Episode 77 - “Looking for Staff” Are You Being Served Again / Grace & Favour. 👸

Congratulations to Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee!

The Channel 5 documentary “Are You Being Served? Secrets and Scandals” - we can’t wait to see it.

Which do you love more: the original AYBS or AYBS-Again/Grace & Favour? Our poll shows an even split!

Joanne Heywood, who played Miss. Lovelock, is unanimous in her choice of “Are You Being Served Again” / “Grace & Favour”.

Professor Jeff defines “skeuomorph” thanks to a Unanimous Superman’s tip.

A live #1 hit with George Michael and Elton John.

What would happen if an AI listened to every AYBS episode and wrote a new script? @KeatonPatti on twitter did this with Hallmark Christmas movies and we read a hilarious example.

Mr. Brandon uncontrollably giggles again.

Our “Moment of Butch”.

What exactly -is- Mrs. Slocombe’s foundation?

And she wants to know exactly where that pub is…

Jukeboxes.

Air quality in the UK and the disaster in the 1952 called “The Great Smog”.

A walking billboard for Reebok running gear.

Mr. Humphries finds that 4 inches is more than acceptable.

What does “ship shape and Bristol fashion” mean?

A surprising slavery connection to a West England port city.

Fun with non-sequiturs.

“He really gets on my wick” = Cockney rhyming slang.

Why can Mr. Humphries handle the Goblin vacuum?

The political stunt from Boris Johnson to revert the UK away from the metric system to the old fashioned Imperial measurement system.

Pulling a date/pulling a customer.

The Benny Hill-like scene with Captain Peacock and the lawn mower.

Mr. Humphries and Mavis cry together over cutting onions.

A random Paul Lynde impression!

Check out graceandfavour.net!

Teseling the dirty sheets!

Wendy Richard almost breaks character and laughs at the kitchen table.

Lots of call backs to the original AYBS series in this episode!

Cleg-Hampton, played by Maggie Holland, is past it.

Mr. Volpone, played by Gorgon Peters, was in the original AYBS episode, who is amazing at playing an off-balanced British Rail waiter.

The 3 new roles in AYBSA/Grace & Favour really added a lot to the new series- a tribute to Joanne Heywood, Fleur Bennett, and Billy Burden!

Are there any clips of John Inman around from his PBS promotional tour in from the 1990s?

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