Funniest Episode
What's your funniest episode and why?
Mine's The Madame Du Toit episode purely because both leads behave like children and its so funny with the car and the rector.
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That's my favourite episode too. The bit with the Rector appearing at the car is only a few seconds long but it is just so funny - the expression on Audrey's face when he arrives! I also love Audrey's comments about Richard's decor (personally I also think it's horrible, she's got much better taste).
Catriona x
"Fate shuffles the cards and we play" (Schopenhauer)
If we're talking laugh-out-loud funny, I have two favorite episodes -
1. The Mlle. du Toit episode (Obviously I'm not the only one who loves it)
2. Audrey's TV commercial for Fauntleroy's Old English Tonic ("The Little Aristocrat"). Brabinger's drunk scene alone makes this one a classic. Favorite line -
Audrey: WE British?!? DeVere's about as British as the Brandenburg Gate!!!
Lol, yes that's a good one! Brabinger drunk was fantastic. I also liked the end bit when Richard shows what a great guy he is: he forgives Audrey for bouncing the cheque in the supermarket, & also for taking his place in the commercial. It's lovely to see their friendship really starting to take off.
Catriona x
"Fate shuffles the cards and we play" (Schopenhauer)
Yeah, that's probably my second favourite - I think that end bit's cute too. I remember first seeing the bit where he realises what she's done & seems to get angry, then gives her that lovely smile of his & helps label the honey. Melt!
Catriona x
"Fate shuffles the cards and we play" (Schopenhauer)
My favourite is probably the Mlle. Du Toit episode too, I really like the scene where Audrey and Majory are fighting over being his wife...very ironic!
~:~J'ecouterais Audrey a mon droit, ou Vivien a mon gauche?~:~
While the Mlle DuToit episode is still my favourite, I've been rewatching some other episodes & am liking the penultimate one more & more, when Audrey's uncle helps Richard in the city. The look on her face when Richard tells her he might have to leave Grantleigh is so touching - "We need you here". Awww! Plus, when she goes to the club & Uncle Greville introduces her to Lumsden & Gayforth. "How do you do, Mr Lumsden. Please don't get up." Just the way she says that makes me laugh out loud. And also when Uncle Greville introduces the other one as "Gayboy". Fantastic! You really see Audrey's attachment to Richard here, it's lovely.
Catriona x
"But dreams DO come true, and maybe something wonderful will happen." (Giselle, "Enchanted".)
I also love the episode where Audrey's old school friend come to stay. When she and Marjory are trying to come up with reasons for Diana not to go over to the manor for the night, Audrey suggests; 'we'll tell her it's a full moon and Richard's likely to go off his head!'
shareThe series concludes beautifully, and one of the things I love about the "Julian Gayforth" episodes is that the actor who plays him (Peter Penry-Jones) is married to Marjory (Angela Thorne) in real life.
shareReally? I didn't know that. Anyone know if he's related to the rather nice Rupert Penry-Jones? Surely it's not that common a name! I'll need to look it up sometime.
Catriona x
"Inside of me, there's a thin person just screaming to get out."
"Just the one, dear?"
As you've undoubtedly discovered by now, he's their son. Their other son, Laurence, is also an actor.
shareYou learn something new every day. Nice to know these people I like are all connected!
Catriona x
"Inside of me, there's a thin person just screaming to get out."
"Just the one, dear?"
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Yeah, that's cool. Her main concern seems to be the fact that they're sneaking off to the woods - vulgar - but she's obviously just so jealous about the idea of something going on between Marjory & Richard, lol.
Catriona x
"I'm free!" - Mr Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries, "Are You Being Served?"
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I love the episode that has Rula Lenska in it. She plays a perfume distributer or something like that. I liked watching the tension between her and Audrey.
"not everyone gets corrupted....you have to have a little faith in people"
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