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Id vote for dads army over Only fools any day.
The advantage of dads army is that it was a period comedy whereas Only fools dates badly.
Yes pies tend to be beef mince with not much beef and liquor is parsley sauce. Some places do peas but then fish n chip shops do them too. Interestingly many places diversify, we have brill chinese where the cook is a fish fryer too, so its a fish n chip shop but a chinese takeaway as well. And many fish n chip shops do pie n mash too.
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No they started swinging for each with frying pans!! 
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We don't have to look far for decent fish and chips. The one at the top of my street is quite well liked locally, run by a Greek or Turkish family. The guy offered to go into business with me when he first moved in! We did have a good Chinese one when we lived in Rotherham in the 80s/early 90s, and I hear good things about the Wetherby Whaler. It's not hard to find shops and restaurants that use beef dripping as the frying medium with it's distinctive taste, most of them use veg oil. It does mean using different places makes a nice change even with the same food.
As for those 'new' Dad's Army episodes. They're actually remakes of three Season 2 lost episodes using the original scripts, so there should be less margin for error. Unlike the sf fraternity, the larger public audience don't go in for animated reconstructions as per the missing Doctor Whos. I know people who never bothered with A Stripe For Frazer, which like the Whos used the original soundtrack under a cartoon, because "they're for kids". And to be fair it's very limited animation. Hardly Disney quality.
Silly BBC and their odd money saving attitude to archive recordings. The Doctor Whos alone would have made them more money by now than what they might have saved reusing tapes like we would at home! Half their wonderful heritage gone forever... Very sad.
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Mr f is right ...Suit you were the funniest.
Anyone who has been to a proper men's tailors will tell you the exaggeration was spot on...suave, smooth, slightly effeminate, and very risque/smutty.
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Dads Army was different gravy.
Not just for the comedy and the wacky types of British characters seen in every english village - the butcher helping out the glamorous ladies with meat (Jones); the miserable dour scottish undertaker (Fraser); the dodgy spiv always on the make (Walker); the narky, officious Air raid warden; the creepy whingeing kid (pike) that wilson had to put up with coz he was bonking his pretty mum, the dozy old boy who permanently needed the loo (Godfrey); but most of all, the bristling, seething underlying class differences between Mainwaring and Wilson - which was a running gag in almost every episode. And the comedy was also more powerful because they regularly used pathos and poignancy too, but it was always done just right, not too sickly. And much of it worked so well because of the impeccable, inspired casting.
To this day it is unsurpassed.
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Sep 3, 2019 - 3:25 PM
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Jim Phelps
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Dads Army was different gravy.
Not just for the comedy and the wacky types of British characters seen in every english village - the butcher helping out the glamorous ladies with meat (Jones); the miserable dour scottish undertaker (Fraser); the dodgy spiv always on the make (Walker); the narky, officious Air raid warden; the creepy whingeing kid (pike) that wilson had to put up with coz he was bonking his pretty mum, the dozy old boy who permanently needed the loo (Godfrey); but most of all, the bristling, seething underlying class differences between Mainwaring and Wilson - which was a running gag in almost every episode. And the comedy was also more powerful because they regularly used pathos and poignancy too, but it was always done just right, not too sickly. And much of it worked so well because of the impeccable, inspired casting.
To this day it is unsurpassed.
Pure poetry, Bill.
The show and your post, that is.
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Cheers mate
Glad you are enjoying the show. Weirdly i saw an episode on Gold last night. It was the one where Wilson gets made a bank manager of another branch but it gets bombed same day and he has to go back to being mainwaring's assistant manager !
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