One Foot in the Grave: Season 1, Episode 1 -Alive and Buried

It's never really appealed to me. I've seen bits and pieces of it over the years but it never really drew me in. I hope you enjoy it as others seem to.

It just gets funnier- so many ridiculous scenarios haha

LLS

“I don’t believe it, that’s what he says” - father Dougal Maguire

Ferris Booyaa

This is where my dad get his nickname "Victor" even before he retired

mav

its also struck me I have never seen the first ever episode of one foot either so watching the pilot will be new for me too

mrtheevilmage

from the comments given when this got picked I didn't know many young disliked this show....I'm a young folk myself and I like one foot in the grave...its dark and funy simaltaniously, which works for comedy in my opinion

mrtheevilmage

Great series, some of the situations our Victor is going to find himself in are hilarious, great writing, look forward to this on Fridays, a good replacement for our beloved del boy👍

ezza

I suppose its broadly similar in style to Curb. It just gets better and better, especially when his neighbour, and nemesis, Patrick comes on the scene. The specials are particularly great, Victor's encounters & adventures go from the ludicrous to the utterly insane, but always hilarious and quite clever how the subplots within an episode end up coming together. You're in for a real treat Josh, can't imagine too many Americans have ever head of the show never mind seen it.

John Drake

That's is awesome man I hope you enjoy it!

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Thank you, I am excited for this one I have heard it is so good.

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Thanks bud I do really enjoy getting into shows. That is awesome man I hope you enjoy it this time around.

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This all started with us introducing you to shows we love. Now I feel like you've introduced me to one I'm gunna love. Always heard good things about OFITG but never watched it, but damn this first episode had me laughing several times

Michael Harrop

I'm glad you feel like that about the start of shows. All the best shows need time establish the characters and setting. Being middle aged, the thoughts of being forcibly made redundant by the "best thing". The feeling of being worthless and not having anything to do or contribute.

Kickstart 1.3

That is hilarious and awesome man thanks for sharing.

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Excellent bud, I have been looking forward to this show for a while.

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Yesssss so happy you are watching this!! I've started rewatching it a few weeks ago. I'll start again with you guys. Amazing show. Hope you love it.

Jackie Gotham

Thanks bud, this episode was great 🤣

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Awesome thanks for the info bud!

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Awesome bud! Hope you enjoy it this time around.

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I am too bud it was great so far!

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OMG I am so happy you have found this.

Jason Edwards

Oh, wow. Josh is reacting to my favourite British sitcom of all time.....and even better, with its low-key, laying-the-foundations opening episode, it's already a show he seems to be enjoying! I couldn't be happier! :-D Fantastic reaction, Josh, and your summation at the end of Victor being "just a grumpy old man but I get why he's pissed off." - this is 100% the premise of the show, and he had it easy in this opening episode! Haha! As with OFAH, series 1 is a bit slower and in a sense, a little more laid back, but as you can already see, David Renwick loves a good plot and he loves to plant details early on in the episode that might seem throwaway or insignificant but are actually instrumental to the development of the plot overall, and often demonstrate significance somewhere down the line. I love the show because it's one where paying attention really, really pays off, and I just admire how clever the writing is. As I said at the start of OFAH, you have such an enjoyable and sometimes surprising journey to go on and I can't wait to re-watch all of these again, for the umpteenth time, but with a new viewer who is - very luckily - experiencing this genius for the very first time. Your reaction freshens up our experience of the show too as we will know what's coming but we'll have a renewed appreciation for certain jokes and situations. It's win-win for us all! :-D Lyrics to the theme tune for you, sung, by the way, by Eric Idle, of Monty Python fame: {Opening credits) They say I might as well face the truth That I’m just too long in the tooth Oh I’m an O.A.P.* and weak-kneed But I have not yet quite gone to seed I may be over the hill now that I have retired Fading away but I’m not yet expired Clapped out, rundown, too old to save One foot in the grave *O.A.P = Old aged pensioner (Closing credits): They say I might as well face the truth That I’m just too long in the tooth I’ve started to deteriorate And now I’ve passed my own sell-by date Oh I am no spring chicken it’s true I have to pop my teeth in to chew And my old knees have started to knock I’ve just got too many miles on the clock So I’m a wrinkly, crinkly, set in my ways It’s true my body has seen better days But give me half a chance and I can still misbehave One foot in the grave :-D

Ash Jeffries

One of the great things about watching these reactions is picking up on the tiny things I've always missed before. For instance, the penny's only just dropped that the company which Victor worked for is called Mycroft-Watson, which is an obvious Sherlock Holmes reference. (David Renwick is a huge fan of detective/mystery fiction, which is what led him to create Jonathan Creek in the mid-1990s).

Ian Richards

Hurrah! Now at long last Josh that Mainland episode of Father Ted will make sense to you! HAHAAA

Andy Farmer

YUSS! #OFITG

Andrew

Oh my goodness! You're watching One Foot in the Grave! How cool is that! You're about to embark upon one of the greatest sitcoms of all time.

Right Said Brett

i love them crazy twists in a show, this is my first time watching it and that ending was great lol, il defo be staying for this series because a few people say it gets even better too.

martyn dodds

my first time watching this and i wasn't expecting for it to be this good tbh, its not really the type of show i would normally watch but im glad i gave it a try because i did find it funny so hearing its gonna get even better as its goes on makes me happy.

martyn dodds

If you liked that ending you're in for a treat. OFITG is one of the best when it comes to cleverly tying things together at the end of episodes.

Michael Leighton's Karl Pilkington Animations

Very sorry to read that.

Richard M

So sorry to post this downer but I lost my amazing mum today...83 I'm in a daze and I'm so numb but ofitg was her absolute favorite so I just had to watch it through the tears ...and it made me smile.xxx

Claire Prowse

You're not alone. I think the series made a huge contribution to how society viewed older people in the UK.

Matgo Styles

Victor Meldrew is often called a moaner, but you're quite right in saying the situations would be enough to make anyone moan. The writer David Renwick named him Victor because he sees him as a victim of the circumstances around him, rather than someone who naturally complains.

Matgo Styles

When he says you know what those guys with caps on the front desk are like, the joke is that that was his old job so he was one of those guys

Handheld Games

Mrs Warboys has to be one of my favourite comedy characters. Her absent-mindedness only gets worse, with chaotic consequences...

BertFredStan

Josh mate, this one is therapy for me. This show informed how I (as a kid) perceived the elderly and figuring out as an adult that these were actual people, not people who were born "old", like I saw them at the time. Hope I'm not alone on this one. Feels like I've gone out on a limb.

Ian Webster

Ahhh Friday evenings filled with quality again......phew!!

Andrew G

It's my favourite reactor reacting to my favourite show, what could be better?

Jack Nicholas

Amazingly well written show! Whenever I see a show where the main character is miserable because in each episode the world finds a way to shit on him (like curb your enthusiasm, which I do love) I always think this show did it decades before! Even the characters name is great writing, David Renwick said he ironically called him Victor because he will always lose

Devyn Hall

This is brilliant

Rich Moyse

Love this show, second series is where I often watch from but there’s some fantastic stuff in series 1. As you know some shows do have that different pace and feel with the first series but wait till you see how the show blossoms as it goes on. Comedy gold 👍🏻

A

I know exactly why you loved it as a kid, but I can't give examples as it'd be a spoiler! Suffice it to say, it gets much more absurd and outrageous. The great thing about you rewatching it now it you'll get to appreciate all the very dark moments, the super rude/explicit parts, and the extremely well-crafted plots. All the stuff that tends to go over kids' heads! That's what makes the show genius. It melds so many different types of humour together with some really quite dark themes.

slashdisco

After all the British programmes you have watched I am surprised this is first time you have heard granny annexe (a room or building built next to family home for elderly relative to stay in) and flexi time (working hours). I have been recording repeats of this on a UK tv channel recently to binge watch, but will now do one episode a week in the watch along.

Ryan Lynch

Like only fools and horses the first series is a slow starter but still good, the 2nd season of this however is brilliant

jack

Used to love this show as a kid! Excited to rewatch it all with you, it's been way too long. Not sure why I loved it being so young, but it was one of those shows that was on around bed time, and watching it meant staying up a bit later haha, got good nostaglia for it!

James Brown

Really looking forward to revisiting this programme (and seeing what you make of it Josh) good Friday replacement for OFAH, so glad it won :)

BelladonnicHazeyJaneII

Great reaction Josh! One of the things which makes these reactions so good is that you seem genuinely interested in getting to know the characters. I haven't seen this series for about 20 years and without this I would probably never have, but now I've got a regular Friday night slot to enjoy!

Adam

The interesting thing about One Foot in the Grave is that it was written backwards, the writer would think of a ridiculous situation that would be the payoff, and then work out how Victor found himself in it afterwards. So that's why the endings are often so funny.

Charlie

I find it's a bit slower at the beginning. Like Only Fools and Red Dwarf, it picks up as it progresses. Comedy aside, the plotlines and themes are always interesting for a sitcom.

BertFredStan

So excited for this journey, it's one of my top favourite series for sure and gets better as it goes on

Clowd

Was just thinking that it's like a precursor to Curb!

Adam

First time watching this series, seems to be a dark undercurrent running throughout at least in this episode. Not laugh out loud funny but ill stick with it.

will doyle

Glad you enjoyed it, Josh. Love your t-shirt. 🙂

Mr K

"Just a grumpy old man, but actually I can see why he's pissed off." Josh, you just summed up the entire series in one line! The term "Victor Meldrew" has become part of British language (and still used in the press) when describing a moaning old git, but that's not quite accurate: the brilliant thing about the show is that his reactions are only ever understandable responses to the madness happening around him. Very much like Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm. I'm so glad you're enjoying it already! It really does get 100 times better!

slashdisco

The theme tune is sung by Eric Idle from the Monty Python team.

Keith Pratt

FINALLY! Its been years since ive seen this classic. Excited for this one!