Monday, March 19, 2007

We here at Cahiers du Big White Grl Sez watch (campy, ridiculous) things so you don't have to. To wit: Are You Being Served? The movie. I think it would have been better with a laughtrack, which says a lot. It's not that it was so horrible, it's more that it's all the same bits (literally, same dialogue in spots) as the TV show, only transferred without time constraints to a bad set. Heh. Really kind horrid. Me favorite two bits:

• The proprietor at the holiday hotel--played by the poor dude who was Manuel on Fawlty Towers--to Mrs. Slocombe (that is she, above, getting her passport pic taken in her Union Jack directoire knickers): "I am hearing about this: you are the English, eh, drag show, yes? With the female impressionation? Yes, now I look I can tell. Those are the false boobie-doos. Very funny."

• Again, Mrs. Slocombe, with 'Manuel':
"Muchos gracias."
"Ah, you speak Spanish!"
"Une petit pois."

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