The Likely Lads: Bob In The Boutique 

Couldnt put that better... Sir !

‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet’ was utterly brilliant also, series one in particular. Their attention to character development is second to none.

@@jimbass1968 AWP was indeed utterly brilliant, and spot-on about C and LF's attention to character development. I'll always consider Porridge to be their crowning glory, and a major reason for that was the strength of the characters and how they interacted. Whether it's Porridge, AWP, or the Likely Lads, these are real characters in real situations.

Such a shame that Rodney Bewes was a terrible actor.

Loved this, not as good as Fawlty towers.

SHE was amazing.

It’s one of the best, total deadpan, total honesty.

Yeah I rented this movie out just for nostalgia more than anything else. I didn’t expect it to be so funny. This scene made me laugh out loud.

I think it was in part down to the fact they wrote it like an episode, no extravagant plot devices, just a big version of The Likely Lads, plus the understated humour of the original series fit not having a laugh track (at times)

@@dannyflynn5681 Also they didn't mess with it by bringing in guest stars who had nothing to do with the television series or sending them to a holiday camp in summer.

The Porridge movie was reasonable.... This perfectly encapsulated my birthplace just how I remembered it as a youngster, when we came back to visit. The cars of the era, red asphalt roads, the streetlamps were light and dark blue, all the Northern Buses/T&WPTE all in yellow/white livery and Spanish City still existed. The tower blocks might have been grim, but the A1058 isn't quite the same without them. Plus it's lovely to see footage of Tynemouth Priory without the God-awful coastguard station (Bob parking near it and walking down North Pier to see Terry fishing). I go back often and miss a few of the sights as only the Spanish City Dome, Beehive Pub, caravan park and the "guesthouse" (now a private house) just about remain.

@@andrewphippsphillips1455 Agree 100% Regards from Whitley Bay

@@Glenn1967ful but really most sitcoms thats wat you could do or as with some find a new plot then comes a great film everybody remembers how On The Buses was 2nd best film of the year to James Bond earning half a millon on the buses did only cost £90,000 to make

They might still react in the same way !

@@1061andy they will do these days. We've probably got some of the most expensive shops and goods on the face of the planet now.

@@andrewphippsphillips1455 £22 was a big amount of money in 1976, close to £ 200 now, but then clothes were still made over here.

It's groovy as fuck .... Wanted to know this too !

@@thedr.feelgood still don’t know it ! but Spiral - The Crusaders has the same base line, another funky tune about as similar to this that’s easy enough to find

It wouldn't happen to be anything Mike Hugg composed perhaps? He did the TV theme and also the score for this movie (he was in Mannfred Mann I gather)

why it's crap lol 😆

@@stevemaclaine4547 The music spoilt it.

No it isn’t. But it looks like her. Dagma was played by Brigitte Kahn, who also had a brief speaking role in The Empire Strikes Back.

Pet

Yes she does! Never really saw that before.

She was in Au wedersein pet. The girlfriend of Dennis .she played a German.

Kinda hard not to look when the walls and doors are built to only shoulder length......

You'd have to dig him up first, so why not just either dry up or fcuk off(?) So this is creepy, but a pack of sad slappers with their quims frothing over a gardener in a Diet Coke advertisement isn't? Cuts in both directions doesn't it........

@@andrewphippsphillips1455 'Creepy'.. the fashionable euphemism for 'I'm a little snowflake scared of anything that isn't candy floss world'.

@@Lytton333 it's just lazy posting from a sexless turd who just wants a world of beige, everyone looking like a clone of everyone else & nobody would be allowed any genitalia. The use of the word would suggest that they're American (or wish they were). If studied properly, Bob's actually rather uncomfortable, doesn't know where to look without seeming like a lecherous guy & 90% of most bloke's in that era would have a tongue out, gesticulating like a pervert. He's doing the opposite, looking away & trying to be a gentleman. We've all been in this situation, trying to be nonchalant while the partner faff-arses around, oblivious to how much its waved in our faces. Amazing how its perfectly okay for a gaggle of sex-starved old biffas to perv over a young lad like hungry slappers though - oh yes that's quiet alfuckinright.....

@@Lytton333 no. It is creepy. I’m about as un-pc as they come, and love the old One the Buses, Carry On, Love thy Neighbor , Benny Hill etc bawdy humour. And I’m far from a snowflake. But no, this isn’t funny. It’s tacky….. just leering at woman in a changing room. That isn’t comedy….

It's a scene from the film.

it's good, it adds to the tension of bob standing in the boutique

@@icespittingfire no. It’s crp.

Series? So you watched the series? Why didn't you stop after the first episode if it wasn't funny? Troll.

It’s an acquired taste in comedy, unusual and not mainstream. Clement and La Frenais delve into character humour, people leading fairly ordinary lives but they themselves are the comedic source.