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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 439874" data-attributes="member: 23">Ahead of time I found myself thinking about this episode and wondering if you might find its scenarios just a little too outlandish. I&#039;m very glad this wasn&#039;t the case.I have thoughts on how the final two might be received, but I&#039;m not great at predictions. You&#039;re quite right, and - barring a couple of obvious examples - I don&#039;t think I&#039;d consciously realised just how much this was the case until you pointed it out. On the one hand I greatly look forward to reading your views on the final episodes and the series overall once complete. On the other hand, the brevity of the series means it&#039;s inevitably going to be over too soon. Your revisits to episodes have helped pace things out a little, and it&#039;s been consistently fascinating to see how differently a second viewing can hit. A number of the faces appearing in The Kipper and The Corpse are quite well known in the world of British situation comedy. Most notable is Geoffrey Palmer, who played the sausage-loving Dr Price. At the time this episode was filmed he was a regular in two other sitcoms: Butterflies and The Fall and Rise Of Reginald Perrin. Latterly he also played opposite Judi Dench in the long-running As Time Goes By.&nbsp; Richard Davies - one half of the Welsh couple trying to get access to their room - is probably best known to sitcom fans for his role in Please Sir! Mavis Pugh - seen fussing over a pooch - didn&#039;t appear on TV until she was in her sixties, but had a nice little career as a character actress, mostly playing high maintenance grandiose dames in sitcoms. And a little nugget regarding one of the episode&#039;s most random scenes: Mr Ingrams was named after a newspaper critic who had given Fawlty Towers a damning review early on. The on-screen Ingrams being caught with the blow-up sex doll later in the episode was John Cleese&#039;s revenge.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 439874, member: 23"] Ahead of time I found myself thinking about this episode and wondering if you might find its scenarios just a little too outlandish. I'm very glad this wasn't the case. I have thoughts on how the final two might be received, but I'm not great at predictions. You're quite right, and - barring a couple of obvious examples - I don't think I'd consciously realised just how much this was the case until you pointed it out. On the one hand I greatly look forward to reading your views on the final episodes and the series overall once complete. On the other hand, the brevity of the series means it's inevitably going to be over too soon. Your revisits to episodes have helped pace things out a little, and it's been consistently fascinating to see how differently a second viewing can hit. A number of the faces appearing in [I]The Kipper and The Corpse[/I] are quite well known in the world of British situation comedy. Most notable is Geoffrey Palmer, who played the sausage-loving Dr Price. At the time this episode was filmed he was a regular in two other sitcoms: [I]Butterflies[/I] and [I]The Fall and Rise Of Reginald Perrin[/I]. Latterly he also played opposite Judi Dench in the long-running [I]As Time Goes By[/I]. Richard Davies - one half of the Welsh couple trying to get access to their room - is probably best known to sitcom fans for his role in [I]Please Sir! [/I] Mavis Pugh - seen fussing over a pooch - didn't appear on TV until she was in her sixties, but had a nice little career as a character actress, mostly playing high maintenance grandiose dames in sitcoms. And a little nugget regarding one of the episode's most random scenes: Mr Ingrams was named after a newspaper critic who had given [I]Fawlty Towers [/I]a damning review early on. The on-screen Ingrams being caught with the blow-up sex doll later in the episode was John Cleese's revenge. [/QUOTE]

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