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« on: 05 June, 2011, 03:14:07 PM » |
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How did this one escape me? Browsing HMV while simply killing time, I saw this (and bought of course) on official DVD. I have the dodgy bootleg dvd thats going around, in below good picture so this is a treat. Though 20 beer tokens is a bit of a high price.
It's nice to see Freemantle treating the single series sitcoms with a bit more respect. Buy this!! Leonard Rossiter's last sitcom - it gets panned simply because it's his last, but I think it's a great sitcom and recommend it!! Havent seen the dvd yet, but I'm cracking open a few beers with it tonight!
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« Reply #1 on: 08 June, 2011, 12:32:24 PM » |
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Is that the one where he plays a manager of a supermarket?
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PhilGlass
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« Reply #2 on: 08 June, 2011, 10:36:29 PM » |
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Yes - the only made 6 episodes and Leonard died between the broadcasts of episodes 2 and 3. He was replaced by Bruce Forsyth... how insulting.
He plays the manager of a supermarket but its so small that by todays standards it'd be a corner shop. Brian Cooke wrote it and personally I think it was really good - a bit light in places, and I'm sure if it hadn't been his last it would be well received, why do we always seem to criticise something just cos it was their last sitcom? People do the same with Harry H. Corbett about Grundy, until you point out it wasnt the last one he made, just the last one shown. We seem to love hurting the memories of people and I hope this DVD shows how good it really was.
The extras are crap, but the dvd itself is pretty nifty, having watched it now. One episode has a scene where the quality fluctuates, and a couple of shots could have been improved by cleaning up from the bootleg source which would have given a better result, but it's only a small glitch. It might be £20 for the disc (£13.99 online though!!!!) but it's well worth it.
It's a PG, but I am SURE the 'c' word is used in the last episode - The B word is used, and as the audience are still laughing, another character uses the c word, im sure of it. But there are no subtitles on the disc. As this isa PG, it would be an interesting little slip up from the producers, as there is no swearing in the rest - it really isa family friendly comedy.
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Gomez Addams
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« Reply #3 on: 09 June, 2011, 08:03:24 AM » |
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Well, as a big fan of Leonard Rossiter's work, far from me to knock down anything he did, but my personal 2 cents here is that he's just about the only reason to watch "Tripper's Day", while the story and the rest of the cast are far from memorable... Apparently, Leonard had been warned it was a "smash-bang basic comedy in short, sharp scenes", but accepted the role mainly because it was the first offer he'd had in quite some time that didn't require for him to play a carbon-copy of Rigsby. Cooke himself is said to have been surprised, he'd plotted the whole thing as more of an ensemble cast piece, and hastily reworked the part of Tripper when Leonard was hired, to give more room to the star player. Be that as it may, while I wouldn't recommend this as an introduction to Leonard Rossiter's body of work, for fans and collectors alike this is, obviously enough, unmissable. Still, while Amazon's selling this at around 10 quid, I guess I'll stick to my digitised VHS copy for a while more, hoping for future bargain offers on the DVD  |
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« Reply #4 on: 09 June, 2011, 12:46:13 PM » |
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Well I like it! *sticks his tongue out at Gomez*
Is that the c word do you think? When the tax man is defussing the bomb and says "I hated you b*****ds, then he calls him something else... listen carefully...
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« Reply #5 on: 09 June, 2011, 03:57:36 PM » |
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I might buy it just to listen out for this scene  |
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« Reply #6 on: 09 June, 2011, 05:06:47 PM » |
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Well, it's hard to imagine what else he could have said, following "arrogant" and "conceited"... could be perhaps "cant", meaning hypocrite, but that's rather unusual (I had to look it up in the dictionary myself, but then I'm a furriner...  ), and there would have been the risk of the word getting confused with "the other" anyway, given the pronunciation... I think they really did it, well spotted, I never noticed it before or, rather, I never paid much attention, I guess, that being a time when "bad language" was being "liberated" all over TV, and you wouldn't notice the oddity of one single nasty word in a whole series, probably. Speaking of Leonard Rossiter, while rummaging around YouTube looking for that scene from "Tripper's Day" to post here (no luck), I found a couple of interesting things, first the short "The Waterloo Bridge Handicap", been looking for this for a while...
... then the also short and seldom seen "Le Petomane" (in 5 parts)...
And this trailer of an interesting-looking movie, which I also have never seen:
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« Reply #7 on: 10 June, 2011, 09:41:47 PM » |
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I think so too... it's amazing how that's slipped through as a PG considering how bad political correctness is today. Someone at the BBFC was asleep by the last episode... Le Petomane was written by Galton and Simpson, for who Rossiter had given two show stealing appearances in Steptoe. |
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