REACTING TO ONLY FOOLS & HORSES | Series 2 Episode 7 - A Touch of Glass
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The smashed chandelier was made by props company Trading Post. Despite being a fake, it was still worth about £6,000 and only one was made, meaning the scene could only be filmed once. It was initially intended that this would be the final scene in the episode, so after the incident Jason and Lyndhurst were required to stand and stare at each other in silence for 30 seconds while the camera rolled. Lyndhurst later recalled that director Ray Butt threatened to sack him if he ruined the scene by laughing. Many of the cast and crew struggled to contain their laughter in the aftermath of the shot; Butt himself stuffed a handkerchief into his mouth and left the room.
Almost as much as the flat then 😊
@@MarkGodfrey73 The flat is in a wonderful position, isn't it? I mean, fifteen minutes from the West End, it's fifteen minutes from the motorway... and fifteen minutes from the ground 😂
That's crazy! £6000 is still quite expensive, though! Even without inflation aha I can imagine it would be quite hard not to laugh!
@MeganRuth add at least a zero on the end of that figure to adjust to modern money
As I recall, it was something to the effect of: "The chandelier falling is the punchline to the episode, so if you blow the scene, the episode won't have an ending. If we don't have that ending, we don't have the episode. If we don't have the episode, we lose the series, as we'll be an episode short and the BBC won't take only five episodes, so we'll be deemed unreliable and won't be recommissioned." Ray Butt was so draconian because everything was riding on getting that shot.
The best part about the chandelier scene is that it's written to set the audience up for thinking that they're going to drop the chandelier that they're supposed to be working on. We don't even notice the other chandelier in the background so when it falls it just makes the joke we expected even better.
One of the funniest sketches in British comedy history , and based on an actual event . The writers father worked for a removal firm . They were sent to remove a chandelier , just as in the sketch , the wrong chandelier was dropped . When John Sullivan's father told him the story , John thought it was hilarious . His father didn't think it was at all funny , as fifteen men were fired from the removal company .
I was the Cameraman who shot that sequence..dining out on it has been a feature of my life ever since...the tension on the camera tower was palpable with the added problem of not shaking the tower with laughter as the chandelier fell...incidentally the shots of Grandad undoing the bolts were taken back in London weeks later and edited in.
Thank you for your input of telling us
What gives the extra bit in the classic falling of the chandelier is the body language and look of satisfaction on Grandad’s face as he walks down the steps.
One of the series finest episodes with a sublime.😊 ending. You do feel their anxiety at the end though and love Rodney nearly falling out of the van when it speeds off
£6,000 for this Chandelier back in 1982 when this episode was first made... Is the equivalent of £21,357.48 today. 👍
It's not the chandelier that cost that much. It's the flat.
@@adambattersby8934 Adam... Just go back to the clip again and at time stamp @5:14... Grandad clearly states that the council said that they could buy their council flat for £8,000... The Chandelier in (real life) was made specifically for this episode of Only Fools And Horses... By a well known props company for the sum of £6,000 back in 1982.
The biggest issue with those old manor houses is the upkeep.
Regular utilities would only cost what you use, and you'd probably
only use whichever part of the house in which you were living.
Upkeep on the cleaning & lawn would run you an arm & a leg,
and eventually you'd probably need some sort of staff to upkeep it all.
...but you could always make money as a museum to pay for it.
This episode was the turning point to the success it became
£8000 was expensive for a house, I was buying empty 2 bedroom terraced houses in the 1980s in Belfast for £5 each, getting grants to fix them up then reselling or renting them out.
I’m literally watching fools and horses at 12.40am as I type this. Can’t explain how much this programme means to me. Can’t wait until you get to Yuppy Love (the bar scene) and Jolly Boys Outing
3 am for me and I got 2 interviews tomorrow 😮
This actually happened to the script writers father years earlier, when John Sullivan heard the story as a boy from his dad he laughed, his dad clumped him round the ear, when this scene was shown on screen years later, his father admitted that it was funny after all. This is a fact told on film by John Sullivan himself
My local church is nearly 1350 years old. Escomb in county Durham, North East England UK
It doesn't matter how many times you see this episode it's still hilarious ... great reaction Megan, thanks for your hard work editing & uploading.
Just returned from Holiday in China
Found out I’d eaten Donkey meat, my wife told me it was chicken, but there again she says everything I eat there is chicken 😂
My mum & dad bought their 2 bedroom council house in 1980 for £11,000, sold it a few years later for £36,000, bought a 3 bedroom house around the corner for a few grand more. Now worth £700,000! Utter madness.
Yes but their wages would probably be ten pounds per week.
What amazes me about this show (and I’m not really aware of any other comedy show that did this) is that the main joke of each episode revolved around a killer twist in the plot. (I.e the wrong chandlier dropping, The two Indians chaps were actually working together, where Trigger actually got the paint from, etc.) This made the jokes even more outrageous. This episode was the best! Stay Glassy…sorry…classy, Miss Megan….!
Ms Megan ❤
You need to watch . Time on our hands . When they really do become millionaires
A timeless classic tv show . I've only just finished watching the dvd boxset . Onto the best ever now... Auf wedersein pet
This was actually a true story. This happened to the writer’s own father who along with his 14 colleagues, all lost their jobs in the hand-mouth twenties. John Sullivan told the story during a break one day and the cast laughed and he insisted he write it but his own father had been so angry years earlier when he told the story and it received laughs. Sullivan reluctantly wrote it. When the episode premiered in 1982, his father rang him (as per tradition after each episode) and simply said “Your right it was funny”.
My first house cost £12,000.00 and I worried how I'd afford it. I sold it for £36,000.00 about 8 years later.
this is one of the best episodes laugh out loud and stitches in the sides 😅😅😅
Enjoyable reaction to an all-time classic.
As an aside, it always brings a smile to my face, when people say they couldn't live in a house like that "because of the cleaning" or "think of the electricity bill!" 😂
Whilst it may certainly be an issue for a few 'old money' owners, generally speaking, these are not items of concern.
Greatest comedy of all time (in my opinion of course) timeless
Love your starry top ✨✨✨
Thank you! 😊
You did not mention the cost of the council tax. I am starry eyed over your top. I want one.
Fun Fact: about you saying in Equidor (can’t spell that sorry) they eat Guinea pig well in the UK the hedgehog is called a hedge pig because back in the day 100 + years ago maybe earlier traveler who were fat aging for food would catch hedgehogs roll the in clay then roast them crack the clay off and away comes the spines making it easier to eat !!!
Many people forget about inflation. She said that £8000 is cheap and she would like to live back then when things were so cheap. But things weren't so cheap. £8000 in 1982, when this episode was filmed, is the equivalent of £27,000 today.
I didn’t forget about inflation. Even considering inflation house prices have become incredibly expensive and out of reach for most people my age. Wages have not increased to match them.
I absolutely love only fools and horses and this is just a brilliant reaction keep up the great videos
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)
The chandelier episode was my favourite all time one ,i remember thniking oh no that material wont hold the chandelier when it falls ,and i felt very anxious ,i felt as though i was there waiting for it to fall onto the material
And then when it was the wrong chandelier ,,i felt relieved and could laugh likecive not done for a very long time
It had me hook line and sinker
😊😊😊😊😊😊 Great,we know what's going to happen,but the surprise is how that makes it brilliant ❤❤.
You can buy into a title by buying land, or even simply buying the title.
You can become a Lady by buying a small piece of land in Scotland, it is only small but it gives you the Ladyship title. It is quite cheap too. The proper ones are born to it. 🇬🇧
Of course everyone knows whats going to happen now, most vidros give it away in the heading when we first saw this on tv it was a complete surprise.
Most people wouldn't want to eat any type of animal that's often kept as a pet.
Ive got a castle up road from me its nearly 1000 years old called Dudley castle and it was built in 1070s it now stands in the grounds of Dudley Zoo u should check it out megan 😊
Great reaction 😅
Thank you! 😊
Get lost Arse 😠 😒 you're not welcome here.
Should we start calling you Lady Megan? Lol 😂
You can become a lord or lady, peerages are handed out by the government each year, creating new lords and ladies. I interviewed two lords for my postgraduate dissertation - they were both just retired MPs.
Megan, you can buy the title Lady, costs about £70 and for that you get the deed for a small piece of land and the title Lady. You can then change your passport, driving licence and medical records to reflect your new title. On the subject of old buildings, the boy's grammar school I attended was built in 1562.
That's a common scam. Such a title has about as much standing as one from Sealand.
@@lordsummerisle87 sorry to burst your bubble but I've had the paperwork checked for this sort of thing. Any Title can be bought except those bestowed by the Royal family such as knighthoods
@@francislaverty9262 My husband attended an all boy's grammar school, it is also a really old building. The King's School, Grantham.😊
Most of them don't pay for the upkeep. We do.
Lords are either hereditary or they are bestowed the title for doing great things in sport's or business of the arts ,this title lord or baron ,or lady or dame .this is for you only and cant be passed down to your children.
This was a make and break episode for OFAH - no pun attended. This episode was the turning point on where the future of this sitcom lies. They break the chandelier and make the sitcom into something special.
If the Chandeliers part went all wrong, the sitcom would have been axed. Thankfully, it went amazing well and from here it gets better and better. It doesn't come as a surprise in why it was voted the best Britcom of all time
OFAH wasn't an immediate success. The first series didn't get high viewing ratings but it was repeated in the summer and did a bit better. Sometimes a series needs time to make an impact but I doubt budgets allow for that.
Love the hoody!! 👌🏼🪐⭐️💫
You can buy a title on line in England,
and it's not that expensive you could legaly become lady Megan Ruth
That's not true. You can buy a certificate and a plot of land, usually one square metre, but the title is not official and does not hold up in law. I bought one for my sister as a joke present.
It's really a scheme to protect land in areas of natural beauty which have no other protections. Say Donald Trump wants to buy a huge piece of Scotland, which he likes to do, and people don't want him destroying Scotland to build another golf course. A long strip through the middle of the land, one metre wide, is sold off in small portions to as many people as possible. For Trump to buy the land he wants he needs agreements from every person who owns any of it. It becomes more expensive in legal fees alone than the land is worth. The "title" that comes with the land is just a gimmick to attract buyers.
Lord- and Lady-ships are conferred, not bought over the internet.
I agree.i couldn't live in that house.far too big.
You can buy titles lady Ruth!
People buy the term lord
You can be titled from birth or squire it!
You can't just decide on your own!!!!
You don't look after the buildings you have 'people' for thst
steptoe and son is funny
you can purchase Lord/ Lady titles. theyre not too expensive.
Really? Wow! That's easier than I thought it would be... 😆
@@MeganRuth yes there are a few sites on google which offer them.
yours faithfully,
Lord Count Baron Archduke Gallo II :)
You cannot sit in the House of Lords unless you are mega rich and the Prime Minister owes you favour (apart from few who still get in due to who their fathers).... back when this came out biggest laugh ever, no one saw it coming
Eating dogs is disgusting in any culture.😰
Hi to become a lady all you have to do is pay a priminster.
You're much too nice to be an aristocrat.
Why dont you people acheive something in life.Rather than reacting to things we watched 30 years ago?Strange people