OT Mrs. Slocombe
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"Last" episode of VoD tonight
At least it is the last to be broadcast here (might be one
special episode after it.) Maybe it helps to know the
characters (especially Alice), but to remind those of
you who do.
Last episode - Vicar's wedding:
The council comes into the vicarage to talk to Geraldine (the Vicar):
Hugo: Anyway, the thing is, uh, we've been thinking for weeks what the village
as a whole could give you as a wedding present.
Geraldine: Oh! It's not a mass suicide is it?
Hugo: No.
Geraldine: Shame.
Hugo: Anyway, we finally made a decision and we just wanted to pass it by you
before we leap into action.
Geraldine: No, don't. I love surprises.
Hugo: Yeah, well, it's not as simple as that, because what we have decided to
give you for your wedding -- is your wedding.
Geraldine: Pardon?
Hugo: We're going to take the whole responsibility for your wedding completely
off your shoulders.
Geraldine: Holy Mother of God!
Alice: I told you she'd be pleased.
Hugo: You see, they say weddings are the most stressful time in anyone's life
so we're going to do the whole damn thing for you.
Geraldine: Hey, look, guys, it's a wonderful thought...
Hugo: Alice is doing the dress ... obviously.
Geraldine: Obviously.
Alice: Well, me and my mum. The psychiatric nurses like to keep her occupied.
Later, Alice is in the vicarage:
Alice: Right, time to discuss your dress.
Do you know, I can almost not breathe, the excitement of it.
Geraldine: Yeah, I'm also having a near death experience.
Alice: First, material for the dress.
Geraldine: Right.
Alice: Now what do you think of ............... pine.
(Alice holds a pine board)
Geraldine: Pine? For a wedding dress?
Alice: Very much in at the moment.
Geraldine: In where?
Alice: My mother's mind
Again, later, Alice comes in with two more ideas
Alice: Who apart from you is the most moral woman of the last one hundred years?
...
Alice: First is Mother Teresa. So I thought to demonstrate your goodness you
could wear this as you walk down the aisle.
Geraldine: A Mother Teresa face mask?
...
Geraldine: Well ... it's not the worst idea you've ever had, Alice.
That was your suggestion to stop burning coal and start burning pubic hair instead.
Alice: Well, it's easier to get at and we don't really need it.
At least it is the last to be broadcast here (might be one
special episode after it.) Maybe it helps to know the
characters (especially Alice), but to remind those of
you who do.
Last episode - Vicar's wedding:
The council comes into the vicarage to talk to Geraldine (the Vicar):
Hugo: Anyway, the thing is, uh, we've been thinking for weeks what the village
as a whole could give you as a wedding present.
Geraldine: Oh! It's not a mass suicide is it?
Hugo: No.
Geraldine: Shame.
Hugo: Anyway, we finally made a decision and we just wanted to pass it by you
before we leap into action.
Geraldine: No, don't. I love surprises.
Hugo: Yeah, well, it's not as simple as that, because what we have decided to
give you for your wedding -- is your wedding.
Geraldine: Pardon?
Hugo: We're going to take the whole responsibility for your wedding completely
off your shoulders.
Geraldine: Holy Mother of God!
Alice: I told you she'd be pleased.
Hugo: You see, they say weddings are the most stressful time in anyone's life
so we're going to do the whole damn thing for you.
Geraldine: Hey, look, guys, it's a wonderful thought...
Hugo: Alice is doing the dress ... obviously.
Geraldine: Obviously.
Alice: Well, me and my mum. The psychiatric nurses like to keep her occupied.
Later, Alice is in the vicarage:
Alice: Right, time to discuss your dress.
Do you know, I can almost not breathe, the excitement of it.
Geraldine: Yeah, I'm also having a near death experience.
Alice: First, material for the dress.
Geraldine: Right.
Alice: Now what do you think of ............... pine.
(Alice holds a pine board)
Geraldine: Pine? For a wedding dress?
Alice: Very much in at the moment.
Geraldine: In where?
Alice: My mother's mind
Again, later, Alice comes in with two more ideas
Alice: Who apart from you is the most moral woman of the last one hundred years?
...
Alice: First is Mother Teresa. So I thought to demonstrate your goodness you
could wear this as you walk down the aisle.
Geraldine: A Mother Teresa face mask?
...
Geraldine: Well ... it's not the worst idea you've ever had, Alice.
That was your suggestion to stop burning coal and start burning pubic hair instead.
Alice: Well, it's easier to get at and we don't really need it.
63getelevision
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I am a Mrs. Slocombe fan.
And I am unanimous in that!
And I am unanimous in that!
i have just spent two days off watching countless Are You Being Served Episodes on Youtube lol
I love Mrs Slocombe, her one liners are great.
*On a rather cold morning*
Captain Peacock: Your one minute late Mrs Slocombe
Mrs Slocombe: Well i would have been here on time but i had to thaw my pussy out before i came.
LOL
M
P.S heres the link to a youtuber who has loads of episodes of AYBS on his profile, including the pilot episode!!
Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/user/SatinFox2
I love Mrs Slocombe, her one liners are great.
*On a rather cold morning*
Captain Peacock: Your one minute late Mrs Slocombe
Mrs Slocombe: Well i would have been here on time but i had to thaw my pussy out before i came.
LOL
M
P.S heres the link to a youtuber who has loads of episodes of AYBS on his profile, including the pilot episode!!
Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/user/SatinFox2
perc-o-prince
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If you're not a Mrs. Slocomb fan...
...then just shut your cake-hole and let me bat you 'round the ear-hole!!!
Then you can bang it into the crack with the handle!!
Chuck
...then just shut your cake-hole and let me bat you 'round the ear-hole!!!
Then you can bang it into the crack with the handle!!
Chuck
Those wild hair colors she sported for that show were actually the for real style for middle aged and senior woman in the UK back in the 70's. It wasn't made up soley for comic relief.
jmirawm
Well-known member
HOOKED ON
Mrs. Slocombe......I got so hooked on "Are you being served" and "Keeping up appearances" on sunday nights on PBS for a time, I kept on running late for work. I just could not stand to turn on the recorder and then go lay down....I HAD TO WATCH. LOL.
Mrs. Slocombe......I got so hooked on "Are you being served" and "Keeping up appearances" on sunday nights on PBS for a time, I kept on running late for work. I just could not stand to turn on the recorder and then go lay down....I HAD TO WATCH. LOL.
athanasius80
Well-known member
I had a teacher from Birmingham who always referred to her as "that Slocombe woman." Its good stuff.
peterh770
Well-known member
Loves me some Vicor! Anything French and Saunders does is just brilliant!
AYBS, however, I can do with out. A little too slapstick and predictable for me.
AYBS, however, I can do with out. A little too slapstick and predictable for me.
Mrs Slocombe's "pussy" is too shocking for US
Don't know if this is old news, but really can't people find more important things to complain about.
Liam
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001320029-2004321924,00.html
Don't know if this is old news, but really can't people find more important things to complain about.
Liam
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001320029-2004321924,00.html
toggleswitch
Well-known member
I"ve really begun to dislike the Puritans.
Big country.
Small minds.
Big country.
Small minds.
Yes, old news - July, 2004. But a comment about it appears
here:
http://bestofbothworlds.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_bestofbothworlds_archive.html
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Well, this all seemed a bit, er, fishy to us, given the years we've spent asking "Are you free?" in front of our all-too-American televisions. A little digging revealed the source of this "scoop": a July 13 Christian Science Monitor article about, yes, potential editing of British programs on certain PBS affiliates. Nowhere does it mention AYBS, Mrs. Slocombe, or the aforementioned pussy. And this PBS "exec"-cum-"spokesman" Doug Myrland? He's the station manager at the San Diego public TV station.
His actual quote in the CSM, regarding the Brit-coms shown on his affiliate:
"They thrive on double entendre, and we're saying, 'Do we have to do something with those?' " Mr. Myrland asks. "We're worried that we're maybe on thin ice.' "
Not as thin, perhaps, as the editorial walls between Rupert Murdoch's English newspapers.
---------------
Appears The SUN and the London Times have a problem with
facts just like FOX.
here:
http://bestofbothworlds.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_bestofbothworlds_archive.html
--------------
Well, this all seemed a bit, er, fishy to us, given the years we've spent asking "Are you free?" in front of our all-too-American televisions. A little digging revealed the source of this "scoop": a July 13 Christian Science Monitor article about, yes, potential editing of British programs on certain PBS affiliates. Nowhere does it mention AYBS, Mrs. Slocombe, or the aforementioned pussy. And this PBS "exec"-cum-"spokesman" Doug Myrland? He's the station manager at the San Diego public TV station.
His actual quote in the CSM, regarding the Brit-coms shown on his affiliate:
"They thrive on double entendre, and we're saying, 'Do we have to do something with those?' " Mr. Myrland asks. "We're worried that we're maybe on thin ice.' "
Not as thin, perhaps, as the editorial walls between Rupert Murdoch's English newspapers.
---------------
Appears The SUN and the London Times have a problem with
facts just like FOX.
...Mrs. Slocombe...
They had been running AYBS? for several years on the St. Louis PBS station; I got a kick out of Mrs. Slocombe's ever-changin hair color...and I know a few Yanks who would be mates with Hyacinth and Richard on "Keeping Up Appearances." "The Vicar of Dibley" never really caught on locally, although Dawn French was great fun and I loved the message at the start of the closing credits:
"Bless You for Watching."
They had been running AYBS? for several years on the St. Louis PBS station; I got a kick out of Mrs. Slocombe's ever-changin hair color...and I know a few Yanks who would be mates with Hyacinth and Richard on "Keeping Up Appearances." "The Vicar of Dibley" never really caught on locally, although Dawn French was great fun and I loved the message at the start of the closing credits:
"Bless You for Watching."
launderess
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Oh If You Want Offensive
You have to see "Father Ted".
Mrs. Slocombe:
For the first few color episodes her hair was dyed those strange colours, but when she would go from the set to collect her twin boys at school, it caused quite a stir. Also the dyes were hard to get out/change and took a toll on Miss. Sugden's hair, sow they switched to wigs.
VoD is great, and typical UK "village/shire" farce. You have the local vicar, the local squire, assorted farmers and the town bike, though she is bit long in the tooth to pull now. *LOL* Gotta love Alice Tinker and Hugo. Pair of them are so thick they could support a bridge.
L.
You have to see "Father Ted".
Mrs. Slocombe:
For the first few color episodes her hair was dyed those strange colours, but when she would go from the set to collect her twin boys at school, it caused quite a stir. Also the dyes were hard to get out/change and took a toll on Miss. Sugden's hair, sow they switched to wigs.
VoD is great, and typical UK "village/shire" farce. You have the local vicar, the local squire, assorted farmers and the town bike, though she is bit long in the tooth to pull now. *LOL* Gotta love Alice Tinker and Hugo. Pair of them are so thick they could support a bridge.
L.
rolls_rapide
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Mrs Slocombe's phrases...
"Weak as water, weak as WATER!"
"Weak as water, weak as WATER!"
launderess
Well-known member
IIRC, yes, the last episode of the VoD series is Hugo and Alice getting married. Geraldine has pulled) Hugo's uncle and annouces at the wedding party she is accepting a post to do "inner city missionary" work. Turns out the city is the same as where the uncle lives, or near enough the two can carry on.
VoD episodes
I would have to go back over the tape, but it seemed they
did not air Happy New Year or the Antiques Roadshow specials
during the latest airings and stopped after the Vicar in White.
No.__________Air Date Episode
1__________11/10/1994 Arrival
2__________11/17/1994 Songs of Praise
3__________11/24/1994 Community Spirit
4__________12/01/1994 The Window and the Weather
5__________12/08/1994 Election
6__________12/15/1994 Animals
Special____04/08/1996 The Easter Bunny
Special____12/25/1996 The Christmas Lunch Incident
Special____03/14/1997 Ballykissdibley
10_________12/25/1997 Engagement
11_________01/08/1998 Dibley Live
12_________01/15/1998 Celebrity Vicar
13_________01/22/1998 Love and Marriage (Hugo and Alice get married)
Special____03/12/1999 Red Nose Day Special
15_________12/24/1999 Autumn
16_________12/25/1999 Winter
17_________12/27/1999 Spring
18_________01/01/2000 Summer
Special____12/25/2004 Merry Christmas
Special____01/01/2005 Happy New Year
Special____03/11/2005 Comic Relief - Antiques Roadshow (15 minute special for charity)
Special____12/25/2006 The Handsome Stranger
Special____01/01/2007 The Vicar In White
Special____01/10/2007 The Story_of... The Vicar of Dibley (cast & crew reunite)
Special____03/16/2007 Comic Relief - Celebrity Wife Swap (announced to be last episode)
I would have to go back over the tape, but it seemed they
did not air Happy New Year or the Antiques Roadshow specials
during the latest airings and stopped after the Vicar in White.
No.__________Air Date Episode
1__________11/10/1994 Arrival
2__________11/17/1994 Songs of Praise
3__________11/24/1994 Community Spirit
4__________12/01/1994 The Window and the Weather
5__________12/08/1994 Election
6__________12/15/1994 Animals
Special____04/08/1996 The Easter Bunny
Special____12/25/1996 The Christmas Lunch Incident
Special____03/14/1997 Ballykissdibley
10_________12/25/1997 Engagement
11_________01/08/1998 Dibley Live
12_________01/15/1998 Celebrity Vicar
13_________01/22/1998 Love and Marriage (Hugo and Alice get married)
Special____03/12/1999 Red Nose Day Special
15_________12/24/1999 Autumn
16_________12/25/1999 Winter
17_________12/27/1999 Spring
18_________01/01/2000 Summer
Special____12/25/2004 Merry Christmas
Special____01/01/2005 Happy New Year
Special____03/11/2005 Comic Relief - Antiques Roadshow (15 minute special for charity)
Special____12/25/2006 The Handsome Stranger
Special____01/01/2007 The Vicar In White
Special____01/10/2007 The Story_of... The Vicar of Dibley (cast & crew reunite)
Special____03/16/2007 Comic Relief - Celebrity Wife Swap (announced to be last episode)
perc-o-prince
Well-known member
Well, partially. It's Marie Elizabeth Jennifer Rachel Yiddell Abergavenny Slocombe (and, almost, Mataxsis, but she didn't marry the Greek fellow). The nickname "Betty" that's commonly used throughout the series comes from Elizabeth. It was revealed in the episode where the staff gave her a 50th birthday party (though she claimed she was not).
Chuck
Chuck
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