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Open All Hours

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Open All Hours	comment	A late 1970s to mid-1980s sitcom by Roy Clarke (Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances). Along with Porridge, it was based on one of the more successful items from a series of sitcom try-out pilots by Ronnie Barker called Seven of One.The miserly, late-middle-aged Arkwright (first name unknown; in one episode Granville calls him 'Albert' but the situation suggests he may have made it up) runs a general store in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster (both the shop and the street are real life places). An Honest John, he prides himself on never letting anyone leave his shop without buying something, and seems to take more pleasure in the thrill of the chase than becoming rich. His work obsession causes friction between him and his love interest/fianceé Nurse Gladys Emmanuel, a buxom midwife whom Arkwright attempts to convince to finally marry him (or at least to let him have his way with her.)Arkwright is aided and abetted by his long-suffering nephew Granville, possibly the son of a displaced Hungarian noble and certainly the son of a woman whose promiscuity is the butt of many of Arkwright's jokes, whose romantic and exotic dreams are invariably crushed by the grim reality of life in 1970s South Yorkshire.Ronnie Barker played Arkwright (a very common remark is that it's hard to believe he was simultaneously playing the very different character of Fletcher in Porridge) while Granville was one of the first major roles of a young David Jason (who also played the very old Blanco in Porridge!). Production was done on a very small budget, with the result that the vast majority of the show takes place on the same shop set - this arguably forced the programme to devote its full attention to the verbal comedy, which is often praised.Barker also contributed Arkwright's famous stutter (absent in the original scripts). The character himself lampshades it at times:Ran for 4 series and 26 episodes, although there were actually thirteen years between the pilot and the final episode, and nine years between the first and last series.Came eighth in Britains Best Sitcom.After a successful one-off Revival episode in 2013 which scored the Christmas week's highest ratings, a full fifth series titled Still Open All Hours and featuring several of the original cast was commissioned, beginning on Boxing Day 2014. In this, Granville has taken over the shop following Arkwright's death... and has picked up a few of his mannerisms along the way.
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Open All Hours / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Open All Hours / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Once, Granville tells the till that a potential customer got away, and it responds by slowly closing shut.
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Open All Hours / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Open All Hours / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: At the end of the final episode of the third series, while he's wondering if Nurse Gladys will ever marry him, Arkwright mutters, "I'll just have to stay open all hours."
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Open All Hours / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Open All Hours / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Cyril and Eric in the revival. They are nearly always seen together and are each often part of the other’s hair brained schemes.
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Open All Hours / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Open All Hours / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: In "Beware of the Dog", after the till nearly chops Arkwright's fingers off yet again, a nonplussed Granville suggests in reaction that he make funeral arrangements for his fingers, because sooner or later the till's gonna take them.
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Open All Hours / int_255cc9bd	type	Nephewism
Open All Hours / int_255cc9bd	comment	Nephewism: Played straight with Arkwright and Granville, averted in the revival where Granville has a son, Leroy
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Open All Hours / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Open All Hours / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Still Open All Hours shows that Granville did inherit the shop as promised and he's become a lot like Arkwright, with his son Leroy in his former position. He even pokes fun at the identity of Leroy's mother, just like Arkwright did with him.
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Open All Hours / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Open All Hours / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: The series is oddly depressing because of it.
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Open All Hours / int_26820342	type	Spoofing in the Rain
Open All Hours / int_26820342	comment	Spoofing in the Rain: Granville does this on a rainy day. Most DVD releases remove it for copyright reasons, though it's retained on PBS broadcast prints and the initial R2 DVD release.
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Open All Hours / int_2b851bd4	type	The Scrooge
Open All Hours / int_2b851bd4	comment	The Scrooge: Arkwright’s love of money is practically an obsession; spending money not only causes him noticeable strain, at times it seems to make him physically ill and even he admits his products are notoriously overpriced. The one time he allowed a customer a refund spread through the community like wildfire and led to people believing he was going daft. It’s perhaps best demonstrated in one episode: while at a funeral for a friend, due to having no change he is forced to give up a pound to the collection. However, he honestly can’t stop himself from taking change moments later. Downplayed, with Granville in the revival. While he’s certainly picked up a lot of his uncle’s business sense and cunning, and has a reputation for being a cheapskate, he’s overall far more relaxed and generous than Arkwright ever was.
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Open All Hours / int_32c930e8	type	Eccentric Townsfolk
Open All Hours / int_32c930e8	comment	Eccentric Townsfolk: About half of the customers.
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Open All Hours / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Open All Hours / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Arkwright will occasionally let Granville eat something from the shop, only to charge his own nephew full price once he started eating.
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Open All Hours / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
Open All Hours / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Only once. Arkwright tried to swindle a seemingly naïve Indian shopkeeper into buying useless wooden clothes horses. However, the man was revealed to be playing him and made the fact his shop still stocked wooden clothes horses a big part of his advertising, claiming he had the most traditional shop in all of Yorkshire. Arkwright was thus forced into buy several back.
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Open All Hours / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
Open All Hours / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: In the revival, Granville points to Arkwright's portrait and quotes him (stutter and all) near the middle of every episode. Gets downgraded to being a running gag as the series goes on though.
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Open All Hours / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Open All Hours / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Mrs. Featherstone in the revival. While still a stern, unyielding, cold and terrifying woman, she is very much a member of the regular female ensemble and often hangs out with them. In the previous series she didn’t seem to like anyone, and was equally disliked in return.
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Open All Hours / int_3e74b72e	type	The Pollyanna
Open All Hours / int_3e74b72e	comment	The Pollyanna: Mavis, while mocked by a lot of people for her low intelligence and optimism, is almost certainly is the most cheerful character in the series and overall is the most happy.
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Open All Hours / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Open All Hours / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Arkwright is highly skilled in conning people into buying useless junk, especially strangers or newcomers to the area. On one occasion he even manages to sell trayloads of groceries to a professional salesman - without, of course, ever buying any of the gentleman's products in turn. Granville has clearly picked up a few tricks, as he shows in "Still Open All Hours."
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Open All Hours / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Open All Hours / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Arkwright very occasionally shows a soft side, such as giving a free treat to a young boy running an errand for his mother or letting Granville leave a little early to go on a date. Arkwright also did leave the shop to Granville as he continually said he would during the original series
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Open All Hours / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Open All Hours / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Gastric
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Open All Hours / int_51561f43	type	Hurricane of Euphemisms
Open All Hours / int_51561f43	comment	Hurricane of Euphemisms: Pretty much everything Arkwright says to Nurse Gladys is riddled with Unusual Euphemisms.
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Open All Hours / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Open All Hours / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: Mr Bristow's head is stuck in his helmet, so Granville bends him over the counter and Arkwright produces a large axe (intending to prise it off with the handle)...then one of his best customers walks in. Leroy is about to bring out some trays of tomatoes for the outside display when he walks right into Mrs. Hussain and falls right on top of her...then Granville comes outside.
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Open All Hours / int_535156bc	type	Christmas Special
Open All Hours / int_535156bc	comment	Christmas Special: The ten-minute special "Open All Seasons", which aired as part of 1982's The Funny Side of Christmas. On Christmas morning, Granville is looking forward to dinner at Nurse Gladys's, but Arkwright is annoyed that her mother is still alive. Granville also reveals he is having tea later with the newly separated 'Wavy Mavis'. In the typical closing thought, Arkwright bemoans the fact that Jesus was born on a Bank Holiday, resulting in his having to close the shop.
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Open All Hours / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
Open All Hours / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Played With. On average the women are brighter than men. However they are still just as easily duped and outsmarted by Arkwright and Granville, who in turn are presented as sharper and quicker than nearly everyone.
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Open All Hours / int_57be3cd5	type	Anchored Ship
Open All Hours / int_57be3cd5	comment	Anchored Ship: In "The Housekeeper Caper" Arkwright openly bemoans that he and Nurse Gladys have been engaged for six years, but they are no closer to getting to the altar then than he was at the start. The bone of contention seems to be that it is Gladys who is doing the delaying, waiting for her elderly mother to pass away before going forward.
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Open All Hours / int_5dbcdb00	type	Pest Episode
Open All Hours / int_5dbcdb00	comment	Pest Episode: In "An Errand Boy by the Ear", Arkwright creates rumours of an epidemic of a kind of ferret-rat hybrid, "A frat", in order to sell his overstocked hurricane lamps as "frat detectors".
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Open All Hours / int_63267b15	type	Theseus' Ship Paradox
Open All Hours / int_63267b15	comment	Theseus' Ship Paradox:
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Open All Hours / int_70bdac19	type	Honest John's Dealership
Open All Hours / int_70bdac19	comment	Honest John's Dealership: Arkwright and later, Granville as well.
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Open All Hours / int_75588c15	type	Transatlantic Equivalent
Open All Hours / int_75588c15	comment	Transatlantic Equivalent: The very short lived early 80s ABC sitcom Open All Night was an American adaption of the show, changing the store to a 7-11/Kwik-E-Mart type of establishment, with an entire family running the place. Much like Arkwright struggles to keep Granville in line, his American counterpart Gordon struggles to keep his shiftless and nerdy stepson Terry motivated.
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Open All Hours / int_767f84ea	type	Does Not Like Men
Open All Hours / int_767f84ea	comment	Does Not Like Men: An early episode of the original series features a customer who believes that men are difficult to live with from age 14 until they die. The revival has Mavis's sister Madge, whose failed relationships have embittered her on the entire male sex. Granville keeps attempting to set her up with Gastric in order to give himself a clear run at Mavis.
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Open All Hours / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Open All Hours / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Mr Bristow, never seen outside his motorcycle helmet and leathers. Actually, The Voiceless, too. Come to think of it, are we sure he isn't The Stig?
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Open All Hours / int_7b5c69c8	type	Dirty Old Woman
Open All Hours / int_7b5c69c8	comment	Dirty Old Woman: Mrs. Featherstone in the revival. While to all her husbands and to Mr. Newbold she is the very picture of ice, she is always throwing herself at Granville to his obvious displeasure.
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Open All Hours / int_7d36715f	type	Gasshole
Open All Hours / int_7d36715f	comment	Gasshole: Gastric, has an easily upset stomach, causing him to often belch (especially when he hasn’t eaten for a while) hence his nickname. The actual effect is downplayed, compared to most examples, but it is still there.
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Open All Hours / int_82b4f38e	type	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
Open All Hours / int_82b4f38e	comment	Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Averted, despite everything counting against Arkwright like his treatment of Granville, his Scrooge-level miserliness and his Stalker with a Crush attitude to Gladys Emmanuel. Clarke's writing and Ronnie Barker's acting are good enough that Arkwright can be a sympathetic character even when his plans work (so he doesn't end up as The Woobie).
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Open All Hours / int_849af6e1	type	Dragged into Drag
Open All Hours / int_849af6e1	comment	Dragged into Drag: Granville, when Arkwright sends him to buy back some clotheshorses from a rival storekeeper. As said storekeeper is Indian, Granville's disguise is appropriately Indian. Hilarity Ensues when Granville returns with the clotheshorses just as Arkwright is dealing with a couple of irascible male customers...
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Open All Hours / int_85abf836	type	Squirrels in My Pants
Open All Hours / int_85abf836	comment	Squirrels in My Pants: In episode 5 of Still Open All Hours, Granville persuades Gastric to dress up in his great grandmother's wedding dress and pose as Old Mother Hemlock to help sell a load of herbal remedies. However, a mouse has taken up residence inside the dress which causes Gastric to go through some very odd gyrations, to the confusion of everyone watching.
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Open All Hours / int_86c2ee3c	type	Dodgy Toupee
Open All Hours / int_86c2ee3c	comment	Dodgy Toupee: One of the odd products Mark Williams salesman character attempts to peddle to Granville in Still Open All Hours is a range of dodgy toupees for the customer too embarrassed to consult a hair loss professional but who might impulse buy one at the counter of his local shop.
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Open All Hours / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Open All Hours / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Mrs. Featherstone to Arkwright and Granville. Arkwright tends to squirm when she's around and Granville fears her after a case of miscommunication, she kisses him.
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Open All Hours / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Open All Hours / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: At times Arkwright, even though he and Nurse Gladys are supposed to be engaged.
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Open All Hours / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Open All Hours / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Downplayed. Granville is certainly more manipulative and greedier in the revival. However, he is still considerably more cheerful and laid back than his uncle ever was.
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Open All Hours / int_92f863b6	type	Revival
Open All Hours / int_92f863b6	comment	Revival: "Still Open All Hours", a one-off Christmas special in 2013. Granville is now the proprietor of the shop (and every bit as miserly as Arkwright was), with his son as the new errand boy.
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Open All Hours / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Open All Hours / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Nurse Gladys Emmanuelle is the most sensible character, but even she can’t stop herself from taking some joy out of Arkwright’s more comedic gambits. She also actively participates in one of Granville's pranks on Arkwright involving Mrs. Featherstone.
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Open All Hours / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Open All Hours / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: In contrast to his father when he was his age, Leroy is considerably more successful with women (to the point he borders on being The Casanova). He normally has a new date or two every episode. Somehow he even manages to convince two of them to help him out with his deliveries. Mrs. Hussain barely makes any effort to hide her interest in him. The trouble is, most of the women turn out to have much larger boyfriends who want to kill him when they find out.
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Open All Hours / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
Open All Hours / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: Twice, in "Well-Catered Funeral" and "Shedding at the Wedding", does Arkwright hint at knowing about Nurse Gladys's mother's funeral arrangements and take glee in anticipation of her going up in flames. Naturally, to Nurse Gladys it's a Berserk Button, a fact which gets discussed when Arkwright brings it up to Granville in the latter episode.
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Open All Hours / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Open All Hours / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Knowing Parslow's typical shopping habits, Arkwright has his deceased old friend's funeral cortege stop by his store before the body is burned. He ends up taking so long talking with Granville while he's inside that it takes a couple of horn honks for him to return to the cortege.
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Open All Hours / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Open All Hours / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Gastric, to the point his actual name hasn’t been revealed yet.
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Open All Hours / int_a8adc5a0	type	Like a Son to Me
Open All Hours / int_a8adc5a0	comment	Like a Son to Me: Though not obvious at first glance it becomes clear in the series and in the revival that Arkwright sees Granville as his son, as he openly says that he will bequeath the shop to Granville, which he does.
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Open All Hours / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Open All Hours / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: In "Well-Catered Funeral", Arkwright has a subdued yet audible reaction (read: he sings it during the hymn, and Nurse Gladys takes the first opportunity to sing her response) during the service when he realizes that he forgot to bring some money of his own along for the collection plate.
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Open All Hours / int_ad3c0e49	type	Master-Apprentice Chain
Open All Hours / int_ad3c0e49	comment	Master-Apprentice Chain: Arkwright > Granville > Leroy
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Open All Hours / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Open All Hours / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Arkwright, who takes pride in ensuring his customers buy something from his store whether they want to or not and is perfectly willing to go along with one customer's unspoken plan to subject her husband to a perfect murder involving poison, reacts with a degree of disgust when she remarks that she needs some fire lighters, reminding her that she shouldn't burn him alive.
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Open All Hours / int_b6caa5b4	comment	Operation: Jealousy: The episode "The Housekeeper Caper"; Arkwright launches an ambitious plan to make Nurse Gladys jealous using an advert for a live-in housekeeper, banking on the thought of another woman under his roof making her want to rush him to the altar. Unfortunately Nurse Gladys can not only read him like a book, but also quite likes watching his schemes fall apart.
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Open All Hours / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Open All Hours / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Arkwright makes constant cracks about Granville's mother along these lines. In the revival Granville says the same about his own son's mother (who eventually makes an appearance).
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Open All Hours / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Open All Hours / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Despite being the third main character in the original series and a major character for the first two seasons, Nurse Gladys Emmanuelle disappears without mention in season three of the revival.
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Open All Hours / int_c4c9bb40	comment	Inner Monologue: Arkwright has several thoughts on the day as he starts closing up shop. Usually it's about charging people more than what he should have. Granville continues the tradition in Still Open All Hours
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Open All Hours / int_c4d09d24	type	Couch Gag
Open All Hours / int_c4d09d24	comment	Couch Gag: The opening sequence always depicts Arkwright doing something different (e.g. looking for bird poop or trying to paint the word "P-P-P-P-PEPPER" on his storefront window). Granville's reaction is always the same.
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Open All Hours / int_c852ac43	type	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast
Open All Hours / int_c852ac43	comment	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast: Much like Roy Clarke’s other series, Last of the Summer Wine, this makes up a lot of the show’s humour in the revival, benefiting from its much larger recurring cast.
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Open All Hours / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Open All Hours / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: A lot. For example, in one episode Arkwright cons a condescending customer into believing that the town is infested with "frats" (ferret/rat hybrids) and that an old lantern he's been trying to get rid of is a "frat detector".
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Open All Hours / int_db69b32c	comment	Newspaper-Thin Disguise: In Still Open All Hours, Granville tasks Leroy with tailing a local to find out where he is doing his shopping. Leroy does so clutching a magazine in front of his face as cover.
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Open All Hours / int_dd2fe8c3	type	Porky Pig Pronunciation
Open All Hours / int_dd2fe8c3	comment	Porky Pig Pronunciation: Arkwright. Lampshaded at times, usually by Granville, but in one Couch Gag Arkwright himself jokingly asks Granville if "P-P-P-P-PEPPER", the word he's trying to paint on the storefront window, is spelled with 6 P's or 7.
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Open All Hours / int_de19df2b	type	The Matchmaker
Open All Hours / int_de19df2b	comment	The Matchmaker: Granville for Gastric and Madge, largely so that with Madge out of the way, he can pursue Mavis.
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Open All Hours / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
Open All Hours / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: The arguments, infidelities and miseries of just about every single couple who lives in the area make up a large part of the show's humour in both the original and revival.
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Open All Hours / int_e029366d	type	Toyota Tripwire
Open All Hours / int_e029366d	comment	Toyota Tripwire: Gastric gets one in front of Nurse Gladys Emmanuel and Mrs. Featherstone.
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Open All Hours / int_e0b6edec	type	OnlySaneWoman
Open All Hours / int_e0b6edec	comment	Only Sane Woman: Nurse Gladys Emmanuelle, undisputedly the most down to earth and reasonable character in both series, is also one of the few who isn’t fooled by Arkwright’s tactics.
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Open All Hours / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Open All Hours / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Wavy Mavis. When she was asked why she married her ex-husband when she knew he was terrible from the start, she revealed that he told her she was pregnant.
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Open All Hours / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Open All Hours / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Kathy Staff's character Mrs Blewitt is, as the actress herself noted in a making-of documentary, essentially the same character as the one she plays in Last of the Summer Wine, Nora Batty (also written by Clarke). A reverse example - Last of the Summer Wine got the character of Auntie Wainwright, who is an obvious gender-flipped expy of Arkwright (and note the similar name) but less sympathetic and with the 'sell anything to anyone' ability turned up to eleven.
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Open All Hours / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
Open All Hours / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: "Granville! Fetch your cloth!"
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Open All Hours / int_e796ce97	type	Blackface
Open All Hours / int_e796ce97	comment	Blackface: In "Horse Trading", Arkwright blacks up Granville and dresses him in a sari.
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Open All Hours / int_f165cf2c	type	Last-Second Word Swap
Open All Hours / int_f165cf2c	comment	Last-Second Word Swap: Occasionally used by Arkwright, such as when he suspected a former lover of Nurse Gladys Emmanuel had returned:
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Open All Hours / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Open All Hours / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: More for realism than any money being given for the exposure, many British and British versions of American company products can be seen in the store and advertised on the walls and door.
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Open All Hours / int_f7588306	type	Reverse Psychology
Open All Hours / int_f7588306	comment	Reverse Psychology: Arkwright gets rid of unwanted ginger cake by immediately announcing to customers as soon as they come through the door "I'm sorry, but I can only let you have one!" before implying they're an aphrodisiac. Granville shows how much he learned from the master in the revival when he does the same for "Yaggis" (Yorkshire's fictitious answer to haggis, actually a salami sausage plus some made-up-on-the-spur-of-the-moment patter).
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Open All Hours / int_f8a2924c	type	Dog Walks You
Open All Hours / int_f8a2924c	comment	Dog Walks You: A recurring gag involves a local man sticking his head into the shop but being yanked away by his massive dog before Granville can find out what it was he came in for.
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Open All Hours / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Open All Hours / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The till's tight spring that snaps back as soon as money is put into it, nearly chopping off fingers and even attacking Granville on at least a couple of occasions as it does. (This was originally just a spring clip inside the till, but the gag evolved.) In later episodes this always dislodges a tin that's balanced on top of the till, but Arkwright usually manages to catch it in mid-air. Granville finally manages to beat it in the final episode by exploiting its apparent touch sensitivity from a safe distance. In the revival series it is suggested that the deceased Arkwright is haunting the till.
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