- Relatable situation: Sat-nav playing up and radio adverts. This will be something the audience will be familiar with, so will inject humour into things they deal with most days.
- Transgressive pleasure: Urine sample incident. The audience will find pleasure in the use of a taboo situation.
- Narrative pleasures: Introduces the characters and the differences in their personalities. Audiences will know people similar to John and Kayleigh in their own friendship groups of colleges, so will find their contrasting personalities comical.
- Specific pleasures: Peter Kay as a recognisable figure from stand up. Very well recognised and established. The audience will recognise him and will find pleasure in seeing a familiar face from stand up in a different form of media - a sitcom.
- Character identification: Working class characters that audience can identify with. Commuting to work will be something that the audience will be familiar with, so brings humour to a usually boring element of their own lives.
Episode 2:
- Snowballing narrative: 'Dogging' joke running and growing throughout the episode. This also incorporates performance unpredictability and spontaneity, as the audience anticipates the build up of the joke when the character of Kayleigh pulls up to a dog walker. the audience anticipates the reactions of both characters.
- Difference-in-repetition: Ted's death is discovered in this episode, and he was introduced in episode 1. The situation turns comical when Ted's replacement is an attractive young male, which links to the character of the trolley-pusher in the first episode. In this episode and the next one, the same idea of Kayleigh having a crush on the new trolley-pusher, but with variations such as him changing from wearing just a vest to being topless, and Kayleigh's hair being a mess when she sees him.
Episode 3:
Repetition: The repeated 'Brillington College' joke has run through each episode, and creates something familiar that audiences will look out for now they've seen it featured in every episode. They will enjoy the small pleasure of a familiarity in each episode they see.
Transgressive pleasure: The inclusion of Japanese swearing is something transgressive and taboo - the audience won't usually joke about this in their normal lives because it could be offensive or misunderstood, so seeing people on television discussing something like that will be enjoyed by the audience as it's something they wouldn't take the liberty to discuss. The sexual puns of 'Japsi' and 'Pussy Lover' as the names of Kayleigh's two dates are also humorous as the audience can laugh at her naivety whilst also getting pleasures from the transgressive and inappropriate nature of the names.
Episode 4:
Performance unpredictability: The new concept of having kids in the car adds a new element to the show and a situation that the audience haven't seen the characters in. As they usually have a transgressive sense of humour, it is funny for the audience to see them try to avoid that.
Narrative pleasure:
- Difference-in-repetition: Ted's death is discovered in this episode, and he was introduced in episode 1. The situation turns comical when Ted's replacement is an attractive young male, which links to the character of the trolley-pusher in the first episode. In this episode and the next one, the same idea of Kayleigh having a crush on the new trolley-pusher, but with variations such as him changing from wearing just a vest to being topless, and Kayleigh's hair being a mess when she sees him.
Episode 3:
Repetition: The repeated 'Brillington College' joke has run through each episode, and creates something familiar that audiences will look out for now they've seen it featured in every episode. They will enjoy the small pleasure of a familiarity in each episode they see.
Transgressive pleasure: The inclusion of Japanese swearing is something transgressive and taboo - the audience won't usually joke about this in their normal lives because it could be offensive or misunderstood, so seeing people on television discussing something like that will be enjoyed by the audience as it's something they wouldn't take the liberty to discuss. The sexual puns of 'Japsi' and 'Pussy Lover' as the names of Kayleigh's two dates are also humorous as the audience can laugh at her naivety whilst also getting pleasures from the transgressive and inappropriate nature of the names.
Episode 4:
Performance unpredictability: The new concept of having kids in the car adds a new element to the show and a situation that the audience haven't seen the characters in. As they usually have a transgressive sense of humour, it is funny for the audience to see them try to avoid that.
Narrative pleasure:
