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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 439648" data-attributes="member: 23">Well, how could I resist a peek. It&#039;s a fun little scene. Her casual &quot;Haven&#039;t been outside for twelve years&quot; cracked me up. I could see similarities to the Leaches here, yes. His term of &quot;endearment&quot; for his wife - &quot;my little armada&quot; - also had echoes of Basil&#039;s similar pet names for Sybil (&quot;my little Kommandant&quot;, &quot;my little piranha fish&quot;...etc). There&#039;s an intentional timelessness to the series, with very few topical references and minimal contemporary fashions (only the vehicles give away the time in which it&#039;s made for me). This extends to the continuity, so it&#039;s fairly unclear how much time passes between any two episodes. Many of them could be hours, days or months apart, and I&#039;d say this is no exception. While I have nothing to definitively back this up, I would guess it&#039;s&nbsp; source of pride to the creators if there was a sense that no time at all had passed between series/seasons, so that the seventh episode flowed as flawlessly from the sixth as any two consecutive episodes from the first series.The thing that delineates the two series for me is the addition of a new regular worker to the roster in the shape of Terry the cheeky chappie chef. It&#039;s very&nbsp; subtly done, though (and of course they would have a new chef after the disaster that was Gourmet Night)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 439648, member: 23"] Well, how could I resist a peek. It's a fun little scene. Her casual "Haven't been outside for twelve years" cracked me up. I could see similarities to the Leaches here, yes. His term of "endearment" for his wife - "my little armada" - also had echoes of Basil's similar pet names for Sybil ("my little Kommandant", "my little piranha fish"...etc). There's an intentional timelessness to the series, with very few topical references and minimal contemporary fashions (only the vehicles give away the time in which it's made for me). This extends to the continuity, so it's fairly unclear how much time passes between any two episodes. Many of them could be hours, days or months apart, and I'd say this is no exception. While I have nothing to definitively back this up, I would guess it's source of pride to the creators if there was a sense that no time at all had passed between series/seasons, so that the seventh episode flowed as flawlessly from the sixth as any two consecutive episodes from the first series. The thing that delineates the two series for me is the addition of a new regular worker to the roster in the shape of Terry the cheeky chappie chef. It's very subtly done, though (and of course they would have a new chef after the disaster that was [I]Gourmet Night[/I]) [/QUOTE]

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