Dinner for One - a sketch that is a New Year's tradition

From http://www.slate.com/id/2133551/?nav=ais :
"Every New Year's Eve, half of all Germans plunk down in front of their televisions to watch a 1963 English comedy sketch called Dinner for One. Walk into any bar in Bavaria and shout the film's refrain: "The same procedure as last year, madam?" The whole crowd will shout back in automatic, if stilted, English: "The same procedure as every year, James." Even though Dinner for One is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the most frequently repeated TV program ever, it has never been aired in the United Kingdom or the United States, and most of the English-speaking world is ignorant of its existence. When Der Spiegel probed the mystery last New Year's, it found that the BBC had not only never contemplated broadcasting this veddy British nugget in the United Kingdom, the BBC's spokesperson had never even heard of it."
conansays...

Ahhh i love this one. And yes it's true what the description says. I've been watching this on every single 31st of Dec as far back as i can remember. And so has all of my family and friends. I don't think theres anyone i know (at least in Germany) who doesn't know this one. And guess what i'll do tomorrow.. You got it. I'll sit with my family in front of the tellie and watch dinner for one. Same procedure as every year ;-)

Oh and in case you're wondering: Most of the public TV stations will air the show several times tomorrow, each station at a different time so there really is no excuse for missing it :-)

Ornthoronsays...

Fun fact: In Norway this clip is showed every year on Dec. 23 (called Little Christmas Eve in Norway) for some weird reason. I've never understood why; it makes much more sense to show it on New Year's Eve.

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poolcleanersays...

So this granny was a whore and when the men stopped coming, her servant took over for them? Or was there only ever the servant and his illusions?

Do you think when she was younger she would get gangbanged by the military men or did she take them on one at a time? Either way, that's either a lot of abortions or an army of bastard children.

Or are these all illusions of age, lack of eye sight, and manipulation by one so deviant?

Perhaps during kinder years she was a moral human being.

Or is this the husband and there is no servant? Ahhh, old age and its utter destruction of senses and awareness.

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