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Don't tell 'im, Croft!
Posted by Vulpes Vulpes on 27 September 2011 - 2:29pm.
David Croft has left the building. So long, and thanks for all the joy and laughter. I'm glad he had a long life and slipped off quietly, it's no more than he deserved. What a legacy he's left. I'm breaking out the boxed sets this evening.
Let's have some favourite clips, folks!
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Would you fellows
mind awfully... falling in?
Has anyone ever, anywhere,
contributed as many catchphrases to the English language as David Croft and his writing partners?
Don't know
I shall have to ask my sister Dolly.
Can you ask her for some cucumber sandwiches?
...they're frightfully good.
Or some upside-down cake?
[does anybody else associate this entirely with that character?]
I'm afraid my sister Dolly found it rather "near"
Coincidentally, my GLW said to me the other day the British are weird because comedy catchphrases seem to be so necessary - otherwise we don't find things funny.
I looked cross and said "I don't belieeeve it!".
Well done Wilson
......I was waiting for someone to spot that one!
Well spotted Pike
I still use that one occasionally, although to gradually more blank looks.
Good moaning?
We're doomed
DOOMED!
topical
Robert Peston says nothing else.
Albeit his...
...pauses, diction, accentuation and vocal mannerisms are way more eccentric than Private Fraser's.
Stupid
Boy
and a particular popular one around here - that comes up as often as fish and chips do :
"I vant my chips crisp unt light brown"
Do you think...
...that's wise?
Do we really...
have to, Sir?
It's an awful fag ...
.
They don't
like it up 'em!
Don't panic!
When I was fighting the Fuzzy Wuzzies in the Sudan under General Kitchener...
etc
What Vulpes said
The only thing I can rely on you for Bombardier
... is to ponce a-bout.
Mainwaring is telling Pike to get a haircut
"You could do with a trim too Wilson. It's practically touching your collar. You're not a violin player."
If someone is getting above their raising
I often call them "Mr Lah-Di-Dah Gunner Graham"
My name is now also on the list
SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPP!!!!
Windsor Davies' finest hour
Don't
tell him, Pike!
Sad news indeed.
I feel a user name amnesty coming on, if only out of respect.
Why not. I am not Uncle Wheaty
I am a free man (maybe).
We're
all doomed and do you think that's wise are my favourites. They are still watchable, silly and great fun. A while back I was reading about the actor playing Godfrey who I believe was a conscientous objector and got me thinking about how humour is one type of internal defense against war and tyranny. A similiar show - Hogan's Heroes - had the two main German actors acting as total buffoons and both were committed anti-Nazis.
Let us not forget
he also gave us Hi-de-Hi which I will confess I loved.
Completely agree
Hi De Hi in its prime was a quality programme.
Sad to think that some of the actors in it were later besmirched by that crappy programme Oh Mr Beeching.
Paul Shane
will go down in legend for his peerless reading of "You Lost That Lovin' Feeling".
Not sure if it's on YouTube.
Too much time on my hands
Thanks daddyclark
Here's the full clip, not for the fainthearted:
This was on Pebble Mill at One. And still people say that those on the dole have it easy.
And 'Are You Being Served'
Haven't seen a single comment about Mrs Slocombe's pussy yet.
Maybe it wasn't that funny?
Oh it is that funny
it brings out the inner child.
Quality stuff
"I hope this isn't going to take long, Captain Peacock. The last time I was late, a fireman had to climb out of my bedroom window and risk his life on a narrow ledge tryin' to grab hold of my pussy."
a wonderful change of pace
My favourite was the episode where Mannering falls for a female officer . It was beautifully paced , full of pathos and established characters behaved in a insightful fashion . I have only heard this on the radio .
"Are you free, Mr Humphries?"
"You've all done very well!"
"Lovely boys, lovely boys.."
"Oooooohhhh Rrrrrrrrennnnnnnnéééééééé.."
"'Tler!"
And, sadly, how many of the people who spoke so many of the great lines are no longer with us, many of them well before their time?