A lot of TV networks won't repeat this show - it is politically incorrect and seriously outdated. Same with other "Brit-coms" of the '70s including Love Thy Neighbour, Bless This House, On The Buses, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, and Mind Your Language. Those will never be aired again.
"Speaking for myself, and I am unanimous in this..............." I remember her saying that line from when I was a teenager watching this show. I am 54 now and this is still one of the funniest TV Shows ever made. I'm from the USA, Hollywood may spend more money on their ''budgets,'' but this show will always be one of the best!!!
@@aveuch I'm not as big an AYBS fan as you guys but I'll definitely agree this series was MUCH better than The Big Bang Theory and ESPECIALLY Friends! I don't think there's been a great comedy series I've seen on American TV, let alone network TV since at least the 1990s. Maybe Night Court and Cheers but even those shows haven't aged well... I think the last classic, enduring American comedy series may have been from the 1960s and even those are probably overshadowed by The Honeymooners, I Love Lucy, Burns & Allen, and The Jack Benny Show -- and this is speaking as someone too young to have seen the last two even in syndication! I didn't really see Burns & Allen or Jack Benny until I found them on RU-vid. They were pretty much gone from airing in my area by the early 1980s and I wasn't even a teenager yet.
Wendy Richard...truly is, a beautiful woman. May she, and the rest of the cast of, 'Are You Being Served?', rest in peace. What a fantastic show it was.
When I was about 16 I tuned our old 19-inch Ford Philco B&W TV to the American Public Broadcasting Service and watched this witty new British show called *'Are You Being Served'* I've been hooked ever since, going on 45 years now! God Bless the Brits and their unique sense of humor!
@Roy Futrell Really I think you're being silly. Protected groups aren't as thin skinned as that. And if certain WASP groups were better behaved they wouldn't need protection.
I live in Pennsylvania and PBS on 1p.m. on weekends and Saturday at 8p.m. Maryland and Delaware PBS on Saturday! Georgia PBS had TWO COMPANY, FRESH FIELDS. I💖PBS!
Apparently it was common to close a department store for lunch at that time. And close at 5 or 5:30? I think that was probably old-fashioned at the time, but that was kinda the point, Grace Brothers was hopelessly out of date.
3:05, so at the beginning of this world it was all like a soup with little "orgasms" running around, so funny! Also, in another episode, when she says, "And I am unanimous at this."
Mr. Humphries- What did he say he wants after the soup? Mrs. Slocombe- Either a stomach pump or an ambulance! LMAO I love all the people on this show. The series was wonderful. 1992's Are you being served? Again! or Grace and Favour was also an excellent series. I love both shows. Rest in peace all you wonderful stars! 🤗
Grace and Favour or Are you being served? Again! was absolutely wonderful. Like visiting old friends! If it had been up to me, many many more episodes would have been made. 🤗
I found this show by chance as a suggestion from YT and I can tell you, as a 49 year old heavy metal monster, I am positively addicted to it! Don't you miss the days when comedy was actually funny without trying while the casts were such stylish, professional actors all round?
Love Mrs. Slocums description of the beginning of the world , thick soup with lots of orgasms etc..and Mr. humphrys response about it bringing back memories from being in the kitchen, hilarious and witty humour . Love this show, amazing cast, every one of them. Thank you, hope to find some I haven't rewatched in the last year!
@@wintersbattleofbands1144 a single frog, the soup was turtle soup, a correction for a correction, so wake up yourself, especially when everyone else understood the comment.
Let me see if I have this straight. You and Rumbold had a kerfuffle over love? Did you date him, or were you and he interested in the same woman? There's no place for romance among employees, particularly when one is in an executive position.
Canteen Witch: "And as for her, she looks as if she has a permanent smell up her nose" Mrs. Slocombe": And the nearer you are, the stronger it gets!" BOOOOOOM!!!!
CanTeen Muggle " And as For Her,she look as if she has permanent smell up her nose. Mr Slocombe with Hermione G with Professor McGonagall" And the Nearer you are the stronger it gets!" Fanfiction idea of Harry potter meets Are you Being Served ?
"can i get my spaghetti during the reign of our current monarch...." if only he'd known she's STILL be the queen some 35+ years later. thats a hella plate of spaghetti!
The older I get the more I laugh at this series. Mr. Rumbold reminds me of some of my managers. He always confuses the complaints from staff. In the 90's I would get home from my weekend job exhausted and I would turn this show on at PBS and would laugh myself silly.
Victor...they probably accepted the colors as artistic flair and actually expected something like that with the most outrageous color/s as the one she wears in "It pays to advertise".
My favotite thing is that they never addressed the fact that her hair was a different color every episode. I feel like if a character in a show today did this, the others would be all 'Oh, wasn't it purple last week'
@ Victor -Well, to be fair this episode is from '79 and punk had already been around since '76 so blue hair wouldn't have been that uncommon. Though maybe on an older lady like Mrs. Slocombe it would've been, but she always had wild hair colors since the beginning of the show in '72.
And Mr Humphreys forgot he wasn't in the room when that joke was set up. All the discussion of 'lunch' vs 'dinner', detached, common, refined etc happened before he came in.
The only reason why Miss Brown’s could say she lives in the detached house was because according to Mr. Harmon they pulled down all the rest.. She was common, but still I would’ve pursued..
“Professional people like us”. ..My how times change… Today retail jobs are viewed as the lowest possible of employment possibilities. Back then it was a respectable position.
i live in asia and when my twin sisters visited their very british god parents in england they learnt about this dinner in the afternoon and supper in the evening where we have dinner. Their god mother told them to go wsh up for dinner. MY sisters said ' dinner at this time? Then what do you have at dinner time..? Then someone told her' Supper! they had a good laugh...
Rebella12 Wynn It may have been over 20 years now I viewed a television series called ‘The Darling Buds Of May’ and there I fell in love with England 💗 have you seen ? You must view if you have not. You can do so here on RU-vid. Rubella, I just know you will love it too. 🤗
Season 7 was top notch. The Apartment, The Hero, The Agent, The Junior. I know people enjoy the earlier seasons more but the writing was immaculate in S7
2:02 speaking of the British empire here is a good joke I heard from a Brit ! scene setter - circa late 19th or early 20th century : class is dismissed and a school boy goes to his grandfather's house first . boy : grandpa, grandpa ! Guess what we learned in school today ? Grandfather : tell me grandson . boy/grandson : We learned the sun never sets on the British empire ! isn't that just jolly good grandpa ?! His Irish Grandfather : Grandson , that's because God would never trust the British in the dark .
Sandra Jovic Mrs Slocumb has substance. Katy is an airhead who bounced in an Elmo top ( not that its a bad thing) but her music and videos are too way out there....
@@VolumedMusicMan Katy Perry doesn't produce music, none of today's so-called artists do. They just use the same techno and they have the same voices...there hasn't been any good music since the mid 90's!
I liked when Rumbold said that Mr. Humphries' complaint about long spaghetti wasn't important....but he does have a valid complaint about stomping on his toad-in-the-hole.