One Foot in the Grave (S4 E3) - Hearts of Darkness Part 1
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
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The Meldrews, Mrs. Warboys, and Mr. Swainey take a trip into the countryside, where Mrs. Warboys ends up concreted to Victor. While going for help, Victor stumbles upon an old people's home where the staff are abusing the residents; he hatches a plot to liberate them. The significance of the rabbit hutch at the end is a metaphor, displaying that the OAPs are free (the live rabbit) and the toy rabbit is locked inside the hutch (the staff members).
Part Two - • One Foot in the Grave ...
One of the greatest comedy series of all time. Great writing and great acting from all involved. It never ages.
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When Mrs Warboys and Mr Meldrew have to walk with the cement on their legs, I lost it, one of the funniest scenes in comedy
I agree. My ribs were hurting so much from laughing 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mrs Warboys is so hilarious
This was one of the very first episodes my parents and I watched together! We laughed so hard from start to finish. We’re Americans, but we absolutely love British comedy! It’s totally brilliant!
When I first saw this scene where Victor and Mrs. Warboys get their feet stuck and have to walk with it I nearly fell over I was laughing so hard! To this day I still laugh out loud!
@@lacymarie78 This show is brilliant and I looked for it on the internet but I cannot find it anymore.
What I love about these series, the splendid use of music that is used. The tempo of the music used when Mr Meldew and Mrs Worboys were dragging that bag of cement
I agree, this never seems to be commented on, but I think it is superb across all the series - very descriptive and atmospheric!
These were so well made! That music that plays and the look of confusion on Victor’s face when he says “I thought we all wanted to stay here and play trivial pursuit” makes me laugh every time. Brilliant!
This episode is mostly very funny but when Victor discovers a care home from hell it brings out his burning sense of justice.
Love the way he couldnt even complete his ‘i dont believe it’ when they got back to the van! Utter despair.
This is the best EVER episode of this most brilliant comedy series, and that is a very difficult decision!!
I TOTALLY agree! It’s fabulous!
Yep, it really is a tough decision, but this episode is a definite contender.
FAB-U-LOUS
Plus ‘The Wisdom of the Witch’. Victor Meldrew may moan all the time, but he is a good person with good morals, and is almost always right! In my opinion, the world would do well with many more Victor Meldrews in it!!
@@clarebell5926 I second that!
I saw this episode a few years back and it had me in stitches. Victor Meldrew was priceless.
Victor is a lovable character...I just love One Foot In The Grave!!!!
The opening scene with Max Bygraves' Out Of Town playing throughout is comedy gold. I love this episode!
Not Eric Idlr?
I love that song and Max was a great entertainer! Kind of fitting. 😂
Every episode of OFITG is hilarious. However, this particular one funny as hell. Which they all are. It's just having all four characters going thru this craziness together is bloody silly. And Victor ends up being a Hero at the old folks home on top of it. David was an awesome writer and his stories were awesomely good!!! The perfect television show!
Magnificent episode. Dark and funny with a satisfying ending and Victor as the hero.
and the litle blue car gets one last tour of duty b the a hence victors e
I only get 15 mins.
"I've just been watching two frogs having sex" That line will never cease to make me laugh.
That's the only reason why I played this clip 😂
Thank god i have the full collection of ofitg i can watch the WHOLE episode anytime .
One of the great comedies
Brilliant comedy never be another victor and Margaret all great cast so funny brilliant writing classic comedy series never see stuff like this anymore on TV talent
24 years old but it's still so funny.
26 years now. i felt victor had every reason to be angry, but his complaining style was a problem. his tongue was too sharp and cutting. he was my hero, and the way he was treated when he complained was always extreme. i could nt watch.
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There are several sitcoms I can think of where at least one character is a "turn off", but when you think about it there are probably people in real life you see frequently that you try to avoid.
Frankly, I find people who are extremely positive to be annoying.
I swear, this episode has the best " i dont believe it" when he cant finish the sentence. Ohhhhh I dont belieeee"
I love that little cottage at the beginning , its so adorable .❤
English thatched cottages and English villages are the loveliest in the whole world.
"For goodness saaaakeee! How do you know what the excrement of a gazelle smells like do you go around sniffing it? " 😂😂😂😂
I love that bit. Nobody else has had a question yet.
It's that odd detail that Margaret and Jean are wearing the same dress, and nobody mentions it at all (apart from Margaret's clear silent indignation) until much later in the episode. That sets this apart from anything else at the time. The Trivial Pursuit stuff is just glorious as well. We were very blessed back then, that even in its 4th series, it was still gut bustingly funny. The change of tone later on in the episode never bothered me, it's just another sign of how brilliant this show was. Got a huge amount of complaints though at the time. See? Things haven't changed that much since the early 90s... People will always complain, it's just more noticeable now because they can howl into the void of social media.
"I knew it was going to be one of those days. If I'd worn a rabbit costume she'd have turned up wearing one."
@Anony Mus We don't speak of the final episode. I refuse to accept it. ;)
You're right about the complaints, it reminds me of when Victor himself complains about Christmas TV with Cilla Black. But to be fair, I think this show beats anything that came before it as much as whatever followed.
@SteveyTheEx-Eevee Yes, people complained about the depiction of the abuse of the elderly - without even watching the rest of the episode where those inflicting the abuse received justice. That's it really, but it was never upheld as a complaint, just a lot of hand-wringers being completely WAAAH. Totally impotent. As I said things haven't changed much.
Victor is more often right than he is wrong, that's why we love him so much.
Given how viewers were willing to laugh AT Victorr, how can he be 'much-loved'? For does not the number of insults against him a indicate a form of Elder Abuse?
This episode is genuinely one of two parts and where this video ends is the exact point where it rapidly changes into something much darker and sinister. Brilliant. Reminds me of the juxtaposition in the song a day in the life by the beatles. These first 15 minutes are just about as funny as it gets, the next 15 or so are as just about as dark as one foot in the grave gets.
Excellent comment Agree UK Rocker
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Man 80s and 90s are golden era of British sitcoms,Bottom,Allo Allo,You rang Milord,Black adder, Absolutely Fabulous,OFAH,Red dwarf and my favourite One foot in the grave.
It's sad how today British comedy is literally dead.
Love it.
I have days I feels like Victor.
They used a lot of material in this episode! I think this is also the one where Victor goes and gets help from a nursing home only to discover the patients are being abused. Yes, this one episode has more substance then an entire season of any American sit com to date!
That part where Victor goes to the rest home almost got this episode banned.
In the run of this show it had 2 very controversial episodes, this was one. The producers were able to convince " the powers that be " at the BBC that the ending was actually a sort of public service of sorts, shining a light on bad rest homes.
@@howardkerr8174 That wouldn't surprise me
I like the Apocalypse Now reference in the title to the episode and Victor Meldrew's reference to it.
i could not brreath laughing so hard the first time i seen it lol
Let’s be honest these are excellent… I don’t think these have been beaten yet
This is so absolutely great - and the Hambro Arms was my local for many years!
No one ever mentions it but i always thought Mr Swainey had this really sneaky sense of humour and he waas always 'in on the joke'.
Some of his double entendres are hilarious! I've often wondered whether he is meant to be as naïve as he seems :-)
I don't know which series this was, but I always thought he was originally meant to be a slightly sinister and unthinking character. It was only in much later series, when he bonded with Margaret, that he became much more sympathetic.
Why's mrs warboys looking so tired, shes not helping pull that concrete along what so ever lol
Victor: FOR GOODNESS SAKE! how the bloody hell you know all these? excrement of a Gazel! What do you do go round sniffing it? lol.
Love it when Margaret loses her shit 😂😂😂
Especially when she’s not the one that’s had the concrete to her legs, while walking up a hill!😂
one of my favourite episodes, thanks
no other nation can even come close when it comes to british comedy , this was a brilliant comedy, they don't make em like this anymore
Victor Meldew, The Crimson Avenger!!!
This was the very first episode of ONE FOOT I ever saw and I couldn't believe a "straight" situation comedy could be so full of outrageous situations.
The second half of this episode, if I remember correctly from reading the Wiki page for this series, nearly caused this episode to not air.
Same thing happened to me. I was shocked that I had not heard of it.
Same, the first episode I ever saw as a child and it scarred me for years, even today when I hear about care home abuse this is the first thing I imagine. But rewatching it as an adult I realised how wickedly hilarious the other bits were, like the cement and dragging Mrs Warboys to the tree 😂
How many noses has Conway Twitty got!!!
Only thing I ever hated about this BritCom is it got me laughing so hard sometimes that I couldn't catch my breath. 😂😂😂
Super funny, but also super bleak, not many comedy shows could get away with combining the two. The best comedy of all time naturally manages to do it. One of the best things ever made.
I feel sorry for that guy who got a beer glass smashed over his head- OUCH!
Wonder how Victor would have coped in Covid times! British Comedy at its best!
Plenty of reason to moan😄
"Oh I don't believe it", everytime there was a lockdown and petty rules and regulations
Interesting fact, the retirement home staff towards the end are watching an episode of Bottom (Digger). Nick Scott who was one of the staff also guest starred in an episode of Bottom (Dough).
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David Renwick (creator of OFITG) also did a very shortlived sitcom with Ade Edmondson (who was in Bottom) called If You See God, Tell Him
Unfortunately found myself and a friend and three small children in the same situation, hahaha! Thank goodness a second car came by and took me and my children back to my car and then I had to return to my friend and her two children. A night we will always remember!
My favourite episode.....😊
My all time favourite episode
I love how margret puts up with victor it's like Sharon and ozzy
Good question
Victor isn't usually the problem though to be fair lol. He just usually ends up in daft situations
10:14 had me in stitches
my favourite episode
Why does the BBC keep copyright claiming only the second half?
Amazing, they just don’t make them like this anymore 🤣🤣🤣
Pity part two has been made 'unavailable' by UA-cam.
Any reason?
2:00 pause exactly you see the hinge mechanism after Victor slams his fist down.
10:09 you can see one of the film crew.
I've never seen that ever before. It took me like 7 replays at 10:09 to see it
Cant see a thing
@@stepeasoup try the back window of the van.
Well spotted Did you see the crew member crouching behind the Kitchen door in an episode of Fawlty Towers?
@@thiswan1 No I didn't see that one.
Unbeatable.
great thanks....we are surprised these are still free.
Victor is an accident waiting to happen, and it does.
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Shame that there's no part 2 , but I have ofig full collection so no loss really 😁
Best episode.
dont try the cement trick at home, it burns BAD
9:15 takes you off guard I tell ya
1:06: I almost thought Victor was singing the song in the background.
Sheer Genius!
Funny funny program.. love it
Victor looks like the English version of Mr. Burns
up there with fools and horses
Why only 15 min excerpts?
Max bygraves singing the song 》out of town 🎶
A brilliant episode....and I don't know about other people, but I personally find Margaret a LOT more annoying than Victor - yes he moans, but let's face it, he's usually in the right and his heart's in the right place! And Margaret always blames him for everything that goes wrong! She moans just as much!! Why does she go nuts at walking around in a circle for two hours....she's not the one who's had to do it lugging along a bag of cement on her foot! I'm team Victor lol
your so right
@samwestonuk When Margaret was seeing another man a couple of times, she admitted that despite Victor's annoyances, she still loved him, and she ended the affair
I used to think the same but as I watched the entire series I started realising how she was just more scared of the world than Victor, and she hated how he kept dragging her into his fights with everyone else 😂
Retaliation =/= provocation. Margaret's moaning is a retaliation to Victor's moaning/carelessness/incompetance although it has to be said Victor is at times very unlucky and has to deal with incompetant people quite frequently. It is a kind of exaggerated version of what many of us have to deal with in the UK on a regular basis.
14:04 i nearly died 😂😂😂😂
Mrs Worboys is like Google. Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix🙂
Where was this episode filmed
How does mr swainey always know things. How would he know the back door was open.
The agony of living. 😂
Where's part 2??
Part 2?
There supposed to be friends but still call each other by surnames
It was more common to do that in the old days
@@arserobinson7118 "The old days" this was made in 1993. It's 27.
I was born in 1991 and remember this being normal, especially between neighbours as is the case in One Foot.. Nowadays even banks send e-mails addressing you by your first name, which I think is far too familiar
@@abalone7718 I don't call my neighbours by name, more incredibly offensive names
7:58 start of the song pretty green eyes buy Ultravox
Great
Margaret looks like my mum
So funny x
Hilarious!!!
I feel like screaming like Margaret all the time😢
Lv this
2:00 😂😂
At 3:42 I swear she says "Scunway Twitty" and not Conway Twitty.
No...she definitely says "Conway".
Half of its missing.... 😠
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