Del Boy falling through the bar: lulz/no lulz?

my vote reflects the first time i saw it, ie in the first showing of the episode before it was hyped up to the nines. it was pretty lol at the time.

Weirdly, ILX has never had an Only Fools and Horses thread.

Prefer the chandelier

Agreed

Yeah

I think I've never laughed as much at a sitcom as I did at the blow up doll episode.

Not feeling it - it was funny the first time, but the way it gets wheeled out for every "best of" or "100 greatest" list show means that it's not funny anymore. And it was also a stand out lol moment in what was quickly becoming a dull series.

It went off the boil badly plus I always hated the old geezer, Uncle Albert or whatever he was called, truly terrible actor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robin_Flies_at_Dawn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licensed_to_Drill

The Mighty Boosh should do those kind of episodes.

Prefer the chandelier

-- DJ Mencap, Thursday, 6 December 2007 11:14 (9 minutes ago) Link

^^^

Wes Anderson wants to make a film of Only Fools and Horses apparently.

Only Fools & Horses went shit when Grandad died and Uncle Albert joined. The chandelier bit is maybe the funniest sitcom moment ever. Del looking at Rodney and saying "now, brace yourself.." Grandad coming back downstairs, saying "alright, Del Boy?", despite the shattered glass everywhere, is just an all-time classic.

Come to think of it, that whole episode is fantastic, beginning with Del trying to flog those ceramic cats to the posh couple.

Correct. Although later episodes had their moments. Too much boring stuff with Rodney's love life later as well.

The bar scene is funny, but it can't be compared to 'The Green Green Grass of Home'. Now that's class.

Looking at the wiki article I see it started in 1981. Incredible.

Too much boring stuff with Rodney's love life later as well

And Del's. I couldn't stand his wife either, not a comedy actress.

I've always fucking hated Only Fools & Horses.

That actress who played Rodney's wife is one of the worst actresses I've ever seen. She should've stuck to the 2-minute spot-the-difference films on the Krypton Factor.

I liked this show pretty much until the clock auction finale (not including the Christmas special after that which i boycotted)

I quite liked the emo stuff - the one where Del breaks the lift so Rodney will open up about his fears about his marriage (did Cassandra have a miscarriage?), the one where Damien is born and Del takes him over to the window to talk to his mother in the stars...oh, I'm tearing up just thinking about it. In its day, OFAH was brilliant. They should've stopped LONG before they did though.

That actress who played Rodney's wife is one of the worst actresses I've ever seen. She should've stuck to the 2-minute spot-the-difference films on the Krypton Factor.

-- nate woolls, Thursday, 6 December 2007 11:33 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^same applies to Tony Slattery

That actress who played Rodney's wife is one of the worst actresses I've ever seen. She should've stuck to the 2-minute spot-the-difference films on the Krypton Factor.

she was OK in Real Women (lost the baby in that as well)

she played Mary Shelley once.

i smell a POll for favourite character looming

Trigger in a walk, surely?

I thought that the emo stuff was dud. You can trace it's decline with each successive new regular character, from Uncle Albert through Rachel to Cassandra. It always worked best with Del, Rodney, and Grandad, in a grimey Dickensian sort of way with bits of Kafka mixed in.

I think overall, Just Good Friends was better than OFAH. Vince's family was fucking brilliant in JGF.

I like Denzil. I like the actor that plays him, should be in more things.

OK, I saw one of those Krypton Factor things on something the other day, and Tony Slattery was starring with Katie Puckrik! I don't remember that!

Back to OFAH: pretty strong supporting cast as well, and a very large one at that. Was that quite unusual, to have so many defined characters who weren't part of the main set up? I'm struggling to think. It was almost soap-operatic in parts.

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or Del's finest swindle

Entering Rodney in the art contest from the back of a cerial packet, to get a free holiday. Genius.

Steve Coogan also did some Krypton Factor stuff (impersonating Barry Norman)

Was that quite unusual, to have so many defined characters who weren't part of the main set up?

'Allo 'Allo may rival it.

Also Porridge

Yes, Trigger would landslide it.

My favourite Trigger scenes,
Turning up at a fancy dress party as a limo driver wearing a black suit, but the party was cancelled and a funeral took place instead. "feel a bit stupid now"
and on Rodney's birthday as everyone sang "Happy birthday dear Rodney", Trigger could just be heard singing "..Dave"

Grandad: Alright, Del Boy?
Del: Alright? Look at it!
Grandad: Did you drop it Del?
Rodney: How could we drop it? We never even had hold of it. We were working on that one.
Grandad: Well I wish you'd said something, 'cos I was working on this one.

When they went to 45-50min episodes ('89 or so) - that was the point at which my Dad started to say "rubbish" over the credits (as he did with almost all TV comedy ever, save Rising Damp, Porridge, Likely Lads, Fawlty Towers and maybe a couple of others, regardless of how much he may have laughed during the show). The biggest discrepancy between in-show ROFLs and end-of-show denouncements was probably with The Goodies. "Ha ha ha - that was terrible."

Grandad: Did you drop it Del?

It's this line that kills me. Rodney and the Boyces' big dog was also a favourite of the auld fella's.

Loved the two episodes with Jim Broadbent (a number of years apart).

Slater "Whilst inside (prison), I found Jesus"
Del "Oh yeah? What had they fitted him up with?"

same episode (Looking at photo of their youth football team)
Del "We had..camaraderie"
Trig "Was that the Italian kid?"

What is this, SOTCAA??

funny: i opened this thread to say something like "GET TO FUCK, OVER-RATED NONSENSE" but, having read everything, i feel incredibly nostalgic for OFAH and desperately want to watch it again. thanks, ILX. i think.

so, yeh, what snoball said above: diminished through repetition (cf lumberjacks, dead parrots, cars being hit with branches etc).

viz did a godlike piss-take favourite-comedy-moments thing that kept going on about "del boy falling through the bar" in all sorts of surreal circumstances but i can't remember much more about it, or when it was. fuck.

ailsa very much OTM re: the emo moments... the scene where delboy got beaten up to protect rodney (and hides this from him) is very moving too (i forget when this happened, or why). i love this show to pieces.

best emo moment: Grandad making some really eerie/needy comments to Del during his last days. Dot & Ethel level poignancy.

classic moment, but my favourite OFAH moment has to be "it was me".

The 1980s truly was the golden age of the TV pensioner. It's been all downhill from there on, god knows what they're going to do when there's no one old enough to have lived through the war.

Wow, thinking about that post was a real 'ambushed by unexpected emotion' moment, far more than thinking about there being no one left in the real world to have lived through the war.

'S okay, in lieu of people who lived through world wars there'll be pensioners who lived through negative equity, superbugs, feral youths etc

good, interesting point. these days you're more likely to have younger people pretending to be old (Still Game). i blame Caroline Hook-Ahearne.

good, interesting point. these days you're more likely to have younger people pretending to be old (Still Game). i blame Caroline Hook-Ahearne.

As opposed to Clive Dunn who was only 11 when he was in Dad's Army

eh?

Mark Heap

I had Mackenzie Crook pegged as more of a Graham type figure.

the robot guy from 'red dwarf' as the robot guy.

let's not front: kryten.

Ricky Butcher was genuinely the worst person at doing 'angry' in the history of Eastenders

Deano Wicks could give him a run for his money.

Chris Barrie = djmartian

DJ Martian:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Database_THESIMPSONS.jpg

Oh COME ON Kryten is clearly Geir.

that's acrobat (xp)

Actually imagining Kryten as Geir is perfect in almost every way.

With a Norwegian accent.

that's acrobat (xp)

-- blueski, Friday, 7 December 2007 12:48 (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

lol didn't realise you'd actually met him

he was with you and ferg at that one Poptimism last year

I'm sure he'd prefer Steven Mangan

Peter Capaldi as Marcello

Gregor Fisher as Herman G Neuname

Kris Marshall as me

Harry Enfield in borderline racist caricature of Scandinavian liberal typing everything at his desk while naked.

we can't even mock the Swedes anymore? ;_;

That "Hi, I'm Ed Winchester" guy as all US posters

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Back row: Tom D, Mark G

Front: Just Got Offed, blueski, Dom Passantino, That mong guy that's shit, Noodle Vague, That one guy that hit it and quit it

Excellent!

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masonic boom, blueski

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The Shimura Curves

Mark C (wi' budige oan hand and bunnet oan his napper); up and coming female comedian Josie Long (wi' couple o' dugs oan a leash)

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Roger Adultery prepares another visit to ILX.

Special guest appearance from John Lennon:

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i dunno, that's actually pretty hot. maybe it could become my new default imagibation fantasy.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

The people have not given a shit.

Saw the one with Keith Barron as a jeweller the other night, good episode.

this was on last night too, a great episode

"rest assured madam, when we get him down the station we'll give him a ruddy good hiding"

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The episode where the jeweller has a heart attack in the restaurant? The jeweller is played by Philip McGough. One of my favourite episodes, especially as it highlights the strength of OFAH's supporting cast - for example the conversation between Mike, Trigger, Boysie, and Albert while they're waiting in the car outside.

yeah that's one of the best post-Grandad episodes along. Boysie sitting next to Del in the cafe instead of opposite, "I am a doctor", Rodney driving off without them, the pliers payoff ending...

You all seem to have forgotten that little-repeated "experimental" Christmas one from the mid-80s with no laugh track. I don't mean the feature length one where they went to Amsterdam, but the one after that.

It was so totally cheap and out of character I wondered if the stereo scenes were actually filmed live. And it ends suddenly as if someone in the BBC control room just decided to pull the plug in desparation....

You all seem to have forgotten that little-repeated "experimental" Christmas one from the mid-80s with no laugh track

?

what was the setup etc?

Rodney falls in love with an aristocrat girl, and Del messes it up, which is a usual plot thread for OFAH, but this time Del was a cruel, vindictive bastard, and the scenes just dragged on uncomfortably, and with awkward gaps for laughter in the studio scenes (even though there was no laugh track).

Maybe they were trying to be like "Auf Wiedersehen Pet" or something. The "wrap up" scene is about 15 minutes long and they had to "invent" a comedy thread in the last 5 minutes (Rodney breaking his hand) to end the show on, due to the lack of one during the episode.

Never seen that one on the BBC again...

that rings a very faint bell. i must track that one down.

That's a great episode!! Sadly UK Gold always bloody cut out the opera scene which is fucking hilarious. (junie being sick etc)

Del is cringeworthy and brilliant.

Infact it's not the only scene they edit out. It's really annoying so you're better off buying the dvd.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Royal_Flush

If they somehow got the opera scene into a different episode then it would be good.

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2012/01/28/14747/america_to_remake_only_fools_and_horses

sorry to ruin your day

In January 2012 US network ABC commissioned a pilot of an Only Fools and Horses remake titled "King of Van Nuys", written by Scrubs writers Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley.[108] It was developed, rejected and then redeveloped - only to be rejected again later in the year. The pilot starred John Leguizamo as Del, Dustin Ybarra as his brother Rodney and Christopher Lloyd as Grandad.

fave eps definitely Boycie's dog, the one with the chandeliers and the butterfly one which gets incredibly short shrift on this thread (ie no mentions).

You all seem to have forgotten that little-repeated "experimental" Christmas one from the mid-80s with no laugh track

Just watched this on UK Gold or whatevs this afternoon, never seen it before. It's utter dreck.

It does have a laugh track though.

Oh, it seems they edited some of the worse bits out and added a laugh track. Christ knows how bad it was before.

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I'm not normally impressed with celeb interactions of any kind, apart from this one!

gonna need to let that interaction sit a bit before i know what to make of it tbh