Are You Being Served: German Week
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2012
- Young Mr. Grace decides to have a "German Week" where the department will sell only German goods. However, after two days they discover they have only made 64 pence, so Mr. Rumbold and the floor staff decide to give the department a more German feel by dressing up and serving German wine. Guest starring Joanna Lumley.
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My mother used to watch these episodes religiously each week. Then, I got her the entire DVD series. She would sit in the living room for hours, laughing out loud. She must have watched each episode at least a dozen times, but it didn't matter to her. She loved the comedy and the pure zaniness of the series. Just wonderful!
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My mom was the exact same as your mom except with mine it was the golden girls!
@Carol Epworth my mom's favorite was Rose, mine was Dorothy cause her sarcasm always made me laugh, and a close second was Sophia! I miss my mother so very much.😢
I used to watch it with my dad. Then we got the DVD boxset. Now we randomly go into BritBox to rewatch favorites.
Susan you are a good Daughter. God bless.
God, any time Mrs Slocombe is drunk: COMEDY GOLD!
"German week" & "the Apartment" are probably me 2 faves! wish mr.Lucas hadn't left; his banter w mrs.Slocombe each wk was priceless!😂
It Pays To Advertise, Mrs Slocomb Senior Person and The Clock also hillarious 😊
I love the Apartment, but have you see "Friends and Neighbors?"
Yes I especially liked him. He did a great "Peck's Bad Boy."😂
Are You Being Served a British Nation Treasure very much appreciated here in Australia.
"German band ready?"
"Ready when you are, mate"
Cracks me up every time..... thanks for the memories.
My grandpa and I would watch this all of the time when it was on PBS.
29:02 Blimey, I don't remember that!
When I first saw this show I was 17 , I watch it now and I am 8 years older than Frank Thornton when he appeared in this. I think Frank was one of the last ones to go to the promised land. Do not despair they are gone Rejoice that they ever were. Golden Comedy.
This show is brilliant! Timeless
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I actually met John Inman. He was such a sweet man! I embarrassed myself in front of him though. PBS had him on and I was running the phones for their donation telethon! I was watching the show on the television and yelled out I'm FREE without thinking and he had a good chuckle over it. It was awesome.
They were all truly talented in so many ways. I am so glad that I have watched them for so long. So many laughs and being awed at their abilities and courage. I love almost every episode. What a talented bunch.
Nicholas Smith, “jug years” died in 2015.
I was born in the 90's and grew up watching re-runs of this, Keeping up Appearances and The Vicar of Dibley. Such amazing acting, witty & hilarious writing and timeless entertainment value without nudity, violence or foul language. I wish shows like this were still produced.
100% agree with this comment, bit I was born in 85. Those shows are such classics and never fail to STILL make me laugh.
Omg yes! As a child I truly adored this series and keeping up appearances!! Baby I love me some Ms. Bucket! I mean..Bouquet.
Yes just bosoms, slapping, and constant insults and innuendo. Such a clean show!
Acorn (virtual streaming channel), Britbox, and maybe Pluto may have some British comedies. I've been watching "Mrs. Brown's Boys" on You Tube.
@@jjryan1352 my pussy drooped to hear you say such things.
It's January 2024 and I watch the Series still regulary.
And as a german I love special this one "german week".
Wendy Richard couldn't hide the smile hahaha she was so beautiful
working a Myer store in austraila for 26 years this show bring back to many memories
Joanna Lumley in a terrific cameo here!
I came into the comments to see if it were her. Wunderbar!
Too funny for words! A killer! I’m German,I watch it over and over. Thank you!😄👍🇨🇦👏
🤣 as a German who just found out about this series last week, I really love this episode! The actors did a great job!
Yay lol
It came to me as not a kinder and gentler view of Germany, which to me is the only safe place in the world for me to go along with Italy who were both "Axis". My focus is the fact that many English rock bands during the 1960's left England for Hamburg because Germany's acid rock hippie culture was growing rampant while "swinging London" was full of bust happy police and then in May 1968, the Apple Boutique was painted over white. There is the book Hamburg: The Cradle Of British Rock by Alan Clayson. That was from Hamburg's very early years before LSD hit there at around 1965. English rock group The Smoke attempted to record their hit single "My Friend Jack" (Eats...Sugarlumps?) and were threatened being banned and their record company terminated...so they were overwhelmed by invites from Hamburg!!
It got better once they put on the costumes and started dancing to the "umpa" band. They did seem a bit anti German for a while which had me worried.
@@stephenhowes8937. These people were so talented. This was filmed in front of a live audience. Often you hear them stutter (false start) their lines , because it was live . They didn’t do it over . They had them sing and dance for a bunch of episodes, very talented crew !
those hats are for tourists! YOU ARE A TOURIST!
After so many years, this was still hilarious. Bless all these wonderful actors
Hours and hours of joyful escape from reality, Thank God.
“All the other times she was flat on her back, the American Air Force was responsible.”
Still one of the best lines, ever.
Agreed.
as an American I couldn't stop laughing!
And the next gag. "Can we knock it off, please?!" "She even remembers what she said!"
Why was the Luftwaffe lobbing hand grenades?
@@derricklafrance9724 yea, I’m not sure why the writers had her say land mine instead of bomb.
One of the best episodes of the series
The joke about Mrs. Slocum and the American Air Force is 1 of the funniest in all of British comedy...and that’s saying a LOT.
"Can we knock it off!" "She even remembers what she said!"😂😂😂
"During our discussion, you did tell me that my costume would give me the appropriate air of authority. But I'm getting a lot of air and very little authority." - Capt. Peacock!🤣🤣
Trevor Bannister and John Inman had a wonderful chemistry between them on screen. I have no idea what they were like behind the scenes of course.
I shudder to think.
Still watching in 2021, I remember watching this in elementary school in Brooklyn, NYC in the late 80's
It's so un-P.C- the corny, crude schoolboy humour, the innuendo, the double- entendres. I just love it!
"They're well-built, those German girls..." This episode will always be my favorite. I've watched it hundreds of times and I still laugh until I cry.
It's my favorite, too!!! 😍
That wasn't a bra, that was a grapefruit carrier.
This is my first time watching the episode, and it's side-splitting.
@@robadams5799 Glad you enjoyed it! It's a classic!
@@johanbruijnooge6818 The idea that it was a brassiere is what’s funny.
"I'm getting a lot of air but very little authority." 🤣🤣🤣
It is heartwarming to read all the lovely comments from people who love this episode/show as much as I do . I am nearly 50 now and it is as funny now as when I was a small lad.
I had love this show back in 1970s as young child! I do still love the show in 2020! The sense of humor is still hilarious today.
My daughter and I watch the show she was in a senior high school and we enjoy watching this all the time I love Mrs Logan's hair colors I love the complete show they make you laugh God bless them
They sure don’t make ‘em like they used to! An absolute classic
"German band ready?" "Ready when you are, mate." 🤣🤣🤣
My uncle Sydney who lived in Edmonton, England, loved this show
R.I.P Uncle Sydney.
R.I.P! ❤
@@xXLunatikxXlul thank you
My dad, too. RIP
What made this show so darn amazing and funny is the fact that it feels like your are not really watching a show at all. Pure comedy gold.
Mollie Sugden, one of the best comedians ever!!
I wish they could all wake up and come back to us 😔.
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@@Crusherkitty1 Pussy got crushed?
Never takes shit from a floor walker.
Good to see a young Joanna Lumley here - playing the German woman customer 😊
Shecappears several times in the series. She great.
The best times I enjoy Ms. Slocombe is when she's buzzed up jus sayin.😷🔥🍺🥃
I agree. She's hilarious !
As an Austrian I have to say the dancing is pretty much on point. I had to go to traditional Austrian dance classes when I was a kid. Absolutely hated it back then.
Thanks for sharing
🤣 Trachtenverein! I know your struggle as I am from upper Bavaria. Fortunately, my parents loved me and so I could avoid having to learn traditional dancing. Quite uncommon for us girls, back in the nineties.
@@brini2439 I think you were one of the lucky ones. My older sister and cousins suffered through it for 8 years. By the way in Austria we call it Volkstanzgruppe. 😅
Did that include the face slapping?
This group of classic British comedians would do just about anything for a laugh - no matter how unflattering or outrageous they looked. Great fun.
Thats what made the show work. It was by sheer accident that the sitcom transcended the original intent, focusing on Lucas as the only Normal one employed. Thats also what caused friction later on with Trevor Bannister and the writers and why he left the show. These great actors fine tuned it and played off each others character. You dont see acting like that these days.
Wonderful how they didn't let vanity get in the way. Mrs Slocombe's haircolor/make- up always crack me up.
Mondo...sarcasm is the type of comedy a lot of Europeans grew up with, and that's what makes it hilarious! It's a sorry situation when you can't make fun of yourself (that includes others).
Fortysomething BadGirls it was supposed to be revolved round Lucas and Brahms, as being a hate/love relationship going, and the rest like the bitter Grainger the womanizing Peacock the effeminate Claiborne and Bette ‘the drunken’ Slocombe. But later in the series, Humphries and Slocombe became the two most popular. The second was (and the real reason) was money. He had gotten another offer for a part, which payed more. Since he couldn’t work out the schedule between this and that, he left this for that.
Fortysomething BadGirls yes everybody’s too afraid of pissing someone off, offending someone, or hurting someone’s feelings! So afraid of getting shut down sued or losing their jobs, and in UK even being arrested now! There’s no freedom of speech, nor of press, nor of expression! Unless it goes along with “the agenda.”
Political correctness is Communism!
Cpt. Peacock- "G'd morning madam, are you being served?"
Customer- "just having a look!"
Mr. Lucas- "so is he!" LMAO 😂👌
My favorite episode as well. John Inman is beyond hilarious!
They're all hilarious!
Love this show, when I was young there was a store just like this, 3 floors, the owner went to school with my mom around 1910, those were great days, I loved seeing the floor walkers with the carnations in their lapel, something the kids today will never experience, glad I did.
Well, Walmart has their greeters, so 🤣🤣🤣
@@daisyviluck7932 Their cashiers could be known as floorwalkers
Your mom went to school 113 years ago? I guess you know my next question.
I worked at Douglas drugs. A department store opened circa 1910
I don't think there has ever been a better television show. I used to watch this on PBS.
This episode in particular had several of the cast fighting not to bust out laughing.
It must have been such fun to do this show! I love how the cast are struggling to keep a straight face when they see each other in their costumes and their unpolished merriment in the final dance is delightfully infectious.
I love when Mr. Humphries and Mr. Lucas toast with the beer mugs which are meant to break, but Mr. Humphries's mug doesn't break so he has to do it himself.
This was one of my favorite British comedy.
You should check out keeping up appearances if you have not. Hyacinth Bucket ("pronounced bouquet") played by Patricia Routledge is just awesome. I have to say that the Brits are really do know how to do comedy. I have so many favorite shows from the BBC.....
@@elenaderoet4926 I love that show also.
Poor Elizabeth has to up with crazy Hyacinth
@@elenaderoet4926 thank you
8:52 this departmental meeting segment is one of the best comedy repartees I have ever heard and seen . The whole German Week episode is one of the best in sitcom history .
I love British TV.. This is my all time FAVORITE show..I even have this on DVD..Mrs. Slocum is the BEST. And Mr. Humphreys is a SCREAM🤣🤣🤣🤣
mrs slocombe and mr peacock going at each other was so funny
Joanna Lumley playing a German accent off hilariously
j.l., the his and hers lady!
I was going to comment but thought I would check. Yep.
My husband von’t allow zis
My parents had some friends who are German, and hearing Joanna with the accent is exactly how Germans speak English.
I still laugh at bustenhalter and i am half German 🇩🇪😂🇺🇸
Hello Julchen, how are you doing today?
I hope whomever put this cast together & wrote these episodes got one hell of a payday. Well deserved!! 😀😊👍
Free Büstenhalter for life, and a pair of Strumps at Christmas, probably.
"All the other times she was flat on her back it was the American Forces responsible." 😂😂😂😂😂
Aid and comfort to the troops as it were!
hahahahaha,I know,lol!!!!! She is a crazy!!!!!
@@TheBee87bee Mrs. Slocumb did her part...a bit more than others in fact. 👙
19:18 Captain Peacock: "During our discussion, you did tell me that my costume will give me the appropriate air of authority. I am getting a lot of air, but very little authority".
Mr. Rumbold: "Well, you have my permission to wear a bigger brush in your hat".
Captain Peacock: "Thank you Mr. Rumbold".
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That has to be one of the funniest dialogues I heard in long time! Love it.
The best episode of all!! Specially when Mr. Humphries comes out of the fitting room, barely able to walk due to his tiny shorts, and Mrs. Slocombe drunk as a skunk "If you could only see yourselves, you look absolutely liriculous!" Funny as hell!!
TheOpelkoenjas best comment!
"D'you know...I can't think why, but my eyes are watering!" OMG!
Lady Jane Grey Another incredibly funny line is when Mr. Rumble walks in, and Mrs. Slocombe says, “Twiddle his knob somebody he’s out of focus.”
TheOpelkoenjas I agree with you! I wish I could tell what songs Mrs Slocombe was singing. All I could hear was “La la la la la rum pum pum!”
@@CaitlinBrooksMusic It was Lillie Marlein.
"Count Poppycock, be getting your hands off my schnitzel!"
😂😂😂💀
I loved this show on PBS in ohio in my 20ies I'm 52 now and just looked it up STILL FUNNY
wned-pbs, buffalo ny used to air it in the 70s & 80s. 😁
One of the funniest episodes of this show that was ever made!
Quite glad to see it again!
It's one of my favorites, aside from the Pilot and the Punch and Judy affair.
Thank you for this. All the actors are wonderful, including cameos. Joanna Lumley, seen here as a frau, was briefly married to Jeremy Lloyd, one of the writers of this uber-witty comedy.
thought that was her!
I always appreciated how willing this cast was to strip off or dress up.
A very young Joanna Lumley as the German woman. I love this show.
‘You could carry a lot of coal in those’ is a favourite line.
only after watching this episode more than 100 times I realised that the german band responded “ready when you are mate” 😂
I like the exasperated look on Captain Peacocks face!
Don't feel bad I just realized a mounth ago lol
I had forgotten how much I loved this show.
1:16 “Count Poppycock, be getting your hands off my schnitzel!”🤣🤣
(Sidenote: I spy Joanna Lumley at 5:46)
A very young and beautiful Joanna Lumley -"I am knowing this.........." too funny xx
Wearing a horrible wig.
@@steveweinstein3222 I love her, but with a horrible accent, too.
The fighting scene between Mrs. Slocombe and Captain Peacock had me made laughing so hard with tears.
Rebella12 Wynn ikr 😂
@@fbnflaviusbroadcastingnetw6786 I agree with him too, I mean sometimes it's like I can't stop laughing
Sandra Jovic, I know I can’t. It’s like spending time with the mates, only at work.
@Rebel12 Wynn Same Here 🤣🤣🤣
During this time when all nation's are going through such discomforting & uncertain times, this episode will lift your spirits. One of my favorites! I'm binge watching
ME, TOO.;-)))
I kno I was just watching this thinking something like..."a simpler time." It probably wasn't tho. I understand that.
tha Real Mike Zee not simpler, but better: and Free! Look up the data to see the 1970’s compared to today! It’ll shock you!
What does that even mean? Lift your spirits because of the Lockdown? I don't think so Sandra.
Double the fun watching this as a German🤣🤣🤣
Really? Where are you from?
@@fleurdelis9939 Bavaria, of course! The place, where "Lederhos'n" is at home.😎🤘
@@donaldduck5404 ich auch und nichts find ich furchtbarer,als alle Deutschen mit Lederhosen zu verkleiden,the american way!
@@fleurdelis9939 verstehe dich vollkommen. Ich finde es lustig, dass sie hier so Schwaben und Österreicher auch mit drunter mischen. Man merkt wie wenig sie über das Land wissen. 😁
Für mich hat seit diesem Video "Tom & Jerry" eine ganz andere Bedeutung.😂
@@donaldduck5404 I just found out my ancestors were from Bavaria! Vie gates?
I used to watch it when I was about 11. I loved this show. I’m 40 now and I still laugh. I love all these characters
I don't know how anyone else feels, but I'll definitely put Wendy on the list of Top 10 greatest legs in TV history.
my youngest son's favorite episode... he borrowed my dvd with this episode and when he returned it the dvd was missing!!
Mr Humphries in that outfit was priceless. I haven't laughed that hard at a TV show in years. ✌❤
Can you imagine that those who haven't our realm is 70 or older? Such comedic talent, never to be found again...sad, really.
I meant: who haven't left...
Very sad
@@marinazagrai1623 the entire cast has passed
@@lucky43113 Mike Berry (Mr. Spooner) is the only one still alive. He's not in this episode.
@@waivedwench I forgot about him
This brings me back to being in middle school and high school and watching this after school on pbs. Still love this show
After school?! That must have been awesome! I had to wait until either 11 or so at night for them to start showing britcoms where I lived, or I had to wait until Saturday evening starting at 8 to try to get as many watched as my mom would let me stay up for.....
Did they ever sensor any of the words used in this sitcom on that channel ?
One of the best comedies ever
Indeed. How can you not love a show where the cast looks like Muppets?
Am I old when I say - “The good old days”?
Anybody else watch these videos just to ogle at Wendy Richard's?
On all the episodes that I have watched so far. Ms Slocombe hair color is always a different color. Love this show 💙❤💙
She started out dying it but soon they went with wigs.
Just makes the show fit in modern-day all that much more, with everybody having different colored hair nowadays
I love it when they dress up and put on a show!
“I can only hear “sweetie D’aling”
& “DON’T QUESTION ME!!”
From Johanna Lumley
😎😎😎
This is a wonderful episode. The series had really hit its’ stride by the time this was produced. “Turn left at the Ausfahrt” LOL🤣
I've been to Germany and there Ausfarht always gives me a fit of laughter.
A lot of my family were immigrants from from Germany. I love the humor of this episode.
Ms. Joanna lumley!!!!
During one of my trips to London a few years ago I made a point of going to Clapham Common! I thought of you Mrs. Slocombe.😂🤣😂 🇬🇧 💘 🇩🇪
One of my favorite British comedies.
MRS. SLOCUM HAS A BANGIN FIGURE THERE...
My favorite, love this amazing show, cheers from California ! British comedy is simply the best ! Many thanks for update this wonderful show!🙏😊🌁
I agree, British comedies are the best, especially the older ones!
Joanna Lumley doing a German accent. Priceless.
I recognized her as well, immediately thought about the Avengers. Another class tv series:)
Correction doing a German accent quite badly
Ve are here for ze buying of ze Harris tweed. :)
When I went to my grandparents my nana was in the living room laughing with joy and I came in to watch and I could not stop laughing I've loved this show ever since
One of their funniest episodes
What a great show, It never gets old. It's creepy to think all the main actors there were now dead.....
Joanna Lumley!
Mr Grace did a BREXIT half a century before it was the 'in thing' in The UK!
I will never, ever tire of this series.
Now that's real Talent I LOVE BRITISH comedy 🇬🇧
Me too! I love British acting, it's my favourite! Irish comedy is awful - it's just not funny🙈. And I'm 100% Irish! 😂
I love watching this as the actors are so great, and they work together so perfectly. So sad they all passed away 😢
Joanna Lumley! Always terrific!
"He will be clicking his heels next"--'click' lol
As a German I've laughed so much about this show......I have been many times in England in the recent years...and felt always very welcome...more than that...it seems the English like the common Germans....they make a difference between politics and normals...
We know it took the"moustache" 12 years of bullying and murder to make you march to his step - like the EU and the American democrats...just pop Merkel and Frau ulbricht - von leyer on top of a very high mountain and leave them there. But keep up the "eis cafes" sehr gut! Wunderbar!
Brilliant Comedy, great Script and so sarcastic!😂
I started watching this in the 90's...cannot express how much I miss it, even down to the opening theme with the ringing of the cash registers. 😂 Each character was so well defined. Excellent writers and actors! I miss it so much, and felt such a loss when it went off the air. This show was really my first exposure to British comedy. Later on, I began enjoying "Keeping Up Appearances", also, which was another brilliant show. Thank goodness for British comedy, their witty, bawdy humor, and for the person who was good enough to post this video!
Ground floor: perfumery
Stationery and leather goods
Wigs and haberdashery
Kitchenware and food
Going up
First floor: telephones
Gents' ready-made suits
Shirts, socks, ties, hats
Underwear and shoes
Going up
Second floor: carpets
Travel goods and beddings
Materials and soft furnishing
Restaurant and teas
Going down
That's the comment I've been searching for so long! Thank you!
Second floor, please.
Mollie Sugden plays a wonderful drunk
👍
Yes!
She really really does
I think was a real life one.
Yes. Her, arthur Lowe and warren Mitchell.
Whoever was in charge of casting should have been awarded the Victoria Cross.
What's that?
I agree! It was by sheer accident the show became a smash hit! Writers fought to keep Inman's camp character in script! It worked!!
David Croft did most of the casting as well as writing the show and he was awarded OBE :)
Here in the US prior to the mid 1970s our retail and commercial sector was still mainly downtown in the urban core(high streets as they say in England ) , in small towns called main streets . We had multi floor or stories department stores like this , movie theaters("the pictures") , many locally owned specialty shops, restaurants, pubs, cafes, grocery markets , outdoor vendors, etcetera everything you could imagine , wanted or needed was there . Now our US downtowns and main streets are dead as a doornail , ghost towns . Walmart , big box stores in general, retail and commercial development for the past 20 or so years is around the main thruway exits . There are no sidewalks and its really dangerous to walk from store to store with all that traffic there . This walmartization and multinational franchises have destroyed locally owned businesses and our downtowns and main streets in the US . Its ridiculous you have to drive your car from this place and that . It makes one angry and very sad .
You're not often wrong , but you're right again .
I din't think anyone called them "the pictures" after the 1920s ... are you from Iowa or somewhere?
Yes. Globalization has indeed destroyed everything- borders & countries entire identities are being wiped out. That was always the endgame of the Schwabs & Gates & Soros beasts out there - a ONE World Government tyranny. The EU & UN instrumental in this of course. The WEF is self explanatory as is the WHO. The danger of this can't be more apparent than th last 3 years global lockdowns & forcing poverty & government dependency where there wasn't before, mandates under threat, and now they're turning off local and international resources for food, fuels & every other supply we use, AND started are bankrupting taxpayers over a war that could have been avoided but instead is being pushed harder by the WEF UN DAVOS NATO beasts. Meanwhile the only thing in massive numbers they didn't stop in all of these lockdowns & cutoffs was mass invasions of incompatable peoples into countries being forced being forced to support them AND a WWIII possible outcome. Shows like ths were great distractions- all entertainment is - from what's going in big government- even going as far as to joking about WWII. It's funny how no one jokes about Vietman or Afghanistan though. Only WII. And here we are poking the bear with NUKES because our "leaders " are utterly insane.
Only Mr. Humphries could pull off those lederhosen! And does it with flair!
Er ist gute.