Are you FREE for a BONUS episode?! We are!

Drag has always featured prominently within the “Are You Being Served?” universe and not just with Mr. Humphries. We hear from some #Unanimous superfans and receive an invite from Mr. Todd from Sydney onto his fab podcast “A Podcast With No Name”. We also hear from friend-of-the-pod Toni Homeperm again and her thoughts about drag culture.

We’re surprised in-studio by the incomparable Candy Samples as she shares about her life raising over $400,000 USD in donations for AIDS charities over the years, the birth of her drag and we discuss tips on how to support your local drag queens in the face of the stupidity of far-right American politicians who want to ban them. 

Bonus: Candy Samples released her newest studio album called “Bittersweet” on iTunes and Spotify now! Sneak sample at the end of the episode: her hit “Greenbean Casserole”. Buy your copy here: https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/candy-samples/325313698

And as always, you've ALL done VERY WELL. xo

Our FINAL podcast: After 86 podcast episodes, Mr. Jeff and Mr. Brandon say goodbye to the podcast they've crafted over the past two and a half years. What started out to be a COVID-hobby became a fantastic vehicle to bring "Are You Being Served?" fans together, share some laughs, and give the space to really take a look at why we all love this silly, wonderful comedy program.

The hosts share some (shocking?) secrets about the podcast (DO we actually record in Northern Mississippi?!) and then we offer to pass the podcast torch to YOU. We explain how we started as complete podcast novices as we learned our way into producing this podcast, 87 episodes later. We can't wait for you to start your own podcast about one of the fabulous British comedies and continue bringing britcom fans together online.

It's been a pleasure speaking to the #Unanimous for all these many months and we might have a pop-up episode in the future (perhaps an as-yet-unfinished book about one of the AYBS cast might be published in future?). Our Facebook and Twitter accounts will continue but our podcast has probably stopped. 

Even though the podcast might have gone up into "the Boardroom in the sky", we're still around and we can't wait to learn about your future podcasts!

And as always, you've ALL done VERY WELL. xo

It’s Halloween season!

Only 2 more original episodes of Grace & Favour to cover!

A “very special episode” of the podcast coming up.

Call for Nominations! Our special upcoming awards!

A special hello to our pals Gary and Tilt from The Sitcom Club and their new AYBS podcast “They’ll Ride Up With Wear”. Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sitcom-club-091-aybs-pilot/id635720813?i=1000580551913

An AYBS renaissance?!

Sweet messages from our #Unanimous listeners who don’t want our podcast to end. (All good things...)

Start your own podcast! (And we’ll make a “Secrets Revealed” podcast episode soon where we teach you how).

We were told what the “buffers” was from a previous show. Thanks Mr. Dirk!

And we still don’t like Old Mr. Grace.

Mavis brings Humphries a nice tray with eggs and soldiers (not burly Armymen).

A fabulous dream sequence with Miss. Lovelock and Cap’n Peacock as a 1950s period scene - amazing.

Tobacco snuff and the gross history of “toffee-nosed gits” and “noses in the air”.

The studio audience wanted to applaud the sequence.

Then they discover a mummified cat inside the bedroom wall!

Rumbold, Slocombe, Brahams, and Humphries go and plant potatoes.

Slocombe’s straddling of a tractor seat! And her country roots come out.

The Bogman joke!

A bog = slang for “bathroom” in the UK.

“There must have been a very long queue”… LOL

The staff go to the local museum to donate the cat.

The museum curator is played by Patrick Fyffe who is famous for Dame Hilda Bracket (one half of the female impersonator comedy duo “Hinge and Bracket”).

Nefertiti’s aunt? We don’t get the joke.

Daisy the cow has stopped giving milk. Peacock gets a ticket. Bad things are happening to the staff!

Take a cat from the wall, bad luck shall befall!

Mr. Jeff explains meters and scanning in speaking. Iambic pentameter, etc.

Mr. Rumbold had a bang on his head and is probably concussed.

Old school chain-pull toilets.

Lemon pie filling explodes into the kitchen mysteriously!

Lovelock scares Mr. Molturd as she’s dressed as a glamourous ghost.

Slocombe and Brahams’ room is very haunted.

Humphries and Mavis’ bed starts to levitate off the ground.

The laissez-faire use of tranquilizers and sleeping pills.

A concussed Rumbold wanders around the manor shouting “Peacock!”.

The mummified cat wags its tail(?!).

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Rest in peace Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

A voicemail from Superfan Ms. Johanna from Detroit and her childhood AYBS-related snafu.

What do they call “Britbox” in the UK… “box”?

Update from Superfan Ms. Ursula: congratulations to Mr. Anthony and Mr. Scott on their nuptials (they’re neither one way nor the other) and their AYBS-themed invitations.

Mr. Brandon uncovers 1995 memories of his “Encarta” CD-ROM with the new “multimedia”!

Mrs. Slocombe was the star of the cricket match.

A winning turnip in the Vegetables and Flower Show?

Capt. Peacock has trouble getting his leg ‘round a horse.

A letter from Mrs. Axelby. (And was she Slocombe’s secret lover?!)

The strong arm of the Daffodil Club.

Mrs. Slocombe’s ex-husband appears at Millstone Manor!

And she had to have margarine on her toast instead of that slightly salted butter.

A guide to the rigid hierarchy of the supermarkets in the UK.

But they were happy!

Class-conscious Mrs. Slocombe tries to hide in a secret priest hiding spot during the Cromwell years.

A very rapid history of the Olive Cromwell period in England.

Is “a Scotish breakfast” code for a something?

The killing of King Charles I and a special (and old) golden spoon to be used during the upcoming coronation of King Charles III.

Mrs. Slocombe turns into a West Country land girl.

The staff needs to convince Mr. Slocombe that there’s a lot of staff on the property.

The actors’ experience doing Pantomime shows came in handy with this episode.

Using the French language to impress.

The classic Mollie Sugden smirk just like Mae West.

John Inman as Humphries as Mad Jed where Inman reminds us of the AYBS-Australia episode.

“Other times I’m like this… but I’m happy!”

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We love our fun and funny chat with @MsJoanneHeywood on our last podcast episode (and the #Unanimous do too!).

-Are- we actually in Northern Mississippi? The rumours continue…

Our collective noun to name the listeners of our podcast: “The Unanimous”.

The great behind-the-scenes that Ms. Heywood provided the show from her fabulous motorbike scene with Capt. Peacock!

We only have 4 original AYBSA/Grace & Favour episodes left to talk about.

Mr. James, the current captain of the Grace Bros. Table Tennis Team, left us a lovely voicemail on the PEACOCK Hotline.

Americans: which local PBS station did you originally learn about AYBS in the 90s? Send a tweet or FB message, tag us, and then tag the PBS station!

Who is the UK “late night” chat show king/queen?

Americans are leaving Millstone Manor as the episode opens. Is the American who says their stay was “swell” on “Absolutely Fabulous”? Mr. Brandon is convinced.

The Mollie Sugden/Mrs. Slocombe grimaces!

Miss. Braham’s lesbian barrister admirer.

“I’m the other way.”

“I’m in between - bifocals!”

Our “moment of butch”.

And we attempt to explain the cricket.

(And then we post a great explanation video on YouTube out of guilt)

“What a sticky wicket”.

Put the poles in the holes!

The scene where Mr. Molturd and Mrs. Slocombe appear to be assisting each other under the marquee’s canvas.

A beautiful shot of Fleur Bennett and John Inman as Humphries and Mavis.

Mrs. Slocombe’s tuba music while she pulled the roller on the lawn.

Devonshire vs. Cornish and scones; does jam or clotted cream go first?

Mr. Jeff salivates over his favourite sandwich from his recent jaunt to London.

The gingerbread men cookies.

Maybe Mavis and Humphries should get married?!

The recycled joke “If life was a train from London to Birmingham, I’ve just gone past Rugby”.

Miss. Lovelock outshines Peacock with The Times’ crosswords.

Mr. Thorpe and Miss. Prescott from the solicitor’s office appear about selling some assets for a massage parlour (And remind us of Young Mr. Grace).

And some casual, cringey racist jokes.

A suitor from Mavis’s past appears from Tender Bottom.

The cricket match!

Falling pants, Humphries’ shorts, and an errant ball.

Coming soon: the That Does Suit Madame Northern Mississippi Cricket Team?

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Gladys goes on strike!

It’s hot (stay cool, #Unanimous).

Our newest unpaid intern position: the T.W.I.T: Mr. Bill!

We’re heading towards the end of the podcast (so send us your voicemails soon!).

The original AYBS cast turn into retirees in Season 2 of Grace & Favour?

Do you warm your teapot before you pour in the boiling water?

Chewing gum and kitties don’t mix.

Mr. Brandon sees his grandmother’s doppelgänger in Mrs. Slocombe.

What exactly -was- Mr. Humphries doing with the Americans behind the barn?

Is Humphries a man’s man? We ponder the 1993 idea of asexuality.

It’s bad luck to pass a 3-legged cat on the stairs.

The Black Cat Lobbyists group have been busy.

What -did- Mr. Humphries reach down for during his dream with a Cowboy?

Mrs. Humphries’ many romantic suitors who Wilberforce was told were his “uncles”.

Mavis becomes Humphries’ “big sis”. Aww!

The Sandy Return of Mrs. Alexby!

Captain Peacock finds a loaded gun in the “writing room”.

The gun goes off, misses Mr. Humphries, hits a bottle of gin, and he faints behind the bar!

The staff immediately worry that a terrorist might have planted the gun in the Manor. (A very un-American idea).

Miss. Brahams thinks Prince Charles and Princess Diana live in the property next to Millstone Manor.

“So much for English O-levels”.

A mucky scene with Mavis (and poor Fleur Bennett).

“Eastenders” and “First of the Summer Wine” actors make appearances as the police force.

We love Tameka Empson, star of “Eastenders” but in our hearts for “Beautiful Thing” who played Leah.

The Derek Bentley gun case is sneakily inserted into this episode.

A “makarov” gun and Frank Thornton’s brilliant acting.

The team gets their backgrounds checked.

Miss. Lovelock has an Irish Arab in the stable.

Mr. Molturd’s blumberbuss gun!

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The final episode of Season 1 of AYBSA/Grace & Favour! (But we still have Season 2 to go). 

We had an unauthorized travel expense from official Research Unpaid Intern J.J. (but he sends us a report from LONDON anyway). 

An AYBS tattoo in “The Theatre of the Mind”!? 

Superfan Patrick suggests that Mollie Sugden as Mrs. Slocombe sounded snooty in the original series but not as much in AYBS-Again. Why? 

Mr. Jeff sings! 

Wayne’s World and Cops on 90’s TV. 

The gayest moment on the podcast ever! “A trice” - Professor Jeff explains that refers to an old fashioned type of pully. “In a trice” = “in a jiffy”. 

Mrs. Slocombe reconciders delivering the breakfast tray to handsy Mr. Webster in a throw-back joke. 

Mr. Conklyn wants Mr. Humphry’s help in the bath. 

The Americans don’t have vitality, personality, or youth. 

“One For My Baby” sung by Bette Midler as the final act for Johnny Carson’s “The Tonight Show” on American TV. 

“Sausage” = “sausage and mash” = Cockney rhyming slang = “cash”. 

Mr. Humphries milks Bessie the milk cow. 

Where is the Valley of the Queens?! 

Tiddles is a cougar, apparently. 

Harrods delivers to Northern Mississippi! 

The staff create a church service with Slocombe pumping the organ (and the blacksmith). 

The dentures are missing! 

The “Benny Hill” song played during PM Boris Johnson’s resignation speech. 

Mavis is willing for a shilling?! 

The Harvest Dance! 

Mavis is the “caller” just like in American Square Dancing (which might have been evolved from Somerset Harvest Dances in England?) 

Capt. Peacock plays an apple tree from “The Wizard of Oz”.

 The “Somerset” farmer costumes in “Roots” look the same as in the Harvest Dance in this episode! 

A call back from “German Week” with Slocombe slapping Peacock! 

Next podcast: Season 2 of “Are You Being Served Again” / “Grace & Favour”. 

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