maybe it's just me
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JohnnyOldSoul — 18 years ago(June 02, 2007 03:46 AM)
I think this series is brilliant, but in a completely different way than the original AYBS. IT's still farce, but it's a little less ribald than the original. SOrt of like taking the characters from AYBS and taking them into "Last of the Summer Wine." Despite having hte same characters, the show seems like a completely different series to me. It's still wonderful though!
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paulcoxwell — 18 years ago(November 26, 2007 03:27 PM)
I think to those of us who grew up watching
Are you Being Served?
this represented a kind of nostalgia to see the whole gang again but in a different situation, and with increased scope for the jokes.
I haven't seen the show since it was first shown here on British TV, but I recall one episode where they're getting a car ready and there's some concern about the expired tax disk (for U.S. readers, that's the 3-inch piece of paper stuck inside the windshield to show that tax has been paid for the year equivalent to renewal tags on license plates).
Mr. Moulterd (with thick rural accent) says something like "Oh, we don't worry about things like that around here. We just stick an old beer mat in the window!"
Then later on when the "beer mat" tax disk is spotted by the local policeman: "I told 'em they'd never get away with that, they thinks we're all stupid in the country!" Or words to that effect. Great stuff.
And the long-running issue about Mr. Humphries having to share a bedroom with the lovely Miss Moulterd. AYBS? humor brought into a new situation wonderfully. -
VinnieRattolle — 16 years ago(July 06, 2009 05:59 PM)
Since Mollie Sugden died a few days ago, I had to revisit the show. Personally, I think I like this series more too. AYBS
endlessly
recycled the same plots and gags, and there was absolutely no continuity from one episode to the next. It was great that G&F was serialized, and by bringing them out of the store, it gave them endless plot possibilities (that was the fatal flaw of AYBS there was only so much they could do within the confines of the Grace Brothers). It's a shame that they never got to continue with series 3 (with Mr. Humphries' marriage to Mavis), but I'm glad they got two of them filmed before the show was canceled. -
hugh1971 — 9 years ago(April 24, 2016 03:34 AM)
What struck me about G and F was the fact that it used a lot of different locations and lots of different studio sets. Part of the charm of AYBS was the fact that they never (except in the cinema version) went outside the store, and rarely went into any other rooms except the canteen and Rumbold's office. But it did limit the jokes somewhat.
'Monsters? We're British!'
Crys