That Does Suit Madame, The "Are You Being Served?" Podcast Mr. Jeff & Mr. Brandon

Are you FREE for a BONUS episode?! We are!

Drag has always featured prominently within the “Are You Being Served?” universe and not just with Mr. Humphries. We hear from some #Unanimous superfans and receive an invite from Mr. Todd from Sydney onto his fab podcast “A Podcast With No Name”. We also hear from friend-of-the-pod Toni Homeperm again and her thoughts about drag culture.

We’re surprised in-studio by the incomparable Candy Samples as she shares about her life raising over $400,000 USD in donations for AIDS charities over the years, the birth of her drag and we discuss tips on how to support your local drag queens in the face of the stupidity of far-right American politicians who want to ban them. 

Bonus: Candy Samples released her newest studio album called “Bittersweet” on iTunes and Spotify now! Sneak sample at the end of the episode: her hit “Greenbean Casserole”. Buy your copy here: https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/candy-samples/325313698

And as always, you've ALL done VERY WELL. xo

Our FINAL podcast: After 86 podcast episodes, Mr. Jeff and Mr. Brandon say goodbye to the podcast they've crafted over the past two and a half years. What started out to be a COVID-hobby became a fantastic vehicle to bring "Are You Being Served?" fans together, share some laughs, and give the space to really take a look at why we all love this silly, wonderful comedy program.

The hosts share some (shocking?) secrets about the podcast (DO we actually record in Northern Mississippi?!) and then we offer to pass the podcast torch to YOU. We explain how we started as complete podcast novices as we learned our way into producing this podcast, 87 episodes later. We can't wait for you to start your own podcast about one of the fabulous British comedies and continue bringing britcom fans together online.

It's been a pleasure speaking to the #Unanimous for all these many months and we might have a pop-up episode in the future (perhaps an as-yet-unfinished book about one of the AYBS cast might be published in future?). Our Facebook and Twitter accounts will continue but our podcast has probably stopped. 

Even though the podcast might have gone up into "the Boardroom in the sky", we're still around and we can't wait to learn about your future podcasts!

And as always, you've ALL done VERY WELL. xo

In this podcast episode, we review the very final original content from the AYBS Universe. :(
Your two podcast hosts had a lovely chat with Brian Slade, author “Simon Cadell: The Authorised Biography”, the beloved Hi-De-Hi actor.
We received a delightful voicemail from the “Keeping Up Appearances: The Luxury Podcast” with chums of the pod William Hanson (from the “I Sexted My Boss” podcast) and Jonathan Vernon-Smith from the BBC “The JVS Show” programme.
The staff has finally turned on Mr. Rumbold’s managerial role.
“Fanny Adams” is a phrase that translates to “fuck all” but points to a very tragic news event which was popularized by the English Navy regarding an 8 year old girl in 1867.
What if there -was- a 3rd season of Grace & Favour/AYBS?
We learn about the fate of Mrs. Rumbold.
Mr. Molturd randomly announces that the lads from the pub have challenged the staff with a darts match!
We try to explain how darts is played (visualize a pizza).
Find old episodes of “Bullseye” on YouTube, the Darts Game Show from 1980s’ UK!
Sheep are being sold to the estate next-door.
Mr. Humphries is proud of his Australian hat (sent from his penpal).
Capt. Peacock’s mysterious bite marks that Miss. Lovelock somehow is privy to.
Enter the 1928 Daimler sedan.
What is a “tax disc”?
Percy the local police officer and Molturd's bribe.
And the super cute freeze-frame of Billy Burden in this scene with a great big smile.
The Vine Tree Pub was where the exterior shots of the episode were filmed in Norton, England. It’s still open today and is a 14 minute drive away from Chavenage House (“Millstone Manor”).
Apple orchards in the West Country of England generates excess apples which are then crafted into “scrumpy”- a high-octane alcohol.
A quick history of why we call the graphite in pencils “lead”.
Mavis can handle her scrumpy and “is just getting started”!
Paul Humpoletz player Henry Heathcliff, Malcom’s father.
Mr. Brandon finally stumps Mr. Jeff: Paul Humpoletz also played one of the thieves in the “The Hold Up” from the original series 10: episode 3!
And her past catches up with her again from Tiverton.

A shoving match starts up; Rumbold and Henry step outside!

Both men are posturing until Slocombe finally smashes Henry with her handbag.

Dressed all in black, the staff try to sneak onto the neighbouring estate to spirit away the sheep.

Mr. Humphries accepts Slocombe’s cold cream!

Marketing made men think cold cream was only for young women.

Humphries tries to bribe a terrier dog with the tandoori chicken (which no one likes, including the dog).

And the sheep find their way back to Millstone Manor! Happy ending!

And the final lines of Grace & Favour:

Peacock: “A large drink and a hot bath.”
Slocombe: “Now that’s real leadership that is”.

Superfan John-Brian Hopkins on Twitter shared that the terrier in this episode was Wendy Richard’s dog named “Shirley Brahams”.

The terrier gets the final credit of the series!

Our NEXT episode: Behind the Pink Curtain. We discuss our thoughts about making the podcast series, AYBE today and yesterday, and how YOU can make your own podcast.

Final call: send us your last voicemail for our final podcast!

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We’re supporting Gladys in the Bell Ringers Association Union local #DING and their strike.
Beryl, our switchboard operator, let a very confused voicemail get through to the podcast.
Americans: don’t forget to vote in the Mid-term elections!
A fabulous scene of Miss. Lovelock driving the carriage with Humphries in his red riding gear.
“Walkies” jogs our memory to a classic AYBS episode.
Peacock tries to encourage Lovelock’s fascination with his history… without luck. “It’s not quite the same thing, is it?”
We learn “punka wallas”.
Slocombe and Brahams can still pull the guys!
We meet Malcom-Heathcliff again in the path and threatens Humphries again.
Who won 3rd place in the Miss. Lovely Legs contest in Tiverton? One guess…
“Of you’ll find some rough lads waiting for you”. Humphries looks right into the camera to contemplate.
Mongolians booked a tour at the Manor but the currency has fallen drastically!
Cheap, weird jokes made about Mongolians.
The staff have to create a “cultural event” for their guests (Just like in the “Mr. Slocombe” episode!).
Slocombe once served Vanessa Redgrave!
Ferrets in trousers?
Humphries shows off some childhood photos.
We get a great “jug ears” thanks to Wendy Richard.
A weird hierarchy joke against Molturd from Brahams.
Molturd will arrange for local villagers to audition for the talent show.
Kiri Te Kanawa is the famous New Zealand opera singer that Slocombe wouldn’t remember.
Mavis is encouraging Humphries to have a scrap with Malcom-Healthcliff.
Mrs Cleghampton (again) tries out for employment and fails (with her adapted cello).
Her g-string broke!
Tiddles cries; glass breaks. But she played at the Proms!
Mr. Jeff explains the cultural mistakes during the Mongolians’ concert.
The Mongolian language is not a tonal language yet the actors mostly speak Mandarin Chinese.
The gong is played. Mongolians stand and bow, over and over.
The “sooo…” joke from “The Hand of Fate” episode is recycled but the asian character gets a zing in the end.
Molturd battles a donkey and loses.
Sir Gay Humphries! Joanne Heywood knows how to dance ballet on point!
A suspicious red codpiece.
And a patriotic “Britannia” makes an appearance.
We think this episode missed several points b/c of sloppy jokes about Mongolians but this shows its age (yet we still love it!).
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It’s Halloween season!

Only 2 more original episodes of Grace & Favour to cover!

A “very special episode” of the podcast coming up.

Call for Nominations! Our special upcoming awards!

A special hello to our pals Gary and Tilt from The Sitcom Club and their new AYBS podcast “They’ll Ride Up With Wear”. Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sitcom-club-091-aybs-pilot/id635720813?i=1000580551913

An AYBS renaissance?!

Sweet messages from our #Unanimous listeners who don’t want our podcast to end. (All good things...)

Start your own podcast! (And we’ll make a “Secrets Revealed” podcast episode soon where we teach you how).

We were told what the “buffers” was from a previous show. Thanks Mr. Dirk!

And we still don’t like Old Mr. Grace.

Mavis brings Humphries a nice tray with eggs and soldiers (not burly Armymen).

A fabulous dream sequence with Miss. Lovelock and Cap’n Peacock as a 1950s period scene - amazing.

Tobacco snuff and the gross history of “toffee-nosed gits” and “noses in the air”.

The studio audience wanted to applaud the sequence.

Then they discover a mummified cat inside the bedroom wall!

Rumbold, Slocombe, Brahams, and Humphries go and plant potatoes.

Slocombe’s straddling of a tractor seat! And her country roots come out.

The Bogman joke!

A bog = slang for “bathroom” in the UK.

“There must have been a very long queue”… LOL

The staff go to the local museum to donate the cat.

The museum curator is played by Patrick Fyffe who is famous for Dame Hilda Bracket (one half of the female impersonator comedy duo “Hinge and Bracket”).

Nefertiti’s aunt? We don’t get the joke.

Daisy the cow has stopped giving milk. Peacock gets a ticket. Bad things are happening to the staff!

Take a cat from the wall, bad luck shall befall!

Mr. Jeff explains meters and scanning in speaking. Iambic pentameter, etc.

Mr. Rumbold had a bang on his head and is probably concussed.

Old school chain-pull toilets.

Lemon pie filling explodes into the kitchen mysteriously!

Lovelock scares Mr. Molturd as she’s dressed as a glamourous ghost.

Slocombe and Brahams’ room is very haunted.

Humphries and Mavis’ bed starts to levitate off the ground.

The laissez-faire use of tranquilizers and sleeping pills.

A concussed Rumbold wanders around the manor shouting “Peacock!”.

The mummified cat wags its tail(?!).

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Rest in peace Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

A voicemail from Superfan Ms. Johanna from Detroit and her childhood AYBS-related snafu.

What do they call “Britbox” in the UK… “box”?

Update from Superfan Ms. Ursula: congratulations to Mr. Anthony and Mr. Scott on their nuptials (they’re neither one way nor the other) and their AYBS-themed invitations.

Mr. Brandon uncovers 1995 memories of his “Encarta” CD-ROM with the new “multimedia”!

Mrs. Slocombe was the star of the cricket match.

A winning turnip in the Vegetables and Flower Show?

Capt. Peacock has trouble getting his leg ‘round a horse.

A letter from Mrs. Axelby. (And was she Slocombe’s secret lover?!)

The strong arm of the Daffodil Club.

Mrs. Slocombe’s ex-husband appears at Millstone Manor!

And she had to have margarine on her toast instead of that slightly salted butter.

A guide to the rigid hierarchy of the supermarkets in the UK.

But they were happy!

Class-conscious Mrs. Slocombe tries to hide in a secret priest hiding spot during the Cromwell years.

A very rapid history of the Olive Cromwell period in England.

Is “a Scotish breakfast” code for a something?

The killing of King Charles I and a special (and old) golden spoon to be used during the upcoming coronation of King Charles III.

Mrs. Slocombe turns into a West Country land girl.

The staff needs to convince Mr. Slocombe that there’s a lot of staff on the property.

The actors’ experience doing Pantomime shows came in handy with this episode.

Using the French language to impress.

The classic Mollie Sugden smirk just like Mae West.

John Inman as Humphries as Mad Jed where Inman reminds us of the AYBS-Australia episode.

“Other times I’m like this… but I’m happy!”

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