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Toast of London

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Toast of London	comment	A Brit Com written by Arthur Matthews and Matt Berry and broadcast by Channel 4 in which the latter plays Steven Toast, a Large Ham middle aged actor who spends more time dealing with his bizarre life and problems off stage than performing on it. Toast constantly struggles to hold down a job due to his self-centeredness and obliviousness, which lead to frequent gaffes and mishaps that upset those around him. He sustains himself by starring in a universally-reviled play and doing humiliating dubbing work, but spends most of his time arguing with his agent Jane Plough (pronounced "pluff"), chatting with his eccentric, permanently dressing gowned flatmate fellow actor Ed Howzer-Black, and facing off against his arch enemy and rival actor Ray Purchase. He also hangs out at The Colonial Club and wrestles with his complicated love life, which involves dealing with his ex-wife, sleeping with Mrs. Purchase, and frequently a Girl of the Week.A Sequel Series, Toast of Tinseltown, was released in 2022, now being aired by The BBC (via their BBC2 channel).
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Toast of London / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Toast of London / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The Arab billionaire who hires Toast to appear in his movie Prince Philip: Scoundrel Dog is in no way supposed to be Mohamed Fayed.
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Toast of London / int_13556074	type	Brotherhood of Funny Hats
Toast of London / int_13556074	comment	Brotherhood of Funny Hats: When Toast learns that director Parker Pipe refuses to work with any actors who aren't "on the square", he decides to join the not-so-secret brotherhood:
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Toast of London / int_13b7c384	type	Pizza Boy Special Delivery
Toast of London / int_13b7c384	comment	Pizza Boy Special Delivery: In "Global Warming" Ed stars in a porno as a cable repairman who comes to repair a saucy lady's "equipment".
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Toast of London / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Toast of London / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Toast spends most of an episode chasing after a comely female Royal Navy officer, who won't put up with his nonsense. After he accidentally ends up stopping a crazed sailor from launching nuclear bombs from a submarine and helping rescue her from a kidnapper, though, she does express an interest in him.
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Toast of London / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Toast of London / int_17ce80aa	comment	In "Vanity Project," Alan Ford plays a cabbie named (only in the credits) Mick Carriage. Put another way? Paddy Wagon. Also qualifies as a Stealth Pun and a Meaningful Name.
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Toast of London / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Toast of London / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: By Ray Purchase during Toast's day filming the New Star Wars MoVIE, who comments on how ironic it is.
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Toast of London / int_1989b0c	type	Comic-Book Time
Toast of London / int_1989b0c	comment	Comic-Book Time: Toast has been working as an actor since at least the late 1960's, yet is young enough for his own dad to look exactly like him in the 70's, and in 2014 is still only described as "middle-aged". This actually fits pretty well into the show's setting, which can go anywhere from the modern day to the Heath ministry to Victorian times for the sake of a joke, and where Francis Bacon may or may not be dead.
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Toast of London / int_1af2b763	type	Celebrity Resemblance
Toast of London / int_1af2b763	comment	When Toast is introduced to Kikini Bamalam (see Celebrity Resemblance) he is instructed to avoid any mention of Bruce Forsyth for fear of upsetting her. Sadly, he can't help himself and ends up spouting a load of Brucie's catchphrases on an involuntary loop.
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Toast of London / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Toast of London / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: The three random ripped dudes playing frisbee in "Afternoon Tea".
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Toast of London / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Toast of London / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Paul Rudd was invited to the David Bowie themed party in the second episode, but since the Ziggy Stardust costume is taken, he isn't allowed in.
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Toast of London / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
Toast of London / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Blair Toast has an artificial hand. It's an inflated rubber glove, stuck on the end of his arm.
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Toast of London / int_1f8cdb5c	type	Who Shot JFK?
Toast of London / int_1f8cdb5c	comment	Who Shot JFK?: Anger Man begins with Toast, at a professional low, preparing to record an audiobook of a very strongly worded conspiracy tome, JFK and The Bastards Who Killed Him, which states that anyone who believes the lone-gunman "bullshit" is "an asshole". Though Toast stays professional even if his contempt for the material is obvious, he can't make it a sentence in before the author has already jumped down his throat three separate times.
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Toast of London / int_20af79d3	type	Oral Fixation
Toast of London / int_20af79d3	comment	Oral Fixation: Mrs Purchase almost always has a cigarette in her mouth, even during sex with Toast.
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Toast of London / int_20b5cce7	type	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune
Toast of London / int_20b5cce7	comment	The show also features a "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune - Matt Berry's own Take My Hand.
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Toast of London / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Toast of London / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Jane Plough has no problems calling Toast out for being an arrogant asshole.
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Toast of London / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Toast of London / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Toast in a nutshell. He acts all arrogant, but is objectively a failing actor who only ever seems to get roles in second-rate plays, films and advertismements, or doing lacklustre voiceover work.
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Toast of London / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Toast of London / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: The show takes a lot of liberties with how old the characters supposedly are to mine humour from them being out of touch: Toast looks to be in his early forties (Matt Berry himself was 40 in 2014), and yet flashbacks of Toast's previous acting jobs include an Awful British Sex Comedy in 1969, an appearance in a children's programme in 1974 (thanks to a Freeze-Frame Bonus of the VT clock during the clip), and an episode of Doctor Who which, judging by Tom Baker's costume would have been made in 1974 or 1975. Who knows how old he actually is?! Also Jane Plough, who in "High Winds Actor" celebrates 40 years as an agent, even though Doon Mackichan who plays her is only 51. Did Jane become an agent at the age of eleven? Her fashion sense is also straight out of the 60's. In "Global Warming", she claims to have been Toast's agent for 50 years, only for Toast to correct her and say it's only 25.
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Toast of London / int_30d1e0df	type	Full-Name Basis
Toast of London / int_30d1e0df	comment	Whenever the vocal director wants to chime in during a recording, he will say, "Hello Steven, this is Clem Fandango. Can you hear me?" to which Toast will always snap, "Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango!"
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Toast of London / int_32e69b5f	type	Dastardly Whiplash
Toast of London / int_32e69b5f	comment	Dastardly Whiplash: Ray Purchase has the moustache and cartoonishly evil personality, although unusually he dresses in an all-white suit. In the first episode he is only mentioned, but Toast suspects him of conducting a needlessly elaborate scheme just to annoy him. When me meet Ray in the next episode, he's such a bastard that it suggests Toast was right, as Ray probably would go to such unnecessary lengths. He also attempts to kill Toast twice, first by goading an insane director into murdering him, and later by simply trying to shoot him onstage. He's also notoriously homophobic.
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Toast of London / int_3451115d	type	Loved by All
Toast of London / int_3451115d	comment	Loved by All: Jon Hamm, to the point that Toast's father leaves his entire estate, fortune, and freehold properties to him right before he dies.
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Toast of London / int_371e0e27	type	Chekhov's News
Toast of London / int_371e0e27	comment	Chekhov's News: Toast talks to Ed about fracking. He's saved from certain death by it later when buried alive.
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Toast of London / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
Toast of London / int_3773f8d5	comment	Status Cell Phone: Toast still possesses one of these, which is frequently Played for Laughs - it appears to be stored in Hammerspace, and can somehow receive text messages and display a GPS.
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Toast of London / int_38c2f34d	type	Hollywood Mid-Life Crisis
Toast of London / int_38c2f34d	comment	Hollywood Midlife Crisis: After seeming to be quite sane during his first two appearances, in Beauty Calls, Peter Davison seems to be going through one of these. He's got himself a much younger girlfriend (who is very foul-mouthed), causing his wife to have thrown him out of their home. He starts living with Toast and Ed, and is now wearing vaguely ridiculous-looking clothing, getting drunk with his girlfriend, and throwing childish tantrums whenever he's asked to do chores round the flat.
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Toast of London / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Toast of London / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: In the first series, Toast states his refusal to play a bald man. Either he has become more desperate or been offered a particularly excellent role, in series two he shaves his head completely - only to find the role has been snapped up by Bruce Willis.
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Toast of London / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Toast of London / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Downplayed as the series is set in the modern day, but many details such as Toast's mobile phone and the cars seem to come straight out of The '80s.
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Toast of London / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Toast of London / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: Throughout the first series, Toast is appearing in what is described as "the worst play in the world". We finally see part of it in episode six. It's pretty awful. So awful that it's actually improved when Michael Ball gets shot and killed during the performance. Toast also tries his hand at writing a Fifty Shades of Grey style erotic novel. Bits that are read out are truly terrible. And made even funnier by Toast's hammy delivery. Unlike the play, everyone in-universe seems to think it's genuinely brilliant.
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Toast of London / int_42839f8b	type	Sound-Effect Bleep
Toast of London / int_42839f8b	comment	Sound-Effect Bleep: A Running Gag in the first episode is the name of Toast's play getting drowned out by a background noise whenever anyone says it, often in an unrealistically loud or improbably timed fashion.
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Toast of London / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Toast of London / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Played for laughs with Toast's slightly strange girlfriend who plays percussion, all of the time. Naturally this gets a little annoying after a while.
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Toast of London / int_470442c8	type	I'll Be in My Bunk
Toast of London / int_470442c8	comment	I'll Be in My Bunk: While discussing the plot of the play version of Calendar Girls, Toast expresses disbelief that anyone would want to buy a calendar with a load of older ladies posing in the nude. Ed mentions that he owns such a calendar, and gets himself so worked up describing how the ladies' modesty is covered by cakes, teapots, etc., that he says he's just going to go and have a look at his calendar. "To check some dates...".
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Toast of London / int_4d422f71	type	Throw It In!
Toast of London / int_4d422f71	comment	Throw It In: In Universe: Toast's Sat-Nav voiceover has all of his swearing and sighing left on the finished product. As does the submarine voiceover that he provides, which includes a cough midway through one take.
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Toast of London / int_4eb5691c	type	Squashed Flat
Toast of London / int_4eb5691c	comment	Squashed Flat: A rare live-action example occurred in "Man of Sex".
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Toast of London / int_544f446	type	Loser Protagonist
Toast of London / int_544f446	comment	Loser Protagonist: Toast, being an untalented, unsuccessful failure of an actor and a dimwitted Jerkass to boot.
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Toast of London / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
Toast of London / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: While never exactly exceptionally modern, Toast becomes one of these in Global Warming (insisting people in wheelchairs be moved because they were distracting him, abusing an Asian tourist for not speaking English clearly, complaining about a woman breastfeeding in public and being seen going into a porno theatre) forcing him to deal with the PC Police.
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Toast of London / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Toast of London / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Downplayed; Steven usually dresses all in black and, while he's a bit of a jerk, compared to some of the others floating around his orbit he's a pretty reasonable guy.
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Toast of London / int_57980ca0	type	Smoking Hot Sex
Toast of London / int_57980ca0	comment	Smoking Hot Sex: Mrs. Purchase smokes after sex. And before sex. And during sex, actually.
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Toast of London / int_5860c090	type	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis
Toast of London / int_5860c090	comment	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Ray bloody Purchase... although he is more genuinely dangerous than most examples, having tried to murder Toast several times. To a lesser extent, Clem Fandango as well. He seems to enjoy trolling Toast, and Toast can't stand him, though Toast doesn't try to humiliate Clem Fandango as much as he does Ray Purchase. Clem also slept with Toast's wife during Toast's wedding.
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Toast of London / int_5d6db368	type	Four Eyes, Zero Soul
Toast of London / int_5d6db368	comment	Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Downplayed. Russ Nightlife, Toast's landlord, wears glasses and isn't a villain, but a deranged Jerkass who tips a jug of his own urine onto his homeless father. Probably played straighter once it's revealed that he's D.B. Cooper.
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Toast of London / int_5ec27210	type	Sleeps with Everyone but You
Toast of London / int_5ec27210	comment	Sleeps with Everyone but You: Mrs. Purchase will sleep with pretty much anyone for free (she even has billboards advertising her services) except for her husband Ray Purchase, who has to pay her to get any sex.
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Toast of London / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Toast of London / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: While wandering around the docked nuclear submarine HMS Penetrator, Toast is pulled aside by its deputy commander, Toby Hopkinson-Finch, who informs him, in a very calm and reasonable-sounding manner, that he's been contacted by aliens who have instructed him to launch a nuclear attack on the USA.
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Toast of London / int_61066d95	type	Fictional Counterpart
Toast of London / int_61066d95	comment	Fictional Counterpart: Toast's regular haunt The Colonial Club is based upon The Colony Room, a famous drinking den for theatrical and artistic types such as Peter O'Toole, Tom Baker and Francis Bacon. In "Beauty Calls", an extra dressed as Baker's incarnation of the Doctor can be seen in the background, drinking gin and smoking a fag. In "Match Fit," Toast takes part in a Prostitutes and Celebrities Blow Football Tournament for the charity organisation "The River Rats", based on The Grand Order of Water Rats. In "The Moose Trap," the titular play takes the place of The Mousetrap.
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Toast of London / int_61313315	type	Off the Wagon
Toast of London / int_61313315	comment	Off the Wagon: Toast picks up legendary stage actor Ormond Sacker from rehab and takes him straight to the pub. Seven times.
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Toast of London / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Toast of London / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Jane Plough is very good agent and generally a serious, no-nonsense person. Except for the times when her LSD addiction, love of male strippers, and occasional bouts of paranoia kick in.
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Toast of London / int_65120cd1	type	Good-Looking Privates
Toast of London / int_65120cd1	comment	Good-Looking Privates / Hospital Hottie : Toast has something of a fetish for women in uniform.
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Toast of London / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Toast of London / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Faithfully follows this trope; a single pilot, followed by three series (so far) of six episodes each.
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Toast of London / int_67edaf78	type	Gargle Blaster
Toast of London / int_67edaf78	comment	Gargle Blaster: Peter Davison has his own home-brewing apparatus, with which he makes his own drink called the Black Death. Toast takes a swig, and his skin instantly goes grey, buboes grow on his face and he begins bleeding from the eyes (much like the plague after which it is named). Davison then tells him that he's really supposed to sip it. At the end of the episode, Davison and his girlfriend are revealed to have drunk themselves almost to death on it.
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Toast of London / int_68f81ea8	type	Real-Person Fic
Toast of London / int_68f81ea8	comment	Real-Person Fic: Toast's novel is essentially erotic fanfiction featuring the invoked Crack Pairing of Henry VIII and a real life contemporary journalist.
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Toast of London / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Toast of London / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: In "Vanity Project," Alan Ford plays a cabbie named (only in the credits) Mick Carriage. Put another way? Paddy Wagon. Also qualifies as a Stealth Pun and a Meaningful Name. Pretty much everyone in the show has a surname that's a slightly silly real word (Steven Toast, Ray Purchase, Jane Plough, Clem Fandango, etc etc.).
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Toast of London / int_6d786f8e	type	Stock Unsolved Mysteries
Toast of London / int_6d786f8e	comment	Stock Unsolved Mysteries: In the final episode, it's revealed that Russ Nightlife, the deranged man Toast is renting a room from in Tinseltown, is D.B. Cooper. Naturally.
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Toast of London / int_6eb04f1	type	"Everybody Laughs" Ending
Toast of London / int_6eb04f1	comment	"Everybody Laughs" Ending: Addictive Personality ends with Toast and Ed laughing for just a little bit too long after Toast spouts yet another of Brucie's catchphrases.
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Toast of London / int_6fba77ef	type	Moon-Landing Hoax
Toast of London / int_6fba77ef	comment	Moon-Landing Hoax: Turns out the moon landing was staged. And directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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Toast of London / int_70e642a9	type	Luvvies
Toast of London / int_70e642a9	comment	Luvvies: Toast is a very dark instance of this — an embittered, sex-hungry, alcoholic old toff who sponges off others, records voice-overs just to stay alive between doomed stage gigs, and has failed to gain any lasting fame or public notice despite acting in plays, movies and television for over half a century. Ed and Jane, however, are lighter, more conventional examples.
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Toast of London / int_718c561	type	Performance Anxiety
Toast of London / int_718c561	comment	Performance Anxiety: In Over the Moon, Toast is extremely anxious about having to perform Macbeth live on television, so much so that he cannot let go of a pillar in his dressing room. He ends up performing the entire play whilst holding onto the pillar. And getting rave reviews for it.
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Toast of London / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Toast of London / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Among the many things that make Ray Purchase both a villain and an absolute tosser is the fact that he's openly homophobic.
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Toast of London / int_72b6d765	type	Impossible Shadow Puppets
Toast of London / int_72b6d765	comment	Impossible Shadow Puppets: "Fool In Love" had Abraham Lincoln, Bruce Forsyth, London Bridge and a row of can-can dancers.
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Toast of London / int_741e8e7	type	The Cast Showoff
Toast of London / int_741e8e7	comment	The Cast Show Off: Matt Berry is an accomplished songwriter, musician and singer, which probably explains why there's a slightly surreal song interlude in most episodes. The show also features a "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune - Matt Berry's own Take My Hand.
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Toast of London / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Toast of London / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Many episodes have them repeated so often that they become jokes in themselves.
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Toast of London / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Toast of London / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Played with. Mrs. Purchase acts like one of these, but technically she isn't a prostitute as she doesn't charge anyone for sex apart from her husband. Then there's Wendy Nook, an actual prostitute who is initially unwilling to participate in the Prostitutes & Celebrities Blow Football Tournament, until she finds out that it's in aid of homeless ponies. She is incredibly moved that some ponies are homeless and agrees to take part.
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Toast of London / int_7881f335	type	Chekhov's Armoury
Toast of London / int_7881f335	comment	Chekhov's Armoury: Jane gives Toast a satellite phone, with a built in oxygen mask and an emergency fire extinguisher. All of which come in useful when he's buried alive on the set of a movie.
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Toast of London / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Toast of London / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: The series ends on Toast about to be shot in the head by two thugs to cover up their botched kidnapping attempts on Ray Purchase — giving Mathews and Berry a potential out if the character is ever brought back, but otherwise closing the book on Steven Toast once and for all.
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Toast of London / int_7a08e8d1	type	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
Toast of London / int_7a08e8d1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Ray Purchase's wife is always called Mrs. Purchase. Even on the prostitute's cards she leaves in phone boxes.
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Toast of London / int_7a2d9301	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
Toast of London / int_7a2d9301	comment	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Toast doesn't know much about modern pop culture, and other people's references tend to fly over his head. He has no idea who Bon Jovi, Lady Gaga or Coldplay are, nor J. K. Rowling and Harry Potter. And of course, Benedict Cumberbatch. * Who? He doesn't know what bowling is either. Not surprising, as Toast claims never to watch television. Although he does have a thing for female TV weather reporters. Although, rather surprisingly, even Toast has heard of Star Wars.
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Toast of London / int_7bed2677	type	Super Cell Reception
Toast of London / int_7bed2677	comment	Super Cell Reception: Toast's cell phone works great while he's buried alive underground, which is lampshaded by other characters but justified by the giant, deluxe model.
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Toast of London / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
Toast of London / int_816a4e80	comment	In Toast of Tinsletown, whenever Toast informs anyone that he has a part in the New Star Wars MoVIE, they will respond with "Yeah, right!" which serves as Foreshadowing that Toast's 'role' is voicing a single line for a minor villain.
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Toast of London / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Toast of London / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Toast himself. Which is not surprising, given that he's played by Matt Berry.
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Toast of London / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
Toast of London / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Toast isn't a particularly pleasant man. He's generally angry, rude, selfish, impatient, bitter, and doesn't really respect anyone. Although this is mitigated by the sheer amount of crap he puts up with and the fact that there are far worse people around him, like Ray Purchase.
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Toast of London / int_86ee8070	type	World of Ham
Toast of London / int_86ee8070	comment	World of Ham: Other than Toast himself, the show is full of large or cold hams.
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Toast of London / int_887d6d58	type	Hipster
Toast of London / int_887d6d58	comment	Hipster: Clem Fandango and Danny Bear are pretty obnoxious examples, always clad in increasingly ridiculous hipster fashions (described as "clowns' outfits" by Toast). Danny Bear wears a moustache together with garishly-colored streetwear, while Clem Fandango sports a "man bun" in some episodes. Both also have a disdainful, insincere attitude towards everything.
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Toast of London / int_8aa92e8d	type	Minor Flaw, Major Breakup
Toast of London / int_8aa92e8d	comment	Minor Flaw, Major Breakup: This tends to happen with Toast's Girl of the Week, who are often totally perfect ... except for one issue, which starts off as extremely minor before reaching levels of absurdity by the end of the episode: On episode has Toast dating a delightful woman who he has great chemistry with, but she turns out to be a major hoarder. When he goes to her flat for a date, he has to climb over a mountain of furniture and rubbish. Another episode has Toast dating a wonderful woman who happens to be a radical feminist. This seems like an Informed Attribute as she's quite the opposite of a Soapbox Sadie, but their relationship ends after she catches him judging a beauty contest that she's protesting. In another episode, Toast dates a woman who's great except for the fact that she can't stop drumming.
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Toast of London / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Toast of London / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Toast gets followed around by a woman who wants him to call her. He's a bit scared of her, given that she stabbed her last boyfriend.
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Toast of London / int_8dd4a996	type	Identical Grandson
Toast of London / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Grandson: In a flashback to Toast and Ed's father's judging a beauty contest some time in the 1970s in Beauty Calls, they are also played by Matt Berry and Robert Bathurst.
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Toast of London / int_90236b51	type	Saying Sound Effects Out Loud
Toast of London / int_90236b51	comment	Saying Sound Effects Outloud: Many of Toast's voice-overs will include what would seem to be sound effects but which Toast will have to say as words. In one case, Toast is given a script that just says "neigh" and it's unclear whether he's supposed to say the word "neigh" or make the sound of a horse. He initially assumes the former but is later told the latter, being told they can't get a horse in to the studio to do it due to OH&S concerns.note It turns out the script didn't print properly and it was supposed to say "neighbours" and then go on to say a full sentence. In another case, Ray Purchase is in the booth with Toast reading from a script and Toast has been given a script of sound effects being expected to say "bang" when there's a gunshot and "smash" when some glass is smashed. Toast realises just how ridiculous this is and comes to the conclusion that it's being done intentionally to annoy him.
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Toast of London / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Toast of London / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: All of the regulars from the parent series (save for Mrs. Purchase) appear for short cameos in the last episode, despite having only appeared in the first episode or making fleeting appearances in between.
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Toast of London / int_936b8c22	type	Victorian London
Toast of London / int_936b8c22	comment	Victorian London: In High Winds Actor, Toast has to venture into the East End. Despite being set in 2014, it's exactly as it was in the days of Jack the Ripper, complete with swirling fog and cockney prostitutes. Naturally, one of them is Mrs. Purchase, and as usual she's smoking — although, appropriately, it's a clay pipe rather than her ever-present cigarettes.
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Toast of London / int_93b92ca4	type	Lousy Lovers Are Losers
Toast of London / int_93b92ca4	comment	Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Toast is pretty terrible at sex, and his sex scenes are also shot with Fandisservice in mind, often focusing on slow-motion close-ups of his ridiculous facial expressions or on Mrs. Purchase's very bored face. In "Beauty Calls", Toast describes his latest sexcapade to Ed as "Straight down to it, over in seconds" and "A quick park. No foreplay. Just the way the ladies like it."
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Toast of London / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Toast of London / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Discussed, in theoretical terms, when Ray Purchase is forced to watch Toast having unprotected sex with his wife.
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Toast of London / int_9b57f005	type	AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle
Toast of London / int_9b57f005	comment	Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: Listen to Toast pronounce "BonjovIIIII" or "Madame GuGAAA". "Power Bullads" are a type of song. In the tie-in book, "Toast on Toast", Matt Berry manages to do this at least once every paragraph.
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Toast of London / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Toast of London / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Ray Purchase has one, which consists of his name being whispered slowly over some rather menacing drums.
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Toast of London / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Toast of London / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly-Long Gag: Steven Toast, defending his rather ill-judged decision to reveal the ending of a murder mystery he was starring in on live radio:
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Toast of London / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Toast of London / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: John Nettles of Midsomer Murders is now down on his luck and resorting to poaching, then marching into people's houses to try and sell them the animals he's killed. Peter Davison in The Moose Trap, High Winds Actor and Beauty Calls. Josh Homme in Fool In Love Michael Ball in Bonus Ball. Jon Hamm in Hamm on Toast Paul Rudd in LA Story
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Toast of London / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Toast of London / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: Whether Toast is actually a competent actor or merely Giftedly Bad seems to depend entirely on which would be more amusing at the time, though it's more often the latter.
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Toast of London / int_a78f8506	type	Time-Shifted Actor
Toast of London / int_a78f8506	comment	Timeshifted Actor: Toast's father, Col. Gonville Toast, is played by Matt Berry in flashback in Beauty Calls and by BRIAN BLESSED in Hamm on Toast.
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Toast of London / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Toast of London / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Despite both vying for Toast's affections (and Jemima being a Crazy Jealous Girl) Jemima and Susan Random seem to have struck one up by the end of the first episode over their shared love of beaks.
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Toast of London / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
Toast of London / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: Aunt Deepa turns out not to be blind and deaf at all, and really could see all of Toast's sex sessions. She used to be, but was cured miraculously and concealed this so she could keep getting disability benefits.
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Toast of London / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Toast of London / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Toast's very strange drummer girlfriend has the required skills to save him when he keels over with a (near) heart attack.
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Toast of London / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Toast of London / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Many. Played around with, too.
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Toast of London / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Toast of London / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: In one episode, Ray Purchase fires his six-shot revolver into the ceiling ten times without reloading, and still has enough bullets to threaten Toast.
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Toast of London / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Toast of London / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Toast is rude and offensive towards most people, but he is horrified by Norris Flipjack barbecuing (actually roasting on a spit) a fox. He's also somewhat offended by Ray Purchase's rampant homophobia.
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Toast of London / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
Toast of London / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: Toast has no problem sleeping with Mrs. Purchase despite her being married, but won't do the same with the (also) married Lorna, possibly because he is genuinely in love with her.
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Toast of London / int_b6db5695	type	Political Overcorrectness
Toast of London / int_b6db5695	comment	Political Overcorrectness: In "Global Warming," Toast is fined by the literal PC Police for harassing disabled people, nursing mothers, and an Asian tourist. Parodied, as Toast is portrayed rather negatively for this.
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Toast of London / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Toast of London / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Steven Toast is the sort of man who thinks that an enemy would engage in a long and convoluted scheme to disguise himself as a plastic surgeon and mutilate an African diplomat's daughter into looking like Bruce Forsyth solely as part of some ill-defined plan intended just to annoy him. Of course, Ray Purchase is such a petty, vindictive douchebag it wouldn't be entirely out of character for him. But nevertheless, it's also a sign of a fairly healthy ego on Toast's part to immediately jump to such a conclusion upon first hearing the story.
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Toast of London / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Toast of London / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Jane calls Toast, in no uncertain terms, exactly what he is, which gets bleeped but echoes with an explosive-sounding shockwave and leaves him appalled. Later, she (equally accurately) refers to him as an "angry and unreasonable piece of shit", echoing the sentiments of The Stage.
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Toast of London / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Toast of London / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Mrs. Purchase. She even advertises in phone booths. And on a billboard (which simply has a picture of her and the words "Mrs. Purchase: Call for sex"). But she's not actually a prostitute, because she doesn't accept money from anyone for sex. Except for Ray.
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Toast of London / int_c0b01	type	Set Behind the Scenes
Toast of London / int_c0b01	comment	Set Behind the Scenes: Given that Toast is an actor, a good portion of the show involves him working on various acting jobs, notably the notorious play and voice projects directed by Clem Fandango.
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Toast of London / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Toast of London / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: Toast's father does not approve of him being an actor, so instead tells people that he is dead. By the end, he's told people this so often that he even believes it himself.
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Toast of London / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Toast of London / int_c3448a6f	comment	Another episode has Toast dating a wonderful woman who happens to be a radical feminist. This seems like an Informed Attribute as she's quite the opposite of a Soapbox Sadie, but their relationship ends after she catches him judging a beauty contest that she's protesting.
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Toast of London / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Toast of London / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Any sex scene. Toast always keeps his vest on during the act, and the scenes usually focus on the ridiculous facial expressions that he pulls. In slow motion. Or on Mrs. Purchase's very bored face. A special mention should go to the shot of Toast's genitals in the last episode of season two.
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Toast of London / int_c8e4a187	comment	Mister Strangenoun: A Running Gag which continues in Tinsletown. There's a good chance that any character will be named Mr or Ms Bizarre Noun — from the main cast alone we have Stephen Toast, Jane Plough and Ray Purchase
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Toast of London / int_cc017ca0	comment	Emasculated Cuckold: Toast's main way of one-upping Ray Purchase, and perhaps the origin of their rivalry, is by sleeping with Mrs. Purchase (who generally refuses to sleep with her husband). Similarly, Clem Fandango constantly humiliates Toast at every opportunity, beginning with the fact that he slept with Toast's wife during their wedding.
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Toast of London / int_cc28f3bf	comment	Not That Kind of Doctor: While Toast's girlfriend on "Man of Sex", being a "Doctor of Drumming", clearly isn't that kind of doctor and probably shouldn't have responded to the question "Is there a doctor in the house?", she is able to restart his heart by drumming.
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Toast of London / int_ce165390	type	Casting Couch
Toast of London / int_ce165390	comment	Casting Couch: Parodied. Toast's first major audition in Tinseltown requires him to wear tennis shorts and be gawked at by someone behind a two-way mirror. It turns out Daniel Day-Lewis has a knee fetish.
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Toast of London / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: In Episode 5, Toast gets his arm bitten off by an escaped tiger. Don't worry though, he has the type that can be easily reattached.
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Toast of London / int_d5dc7c27	comment	Pyjama Clad Hero: Toast's flat-mate Ed Howzer-Black is almost exclusively attired in stylish pyjamas and a silk dressing gown, although this is somewhat justified since he's usually in the flat nearly all the time, although he even wears them when he is driving or visiting Toast at his theatre dressing room. He does dress in a nice linen suit with a panama hat at one point, which momentarily confuses Toast. Mrs. Purchase is also always wearing her negligée and dressing gown, even outside. Except in the East End, where she is dressed as a Victorian prostitute.
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Toast of London / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Toast of London / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Toast recalls smoking "Children in Need" back in The '60s.
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Toast of London / int_da41243d	type	Spoiler
Toast of London / int_da41243d	comment	Spoiler: While being interviewed on the radio, Toast lets slip the identity of the killer in long-running play "The Moose Trap". Once everyone knows that the chauffeur did it, people stop coming to the play.
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Toast of London / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Toast of London / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Toast is nearly always addressed as simply Toast, even by his brother. In fact, the only people that call him Steven are Danny Bear and Clem Fandango, which clearly gets his back up. Mrs. Purchase's first name is never revealed.
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Toast of London / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Toast of London / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Axel Jacklin in "High Winds Actor" is pretty clearly supposed to be James Mason. In his career he's been pretty much typecast as sea captains, much like Mason played Captain Nemo. His voice is even an impersonation of Mason. Particularly humorous in that the episode revolves around actors being members of the Masons. Peggy Plywood in "Over the Moon" is supposed to be director Joan Littlewood, right down to the cap and donkey jacket. Once again justified, as Littlewood died in 2002.
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Toast of London / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Toast of London / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Ray Purchase is frequently found dressed in all white, and is a massive dick.
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Toast of London / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Toast of London / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: It's always "Bruce F'sythe".
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Toast of London / int_e6382176	comment	Ignore the Disability: When Toast is introduced to Kikini Bamalam (see Celebrity Resemblance) he is instructed to avoid any mention of Bruce Forsyth for fear of upsetting her. Sadly, he can't help himself and ends up spouting a load of Brucie's catchphrases on an involuntary loop. In "Desperate Measures", Jane sends Toast to meet Bob Fennison, a musical director with "a very minor facial blemish" that's so minor she can't even remember what it is. Bob is a cyclops. The trope ultimately ends up being parodied and deconstructed; while Toast manages to keep it together, Bob — not comfortable in public situations — storms off because he feels the producer (and his lover), Duncan Clench, is domineering the conversation and taking a fancy to Toast, and later drowns Duncan and himself in a jealous murder-suicide, none of which has anything to do with his one eye.
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Toast of London / int_e87dcc7d	type	Emotion Suppression
Toast of London / int_e87dcc7d	comment	Emotion Suppression: Des Wigwam's therapy course offers a complete cure for bad temper at the expense of feeling any other emotions, positive or negative. Toast seems to take it pretty well, but Ray Purchase is clearly suffering without an outlet for his anger.
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Toast of London / int_eb0df85e	type	Ham-to-Ham Combat
Toast of London / int_eb0df85e	comment	Ham-to-Ham Combat: Between Toast and pretty much anyone, but especially with his rival, Ray Purchase.
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Toast of London / int_edfacbac	comment	Covert Pervert: Ed is a very dignified, professional, and posh fellow but he has a number of weird fetishes that he enjoys in a sly and discreet manner, like old ladies posing in the nude or a woman who looks and sounds like Bruce Forsyth. Jane is highly dignified and no-nonsense on the job, but on her off-hours is nearly always accompanied by several fit male strippers.
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Toast of London / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Toast of London / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Lampshaded. Clem Fandango briefly goes by the name "Clem H. Fandango" to avoid confusion with another person called Clem Fandango. Toast is unimpressed. Steven mentions another actor named "Steven Toast" who was forced to change his name to Chris Bread.
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Toast of London / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Toast of London / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: A non character example; in "High Winds Actor" Toast sits in front of a poster for the play "Man of Sex." He later appears in the play in the following series.
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Toast of London / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: The nude actress in "Bonus Ball."
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Toast of London / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
Toast of London / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: in High Winds Actor, Jane starts hallucinating bats everywhere. Turns out she's back on the acid.
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Toast of London / int_f8f71b5f	type	Buried Alive
Toast of London / int_f8f71b5f	comment	Buried Alive: In one episode, Toast gets put in a coffin and buried underground as part of a movie he's shooting. Unfortunately the director goes insane and the crew scatters before he can be exhumed, leading to him spending all day trapped in the coffin slowly running out of air as he tries to call someone to rescue him on his new cell phone, to no avail.
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Toast of London / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Toast of London / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Toast replying "Who?" whenever anyone mentions Benedict Cumberbatch. Whenever the vocal director wants to chime in during a recording, he will say, "Hello Steven, this is Clem Fandango. Can you hear me?" to which Toast will always snap, "Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango!" In Toast of Tinsletown, whenever Toast informs anyone that he has a part in the New Star Wars MoVIE, they will respond with "Yeah, right!" which serves as Foreshadowing that Toast's 'role' is voicing a single line for a minor villain.
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Toast of London / int_fc8bc8e	comment	Special Edition Title: For the James Bond spoof Bonus Ball, we get a spoof set of Bond style credits. With a special song performed by Michael Ball.
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Toast of London / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In the pre-credits sequence for "Match Fit," Toast is recording the voiceover for the "Mind The Gap" announcement on The London Underground, and is asked to leave a longer and longer gap between the words "the" and "Gap". Eventually, he says "Mind the" and then walks out of the recording booth. He doesn't return to say "Gap" until after the end of the closing credits.
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Toast of London / int_fe1b2e75	type	Bigger on the Inside
Toast of London / int_fe1b2e75	comment	Bigger on the Inside: Several locations appear as tiny buildings from the outside, but are vast within, such as the new BBC Television Centre, which on the outside is a tiny portacabin in the middle of a field, but inside contains a very large office.
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Toast of London / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Toast directs one of Ed's mates in the direction of Danny Bear to help speed up the waiting list for his sex change operation. Admittedly the specialist turns out to be a quack, but it's the thought that counts.
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