Big Poppa

Production[]

Episode: 42
Date: March 25, 1981
Time: 50:27
Musical Director: Ronnie Aldrich
Vocals: The Ladybirds
Choreography: Julie Herveiu
Producer: Dennis Kirkland
Director: Dennis Kirkland
Writer: Benny Hill

Big Poppa - "Pardon me if I don't get up; it's an old war wound.... I tripped over a Marine in a black-out."

Guest - "Did the fall break your leg?"
Big Poppa - "It wasn't so much the fall as it was the sudden stopping as I hit the ground!"

Big Poppa - "She looked like Miss America... And a good part of Canada too!"

Jed Jardine - "Did you hear about Zeke? He swallowed a door knob, and it turned his stomach!"

Jed Jardine - "Well, if it had been any worse, we couldn't have 'et it, and if it had been any better, you wouldn't have give it to us."

Angry Farmer - "Jed Jardine, I'm gonna give you a piece of my mind!"
Jed Jardine - "Can you spare it?"

Sheriff Bill Jardine - "Hey, do we know Ace Deacon?"
Deputy Leroy - "Yeah, he did five years for statury rape."
Sheriff Bill Jardine - "Well, any man who rapes a statue deserves all that he gets!"

Big Poppa - "Just tell me the truth, is Philbert really my son?"
Janey Jardine - "You want the truth? He is; the other three ain't!"

Ann Afford - "France, the presentation of Mr. Michael Foot of the Ministry of Labor Union was cancelled when they were unable to find a French General to kiss him."

Selected sketches from this episode appear in the "Home Video Drive In" VHS from HBO Home Video.
The outfits of the Remote Control Angels are gray business (Louise English), blue business (Cathy Holmes) military (Sue Upton), chauffeur (Abigail Higgins), karate (Samantha Spencer-Lane and Elfrida Ashworth), red leather (Denise Gyngell) and biker (Jane Paris).
In this sketch, it's hard to tell who the guy is in the rocking chair on Jed Jardine's porch in Big Poppa. It might be Jon Jon Keefe; if so, this is the only episode where he and Roger Finch appear in an episode together.