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The episode starts with some slapstick as Foggy falls back from a wall but then becomes rather maudlin when they nearly get run over by an hearse.

The trio and Sid contemplate about the death of their friend Murdoch in a rather unsentimental way. A theme in these early episodes usually was always an old friend of theirs that we have never met who dies which leads to sad reflection.

Of course when actors from the show who played characters we actually knew died in real life such as John Comer, it was some years before it was ever mentioned the character had passed on. I never reasoned why writer Roy Clarke skated over the deaths of the cast of this series except for when Bill Owen died.

The episode becomes rather whimsical after Murdoch's funeral as Clegg ends up developing the opinion that flowers have feelings and he attempts to prove his theory in Sid's cafe. Of course Clegg knows something which the others only realise later.