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Fly-on-the-wall mockumentary following the lives of cousins/best friends/country bumpkins Kerry Mucklowe and Lee "Kurtan" Mucklowe and their futile attempts to stave off Small Town Boredom.Written by and starring Real Life siblings/best friends Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper, the show originally aired on the BBC's online-only channel, BBC3, before popularity with viewers and critical acclaim prompted a move to BBC1. A second series was commissioned for 2018.An American remake, Welcome to Flatch, debuted in 2021. | |
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Right Behind Me | |
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Right Behind Me: In Scarecrow, as Kurtan is sneering at Len's poor effort: Subverted in Oven Space, when Kurtan tries to fool Kerry's mum into thinking he's gone out and she embarks on a rant about him: | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Kerry with her father, who rejects her because he never wanted a daughter. When they briefly reconnect he still insists on calling her "my son", and he ends up forming a closer bond with his nephew, Kurtan. The only way Kerry could ever make him proud of her would be to go back in time and be born a boy. Kerry is also this to a lesser extent with her mother- in King of the Nerds she describes a fantasy of becoming one of the Dragons on Dragons' Den and how this might finally make her mother proud of her. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Kerry and Kurtan spend the whole of Oven Space awaiting the arrival of Steve "Uncle Nugget" Nuggins after his release from prison. We get to know him only from their descriptions of his hilarious (ie, terrifying) escapades. We never see him because he never makes it back after he gets arrested en route for waving a samurai sword around in a supermarket | |
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The Vicar | |
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The Vicar: Reverend Francis Seaton is a none-more-typical example of an Anglican vicar, played by Paul Chahidi. | |
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The Voice | |
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The Voice: Sue only ever features as a voice screeching from upstairs. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: In Scarecrow, Kurtan is disqualified from the scarecrow contest for crying foul play. Later the vicar learns that he was telling the truth, and to make it up to him he makes up a special new category, Best Effort, and declares Kurtan the winner... just as a shirtless Kurtan can be seen carrying a flaming pitchfork in the direction of the competitors' efforts. In GNVQ, Kurtan learns that his application to Swindon College has been successful. As he and the vicar discuss how he's going to break the news to Kerry, we see her through the window- play-fighting with the local children, who then run off with her trousers. | |
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Sadist Teacher | |
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Sadist Teacher: The late Mr Perkins. "He was a massive prick", apparently. | |
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Bad Liar | |
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Martin Mucklowe protests that his reputation for peeping is undeserved and based on just two incidents, neither of which he really enjoyed. | |
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Intergenerational Friendship | |
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Intergenerational Friendship: Kerry and the 11 year olds she likes to hang out with. Kerry, Kurtin and the Vicar | |
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Comedic Sociopathy | |
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Comedic Sociopathy: Kerry and Kurtan's vitriolic friendship in general. Their fights often get physical, and objects often get thrown. Steve Nuggins, Kerry and Kurtan's "Uncle Nugget". He was wrongfully incinerated- sorry, incarcerated- for "having a laugh" (translation: stealing a bus and driving it round a roundabout for four hours, with the terrified passengers still on board). Big Mandy: | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: In Peeping Tom Kerry is the only person who stands by her dad over the allegations. They spend some time together playing on his flight simulator and planning a "flight" where Kerry will get to play at being Captain. This means the world to Kerry as it seems she may finally be forming a bond with the father who never wanted a daughter. By the end of the episode however he has forgotten everything she's done for him- and has formed a closer bond with Kurtan. Kerry returns to the flight simulator: | |
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Loving a Shadow | |
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Loving a Shadow: Parodied hilariously with Kurtan's "date" with Kayleigh, where he spends the entire thing talking nonstop while Kayleigh barely says more than three words. Afterwards an excited Kurtan is telling the camera crew, "I think I love her!" | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
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Not What It Looks Like: In Peeping Tom Kurtan asks Martin if his date, Kayleigh, can use the toilet in his caravan. He follows her in and seconds later she runs away across the field. A fight ensues as Martin insists he didn't peep at her. Kurtan is later humiliated to discover that she was actually running to get away from her date as she was finding him excruciatingly boring. | |
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Loser Protagonist | |
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Loser Protagonist: Two of 'em. | |
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Big Eater | |
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Big Eater: Kerry throughout series 2: | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed: Martin frequently makes this claim. Kurtan disputes it, citing rumours that Martin has "all the gear but no idea". | |
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Bottle Episode | |
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Bottle Episode: The episode Oven Space is set in Kerry's mum's kitchen, over the time it takes to cook a frozen pizza and some breaded turkey dinosaurs. The episode The Station is set on a train station platform, as Kerry and Kurtan wait to meet the Vicar off an incoming train. | |
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Produce Pelting | |
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Produce Pelting: In Scarecrow, Kerry's house is pelted with plums by her friends and on her orders. | |
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Gag Penis | |
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Gag Penis: Martin will brag about the alleged size of his manhood to anyone who is forced to listen. | |
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Too Kinky to Torture | |
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Too Kinky to Torture: In Threatening Letters Kerry's stalker fantasises about her beating him up, so when she finally tracks him down and threatens to beat him up he naturally responds by getting a Raging Stiffie. | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten: This being a small village, there are a few examples of the But You Screw One Goat variety: Martin Mucklowe protests that his reputation for peeping is undeserved and based on just two incidents, neither of which he really enjoyed. Martin describing his old friend: | |
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T-Word Euphemism | |
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T-Word Euphemism: The vicar frequently chastises Kerry and Kurtan for "effing and jeffing". | |
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Lame Comeback | |
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Lame Comeback: When Kerry and Kurtan are ecstatic to hear the news of Mr Perkins' death: | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: When we first meet Kerry's dad he is out and about with his two other children by a different mother. He tells Kerry she can't come and visit because he's busy looking after "the kids"- he seems to have forgotten that Kerry is one of his kids too. In Big Mandy's first scene we see her vowing to find a little old blind man and break his legs. | |
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No Theme Tune | |
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No Theme Tune: No stings or incidental music, either. | |
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Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy | |
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Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Kerry only ever wears football shirts and tracksuit bottoms, her favourite village festival is the steam fair, and she loves football and "all things mechanical and technological". Kurtan is more emotional and cares more about his appearance. His favourite village festival is the scarecrow festival, and when Kerry hurt her leg playing football, he was more concerned about missing TKMaxx sales than anything else. He also seems to be more interested in romance than Kerry is. | |
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Parental Sexuality Squick | |
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Parental Sexuality Squick: Kurtan in response to Martin's sexual bragging: | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: Dan is this to Kerry in Threatening Letters. | |
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Embarrassing Tattoo | |
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Embarrassing Tattoo: In 'Mandy', Big Mandy claims to have qualified as a tattoo artist and offers her services to Kerry for free. Kerry declines the offer when she sees Mandy's portfolio of terrible celebrity portraits, and makes an escape when Mandy falls asleep. Mandy takes offence and Kerry ends up getting a tattoo out of fear. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: In Mandy we meet Kerry's father, Martin Mucklowe, and see that he isn't particularly interested in her, paying more attention to her half-brothers. In Peeping Tom we learn that he never wanted a daughter and left her mother to have sons with another woman. In the same episode we see a hamster cage in Kerry's bedroom in which there are no signs of life. In Oven Space we learn that Kerry's pet-sitting business hasn't been doing so well... | |
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Grumpy Old Man | |
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Grumpy Old Man: Len, who always finds some excuse to berate Kerry and Kurtan- though to be fair, they often deserve it. Len's nextdoor neighbour, "Angry" Arthur, also qualifies. | |
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The Peeping Tom | |
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The Peeping Tom: Kerry's dad, as we learn in the episode Peeping Tom: | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: Kurtan is never referred to by his real name. We only know that it is "Lee Mucklowe" from the on-screen captions. Slugs' real name is never mentioned, and only shown in the credits: Michael "Slugs" Slugett. He is played by the Cooper's Real Life friend Michael Sleggs, and his surname may have inspired the character's nickname. | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity: Deconstructed when Mandy discusses Kerry and Kurtan; Kerry, according to Mandy, looks stupid but is not as stupid as she looks, whereas Kurtan is stupider than he looks, and looks stupid. | |
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RealLife | |
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Slugs' real name is never mentioned, and only shown in the credits: Michael "Slugs" Slugett. He is played by the Cooper's Real Life friend Michael Sleggs, and his surname may have inspired the character's nickname. | |
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My Local | |
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My Local: The Keepers Arms, or "The Keepers" for short. | |
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Brawn Hilda | |
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Brawn Hilda: "Big" Mandy Harris- friend, neighbour and self-taught tattooist. Kerry's mum, Sue Mucklowe. While we never see what she looks like, we are informed that "she's a good fighter down the pub" and that she could "get a job as a MeatLoaf tribute act". | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Kerry's father, Martin Mucklowe, barely acknowledges his daughter's existence. Her mother, Sue Mucklowe, is perpetually angry with her, one time to the point of throwing her PlayStation out of the window. (To be fair, this was during an argument where she got mad at Kerry for landing them a very high electrical bill from being constantly on her PlayStation and was going to give it back after Kerry came up with some money until Kerry insulted her.) Reverend Francis mentions his father in an anecdote and it seems he was incredibly emotionally abusive, humiliating Francis in front of his father's friends, mocking his dress sense and blaming him for accidentally smashing his mother's picture frame. | |
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Tomboy | |
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Tom Boy: Kerry, complete with a gender-neutral name, Tomboyish Ponytail and a wardrobe of Swindon FC merchandise and knock-off sports clothing. A brief glimpse of an old photo shows us that she even wore a suit and tie to the school prom. Later we learn that her father Martin always wanted a son and was very disappointed when Kerry was born, and then left her mother and had sons with another woman, so there may be a Freudian explanation for this. | |
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Tantrum Throwing | |
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Tantrum Throwing: Kerry and Kurtan's arguments frequently end with them throwing objects- a vase, a phone, a golf club- in anger. | |
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Improv Fu | |
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Improv Fu: In Threatening Letters Big Mandy offers to teach Kerry some self-defence techniques and pulls out a set of nunchucks. While she clearly doesn't know how to use them and is making up all the moves, she still manages to be genuinely terrifying: | |
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Self-Made Myth | |
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Self-Made Myth: Kerry and her reputation for hardness, which crumbles week by week: | |
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Ponzi | |
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Ponzi: In King Of The Nerds Kerry gets sucked in by a pyramid selling scam. | |
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Horrible Judge of Character | |
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Horrible Judge of Character: Kerry. Mostly with her father, because she desperately wants to believe he's a good guy who loves his daughter, but also with Shaz, the conwoman who persuades her to join a pyramid scheme. She also finds Uncle Nugget "such a laugh" while Kurtan and Sue both see him for the sociopath he truly is. | |
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Cringe Comedy | |
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Cringe Comedy: Especially to any viewers who grew up in a small rural village themselves. | |
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The Nicknamer | |
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The Nicknamer: In Mandy we learn that Mr Perkins, Kerry and Kurtan's hated woodwork teacher, had rather a lot of rather unkind nicknames for them. That may be one of the reasons why they are so happy to hear that he is dead. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Later we learn that her father Martin always wanted a son and was very disappointed when Kerry was born, and then left her mother and had sons with another woman, so there may be a Freudian explanation for this. | |
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Power Trio | |
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Power Trio: Kerry, Kurtin and the Vicar | |
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Country Mouse | |
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Country Mouse: Both of the protagonists, most notably when Kurtan considers leaving the village and ultimately gets cold feet and ends up staying: | |
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Uncanny Family Resemblance | |
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Uncanny Family Resemblance: Daisy May Cooper is Acting for Two, playing both Kerry and Sue Mucklowe (well, her voice at least). | |
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Littlest Cancer Patient | |
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Littlest Cancer Patient: Subverted. Slugs has survived cancer but this doesn't stop him from being "utterly annoying". | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Rev. Francis Seaton is only refered to by other characters as "the Vicar". | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: As much as can be expected when your best friend is also a family member. | |
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Small Town Boredom | |
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Smalltown Boredom: The show is this trope. | |
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Manchild | |
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Manchild: Kurtan and Kerry still behave like teenagers even though they're both in their early twenties by now and Kerry in particular doesn't seem to have any friends her own age - her "gang" is mostly comprised of Year Seven kids. | |
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Geek | |
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Geek: Kurtan has an obsessive streak a mile wide. He develops a new obsession every week, from tracking down old classmate Robert Robinson, to winning the village's annual scarecrow contest, to keeping a blog detailing all the production errors in Emmerdale. He apparently enjoys retro comedy-horror, comparing Kerry to Beetlejuice and Uncle Fester. He enjoys playing Warhammer and is mocked by Kerry as "King of the Nerds" in the episode of the same name. | |
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NO INDOOR VOICE | |
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No Indoor Voice: Sue Mucklowe, who communicates with her daughter Kerry by yelling at her from her bed. | |
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Lower-Class Lout: Averted. While Kerry and Kurtan certainly dress the part, they're not bad kids (the odd scarecrow-burning aside). They even have regular chats with the vicar, who describes them as "great kids". It's suggested that Kerry and Kurtan's lack of employment is due to a lack of opportunities rather than for lack of trying, and we can see that they're not lazy and do make some effort to better themselves. Also while the village isn't in an affluent area, most of the residents have nice homes and seem pretty houseproud, and there appears to be a real sense of community among them. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: After spending most of the show trying to please her father, Kerry realises that when he says "Mucklowes look after Mucklowes", what he actually means is he expects Kerry to do everything for him for nothing in return, so Kerry eventually does testify against Martin in court, since he was perfectly fine with letting Kerry go to prison for something he did. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Reverend Francis Seaton claims his nickname at college was "Fiery Francis". This doesn't seem at all believable- until Len gets on the wrong side of him... | |
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Pet the Dog: Kerry and her mother have a moment like this after Kerry reveals to her that Martin was kissing his ex-wife earlier and comforts her mother as she angrily rants about Martin, before asking if she wants a cup of tea. Sue accepts and tells Kerry she's "a good girl". | |
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