Are You Being Served?
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This comedy series, which follows the exploits of employees at London's fictional "Grace Brothers" department store, is full of sexual innuendo, slapstick, visual gags, and double entendres. Much of the show's humor parodies Britain's class system, and many of the show's characters are based on stereotypes of the period, including the effeminate Mr. Humphries and the rich, but stingy, store owner.
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- RichardOctober 26, 2025Saw it on TV in the 80's and it felt like stepping into a department store where the staff were cheekier than the mannequins. Set in the fictional Grace Brothers store, this British sitcom follows the misadventures of the sales staff in the ladies’ and gentlemen’s departments. It’s packed with sexual innuendo, slapstick and double entendres, all delivered with impeccable timing and outrageous flair. Frank Thornton’s Captain Peacock struts with pomp, John Inman’s Mr. Humphries flutters with camp brilliance and Mollie Sugden’s Mrs. Slocombe steals scenes with her ever changing hair and feline obsessions. The humor is broad, the stereotypes bold and the punchlines unapologetically vintage. Watching it again is like revisiting a time when sitcoms didn’t hold back and somehow made risqué jokes feel like family fun. The sets may be cardboard, but the laughs are solid gold.
- ርልዪረJanuary 24, 2025Oh buy this please ........ you will laugh your socks off! Are You Being Served? is a British sitcom created and written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft (Croft also directed some episodes), with contributions from Michael Knowles and John Chapman, for the BBC.[1] Set in London, the show follows the misadventures and mishaps of the staff of the retail ladies' and gentlemen's clothing departments, in the flagship department store of a fictional chain called Grace Brothers. This really in a gentle way led the now the world to be introduced again to camp humour made famous from the Carry on Movies featuring Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey and really the Carry on cast. Are you Being Served (this is still watched in many english speaking countries around the world today) allowed at the time gayness and campery to be enjoyed by all the family. Now the series is quite passé. And yet people still enjoy the light if not rude double entendre that was all the rage in the 1970's though to to 1985. A brexit, Are You Being Served, sort of quote - Miss Brahms: Well if England's a such good country you've cracked it up to be. How come then we've got strikes & inflation. Mmm? So what's so good about England then? Captain Peacock: I shall tell you what is so good about England Miss Brahms. It is the only country in the world that isn't semi-detached. Dont you just love that humour ! Read less
