Episode 23: "Fire Practice".

“You know, I’ve got some curtains that color”.

Thanks for the amazing Unanimous-submitted AYBS Clue-like game weapons ideas. The staff has a surprise fire drill, super dusty London, and Mr. Rumbold gets jumpy. Humphries’ drawers have gummy runners. Jeff is too butch to wear heels (but Slocombe and Brahms try the latest fad in wedge shoes). Professor Jeff catches us up on Carmen Miranda. Mr. Humphries finds his jockey shorts are iridescent under black light at the disco.

We meet a very large middle eastern family who enter Grace Bros as customers. Jeff explains how their costumes are actually mashup of various middle eastern countries and the show’s exaggeration of their “foreign-ness” all for a laugh (another example of the show writers’ making fun of communities of color). But they were accurately speaking Arabic, as Jeff translates. We learn about the truth behind the customers’ “shame” hand gesture to Rumbold. When the customers try to pay for a pair of trousers with a goat, Brandon can’t handle it. We also learn the history behind the offensive term “barbarians”.

Belly dancing, death drops, and Lucas’s jokey suggestion to start sex trafficking (ugh). Representation on TV and the filter placed on communities.

Jeff’s favorite British phrase “in the pudding club” (just like Mr. Grainger laments). Yearly underground/tube tickets in London.

Humphries and Lucas try to save the suitcase full of cash but a dagger stops their scheming (with a bit of vaudeville schtick).

We unveil a new segment on the podcast, “We Are Unanimous In This” where we dive into British cultural bits and pieces we’ve collected over the years. Our topic today: eggs in Britain and why are American eggs so meh? Egg and Chips and the American Egg Council’s potential pending boycott of the podcast.

Shambolic: the newest UK newspaper word. Back at Grace Bros, the staff gathers for fire practice. Humphries faints like an expert and “thought we were doing rather well” after Capt. Peacock rolls under him. Arthur English, Mr. Harmond, must have been RIPPED.

Mr. Lucas attempts to lift Mrs. Slocombe in a “fireman’s lift” (and Brandon worries about Mollie Sugden’s safety between his cackling laughs). Was she a stunt double?

Disposable hygienic lips for a cheap breath of life joke. A strong fireman rescues Mr. Humphires off stage.

Plus, Brandon’s “holy relic” Facebook page that’s gone viral!

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