Two main plots here. A feeble one, as usual, with Howard trying to master disguise - spoiler: he's rubbish.
The main plot is much better though, particularly for one absolute corker of a gag. Nora asks Compo to do her a favour, which actually leads to him dressing up tidily! He needn't have bothered though as the favour involves transporting a mangle - which for the youngsters among us was a primitive but EXTREMELY HEAVY hand cranked machine for literally squeezing the water out of laundry so it would dry faster & need less ironing.
It is NOT something three elderly blokes should really be dragging around the Yorkshire countryside. But that's what our heroes end up doing. Seymour comes up with a way of getting it onto some wheels & then it's just graft, dragging the machine who knows how far.
The absolute best bit though is this. Seymour has proposed a shortcut, along what is presumably a disused railway line - the UK has fair number of these & they are often open for people to walk along. However this means the mangle has to be lifted up quite a long way onto the viaduct (with the road running underneath). The lads are making quite a good job of this when the local police turn up. Guiltily (though there's no need), when confronted by the law, our blokes let go of their rope & the mangle falls back down *onto the roof of the police car parked underneath*, making a Big Hole.
The truly hilarious bit though is that the police never see the mangle in flight, so to speak. By the time they get back to the car, happy to have discouraged senior citizens from reckless behaviour, Seymour & co have pulled the mangle back up out of sight. So the poor bobbies never know what happened!
The vehicles belonging to the police take a fair bit of battering in LotSW, but usually they see what happens. Not this time. They will never know....
It's completely hilarious.
The main plot is much better though, particularly for one absolute corker of a gag. Nora asks Compo to do her a favour, which actually leads to him dressing up tidily! He needn't have bothered though as the favour involves transporting a mangle - which for the youngsters among us was a primitive but EXTREMELY HEAVY hand cranked machine for literally squeezing the water out of laundry so it would dry faster & need less ironing.
It is NOT something three elderly blokes should really be dragging around the Yorkshire countryside. But that's what our heroes end up doing. Seymour comes up with a way of getting it onto some wheels & then it's just graft, dragging the machine who knows how far.
The absolute best bit though is this. Seymour has proposed a shortcut, along what is presumably a disused railway line - the UK has fair number of these & they are often open for people to walk along. However this means the mangle has to be lifted up quite a long way onto the viaduct (with the road running underneath). The lads are making quite a good job of this when the local police turn up. Guiltily (though there's no need), when confronted by the law, our blokes let go of their rope & the mangle falls back down *onto the roof of the police car parked underneath*, making a Big Hole.
The truly hilarious bit though is that the police never see the mangle in flight, so to speak. By the time they get back to the car, happy to have discouraged senior citizens from reckless behaviour, Seymour & co have pulled the mangle back up out of sight. So the poor bobbies never know what happened!
The vehicles belonging to the police take a fair bit of battering in LotSW, but usually they see what happens. Not this time. They will never know....
It's completely hilarious.
