I come back to this video on days where I feel under the weather; five minutes later I am ALWAYS in a better mood! Superbly written, superbly performed
2:33 [facial tension builds to breaking point] "GOODY-GOODY LAH-DE-DAH-DE NAMBY HOITY WISHY PAMBY TOITY WASHY DAH-DE-LAH-DE KNOW-IT-ALL PUBLIC-SCHOOL STIFF-UPPER-LIP STIFF-UPPER-HOUSEMASTER... PRIM-AND-PROPER...!" That's got to be the funniest rant ever 😂😂😂 The way he integrates namby-pamby, hoity-toity and wishy-washy into one unholy mess of meaningless words is hilarious!
I often wondered if his rants were off the cuff or written. I can imagine the script just saying [grimm rants] and getting David Haig to improvise so it sounded more real and natural. They may have written his first one and then every other time improvise. They were brilliant.
"Doesn't time fly when you're hAnGiNg ArOuNd oUtSiDe the bog waiting for a bunch of women to stop fannying about" - has me in stitches every time, almost sounds like he nearly broke character 😂 love it!
I couldn't wait for this to come on every week and when it did, I absolutely couldn't wait for Inspector Grim's hilarious rants. You can hear the Ben Elton connotations in them and David Haig delivered them so perfectly. - wonderful stuff. Inspector 'Raymond' Fowler was utterly hilarious too. A very underrated comedy, if you ask me. Good times!!!
How the whole cast didn't crack up when Grim was having one of his rants I'll never know. 😂 Very funny and brilliantly done by David Haig. All this compilation is missing is the clip where he's trying to work the computer and is getting extremely frustrated until DC Kray tells him to plug it in. 😂😂
An absolute standout character, perfectly cast and wonderfully written. I laughed out loud at the ‘nick them, lock them up and throw away the door’ line. It must actually be quite hard for an actor to rant garbled English and deliberately get it wrong.
Went to a genuine Senior Officers Mess dinner and the Chief Constable in his speech did an absolute blinding impression of DI Grimm- went down a storm 🤣
Like the doodoo gets me every time, thanks for the vid. Love the series, wonderful cast & characters. Grimm is outstanding.....one of the all time greats.
PervertedStoner69 REBORN!! But he is my great uncle he is my grandmas brother he was born in 1955 he comes round to see my great grandmother every month
In my humble opinion one of the top comedy programmes of the past years. Fowler - brilliant, Goody- brilliant , Habib - brilliant, Dawkins lovely and brilliant, Kray - priceless Doyle, Gladstone etcetc , but Grim put the cream on all the comedy and bits of business! Wonderful entertainment. Set against a lot of the drivel of 2019/20 it’s still a gem! In trying to get the spelling of Habib, correct, I chanced upon an answer(on a BBC page) as to why the show was cancelled. It was in the form of a review. It was noted by the individual who penned the “review” twaddle, that Ben Elton was trying to recreate a Dads Army type show, and it didn’t work! Well whoever penned that thought needed to return to wherever he or she came from and retrain for another job! It was funny, and if that was what BE wanted to do he succeeded in spades. Save me from reviewers and commentators!
Absolutely spot on. It was beautifully written and wonderfully acted. Some of the comedy timing was just perfect. And as for Grim, he was indeed the icing on the cake. He really made that role his own.
These bloody reviewers and commentators are a bunch of haughty hoity stick it up your toity, high and mighty, tight nosed, toffee arsed, farty arty, poncy, namby, know it all, stiff upper lip, psycho sicko , clap trap crap!!!
Rowan Atkinson is masterful at reacting facially, its an important nuance in making this and his interactions in Blackadder so good. The weary look of having to contend with a stream of borderline insane morons. (4.04)
Absolutely fantastic! I can so relate to Inspector Grim as I feel exactly the same in many cases. I can’t stand fannying about with namby-pamby, hoity-toity, looney lefty claptrap crap!
Only thing funnier than this in this show would be the outtakes for these scenes. Probably weren't any though. He was so good at it! Then the irony of him going on to play Mr. Wilson in Downtown Abbey🤣🤣🤣🤣 all "HOITY TOITY LAH-DEE DAH DEE, KNOW-IT-ALL STIFF-UPPER-LIP STIFF-UPPER-HOUSEMASTER... PRIM-AND-PROPER!!! "" 🤣
Criminally underrated character in comedy.
Agree 100%. He was brilliant 🙂
100 percent with you on that
PMSL
He is on par with Rowan Atkinson in this series.
I said TINA
Derek Grim is such a brilliant character and Haig nails him perfectly. Comic genius.
It's my arse on the line, and I don't want anyone to nail me, perfectly or otherwise, not even hoity-toity David Haig, in the person of myself!
David Haig. This show’s secret weapon.
'Stop fannying about' is still one of my most favourite expressions: & I use it often😁
One of two expressions I use at work, the other involves having my arse on the line lol
Same so underrated
Love Grim...when he starts I smile from ear to ear
As much as I enjoyed Rowan Atkinson playing inspector Fowler, I've also been amused with inspector Grim ranting on and about
Nghaka Beita I like how you don’t fanny about and get straight to the point
@@-M0LE lol
*Ranting on and "Ffffannnying"ABOUT!
I come back to this video on days where I feel under the weather; five minutes later I am ALWAYS in a better mood! Superbly written, superbly performed
Love that. Nice to know it cheers you up
Me and my mate come watch this regular after a few beers of when feeling shit....it's genius
Enjoy your quiche recipe then❤
2:33 [facial tension builds to breaking point] "GOODY-GOODY LAH-DE-DAH-DE NAMBY HOITY WISHY PAMBY TOITY WASHY DAH-DE-LAH-DE KNOW-IT-ALL PUBLIC-SCHOOL STIFF-UPPER-LIP STIFF-UPPER-HOUSEMASTER... PRIM-AND-PROPER...!" That's got to be the funniest rant ever 😂😂😂 The way he integrates namby-pamby, hoity-toity and wishy-washy into one unholy mess of meaningless words is hilarious!
Brilliant, Grimm is one of the funniest characters ever.
“stiff upper housemaster” is one of the funniest continuations of a rant ever
I often wondered if his rants were off the cuff or written. I can imagine the script just saying [grimm rants] and getting David Haig to improvise so it sounded more real and natural. They may have written his first one and then every other time improvise. They were brilliant.
Grimm mixing it up. He’s so good at it he’s playing with us at this point🙏
Barnet bopping does it for me lol
Quite possibly the greatest comedy character of all time.
"I don't do a lot of gardening".😂😂😂
Needed his own spin off show
Grimm is absolutely superb 😂👌👌👍
The absolute shogun of the mixed-metaphor
After all these years... ahhh, those lovely hilarious rants. Missed them.
They all must have had so much fun filming these scenes .. I bet the outtakes are just as priceless.
Would love to see them.
They were on Auntie's Bloomers hosted by Terry Wogan at one point, so they might be on here and yes they were very funny.
You nick 'em, you lock 'em up and you throw away the door! Fabulous!
Namby pamby, arty farty, hoighty toighty, wishy washy, lardi dardi lardi dars ...lol..I'm in tears
thanks for taking the time to do that compilation, I am now weak from laughter with teary eyes.
Cheers, glad you enjoyed it.
His mixing of metaphors is the most hilarious thing ever 🤣
Now that is some good fun right there
I wish they had bloopers on Grimm's slip-ups! I LOVE THIS GUY 🤣
Grim, greatest comedy character since Rigsby, played to perfection.
"Doesn't time fly when you're hAnGiNg ArOuNd oUtSiDe the bog waiting for a bunch of women to stop fannying about" - has me in stitches every time, almost sounds like he nearly broke character 😂 love it!
Yes, I can understand how he feels after years of experience in supermarket checkout queues.
I couldn't wait for this to come on every week and when it did, I absolutely couldn't wait for Inspector Grim's hilarious rants. You can hear the Ben Elton connotations in them and David Haig delivered them so perfectly. - wonderful stuff. Inspector 'Raymond' Fowler was utterly hilarious too. A very underrated comedy, if you ask me. Good times!!!
GET A HEARING AID
Ur cock up....My Ass.... 😅😅😅its my ass and if you stuff if im going to fell very red in the face❤❤😂😂
Genius character....
Very underrated in the comedy world
DI Grimm made the series - just brilliant
One thing I've learned from this show - you don't want to be fannying about.
Slippery like an owl............hilarious!!!!!
“Would somebody kindly take the urine! check their eyeballs, if the pupils are dislocated nick em” underrated Inspector Grim line 😂
Look for the regular signs of addiction....regular truancy....loss of appetite at meal times!
How the whole cast didn't crack up when Grim was having one of his rants I'll never know. 😂 Very funny and brilliantly done by David Haig. All this compilation is missing is the clip where he's trying to work the computer and is getting extremely frustrated until DC Kray tells him to plug it in. 😂😂
An absolute standout character, perfectly cast and wonderfully written. I laughed out loud at the ‘nick them, lock them up and throw away the door’ line. It must actually be quite hard for an actor to rant garbled English and deliberately get it wrong.
It's amazing how the characters all played their roles so well
Listening to these lines, I’ve realised that I have morphed into DI Grim.
Inspection Grim is the best.......... Love you man
" grouting their crow's feet". Isn't that just spot on
"I said, Tina, wear your slippers!"
Inspector Grim is so funny.
I wish so badly we could’ve at least had a third season. This show was brilliant. From a Yank who was 7 years old when this came out.
It’s probably the most underrated comedy in British tv history. ❤
He made the show.
They all made the show
@Income Tax Inspector Nope. They were all as good as each other.
Went to a genuine Senior Officers Mess dinner and the Chief Constable in his speech did an absolute blinding impression of DI Grimm- went down a storm 🤣
"I will take you down .... to funky town!"
Choo-fucking-choo
Pure British comedy gold,hoity toity
Like the doodoo gets me every time, thanks for the vid. Love the series, wonderful cast & characters. Grimm is outstanding.....one of the all time greats.
How can they keep a straight face? I wouldn't be able to stop laughing
Thank you , its just simply a great example of the Writers and Actors brilliance ; pity its not on Public TV
David Haig is a fantastic ‘serious ‘ actor who admirably turned hand to comedy much like Frank Kelly in Father Ted
Very easily the star of this comedy
Ben Elton! Hilarious writer
Underrated
That moment Rowans character had a great punchline, and you laugh...then grim comes bashing through the scene and totally own it!!
Grim is my great uncle his real name is David Ward but his acting name is David Haig I’m very happy for him
I’m not joking he is
He was brilliant as Rudyard Kipling in "My Boy Jack" with Daniel Radcliffe.
@@TeamHorsepower159 If this is true, then his wife Julia would be your great auntie. Do your mates at school know about this?
PervertedStoner69 REBORN!! They have never heard of it probably
PervertedStoner69 REBORN!! But he is my great uncle he is my grandmas brother he was born in 1955 he comes round to see my great grandmother every month
Controversial I know but I would put Grimm up there with Basil Fawlty and Del Boy totally underated.
"I tell ya Cray.......I've not been this excited since they starting using the American style siren" 🤣
I don't how he kept a straight face saying all this stuff...but I love it!
I was just thinking I don't know how Rowan even kept a straight face either!
Still waiting for that "Grim of Gasforth" spinoff.
Inspector Grimm is hilarious !
Loved inspector grim and his rants. Had a manager at work just like him. We all used to shout go go go when we saw him.
"Their mollys coddled!" Fukin brilliant
Everyone ' Stop fannying about '. Get on with it.
This guy was brilliant. love the haughty taughty, lardy dardy , mamby pamby, wishy washy...it's great stuff.
"Not really, I don't do a lot of gardening". 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Absolute comedy genius.
I want to see the bloopers, it must've been all laughs from the crew
Fabulous, absolutely brilliant!
Thanks for that. Cheered me up immensly.
Ben Elton is a great sitcom writer.
"Pardon me for being a fascist..."
Hello, Twitter
Brilliant.
In my humble opinion one of the top comedy programmes of the past years. Fowler - brilliant, Goody- brilliant , Habib - brilliant, Dawkins lovely and brilliant, Kray - priceless Doyle, Gladstone etcetc , but Grim put the cream on all the comedy and bits of business! Wonderful entertainment. Set against a lot of the drivel of 2019/20 it’s still a gem!
In trying to get the spelling of Habib, correct, I chanced upon an answer(on a BBC page) as to why the show was cancelled. It was in the form of a review. It was noted by the individual who penned the “review” twaddle, that Ben Elton was trying to recreate a Dads Army type show, and it didn’t work! Well whoever penned that thought needed to return to wherever he or she came from and retrain for another job! It was funny, and if that was what BE wanted to do he succeeded in spades.
Save me from reviewers and commentators!
Absolutely spot on. It was beautifully written and wonderfully acted. Some of the comedy timing was just perfect. And as for Grim, he was indeed the icing on the cake. He really made that role his own.
These bloody reviewers and commentators are a bunch of haughty hoity stick it up your toity, high and mighty, tight nosed, toffee arsed, farty arty, poncy, namby, know it all, stiff upper lip, psycho sicko , clap trap crap!!!
@@rhiannondragonfaine6410 👏
Dead right. Well put.
Thanks for that. Forgot how incredibly funny he was in that. Just been watching Killing Eve and knew I'd seen him in something else. 😁
Absolutely hilarious.
They should’ve extended this
Phenomenal show
GRIM was a beast… utter power house… only a peak STEPHEN LEE can compete
He's slippery .... like an owl 🤣🤣
Love Rowan Atkinson, but David Haig/Inspector Grim totally made this show.
This is who Alexander Lukashenko bases his style and personality on.
GOOD OLD FASHIONED BRITISH COPPER. hE DOESN'T FANNY ABOUT.
Rowan Atkinson is masterful at reacting facially, its an important nuance in making this and his interactions in Blackadder so good. The weary look of having to contend with a stream of borderline insane morons. (4.04)
This is a brilliant mix of fannying about
Absolutely fantastic! I can so relate to Inspector Grim as I feel exactly the same in many cases. I can’t stand fannying about with namby-pamby, hoity-toity, looney lefty claptrap crap!
What a legend
Brilliant, simply brilliant 😄
the God of rage Mr. inspector Grim
I love his talent!
Absolutely brilliant, toyty, woyty, boyty, lmao. Again..
We do not fanny about!
Grim seems like a perfect monty python character in a current time
Slippery like an owl. That did me
Only thing funnier than this in this show would be the outtakes for these scenes. Probably weren't any though. He was so good at it! Then the irony of him going on to play Mr. Wilson in Downtown Abbey🤣🤣🤣🤣 all "HOITY TOITY LAH-DEE DAH DEE, KNOW-IT-ALL STIFF-UPPER-LIP STIFF-UPPER-HOUSEMASTER... PRIM-AND-PROPER!!! "" 🤣
Loved this series. Looked forward to Grim's rants, but Goody was my favourite character.
Brilliant
this is 2023, and more people should know about this Bri'i'ish old school talent.
This character should have had his own show.
A spin off called Grim would’ve been brilliant
He's always right though.
Constable whoopsie gets me every time :)
Brilliant character!
Fantastic! thanks for this :-)
Grim made this programme.
Steve Fleming is such a legend. His delivery is extraordinary!
Tyragon - who is Steve Fleming and how is he relevant to this showing of David Haig's lines?
@@markfox1545 Just a joke. Steve Fleming is a character in another show, portrayed by David Haig.
@@naB4o0o ooohhh, so clever. 😄
British comedy at its finest!
Such a rarity to come across a series or a movie for that matter, where Rowan Atkinson ISN'T the funniest character 😲
He is too too funny :)
He's right, though, isn't he?
50/50
Steve Price He's saying what we're all thinking.
"Pardon me for being a fascist..." The trouble is, I agree with a lot of what he says, so that makes me a fascist too.