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Are You Being Served?

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Are You Being Served?	comment	Long-running BBC sitcom created by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, following the exploits of the employees of the Ladies' and Gentlemen's ready-to-wear departments of Grace Brothers, a London department store, primarily inspired by Simpson's of Piccadilly (at which store Lloyd had briefly worked). The show lasted from September 1972 to April 1985, for a total of 69 episodes in ten series.In classic Brit Com tradition, the episodes generally had relatively little in the way of plot. Individual episode storylines were largely set up to provide an excuse for the characters to deliver a rapid-fire succession of double entendres, typically dealing with the reactions (or over-reactions) of the staff to the latest management scheme, or the tension between the Ladies' and Gentlemen's departments. Nearly every episode in later series ended with the characters dressing up in silly outfits. The show rarely strayed beyond the department floor, and almost never left the confines of the store itself.A one-off revival with an all-new cast was broadcast in August 2016.Came in twentieth in the BBC's Britain's Best Sitcom campaign.The core characters of the show were: Mrs. Slocombe (Mollie Sugden), senior assistant on the Ladies' counter. She sported exotically colored hair and made constant comments about her cat, which she always called "her pussy". An evidently artificial posh accent was undercut by a propensity for malapropisms and a tendency to revert back to a working-class Blackpool accent when surprised or angry. Mr. Humphries (John Inman), associate (later de facto senior) assistant on the Men's counter. Ambiguously Camp Gay: the general confusion about his sexual orientation made up much of the show's jokes. Among his perennial gags was the substitution of a deep baritone for his usual effeminate voice when answering the telephone. Mr. Lucas (Trevor Bannister), junior assistant on the Men's counter. A borderline Casanova Wannabe, often in trouble for minor violations of the store's baroque codes of conduct (for example, his failure to display a properly fluted pocket handkerchief). Mr. Lucas was well-known for being almost predictably late — he usually attempted to cover it by signing false names in the work register, but this backfired when Captain Peacock dryly pointed out that the majority of the names Mr. Lucas chose were either celebrities, fictional, dead, or a combination thereof. He was later substituted in favor of Mr. Spooner (Mike Berry), essentially the same character reduced to a secondary role. Miss Brahms (Wendy Richard), the sexy Deadpan Snarker ladieswear junior, noted for her sometimes incomprehensible Estuary accent. Captain Peacock (Frank Thornton), the floorwalker. Due to his (somewhat exaggerated) military background (he served in the RASC, Royal Army Service Corps) and higher position, he considers himself above the assistants and flaunts his greater social standing. Constantly in trouble with his wife for supposed improprieties, although it is not clear whether he ever actually crossed the line into outright infidelity. note Word of God — confirmed to be an incorrigible flirt outside of work, but is horrified at idea of himself actually cheating. Mr. Grainger (Arthur Brough), the elderly, cantankerous senior assistant in menswear. He was later replaced by the progressively younger and less cantankerous Mr. Tebbs (James Hayter), then Mr. Goldberg (Alfie Bass), then Mr. Grossman (Milo Sperber), and finally Mr. Klein (Benny Lee). For the final few seasons, this role was removed, reducing the core cast to a Five-Man Band. However, by this point John Inman had understandably grown superstitious about the position of senior menswear assistant, and although his character was evidently promoted to replace the last one, he got his wish that this never be explicitly acknowledged onscreen.Additional recurring characters included: Mr. Rumbold (Nicholas Smith), the floor manager, often called upon to invent wild explanations for the staff's actions. Called 'Jug Ears' by the staff (and not always behind his back, either), his poor eyesight often lent itself to comical misunderstandings when he was forced to read anything. Verbal explanations also tended to be misunderstood due to him taking things very literally. Mr. Mash (Larry Martyn) — later replaced by Mr. Harman (Arthur English) — maintenance personnel used to make jokes about the class system (for example, though they are "dead common" and considered social pariahs by the staff, the maintenance staff is, thanks to their union, better-paid than the sales staff). Mr. Harman could be a Dead Pan Snarker when the situation called for it, but he could usually be counted on to help the Grace Brothers' staff out of that week's predicament. Young Mr. Grace (Harold Bennett), the ancient owner of the store. Dirty Old Man, but generally a pleasant, if easily confused boss. Though described as "young", he is well over 80: the query, "That's Young Mr. Grace?!" elicits the response, "Old Mr. Grace doesn't get around much anymore". Young Mr. Grace was replaced for a series by Old Mr. Grace (Kenneth Waller), an obviously younger actor under gobs of makeup; the character proved to be unpopular and was written out after one series, with the writers opting instead for an unseen Mr. Grace. Miss Bakewell (Penny Irving), Young Mr. Grace's pretty, young secretary. She was forever giving her boss Hollywood Heart Attacks whenever he would catch sight of her cleavage or up her skirt. The Grace Brothers' Nurse (Pat Astley in Series 5, Vivienne Johnson from Series 6-8), the unnamed nurse first attending to Young Mr. Grace, then Old Mr. Grace once his brother was Put on a Bus. Much like Miss Bakewell, she was so much of a Hospital Hottie that she would do more harm than good to Young Mr. Grace's old heart. Miss Belfridge (Candy Davis), Mr. Rumbold's final and most noteworthy secretary. Mrs. Yardswick (Doremy Vernon), the bad-tempered cow of a Canteen Manageress. She had a particular dislike of the Ladies' and Gentlemen's departments, and when serving their food on their lunch break would either drop their plates on the table, get their orders wrong, not serve them in time, be incredibly rude, or any combination of the previous four options.In parody of the British class system, characters are almost never referred to by their first names, and it is several seasons before we even know all of them (Additionally, several first names change over time; this was even shown with Mr. Lucas's profile picture on one of the discs in the official Region 1 DVD box set, as "Mr. Dick/James Lucas").The characters in the show were, in large part, roles rather than people: actors were replaced frequently, each one playing essentially the same role as his predecessor.Spawned a feature film, an Australian remake, and a short-lived revival, Grace & Favour, which reunited most of the cast as the keepers of a country inn (as the final management scheme before the store went under was to sink their pension fund into it). A number of the show's stars suspect that the viewing public did not realize that Grace & Favour was meant to be a revival, and therefore did not give it a chance. This is somewhat borne out by the fact that the show had more success in the US, where it was aired under the title Are You Being Served? Again!.U.S. viewers know this show from its near-universal syndication on public television stations. In Mystery Science Theater 3000: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, while running a fake public TV pledge drive as a moneymaking scam, Pearl Forrester identifies footage of Mike and the Bots as a clip from Are You Being Served?.
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Are You Being Served? / int_1042bae6	comment	Limited Advancement Opportunities: Only Mr. Humphries gets permanently promoted to Senior Sales Assistant. And even this was only implied by there no longer being anyone above him — per John Inman's request (as the rapid succession of actors who played Seniors after the death of Arthur Brough had made him superstitious about the position) this was never explicitly acknowledged.
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Are You Being Served? / int_1086f287	type	Sure, Let's Go with That
Are You Being Served? / int_1086f287	comment	Sure, Let's Go with That: Taken to its logical conclusion in "A Bliss Girl" when Mr. Humphries puts on heels and a wig to model a ladies' coat. Then Young Mr. Grace shows up and ... Most notably Mr. Tebbs replacing Mr. Grainger, Mr. Harman replacing Mr. Mash, and, to an even less successful degree, Old Mr. Grace replacing Young Mr. Grace. It could also be argued that Mr. Spooner was this to Mr. Lucas. In addition, almost all of Mr. Rumbold's and the Grace brothers' secretaries were virtual copycats of each other. The cast of the Australian version of the show.
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Are You Being Served? / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Are You Being Served? / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Captain and Mrs. Peacock, "... although they've got a very strange way of showing it", reminds Mr. Humphries.
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Are You Being Served? / int_11630eaa	type	The Gambling Addict
Are You Being Served? / int_11630eaa	comment	The Gambling Addict: Captain Peacock, in the late episode "Gambling Fever", is established to have been this. It was on the cusp of ruining his life as early as his wedding night (established as having been 30+ years ago), but he apparently struggled away from it, though, as with all addictions, he struggled with relapsing.
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Are You Being Served? / int_12040009	type	No Accounting for Taste
Are You Being Served? / int_12040009	comment	No Accounting for Taste: Miss Brahms and Mr. Lucas occasionally go on dates together which neither party enjoys.
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Are You Being Served? / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
Are You Being Served? / int_1320d787	comment	Playing Sick: Mr. Lucas tries to fake being sick so he can meet a woman who's coming for him from Oop North. Among other things, he tries the trick of sticking soap in his mouth. It was supposed to go under his tongue, but he swallowed it when Captain Peacock ordered him to speak clearly (he couldn't very well have spat it out under the circumstances, now could he?). He persuades Captain Peacock to send for the medical staff, as bubbles from his hiccups float by, prompting Captain Peacock to add:
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Are You Being Served? / int_14096e32	type	With a Foot on the Bus
Are You Being Served? / int_14096e32	comment	With a Foot on the Bus: "Goodbye, Mr. Grainger" has every indication of being a farewell episode for Mr. Grainger. He resigns after hearing his colleagues remaking that he is getting too old (and perhaps senile) for his job, and that he was likely about to be fired. However, everyone has a change of heart and he decided to stay. Then, ironically, after appearing in only one more episode, Arthur Brough himself died.
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Are You Being Served? / int_15874e11	type	Faking Amnesia
Are You Being Served? / int_15874e11	comment	Faking Amnesia: Used by Mrs. Slocombe in "Memories are made of this" when she pretended to have forgotten everything since early childhood and spent the majority of the episode acting like a schoolgirl. The ordeal was a ploy to scare the management with a possible lawsuit.
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Are You Being Served? / int_15929a2d	type	Man in a Kilt
Are You Being Served? / int_15929a2d	comment	Man in a Kilt: In "Camping In", Mr. Lucas deals with a Scottish customer who is predictably wearing a kilt and (eventually) informs him that in Scotland, they measure the inside leg from the outside.
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Are You Being Served? / int_1a368bd5	type	Reluctant Retiree
Are You Being Served? / int_1a368bd5	comment	Reluctant Retiree: Subverted in the episode "Goodbye Mrs. Slocombe": in the end, the management expands the policy, sending two other characters to an early retirement (Of course, this is all fixed in the Snap Back). Played straight in "The Clock", where Mr. Grainger is terrified of receiving a cuckoo clock — the standard gift for retirees at Grace Brothers.
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Are You Being Served? / int_1b6c5aa2	type	The Couch
Are You Being Served? / int_1b6c5aa2	comment	The Couch: The show had its own version of this: the long cafeteria table at which every character sat on the same side, so the set could be built with only one wall.
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Are You Being Served? / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Are You Being Served? / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Harold Bennett, who played Young Mr. Grace, died in 1981. Though the writers tried to create a replacement in the form of his brother, Old Mr. Grace, the character proved unpopular and was written out after only one series. For the final two series, the characters would frequently refer to Mr. Grace and call him on the phone, but he was not seen again for the remainder of the show. However, no one ever specifies whether "Young" or "Old" Mr. Grace is the one being referred to.
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Are You Being Served? / int_1bf94a24	type	The Movie
Are You Being Served? / int_1bf94a24	comment	The Movie: A movie was made in 1977 where the cast take a holiday to Spain and hilarity ensues (some of it shamelessly recycled from the series). It also shamelessly nicked concepts from other British sitcoms of the time, including Andrew Sachs playing a character who's a hybrid of Manuel and Basil Fawlty.
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Are You Being Served? / int_1c751b35	type	The Vicar
Are You Being Served? / int_1c751b35	comment	The Vicar: Never seen but often mentioned when Mr. Humphries is speaking with his mother.
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Are You Being Served? / int_1d294a0b	type	Fake-Hair Drama
Are You Being Served? / int_1d294a0b	comment	Fake-Hair Drama: Mr. Tebbs puts on a toupee in hopes of not being made redundant in "Shedding the Load".
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Are You Being Served? / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Are You Being Served? / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Series 4, Episode 5, "Fifty Years On", deals with Mrs. Slocombe's (allegedly) fiftieth birthday. They deliver to her the present, which comes in a red cubic box at least a foot on each side, wrapped up with a gold ribbon, in a moment that would probably be said to be shouting out to Pulp Fiction, except that hadn't been filmed yet. Series 4, Episode 6, "Oh What a Tangled Web", has Captain Peacock and Mr. Rumbold's secretary arrive very late for work, leading to another direct address to camera by John Inman as Mr. Humphries: Series 10, Episode 3, "The Hold Up": Mr. Humphries as gangster Italian Tony is being offered Miss Brahms by the burglars:
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Are You Being Served? / int_1ee33a59	type	Sequel Series
Are You Being Served? / int_1ee33a59	comment	Sequel Series: Grace & Favour is about the gang running a mansion they inherited from Young Mr. Grace as a hotel.
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Are You Being Served? / int_1f0f3d6f	type	Cute Kitten
Are You Being Served? / int_1f0f3d6f	comment	Cute Kitten: One episode has Mrs. Slocombe's cat about to give birth, whereupon she smuggles it into work. The wrath of Captain Peacock is avoided via Cuteness Proximity.
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Are You Being Served? / int_211c82f5	type	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!
Are You Being Served? / int_211c82f5	comment	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: On Grace & Favour, Mavis often says that her father will "give her the strap" if she gets caught doing something.
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Are You Being Served? / int_22ebf5bc	type	Japanese Tourist
Are You Being Served? / int_22ebf5bc	comment	In another it's a Japanese Tourist with his "Cledit Caa" (Sooooooo!). Captain Peacock's attempts to communicate with him are at least as hilarious as the tourist himself ("You wanty buy?" "Whaty-wanty?")
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Are You Being Served? / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
Are You Being Served? / int_243cbd0d	comment	Dope Slap: Mr. Spooner was often the recipient of this, from either Mrs. Slocombe, Miss Brahms, or Mr. Humphries.
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Are You Being Served? / int_265b9e84	type	Senior Sleep-Cycle
Are You Being Served? / int_265b9e84	comment	Senior Sleep-Cycle: Here is the only way to wake up a sleeping Mr. Grainger:
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Are You Being Served? / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Are You Being Served? / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Old Mr. Grace, he always keeps young secretaries and nurses around, and there are rumors of his affairs with them. In fact, his death comes from being on holiday with one of them when her top comes undone in a scuba-diving accident. Captain Peacock was a milder version as the show went on. He started with a reputation for being handsy with young women on staff, particularly Miss Brahms and particularly at Christmas parties. As the show went on and Values Dissonance set in, he was mellowed into a man with a taste for younger ladies and troubles being faithful to his wife. He and Miss Belfridge were particularly fond of one another, but whether they actually had an affair was left ambiguous.
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Are You Being Served? / int_27c09b00	type	Camp Straight
Are You Being Served? / int_27c09b00	comment	Camp Straight: Mr. Humphries may be over-the-top effeminate in his voice and mannerisms, but Word of God from John Inman confirms that he is interested in women (mostly).
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Are You Being Served? / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Are You Being Served? / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Captain Peacock, to an extent.
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Are You Being Served? / int_29232548	type	Rhythm Typewriter
Are You Being Served? / int_29232548	comment	Rhythm Typewriter: Both as the base for the theme tune and occasionally as an interstitial sound between scenes.
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Are You Being Served? / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
Are You Being Served? / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: In "Mrs. Slocombe Expects", Mr. Rumbold says three terrible puns about cats when Mrs. Slocombe tells him about the possibility of her kittens being born — he says puns like a 'cat-tastrophe' and a 'pussy-bility'. The entire conversation in the canteen in "The Hero", as the staff discuss Captain Peacock's "misfortune". Put simply, he was the Butt-Monkey for the episode!
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Are You Being Served? / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Are You Being Served? / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: In "Fire Practice" the Emir speaks actual idiomatic Arabic. The translator embellishes a bit, but is largely accurate; it's just that Arabic speakers get the joke a bit earlier. In "The Old Order Changes" they're made to wear casual clothes, and speak informally. Captain Peacock ends up using the expression "Strides, for the omi with the naff riah" which is Polari for "trousers for the guy with the bad hair". Even made more amusing by the fact that Peacock's hair has also been permed into the same Afro.
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Are You Being Served? / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Are You Being Served? / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: In the episode where Mr. Humphries tries to get fired, he tries rudely propositioning customers. When that doesn't get him fired, he protests, "You can't have people going around making comments like that in the store!". Mr. Lucas then comments, "What do you mean...I've been doing it for years!" The show was almost entirely based around rude comments (even if they sometimes have an innocent explanation) that would have gotten all the characters fired sometime during the first series if the show were at all true to real life.
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Are You Being Served? / int_2bc8bdeb	type	Speak of the Devil
Are You Being Served? / int_2bc8bdeb	comment	Speak of the Devil: In "Shoulder to Shoulder", Mr. Rumbold says he'll get Captain Peacock on the phone shortly just as Captain Peacock walks in, takes the phone, and thanks him.
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Are You Being Served? / int_2cc5703c	type	Potty Emergency
Are You Being Served? / int_2cc5703c	comment	Potty Emergency: Miss Brahms had to ask permission to use the gents' room in one episode, but this led to an endless chain of requests that ensured all the men were asked if it was ok for her to go. Once the ok was given:
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Are You Being Served? / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
Are You Being Served? / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Mrs. Slocombe, the feminist battle-axe eternally unafraid to go over anyone's head except those of the Grace brothers if the situation should call for it, and Miss Brahms, the sexy Ladies' junior. It even shows in their novelty costumes in "Christmas Crackers", in which Mrs. Slocombe is dressed as Robin Hood and Miss Brahms is dressed as the Sugar Plum Fairy.
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Are You Being Served? / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
Are You Being Served? / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Captain Peacockâ€™s wife assumes heâ€™s cheating on her with another woman in one episode. When she meets the alleged mistress, she learns that her husband was comforting the woman in question and convinced her to leave her fiancÃ©.
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Are You Being Served? / int_31033037	type	Elevator Failure
Are You Being Served? / int_31033037	comment	Elevator Failure: The opening gag in the first episode, and a Running Gag throughout the show.
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Are You Being Served? / int_31546b19	type	Hurricane of Excuses
Are You Being Served? / int_31546b19	comment	Mr. Lucas' Hurricane of Excuses for being late.
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Are You Being Served? / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Are You Being Served? / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: "Jug Ears" Rumbold.
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Are You Being Served? / int_323e47e2	type	Chain of Corrections
Are You Being Served? / int_323e47e2	comment	Chain of Corrections: Whenever Mr. Rumbold is writing down staff complaints.
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Are You Being Served? / int_347fef9a	type	The Coconut Effect
Are You Being Served? / int_347fef9a	comment	The Coconut Effect: Parodied in "Calling All Customers", when Mr. Harman works the sound effects (and sound defects) for the radio show, using the fruit for the horse sounds. He keeps on until Mr. Humphries commands "Cut your nuts!"
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Are You Being Served? / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
Are You Being Served? / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef: Working in the canteen.
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Are You Being Served? / int_35b429f3	type	Weird Trade Union
Are You Being Served? / int_35b429f3	comment	Weird Trade Union: Mrs. Yardswick is a member of National Association of Canteen Employees, Restaurant and Domestic (NACERD). The Packing Department workers union is a satire of union rules.
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Are You Being Served? / int_36215b80	type	Sex Sells
Are You Being Served? / int_36215b80	comment	Sex Sells: "His and Hers" (Series 1, Episode 5) features the "His and Hers" perfume lady (played by Joanna Lumley), who explicitly calls it "corny" but plays this to the hilt.
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Are You Being Served? / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Are You Being Served? / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: Mrs. Slocombe does this to Captain Peacock in â€œA Bliss Girlâ€� purely to justify his labeling her as â€œimpertinentâ€�.
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Are You Being Served? / int_367f2530	type	Outdated Outfit
Are You Being Served? / int_367f2530	comment	Outdated Outfit: Captain Peacock wears semi-formal morning dress, which at the time of the series had been abandoned by all but the staunchest businessmen.
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Are You Being Served? / int_375e702b	type	Brits Love Tea
Are You Being Served? / int_375e702b	comment	Brits Love Tea: Almost every episode had some sort of reference to tea— Tea breaks, putting the kettle on, tea at meetings, and even a tea trolley at one point.
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Are You Being Served? / int_391d6577	type	Sequel Escalation
Are You Being Served? / int_391d6577	comment	Sequel Escalation: Grace & Favour continues the adventures of the core cast of the series, but now they're equal partners in the hotel business and the productions values are dramatically increased with regular outdoor scenes using location shooting and the series has story arcs.
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Are You Being Served? / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Are You Being Served? / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: In "The Hold Up", Mr. Harman comes up with a plan with Mrs. Slocombe and Mr. Humphries to rescue the others by dressing up as the dreaded Gumby Gang. As Pa Gumby, actor Arthur English as Mr. Harman is dressed up as a character he was most famous for doing years prior to the show: a shady "spiv" character, complete with pencil moustache and wide tie. One of the Standard Snippets featured in "The Ballet of the Toys" is "Teddy Bear Picnic", a song featured on the same album on which star John Inman sang the title theme (which would later be used for the Australian version of the show). In "Founder's Day", Mr. Grainger's birthplace is incorrectly given as Folkestone (he tells Mr. Lucas it was actually Eastbourne). Arthur Brough ran a repertory company in Folkestone for forty years.
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Are You Being Served? / int_396d046e	type	Fun with Homophones
Are You Being Served? / int_396d046e	comment	Fun with Homophones: There's some confusion over whether Lucas and Humphries are saying they "kneed" a jacket (i.e. loosened the armhole quickly by sticking their knee in it) or "need" the jacket.
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Are You Being Served? / int_39e12021	type	Induced Hypochondria
Are You Being Served? / int_39e12021	comment	Induced Hypochondria: In an episode, the staff convince Mr. Rumbold that he's suffering from some unspecified stress-related disease, and that he should dismantle the security cameras to save himself from the urge to watch them all the time.
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Are You Being Served? / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Are You Being Served? / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: This show thrived on noodle incidences: The annual (but never seen) Christmas party is a nonstop source of these. Mr. Humphries sometimes refers to an incident with a vicar (or possibly several incidents with different vicars).
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Are You Being Served? / int_3c51db1c	type	Zany Scheme
Are You Being Served? / int_3c51db1c	comment	The only motivation for being involved in a Zany Scheme.
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Are You Being Served? / int_3cdacd09	type	Coconut Meets Cranium
Are You Being Served? / int_3cdacd09	comment	Coconut Meets Cranium: Mr. Rumbold removes his hat in "By Appointment" to reveal bandages for injuries from a coconut falling on his head in Coconut Island.
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Are You Being Served? / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Are You Being Served? / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Surprisingly, for a show well-known for everyone being referred to on a Last-Name Basis, there were some exceptions: Captain (Stephen) Peacock and Mr. (Ernest) Grainger would mutually address each other by first name in private conversation — as they had known and worked with each other for many years, and were relatively close in social rank — Peacock was higher in the staff hierarchy but Grainger had seniority, both were war veterans, etc. Subverted when Captain Peacock would (typically unwittingly) offend Mr. Grainger; his warm address of "Stephen" would give way to an angrily sputtered "Captain Peacock". Mr. Lucas consistently referred to Miss Brahms by her first name, Shirley — a sign of his interest in pursuing a closer relationship with her. As she was generally less interested in him than the other way round, she seldom reciprocated.
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Are You Being Served? / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Are You Being Served? / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Miss Brahms in "The Hold Up".
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Are You Being Served? / int_41aebb4a	type	Marilyn Maneuver
Are You Being Served? / int_41aebb4a	comment	Marilyn Maneuver: This is a common trope in this series that occurred several times including: This happened to Shirley Brahms thrice in "The Club" (twice in which her unmentionables are shown). The first time when she and the other staff members are in a basement and Young Mr. Grace presses a button or lifts a switch on a wall, which causes air from a floor vent to blow up the skirt of her uniform, revealing her white undies and Mr. Lucas gets a kick out of it. The second time Ms. Brahms is wearing a different outfit and she has a windblown skirt moment again, this time with Mr. Lucas jokingly pressing the button and she's wearing white undies with matching bustier or corset underneath. Third time, Mr. Lucas does it again, but the skirt lifts from the back and Ms. Brahms' back is turned to the wall. Earlier in the same episode, Young Mr. Grace's nurse bends over at one point in front of him and he dress rides up, flashing her white panties and that sends his heart racing (and his pacemaker sounding off). In another moment in the same episode, Miss Bakewell lifts her skirt for Young Mr. Grace, presuming he wanted her to flash him. In another episode, "Monkey Business", Miss Belfridge's pink dress gets lifted in a draft from an electric fan nearby and she struggles to keep it down when her white panties are shown.
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Are You Being Served? / int_426398af	type	Final Season Casting
Are You Being Served? / int_426398af	comment	Final Season Casting: Mrs. Peacock was played by Diana King all throughout the series with the exception of the tenth and final one, where the role was taken over by Diana Lambert.
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Are You Being Served? / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Are You Being Served? / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: Several episodes involve one. In one, an Arab Oil Sheikh visits. He attempts to bargain, and pay, in goats. You read that right. Not groats. Goats. In another it's a Japanese Tourist with his "Cledit Caa" (Sooooooo!). Captain Peacock's attempts to communicate with him are at least as hilarious as the tourist himself ("You wanty buy?" "Whaty-wanty?") Also, a cranky German couple in "German Week", and Japanese businessmen looking to take over the store in "Monkey Business". Also, short-lived regular Mr. Grossman was an Alter Kocker example. Mrs. Slocombe's American uncle in "Do You Take This Man?" In the same episode, Mister Tebbs pretends to be one of these as "Archbishop Halitosis"; Mrs. Slocombe's uncle is none the wiser.
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Are You Being Served? / int_44c385ee	type	That's What She Said
Are You Being Served? / int_44c385ee	comment	That's What She Said: Mr. Mash indulges in a bit of this with the perfume salesgirl in "His and Hers".
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Are You Being Served? / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Are You Being Served? / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: A few times a fur was a minor plot point. One was when a lady comes in to buy a fur, and Hilarity Ensues when Slocombe and Humphries compete for the commission.
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Are You Being Served? / int_47541a7f	type	Skirts and Ladders
Are You Being Served? / int_47541a7f	comment	Skirts and Ladders: Miss Brahms invokes this when refusing to climb a ladder to stock some boxes in Captain Peacock's presence.
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Are You Being Served? / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Are You Being Served? / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: While not the only one to suffer this, Mr. Rumbold is clearly the resident Butt-Monkey of Grace Brothers!
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Are You Being Served? / int_4bfd4dd0	type	Fashion Show
Are You Being Served? / int_4bfd4dd0	comment	Fashion Show: Considering all the crazy costumes they had over the years, only two were actually this: Put on by the gang in "The Think Tank". The Holiday Girl contest in "Front Page Story".
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Are You Being Served? / int_4c0b402a	type	Crazy Workplace
Are You Being Served? / int_4c0b402a	comment	Crazy Workplace: Mrs. Slocombe, senior assistant on the Ladies' counter. She sported exotically colored hair and made constant comments about her cat, which she always called "her pussy". An evidently artificial posh accent was undercut by a propensity for malapropisms and a tendency to revert back to a working-class Blackpool accent when surprised or angry. Mr. Humphries, associate (later senior) assistant on the Men's counter. Ambiguously Camp Gay: the general confusion about his sexual orientation made up much of the show's jokes. Among his perennial gags was the substitution of a deep baritone for his usual effeminate voice when answering the telephone. Mr. Lucas, junior assistant on the Men's counter. A borderline Casanova Wannabe, often in trouble for minor violations of the store's baroque codes of conduct (for example, his failure to display a properly fluted pocket handkerchief). Mr. Lucas was well-known for being almost predictably late — he usually attempted to cover it by signing false names in the work register, but this backfired when Captain Peacock dryly pointed out that the majority of the names Mr. Lucas chose were either celebrities, fictional, dead, or a combination thereof. He was later substituted in favor of Mr. Spooner, essentially the same character reduced to a secondary role. Miss Brahms, the sexy Deadpan Snarker ladieswear junior, noted for her sometimes incomprehensible Estuary accent. Captain Peacock, the floorwalker. Due to his (somewhat exaggerated) military background (he served in the RASC, Royal Army Service Corps) and higher position, he considers himself above the assistants and flaunts his greater social standing. Constantly in trouble with his wife for supposed improprieties, although it is not clear whether he ever actually crossed the line into outright infidelity. Mr. Grainger, the elderly, cantankerous senior assistant in menswear. He was later replaced by the progressively younger and less cantankerous Mr. Tebbs, then Mr. Goldberg, then Mr. Grossman, and finally Mr. Klein. For the final few seasons, this role was removed, reducing the core cast to a Five-Man Band.
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Are You Being Served? / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Are You Being Served? / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: In the early seasons... The menswear department was referred to as being on the first floor (like in the theme song) and the lifts only served the basement, ground, first, and second floors. A few seasons in and they were on the fourth floor. The ladies' department was "Ladies' Intimate Apparel" — in other words, lingerie. The department gradually evolved to sell ladies' wear of all kinds. The last one is possibly justified when one remembers that the pilot of the After Show mentions that they were the only departments left when the store closed; presumably the ladies' wear departments were consolidated over time to cut costs. Mrs. Slocombe regularly showed signs she was infatuated with Mr. Lucas. It didn't last. Miss Brahms was likewise more receptive to his advances in the early going (relatively speaking) than she was later on.
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Are You Being Served? / int_4fa3a61f	type	The Barnum
Are You Being Served? / int_4fa3a61f	comment	The Barnum: Mr. Humphries.
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Are You Being Served? / int_50251308	type	Luke, I Might Be Your Father
Are You Being Served? / int_50251308	comment	Luke, I Might Be Your Father: In "Heir Apparent", Old Mr. Grace guiltily recognizes a photograph of Mr. Humphries' mother.
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Are You Being Served? / int_517f8d71	type	Delusions of Eloquence
Are You Being Served? / int_517f8d71	comment	Delusions of Eloquence: Mrs. Slocombe was frequently prone to this.
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Are You Being Served? / int_51974a43	type	Storefront Television Display
Are You Being Served? / int_51974a43	comment	Storefront Television Display: In the episode "Closed Circuit", Grace Brothers decides to install televisions and use them to advertise the store's products and special offers. Miss Brahms is filmed for the store's first commercial with Mr. Grace's nurse reading the lines in voiceover since they thought her husky contralto would sound more appealing than Miss Brahms' nasally cockney accent. Not long after the commercial starts airing in the storefront, Miss Brahms is asked out on a date by a young Lord who explains that he saw the commercial while he was passing by the store and was instantly smitten with her and (what he thinks is) her sexy voice, setting the main plot of the episode in motion.
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Are You Being Served? / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Are You Being Served? / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Completely averted. Frequently, customers asked — usually Captain Peacock — for the restroom. Then there was an episode when Mr. Grainger's Potty Emergency was a subplot.
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Are You Being Served? / int_5619ea34	type	Blowing a Raspberry
Are You Being Served? / int_5619ea34	comment	Blowing a Raspberry: Mr. Mash without the two-fingered salute. Mrs. Slocombe and others on the floor with it.
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Are You Being Served? / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Are You Being Served? / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: In "A Bliss Girl", Mr. Harman refers to "some silly berk" when complaining about the fog on the ground floor, "berk" being a mild Cockney rhyming slang term for you-know-what. In "The Erotic Dreams of Mrs. Slocombe", Mr. Klein calls Mr. Spooner a berk for asking if the dancers forgot their lines.
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Are You Being Served? / int_571833a	type	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
Are You Being Served? / int_571833a	comment	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: In "By Appointment", Mrs. Slocombe talks about how much she didn't enjoy her vacation in Spain because of that reputation the Spanish have for groping women.
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Are You Being Served? / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
Are You Being Served? / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: Between Miss Brahms and Mr. Lucas.
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Are You Being Served? / int_5889ca1d	type	Mineral MacGuffin
Are You Being Served? / int_5889ca1d	comment	Mineral MacGuffin: In "Diamonds Are a Man's Best Friend".
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Are You Being Served? / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Are You Being Served? / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: In "Conduct Unbecoming", Mr. Humphries is caught with a marked banknote from a till from where money has gone missing. Despite his explanation, he is made to resign, but the missing money is found just in time.
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Are You Being Served? / int_5ed94741	type	That Syncing Feeling
Are You Being Served? / int_5ed94741	comment	That Syncing Feeling: In the last episode, "The Pop Star", Mr. Spooner gets discovered and is off to become a famous singer. In his first TV appearance he sings the song which got him discovered, "Chanson D'Amour". He makes a demo reel-to-reel recording to send to the talent scout. He is booked on a TV show but his voice is getting tired. During the TV performance his voice gives out so they switch to the recording — but the cheap recorder they used and the studio use different speeds, so it comes out sped up to double time.
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Are You Being Served? / int_5f1999a0	type	Building of Adventure
Are You Being Served? / int_5f1999a0	comment	Building of Adventure: The setting very rarely leaves Grace Brothers Department Store.
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Are You Being Served? / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Are You Being Served? / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Italian Tony, The Tooting Terror!
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Are You Being Served? / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Are You Being Served? / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: From Capt Peacock and Mrs. Slocombe.
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Are You Being Served? / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Are You Being Served? / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: More or less a "bottle series". In the entire run, only five scenes were set outside the store, and almost every episode limited the action to the sales floor, canteen, Mr. Rumbold's office, and sometimes Mr. Grace's office. Less frequent appearances were made by the boardroom and basement, with other sections of the store showing up once or twice (oftentimes the sales floor redressed).
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Are You Being Served? / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
Are You Being Served? / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: Mr. Humphries' reaction at the end of the Hurricane of Puns in "The Hero".
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Are You Being Served? / int_6448ac10	type	Did You Get a New Haircut?
Are You Being Served? / int_6448ac10	comment	Did You Get a New Haircut?: Played With in "It Pays To Advertise", when Mrs. Slocombe and Mr. Humphries have mannequins made of themselves, and Mr. Grainger mistakes the mannequin of Mrs. Slocombe for the real thing:
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Are You Being Served? / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
Are You Being Served? / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: Even though the show ran for ten seasons over 13 years, it produced only 69 episodes. This averages out to about seven episodes a season.
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Are You Being Served? / int_694da243	type	At the Opera Tonight
Are You Being Served? / int_694da243	comment	At the Opera Tonight: On one of their few outings, they attend a ballet in "The Erotic Dreams of Mrs. Slocombe". Appropriately enough ...
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Are You Being Served? / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Are You Being Served? / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Everything from what sort of pen you keep in your pocket, to how you fold your handkerchief, to what sort of hat you wear on your way in are matters of dire consequence at Grace Brothers. A recurring conversation in the Series 2 episode "The Think Tank" centered around that Mr. Rumbold was allowed to wear a bowler hat, but Captain Peacock, who worked under Rumbold, couldn't. However, Captain Peacock and senior sales clerks could wear a homburg, but the sales clerks under them couldn't. They could wear caps or trilbies.
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Are You Being Served? / int_6bfebfe2	type	Endangered Soufflé
Are You Being Served? / int_6bfebfe2	comment	Endangered SoufflÃ©: In "Take-over", Mr. Humphries was trying to hold down a souffle that was growing out of control.
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Are You Being Served? / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Are You Being Served? / int_6d7026fa	comment	Mrs. Yardswick is a member of National Association of Canteen Employees, Restaurant and Domestic (NACERD).
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Are You Being Served? / int_6d722dcd	type	When I Was Your Age...
Are You Being Served? / int_6d722dcd	comment	When I Was Your Age...: Mrs. Slocombe will complain about a junior salesperson's behavior or attitude by stating, "When I was a junior ... .".
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Are You Being Served? / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Are You Being Served? / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: "Christmas Crackers" (Series 3), "The Father Christmas Affair" (Series 4), "Happy Returns" (Series 6), "The Punch and Judy Affair" (Series 7), "Roots?" (Series 8).
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Are You Being Served? / int_6f33059b	type	Iconic Outfit
Are You Being Served? / int_6f33059b	comment	Iconic Outfit: Captain Peacock's Outdated Outfit, complete with red carnation. The saleswomen's and lift girls' uniforms.
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Are You Being Served? / int_6f9da277	type	A Foggy Day in London Town
Are You Being Served? / int_6f9da277	comment	A Foggy Day in London Town: In the episode "A Bliss Girl", the fog has entered the building, and into the elevator. The episode also starts with Mr. Harman singing the George Gershwin song of that name.
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Are You Being Served? / int_6ff7c60e	type	Queer People Are Funny
Are You Being Served? / int_6ff7c60e	comment	Queer People Are Funny: Mr. Humphries (not that it was ever made explicit in the show).
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Are You Being Served? / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Are You Being Served? / int_722b3319	comment	Mr. Humphries, associate (later senior) assistant on the Men's counter. Ambiguously Camp Gay: the general confusion about his sexual orientation made up much of the show's jokes. Among his perennial gags was the substitution of a deep baritone for his usual effeminate voice when answering the telephone.
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Are You Being Served? / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Are You Being Served? / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: It's shared around pretty equally; the characters' intelligence level can be extremely variable. However, Miss Brahms seems to get stuck with it a lot later in the series, which is odd considering she was generally quite smart earlier in the series.
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Are You Being Served? / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Are You Being Served? / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: Mr. Harman is multitalented and, therefore, frequently helps, in various roles, the Ladies and Gents staff members (getting extra pay for it doesn't hurt, either). His powers are highly evident in "Take-over", when he finds out about the plot point "emptying the waste-paper basket" and comes up with his own plan for saving the firm. Whereas Mr. Harman played this role straight, it was subverted by the original character, Mr. Mash. On the rare occasion that Mash actually attempted such things, he usually would fail (such as his role in trying to get a fairer coffee break).
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Are You Being Served? / int_746569a5	type	Embarrassing Cover-Up
Are You Being Served? / int_746569a5	comment	The entire conversation in the canteen in "The Hero", as the staff discuss Captain Peacock's "misfortune". Put simply, he was the Butt-Monkey for the episode!
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Are You Being Served? / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Are You Being Served? / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Young Mr. Grace was said to have gone on a sabbatical to write a book when actor Harold Bennett became too infirm to continue in the role. However, he appeared once to say good-bye and made one cameo before Bennett died.
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Are You Being Served? / int_75588c15	type	Transatlantic Equivalent
Are You Being Served? / int_75588c15	comment	Transatlantic Equivalent: A spinoff of sorts was created in Australia, in which Mr. Humphries decides to work in a Melbourne store for a while. All the episodes, save one, were re-stagings of episodes from the original series, save for a minor tweak here or there to fit the new setting. Suspiciously Similar Substitutes filled out the rest of the cast. An American version, produced by Garry Marshall and titled Beane's of Boston, was attempted in 1979 but didn't make it past the pilot stage.
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Are You Being Served? / int_76305de0	type	Elevator Floor Announcement
Are You Being Served? / int_76305de0	comment	Elevator Floor Announcement: The show's Thematic Theme Tune has this. ("Ground floor: Perfumery, / Stationery and leather goods"). So good it was turned into a techno dance number, Are U Being Served? by Australian band Regurgitator. It rocks.
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Are You Being Served? / int_76a5eaf8	type	Spotlight-Stealing Squad
Are You Being Served? / int_76a5eaf8	comment	Spotlight-Stealing Squad: When the programme began, Mr. Humphries (John Inman) was a prominent secondary character supporting Mr. Lucas (Trevor Bannister). By the time Trevor Bannister left the series, Mr. Humphries had become the lead, with Mr. Lucas supporting him. The credits were altered to reflect this, with Trevor Bannister often getting fourth billing during his final year in the cast. As Mr. Humphries got an increasing share of the laughs, the senior salesmen were also pushed to the margins. By the 8th series, they only speak a couple of times per episode; the following season, the role was eliminated. This was taken up to eleven in the Australian remake of the series, also starring John Inman. It used Recycled Scripts, but altered them so that Mr. Humphries got the maximum possible number of laugh lines, and was almost always the focus, even if this required him to act noticeably out of character. Most of the scripts came from early seasons that usually had Mr. Lucas bumbling or stirring up trouble; two things perennial apple-polisher Humphries was unlikely to do.
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Are You Being Served? / int_77759d87	type	Whoopee Cushion
Are You Being Served? / int_77759d87	comment	Whoopee Cushion: Mrs. Slocombe is greeted with one in her first day as "Mrs. Slocombe, Senior Person". It came with a note:
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Are You Being Served? / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Are You Being Served? / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Invoked with increasing frequency as new senior salesmen were introduced on the show. When Mr. Tebbs, Mr. Grossman, and Mr. Klein are introduced, it is mentioned that they have previously worked elsewhere in the store, and the rest of the cast nod in recognition. In Mr. Tebbs' case, Mr. Lucas and Mr. Humphries note with some alarm that he and Capt. Peacock are already on first-names terms. None of these characters had ever been seen nor mentioned before. This is not too jarring, as over the years, dozens of other store workers were mentioned but never seen. Mr. Harman appears in Mr. Mash's place without a word of introduction, already knowing all the characters by name, as if he had been there from day one.
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Are You Being Served? / int_79b16b48	type	Japanese Ranguage
Are You Being Served? / int_79b16b48	comment	Japanese Ranguage: In "The Hand of Fate", a Japanese Tourist came into the store with his "Cledit Caa" (Sooooooo!). Captain Peacock's attempts to communicate with him are at least as hilarious as the tourist himself ("You wanty buy?" "Whaty-wanty?") Also:
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Are You Being Served? / int_7b5c69c8	type	Dirty Old Woman
Are You Being Served? / int_7b5c69c8	comment	Dirty Old Woman: Mrs. Slocombe, and it's never plainer than when gossipping with her junior. Consider this scene when Miss Brahms is about to throw away a number she picked up and Mrs. Slocombe stops her from "littering the floor":
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Are You Being Served? / int_7d18b45b	type	Sound Defect
Are You Being Served? / int_7d18b45b	comment	Sound Defect: In one episode, the staff of Grace Brothers are performing a radio play. Captain Peacock's character arrives at a pub and asks for a pint. The sound effect of the pint being poured is created by a jug of water being poured into a bowl from a significant height, and sounds more like somebody urinating. Miss Brahms, playing the barmaid, says "I bet you were dying for that".
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Are You Being Served? / int_815db542	type	Phony Veteran
Are You Being Served? / int_815db542	comment	Phony Veteran: Captain Peacock may well have served in North Africa during the War, but one doubts he saw much action in the Royal Army Service Corps.note That's the logistics branch of the Army, for those unacquainted. According to a line from Mrs. Slocombe, Captain Peacock claims to have, "...fought hand-to-hand with Rommel". Mr. Goldberg served in North Africa as well and recounts a tale of as Corporal Peacock executing some embarrassing drunken shenanigans. Captain Peacock brushes this off as someone with the same name. Mr. Goldberg then adds that Cpl. Peacock had a tattoo that read "Death before Dishonor" and points out how hard tattoos are to remove. Captain Peacock gets visibly flustered and quickly changes the subject.
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Are You Being Served? / int_819bef18	type	Deus ex 'Scuse Me
Are You Being Served? / int_819bef18	comment	Deus ex 'Scuse Me: How Mrs. Slocombe and Mrs. Peacock meet in "Oh What a Tangled Web".
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Are You Being Served? / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
Are You Being Served? / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: Mr. Humphries's full name is "Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries". Mr. Harman's first name is "Beverly". Mr. Rumbold's first name is "Cuthbert". Mr. Lucas's first namenote Initially given as James in an early episode is "Dick", which everyone else seems to find hysterical.
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Are You Being Served? / int_83975f3b	type	Convenient Replacement Character
Are You Being Served? / int_83975f3b	comment	Convenient Replacement Character: Just about all the replacement characters fell into this category, but the fact that in Season 8, Senior salesman Mr. Grossman was replaced after four episodes with another character of the same age and temperament seems just a little TOO convenient.
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Are You Being Served? / int_842426f3	type	Grande Dame
Are You Being Served? / int_842426f3	comment	Grande Dame: Mrs. Slocombe affects this trope much of the time. When angry or flustered, however, she backslides to her "vulgar" working class roots (sometimes in the middle of a sentence).
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Are You Being Served? / int_849af6e1	type	Dragged into Drag
Are You Being Served? / int_849af6e1	comment	Dragged into Drag: Guess who falls victim to this to compete in Grace Brothers' "Holiday Girl Outfit" contest in "Front Page News"?
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Are You Being Served? / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Are You Being Served? / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Literally. The runaway clockwork mouse that led to the chain of antics in "The Hero" was confiscated by Cpt Peacock. He got Laser-Guided Karma for this (and more) but the mouse was never seen or referenced again.
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Are You Being Served? / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Are You Being Served? / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Mrs. Slocombe to Mr. Humphries. Although she appears to understand on some level that Mr. Humphries is not attracted to her, she continues to pursue marriage with him in the later episodes of the series. Mr. Humphries lacks the nerve to reject her, and he narrowly misses having relations with her out of sheer luck.
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Are You Being Served? / int_895ec17	type	Only in It for the Money
Are You Being Served? / int_895ec17	comment	Only in It for the Money: The only motivation for being involved in a Zany Scheme. The stated reason for the Ladies' and Gents' departments being the only ones to cross the picket line in "The Punch and Judy Affair".note Though it was also mentioned that the floor staff and the striking workers belonged to different unions, only one of which was on strike.
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Are You Being Served? / int_89cab870	type	Tuckerisation
Are You Being Served? / int_89cab870	comment	Tuckerisation: Mr. Harman was named after Blog Harman, a houseman at one of the schools David Croft attended.
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Are You Being Served? / int_8af2a61f	type	Camping Episode
Are You Being Served? / int_8af2a61f	comment	Camping Episode: In "Camping In" a transport strike forces the staff to stay in the store overnight using tents from the sporting-goods department.
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Are You Being Served? / int_8cb259f4	type	Overshadowed by Awesome
Are You Being Served? / int_8cb259f4	comment	Overshadowed by Awesome: According to some accounts, Trevor Bannister, for whom the show was intended as a vehicle, eventually left the show because he felt he was overshadowed by the other actors' and their pantomime/music hall performances. Bannister himself, however, actually denied this and stated that the real reason he left was that he simply felt that the scripts were becoming too repetitive.
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Are You Being Served? / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
Are You Being Served? / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: Mrs. Slocombe, nÃ©e Mary Elizabeth Jennifer Rachel Abergavenny Yiddell.
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Are You Being Served? / int_92587498	type	Five-Man Band
Are You Being Served? / int_92587498	comment	Mr. Grainger, the elderly, cantankerous senior assistant in menswear. He was later replaced by the progressively younger and less cantankerous Mr. Tebbs, then Mr. Goldberg, then Mr. Grossman, and finally Mr. Klein. For the final few seasons, this role was removed, reducing the core cast to a Five-Man Band.
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Are You Being Served? / int_9320c28e	type	Movie-Making Mess
Are You Being Served? / int_9320c28e	comment	Movie-Making Mess: The second half of "It Pays to Advertise" is taken up with the Grace Bros. staff's disastrous attempt to film a cinema/TV advert for the store, with Mr. Humphries directing. Mrs. Slocombe's eyes keep getting stuck closed by her false eyelashes, Mr. Grainger's jacket is too big and his trousers too small, the radio mike Mr. Harman (acting as sound man) instructs Mr. Lucas (acting as boom mike operator) to put on Mrs. Slocombe ends up falling down the front of her dress and picking up the noise of her digestive system, the accordion Mr. Rumbold has been given to play as a gypsy musician makes sounds of flatulence instead of music... all converging in a perfect comedy of errors when they try to do a take. The hat check ticket Miss Brahms gives Captain Peacock is covered in her saliva after she holds it in her mouth, Mr. Grainger accidentally squirts Captain Peacock with a soda siphon, Mrs. Slocombe's bar stool gets stuck to her backside, and when Young Mr. Grace goes in front of the camera to pour himself a glass of champagne, he misses the glass by over a foot.
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Are You Being Served? / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
Are You Being Served? / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: Mr. Humphries
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Are You Being Served? / int_980647af	type	Visible Boom Mic
Are You Being Served? / int_980647af	comment	Visible Boom Mic: In "By Appointment", one dips into the frame when Mr. Humphries gets into position right before Young Mr. Grace's speech. In the next episode, "The Club", another one is visible while the staff lay down the wallpaper on the table.
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Are You Being Served? / int_99244825	type	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation
Are You Being Served? / int_99244825	comment	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation: In the summer of 1976, a stage adaptation ran at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool. Directed by Robert Redfarn, John Inman, Mollie Sugden, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard, and Nicholas Smith reprised their characters while Mr. Lucas, Mr. Grainger, and Mr. Mash were recast. The play had basically the same plot as the film version which would debut the next year, though Young Mr. Grace's role was omitted entirely and Mr. Mash had less to do than Mr. Harman in the film. The play has occasionally been run at other theatres since.
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Are You Being Served? / int_99699561	type	Questioning Title?
Are You Being Served? / int_99699561	comment	Questioning Title?
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Are You Being Served? / int_9abe931d	type	Quicksand Sucks
Are You Being Served? / int_9abe931d	comment	Quicksand Sucks: The display of "Is It Catching?" falls victim to this, going almost completely under by the next scene transition.
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Are You Being Served? / int_9c6ba43a	type	Values Dissonance
Are You Being Served? / int_9c6ba43a	comment	Captain Peacock was a milder version as the show went on. He started with a reputation for being handsy with young women on staff, particularly Miss Brahms and particularly at Christmas parties. As the show went on and Values Dissonance set in, he was mellowed into a man with a taste for younger ladies and troubles being faithful to his wife. He and Miss Belfridge were particularly fond of one another, but whether they actually had an affair was left ambiguous.
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Are You Being Served? / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Are You Being Served? / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Mr. Spooner in "The Pop Star".
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Are You Being Served? / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Are You Being Served? / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The penultimate episode of the original series, "Friends and Neighbors", finds the staff sharing apartments at the top of the store. The next series finds them all sharing an old country manor.
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Are You Being Served? / int_9e622f84	type	Stealing from the Till
Are You Being Served? / int_9e622f84	comment	Stealing from the Till: Mr. Humphries is accused of doing this in "Conduct Unbecoming" and asked to resign. Fortunately, Almighty Janitor Mr. Harman finds that the till is faulty, and the missing pound notes were actually jammed into the back.
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Are You Being Served? / int_a10775b7	type	Mean Boss
Are You Being Served? / int_a10775b7	comment	Mr. Rumbold was generally and genuinely clueless about running the store, albeit kinder to the staff and more well-intentioned than a lot of other PHBs. In fact, pretty much all the higher-ups at Grace Bros. could be classified as either "well-meaning but incompetent" or "knowledgable but with a big stick up their arse".
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Are You Being Served? / int_a3f1531b	type	Standard Snippet
Are You Being Served? / int_a3f1531b	comment	One of the Standard Snippets featured in "The Ballet of the Toys" is "Teddy Bear Picnic", a song featured on the same album on which star John Inman sang the title theme (which would later be used for the Australian version of the show).
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Are You Being Served? / int_a426ae28	type	Multiple-Choice Past
Are You Being Served? / int_a426ae28	comment	Multiple-Choice Past: Captain Peacock could never quite keep straight his stories of just what he did in World War II.
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Are You Being Served? / int_a56c59ac	type	Historical Character Confusion
Are You Being Served? / int_a56c59ac	comment	Historical Character Confusion: Mr. Grainger comments that a plan the staff come up to avoid starting work earlier sounds like something Bulldog Drummond would have come up with to defeat Oscar Peterson. It has to be pointed out to him that Oscar Peterson is a pianist, and that Bulldog Drummond's arch-nemesis was Carl Peterson.
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Are You Being Served? / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Are You Being Served? / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: British wrestling legend "Mr. TV" Jackie Pallo pretty much played himself in the Pro Wrestling Episode. He even did all of his best known moves to Mr. Humphries before being beaten up by Mrs. Slocombe.
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Are You Being Served? / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Are You Being Served? / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Some of the peripheral characters became near-regulars by the seriesâ€™ end. Take the canteen manageress, who first appeared in the third series Christmas special, with three short lines. Until Series 7, she appeared once a year, if at all. By the tenth series, she was appearing in nearly every episode and regularly interacting with the staff. Miss Belfridge, from the final two series, was the only secretary to get non-office scenes on a regular basis (in addition to the typical office scenes).
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Are You Being Served? / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
Are You Being Served? / int_a806691d	comment	Mr. Lucas, junior assistant on the Men's counter. A borderline Casanova Wannabe, often in trouble for minor violations of the store's baroque codes of conduct (for example, his failure to display a properly fluted pocket handkerchief). Mr. Lucas was well-known for being almost predictably late — he usually attempted to cover it by signing false names in the work register, but this backfired when Captain Peacock dryly pointed out that the majority of the names Mr. Lucas chose were either celebrities, fictional, dead, or a combination thereof. He was later substituted in favor of Mr. Spooner, essentially the same character reduced to a secondary role.
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Are You Being Served? / int_a8556a04	type	Video Credits
Are You Being Served? / int_a8556a04	comment	Video Credits: Since the episodes are practically teleplays, the clips are of the actors — sometimes not in-character — after completing the episode. This is a hallmark of writer David Croft.
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Are You Being Served? / int_a8e6393d	type	Nose Tapping
Are You Being Served? / int_a8e6393d	comment	Nose Tapping: By Mr. Humphries in "Goodbye Mrs. Slocombe".
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Are You Being Served? / int_ac4fcf2b	type	Work Com
Are You Being Served? / int_ac4fcf2b	comment	Work Com: Well, duh.
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Are You Being Served? / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Are You Being Served? / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: In "It Pays to Advertise", it is either one extended moment or several in rapid sequence when Mr. Humphries pretends to be his own dummy.
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Are You Being Served? / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Are You Being Served? / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Mr. Harman and Miss Brahms in the classic sense of the term. Mr. Lucas without the deadpan aspect.
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Are You Being Served? / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Are You Being Served? / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: The signature exchange for one character (usually Captain Peacock) to get the attention of another is to ask, "[Character's name], are you free?" Mr. Humphries' delivery of "I'm free!" also appears at least once in almost every episode. Any visit from Young Mr. Grace will conclude with him waving his walking stick (as his valet, Godard — or his nurse in later series — tries to keep him from falling over) and exclaiming, "You've all done very well!" To which the staff unenthusiastically mutter, "Thank you, Mr. Grace" while bowing. Whenever something happens to give Mr. Grainger a shock, Mr. Humphries will call, "Glass of water for Mr. Grainger", and for which Mr. Lucas will reply with "Glass of water coming up!" Mrs. Slocombe's preferred concluding phrase for any sort of ultimatum is, "And I am unanimous in that". Meanwhile, if the male characters hesitate in stepping forward when the situation calls for action, she will angrily mutter, "Weak as water!" Whatever the ill-fitting part of the item of clothing the staff have just sold, they will invariably assure the customer, "They'll ride up with wear" (Acknowledged in several episodes to be pure fiction intended solely to complete the sale). If one character, usually Mrs. Slocombe, gets uncomfortable with the conversational tangent pursued by Miss Brahms, she will be cut off with a simple "That will do, Miss Brahms". Mr. Humphries answering the phone (in an obviously fake very deep voice): "Menswear".
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Are You Being Served? / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Are You Being Served? / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Miss Brahms always had elements of this but the fanservice really took off with the addition of Miss Belfridge. Even the Canteen manageress took a turn—in a bunny outfit—in "The Night Club", two episodes before the finale.
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Are You Being Served? / int_b5788780	type	Jewish and Nerdy
Are You Being Served? / int_b5788780	comment	Jewish and Nerdy: One of Mr. Goldberg's signature traits is his skill at mental maths. Also, after the fashion (i.e. broad ethnic humour) of the show, the first time he demonstrates his skill, he sounds like Orthodox Jewish prayer (with the book in hand and the chanting and all).
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Are You Being Served? / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
Are You Being Served? / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: In "Shedding the Load", two for one in one Noodle Incident: Cpt Peacock objects to Mr. Harman about a female mannequin being displayed "without knickers": Cpt Peacock's Berserk Button in "A Personal Problem" is one word: blancmange.
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Are You Being Served? / int_b5bae968	type	Ballet Episode
Are You Being Served? / int_b5bae968	comment	Ballet Episode: "Happy Returns" tries to be this, but the main characters' plans are waylaid by another group's plans to perform The Ballet of the Toys. "Strong Stuff This Insurance" sees the staff getting ballet lessons in an attempt to execute an insurance scheme.
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Are You Being Served? / int_b652fd1	type	Blitz Evacuees
Are You Being Served? / int_b652fd1	comment	Blitz Evacuees: Mrs. Slocombe continually mentions having been a "Land Girl" during the war. She celebrated her 50th birthday in 1976, which would fit with her having been a Land Girl towards the end of the war. Her experience is elaborated upon (to her repeat embarrassment) when the cast retire to the country in Grace And Favour.
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Are You Being Served? / int_b6af057e	type	Double Vision
Are You Being Served? / int_b6af057e	comment	Mr. Rumbold also has an identical brother, Mycroft, who appears in "Roots?" in a Double Vision scene.
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Are You Being Served? / int_b9fc31d3	type	Victoria's Secret Compartment
Are You Being Served? / int_b9fc31d3	comment	Victoria's Secret Compartment: Where Miss Brahms kept her radio play submission for "Calling All Customers".
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Are You Being Served? / int_bb660963	type	Color-Coded Characters
Are You Being Served? / int_bb660963	comment	Color-Coded Characters: The female sales assistants and lift girls wear dark brown uniforms (except in the first series, when the lift girls wore red) with the Grace Bros. logo. Upper-level male staff are entitled to wear a red carnation (and not a variegated color as Captain Peacock found out the hard way in "The Old Order Changes"). The Packing and Maintenance Department wear light brown overcoats with the Grace Bros. logo.
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Are You Being Served? / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Are You Being Served? / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Mrs. Slocombe in "Do You Take This Man?" when Captain Peacock breaks the news that her prospective groom was already married. Bonus points for one of the two consecutive profanities being an ethnic slur towards Mediterraneans.
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Are You Being Served? / int_bc2139f8	type	We Sell Everything
Are You Being Served? / int_bc2139f8	comment	We Sell Everything: Try to keep track of the number of departments inside Grace Brothers, from Wigs to Joke products to Do-It-Yourself.
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Are You Being Served? / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Are You Being Served? / int_bc74ef27	comment	Cpt Peacock's Berserk Button in "A Personal Problem" is one word: blancmange.
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Are You Being Served? / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
Are You Being Served? / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: Done on multiple occasions by Mr. Humphries, typically as a silent collapse into the arms of his coworkers.
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Are You Being Served? / int_bf7c7825	type	He Who Must Not Be Heard
Are You Being Served? / int_bf7c7825	comment	He Who Must Not Be Heard: Goddard, Young Mr. Grace's chauffeur during the first six series, never said a word during his numerous appearances. Also, Young Mr. Grace's original unnamed nurse never said a word.
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Are You Being Served? / int_c08a4897	type	Elderly Blue-Haired Lady
Are You Being Served? / int_c08a4897	comment	Elderly Blue/Grey/Pink/Purple/Orange/Red/Yellow/Green Haired Lady: Mrs. Slocombe
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Are You Being Served? / int_c0d32460	type	Sexy Secretary
Are You Being Served? / int_c0d32460	comment	Sexy Secretary: Young Mr. Grace (and his brother Old Mr. Grace) had multiple sexy secretaries during the series. Just the sight of them often put quite a lot of stress on his weak heart, and in the sequel series Grace and Favour, a sexy secretary's bikini top popped off (off-screen, of course), and gave Young Mr. Grace a fatal heart attack. Miss Belfridge under Mr. Rumbold.
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Are You Being Served? / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Are You Being Served? / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: Mrs. Diana Yardswick, the Canteen manageress, is a member of National Associated Canteen Employees, Restaurant and Domestic (NACERD).
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Are You Being Served? / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Are You Being Served? / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Numerous characters disappear without explanation or acknowledgement, most notably Mr. Lucasnote A later episode may have provided an answer by mentioning that the previous time sales had been as slow as that day, they fired the junior; how official an explanation it is is never made clear. and Mr. Grainger. Other characters who succumb to the syndrome include Mr. Mash, Mr. Goldberg, Mr. Grossman, and Mr. Klein, as well as numerous recurring secretaries and staff of Mr. Rumbold and both Grace brothers.
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Are You Being Served? / int_c3943bf3	type	Pilot
Are You Being Served? / int_c3943bf3	comment	Pilot: Originally aired as an episode of the anthology show Comedy Playhouse. The original master tape was unfortunately wiped, which is why for years the episode was only available in black and white (it was restored to color in 2010) and why it has such poor video quality compared with the other episodes.
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Are You Being Served? / int_c5606510	type	Social Semi-Circle
Are You Being Served? / int_c5606510	comment	Social Semi-Circle: None of the actors have their back to the camera when sitting at a table or gathered in a meeting. Instead they leave one side of the table empty or line up.
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Are You Being Served? / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
Are You Being Served? / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: Happens in several episodes, for example, Mr. Humphries was once detained for having a "suspicious-looking bulge" from an orange in his pocket.
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Are You Being Served? / int_c6fdd74f	type	Having a Heart
Are You Being Served? / int_c6fdd74f	comment	Having a Heart: In an episode where the staff are dressed in American costumes as part of young Mr. Grace's latest scheme to boost sales, Miss Brahms looks at Mr. Lucas who wearing a shirt open to the waist and comments that she never knew he had a hairy chest. Mr. Lucas replies that he's had it for years, then removes his chest wig and hands it to her.
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Are You Being Served? / int_ca855eaf	type	Love Letter Lunacy
Are You Being Served? / int_ca855eaf	comment	Love Letter Lunacy: In the first-season episode "Dear Sexy Knickers", a saucy note is delivered to the wrong person, who misunderstands who it's from. And when the sender is identified, the recipient is misunderstood. In the meantime, innocent people are cussed out and much Hilarity Ensues.
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Are You Being Served? / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Are You Being Served? / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Both of Young Mr. Grace's nurses, even though the second one appeared in every episode for three series. To a lesser degree, Mr. Rumbold's original secretary and the porters.
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Are You Being Served? / int_cc54402b	type	Sausage String Silliness
Are You Being Served? / int_cc54402b	comment	Sausage String Silliness: The staff rehearses a live-action Punch and Judy show for the children of Grace Bros. employees. Mr. Goldberg plays a butcher and Punch (Mr. Lucas) gets in a tug of war with him over a string of sausages.
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Are You Being Served? / int_cd1b0fcc	type	Prima Donna Director
Are You Being Served? / int_cd1b0fcc	comment	Prima Donna Director: Mr. Humphries, whenever the cast puts on a show.
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Are You Being Served? / int_d0caee40	type	Uncanny Family Resemblance
Are You Being Served? / int_d0caee40	comment	Uncanny Family Resemblance: Mr. Humphries' mother is, naturally, John Inman. In one episode, Mr. Humphries dresses up as her so he can fill in for her at her job. Mr. Rumbold also has an identical brother, Mycroft, who appears in "Roots?" in a Double Vision scene.
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Are You Being Served? / int_d4e586b4	type	Aftershow
Are You Being Served? / int_d4e586b4	comment	The ladies' department was "Ladies' Intimate Apparel" — in other words, lingerie. The department gradually evolved to sell ladies' wear of all kinds. The last one is possibly justified when one remembers that the pilot of the After Show mentions that they were the only departments left when the store closed; presumably the ladies' wear departments were consolidated over time to cut costs.
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Are You Being Served? / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Are You Being Served? / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Mr. Graceâ€™s personal nurse is never called anything but â€œNurseâ€�, even though she appears in every single episode for three consecutive series.
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Are You Being Served? / int_d8e40b47	type	El Spanish "-o"
Are You Being Served? / int_d8e40b47	comment	El Spanish "-o": A Japanese version, when a tourist comes to Grace Brothers.
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Are You Being Served? / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Are You Being Served? / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Mrs. Slocombe's choices of hair color, including pink, green, purple, and others, are never remarked upon in the entire series. This was likely a reference/homage to Raymond "Mr. Teasy Weasy" Bessone, a flamboyant London celebrity hairdresser popular in the 30s through to the 60s known for dyeing women's hair outlandish colours.
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Are You Being Served? / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Are You Being Served? / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In "Front Page Story", this is Miss Brahms' reaction to the "second part of the prize" of the Holiday Girl contest.
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Are You Being Served? / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
Are You Being Served? / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: More a remake than a spin-off but the Australian version had Mr Humphreys move to Australia and work in a department store with similar characters.
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Are You Being Served? / int_da0eeab5	type	Breakout Character
Are You Being Served? / int_da0eeab5	comment	Breakout Character: The concept was originally to have Mr. Lucas and Miss Brahms as the leads, being the younger and more normal characters. However, Mrs. Slocombe and Mr. Humphries stole the spotlight.
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Are You Being Served? / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Are You Being Served? / int_dc3b74bc	comment	Pointy-Haired Boss: Mr. Rumbold was generally and genuinely clueless about running the store, albeit kinder to the staff and more well-intentioned than a lot of other PHBs. In fact, pretty much all the higher-ups at Grace Bros. could be classified as either "well-meaning but incompetent" or "knowledgable but with a big stick up their arse". Much of the senior staff at Grace Brothers could fit this category. Mr. Rumbold is the most blatant example, but a recurring theme is that everyone in a position of authority at the store is incompetent in one way or another; Captain Peacock is a blowhard, Mrs. Slocombe is far too self-absorbed to be much help to anything except for her pussy, Mr. Grainger is worn-out and well past the point when he should have retired, and Young Mr. Grace is virtually senile. Only Mr. Humphries can handle additional responsibilities while escaping mostly unscathed.
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Are You Being Served? / int_de0d9b2a	type	Alter Kocker
Are You Being Served? / int_de0d9b2a	comment	Also, a cranky German couple in "German Week", and Japanese businessmen looking to take over the store in "Monkey Business". Also, short-lived regular Mr. Grossman was an Alter Kocker example.
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Are You Being Served? / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
Are You Being Served? / int_df582b0b	comment	Continuity Snarl: Mr. Humphries mentioning in the pilot (presumed to take place on February 5, 1973) he'd been at Grace Brothers for 10 years, his mentioning in "The Hand of Fate" (premiered in 1975) that he'd been at Grace Brothers for 15 years, and Mrs. Slocombe turning 50 in "Fifty Years On" (in which she's hinted to have been born in 1926) don't really mesh well together.
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Are You Being Served? / int_df88ce42	type	Sexy Santa Dress
Are You Being Served? / int_df88ce42	comment	Sexy Santa Dress: Mr. Humphries wears one in "The Father Christmas Affair".
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Are You Being Served? / int_e144beb6	type	Everything Is an Instrument
Are You Being Served? / int_e144beb6	comment	Everything Is an Instrument: The opening musique concrete theme started with cash register sounds forming a melody. This was a couple years before Pink Floyd's "Money".
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Are You Being Served? / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Are You Being Served? / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: The staff nearly always address one another in this manner. Sometimes a well-meaning person tries to change this, and it only makes everyone visibly uncomfortable.
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Are You Being Served? / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Are You Being Served? / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Mr. Humphries most of the time. As the series progressed, there were increasing suggestions that Mr. Humphries was actually attracted to women...predominantlynote John Inman insisted he played Humphries as Camp Straight, but few believed him.
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Are You Being Served? / int_e3d5ba34	type	Slippery Skid
Are You Being Served? / int_e3d5ba34	comment	Slippery Skid: Mr. Mash and Mr. Lucas staged one of these in an attempt to get Mr. Lucas off work for the day. Mash makes a big show of spilling cleaning fluid on the stairs, then loudly moans in Mr. Lucas' direction that he hopes no one slips on it.
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Are You Being Served? / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
Are You Being Served? / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen: Mrs. Slocombe's oft mentioned but never seen friend, Mrs. Axelby. Also, Mrs. Slocumbe's beloved cat, Tiddles, is often mentioned and seen twice using props, but the actual cat is never seen during the course of the series, though she (or, given how much time had passed, one by the same name) shows up in the spin off, Grace and Favour.
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Are You Being Served? / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Are You Being Served? / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Captain Peacock insists on being referred to by his military rank. This is a reference to the tradition of retired senior officers in the (real) British Army continuing to use their titles in civilian life. However, it is only proper to do this if you have reached the rank of Majornote The Real Life person on whom Captain Peacock was based, for example, who was a director — not a floorwalker — called Major Huskisson; consider also "The Major" from Fawlty Towers or another "Major" from Keeping Up Appearances — which is one above Peacock's rank of Captain. This is another sign that his military service career is not what it seems to be. A real British Army Captain wouldn't dare try getting away with using his title in civilian life. If he were a British Navy Captain, it would be quite proper, but he uses the fact that he was in the Army to explain why he's younger than a Navy Captain would be.
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Are You Being Served? / int_e5fb3d1f	type	Hey, Let's Put on a Show
Are You Being Served? / int_e5fb3d1f	comment	Hey, Let's Put on a Show: Done pretty frequently in the latter seasons, often in celebration of Mr. Grace's birthday.
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Are You Being Served? / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Are You Being Served? / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Nicholas Smith (Mr. Rumbold) played the part of a middle manager who had served in the Second World War, but he was in reality only five months older than Trevor Bannister (Mr. Lucas), who portrayed a junior who had been at school during the War.
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Are You Being Served? / int_ead7e2d6	type	Kaleidoscope Hair
Are You Being Served? / int_ead7e2d6	comment	Kaleidoscope Hair: Mrs. Slocombe wears wigs, but every one is a different color.note Though only from the second series onward; in the first series, Mollie Sugden had to bleach and dye her hair as there was no budget for wigs.
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Are You Being Served? / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Are You Being Served? / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Mr. Humphries gives a customer one in "Cold Store" to help Miss Brahms get his inside leg (long story). Mr. Lucas gets one courtesy of a toy horse in "Happy Returns".
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Are You Being Served? / int_ec8290b6	type	Snap Back
Are You Being Served? / int_ec8290b6	comment	Subverted in the episode "Goodbye Mrs. Slocombe": in the end, the management expands the policy, sending two other characters to an early retirement (Of course, this is all fixed in the Snap Back).
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Are You Being Served? / int_edcc813f	type	Fantastic Caste System
Are You Being Served? / int_edcc813f	comment	Fantastic Caste System: Grace Brothers' workforce is strictly stratified (parodying the British class system) and even has rules about what sort of hats each of the different staff members are allowed to wear (mocking the British class system's hat culture), as Captain Peacock bitterly found out when he decided to wear a bowler hat to work one morning.
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Are You Being Served? / int_edd102ba	type	Soul-Sucking Retail Job
Are You Being Served? / int_edd102ba	comment	Soul-Sucking Retail Job: The Ur-Example.
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Are You Being Served? / int_f0c0635f	type	Sultry Belly Dancer
Are You Being Served? / int_f0c0635f	comment	Sultry Belly Dancer: In "Fire Practice", an Arab Emir wants to buy some trousers from Grace Brothers. After Captain Peacock refuses payment of a goat, and then a handmade rug, the Emir offers a wife which Peacock also refuses. However, when the woman takes off her burka and does a sensual belly dance, he's tempted to reconsider.
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Are You Being Served? / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
Are You Being Served? / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": In "Cold Store", Mr. Mash does this when sabotaging the stairs with the intention of getting Mr. Lucas off early. In "Forward Mr. Grainger", when Mr. Rumbold asks Captain Peacock to "act suitably surprised" when publicly announcing something that Rumbold had already told Peacock in confidence, Peacock's reactions are hilariously stilted.
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Are You Being Served? / int_f21e2819	type	Making a Spectacle of Yourself
Are You Being Served? / int_f21e2819	comment	Making a Spectacle of Yourself: Mr. Humphries seems to prefer flamboyant sunglasses.
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Are You Being Served? / int_f432c6bf	type	Glad I Thought of It
Are You Being Served? / int_f432c6bf	comment	Glad I Thought of It: In "The Think Tank", Mr. Rumbold appropriates Captain Peacock's idea for a store fashion show. This backfires on him when Young Mr. Grace tells him it's a rotten idea.
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Are You Being Served? / int_f4cd67af	type	Bob from Accounting
Are You Being Served? / int_f4cd67af	comment	Bob from Accounting: Or, shall we say, Mr. Patel from Accounting. The staff make frequent references to the Accounts Department, and how all of them are Asian, and in one episode, Mr. Patel from Accounts does appear.
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Are You Being Served? / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Are You Being Served? / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Not on the original (it is forbidden under The BBC's rules), but Diners Club is featured prominently on the counters of the Australian version.
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Are You Being Served? / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Are You Being Served? / int_f5a3e496	comment	A spinoff of sorts was created in Australia, in which Mr. Humphries decides to work in a Melbourne store for a while. All the episodes, save one, were re-stagings of episodes from the original series, save for a minor tweak here or there to fit the new setting. Suspiciously Similar Substitutes filled out the rest of the cast.
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Are You Being Served? / int_f5ab45cb	type	Incompetence, Inc.
Are You Being Served? / int_f5ab45cb	comment	Incompetence, Inc.: Grace Brothers is a declining old fashioned British department store run by two doddering old men whose managerial practices are hopelessly outdated and out of touch with reality while the staff continually bicker among themselves in petty rivalries for privileges and sales quotas.
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Are You Being Served? / int_f5e4b663	type	Walk This Way
Are You Being Served? / int_f5e4b663	comment	Walk This Way: In "Fire Practice", a visiting Arab sheikh's interpreter after being told to ask his master to "walk this way" stared at Mr. Humphries' mincing walk and replied, "It's more than my job's worth!"
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Are You Being Served? / int_f645ee0d	type	Never Win the Lottery
Are You Being Served? / int_f645ee0d	comment	Never Win the Lottery: In the episode "Goodbye Mr. Grainger": old Mr. Grainger resigns after a bad depression, but the depression lifts when he discovers that he won a First Drawing in the pools. He buys the entire staff farewell gifts, and they discover that he didn't win anything. So they just club the money together that the gifts cost, tell him he just won that much, and manage to intercept his resignation before the boss reads it.
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Are You Being Served? / int_f6b1c9f3	type	"You!" Exclamation
Are You Being Served? / int_f6b1c9f3	comment	"You!" Exclamation: In "Sit Out", Mr. Humphries and a fireman astonishedly recognise each other.
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Are You Being Served? / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Are You Being Served? / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: The time Mrs. Slocombe and Mr. Humphries try to get fired, they respectively try to insult and rudely proposition customers. Mrs. Slocombe's customer praises her for her extreme honesty and writes a note of commendation to the management. Mr. Humphries' customer welcomes the proposition and also writes the management to let him to know when to rendezvous with her.
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Are You Being Served? / int_f8e52439	type	Birthday Episode
Are You Being Served? / int_f8e52439	comment	Birthday Episode: Doubling as Hey, Let's Put on a Show episodes: "Happy Returns" for Young Mr. Grace and "Roots?" for Old Mr. Grace.
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Are You Being Served? / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Are You Being Served? / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: You'll see we have a generous selection of ready-made examples: Mrs. Slocombe's pussy: to the point where David "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" Baddiel said that she changed the meaning of the word "pussy" in the UK from "Cat, with overtones of vagina, to vagina, with overtones of cat". Captain Peacock's admonishing Mr. Harman for being on the floor during opening hours, and being answered with wild and various reasons for Harman being there. Mr. Rumbold looking up at the ceiling longingly whenever the word "boardroom" is mentioned. Mr. Lucas' Hurricane of Excuses for being late. Mr. Humphries' adventures (and their explanations) in his quests to arrive on time to work. Mrs. Slocombe removing her earring to speak on the phone. In a nod to just how bad business is at Grace Brothers most days, many episodes will feature Captain Peacock asking "[Character's name], are you free?", followed by the character being addressed making an exaggerated show of looking up and down the completely empty counter before answering, "Yes, I'm free".
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Are You Being Served? / int_fa8e599c	type	Eyelash Fluttering
Are You Being Served? / int_fa8e599c	comment	Eyelash Fluttering: Discussed after Old Mr. Grace buys his secretary a marked-down fur coat everyone wanted. Over tea, Ms. Brahms questions what she had to do to get it.
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Are You Being Served? / int_fad7b727	type	Fun with Foreign Languages
Are You Being Served? / int_fad7b727	comment	Fun with Foreign Languages: In "German Week", the German Band arrives, and a character says something to them in German, and they respond in English. In Germany and other European countries with a large proportion of people who speak English as a second language, it's common for tourists attempting to speak the local language to receive a reply in English. The guidebooks specifically warn people not to be disheartened by this and that the attempt is always appreciated. That said, it is unlikely that most English-speaking Germans would answer in a Cockney accent, like the "German" band did.
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Are You Being Served? / int_fb378c33	type	Oktoberfest
Are You Being Served? / int_fb378c33	comment	Oktoberfest: During German Week the store staff is forced to wear lederhosen. Two of the cast get very small, form fitting versions: Miss Brahms and Mr. Humphries.
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Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Are You Being Served? / int_fb378c33
Are You Being Served? / int_fbbef9d3	type	Character Aged with the Actor
Are You Being Served? / int_fbbef9d3	comment	Character Aged with the Actor: The entire cast in Grace & Favour. This is lampshaded in the first scene of the first episode, when Mr. Humphries says that the shaky elevator ride has "put ten years on all of us".
Are You Being Served? / int_fbbef9d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Are You Being Served? / int_fbbef9d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Are You Being Served? / int_fbbef9d3
Are You Being Served? / int_fdb3b2b5	type	Lady Drunk
Are You Being Served? / int_fdb3b2b5	comment	Lady Drunk: Mrs. Slocombe. She brings alcohol to work in a flask and occasionally gets drunk on the job.
Are You Being Served? / int_fdb3b2b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Are You Being Served? / int_fdb3b2b5	featureConfidence	1.0
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Are You Being Served? / int_fdb3b2b5
Are You Being Served? / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Are You Being Served? / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Usually, a semi-, mal-, or non-functioning display shows up to close out the closing credits.
Are You Being Served? / int_fe0330fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Are You Being Served? / int_fe0330fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Are You Being Served? / int_fe0330fb
Are You Being Served? / int_name	type	ItemName
Are You Being Served? / int_name	comment
Are You Being Served? / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Are You Being Served? / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Are You Being Served? / int_name
Are You Being Served? / int_name	itemName	Are You Being Served?

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	A Dick in Name / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	A Foggy Day in London Town / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Accidental Proposal / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Accidental Unfortunate Gesture / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Actor-Inspired Element / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Actor-Shared Background / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Aftershow / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Agitated Item Stomping / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	All Balloons Have Helium / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Almighty Janitor / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Angry Collar Grab / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me? / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	At the Opera Tonight / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Attractive Bent-Gender / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Aura Vision / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Ballet Episode / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Big Damn Movie / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Black Comedy Rape / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Blackface / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Blitz Evacuees / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Blowing a Raspberry / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Bob from Accounting / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Brand X / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Brit Com / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	British Brevity / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	British Stuffiness / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Brits Love Tea / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Building of Adventure / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Camp Gay / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Camp Straight / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Camping Episode / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Casanova Wannabe / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Character Aged with the Actor / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Character Outlives Actor / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Coconut Meets Cranium / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Crazy Workplace / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Cute, but Cacophonic / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Delusions of Eloquence / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Did You Get a New Haircut? / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Dirty Old Man / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Discriminate and Switch / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off! / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Drunk with Power / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Dye Hard / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Easy Amnesia / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	El Spanish "-o" / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Elderly Blue-Haired Lady / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Elevator Floor Announcement / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Embarrassing First Name / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Embarrassing Nickname / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Endangered Soufflé / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Erotic Dream / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Everything Is an Instrument / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Exactly What I Meant to Say / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Eyelash Fluttering / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Fake Boobs / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Fake-Hair Drama / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Faking Amnesia / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Family Business / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Follow-Up Failure / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Fun with Foreign Languages / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Funny Foreigner / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Gay Best Friend / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Glad I Thought of It / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Grande Dame / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Hat of Authority / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Haughty Help / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Having a Heart / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	He Who Must Not Be Seen / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Hey, Let's Put on a Show / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Historical Character Confusion / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Hollywood Pudgy / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Hurricane of Puns / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	"I Can't Look!" Gesture / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Impersonating an Officer / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Incompetence, Inc. / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Indestructible Edible / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Induced Hypochondria / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Insurance Fraud / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Invisible President / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Ironic Nickname / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Irrevocable Message / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Japanese Politeness / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Japanese Ranguage / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Japanese Tourist / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Joker Jury / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Kaleidoscope Hair / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Limited Advancement Opportunities / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Living Prop / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Lonely at the Top / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Love Letter Lunacy / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Making a Spectacle of Yourself / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Mall Santa / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Man in a Kilt / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Marilyn Maneuver / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Memetic Bystander / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Mistaken for Pregnant / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Mistaken Message / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Movie-Making Mess / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Mr. Smith / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Multiple-Choice Past / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Murphy's Bed / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	My Friends... and Zoidberg / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Naughty Nurse Outfit / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Never Win the Lottery / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	No Infantile Amnesia / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Nobody Here but Us Statues / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Nose Shove / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Nose Tapping / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Of Corset Hurts / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Oktoberfest / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	One-Episode Wonder / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Onion Tears / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Outdated Outfit / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Phony Veteran / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Pilot / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Pointy-Haired Boss / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Preppy Name / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Prima Donna Director / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Pro Wrestling Episode / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Queer People Are Funny / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Questioning Title? / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Quick Nip / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Reaction Shot / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Real Life Writes the Hairstyle / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Reluctant Retiree / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Repetitive Audio Glitch / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Revival / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Rhythm Typewriter / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Sausage String Silliness / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Script Swap / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Senior Sleep-Cycle / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Series Hiatus / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Series of the 1970s / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Sexy Santa Dress / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Sexy Secretary / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Skirts and Ladders / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Sleeps in the Nude / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Slippery Skid / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Social Semi-Circle / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Soul-Sucking Retail Job / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Sound Defect / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Spotlight-Stealing Squad / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Start My Own / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Stealing from the Till / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Storefront Television Display / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Sudden Name Change / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Sultry Belly Dancer / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Sure, Let's Go with That / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	That Syncing Feeling / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	That's What She Said / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	The Barnum / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	The Captain / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	The Cast Showoff / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	The Couch / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	The Vicar / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	They Stole Our Act / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Title Confusion / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Top-Heavy Guy / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Transatlantic Equivalent / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Twitchy Eye / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Ultimate Job Security / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Very False Advertising / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Video Credits / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Vocal Range Exceeded / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Walk This Way / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	We Hardly Knew Ye / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	When I Was Your Age... / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Wholesome Crossdresser / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Whoopee Cushion / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Work Com / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Write Who You Know / int_2777c062
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Who's Watching the Store? / int_2777c062

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