"Rat-a-tat-a-tat”

Gladys the bell is sleepy for the show.

We’ve already reached the final episode of AYBS!

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Little Britain’s Mollie Sudgen skit!

Mr. Brandon’s bad ABBA jokes!

Mrs. Slocombe YELLS across the floor.

Things get fishy about Billingsgate Fish Market.

Lots and lots of recycled/full circle jokes (some repeated from the very first episode).

Mr. Spooner has a sore throat but is late.

Miss. Brahams sticks up for Spooner and he’s just relegated to the lift operator.

Mr. Lucas vs. Mr. Spooner: compare and contrast.

The floor staff and the Canteen Manageresse blackballs poor Mr. Spooner.

Enter Chanson d’Amour.

Des O’Connor = 1950s UK recording artist.

The group had a great mention in the newspaper and a record company wants to sign him!

Have your coworkers ever been super nice to you?

Mr. Jeff was -almost- a child star! (And he was on Reading Rainbow)

The staff is buttering up Spooner so the backing group can become stars too.

Mr. Jeff refuses to sing.

A respectable acapella version of Chanson d’Amour in Mr. Rumbold’s office.

Mr. Grace thinks it’s an outbreak of distemper in the pet department.

Two semiquavers = sixteenth notes.

The cleaning staff come in to listen to the recording studio! (Maybe another “full circle” reference to the first episode?)

Buying stuff online back in the day.

Miss. Bellfridge’s engine is running.

Seymour, Mr. Grace’s secretary, and gun powder explosion.

Then we see a 1985 TV studio set.

“Around London” was the first breakfast morning show in the UK.

The staff the stage full glam!

Mr. Humphries = a mix of Dorothy Zbornak, David Bowie, and Boy George.

The wrong tape speed! (Yet another joke recycling)

Mollie Sugden can’t keep up with the backing singer choreography.

Chanson d’Amour was a real song recorded by The Letterman and Manhattan Transfer.

The history of white singers recording song by black singers for segregated music sales.

And that’s the end of the original series!

Should there have been more AYBS episodes? Maybe or maybe not.

The good news: we can always go rewatch the original episodes.

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