The actors said in an interview that when they both turned away from the camera right after the chandelier smashed, they were trying their best not to laugh as the producer said they’d both be fired if they messed up the scene. Apparently they only had ONE take as they only had one chandelier 😂
Our Mums absolute favourite sitcom. She passed away last July 😢. To honour her, we hired the Trotter van to lead her funeral procession to the Church ❤ Everyone Loved it ❤️
Condolences to you and your family on the loss of your Mum. What a lovely way to honour her sense of humour, in a way that brought you all a smile. She raised you well to think of something like that while mourning your loss. Remembering happy times is a wonderful thing!
My Dad's favourite too, we had the theme tune played at his funeral. I'd managed to hold myself together until that point, as soon as I heard it I burst into tears. 😢
@zosemabubble7825 My condolences to you and your family on the loss of your Dad. Some things will trigger sad memories, and others happy memories. I hope the happy memories far outweigh the sad ones. If you guys chose this song to honour him, I think there are many happy memories to bring you comfort.
I have found great pleasure in watching a plethora of American sitcoms throughout the years, so it warms my heart to witness a young man from America appreciating our own sitcoms.
Only fools & Horses a absolute classic , loved all of them 🤣🤣😂😂😁😁 That generation of comedy in the 70s and 80s which we don’t have any more absolutely fantastic very very British 🇬🇧🇬🇧. The good old days how we used to laugh as a family 🤣🤣🤣so much that it hurt in the stomach. When you laugh so much that it hurts in the stomach that is true comedy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
One of the most iconic comedy moments from British TV. If a reel of iconic British TV moments doesn't have this on, then they're not iconic. Only Fools and Horses is also great for learning British slang as you've found out.
I have lost count of the number of times I've watched episodes of Only Fools and I never get fed up with them. Still make me laugh every time. Gold channel has episodes on all the time but especially at weekends when episodes just keep going round in a loop. They are timeless as good comedy should be.
0:56 “Do you want a jemmy?”😂 I am gonna explain this for young’uns and overseas viewers. A jemmy is oldster speak for a pry bar…officially it is used to open crates or lift floorboards, but also open doors or windows that are locked…a burglar’s tool. This is why ‘Del’ in the series has one..he is not a burglar, but he is not beyond some nefarious activity. This leads to the joke…conflating ‘jemmy’ with having a ‘jimmy’. In London cockney rhyming slang a “Jimmy Riddle” means Piddle…a pee. Now the grandad being old and hard of hearing, plus probably prone to frequent urination as oldsters are…thinks Del is saying ‘do you need to pee’. So his response is ‘No! I had one before we left’. The juxtaposition of conflated phrases is a cornerstone of Brit humour and inuendo. There! explained to death😂
@@mediaserver8265 Err.. except that 'jemmy' for Jameson's whisky (or anything like that) has never been used in British slang in my experience, so no, that wouldn't work in the context of OFAH or any other British comedy show. The Contessa's explanation is thorough and accurate.
These chandeliers were the real deal, and the BBC was so worried something might go wrong they employed a larger than normal number of cameras as it was only one take. That one chandelier must have nearly blown the budget for that edition.
@@Ross-df6ge Cheap is relative. A BBC props workshop will have knocked up a "near enough" replica to drop, which will have been pretty much worthless, as opposed to the priceless original. There would still be a non negligible cost to produce it though, and on a 1980's BBC comedy, even one as popular as fools, there would not have been much wiggle room in the budget. So no, they couldn't have just bought a second one.
@@Ross-df6gealso this was early on in Only Fools existence and it wasn't the juggernaut it later became. So their budget was pretty tight and both cast and crew have recounted how this was a one take job or nowt. Fabulous acting from them all, the absolute stillness after the chandelier has landed is epic.
A classic moment from a classic show.. they do not write them like that anymore I watched all the series and quite honestly say I was in tears at times laughing..a fantastic series
Absolutely GOLDEN TV. I grew up on Only Fools here in the UK and I still love it all these years later. Wonderful seeing you enjoying it from across the pond. Great reaction as always. Thanks!! Ben 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Hahah not sure which was funnier, chandelier falling or your reaction Joel🤣 It was the funniest series on British tv for me😉 Glow in the dark paint was brilliant also but every episode was Brilliantly wrote and acted! xx
Simple though it is, probably one of the funniest sketches on British television. Most of the characters featured in this series bore incredible resemblances to people I knew in the South London area I grew up in during the 1950's/60's. It was almost a howl a minute.
@@PR7-82 Yes, I know. I remember the original broadcasting of this episode. But the characters could have been taken from people I knew in my youth, a generation or two older than me. That's my point.
One of the best Only Fools episodes and moments. The fact we never really see the second chandelier only eluded to by the odd look up. It works because you subconsciously know something unexpected will happen, and subconsciously kind of know there is a second chandelier. Nicholas Lyndhurst who plays Rodney shoved his handkerchief in his mouth to stop himself from laughing. Everyone on set had to hold it together and basically not breath. Because they only had one chance, one take thats it. Because the fake glass chandelier costed more than a real chandelier. Imagine spending that much money just for a punch line. It was worth every penny.
A classic scene. The full reaction on Patreon was great, as are all the Only Fools and Horses ones. Enjoyed the reaction to Phoenix Nights yesterday, although I haven't seen it in 20 years. Obviously, today is Inside Number 9, which is always the one I look forward to the most.
Please also watch the OF&H’s episode called “ Yuppy Love” series 6 episode 1. You’ll realise whey when Del Boy is in the club. You won’t be disappointed. Hysterical. Rob, Cardiff, Wales 🏴
Only fools is an absolute classic and the writers were the very best in the business. So many great episodes heading your way... **EDIT** Writer (not writers)! as pointed out by @davidware9549 it was written by John Sullivan who sadly died 22 April 2011
@@p46967 Indeed... Which was an obviously sensible thought of which I myself have never had... I never took photos of the brooms I used (when sweeping the stables and yards at the four riding schools I worked in during the 1970's & early 1980's...2 in London, 2 in Kent). More fool me, eh?! Well Done Trig. 🙂❤️🐎🐴🐎🐴❤️🖖
@@PR7-82 I don't understand your comment... What has the date of that episode to do with the lack of my photographed brooms in earlier decades?! The problem was due to only having a little Kodak 126 camera ...instead of today's camera mobile smartphones!! Plus the 'not thinking of photographing brooms' _with_ the horses ...though, I may have done so accidentally... I shall never now know, as when I was moved from my 18 years in a top (4th) floor flat to my present ground floor flat - due to my disabilities - sadly my collection of photographs were not moved with me ...nor most of my books, furniture etc etc etc. (Leaving 69 years worth of belongings behind was/is upsetting enough, without clueless _riddles_ being aimed at me...!!) 1996?! So...?!!
You know what's coming, but it still keeps you on tenterhooks right up to the crash. Then you can not believe what you have just witnessed. Laughter and shock in quick succession. 'Lovely jubbly'.
We British have seen this so many times it has lost a lot of its power to make us laugh, but back in the 80's when we first saw it we were laughing so hard we couldn't breathe. I thought I would die laughing. It's one of the classic moments of British comedy.
The writer John Sullivans father would call him after each show was aired. They had a bit of a disagreement on the writing of this one since Johns dad said the real life event got people sacked so wasn't funny. But after seeing this, he called his son and said 'Yes...its funny'. BTW, the room where Grandad lifted the floorboards wasn't in the big house, it was apparently the upstairs room of one of the production team.
The times I’ve seen that sketch over the years, it still bursts my stomach with laughter. David Jason and his team one of the greatest TV sitcom actor teams.
The inspiration for this episode may have come from a true story that I heard as a young boy in the 1960s from my dad, who was in the avionics industry working with all the major airlines and often told stories he had picked up when he visited the cockpit and talked to the flight crews on his trips - this was obviously decades before 9/11 when if you were in the industry you could send your business card up to the cockpit and often get an invitation to come up for a chat in return. This story comes from a BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation - the forerunner of today's British Airways) flight crew who were the first BOAC crew to stopover in Moscow during the early Cold War era. All western foreigners were put up in the same hotel in Moscow and they were convinced every room was bugged by the KGB, so they decided to search their rooms like James Bond to see if they could find the bugs. After a long time they couldn't find anything suspicious until one of the crew noticed a strange lump under the middle of the carpet. So they decided to quietly move some furniture aside and roll up the carpet to reveal a metal plate with a bolt in the middle of it. They thought this was really strange, but the flight engineer says he's got a tool that will fit that and starts unscrewing the bolt, despite the fact it had considerable tension on it they got it undone. Eventually the bolt comes free and they hear an enormous crash from the room below theirs. They look at each other and decide to quickly put the bolt back in the hole, roll the carpet back over the plate, and replace the furniture. When they went downstairs for some dinner in the restaurant they noticed a commotion opposite the reception and realised the ballroom was under their guest room and they had released one of the crystal chandeliers, shattering into a million pieces on the wooden ballroom floor. Half of all jokes are true and I know this story was a legend in the aviation industry for decades - I'm sure it must have come to the attention of the writers at some point.
I am surprised that a young man like you enjoys so much of our comedy. I love all the shows you listed. I was very into US comedy shows, Golden Girls, Fraser, Will and Grace, Roseanne and so many more,thank you 🎉
1968 i was an electrician working in a Grosvenor Square apartment London. standing on the top of 12 foot tall steps installing a 5 foot tall chandelier . The chandelier did not have all it's glass baubles fitted but was. hevery heavy . I also had to reach out over a valuable 200 year old oak table which could not be moved . The owner , a 70 year old lady , entered the room and said " i'm so pleased your hanging my Chandelier " it's very precious and worth £5000. ( At that time you could buy a RR for £1000 ) That is when my legs started to turn to jelly , fortunately i was just finishing the connections .. The Chandelier was saved , the Table was saved the steps were saved and i recovered from the shock 2 days later
... its glass baubles ... (No apostrophe in the possessive pronoun!) I'm so pleased you're hanging my chandelier ... (But there is one - and an e - in the contraction of "you are".)
@@SpeccyMan You can be well assured i will not hang any chandelier for you . Rather i think that should you come up to me whilst hanging any chandelier i might just be tempted to hang something else ! Namely you . Standing atop of a 12 foot trestle , when i say atop i mean right on top without anything to hold onto .
@@SpeccyMan Please can you educate the crappy autocorrect facility on my phone? I type in "its" but it [falsely] 'corrects' my typing and inserts "it's" - the same happens with "your" being inserted despite my carefully typing "you're" and even where I insistently click on the letters I have entered, it seems quite capable of doing a last-minute substitution of the wrong word again when I press 'send' 😢😂. Thank you for insisting on getting the spellings right - care and accuracy in the use and maintenance of standard British English are as vital as those same qualities are to good practice in household management. Your comment complements @ernieeade's comment, much to the benefit of learners of English of all ages, who do read comments and do not need confusion. I am sure @ernieeade has the same rights as any author to express himself as he sees fit. Shakespeare had neither standardised spelling nor punctuation conventions to worry about because his art was performative. Poet e e cummings, on the other hand, simply defied such conventions. So @ernieeade is in good company. 🎉
At the time the fack chandler cose about £6,000 And had to look the same as the rear one that they were under.... So the hol epis costs more then the rest of the seson
This was based on a true story the wrighter herd the story in a pub and had to use it. If you whatch it again just before it falls you can see them snigering. Classic only fools..
The IT Crowd! More modern but is comfortably in the mix for greatest English sitcoms of all time! 😂😂😂 I will NEVER tire of people watching it for the first time!
Nicholas Lyndehurst who plays Rodney was talking in an interview about this scene. They had been told by their director that there was only one chance to do the shot and that they were going to hold the shot long enough for the credits to run over it… Both he and Jason were told that if they broke up then it would ruin the take, which would ruin the gag and the episode would be unusable and as the BBC had ordered 8 episodes they would only be able to deliver 7 and they would be fired. The shot happens, and Nicholas said that out of the corner of their eye they see the exact same director just standing in their eyeline with his hat in his mouth desperately trying not to roar with laughter. They finished the shot and apparently the air turned blue with the language coming from both Nicholas and Jason 😂 I *think* the interview was with Michael Parkinson if memory serves
Butterfly’s, dads army, Yes Minister, The Knowledge, Red Dwarf, Early Doors, The Good Life, Bread, Benny Hill(bit of it’s time), Sorry, Porridge, Open All Hours, Morecambe and Wise, Mike Basset, Phoenix Nights, Max and Paddy, The Full Monty, To the Manor Born, Love Thy Neighbour, all the Carry On films and I could go on for days …………
How have you only just watched this? This should be top of your list! Jolly boy’s outing episode is the most loved, watch that next JPS! Best British tv show of all time
A movie suggestion for you: This is England. I grew up around the timeframe that the movie is set in. It's the most nostalgic I've ever felt from a movie. Both positive emotions from seeing the aesthetic of the inner city neighbourhood landscape and the fashion of the era and how real the characters are but also quite a few negative emotions too that are linked with my own experiences growing up as a second generation immigrant in 80s England. The 3 season tv series this is england 86, 88 and 90 is also some of the best British produced drama in recent years. The TV series came out after the success of the movie.
I watched Only Fools and Horses when I was very young and I remember the catchphrases, Lovely jubbly and you plonker!😂 I also remember the episode when he fell down the stairs!
