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The Ending (spoilers)

posted 18 years ago by am_buglet_82
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SPOILERS!

I have some questions about the ending.

Peter dies, right?
That's why Dudley's crying at the piano at Peter's funeral.

So I'm guessing the part at the end with Dudley and Peter joking on the roof was a memory?

Another thought I had was that maybe they were reunited when Dudley died (I think he died before "Not Only But Always" came out), and where they were was kind of like their heaven or something.

What does everyone else think?

-Amanda

"She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in storybooks written by rabbits"

[–] eligible_maid 18 years ago

Yeah I think that it what the rooftop scene is, because on the DVD in the biography section, it says that Dudley Moore died.

[–] donna_morganspice22000 18 years ago

The rooftop scene did have me slightly confused for a while but after watching it about, ooohh, for the 3rd time (huge, huge fan!) I think the rooftop could represent their 'heaven'.

However, I think it's more of an extension of when Dud comes to Pete's flat to make up and they start reminiscing and still have irreconciable minor squabbles, but being older and more wiser, learn to put differences aside.

Peter's first wife, Wendy, once said that Peter never truly loved any of his wives, it was Dudley he loved irrefutably. The pain they caused one another proved that you always hurt the one you truly love. They loathed as much as they loved, so it was very poignant that they breached the massive gulf before death sadly took them from our midst.

Both images are wonderful in their own ways, but if there is to be a heaven, I think I prefer the image of Pete & Dud, looking bewildered, cloth caps in hand, standing outside the Pearly Gates of Heaven - 'Bloody hell, we're in heaven!' Utterly divine!!

[–] robotmonkeyburrito 17 years ago

oh!! I thought that Dudley imagined Peter dying and felt bad, so he went over his house and rekindled the friendship, thus effectively saving his life. then again i don't know all the real life history. i'll have to look into this!

[–] monty_python_eric 17 years ago

I kind of thought both...

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TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR: Pay no attention to him[Bill], Graeme, He's pissed...
GRAEME GARDEN: Oh has he?

[–] CAGODDARD 17 years ago

I think the very end scene is a flash back to just before Pete dies.

They did actually often meet up in real life, for example they recorded a new sketch/intro for the video releae of the best of Not only but also . . . Plus they appeared on Brit chat show "Wogan" to publisize it.

Pete was co-presenter of Joan Rivers chat show when Dud was a guest.

They did one of the Secret policeman ball chrity concerts together.

[–] trevorwomble 17 years ago

I find it very sad that the BBC wiped nearly every episode of Not Only But Also from their archives. Dudley Moore heard that they were having a purge in the 1970s and desperately tried to buy the master tapes off them but the BBC started being all bureaucratic with him and went ahead and wiped them. How they must be kicking themselves now for not listening to him. Not only did the BBC instigate cultural vandalism but the financial value of those episodes to the beeb (in lost video, dvd and overseas broadcast sales) must have been millions of pounds of lost revenue.

[–] m-knell 17 years ago

It's not often a label genuinely earned but they were, as far as I'm concerned, a pair of geniuses.
Both now sadly missed and so often copied by lesser comics.

It's a great great shame so much material was destroyed so stupidly.