One of the things that's so special about 'Four Candles' is how, once they establish the format of the gags, it allows the audience to start pre-empting some of the lines, meaning some of them work in both directions. They get a knowing laugh with 'saw tips', then another when he says 'what you after ointment or something?'
At 0:39 there's the faintest twitch around Ronnie Corbett's mouth that makes me think he almost lost it.
"Were there any se-xx-ual problems?" They don't write catchphrases like that any more.
True that!
Sore tips?
One of the things that's so special about 'Four Candles' is how, once they establish the format of the gags, it allows the audience to start pre-empting some of the lines, meaning some of them work in both directions. They get a knowing laugh with 'saw tips', then another when he says 'what you after ointment or something?'