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I agree with Thor2000's comments regarding this series, but I think it went beyond Markie's outstanding figure (you can keep your skinny supermodel types! Markie was va-va-va-VOOMPH!). It was cleverly written, and the cast's sense of timing was uncanny. Everything just clicked and fell into place to deliver the laughs. I think the writers had just exhausted all ideas (a writer's strike during that period didn't exactly help matters, either!) towards the end, and I felt they should have ended it one season earlier, when Harry and Christine were in love and Dan was loony-baloney! While all the actors were outstanding in every way, it was Dan Fielding who stood out as the letch who everyone loved to hate! I personally feel the Selma Diamond season was the funniest, but not by much, since the other seasons had me programming the VCR to record it for posterity. I still own the videos and watch them once in a while. I wish they would bring the remaining seasons to DVD, so I could own them!

If you enjoy comedy, I mean REALLY enjoy comedy, this is the movie for you! There are so many comedians in this movie that it is very easy to lose count. And also, I believe this is superstar Amitabh Bachchan's very first movie. It is also one of Shatrughan Sinha's first movies. But the BEST stars are Mehmood and his gang of cut-ups. Even the names of the bus driver and the conductor when put together are a tongue-in-cheek reference to one of the biggest superstars of that era - Rajesh Khanna. Why don't people make real comedies like this anymore??? My personal favorite scene is when the bus stops at a roadside snack stand and a hungry kid goes berserk when he sees a complete stranger eating some pakoras (fritters) that he suddenly decides he wants as well. The facial expressions of everyone involved had me in stitches long after the scene was over. You have to see this movie if you want to die laughing!!! Two thumbs, eight fingers, and ten toes up!!!