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'The Pit in the Pendulum' - can anyone explain the joke of this scene?


Patrick has lost the dog, and he sees Victor's gardener sawing or using some kind of tool, and looks at him in a quizzical (I guess) way, and then it cuts to either Margret or Pippa cutting a sausage in the kitchen - which the audience find funny.

Was it meant to be that Patrick was thinking the dog (Denzel, I think) could be where the sawing was going on and died, and the next scene of "dead meat" being cut was a reference to that, or was it meant to be (and this will sound weird) a sexual thing - with references of "tools" and "sausages" or is there another joke I've missed?


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Hi

I happen to think it was an in-joke what with Denzil being a sausage dog & Pippa's feelings over a number of things. She had lost her baby in the episode before, Patrick was getting on her nerves, & maybe she wasn't very fond of the dog.

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