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If The Happiness Patrol is ultimately an allegory for Thatcherism then this story ends with Denis running off with Geoffrey Howe. I don’t make the rules. This is just what happens.

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I don’t care how many times I’ve seen this take of yours, it still makes me cackle.

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On the subject of feeling like a comic - I had a very nice meal with Andrew Cartmel pre-pandemic and said to him that it was the most 2000AD of his stories. He agreed, but said that Curry wasn’t particularly familiar with 2000AD at the time.

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I love Helen A whining at the end “They didn’t understand me”. The kind of thing you can imagine creeping out of the mouths of a Tory MP today.

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I think nearly all* of the scripts during that time were massively overlength so you can't really blame this one on a lack of rehearsal time.

* Paradise Towers was about right.

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