"Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" Father's Class (TV Episode 1973) Poster

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"Auntie Betty's in the family way, isn't she?"
ShadeGrenade26 November 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Probably the best remembered episode.

Frank is in a dark room, but absent-mindedly turns on the lights, ruining the photographs. Back home, he has a go at plumbing, only to break the tap in the kitchen. Betty is shocked to find he has brought the garden gate indoors for repairs. With fatherhood close by, she thinks it a good idea if he accompanies her and two young girls - Judy ( Cynthia Lund ) and Alison ( Lajla Lund ) Wallace to the zoo and the rollerskating rink. But the girls do not like him, especially as he has brought them baby items - a rattle and toy duck - as gifts.

At the zoo, a monkey steals Frank's precious beret and he goes into the cage after it...

There are a couple of very funny non-visual scenes here; one in the Maternity Hospital where Frank attends a 'Special Father's Class' and gets up everyone's nose, and an interview with a bank manager ( Geoffrey Chater ) in which Frank tries to negotiate a loan even though he has no account there.

Funniest moment - what else could it be? Frank hurtling out of the rink, down a busy street, almost being crushed by lorries ( the actor did his own stunts ), and clinging onto the back of a bus. "I've got no change!", he yells at the conductor. A much-repeated Frank Spencer classic.
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10/10
It doesn't get much better.
Sleepin_Dragon22 September 2023
Betty is getting closer to her due date, she's feeling stressed, and annoyed with Frank for not attending parenting classes, not to further upset his beloved wife, he attends the class, much to the annoyance of The Tutor.

Does comedy get any better than this? I don't actually think it does.

I had to watch it twice, this episode is painfully funny, and features some of the show's most memorable moments, those scenes in the lecture room are insanely funny, an innocent and naive Frank almost causes a riot, the monkey and the beret is a riot, and that roller skating scene, it's surely one of TV's best ever moments.

I love how prudish Frank is, tormented by pictures of people's private parts and images of the birthing process, his facial expressions are absolutely magical.

You have to give Crawford massive credit for doing all of those stunts, what a tremendous performer.

Comedy platinum.

10/10.
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