Having taken up the challenge of the last review. I have pondered on the interest of this fantastic comedy. I use the word fantastic in more than one way. Besides being hilarious, this show has everything. A mad-cap family from the valleys, a new-age American student, a bit of fluff that fancies him like mad - you know what I mean like. A barman who's not right in the head and some of the funniest things you can imagine. The episodes usually build in a frantic and energetic method and end in a blaze of comedy that is rarely, and I mean rarely done in other things (Maybe High Hopes - the new series that the writer/actor has moved onto). Needless to say you will cry with laughter after watching a few of these episodes and the old man's sayings linger in the mind, like a a silver cloud drifting through a smog of desperation, or something like that anyway. The fact that he was a bus driver and he run over his wife who was hard, and I mean hard, has left a dent in his psyche abit, but his stories are priceless. I have hunted high and low for a video or DVD, but none are available and the BBC have no plans as yet - sad really, but life I suppose.
