The difference in the everyday lives of Bob and Terry is really highlighted in this episode.Bob would ideally like to be as free as Terry but in reality he is like most of us , preferring stability and the material prospects of a conventional relationship and a family rather than living for the moment.The magnificent script and the near perfect casting makes for great comedy, only rarely replicated since those halcyon days of the BBC half a century ago.
Terry is living free with his parents and off the state. Free lodging, free food and acts all high and mighty. Bob is subsiding his lifestyle through taxes that he pays. He’s not a class warrior he’s a leech.
I was always on the Terry side, growing up in a terrace but then moving to an Elm Lodge-like estate. In some ways I still am, being a lifelong leftie, but at almost 60yrs-old I'm now more sympathetic to Bob than I ever was. btw - I always loved this series but I came back to this right now via the Xmas special which, apart from the film version, might be my favourite of all.
@@bodsnvimtoYes, i'm with you there. The film is champion. Every scene has something. Very funny. I still quote and embellish lines from it eg Terry to Bob "I'd give you a drink but i've only got 8 cans". There's too many to mention.
@@johntudorhallelujah2976 Speaking of quotations, BBC3 or 4 are currently showing the series again. This week they put on the last episode of series 1 when Bob gets wed. When Terry hands him back his photo album and says, "Bob Ferris, this is your life", it still gets me even now.
Hard to decide who was the sadder person really. Terry ( also my name ) was me before marriage and a little of Bob after was me also. Now after 56 years married think I would like to be Terry again.😂😂
Me to people were poorer but happier and there were things to do and places to go places these days are full of woke people and no proper English restaurants
You got to say this, Dads Army, Auf Widershen Pet, Fools and Horses are some of the programmes evere made in British history. If these shows were made today they would have to have 50% black and Indian women, Not an Indian male though.
@peternagy-im4be not really there is no correct or incorrect. . There's just personal taste. Not everyone has the same. Just because someone doesn't like what you like doesn't make them wrong . .
At 10:04, 'Terry': "Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down." I first heard that joke back in the 1960's; on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson!
82p four a round ..70s ........😮 it were a about 28p a pint ....when I started drinking. I remember when pub £4 ...6pints pack 10 fag.s chip + pie pea.s on way home ..then. up early four school nest day 😊
driving up on a fellow from behind within a foot of where he is standing, swinging an excavator bucket within a foot of his head!!?? Only somebody who makes his living sitting behind a typewriter could find that "funny"l
Brilliant observational comedy...... I believe the writer's wanted to bring the series back in the early 1990s with bob and terry as grandparents but James Bolam refused to do it due to his falling out with Rodney Bewes......
I bumped in to Rodney Bewes litterally in Central London back in 1989 . He was on a push bike , i was on my way to work in the Aldwich , we met in The Strand opposite Waterloo Bridge , i steped out in to the road , he screeched to a halt when i looked i said "Hello your Rodney Bewes" he replied "Yes , now fuck off out of my way"
@@MrMenefrego1 I,ll be honest Jeff his answer did take me surprise , and after i thought about it i would have smacked him but at the time i was so surprised by his answer
@@johnruby147 I had a similar experience with Robin Zander, he insulted me at a party, he instantly regretted that decision. (I don't like violence, but there are times when it is needed)
The thing is Terry is being cocky while getting the money but bobs moaning about going to evening and staying up while hrs up and Terry down in the classes
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-POO4lrTclNY.html
