Gimme Gimme Gimme

This is Will and Grace, on cocaine, in a parallel universe.

—Amazon.co.uk's review of the first series boxset

A Sitcom about a gay man rooming with a straight woman. Sound familiar?. Here, they are called Tom and Linda.

The main differences are:

• It's British
• Both leads are Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists... actually maybe that isn't so different.
• Linda is unattractive. (No, not Hollywood Homely).
• They live in a run down grotty flat, that they rent from an ex-prostitute. Not a plush apartment.
• They hate each other. But bond over the fact that, pretty much, no-one else can stand either of them.

Came forty-eighth in Britains Best Sitcom. Named after the ABBA song, "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man after Midnight)".

Tropes used in Gimme Gimme Gimme include:

• Britcom
• Camp Gay - Tom
• Citizenship Marriage - At one point, Tom marries an American Lesbian so she can stay in the country.
• Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace - Subverted, they get to the that part of the ceremony everyone gasps and looks expectantly at Linda; who has been objecting to the whole thing. She doesn't object and just moans at them to get on with it.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist