What's a Rilk? | Porridge | BBC Studios

[@victoriousrufus6747]

David Jason and Ronnie Baker! What a riot!

[@daffodill9]

My favourite situation comedy, Ronnie Barker was a genius!

[@scruffy281]

Absolute genius!❤️

[@cov9290]

So was fletcher

[@CathyKitson]

The timing is exquisite.. 0:48 - (After a long pause) - "What's a flaming rilk, then?" Comedy gold.

[@jamescokl3]

Richard always looked so healthy. Hard to believe he only had 4 years to live. I remember the news clip when he died. Its seems like a life time ago. Shame. Also not having Ronnie Barker around sucks too. One of the best comedies ever.

[@nizniz7941]

Yea absolutely! It's so sad that he passed away so young 😢

[@TechNed]

I won't forget the morning (in Sydney) when the news of Richard Beckinsale's passing came through. Me and my friends were absolutely shocked. He was so likeable (and too young to lose).

[@xanderxine]

Ahh Kate Beckinsale's dad. Class act he was, shame he died so young!

[@loontheklown1]

comedy timing perfection

[@Sabatinitennis]

It says much about his legacy that his two world famous daughter's are still referred to as "the daughter of Richard Beckinsale" - their respective fame has not relegated him .... a true leged whose fame has not diminished.

[@onlyme219]

Loved this show:)

[@BozCobra]

Poor Richard Beckinsale.:( He had a special something, that lad.

[@redcicadalincoln6848]

💙

[@thecovidprisoner]

He did major loss for comedy.

[@Voxac100b]

Ronnie didn't actually write porridge it was written by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais. Ronnie acted brilliantly in Porridge and Going Straight (the follow up series) Although he enjoyed making Open all Hours, he always said Porridge was the one for the time capsule and probably his best work. ;)

[@JacobButter]

No one said he wrote Porridge. It's literally in the credits of every episode. You also neglected to mention Roy Clark while you were at it.

[@thecovidprisoner]

Porridge pure brilliance 100% class. Best tv situation comedy on British tv ever. 👍🇬🇬😂

[@odettewiddicombe4583]

These two are in heaven now let's hope they are together

[@RFED2O]

There is a bit of Norman Stanley Fletcher in all of us !!!

[@NathanVictorParry]

Wrong, David Jason played a 100yr old gardener called Dithers in a program called Hark At Barker back in 1969, THAT'S how Barker knew him. He wasnt completely unknown either, he started with most of the Python team in 1967 in a kids show called Do Not Adjust Your TV Set, he was also in his own series in 1974 called The Secret Life Of Edgar Briggs.

[@kimamey]

Yes I remember those. He was also in A Sharp Intake of Breath. If I remember correctly he and Jacqueline Clarke played a husband and wife but the rest of the main cast which remained the same played different characters in each episode. I could have got that wrong of course

[@susannagreen8462]

Superb..unsurpassed comedy ❤️

[@oldstuff]

Awesome programme with top writing and cast!

[@martyj.w2875]

I like what I regard as the best bit in this episode when, 'Blanco' says that he was innocent of killing his wife, but he knew that the lodger had done it!

[@JeramyTheGirl]

I've just nicked my dad's complete boxset, he won't be seeing it the nearby future. Ronnie Barker's writting is at its best in Porridge I think!

[@gordontaylor5373]

He didn't write Porridge - Clement and La Frenais did.

[@JimmiWazEre]

@@gordontaylor5373 and he certainly didn't writt it :)

[@cloudstrife1983]

Its main distinguishing feature is that it flies backwards to keep the sh.. the snow out of its eyes.

[@charlenerafferty9524]

Fletcher care about Godber in porridge even though fletcher wouldn't admit it he like and cared about Godber fletch and Godber were like father and son

[@richardford6154]

Charlene Rafferty 💯

[@neodarlek]

Fletcher became Godber's Father-in-law in Going Straight

[@Akhenton786]

A classic. Thanks for the memories.

[@Iclimbthereforeiam]

Before any uneducated and possibly under 35s slag off this programme, bear in mind it was the 1970s. All the same I wish Ronnie Barker had been my Granpa'

[@TR1PLE_6]

That remake... just what the hell are you thinking, BBC?!!

[@scorchx3000]

BBC: We were thinking "Man, this is some good weed. You know what would be hilarious, remake porridge for the modern day, but instead of being funny like the classic one, we'll make it grim and depressing like real prison."

[@TheMightsparrow]

Still doesn't stop those w*nk*rs from taking our money every year & churning out 💩 no one wants to watch!

[@cov9290]

Mike Gaddass u do know Ian la franaise wrote the new one

[@kimamey]

I didn't think it was that bad actually

[@chrisdawson6156]

This is funny to watch I wasn't around when this was on TV

[@MaskedMan66]

Mentioned that before, but thanks for chiming in.

[@JohnLindsay-zc5fe]

Funny guys😂

[@BritishAlienCompany]

True British Comedy! x

[@ZombieBrainsDev]

The name of the episode is "Pardon Me". Its in series 3 I believe.

[@alancooper9632]

ZombieBrainsDev absolute class.

[@Richard-q6o]

The name of the prison chef Luke Warm cracks me up every time

[@JamesAHirons_]

Was also in an episode or two of Crossroads in 1964

[@MaskedMan66]

Yup, and my wife today reminded me of: Steptoe and Son = Sanford and Son Plus, there was an extremely short-lived US version of Coupling.

[@TheButtur123]

@danimayb I agree with you, and in fact I love all the british comedies I mentioned above. I was simply making that point that not all british humor is "intellectual" that americans don't get it. I know at least 30 people that can quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail start to finish, and still laugh tears into their eyes watching it. Blackadder is some of the funniest television ever made, in my opinion, but then again so is Porridge, but I felt Going Straight was weak. I guess it is just taste

[@MaskedMan66]

Not surprising, given the number of US shows based on UK shows, to wit: Man About the House = Three's Company George and Mildred = The Ropers The Navy Lark = CPO Sharkey Fawlty Towers = Snavely, Amanda's By the Sea, and possibly The Nutt House The Office = The Office Etc.

[@lavnaf]

Top quality comedy. F in the chat for Richard.

[@tonybrown9875]

The appeal must be nostalgia for some. It's baffling, a prison does not look or have characters like this. Bizarre British old TV, not that new TV is any good.

[@kramalbion]

brilliant

[@dkaberry74]

Fair enough. Have to be amused by the fact that Australian and European shows are consistently adapted to an American format or version for an American audience. That speaks volumes in itself. Nuff said.....

[@normsfletcher]

Class!

[@alannparsonns]

this is real comedy sorry guys across the ocean

[@2sick2care]

1:52... Del Boy!

[@MaskedMan66]

Comedy keeps you young, they say.

[@bowler8]

David Jason (Granville) as the old guy

[@kramalbion]

class!!

[@antoniod]

But the British shot many of their sitcoms as if they were films, giving them an intimate quality that US comedy shows didn't have.

[@JJ-bo4ir]

love it

[@Suprahampton]

Not to mention the US version of red Dwarf that didn't make it past the pilot episode!!!

[@Voxac100b]

Rilk!

[@express375]

@JJones7161 Curb your enthusiasm is class. The only decent UK sitcom in the last ten years I can think of is the IT Crowd.

[@develynseether4426]

1959. God even my mum was only 6.

[@tropicalscot]

Richard Briers in The Good Life

[@lachlanjolly7955]

no no no! quite right! some Americans may understand it. it's the creating of a comedy of a similar caliber which you seem to struggle with.

[@scottsimpson9659]

I think Richard had a daughter who looked like him

[@Eastaxe]

@SpaceAware Here, Here. Arise sir Ronnie.

[@simondgrass]

Shammmoooooooooone!

[@lorimererskine1172]

Good show. Lovely daughter in lennys family. Kate,great actress and would make dad proud. Shame he died. Poriage a crazy piss take of wardens by fletcher hated scot warden well on put downs. But fletcher catches a few tips.

[@johnniethepom7545]

Richard Beckingsdale had two daughters and both are very talented .

[@CrazyWelshy]

Fletcher and Godber, stubborness and experience vs Youth and intellect. Hilarity will always ensue.

[@gordontaylor5373]

And it probably still is in Heaven. RIP guys.

[@express375]

@NuttersForFraggle never watched misfits,but yeah inbetweeners is good.

[@BritishAlienCompany]

Who else looked up the word 'rilk' juuuuust in case? x

[@martinwilliamrandall]

All In The Family = Till Death Us Do Part

[@whiskeyriver4322]

The ability to comment on KZbin should be disabled...... Geez, I've never read so much bloody rilk in my life; eight bloody years of it.

[@ooorfeo]

Tom Good in The Good Life

[@MaskedMan66]

No, but they did manage two pilots.....

[@ShahOfBlahII]

Well you could be right it was years ago! Are you an exiled Brit or an American? An American version was made based on Porridge, On The Rocks(?) I heard it was a bit of a flop! Lacking the spark between Godber and Fletch!

[@darkroge]

we have free dentistry

[@ShahOfBlahII]

Probably stating the obvious but Old Blanco was played by a heavily made up David Jason.This episode involved Fletch trying to get the governor to give him a pardon .A petition in aid of CRAPOB was started.That was the Campaign for the Release and Pardon of Old Blanco!

[@jjay75]

@JJones7161 Arrested Development thinks different.

[@rtl4x4]

"the americans do not have the intellectual capability to understand our humour, they're humour is far too obvious and juvenial" I'm an American and I can at least spell "juvenile" and "their". I've never watched "Friends" either. So you can go get stuffed.

[@amichellef93]

@adamwbell I am American..Born in Virginia...why would I be prejudice? I only speak the truth.

[@TheButtur123]

Let me get this straight, your saying american comedy is "far too obvious and juvenial". Coming from the country that produced Benny Hill and Blackadder or god forbid MR.BEAN! I will concede that british humor does translate better to television than american, but dont pretend for a minute its so "high brow" americans dont get it. Ever heard the name Mel Brooks Blazing Saddles, The Producers, or Young Frankenstien all comedic gold and all much more intelligent than anything I mentioned above.

[@llynfach]

But try to say 'international' and 'twenty'.

[@flyingspacepotatoes]

@JJones7161 don't puff yourself up.

[@danimayb]

@TheButtur123 I have to disagree with that person. I am English and do not think American comedy is dumb or stupid in any way, they have army's of intelligent writers doing their thing. I personally do not enjoy many of the stuff that comes from America. But that's not to say they dumb or anything, just my taste. Benny hill is shit, Blackadder is legendary and Mr Bean was ok when I was a kid. Young Frankenstien is bullshit and blazing saddles is gold. Just the way it is for me :)

[@lynneceegee8726]

Every single word - I agree with! (I'm English too.) We have done come comedy gold. Peter Kaye comes to mind for an up to date piece of pure treasure. But we alsi did some real rubbish. (and still do). And there is much from America I love - and much that I loathe.

[@ehmazin]

@JJones7161 Family Guy is not the best animated comedy, let alone comedy and I'm British The Simpsons, Curb your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development are three of the greatest comedies ever made.

[@MaskedMan66]

You're entitled to your opinon, of course, but I cannot for the life of me fathom what anyone sees in either version of "The Office." They're both so BORING.........

[@helenreynolds2622]

Vivid v vvvv. Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhbvh.

[@gamewizard7562]

@JJones7161 Keep your racist generalizations to yourself. I'm American and all I ever watch these days is British television shows. I just finished watching the Porridge film less than an hour ago. I didn't like it not because I didn't understand it but because it was a bad film. The television series was better. I also didn't like Going Straight very much. It wasn't nearly as well written as Porridge. Ronnie Barker was a legend, but even legends have their bad moments.

[@robinsonnyaupane3380]

too old for my likeing

[@5F5I5V5E5]

the americans do not have the intellectual capability to understand their own humor. get right foo!