Mr. Rumbold's "Listening" Problems [Archive] - Are You Being Served...and More!

Very Young Mr Grace

07-25-2005, 05:14 PM

Mr. Rumbold has much in common with the seniors I have worked under in time; they all have problems listening to their co-workers!

Remember when he told Miss Brahms to stop wearing door knockers? Or when he couldn't get the story about Mr. Lucas' asthmatic cat and cripple mother just right?

My boss demostrates a few of these traits herself. :mrgreen:

What are some of your favorite Rumbold moments?

Lucas The Tucas

07-25-2005, 06:23 PM

Playing the piano...When nobody is ready or the wrong song...

Lucas :P

Ps...I also like when he says anything about the board room and looks up...

Greg WibblyWobbly

07-25-2005, 06:30 PM

Playing the piano...When nobody is ready or the wrong song...

Lucas :P

Ps...I also like when he says anything about the board room and looks up...

That would be my favorite Rumbold moment. When he does his "Board Room Level" with the eyes looking upward !!!!

Either that or from "Our Figures Are Slipping" when he first tells the staff that they have a meeting in the morning. He goes wellwellwellwell super fast and it sounds hilarious !!!! Give it a listen to sometime and see what I mean !!

wolf_fire186

07-25-2005, 09:23 PM

Let's see, I can't remember which episode, but the one where he thinks Capt. Peacock has his digit up Mrs. Slocombes nose.
And in "Anything You Can Do" when the staff are trying to tell him about the insults of the canteen staff. He sure gets it right when he's insulted though. :lol:

Greg WibblyWobbly

07-26-2005, 01:11 AM

Let's see, I can't remember which episode, but the one where he thinks Capt. Peacock has his digit up Mrs. Slocombes nose.

A Bliss Girl... funny scene !!!!

Old Mr. Grace

07-26-2005, 05:26 AM

I enjoyed the the scene from "Dear Sexy Knickers" when Mr. Lucas kneed the jacket, and Mr. Rumbold thought he needed the jacket.

:rumbold01: "Let's get our tenses right."

frankdicer

07-27-2005, 08:34 PM

Let's see, I can't remember which episode, but the one where he thinks Capt. Peacock has his digit up Mrs. Slocombes nose.

A Bliss Girl... funny scene !!!!

I think it is that scene that makes a Bliss Girl my all time favorite...
that and Harman explaining to Rumbold about "'oovering up the dust" ..the
epi opening scene.

Greg WibblyWobbly

07-28-2005, 01:10 AM

I like the noise he makes when demostrating the "fingers up the nose" !!!:lol2:

Maurice Moulterd

07-28-2005, 07:28 PM

I thoroughly enjoy the eppy when he is trying to sort out the canteen mess. As usual he gets it all wrong, but I especially love it when he can't figure out where the cooked goose comes in to play. :x

Greg WibblyWobbly

07-29-2005, 05:49 PM

I thoroughly enjoy the eppy when he is trying to sort out the canteen mess. As usual he gets it all wrong, but I especially love it when he can't figure out where the cooked goose comes in to play. :x

Anything You Can Do is the eppy and that whole scene is hilarious !!!!:lol2: :lol2:

frankdicer

07-30-2005, 12:26 PM

I thoroughly enjoy the eppy when he is trying to sort out the canteen mess. As usual he gets it all wrong, but I especially love it when he can't figure out where the cooked goose comes in to play. :x

Anything You Can Do is the eppy and that whole scene is hilarious !!!!:lol2: :lol2:

from prunes to spagetti to toad-in-the-hole....he has to be led by the nose the
whole way! Wrong-way Cuthbert would be a good nick-name if jug-ears didn't fit sooooo wel.

Dick

08-05-2005, 07:13 PM

Let us not forget the hee-larious "Oh, What a Tangled Web" eppy:

:rumbold01: "You were with Stephen in a car shelter...."

:peacock01: "Stephanie in Carshalton!!"

Dick

Dean

12-10-2006, 04:03 PM

If you think about it, Mr Rumbold as a character doesn't really have any good points - he doesn't listen to his staff, he has no sympathy for them if they need his help, he is always thinking of himself and trying to grab their ideas to present as his own, he is stupid, greedy and vain - and of course as is constantly said he is not even pleasant to look at.

Yet somehow.... do others agree... you can't help but feel sympathetic and understanding to him somehow. He is one of my favourite characters and I always feel sympathetic when they make fun of his ears or his bald head.

I think that says a lot about how good an actor Nicholas Smith is. Here he is playing this character with no positive attributes really - but somehow we like him...

offthefloor

12-10-2006, 04:09 PM

my favorite has to be in dear sexy knickers with kneed and needed, that scene busts my guts everytime and that is why i love that eppy so much. but the door knockers scene comes very close as well, as does anything you can do.

Old Mr. Grace

12-11-2006, 11:33 AM

from prunes to spagetti to toad-in-the-hole....he has to be led by the nose the
whole way! Wrong-way Cuthbert would be a good nick-name if jug-ears didn't fit sooooo wel.

RUMBOLD: "So why did he order them?

PEACOCK: "Order what?"

RUMBOLD: "PRUNES!!!"

SLOCOMBE: "He didn't order them."

RUMBOLD: "Well in that case he can hardly complain that they didn't arrive."

Goldie

12-11-2006, 12:08 PM

If you think about it, Mr Rumbold as a character doesn't really have any good points - he doesn't listen to his staff, he has no sympathy for them if they need his help, he is always thinking of himself and trying to grab their ideas to present as his own, he is stupid, greedy and vain - and of course as is constantly said he is not even pleasant to look at.

Yet somehow.... do others agree... you can't help but feel sympathetic and understanding to him somehow. He is one of my favourite characters and I always feel sympathetic when they make fun of his ears or his bald head.

I think that says a lot about how good an actor Nicholas Smith is. Here he is playing this character with no positive attributes really - but somehow we like him...

Very well said, Dean. I agree completely!!!