"Are You Being Served?" It Pays to Advertise (TV Episode 1977) Poster

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(1977)

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7/10
It Pays to Advertise
studioAT27 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
A wonderfully funny episode of the show, which as the previous reviewer has said, did start to get much bigger with its plots around this time.

With some lovely moments (Mr Humphries pretending to be the dummy etc) this is great fun.

It is of course the final appearance of Mr Grainger, and its testament to him as a character, and Arthur Brough who played him, that none of the many replacements they brought in to replace him worked half as well.
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9/10
A funny send off for series five.
Sleepin_Dragon1 December 2019
Mr Humphries and Mrs Slocombe took part in a photo shoot, the pair have had dummies made, to help advertise, but another, different campaign is needed.

In the beginning, this feels like an earlier episode, it's more the traditional formula, we have the behind counter gossiping, and the funny customer scenarios, there haven't been a lot of those in this series. At the end it feels like an episode of the future, bigger, zany plots which either worked well or fell short.

Mollie's hair is particularly bonkers here, they really were making the characters more extreme at this point, bigger and more daring. The advertisement scene is very funny, it's so utterly over the top.

The last episode to feature Mr Grainger, the show would be very different from here on in, but the last one to feature the original regular cast is a classic. 9/10
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6/10
It Pays to Advertise
Prismark102 November 2022
It starts off with waxwork models of Mr Slocombe and Mr Humphries. It is a new promotional campaign dreamt up by Young Mr Grace.

Both of them are meant to represent the average man and woman in the street.

Mr Humphries ends up ripping the head of his dummy and ends up doubling for his own dummy.

Later the staff of Grace Brothers clothing department end up in the making of an advert.

Mr Humphries finds out that making an advert is no picnic but the director has taken a shine to him.

Miss Brahms ends up being dressed like a Bunny Girl and Mrs Slocombe has to be seen to believe like a middle aged bond bimbo in platform heels.

The first part was the funniest. It was full of double entendres including the male gentleman customer buying perfume for himself.

The second part was a little bit too zany. At one point I thought Spile Milligan might show up.
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