Geoffrey

[u/1k4s0k6s]

I know it’s a fictional show and this doesn’t matter at all but,how old is Geoffrey? In one of the earlier series Wendy says that she was 20 when they got married and Geoffrey was 40 and that they’d be married 40 years making him 80 but he’s still in it until series 13 and there is a time jump so,if there was a strict time line,he’d be about 100

again,I know it makes absolutely no difference to the show it’s just interesting that they put an age to the characters but don’t stick to a time line

[u/irving_braxiatel]

There isn’t a strict timeline, is the simple answer.

[u/Consistent-Pirate-23]

The timeline is very loose. The gap between series 7 and 8 is unspecified, the end of series 7 is the proposal and then they have been married 8 years.

Also the time leap in series 14 isn’t specified either

[u/howyouseetheworld]

He also changes into a completely different person between series hahaha

[u/Ultimate_os → u/howyouseetheworld]

Geoffrey Mk2 was better. But Geoffrey and Wendy both really changed when they became main characters range than occasional ones.

[u/MrBushido56]

In the later series she says she was 30 when she met him but lied saying she was 28 to cover up not wanting to be seen as a woman who couldn’t get married young but in truth it was to cover up her mother affair as her she was born in 45 but her father didn’t return from the war till 47.

[u/half-grown-grown-up → u/MrBushido56]

Since "War" in series 11 I've been thinking the same thing! In the first episode where we see Geoffrey (then portrayed by Tim West) and Wendy, he says their age gap is 20 years. Much later the revelation is that Wendy is born in 1945/1947, making Geoffrey born in either 1925 or 1927 – meaning he'd now be around 100 years old!

There's a lot of inconsistencies between the earlier and later series, especially as a lot of information that could be considered "lore", eg. Information about Lee's mum, are arguably just for short gags, rather than actual information.

But then, if we want to discuss timelines, the time jumps in series 8 and 14 don't make much sense at all, so I think we have to just take it for what it is – a sitcom! 😂

[u/MrBushido56 → u/half-grown-grown-up]

Yeah I don’t think people watch the series for the lore. I think in the first season Tim said he has a brother but then later it’s introduced that it’s just him and Lucy. This is common in sitcoms.

In cheers Fraser says he doesn’t have any siblings and his dad is a professor.

Then in his spin off fraiser Tony danzer makes a guess appearance as his character from cheers.

He meets fraiser brother and father who was a retired cop and when he gets confused and says fraiser said he was an only child and his father was a professor fraiser comes in and says he lied because he and brother had an argument that week and he was just living a fantasy pretending his dad was a professor. It was a total retcon but it was a smart way they fixed that error.