I really liked sweet, supportive and sarcastic Mrs Hacker

@thiagodeandrade7081

2 жыл бұрын

His safe harbor in The storms.

4:32 "ECONOMIZE.... on the beaches"

07:16 All I meant … oh God *voice breaking, starts crying* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I could watch that a million times, it's so funny and so supremely well done. Eddington's timing is just unbelievable. This series is such a treasure to discover, even after decades.

Paul Eddington's timing was truly impeccable

@vincentsmit1935

Жыл бұрын

Immaculate

@dimiturtabakov1108

Жыл бұрын

I heard in an interview with the cast, that in the beginning he (Paul) had more dialogue in the script, but very often he would say "I don't have to say this; I can just play it with my face" and he would. So eventually the script would say "Yadda, yadda, yadda [but Paul can just play that part if he thinks it'd be better]" and that makes me smile. I love these three!

"has anyone got brains" has to be the best line in the show

These British documentaries are so good. I love 'em.

Paul is at his best when Hacker is clueless and Hacker was clueless most of his time in office ;)

Never fails to make my day. Even a Monday 😂😂

And so the road to number 10 itself started!

Absolutely perfect 🤣⭐️🤣⭐️🤣

Imagine if Humphrey was Prime Minister!

@yashkarnena

2 жыл бұрын

Public would loose their minds from his speeches

@JJVernig

2 жыл бұрын

It would probably be better. At least he wasn’t (just) in it for what he could get out. He wasn’t the sharpest tool in the box, but at least not an extension of business or trade unions.

@thelukesternater

2 жыл бұрын

Idk if joke or not but he does become pm

@t75044

2 жыл бұрын

Sir Humphrey would never give up all that power simply to be PM

@jonathancampbell5231

2 жыл бұрын

@@thelukesternater Hacker becomes PM; Humphrey because Cabinet Secretary

Redoondancies lol.

Jim Hacker wouldn't have caused a fuel crisis...

@jorenvanderark3567

2 жыл бұрын

I don't believe that Hacker would have been able to bring OPEC in line...

@1993DBK

2 жыл бұрын

@@jorenvanderark3567 But Humphrey would have found a solution, probably through a shady deal with Kumran 😂

@jorenvanderark3567

2 жыл бұрын

@@1993DBK Well that is one country, 13 more to go. All of wich you'd have to convince to go against their own interest.

@centerfield6339

Жыл бұрын

@@1993DBK plus a couple of TPLACs.

@prasadchaturdesale5795

Жыл бұрын

@@1993DBK kumran was code for pakistan so no kumran isn't a opec country

Mr Watson could easily pass for Rigsby from Rising Damp. Wonder if it’s the same individual actually?!?

@MikeyMaggot

Жыл бұрын

I agree but Mr. Watson was actually played by an actor called Milton Johns.

Still makes him better than Boris

@valeriekeefe8898

6 ай бұрын

Imagine YM episodes about the lockdowns... I think this is the early stage of the disease we have in late stage now.

I kinda expect a minister to be living in a much bigger house.

@danieljoseph6309

2 жыл бұрын

Which year is it?

@uweinhamburg

2 жыл бұрын

The figure of Mr. Hacker wasn't a minister when he waited for the call.

@MijmerMopper

Жыл бұрын

At this point Hacker is a backbench MP.

Economise on the beaches

Is this first scene a pilot of some kind? I'm certain that on the DVD the set of the living room is different.

Is this the former PM who died before publishing his autobiography.

Can somebody explain what EEC is and what is Euro/British sausage problem and the joke regarding destroying surpluses of food?

@RJSRdg

2 жыл бұрын

The EEC is what later became the EU. In the 1980s, the EEC heavily subsidised food production, leading to massive overproduction which needed to be destroyed - so this joke was actually true! Conversely, the EEC diktat to rename the sausage the "emulsified high-fat offal tube" was made up for the programme!

@christianfournier6862

2 жыл бұрын

@Ishan_Khan.&.@RJSRdg= what "RJSRdg" has written is quite true, but… the EEC Agricultural policy and Food regulations were not as stupid as the British tabloïds made them up to be. After WW II the countries of the EEC (i.e. at the time most of Western Europe, which had joined the European Economic Community -, a precursor of the European Union) had two problems: first mechanization was making small farms inefficient, which meant that a huge number of small farmers were bound for ruin - and were thus bound to be disgruntled voters - ; and, second, WW II had shown how essential was food sufficiency, a matter the British knew well (since during WW II they would have starved to death if they had lost the Submarine War). The common EEC Agricultural policy was designed to soften the transition from small (60 acres) farms to large (more than 500 acres) farms and to achieve food self-sufficiency of the EEC. On both aims, it was wildly successful; so successful that the mechanism of its incentives led to surpluses as a by-product, a problem that took years of policy adjustments to solve. The “emulsified offal tube”, as well as myriads of other inventions such as the banana curvature ban et al. - although jokes purely made up by the British press - refer to the efforts of the EEC to standardize, in particular for health and safety reasons, the fabrication and labelling of food products sold on the Common market. Although "Yes minister" and "Yes Prime minister" ran on the BBC during the Eighties, i.e. before the « Mad cow crisis » occurred, this crisis has shown in the Nineties - both in Great Britain and Continental Europe - that food regulations are not always a laughing matter! __ .

@adrianaloborec2205

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, so that's where all that annoying produce standardization comes from!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Bills got europe he can hardly speak english 😂

Shit I played the video game and didn't have a clue as Hacker 100's of times. It showed in my job favorable percentage at the end of the week.

So what office did he get?

@drhmufti

2 жыл бұрын

Chancellor?

@skytstrax

2 жыл бұрын

He became the minister of administrative affairs, whatever that means.

@jonathancampbell5231

2 жыл бұрын

@@skytstrax It doesn't exist in the UK but it is a real department in other countries, such as Norway: "The Department of Administrative Affairs develops governing systems and determines overarching guidelines for effective and coordinated management and operation of the Ministry. The department handles administrative matters and ensures that the Ministry’s management is in regulatory compliance."

@TheFtocFactor

Жыл бұрын

@@jonathancampbell5231 Quite genius to give him that department, as it made it feasible that he would be involved in many different areas of govt. such as defense, education, health, etc.

@MijmerMopper

Жыл бұрын

Plus there is no better representative of the beurocratic civil service empire then a undersecretary specifically in charge of administrative affairs.

The Minister, he is sssoooo good here!! ''Splendid,'' and then he kisses him like French people often do So good!!!

@Knightsofallah

2 жыл бұрын

And the confused look of the EEC guy! Priceless!

The EEC, and whatever it is called this week, was really telling our Government what they are supposed to be doing. The Euro Sausage is the people in offices in Brussels, Strasbourg, and other European cities, telling us what we can, and can not put into the food, how we are allowed to do things, and the also paying for production of food, and for the overproduced to be destroyed.

Ha Ha ha this is politics of today Nothing is sup prises-me today Politics is repeating its Selves all over the World Well well Job is doing there BEST

Draconian "Stuff" up. 3*6*9. Bi now Saint Alypious must know that isn't going to dry bi three; and this was odd, you know, because they hadn't any feet.

@markfox1545

2 жыл бұрын

Your medication is wearing off.