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Things you've only just noticed after years of viewing...

posted 16 years ago by alexlarge
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The mark of a classic show - you see something new even if you've seen the show 50+ times already. Throw your hats into the ring here with the things you only noticed when you recently watched AWP...

Both from series two...

Before Barry's miscue/fluke when they're playing snooker in the Portland, I never realised Dennis wipes the chalk off the tip of Barry's cue.

When Nev and Brenda are in bed ("BARK?! Ya wannus to BARK?!!") - when Nev says "I'll cook dinner for you and Norma tomorrow" the "Norma" is dubbed over - it looks as though he says "Vera" - hahah, a hangover from series one Nev?!

[–] richardhill75 16 years ago

I would describe myself as an Aufpet fanatic - yet I've never noticed the interesting things you have spotted. I'll have to put the dvd on now and watch Den rub off the chalk. i just can't believe I haven't spotted that one. Do you have any others?

[–] RalphFilthy 16 years ago

Having recently watched all of Series 2 I'd have to say it's the sad ommission of Gary Holton in the "Spanish" indoor scenes, and in particular the ridiculous sub-plot of having Oz pumping Vicky, instead of Wayne.

Understandable, of course, but when I watched this series at the time knowing Holton had died before the end I didn't really spot any obvious signs. Not even the bit where Bomber picks up "Wayne" at the bar and lifts him over his head...

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[–] alexlarge 16 years ago

Richard, the only other one i can think of isn't that interesting really - when barry is telling moxey and wayne the story of macbeth at thornley manner he seems to have something taped round the tips of all of his fingers, dunno if that's an electrician's thing or what.

[–] chelseaal 16 years ago

well, I dunno if this counts, but on the inroduction of each DVD disc it shows the main leads in various situations. Dennis is shown with water from a pipe flying into his face. Notice that the pipe has a compression fitting, right next to what appears to be an electrical socket. This is illegal, it should be a continuous pipe and prefrebly boxed in. Even back in the mid-1980's, the foreman would have berated the installer for this.

[–] Jason_Radley 16 years ago

A nicely authentic touch from series 1, when Dennis and Dagmar (and Neville and Oz) go swimming at the local baths, are Brigitte Kahn's hairy armpits.

[–] Bird_Photographer 16 years ago

Not so much noticed in the shows, but more the actors via imdb ... who would've guessed Dennis is younger than Neville, or that Moxey is the 'baby' of the team.

[–] Jason_Radley 16 years ago

The final scene of series 2 with Dennis, Oz and Neville together on the deck of the yacht is evidently meant to echo the end of series 1 where the lads are on the ferry back to Blighty.

[–] alexlarge 12 years ago

courtesy of col547...

Sorry if it's been mentioned before, but has anyone else noticed series 1 episode The Accused where the lads are getting ready to go out and Barry's in a white vest spraying on deodrant, and then Barry comes walking into the hut behind Neville in the next shot.

[–] Dlp07 12 years ago

Seeing all the later interior stuff for Series 2 after you know the Gary Holton story is pretty gutting- but shows how well they coped with it, I suppose. Never knew that it was supposed to be Wayne doing Vicky though- obvious when you think about it really!

Having just got the DVD's I've seen a whole sequence (also in Series 2) that was never on the VHS's for some reason (most probably music licensing issues). Before they leave for Spain there's a fight in Ally Fraser's club in Newcastle- this was on the VHS but not all of it as there it appeared that it was (strangely enough) Moxey who was trying it on with the Geordie plasterer's bird but then later they say that it was Oz.

This is because in the full version of the scene (restored for the DVD) Oz just left her at the bar with Moxey for a while and there was a whole conversation between Barry and Moxey before it about how Moxey wouldn't be quite in the same league as the other British villains on the Costa del Crime! Good to see the scene back in- especially as the BBC failed so miserably with the Only Fools and Horses DVD's- so many classic scenes cut just because of background music!

[–] alexlarge 12 years ago

When Nev is pretending to be a carpenter and he's (badly) sawing through the plank of wood, at one point he tips it up and realises he's also been accidentally sawing through the bench too. A classic apprentice carpenter's mistake. It's great that they put little touches like that in - and it takes 30 years to notice!

[–] nephihaha 12 years ago

Yeah, been there, done that... that's why we have work benches!

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[–] Awpet 12 years ago

Regarding the Norma/Vera dubbing, that was down to Caroline Hutchison not being able to play Vera in Series 2 because she was ill. This scene and also the one in the Barley Mow car park, just before Oz kicks the football through the window, is also dubbed Norma/Vera. They were already filmed, so it had to be dubbed.

In Return of the Seven part one, the scene with Neville and Bomber talking about Vera in the Bel and Dragon, this is an 'added on' scene, to make it make sense to viewers.

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[–] caseyjones66 11 years ago

Re Series 1 episode 3, The Girls They Left Behind

Watching it now for the nth time and just noticed the following...

The Liege v Sunderland game is stated as being a midweek fixture yet, back in Newcastle, Vera tells Brenda the pub that they're in is busy because its Saturday night. Do both these events not take place on the same night like?

[–] caseyjones66 11 years ago

Just realised...

Maybe the guy with the white jacket had to go on a second date to get his leg over with Marjorie.

[–] waynejones81 11 years ago

the best ones i noticed :

1) when Crista is on the bed after seeing a rat if you watch the dvd she starts laughing just before the scene cuts due to barry's ott reaction!

2) neville's impossibly tiny todger in the jumping in the pool scene (must have been cold) oh wait it's not

3) lots of the hookers at the brothel in series 1 are actually men

4) bomber supports bristol city in earlier series then wears a bristol rovers shirt in series 4

5) dagmar's hairy armpits

[–] nephihaha 11 years ago

How about the same German taxis and police cars turning up in separate episodes?

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[–] richard-199 11 years ago

Only been watching since I first discovered AWP about 10 years ago, but watch each and every episode faithfully every year. It's one of my favourite UK shows and I always think of it whenever I hear a Geordie accent.

I just started in on S1 again a couple of days ago, and noticed that in E5, when Bomber goes home to his wife after his daughter has run away, she serves their tea in the same two mismatched tea mugs that Brenda serves tea to Oz's wife in E3!

[–] richard-199 11 years ago

Just finished watching S4E2:

In the final scene where Neville meets with Tarquin who is having a goodbye drink with Erica Trasker, the camera pans up from the street as Nev gets put of his taxi. There's a couple fighting on the second floor in the building across from the hotel, and another couple embracing on the third. At the end of the scene, the camera pans over the balcony back to street level. At this point, the couple on the third floor is now arguing, and the couple on the second floor is locked in an embrace. A fantastic bit of direction showing the turbulent emotions of everyday Cubans.

[–] the_puppy_killer 10 years ago

Here's one, Bombers wife in series 1, is Madge from Benidorm!!

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[–] Postieman 8 years ago

The words "Auf Wiedersehen Pet" have only ever been said once in the show.
In the final episode as the last ever lines.