Only Fools & Horses

steddyeddy · 24-05-2020 9:56pm

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Yeah. Evidence so far us that absolutely nobody has been offended but plenty have assumed that others would be offended.

The evidence is that people take it in the same spirit that you do.

ED I don't know why you're replying like this to my posts. I never said people are offended in it I said people might find it offensive and people "could find offensive". I was never referring to the views of others but rather my own analysis of some of the jokes. Maybe take it up with the people who are talking about people taking offence?

El_Duderino 09 · 24-05-2020 10:13pm

steddyeddy wrote: »

ED I don't know why you're replying like this to my posts. I never said people are offended in it I said people might find it offensive and people "could find offensive". I was never referring to the views of others but rather my own analysis of some of the jokes. Maybe take it up with the people who are talking about people taking offence?

You've invoked the same sentient as loads of other posters. I was commenting on the prevalence of the sentiment and the complete absence of evidence for it. It's interesting. That's all.

steddyeddy · 24-05-2020 10:23pm

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

You've invoked the same sentient as loads of other posters. I was commenting on the prevalence of the sentiment and the complete absence of evidence for it. It's interesting. That's all.

It's certainly interesting. I agree with you anyway.

Inventive User Name · 24-05-2020 10:33pm

Why are the first 3 seasons only on Netflix? What's the likelihood they'll put on the rest?

ancapailldorcha · 25-05-2020 12:55am

steddyeddy wrote: »

It might sound weird given some of the subject matter but my memories of watching that show were wholesome ones. People might say it was offensive nowadays, however, the underlying sentiments conveyed in the program were anything but.

I've never heard anyone say it's offensive. Like, there's an episode of Fawlty Towers where Basil and the major are debating the right slur to use for Indians and I don't recall anyone talking about that. I can't imagine that this has not be edited out now.

As I get older, I understand less and less why people moan about something from a show clearly intended for previous generations not being allowed nowadays as if this were some sort of scintillating new insight they've only just themselves realised. It's all over the place and it's depressing hearing people who otherwise have very little to moan about say this as if it means the show can't exist or something when it's widely available for streaming.

Riddle101 · 25-05-2020 2:17am

Trigger by far one of the best comedy characters ever written.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvsvnW49qRU

ancapailldorcha · 25-05-2020 11:36am

Riddle101 wrote: »

Trigger by far one of the best comedy characters ever written.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvsvnW49qRU

Agreed. I love how the other characters never get used to him despite most of them having known him since childhood.

steddyeddy · 25-05-2020 2:30pm

Did anyone else watch that and wish they lived in London growing up? I was always struck by how diverse it was, while having a strong sense of community.

That said, Peckham as represented there is unrecognisable today as is a lot of London. Gentrification has made even the roughest estates nearly unaffordable.

steddyeddy · 25-05-2020 2:31pm

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I've never heard anyone say it's offensive. Like, there's an episode of Fawlty Towers where Basil and the major are debating the right slur to use for Indians and I don't recall anyone talking about that. I can't imagine that this has not be edited out now.

As I get older, I understand less and less why people moan about something from a show clearly intended for previous generations not being allowed nowadays as if this were some sort of scintillating new insight they've only just themselves realised. It's all over the place and it's depressing hearing people who otherwise have very little to moan about say this as if it means the show can't exist or something when it's widely available for streaming.

I think you have to separate the reason people moan about things into motives. Some people just like to be offended. Not that I've personally heard anything about Only Fools.

The Nal · 25-05-2020 2:40pm

Couple of bits, like any 80s show, wouldn't go down well now.

Del going on about AIDS and "bandits", "some mush called JA-SON" etc in the episode when hes sick.

Albert complaining about not being able to get credit from "that Paki".

Del in A Losing Streak talking about "only Provo weight watcher in London” which the BBC made them clumsily dub over "only genuine weight watcher in London”.

But nothing too severe in any of that. Sign of the times.

ShatterAlan · 25-05-2020 2:47pm

Andrew00 wrote: »

One of the best TV shows every made.

Wouldn't get away with making it now due to the PC Climate Change snowflake brigade

What the hell has Climate Change got to do with it? Nice shoehorn. And I've seen much less "PC" stuff on the telly in the many years after OFAH. Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, 8 out of 10 cats (Does Countdown).

Sh1t look at Derry Girls. Every second sentence out of their mouths is un-PC. Are you trying to say OFAH was crasser than that? Was it bollocks.

ancapailldorcha · 25-05-2020 2:51pm

steddyeddy wrote: »

I think you have to separate the reason people moan about things into motives. Some people just like to be offended. Not that I've personally heard anything about Only Fools.

It's just tiresome seeing grown men clog up these threads with exactly the same whiny drivel over and over again. Look at the start of this thread for instance. Thankfully, most people just want to share clips and talk about how wonderful this show was.

Sephiroth_dude · 13-09-2020 2:47pm

I only ever watched fools and horses the odd time here and there, never seen all the episodes but watching it on netflixs atm and just saw this episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZCgCnBSZTM

Bloody brilliant !

TCDStudent1 · 13-09-2020 7:44pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I only ever watched fools and horses the odd time here and there, never seen all the episodes but watching it on netflixs atm and just saw this episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZCgCnBSZTM

Bloody brilliant !

I think thats the episode with the line "There's no calories in weed killer"

:D

dastardly00 · 13-09-2020 9:25pm

That damn elusive Sha-a-dow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BNL_MHyjs8

Sephiroth_dude · 13-09-2020 11:27pm

There's actually 7 seasons? but netflixs only have 3 and specials.

Spanish Eyes · 13-09-2020 11:38pm

Very entertaining. That and Morse, what contrasts, but still, the old ones are the best.

Quantum Erasure · 14-09-2020 9:40am

Andrew00 wrote: »

One of the best TV shows every made.

Wouldn't get away with making it now due to the PC Climate Change snowflake brigade

it's health and safety gone mad!

Riddle101 · 14-09-2020 3:39pm

dastardly00 wrote: »

That damn elusive Sha-a-dow

I remember I had this episode on VHS years ago. It ended up becoming one of my favorite episodes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lpf_Rw7yKU

TCDStudent1 · 14-09-2020 3:43pm

Riddle101 wrote: »

I remember I had this episode on VHS years ago. It ended up becoming one of my favorite episodes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lpf_Rw7yKU

Brilliant episode.

"There's no need to steal"

:):)

Hector Savage · 14-09-2020 4:53pm

https://twitter.com/ralpha060461/status/1228804875020099590?s=20

love Del's expressions !!

Sephiroth_dude · 21-09-2020 8:42pm

Saw this one tonight, bloody brilliant "Killer rhino"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igE4idhyUC8

dastardly00 · 22-09-2020 9:24pm

Hector Savage wrote: »

https://twitter.com/ralpha060461/status/1228804875020099590?s=20

love Del's expressions !!

Although I prefer Uncle Albert's character, Grandad had just cracking one-liners

humberklog · 22-09-2020 9:36pm

Caught an episode the other day and a throw away line really...eh...threw me, and made me laugh.

Del: What's on tv tonight?

Raquel: Out of Africa is on later.

Del: Oh no, not another documentary about AIDS!

ancapailldorcha · 23-09-2020 1:10pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Saw this one tonight, bloody brilliant "Killer rhino"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igE4idhyUC8

Watching that one now.

FarmerBrowne · 24-09-2020 12:22am

Well, the only thing that I know is I've got 60 quid laying out over there and us two are hanging about here like a couple of spare ones at a wedding.

Steve F · 30-09-2020 10:54am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Saw this one tonight, bloody brilliant "Killer rhino"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igE4idhyUC8

How on earth did they keep straight faces during that :pac:

El_Duderino 09 · 01-10-2020 10:18am

I see Nicholas Lyndhurst's son, Archie, has been found dead at his home. Poor divil.

Best wishes to his family

Sultan of Bling · 14-10-2020 4:27pm

Just received a whatsapp advising that tony angelinos tour has been cancelled due to the cawona viwus.

sligojoek · 14-10-2020 11:42pm

El_Duderino 09 · 14-10-2020 11:55pm

I got to use a line form the show today. The Mrs. was giving out about a friend of hers who continuously "misunderstands" the covid restrictions so she can do whatever she wants.

I told her, "as Delboys dear old mum used to say: there's none as blind as them what just won't listen"

PTH2009 · 15-10-2020 12:14am

sligojoek wrote: »

if you say 'during the coronavirus' one more time

Well 'During the Virus spread of 2020'

Odyssey 2005 · 15-10-2020 7:42am

sligojoek wrote: »

Should have put him on a ship with the virus in the middle of the Pacific. He'd have sunk it... problem solved

FarmerBrowne · 15-10-2020 9:15am

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

I got to use a line form the show today. The Mrs. was giving out about a friend of hers who continuously "misunderstands" the covid restrictions so she can do whatever she wants.

I told her, "as Delboys dear old mum used to say: there's none as blind as them what just won't listen"

Dear old mum, she used say some bloody stupid things.

FarmerBrowne · 15-11-2020 12:00pm

Also added to the "RIP thread for people on TV":

I remember when we started of on your journey, we had a labour government, you could eat meat and Des O'Connor was white.

Edgware · 15-11-2020 2:42pm

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Is dave a nickname then ? That again shows the genius of John Sullivan in the recurring gag which wasn't lashed into but over time was just genius.

" If its a girl they are calling it Sigourney after an actress, if its a boy they are calling it Rodney, after Dave"

Classic

Edgware · 15-11-2020 2:44pm

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

Should have put him on a ship with the virus in the middle of the Pacific. He'd have sunk it... problem solved

"During the 1939 to 1945 conflict with Germany " when told not to say During the war

COVID · 15-11-2020 2:49pm

FarmerBrowne wrote: »

Also added to the "RIP thread for people on TV":

I remember when we started of on your journey, we had a labour government, you could eat meat and Des O'Connor was white.

Des O'Connor checked out last night, he died in hospital following a fall at his house. He was 88.

Edgware · 15-11-2020 5:29pm

A lot of showbiz people have passed on this year but thankfully they had long lives.

FarmerBrowne · 19-11-2020 12:34am

Raquel: I'm worried about him, Rodney. Has he ever suffered with pleurisy?

Rodney: Only when he tries to spell it.

Steve F · 19-11-2020 12:41am

FarmerBrowne wrote: »

Raquel: I'm worried about him, Rodney. Has he ever suffered with pleurisy?

Rodney: Only when he tries to spell it.

Del Boy "I was at the Doctor's Rodney"
Rodney "Yeah,what did he say?"
Del Boy "He said I'd live but he didn't recommend it"

Brilliant

B.A._Baracus · 19-12-2020 12:55am

Just watching The Jolly Boys Outing.
It has to be the best only fools episode. Not only is it full of memorable gags it has all the characters. Everyone gets a moment. From Trigger and his Dolphin line to mickeys line of the coachbusters.

I think that's why this is the very best. It's not just del, Rodney and uncle Albert. It's everyone.

V8 Interceptor · 19-12-2020 1:04am

Its a good one BA. My favourite is probably the feature length To Hull and back.

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

Should have put him on a ship with the virus in the middle of the Pacific. He'd have sunk it... problem solved

Remember when Raquel's folks came round for dinner and Albert mixed up the gravy and the coffee?

Del: "I don't believe what you've done to me. Not only have you managed to sink every battleship and aircraft carrier that you've ever sailed on, but now you've gone and knackered a gravy boat!"

It wasn't until about the 3rd time I saw that episode that I realised what a gravy boat was

Joe_ Public · 19-12-2020 1:09am

Best episode, or my favourite anyway, is when Rodney branches out on his own with Mickey Pierce, the one with Grandads famous "wendy" line.

Del: "They're not just ordinary lawnmower engines."

Rodney (getting excited): "No?"

Del: "They're broken lawnmower engines."

B.A._Baracus · 19-12-2020 1:29am

V8 Interceptor wrote: »

Its a good one BA. My favourite is probably the feature length To Hull and back.

Ohhh a very good episode. I would say it's the second best episode of only fools imo. A real classic.

Am I alone in thinking the Miami Twice episodes are the worst of the entire series?

V8 Interceptor · 19-12-2020 1:36am

I liked 'em!

"Why have you brought Limey's to my house?"

"One of them looks just like you Pop"

"Once I was at the Zoo and saw a Camel that looked just like your mother but I didn't invite it home and put it in the guest suite!"

Strumms · 19-12-2020 2:15am

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Just watching The Jolly Boys Outing.
It has to be the best only fools episode. Not only is it full of memorable gags it has all the characters. Everyone gets a moment. From Trigger and his Dolphin line to mickeys line of the coachbusters.

I think that's why this is the very best. It's not just del, Rodney and uncle Albert. It's everyone.

Characters were absolutely gold. So was the writing. The Jolly Boys Outing was a favorite of mine too... you could imagine being on that trip.... it wasn’t just throwaway slapstick funny, it was relatable...cleverly hilarious and entertaining. Sullivan had that knack.

B.A._Baracus · 19-12-2020 2:38am

Strumms wrote: »

Characters were absolutely gold. So was the writing. The Jolly Boys Outing was a favorite of mine too... you could imagine being on that trip.... it wasn’t just throwaway slapstick funny, it was relatable...cleverly hilarious and entertaining. Sullivan had that knack.

It is amazing.
I have lost count of how many times I have watched this episode. But John Sullivan really had a knack as you said.

I just realised that like he sets up the first half of the episode as total comedy. But then the latter half is about Del and Raquel. Like he inserts the drama. Like del reconnecting with his old flame Raquel. The whole great ramondo bit. Del thinking he was being an jerk. Turning out he was gay.

The introduction of the Stephen yuppy character at the start so Rodney would end up living back with del and albert. Setting up the future episode.

Even little character traits like boycie, Alan and Mike getting a luxury hotel down by the sea front because each man could 'afford' it. While the others tried to get a bed and breakfast. He was an amazing writer.

Strumms · 19-12-2020 2:53am

Totally, he’s interviewed when he was alive ( as opposed to when he was dead ) and just a normal joe soap, with just a good sense of humor and a cleverness, creativity and radar for funny, characters were eccentric but believable, not outlandish with the odd exception just... funny as...

El_Duderino 09 · 19-12-2020 10:40am

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Ohhh a very good episode. I would say it's the second best episode of only fools imo. A real classic.

Am I alone in thinking the Miami Twice episodes are the worst of the entire series?

Yeah I thought it wasn’t funny and was waaaaaayyyyyyy too long.

I don’t begrudge them having the ambition to do something different, but it was their worst show.

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