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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Professor Wagstaff)
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Subject: Re: greatest tv program ever?? (Fall Rise Reg Per)
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Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 15:09:03 EST
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> Agreed.  "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin" has to be one the greatest
> (if not _the_ greatest) series to come out of Britain, in terms of the
> subtlety of its humor (that's for the falmers who like Fawlty Towers, which
> is also great).  I'm curious, though.. Can someone supply a list of
> GROT shop items that Reggie sold while the show lasted?  (It would make
> a perfect item to sell at aa GROT shop -- completely useless.) [STEVEN GRADY]

You're quite right.  I agree that "Perrin" and "Fawlty" are quite possibly
the two best British (or even English language?) sitcoms ever made, but that,
yes, they are very antipodal in style and wit.  Where Fawlty (Cleese) was
brash and loud and abrasive, Perrin (Rossiter) was subtle and contorted (in
an intellectual sense).  Still, "Basil, if I found out that YOU bet the money
on the horse you know what I'm going to do?"  followed by "You'll have to
sew them back on first..." has the best of both worlds, don't you think?

By the way, if there *were* GROT shops in which to sell such lists as
you've described, the lists would in fact by quite useful (i.e., giving you
useful information about which useless things are available).  It would only
be truly useless if there is no such thing as a GROT shop in which to sell
such a list...   (???????)

(I just realized that, for perhaps the first time in history, I don't have a
 single Python-based signature line in my directory...)
-- 
Anything's possible, but only a few things actually happen.
					Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr