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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 79268" data-attributes="member: 23">After her absence in the first remaining episode, the other two were quite Hattie-centric, which was lovely. The first of the two ventured into diet and exercise fads as everyone bar Joan Sims became health and weight conscious. A kind of Carry On Losing, if you will. I&#039;m glad everyone got involved as it had started with some fat jokes at Hattie&#039;s expense: [MEDIA=youtube]h6RA_Dgl0tc[/MEDIA]Later scenes even included Hattie&#039;s bed making a &quot;boing&quot; sound every time she rose from sitting on it. As ever she was sporting about it. But there was a heart to it too and it&#039;s easy to imagine Talbot Rothwell took inspiration from this episode for parts of Cabby, including Hattie weighing herself. Hudis must&#039;ve been really into The Third Man around this time. Foreshadowing Regardless, there were references to it in the last of the episodes, in which Hattie thought her new fiancé was a serial killer. The ending (which for the purposes of the DVD is also the series ending) was a poignant one, Hat having turned down her fiance, she not knowing that he wasn&#039;t a killer, he not understanding why she&#039;d rejected him. It was all done lightly, of course, but the episode ending on something of a downer seems a bold move for a 1960 sitcom.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 79268, member: 23"] After her absence in the first remaining episode, the other two were quite Hattie-centric, which was lovely. The first of the two ventured into diet and exercise fads as everyone bar Joan Sims became health and weight conscious. A kind of [I]Carry On Losing[/I], if you will. I'm glad everyone got involved as it had started with some fat jokes at Hattie's expense: [MEDIA=youtube]h6RA_Dgl0tc[/MEDIA] Later scenes even included Hattie's bed making a "boing" sound every time she rose from sitting on it. As ever she was sporting about it. But there was a heart to it too and it's easy to imagine Talbot Rothwell took inspiration from this episode for parts of [I]Cabby[/I], including Hattie weighing herself. Hudis must've been really into [I]The Third Man [/I]around this time. Foreshadowing [I]Regardless[/I], there were references to it in the last of the episodes, in which Hattie thought her new fiancé was a serial killer. The ending (which for the purposes of the DVD is also the series ending) was a poignant one, Hat having turned down her fiance, she not knowing that he wasn't a killer, he not understanding why she'd rejected him. It was all done lightly, of course, but the episode ending on something of a downer seems a bold move for a 1960 sitcom. [/QUOTE]

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