the caller down as he enters relevant details into the computer, only to get a horrified look as the ranting Grim snatches the receiver from his hand...
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The Thin Blue Line / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Thin Blue Line / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Kray deals with Grim's pomposity and idiocy by quietly snarking during his speeches, or by claiming to find his jokes funny while not so much as cracking a smile - all of which goes completely over Grim's head thanks to that same pomposity and idiocy. During a briefing on organised crime ("one word", according to Grim) in "Night Shift": In "Kids Today", Grim is going undercover as a van driver with Kray and Crockett as "braindead juvenile morons". Grim laughs that he should have chosen "some of Fowler's lot" to play the latter roles, and repeats the joke just to be sure Kray understands it.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Thin Blue Line / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Habib in the episode "Honey Trap". Played for laughs, but at the same time quite a revelation given she is almost always otherwise seen in a conservative police uniform.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Thin Blue Line / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: When Grim overhears Fowler lamenting the seediness of the title operation to catch Terry the Tank in "Honey Trap", he tries to call Fowler out on his hypocrisy by noting that he'll still take half the credit for the arrest, but Fowler no longer wants anything to do with it and tells Grim that CID can have full credit. Grim is delighted, doubly so when Terry shows up handcuffed to Habib. Unfortunately for Grim, Terry saw the entrapment operation for what it was, and he has performed a citizen's arrest on Habib and is planning to lodge a very serious complaint.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_b2d3a774	type	Captain Morgan Pose
The Thin Blue Line / int_b2d3a774	comment	Captain Morgan Pose: Adopted by Brigadier Blaster Sump in "Kids Today", much to his audience's horror as he's wearing a kilt.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Thin Blue Line / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Grim may be a fairly wretched person but when Boyle talks him into planting evidence to get a conviction in "Court in the Act", it causes him terrible guilt throughout the episode. When Fowler manages to get the case dismissed on a technicality Grim blusters a bit but then breaks down crying, thanks Fowler for stopping it and then declares "There's nothing lower than a bent copper."
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The Thin Blue Line / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Thin Blue Line / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: "There's a place for fatuous flippant would-be humorous inanities, and that place is on Noel's House Party." "There is a place for smutty innuendo, Constable Kray, and that place is on Birds of a Feather." Fowler doesn't seem to care for Captain Kirk's grammar or the Rubber-Forehead Aliens trope, as seen in "Night Shift".
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The Thin Blue Line / int_b6db5695	type	Political Overcorrectness
The Thin Blue Line / int_b6db5695	comment	Political Overcorrectness: "Ism Ism Ism" parodied this, with Fowler ordered to get everyone at the station up to standard on political correctness. He makes a series of embarrassingly awful attempts to express enlightened views about race, gender and sexuality: "That would be the pot calling the kettle ... er ... African-American!" Even more absurd in that the series is set in Britain.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Thin Blue Line / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: At one point in "Night Shift", Grim is needling Raymond about his divorce and slightly distant relationship with his son Bill, whom Raymond is worried is turning a bit wild. Grim makes a lot of hay about how he's a devoted family man who is always there for his sons. On an unrelated matter, guess whose loutish son just got arrested for disturbing the peace...? Bill, incidentally, turns out to be studying to try and get into university; turns out Raymond's worries were a bit hyperactive anyway. "Ism Ism Ism" has Grim arguing against "weird customs and funny clothes" in the police force, then turns around and tries to demonstrate his initiation ceremony for the Todgers. When Fowler berates Goody for punching out a teenage skinhead, he asks, "Suppose the lad had sustained brain damage?" Habib snarks back, "How would we tell?" Fowler furiously tells her not to be facetious with him. Later in the episode, he talks to the skinhead's mother, who also raises the possibility of brain damage, and he mutters the exact same joke in response. Habib looks rather unimpressed about this.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_b8e8fa85	type	Military Alphabet
The Thin Blue Line / int_b8e8fa85	comment	Military Alphabet: Subverted in a Rule of Three gag in "Yuletide Spirit" when it turns out to be requests for drinks from a pizza place.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_bb35f8b6	type	Mixed Metaphor
The Thin Blue Line / int_bb35f8b6	comment	Mixed Metaphor: Something Inspector Grim is good at. For example, in the episode "Night Shift", he informs everyone that he is looking for "A fat cat, spinning his web with his tentacles in every pie".
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The Thin Blue Line / int_bbda4d83	type	Away in a Manger
The Thin Blue Line / int_bbda4d83	comment	Away in a Manger: In "Yuletide Spirit", a travelling hippie couple arrive in the station on Christmas Eve. Naturally, the woman is heavily pregnant and goes into labour.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_c0bfb059	type	Against My Religion
The Thin Blue Line / int_c0bfb059	comment	Against My Religion: In "Fire and Terror", a drunk stumbles into the station and gets sick in Fowler's hat. Fowler absentmindedly puts it on to meet a representative from Special Branch. When his superior asks why Fowler isn't taking his hat off in respect, he claims to be a Sikh who is forbidden to bare his head.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
The Thin Blue Line / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: After Patricia discovers the Not What It Looks Like example in "Court in the Act", she goes for the rolling pin, and when he argues against her idea of having kids, she hits him with a fish.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_c2afffe	type	Take Me Instead
The Thin Blue Line / int_c2afffe	comment	Take Me Instead: The episode "Fire and Terror" ends with a double Take Me Instead, the second instance throwing Gary the gay fireman out of the closet.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_c2c15b23	type	Bait-and-Switch Comment
The Thin Blue Line / int_c2c15b23	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comment: In the camping trip on "Kids Today", Gladstone sounds as if he is going to reminisce about old ways of making fire.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_c92f75c5	type	MagicNegro
The Thin Blue Line / int_c92f75c5	comment	Magic Negro: Constable Frank Gladstone, thankfully to a very mild degree.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_c9be3d9	type	30 Minutes, or It's Free!
The Thin Blue Line / int_c9be3d9	comment	30 Minutes, or It's Free!: Inspector Fowler says this in "Rag Week" while pretending to be a pizza delivery boy so he can gain access to a bank where robbers are holding people hostage.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
The Thin Blue Line / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: Detective Sergeants Kray (series 1) and Boyle (series 2) are this to DI Grim.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The Thin Blue Line / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Significantly lighter in its humour and style than earlier Elton works like The Young Ones and Blackadder. Some of the contemporary negativity towards the show was from critics and viewers who had been expecting a much darker and more political comedy based on Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop gags.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_d08a19c4	type	ImmodestOrgasm
The Thin Blue Line / int_d08a19c4	comment	Immodest Orgasm: The "noisy nymphomaniac" who appears in "Night Shift" tends to have ones that are so immodest that she keeps getting brought in for disturbing the peace. It doesn't help that she had the last one while having sex in her garden shed. Which collapsed.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
The Thin Blue Line / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: Raymond Fowler. Take this example from "Kids Today", in which he fondly describes his childhood Meccano sets, much to Habib's amusement: Grim: "It'll be my arse on the line and I don't want a cock-up!" and many variations.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_d4bf11d1	type	Dramatic Unmask
The Thin Blue Line / int_d4bf11d1	comment	Dramatic Unmask: In "Rag Week", students are going around town wearing gorilla masks. Later, there is a bank robbery, with three gunmen wearing gorilla masks. Inspector Fowler believes them to be students having a laugh, and in the manner of a strict teacher, talks them into handing over their guns, before unmasking them, and discovering they were not who he thought they were.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
The Thin Blue Line / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: When drilling Constable Habib for his quiz team in "Honey Trap", Inspector Fowler says "Give me the first six primary numbers". She replies "1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, sir." The first six prime numbers (not "primary") are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Thin Blue Line / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Fowler, especially in comparison with Grim. He may dislike young people, foreigners and, honestly, most people, but as long as they obey the law, he is content to leave them in peace. Something of a Noble Bigot with a Badge, who refuses to let his prejudices affect his policing even slightly.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
The Thin Blue Line / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Raymond calls Patricia "cabbage".note A deliberate homage to Prince Philip's nickname for the Queen.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_e2415f	type	The Cape
The Thin Blue Line / int_e2415f	comment	The Cape: Raymond, or at least Raymond's self-image.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Constable Goody gets the wrong end of every stick imaginable. For example, when Gladstone tries to console him after yet another crass remark by Kray in "Yuletide Spirit" by suggesting it's his way of compensating for a lack of action, Goody has no idea who Harold Wilson was:
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The Thin Blue Line / int_e313bcdc	comment	Ignore the Fanservice: In "Night Shift", Patricia tries to improve her sex life with Raymond by coming to bed in a silk nightie. Unfortunately, it doesn't get his attention until she mentions how much it cost...
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The Thin Blue Line / int_e3bd3475	comment	Stock "Yuck!": In "Rag Week", the bank robbers in the third act have asked Grim to order a pizza as a gesture of good faith. Fowler relays this instruction to Goody, who asks what toppings they should include. Fowler doesn't care, so he agrees to Goody's suggestion that they order "the works", meaning every topping the pizzeria offers. However, Gladstone disagrees with this idea, as that would include anchovies, and he knows almost no-one who likes those (he personally hates the idea of any seafood on pizza), while Goody says he only knows one person who likes pineapple on pizza. The conversation quickly derails into a discussion of disgusting pizza toppings until Fowler yells at them to get on with it.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: In keeping with Ben Elton's stated influence from Dad's Army, several of the characters and their relationships are clearly based on those from the earlier show: Fowler is Captain Mainwaring (the pompous leader who's a bit ineffectual); Patricia is a combination of Sgt. Wilson and Mrs. Pike (both the long-suffering junior officer / comedic foil and the overly romantic love interest with a tendency to embarrass her lover with her overtures); Habib is Private Walker (the savvy, snarky and competent Only Sane Man); Gladstone is Corporal Jones (the somewhat fuzzy-witted old-timer with easily-derailed thought processes and a tendency to ramble); Goody is Private Pike (the naive youngster with a tendency to irritate and embarrass the pompous leader); Grim is ARP Warden Hodges (the rival to the pompous leader who's equally pompous and ineffectual, but in an opposite sense).
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The Thin Blue Line / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: After the sex therapist Fowler and Patricia are seeing in "Night Shift" starts stripping, they return to the station and Habib tells Fowler Grim wants to see him. "Thank you, Constable Nipple," says a still shocked Fowler.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
The Thin Blue Line / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: One of the many ways Grim mangles the English language.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_f288cf3	comment	Innocent Innuendo: The conservative and idealistic Inspector Fowler has a tendency to make statements containing innuendo that everyone except him could see. And Inspector Grim when his job depends on an important operation.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
The Thin Blue Line / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Kray was replaced with Boyle for series two. The general opinion is that Boyle was a lot funnier.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: At the beginning of "Rag Week", Fowler dismisses the students running around in silly costumes raising money for charity by saying "We were all young once." Dawkins replies, "Not you, Raymond - you were born middle-aged." He takes it as a compliment, saying he's always tried to maintain a mature outlook on life (though he has had the odd lapse, such as owning - though never using - a whoopee cushion).
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The Thin Blue Line / int_f75cf3bd	type	Terrible Interviewees Montage
The Thin Blue Line / int_f75cf3bd	comment	Terrible Interviewees Montage: In the episode "Honey Trap", Inspector Fowler attempts to find someone who can replace Constable Habib in the upcoming trivia contest. He resorts to the perps in the detention room. Fat chance.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_f9f2c33	comment	Grim: "It'll be my arse on the line and I don't want a cock-up!" and many variations.
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The Thin Blue Line / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: In "Kids Today", Goody actually punches a skinhead for insulting Habib.
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