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The Brittas Empire

  • 21-02-2017 1:41pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone here ever watch this comedy about a leisure centre under the management of the well-meaning but incompetent Gordon Brittas?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 20,171 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Yup, loved it. Pippa Haywood was great as the long-suffering foil to Chris Barrie's over-confident semi-buffoon. :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭Tayschren


    Yep, loved it back in the day


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Never missed it. Colin and Carol were gas


  • Registered Users Posts: 825 ✭✭✭jameorahiely


    I think I have the boxset on video somewhere. It's Classic comedy



    Since I have been manager, I am proud to say there have only been twenty-three deaths. And not one of them was a staff member.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    Always remember the poor receptionist Carol who would hide her babies in the drawers :/

    I just Googled her character in wikipedia and I didn't realise or maybe I just forgot but Mr Brittas was the father of two of her children???


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  • Registered Users Posts: 20,171 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Semper Omnibus Facultas! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Lorelli! wrote: »
    Always remember the poor receptionist Carol who would hide her babies in the drawers :/

    I just Googled her character in wikipedia and I didn't realise or maybe I just forgot but Mr Brittas was the father of two of her children???
    Jesus's I didn't realise that myself


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,848 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    "Witbury new town Leisure Centre"

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • Registered Users Posts: 825 ✭✭✭jameorahiely


    Lorelli! wrote: »
    Always remember the poor receptionist Carol who would hide her babies in the drawers :/

    I just Googled her character in wikipedia and I didn't realise or maybe I just forgot but Mr Brittas was the father of two of her children???

    You know what Brittas said: if he found it in here again, he'd confiscate it.

    :pac:
    smilerf wrote: »
    Jesus's I didn't realise that myself
    Neither did Mr. Brittas


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Colin must have had every skin disease known to man!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Brilliant show!
    So much comedy gold on tv around that time... or so it seemed?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭smilerf


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Brilliant show!
    So much comedy gold on tv around that time... or so it seemed?
    there was but the don't make them nowadays because people prefer all reality ****


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    I remember my parents also liked Drop the Dead Donkey which i think had a similar kind of humour but was set in a news room.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,760 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    It was one of my favourites, especially the one where Colin rigged up the toilets to generate electricity!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    My favourite episode was when they tried to arrange for the members of the leisure centre to swim in the pool with a dolphin,but of course amid all the comedy of errors,the "dolphin" they were swimming with was actually a shark!!


  • Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,248 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Lorelli! wrote: »
    I remember my parents also liked Drop the Dead Donkey which i think had a similar kind of humour but was set in a news room.

    Drop the Dead Donkey was quality comedy, one of the smartest shows of its time. But The Brittas Empire just never did it for me, and tbh I wouldn't put them in the same category at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    Zaph wrote: »
    Drop the Dead Donkey was quality comedy, one of the smartest shows of its time. But The Brittas Empire just never did it for me, and tbh I wouldn't put them in the same category at all.

    Ah yea I only vaguely remember it tbh and it probably was a superior comedy but I just meant it as that both programmess were set as a mix of colleague's with a few oddball characters trying to keep things ticking over with eccentric bosses.

    I also probably connect the two because my parents watched them and they were running around the same time as well. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭ArthurG


    Haha I remember it. Didn't one of them pronounce is name as though there was no space... as in misterbrittas said really quickly


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,171 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    ArthurG wrote: »
    Haha I remember it. Didn't one of them pronounce is name as though there was no space... as in misterbrittas said really quickly

    IIRC that was poor put-upon Carole, the secretary. She was the one who brought her small children to work but hid them in her desk drawers in case Gordon confiscated them. :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,060 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    ArthurG wrote: »
    Haha I remember it. Didn't one of them pronounce is name as though there was no space... as in misterbrittas said really quickly
    jimgoose wrote: »
    IIRC that was poor put-upon Carole, the secretary. She was the one who brought her small children to work but hid them in her desk drawers in case Gordon confiscated them. :pac:


    Was it not colin, the guy with the hygiene problem, who said his name that way?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Was it not colin, the guy with the hygiene problem, who said his name that way?
    ye it was


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Cazale


    Was it not colin, the guy with the hygiene problem, who said his name that way?

    smilerf wrote:
    ye it was

    It was the receptionist Carol who said it like that.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Cazale wrote: »
    It was the receptionist Carol who said it like that.
    it was colin


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Cazale


    smilerf wrote:
    it was colin

    He called him Mr Brit Ass. Carol used to say it quickly because she was shy or nervous he would see her kids.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,760 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Definitely Carole.

    Go to 8.15 in this clip:


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,578 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Cazale wrote: »
    He called him Mr Brit Ass. Carol used to say it quickly because she was shy or nervous he would see her kids.
    ye you're right. I misread


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  • Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    The Brittas Empire cast are doing a reunion on Facebook Live next week



    https://www.comedy.co.uk/online/news/6170/brittas-empire-reunion/


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