#benny hill tv show

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Sue Upton.❤❤❤

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TGIF

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1970s The Benny Hill Show 📺

Diana Darvey, Jackie Wright & Benny Hill 

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The Benny Hill Show 😁 😁 😁

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‘Moving Violation’ (s7, e13) Murder She Wrote

David Lansbury (nephew of Angela Lansbury, Law & Order, Sex & The City)

Stephen Macht (Sliders, Suits, Castle, General Hospital, Millennium, Star Trek: DS9, Columbo, Cagney & Lacey, Alfred Hitchcock Presents)

Susan Clark (Webster, Airport 1975, Babe, Marcus Welby, MD, Columbo, Benny Hill Show)

Jack Colvin (The Incredible Hulk tv show and 70s/80s movies), Jeremiah Johnson, Child’s Play, Cagney & Lacey, Quincy ME, Six Million Dollar Man)

Episode aired Feb 3, 1991

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Louise English wearing extremely short red short shorts/hot pants on The Benny Hill Show

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The Benny Hill Show intro

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The Benny Hill Show (1969) The European Song Contest

S1E1

A man finds a good way of getting rid of his wife by the Ye Olde Wishing Well, but it works for other people, too; the joy of a recorded TV show is editing off the goofs, unless these are discovered later; a sound-delay interview goes wrong when the interviewee is not aware that her prepared answers are being given to the previous question; a newlywed couple on an East European country does not find bliss when diplomacy decides the frontier of the Russian and the American sector should pass right through their home, and bedroom; a tribute to the Lower Tidmarsh Hospital Service, with volunteers easily distracted by other matters, and the tribulations of outside patients as well as those in the infirmary and the operating room; Mrs. Fripp, TV Times' most loyal viewer, is interviewed by that commercial channel; the European Song Contest is hosted by Katie Boiler, and features singers from Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Austria, Great Britain and Scotland (all played by Benny Hill), and the voting goes a bit wrong; plus songs by Benny Hill and The Ladybirds.

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Corinne Russell

The Benny Hill Show

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Hello! Hope you're having a good time on the planet!

Are there any fics where the 1941 magic show goes wrong? I'm mainly thinking of if Aziraphale did end up getting shot, but a fic wherein any part doesn't go as smoothly would be good. No tag limits/stuff to avoid.

I've tried looking but unfortunately people tend not to tag their fics with the episode name.

Thank you!

Here are some fics in which the magic show doesn't go as smoothly. Mind the warnings on a couple of these!...

Shoot Your Shot by Skywing80 (T)

Crowley struggles with the fact that he has to shoot a bullet at Aziraphale. The nerves eventually get to him.

Panic on the Streets of London by krowtenretsnom (G)

“Aziraphale would forgive him like he always did, but Crowley wasn’t sure if he would be able to forgive himself.” Or, Crowley can’t bring himself to shoot Aziraphale during the magic act in 1941.

And Eden Sank With Grief by Pockykierra (T)

When the gun slipped from Crowley’s shaking, sweating hands and his finger caught the trigger, the sound from it was deafening, the flash of light from it blinding. Even with his glasses, he had to close his eyes against it - though in those few milliseconds after, he began to wonder if it was actually because of how overwhelming it all was rather than the light. Whatever the reason was, his eyes were closed. And they really, really shouldn’t be. Why did he close his eyes? That was incredibly stupid of him, completely idiotic. He opened them. When he saw Aziraphale staring at him with wide-eyed surprise, a hand pressed to his bleeding, broken chest, he wished he hadn’t. or The bullet catch scene doesn't go quite as it did in the TV show

The Night of the Living Turnip by runningturnip (T)

During Aziraphale's 1941 magic show, while the miracle blocker was in place, his attempts at miracling the turnip into an inkwell didn't just fizzle out. They built up, paused in place, and when the miracle blocker timed out... Well, it turns out that a pile of increasingly frantic miracles by a somewhat panicking angel (concentrated upon a singular point) resulted in giving a turnip sentience—and little arms and legs. Of course, while Aziraphale and Crowley argued about what to do, the turnip took its first opportunity to explore the theatre and cause inadvertent mischief. Cue the Benny Hill music.

And You're To Blame by YamiSnuffles (E)

“The miraculous Bullet Catch requires the use of a trusted stooge and confidant.” As though Crowley needed the reminder. He’d looked at the manual too late but the words were burned into his memory. They existed as a testament to everything he’d done wrong. He didn’t appreciate having them thrown in his face and he made it known with a curl of his lip that bared still sharp teeth. “To be successful, perhaps. Did that look like a successful trick to you?” - The Bullet Catch goes terribly wrong and Crowley shoots Aziraphale. Crowley has to find a way forward in a world where he discorporated his best friend.

You Blow My Mind Away! by MimeOfATime (M)

The amazing magic act of Fell the Marvelous goes wrong.

- Mod D

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The Benny Hill Show

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The Benny Hill Show

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Sunday | Week In Review II

Sunday Week in Review II.

How we all doing?? Did we make it through the week? (I wrote this placeholder start on Monday, future B, I hope you made it through unscathed)

Narrator: In fact, she barely made it through the week unscathed. It was a weird limbo state of a week that she couldn’t quite understand was so quick but so fucking long at the same time…

So as a result, I really didn’t read much this week - you should see my tabs that I have open for my TBR list this week and I have a lot of mentions/reblogs I will be responding to the next couple of days.

Anyway, on with the week in review…

Truly Betty Updates This Week…

Strings Part III (I feel like I hit publish on this six weeks ago, this is how long this week has felt)

Dipped by foot in the Catfish pond this week also...

Stood Up

Flings

Fics I Enjoyed This Week…

Six Sentence Sunday by @gnpwdrnwhiskey I love Sunny & Whiskey any day of the week, but throw in tiny long-eared adorable puppies? *dead*

Delta Landscaping | Chapter 1: Welcome to Torrey Hills by @rhoorl They're here... What an opening chapter! This one introduces us to the Delta boys and where they are post-Colombia and sets up for what I know is going to be a fantastic ride! I also heard that the residents of Mulefall Court (snort) have come to play today...

Working Title by @rhoorl Also started this fic this week by Jess too, only one chapter in but I'm very curious how this is all going to play out. Dieter Bravo and a slow burn? Has my name all over it!

The Layover | Chapter 10by @goodwithcheese I'm ignoring the fact that we're in the home stretch of this story - but it's one that just keeps on giving and this week's update was no different! Also, are you team Jules x Benny or team Jules x Santiago?

Sage by @softlyspector This is part three of the Honeyed series, and I don't know how to sum up in a couple of lines how much this series has touched me. Joel AU where he's a tattoo artist might sound on the surface a little ways out there, but trust me - the characterization stays true and the slow burn here is something else. I've yet to reblog it with my comments as I'm still taking it all in - trust me, there's not been a day this week I've not thought of this series.

First and 10 by @something-tofightfor This was actually a re-read and I was surprised to find I hadn't shared it already. We've had @ladamedusoif with SNL's Mr. Ben, now I introduce you to @something-tofightfor's SNL Wing Pit Daniel. He has lived rent-free in my head since I read it and this one shot, I've lost count of how many times I've gone back to read it.

Things I’m Looking Forward to Starting…

No list this week as I can't keep a lid on my TBR list as it exploded this week with my weird head space - which means a lot hopefully a long list of fanfics read next week! 💕✨

Posts I Enjoyed This Week…

@jomiddlemarch’s TLOU x Ted Lasso master list put together by @tessa-quayle When I first read TLOU crossover with Ted Lasso a couple months back I was a little dubious about how the two would work. But I’m telling you - it works. I also adore the relationship between Joel and Grace, so much so that reading their back and forth it’s easy to forget she’s an OC. Everything @jomiddlemarch does with her OC is what I strive to achieve with my own - a flawless submission into an established world.

Dave York Hip Bounce Honestly? Do I really need to explain this one? 

Things I’ve Enjoyed This Week…

@gnpwdrnwhiskey informing me that there is A HIPPO EMOJI!!! 🦛 <— look at it! 

Finding out You can “rewind” gifs (I refer you back to the Dave York hip bounce post)

Justified (TV Show) - even though I'm not entirely sure what is going on at any given time (I watch while I work), I'm now on season two and Raylan is still shooting an alarming amount of people and I'm shocked by the lack of presence of internal affairs. Also, resisting the urge to talk with a Southern accent, much like the week I spent singing everything I spoke in a cockney accent after watching Sweeny Todd…

This Week’s Song…

This song has eaten up and spat me out since I heard it a couple weeks ago. I’ve not gone a day without playing it on repeat and each time my little brain is blown like it’s the first time.

Hope everyone has a great Sunday and here's to a better week!

Feel free to share your weeks in review, detailed or not, and tag me in it if you do! 💕 xx

Other week in reviews I think you should check out...

@rhoorl's week in review

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Episode 30 - "Team Leatherface" (Show Notes)

listen along here

General New Moon content warning about ongoing discussion of suicide!

[00:00:32] James’s totally real phone number, for all the single moms out there: (248) 434 - 5508

[00:01:40] Disclaimer that G recorded this episode in a larger, more echoey room than usual, with more background noise. Some of the thumping you hear throughout is Beth chopping up peaches to make a delicious peach cobbler. We offer you the recipe for it in penance for making you listen to very faint Peach Cobbler ASMR

[00:01:50] James’s bespoke 15-hour playlist, including such hits as the Benny Hill theme, All I Want For Christmas is You, and some 3B1P episodes (you’re welcome James)

[00:04:43] Listen to Beth's previous episodes, Catgirl and Pigboy and Straight History, on any of our usual platforms!

[00:10:01] The Teen Wolf soundtrack, including "Catherine Beta Jones" and "Dude Dies" as named by James

[00:12:44] Shannon's beloved Locked Tomb audiobooks, narrated by Moira Quirk

[00:12:55] Nickelodeon Guts

[00:17:02] The Nightmare Before Christmas Hot Topic merch [00:17:38]

[00:17:50] "Vampire kickball" as depicted in What We Do in the Shadows (TV)

[00:21:54] Disney Adults don’t @ us. Beth would like the record to show that she is one of you and stands in solidarity. Also, here are some images of G, Shannon, and James having a pretty good time

[00:27:14] James's beautiful illustration

[00:27:53] “Leatherface”

[00:40:04] Live James Reaction

[00:40:11] “The South Park episode where Cartman’s eating Scott’s tears”

[00:44:18] G's research into the origins of “loca” revealed that Taylor Lautner doesn’t even remember saying it. But from some light further research, it does not appear to originate in the screenplay, so it’s likely that it was either improv or Lautner was indeed handed a list of phrases to choose from like rpattz and “spider monkey.” If you know more, drop us a line!

not a "loca" in sight in this draft of the New Moon screenplay

[00:44:46] “Built like an Easter Island statue”

[00:47:10] Wide Grasp Billy, probably

[00:56:42] “You’ve been lying to everyone: Charlie.” (Chronologically, this scene takes place in the equivalent of our future Episode 34.)

[01:02:13] Yes, G is eating (probably a peach that Beth handed her.) Sue her

[01:23:15] Parentification

[01:24:26] “An ancient man”

[01:39:06] Notorious blonde-hater Stephenie Meyer on Lauren’s pixie cut

[01:41:56] G’s "Loose Bear in the Neighborhood" chronicles

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[02:06:33] Find James @ jbshotthis on IG or venmo him @ brokejb to make him listen to your Teen Wolf grievances

Thanks for sticking with us for our first-ever multi-guest episode, gang!

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"I said your money or your life!"

Probably the most famous gag Jack Benny ever did is at the end of the March 28, 1948 episode of his radio show, then airing on NBC with Lucky Strike as the sponsor. Jack is walking home from the house of Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume (who on the show were his neighbors in Beverly Hills) when he's confronted by a mugger with a gun. Then:

MUGGER: Now, come on, your money or your life. (Jack says nothing for a long beat.) MUGGER: Look, bud, I said, your money or your life! JACK (irritably): I'm thinking it over!

In isolation, it's not a big joke, but it builds effectively on Benny's by then well-established comic persona as a truly determined miser, and a host of previous gags about what a skinflint he is. (For instance, in the February 1 episode, eight weeks earlier, Jack follows the Colmans to the Brown Derby restaurant, insists on picking up the check, and then gets into a ferocious argument with the waiter over being charged for an extra cup of coffee while the Colmans, mortified, crawl out under the table and flee.) The studio audience, sensing where the exchange is going, starts to laugh about halfway through Benny's pregnant pause, and really loses it at his retort. Interestingly, people recalling this scene after the fact (including humorist and radio raconteur Jean Shepherd) seem to inevitably remember the pause as being really, really long, although it's actually only about five seconds. This wasn't lost on Benny, who in later iterations of the joke took pains to stretch the pause out for longer and longer, sometimes to hilarious effect.

In its original context, this bit is only one part of a several-week storyline that pays off a bunch of running gags: Since the Colmans were introduced as guest stars, Jack had been annoying them with his habit of constantly borrowing things and never returning or replacing them. Jack, who in his radio and TV persona was a colossal ham and a terrible actor, was also been envious of Colman for his acclaimed performance in A DOUBLE LIFE, for which the real Colman had won an Academy Award just eight days before this episode aired. So, in this episode, before leaving the Colmans' house to walk home, Jack convinces Colman to lend him his Oscar statuette, which the mugger then takes along with Jack's watch and wallet. This kicks off weeks of gags about Jack trying to figure out a way to get the Oscar back, or get another one to give Colman in its place, before Colman knows he's lost the original. Finally, the May 9 episode reveals that the mugger was actually the Colmans' butler, and the mugging was just a ruse to teach Jack a lesson for constantly borrowing things without giving them back.

Individually, some of the component gags of this storyline work better than others (my favorite is a bit where one of Benny's regular cast suggests that he offer a substantial reward — "Say, $1,000" — for the statuette's return, which gets almost as big a laugh as "I'm thinking it over!"), but the more familiar you are with the various character and story threads, the funnier the whole storyline becomes. Benny's writers were still successfully building off that fondly remembered sequence 20 years later.