One Foot in the Grave: Season 4, Episode 1 The Pit and the Pendulum

To me, he'll always be Bull from Robin hood Prince of thieves...

Gyle

The guy who played the gardener, also played Mental Micky in Only Fools and Horses.

Kickstart 1.3

Yep!

Andy Farmer

I agree man they did a great job with this episode! They are very good at balancing humor and sadness.

After Work Reactions

It is a good thing to do! People waste too much food.

After Work Reactions

Lol my dogs would only eat cat food if they could 🤣 they try to sneak it.

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That is such a nice story thank you for sharing 🙂

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Is that hairy guy mental Mikey from only fools and horses?

Jeremy O Dwyer

Yeah, I think Josh would enjoy Jonathan Creek too, but I guess it's a question of whether the comic elements of the show are enough to warrant it being included on what's usually a reaction channel strictly for comedy. Though come to think of it, as the Jonathan Creek pilot (The Wrestler's Tomb) was a 90-minute feature-length episode, maybe it could go on the movie poll, same as the Bottom live specials? If it wins and Josh enjoys it, I guess that would be a sound argument for JC being included in future TV show polls.

Ian Richards

This is perhaps a perfect example that epitomises what a key function dark comedy and what it's usage plays in reflecting life. Delivering such an imbalancing and slightly unsettling feeling of juxtapositioning hilarity, grief and over all sadness in the same moment.

Daryl

Is Jonathan Creek on any of Josh's polls? It'll be great having him try to work out the endings.

Danny

Definitely a classic episode. I get the feeling that Victor's anecdote at the end about obsessively watching the grandfather clock as a child is probably something from David Renwick's own life; a few years later, when writing Jonathan Creek, he created a character who has a similar (if slightly more extreme) phobia of clocks.

Ian Richards

Mr kezanzi (the workman) is a recognisable type in this country!: The uneducated labourer who lives to flirt and perv on women! He also bears a creepy resemblance to Fred West (a British builder, who turned out to be a serial killer in the 90's). Sorry - distasteful reference, but that's who he looks like!

John Morris

My parents always did things like that, we were pretty poor and nothing went to waste. I still try to waste as little food as possible.

BelladonnicHazeyJaneII

How wonderful to have found your mum's old notebook full of her memories :) 💚

BelladonnicHazeyJaneII

His other brother is an actor too. Harry Peacock

Claire Prowse

How he manages to write a scene with so many comic beats out in the garden between Victor's being buried, Patrick's having been bitten in the groin by a hermit crab, the lifting of the flowerpot moment and Patrick and Pippa's reactions, to Margaret revealing the sad news and it genuinely being actually very moving...it takes true skill to make that work - the insane side by side with the plain, morbid reality of it all. Such stark comedy and pathos juxtaposed. I had always thought it surprising the Margaret's mum is still alive, but I think Margaret's actually a few years younger than Victor - she mentions her 60th birthday later this year, so she must be only 59 here......and so it's not completely surprising her mum is still alive. My dad is 66 and his dad is still alive at 94. Admittedly, my grandparents on the other side and his mum have all passed away. Next week's episode is great, and then we get to my favourite episode ever. I may have mentioned it a few dozen times - Hearts of Darkness. Just.....David Renwick's finest script. Brilliant. Can't wait for you to react to it! :-D

Ash Jeffries

I was wondering if Josh might recognise the actor playing the gardener but in fairness it is almost 10 years down the line - Daniel Peacock of course played Mental Mickey in OFAH "It's Only Rock and Roll" having a go at Rodney for doing the 1, 2, 3, 4s.....! :-D Superb start to my favourite OFITG series - every episode is a winner in series 4, it really is. So many great moments here from the phone ringing "4291" picking up the sausage dog and "What the hell are you doing here?" moment to the "I completely forgot to spray my groin with crab repellent!" moment, to Victor's being buried up to his neck, to the sad scene where Margaret finds out her mum has died, to the answerphone message and how clever it actually was. The clues were all there and this is David Renwick for you - he's a SUPERB writer, and this is more than just a sitcom.

Ash Jeffries

I remember when I was younger seeing the squeezy sauce bottle with the lid off with a glass sauce bottle stuck in the top upside down, to drip into it. Not anymore though. I think my nan did it too, never thought anything of it back then. Seemed normal hah

Danny

I just looked it up. You can see a resemblance between the two on Google images.

Ryan Lynch

In the opening scene with Margaret, you see the old tomato sauce bottle balancing on the new one... letting the old sauce drip into the new bottle. "Waste not, want not." My parents born in the late 40s done this, me born mid 80s still do this. Does everyone else (in UK and beyond)? Get the last drop of food and no waste. (Admittedly my Great Grandparents were working class, Grandparents were working class, parents were working class, and so am I).

Ryan Lynch

Funny they saying the dog only ate cat food. My mums dog, she had when I was like 2, used to only eat cat food. My only real memory of it was me eating those bone shaped dog biscuits with it, under a table. I must have been no more than 2. I don't even remember it dieng. A Yorkshire Terrier, with a funny back leg that was always lifted up, so it sorta hopped along. My earliest memory.

Danny

It's 4291. STOP GETTING MELDREW WRONG!

Daniel Peacock such an underrated actor !! Love him!! For those who watched 'vicar of dibley' his dad was the actor who played Jim. Off topic ...after losing my mum last year the stuff I've found going through her things heartbreaking and heart warming. Found a notebook full of all her handwritten stories of growing up in a tiny village in Wales. Didn't know she's written it... such a find!!

Claire Prowse

Mental Mickey, the lead singer of Rodney's band. "I DO THE 1 2 3 4'S!!!!"

Danny