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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 221269" data-attributes="member: 23">Rather like Basil Fawlty&#039;s &quot;damned good thrashing&quot; or goose stepping, the episode&#039;s climactic chaos overshadows the first two thirds of the episode in terms of what gets remembered about the series. Watching complete episodes, the thrill comes from seeing the slow burn and the way the scenario builds to get to that point, but I think those OTT moments are what the series is best remembered for. And of course they make great visual clips, even without the full context. I can&#039;t think of another series in which the lead actor took so many risks. Today&#039;s more health and safety conscious productions would blanche at the very idea of the star of the show doing this kind of thing on a weekly basis:[MEDIA=youtube]LHiEhTaiaHQ[/MEDIA]Which one now? I don&#039;t know if I&#039;ve noticed. I had noticed his pronunciation of&nbsp; &quot;harassed&quot; or &quot;harassing&quot; in every episode gets a big laugh. I imagine the audience response might bewilder contemporary audiences since the Frank Spencer pronunciation (emphasis on the second syllable) now seems to be used quite widely in the UK.&nbsp; So far there&#039;s a kind of formula where the lead character, Frank, encounters some neutral party (the person interviewing him for a job; the brother-in-law; the neighbour whose phone he wishes to use) and his lack of understanding, well meaning constant questions and accident-proneness tests their patience and pushes these initially reasonable, seemingly well-adusted people to their limits until they slowly fall apart or snap. Each of the first three episodes have featured couple of shorter scenes setting up the episode&#039;s situation and then lengthy one-to-one scenes mostly featuring Frank and the poor victim of the week. The majority of each episode has felt pretty much real-time. Like watching a play. I suspect it&#039;s filmed that way as well. I haven&#039;t noticed a great deal of cutting away during the scenes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 221269, member: 23"] Rather like Basil Fawlty's "damned good thrashing" or goose stepping, the episode's climactic chaos overshadows the first two thirds of the episode in terms of what gets remembered about the series. Watching complete episodes, the thrill comes from seeing the slow burn and the way the scenario builds to get to that point, but I think those OTT moments are what the series is best remembered for. And of course they make great visual clips, even without the full context. I can't think of another series in which the lead actor took so many risks. Today's more health and safety conscious productions would blanche at the very idea of the star of the show doing this kind of thing on a weekly basis: [MEDIA=youtube]LHiEhTaiaHQ[/MEDIA] Which one now? I don't know if I've noticed. I had noticed his pronunciation of "harassed" or "harassing" in every episode gets a big laugh. I imagine the audience response might bewilder contemporary audiences since the Frank Spencer pronunciation (emphasis on the second syllable) now seems to be used quite widely in the UK. So far there's a kind of formula where the lead character, Frank, encounters some neutral party (the person interviewing him for a job; the brother-in-law; the neighbour whose phone he wishes to use) and his lack of understanding, well meaning constant questions and accident-proneness tests their patience and pushes these initially reasonable, seemingly well-adusted people to their limits until they slowly fall apart or snap. Each of the first three episodes have featured couple of shorter scenes setting up the episode's situation and then lengthy one-to-one scenes mostly featuring Frank and the poor victim of the week. The majority of each episode has felt pretty much real-time. Like watching a play. I suspect it's filmed that way as well. I haven't noticed a great deal of cutting away during the scenes. [/QUOTE]

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