The Good Life: Series 2 Episode 2 (Part 3 of 3)

[snowfuryproductions]

3:39 a creepy voice says 'There she is', definitely not Tom's voice.

[dharmaseed]

Margo: "Jerry! What are we going to do?"

Jerry: "Could have dinner....."

Rest in peace, Paul. Thank you for leaving such a wonderful legacy.

[mrsoctagoneapus]

I like the one when they get drunk and start looking for the dish washer XD LOL

i'm cracking up just thinking about it when i started watching it i looked liked this :( after XD

[Simulacra719]

@mrsoctagoneapus Ahhh, good call! 'The Wind-Break War' is one of my favourite episodes! That scene where they are looking for the dishwaher and Jerry talking about Barbara 'bringing out the beast' in him never fail to make me crack up!

[concordecal1995]

LOL

[blackiemittens]

I'd fight Ruth for Tom in this episode myself! The temptation of keeping safe in the status quo and comfort zone is natural

when different viewpoints get afraid of each other but his 'practice what I preach'

is spot on. Barbara looked a little concerned there, but he quickly remembered himself and put the brakes on. Communication's key for people with differences, but that springs from sound self esteem. Something Margo for all her

funny posturing, didn't always have. Gotta love 'em though.

[GKL1410]

You've gotta love Margo

Reminds me of my grandmother

[shaelo20]

Hahaha the comments are nearly as funny as the show!!!!!!!shoot lighten up....barbara is just like my ex mother in law and she thought the show was funny

[SteveRessel]

Yep, you know it all. Sounds like you are a good resource for assumptions and nonsense.

[revolverpup]

I love that casual racism. It is true that art is a mirror to reality and how this mirrors the sensibilities of that time. Also, does any body else get the impression that Tom and Barbara swing with Jerry and Margo?

[ludocrat]

You're dead right in every way, of course. But please don't spoil it!

[dloverise]

Yep, that the undertone of the whole show...and i think most people at the time knew it....funny though i had never pegged margo as a racist

[tiddlypom]

The swinging is series 4 ;-)

[GKL1410]

It is hinted at a lot during various episodes

And I think Jerry even suggests it in one

[dharmaseed]

@revolverpup They probably would if they had a chance, although Margo would have to be pretty sozzled to swing with Tom, don'tcha think?

[frozentootsiepop]

What was so funny about the name at the end? Just that it was obviously not English?

[SteveRessel]

Yep, well, it is getting a little outmoded these days. The point was Margot is such a snob she doesn't want non-WASPS in the neighborhood causing 'white flight' and devaluing property. Such elitism must have been pronounced in England, because the description of the foreigners sounds like they are very respectable. British might have been more adverse to immigrants back then.

[frozentootsiepop]

Thanks, but what are WASPS?

[ScottfromTexas]

@frozentootsiepop - the normal people that created Western Civilization and landed on the moon.

[frozentootsiepop]

the only thing I can think of is 'white anglo-saxxon protestants'?

[ludocrat]

"averse"

And you are almost completely wrong. The idea that 'such elitism must have been pronounced...' etc is ridiculous. The hoots of laughter that greet the reaction of quaint, pre-war, uber-snob, ('WASP' you say - inappropriate term) parody, Margot to the names of the new occupiers Tom makes up, is a sign of the sophistication of the audience: exactly not evidence of some outdated attitudes about racial/social integration in Britain.

Suggesting otherwise, as you have, is quite insulting.

[SteveRessel]

Insulting only because you are uptight.

And utterly wrong.

[ludocrat]

This is a toss up between an American brought up three thousand miles away from the country he's pretending to be some kind of expert about, and me, an Englishman who grew up ten miles away from the setting of the show, among other things. I'm guessing, in that toss up, that you are the one who's most likely wrong. Be big - just accept that.

And as to the 'uptight' nonsense. Oh dear. You're not qualified to comment on UK history and culture, so you should be at lot less of cocksure, at least.

[ScottfromTexas]

The description just goes to show how little that really *describes* about people. Sort of like how all the illegal alien advocates call them "hard workers" when usually that isn't the case and even when it is they go on murder and rape rampages during their off hours, play loud music, drive drunk (usually on the wrong side of the road for some reason) and are general menaces to any decent society.