Only Fools and Horses - S7E9 'Mother Nature's Son'
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Loving the tie dye
Inbetweeners James Buckley played teenage Delboy in 2010 prequel spin off rock and chips
I think when you pause it and spend a few minutes trying to analyse what you think is gonna happen next it kind of kills the buzz, we didn't get the chance to pause the TV in the 90s that's what made the show so special, you just had to go along for the ride .. You never hear about Peckham spring again, these shows are a year apart now, so they are stand alone episodes (well the next few anyways) no need to overthink things 🙂
The whole point of a reaction channel is to pause and discuss... Also, they need to pause regularly during shows so that copyright triggers don't get set off for the version they upload to YouTube!
The video you reacted to a few years back I think was Tom Scott's story of the sale of Disani water in the UK. Can't find your specific video though. https://youtu.be/wD79NZroV88
Tom reached out and personally asked us to take it down, and we obliged. I knew I remembered it being mentioned in that video, though.
We all sat round the telly at Christmas as a family watching these great specials, I’m now 66 years old living alone after losing my wife to breast cancer two years ago, watching with you guys is like watching with my family again
To be fair the tap water here in Scotland is so good, you could get away with it
“That’s his ring” is an amazing line 😭🤣
I only recently saw the reaction to the water video and I was hoping you'd forgotten the twist, because they explained the whole plot of the episode in the water video!
I hate how close we are to the final of only fools now and at the same time i cant wait to watch along to my favourite episode
Three Beatle references in one episode!
The UK has some of the safest tap water in the world. When it comes to taste it largely depends on the area. More highly populated areas are naturally worse because there's higher demand. Less populated areas are significantly better, Scotland for example has some of the best tasting, safest tap water in the world.
Indeed, cola attempted to sell us bottled water, something happened at the bottling plant (I think a contaminated batch) and it hit the news with the headline being something like "cola sells Peckham spring". Their marketing cannot compete with ofah jokes so they failed to make a come back and stopped selling over here.
That bacon needed another few minutes!
Big white duck things 😂
https://youtu.be/wD79NZroV88?si=BIBy-uhrOQC_AnXm Tom Scott has a video on Dasani water and why it stopped being sold in the UK that literally references this episode. Dasani were basically re-labelling tap water I think thats what youre saying you reacted to
Has anyone watched the new lost archive program? It was so good!
An allotment is a small piece of land that people who live in city centres can use to grow fruit and veg.
Mike and Jess, "Powdered Rhino Horn" is/was a supplement to help men..."perform better". It's just a pseudo-science supplement. Boycie was telling Mike he's always believed in it, Rodney walked in, and Mike shushed him. 😂
Not at night and I lost my dolphin are head and head
They went from building a nuclear bomb shelter on the roof of a tower block to this.
The Grand Hotel in Brighton was the scene of an assassination attempt on Margaret Thatcher eight years before this was filmed. The Irish Republican Army blew the place up. Thatcher survived, but five died. The hotel reopened four years after the attack.
Shame, that she survived
This episode contributed to Coca Cola's cancellation of plans to expand their Dasani brand to continental Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani
Now you know why the Simpsons are all yellow, Peckham spring is Springfields water supply.
Powdered rhino horn, as said by Boycie, is meant to be a treatment for flacid Franks to turn into stiff Stanleys 😉
Fatal Extraction next week, Michael Douglas and Glenn Close on the Graham Norton show was timed well...
That bacon sarnie 🤢
Buster Merryfield doesn’t eat it if you notice, just mouths at the raw thing 😅It’s interesting how it’s all made in real time, tho. Must be hard to act and do that. Although David Jason liked to eat in programmes. He’s always eating in Frost.
This episode is the reason why Dasani failed in the UK. Too many people had seen this episode and refused to pay for it after the scandal broke. 🤣🤣🤣
Omg how did youse find the version with the Beatles song I’ve been looking for months😭😭
Oh just wait only gets better ...
Aw it's good to see Cass and Rodney finally acting like a couple
An E120 was also a 2 hour VHS cassette. An E180 was more common.
I love it when you see that look on delboys face, it's like a light bulb moment, you know he's scheming from that point onwards
Plenty of bottled water manufacturers sell mains water. Smart water is one of them. Think it's owned by coca cola. The rest Is marketing. That's where you've probably seen some of these scenes before. If you watched the dasani video about it not being sold in the UK.
Kudos to you guys for using the original music soundtrack. I don’t think I’ve heard them since the original transmissions. Fair play. By the way, you’re still not used to how British comedy episodes end are you! 😂
I am going to see David Jason in the next two weeks.
Next week the episode is Fatal Extraction, that is followed by Heroes and Villains in two weeks. As with all episodes of Only Fools and Horses, David Jason (Delboy) features quite prominently in both. We will all see him in the next two weeks. It's no big deal
This is my favourite episode.
Tomorrow (2nd November) is Rodney's birthday. Happy birthday to him. How old would he be?
To answer my own question, he will be 66 years old tomorrow. I wonder how he is. I wonder what he is up to.
This episode was watched by over 20 million people when it aired by the way. This show was bigger than people nowadays realise.
Yeah it was huge The 1996 trilogy specials got over 20 million per episode. The 3 probably got over 60 million views over xmas. Bbc would absolutely love to have that sort of numbers now. I doubt they get 60 million views for all content over Xmas now.
Brilliant!
Yeah they cut off the water supply so that was the end of it
its a one off episode del doesnt need to get away with it lol
A fair few of those tower blocks here in London have been demolished over the years. Quite a thing watching those Fred Dibnah types go about their business, culminating in 20 storeys being blown up. Pretty impressive in such a densely populated city.
I think back in those days there was a stigma around living in a tower block as they didnt have a great reputation. Alot of them were part of estates that had bad reputations. Alot of crime and they didnt lend themselves to being places people wanted to live. Not sure what the similar thing in America would be. I grew up on an estate that had awful reputation for drug and crime . Councils would often house families in tower blocks or estates so not great if youve got 3 kids and your on the 10th floor with no garden a broken lift and a screaming baby. Very Claustrophobic and you just felt like everybody knew your business. Whether you wanted them to or not.
In America there called tenements and ghettos and projects
Allotments are outdoor areas for people who live in large cities so they can grow fruit and veg or just have some garden space.
Not just large cities. Most villages have them as well
I think you may be thinking of Dasani water that came here in about 2004 from America and then swiftly came to an end because of a similar situation.
"We're gonna become desensitised to freaking Chistmas!" Haha. This is a great ep, too. One of my faves!
Superb. ❤️
I used to live in Peckham and there is a bar there called 'Peckham Springs' 😭
LOL i live in balckheath wonder where they got that name from
Morning! Viagra wouldn't exist for another few years, I'm guessing Delboy mentioned vibrators, which again was a bigger deal one million years ago, before online deliveries 👀
I think half of what makes a place feel like home is the people in it, so the Trotter flat does feel cosy. It also helps that Del Boy is respected locally and that their community seems a very good one. But yeah some of those old tower blocks can be awful places. And some not quite so bad. Depends largely on the people you are surrounded by.
Very much committed to staying spoiler-free, but as the closing of this episode leaves a lot of unanswered questions I just wanted to jump in now for you guys (and for anyone else who is watching for the first time). The next episode was released (and set) a year after this one, Christmas 1993 and you may not find out exactly how all this concluded. However, based on how things start in the next episode, and the fact that none of this is brought up again, we can probably conclude that: - whatever those chemicals turned out to be, they were harmless (to humans); - because the water board had to close off the supply, no more Peckham Spring was made or distributed beyond this episode; - del's scheme was never fully uncovered and there were no significant repercussions for him, or anyone else.
There was a Delboy autobiography which apparently explained it. Raquel went bald after drinking it, Cassandra was suspended from her job, Myles went into hiding. Del was in big trouble. Then after visiting his mum’s grave, the case was dropped last minute and a small earthquake destroyed the allotment.
It’s plausible they could get away with it. The water glowing yellow is a problem though. Peckham Spring could be withdrawn from the market for unexplained reasons. The public then switches to a different brand due to the water shortage. If people became ill it would be attributed to the tap water.
like this is your an American watching ofah
Allotments are great. My mam and dad have one. They keep chickens, and grow all sorts of different veg
Anti competitive isn't it?
Dasani water isn't available in the UK because it's been proven to be tap water. I'm convinced someone at Coca Cola saw this episode and thought "What a great scam"
That's not available in the uk, but where do you think all the water for Coca Cola (and most other soft drink manufacturers) comes from?
How lovely is it to see people from other countries fall in love with Del, Rodney and the gang? Gives me a nice glow…. Not a Peckham spring glow, but a nice glow all the same
Writers room? No British show you’ve watched has a writers room in the traditional sense (WILTY to extent perhaps), it’s one of the key reasons for the difference between US and UK comedy. I know you know this is written only by John Sullivan but it’s such a fundamental difference I think it’s worth at least saying.
one person writes the show where as in america they have a team hence we get 6 eps a seaon not 20
Fertiliser and health food in the same room. The room must stink
U need to watch the dasani water uk video
An allotment is essentially a small piece of land on a specialist site that people can rent from the council and turn into a private garden. Most people use them to grow vegetables and get a bit of piece and quiet
Hey guys it was Desani water that failed in part to this episode of OFAH in the UK https://youtu.be/wD79NZroV88?is=2HhLNcGagD1eQVpE
Also you're right, to quote from IMDB: 'In 2004, the Coca-Cola company introduced a bottled water product line named 'Dasani' in the UK. Media stories circulated that the water was not actual spring water, as many of its competitor lines were, but filtered tap water. The resulting backlash, and a later find that the product contained higher-than-permitted levels of bromate, led to the withdrawal of the Dasani product line in the UK. Press coverage of the saga negatively compared the events to the storyline of this episode.'
fun fact too coke cola actually sold tap water to the british look it up haha dont get any ideas Mike and Jess lol
Where do you find these original broadcast versions? I’m so use to the ones on DVD with the altered music.
We have a lot of Spring and Mineral water brands in the UK from natural sources. But in 2004, Coca Cola launched Dasani in the UK, which you have as a popular brand in the US. It is cited as one of the worst brand launches in history in marketing and brand circles. It transpired that Dasani is effectively just tap water that has gone through an additional purification process. The UK media heard of this and it was front page news, presenting Coca Cola as selling ‘Peckham Spring’ and taking the UK consumer as a mug. Coca Cola also discovered they’d introduced bromate(a carcinogen) into the water in their process that is above legal UK levels, in a 500k batch of their bottles. They had to do a product recall. The launch was a disaster and Coca Cola pulled Dasani out of the UK, 38 days after its launch and having spent £7m(a lot) on marketing it. I think that what you(Mike & Jess) saw previously that rang a bell must have been about this.
You know coke still sells tap water to you, right? They just purify it, bung some sugar and so on in it (dropped the charly these days), and package it up as the real thing.
An Allotment is a small piece of land people use to grow crops, usually rented from the local council at a very low price. My parents had one and I believe they paid 30 quid a year for it. I loved it and we produced so much stuff we would share it with the neighbours.
This actually happened! Only fools and horses actually lost Coca Cola a product in the whole of the uk! https://youtu.be/wD79NZroV88?is=QD-VOe-oPIJu3kka
Trig’s open 24 hours a day but not at night is quality 😂😂
An allotment is a small peace of land where you grow fruit and vegetables on an you can have hens two lay eggs things of that nature
An allotment is basically a public garden that you as a resident get 'allotted' a section of. I think you have to apply for it specifically, but this was Grandad's allotment of the garden, which Del and Rodney never bothered to tend to or look after.
It was around the time this episode released that Coca Cola tried to export Dasani bottled water to the UK. It was the timing of this episode that was a significant factor, leading to the brand being pulled. Feel free to look into the story, there are YouTube videos that explain in detail.
The episode was in 1992, whilst Coca Cola launched Dasani in 2004 in the UK, but it absolutely was described as Peckham Spring in the media, recalling this episode-as it’s effectively just purified tap water, and Coca Cola also accidentally introduced too much bromate into it during purification requiring a product recall. Despite a big marketing campaign it lasted 38 days in the UK.
"When I was your age I was fighting in a war"... "Well you must have made more bloody noise than me then" - I do love Rodney and Albert's dynamic
I love Sunday mornings This is a brilliant episode
You said it was open 24 hours a day…. Yeah but not at night 😂
Gotta be the best joke in the show
First Sunday off work in forever I know what I’m gonna be watching today
Yes! Finally, I was about to give up and go to bed 😄
Day off work and an early morning spliff while watching ofah. Bliss
Snap 👌
Lovely jubbly! Happy Sunday
Chilling sunday
yayyy its uploaded good morning everyone :D
It’s funny that the Miles actor was in Hussle when the allotment scene very much plays like a scene from there
And his brother is Gene Hunt
one of my all-time favs, probably in top 5 episodes