Category: Piffle
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The Curious Case Of The Last Of The Summer Wine Titles
This is usually how the episodes are titled on screen for Last Of The Summer Wine. But every now and again, they look like this. It’s quite rare not to open on a vista of the hills, but that’s not what I’m talking about. Try another. Do you see it? Most of the time it’s…
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Pubs Of The Summer Wine
Over on Twitter, I have been boring everyone silly with a long thread chronicling all of the pubs we see in Last Of The Summer Wine, as I slowly watch it from beginning to end. (I’m halfway through series seven). This is Will’s O Nat’s … This one stood out from the others because of…
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Why the comma, Prime Minister?
This is the opening title sequence to Yes Minister. And this is the opening title sequence to Yes, Prime Minister. See the difference? No, not the totally different (brilliant) animations (the way the 10 morphs into Humphrey and Hacker is delicious). Why is the first show called Yes Minister, while the second is called Yes,…
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The Weird Table In Get Some In!
I asked this on Twitter, but I’m going to ask it again. What the hell is going on with this table? It’s from episode six in series of two of Get Some In! called Complaints. Roy Kinnear guest stars as a dodgy Chef. But look at that table. You might be forgiven for thinking that…
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Last Of The Rubber Johnnies
This is Sid’s cafe, circa 1975, during series two of Last Of The Summer Wine. Again, just look at how run-down and bleak a place it is. But I want to draw your attention to this dispensing machine on the wall. Now, I know there can’t be a condom dispensing machine on the wall of…
