THE PEOPLE OF ARE YOU BEING SERVED KEEP DYING :(

[Kitsa]

John Inman (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1490146.ece), March 2007, Mr Humphries.

Wendy Richard (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4838949/Wendy-Richard.html), Feb 2009, Miss Brahms.

Mollie Sugden (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/5713979/Mollie-Sugden.html), July 2009, Mrs Slocombe.

and now Trevor Bannister (http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2011/04/16/are-you-being-served-star-trevor-bannister-dies-aged-76-115875-23065594/), who played Mr Lucas.


:(

[Grislygus]

what :( no

[Colonel Flagg]

NOOOOOOO! Not Mr. Lucas! :tear

[Kitsa]

Strangely enough, the ones I thought of as "old" people, or at least older...Mr Rumbold and Captain Peacock are still kicking, to the best of my knowledge.

[Colonel Flagg]

They're both kicking it old school.

[Kitsa]

I guess Mike Berry (Mr Spooner) is still alive and well too.

[Dimnos]

Damn old people dieing in a timely manner. >:

[Kitsa]

They're not old, they were just 30 on the TV the other day :(

[Dimnos]

The other day 30 years ago?

[Kitsa]

THIS IS A THREAD FOR COMMISERATION, NOT STARK REALITY

OKAY

[Pentegarn]

How is Mr. Tebbs? I am sure Mr. Granger and both Grace brothers are gone

[Kitsa]

Mr Grainger is a sad story, actually. I read that he died "of a broken heart" a couple of weeks after his wife. I believe Mr Tebbs died in the 80s.

I know that both young and old Mr Grace are long-gone, as are Mr Mash and Mr Harman.

[Tadao]

Is his sexy nurse still alive?

[Kitsa]

Could you narrow it down? He had so many nurses and secretaries. And then I'd just google, same as you, because I have no clue.

[Colonel Flagg]

I always got a kick out of "young Mr. Grace" being, like 100 years old.

[Kitsa]

I liked Young Mr Grace a lot better than the old Mr Grace at the end. It was funnier when he wasn't with it.

[Tadao]

I thought he only had the one blonde, I never really paid attention to their heads though, :orgasm

[Kitsa]

Vivienne Johnson is still alive, I think, but according to IMDB, Are You Being Served is the last thing she really did TVwise.

[Pentegarn]

I liked one of his early secretaries best, Penny Irving I think

[Zhukov]

This show was awful

[Tadao]

You're the first person I've ever heard say that they don't like the show.

[Kitsa]

I still like you though.

[Fathom Zero]

I find it meh, as well. :\

[Kitsa]

There are aybs people and non-aybs people and I'm ok with that.

[Sacks]

You've all done very well.

[Colonel Flagg]

Some of the gags were incredibly cliché (Mrs. Slocombe starting a phrase with the words "My pussy ..." for example) but for the most part, I thought the show was rather cleverly written, compared to American sitcoms of that era. Most of the Brits I knew thought it was shlock, though. Go figure. :\

[Kitsa]

I see it like this: at a time when Americans were "shocked" to hear Archie Bunker flush a toilet on TV, the staff of Grace Brothers were making Pussy jokes.

The show, for the most part, I felt was cleverly written. For the time. The only fault I can find with them (other than Grace and Favour, which was an attempt to keep the dynamic going a little longer and can be forgiven) was the abomination of a movie. I know that at the time all sitcoms were expected to spawn a feature-length movie sooner or later, and I know that they were generally low-budget, but the AYBS movie was horrible. It didn't work once they were out of the store and they kept recycling jokes (like the one where they all had to stay in a row of tents).

That being said, though, for me it was one of those comfy-as-old-loafers shows that was about 99% warm fuzzies. My mother-in-law bought me the box set one of the times I was on bedrest and I watched it through several times.

[Fathom Zero]

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Believe it or not, this is relevant.

[Kitsa]

wow, that was like 4 minutes longer than it needed to be.

[Fathom Zero]

Well, for the reason I put it here, yes.

But I watched it because I'm subscribed to their channel.

[Pentegarn]

Should tell people the relevant part is at 3:24 because that vid is ponderous