Episode 76 - “The Court Case” Are You Being Served Again / Grace & Favour (with guest host Mr. Bill!)
A warm welcome to the new Australian Kath & Kim podcast: “Look at Moi - Celebrating 20 years of Kath and Kim” with Rowdie Walden. It’s nice, it’s different, it’s unusual. Check it out, doll.
The new Elizabeth Line on the London Underground tube system with special guest: HRH Queen Elizabeth II.
That Lower Ohio County Line of the Northern Mississippi Bus Company drops off a new candidate for our intern position (unpaid).
We meet our Superfan and Special Co-Host: Mr. Bill!
Token straight listeners!
Check out Stranger Happenings, Mr. Bill’s podcast about strange and unique history and bizarre occurances at StrangerHappenings.com
“The Moment of Butch”.
Mavis’s unique system of categorizing hard boiled eggs with a hopeful grin.
The opening credits and the oil painting that fades into the video of the episode.
Was Mr. Humphries actually into Mavis?!
Mrs. Slocombe’s funeral look for Court.
Miss Brahms remarks “Crippen’s bird” when she sees Slocombe’s black veil. Harvey Crippen was a 19th Century doctor who murdered his wife. His mistress, Ethel Le Neve, wore a black veil at his court case.
We unpack (again) Benidorm: the actual place and the amazing comedy show.
Mrs. Slocombe, while in Benidorm, called Dictator Franco “a berk”. Cockney rhyming slang = Berkeley Hunt, rhymes with …C U Next Thursday.
Benidorm, Spain becomes a “Little Britain” (or at least Northern England) with low airfare and hotel packages.
Note: Birmingham is -not- Northern England.
Barrister = defends people in court.
Solicitor = does legal paperwork, contracts, etc.
Mrs. Slocombe is on the front page of the paper listed as “a pensioner”.
How can a bus pass give away her age?
Miss Lovelock and Captain Peacock are to ride a motorcycle?
The staff help with the piglets on the hay ride.
The Dick Turpin highwayman case!
Mr. Bill is a UK TV expert!
The eternal battle: Eastenders vs. Coronation Street?
Straight men don’t know Absolutely Fabulous?
Is Mr. Rumbold a leather daddy?!
We meet The Magistrates.
We learn what “having a slash” means.
We also learn that Mr. Humphries kept to himself to himself.
Alfie Bass (Mr. Goldberg) was in The Beatles’ movie, “Help” from 1965!
The first lesbian(ish) interaction on the series between the Lady Magistrate and Miss. Brahams.
People have known Mrs. Slocombe for “years and years- years and years and years….”. Ha!
Mr. Moulturd doesn’t doubt Mrs. Slocombe’s veracity (at least back then).
Hang the bird in the cellar!
Mollie Sugden does a good faint.
We finally see the real Tiddles.
Mother Humphries has a mobile phone in 1992.
The SNL Gap Girl sketch!
The Youth don’t like to speak on the phone (they text!).
Mavis appears to be in LOVE with Mr. Humphries. (Fleur Bennett nails it)
Electrocution lessons!
Last of the Summer Wine ran from 1973 to 2010 and starred Trevor Bannister and Frank Thorton for years and years.
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