"Are You Being Served?" Sit Out (TV Episode 1981) Poster

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(1981)

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6/10
Grace Brothers unfair to Sales persons.
Sleepin_Dragon6 November 2015
Old Mr Grace is not happy with Mr Rumbold when he hears of the day's figures on the Ladies and Gents department. It's tiddling outside, it's the middle of a recession and the team haven't sold a thing. Mr Rumbold suggests a few changes on the floor and the team descend into a large argument, Old Mr Grace witnesses this scene and suggests moving them to the basement, and cutting their wages by ten percent. In protest the team go on a roof top demonstration to air their views, but who can hear their grievances?

Front Page story had been the sparkling moment in what had frankly been quite a tired series, the material hasn't felt particularly fresh or original, and the Sit out is ultimately another plodder, some nice moments, I like the scene in which Captain Peacock pairs up with Mrs Slocombe to protest at Mr Humphries bid to sell them something. Aside from that and a few other minor laughs it's far from a classic, but not terrible either. 6/10
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4/10
Sit Out
studioAT24 June 2020
If you accept that 'AYBS?' had jumped the shark by this point, and that the plots stretch credibility in terms of things people working in a shop might actually do, you'll enjoy these latter episodes.

There's some fun moments here, ironically those that occur before the actual plot kicks in, and the main 4 characters (Peacock,Brahms, Slocombe and Humphries) more than make up for the characters that don't work as well.

Decent enough overall.
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