"German Week" Thoughts

[missmacinthorpe]

I don't know if this episode has been discussed here lately, but I watched it on APT last night. It's a hilarious episode (featuring Miss Thorpe!), but it always reminds me of the "Russian Cosmetic Week" page I was the co-author of briefly and which I ruined by trying to edit it with a WebTV box. I still feel bad about it.:shakehead:

MM

[Mr. Belfridge]

I like that eppy, and the young Joanna Lumley is quite lovely in it. I like the dance scene at the end. Cpt. Peacock creeps me out though when he is staring down Ms Thorpe.

[dazzlestar14]

Joanna Lumley did an excellent job on Aybs?, but I always forget that she was in this episode. I loved the dance scene and the German Products introduced to the store. :smile:

[Greg WibblyWobbly]

A Classic to say the least !!!!

[Ronald]

I loved this show, especially the remark of Mr. Ernest Grainger after the German man en women left.

Also the lines between YMG en Grainger.

Grainger: "Nice to see you, Mr. Grace."
YMG: "Good evening, sunny."

En to Miss Thorpe:

YMG: "Hello, my dear. Do you speak English?"
Thorpe: "I work under mr. Rumbold."
YMG: "You're doing very well, I'm sure."

To Mr. Rumbold:

Rumbold: "Perhaps you can come down and have a look (to the dancing)"
YMG: "Well, it has to go quickly, I always go to the club on Tuesday."
Rumbold: "Oh yes, the bridgeclub."
YMG: "No, no, no, no, the stripclub."

[Lucas The Tucas]

One of my top 10 .... {13 to 15 shows make-up my top 10}.

A Great show all around !

I Love the Ending .

Lucas :beerchug:

[offthefloor]

i love this episode. not my all time favorite but one of my top five. watching peacock and slocombe slapping each other is a classic scene and the german dance hilarious!!!

[missmacinthorpe]

i love this episode. not my all time favorite but one of my top five. watching peacock and slocombe slapping each other is a classic scene and the german dance hilarious!!!

Yes, the dance is the episode's raison d'?tre (or should I say Daseinsberechtigung).

MM

[sonosun]

I have seen that dance before with the slapping and all, but it wasn't quite as funny.

[dazzlestar14]

Of course not, Mollie and John weren't in it! :emotlol:

[Tiddles]

This episode has been recalled fondly by most of the cast members. When they saw themselves "dressed up" in the German get-ups they really got into it. Began cracking up uncontrollably. It's actually a good ep from history's stand point. How Brits felt negatively for the Germans. A study in culture.


:beerchug: :dan: :beerchug:

[missmacinthorpe]

It's actually a good ep from history's stand point. How Brits felt negatively for the Germans. A study in culture.


And also Britain's resentment of Germany's post-war economic success (made possible with help from the US).

MM

[Punch_N_Judy]

Grainger: "Nice to see you, Mr. Grace."
YMG: "Good evening, sunny."

ROFL!
Definitly one of my faves.

[Greg WibblyWobbly]

:humphries01: "I don't know why but my eyes are watering !!!"

[Very Young Mr Grace]

:humphries01: "I don't know why but my eyes are watering !!!"

LMAO !! Best line ever !!

I liked Captain Peacock's German outfit....

"It give me plenty of air but very little authority."

[Greg WibblyWobbly]

:rumbhead: "What's that noise ?"

:anger: "My trousers, they haven't been run in yet..."

[minki]

That's a funny one, especially when Mrs. Slocombe and Captain Peacock try to do to dance, and each one's trying to hit/dodge the other :)

[Tiddles]

"German Week" is also one of the Peacock Knee Exposure eps. :eek3: Miss Brahms makes a comment in "Grounds For Divorce" (I think...anyway he's wearing Bermuda shorts in one ep) that that's the first time she'd seen his knees. But we'd seen them in "Camping In" and in "German Week" when he's in his lederhosen. :blush2:

[Greg WibblyWobbly]

Ahhh Tids, you're just a sucker for Peacock's knees... :lol:

[Jeff Humphries]

One of my favorite eppys. Has all you could want in an aybs? eppy.

[Dean]

"German Week" is also one of the Peacock Knee Exposure eps. :eek3: Miss Brahms makes a comment in "Grounds For Divorce" (I think...anyway he's wearing Bermuda shorts in one ep) that that's the first time she'd seen his knees. But we'd seen them in "Camping In" and in "German Week" when he's in his lederhosen. :blush2:

maybe she wasn't looking? ;-)

[Tiddles]

Ahhh Tids, you're just a sucker for Peacock's knees... :lol:

I saw him at the squash club and I think he has very interesting knees. :yes:

[Greg WibblyWobbly]

I saw him at the squash club and I think he has very interesting knees. :yes:

:emotlol: :emotlol:

[Very Young Mr Grace]

How about the authentic German band?

"Ready when you are, mate!"

LOL !!!!

[Sir Humphries]

(This is one of my all-time favorite lines from AYBS?)

:lucas01: "Well, Shirley and I are going to the pictures."

:brahmhead1: "I haven't said yes yet."

:lucas01: "I wasn't going to ask you that question until after we came out."

:slochead: "I don't know why you bother going out with him at all."

:brahmhead1: "Well it's either that or taking me mum's washing to the laundriette."

:lucas01: "I'm not going there again. I've seen more of your mother's underwear than I have of yours."

[sueschmitt]

German Week was one of my favs. Joanna Lumley was in two episodes His and Hers and German Week. She was briefly married to Jeffrey Lloyd too don't know if she was for German Week tho.

[Greg WibblyWobbly]

I don't think they were married for "German Week".

[Tiddles]

The Lumley Lloyd marriage lasted for less than 6 months in 1970. But they remained friends. She penned the forward to the "25 years" book.

[Greg WibblyWobbly]

That's right, I had forgotten that they were only married for a very short time. So they weren't together for either "His and Hers" or "German Week".

[Diana Yarswick]

But they had the same initials :-) nonetheless

[Greg WibblyWobbly]

But they had the same initials :-) nonetheless


I never thought of that !!! :lol:

[Miss Percivale]

My favorite part was this one:

Mrs. Slocombe: One dear old lady customer of mine got caught short and walked straight through the door marked Herren!

Capt. Peacock: You should have directed her to the door marked Damen.

Mrs. Slocombe: I didn't have time! She saw the word "her" and was off!

Mr. Grainger: (very grimly) And I'm here to tell you she'll never do it again.

[Greg WibblyWobbly]

My favorite part was this one:

Mrs. Slocombe: One dear old lady customer of mine got caught short and walked straight through the door marked Herren!

Capt. Peacock: You should have directed her to the door marked Damen.

Mrs. Slocombe: I didn't have time! She saw the word "her" and was off!

Mr. Grainger: (very grimly) And I'm here to tell you she'll never do it again.

:emotlol:Love that one myself !!!

[Diana Yarswick]

:humphries01:I can't think why but me eyes are watering!:cry:

Funny bit, that.:beerchug: