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Help finding the name of a show

Several years ago I watched one episode of a comedy on the local PBS station, I laughed until I cried! I can't remember the name of the show, the ONLY thing I remember is a bit during the show that one of the characters was driving a car with, I think, a large banana strapped onto the top. Can anyone help?

Thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananas_in_Pyjamas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananaman

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It was definitely an adult show, not children's. Thank you for your reply though. Pleased

Rings vague bells. Steve Coogan?

Hmmmm, I will watch an episode or two but it's not looking familiar so far. Thank you!

I don't have any recollection of the scene as described, but it does sound like something that could well have happened to Victor Meldrew in One Foot In The Grave?

It sounds too surreal to be One Foot. The visual jokes tended to be ordering too many gnomes, or a plant in a toilet-daft but not too surreal. Well it's a matter of opinion really.

Quote: Paul Wimsett @ 26th August 2015, 6:34 PM BST

It sounds too surreal to be One Foot.

What do you mean by 'surreal'? The huge banana could be an inflatable mattress.

Quote: Aaron @ 26th August 2015, 6:17 PM BST

I don't have any recollection of the scene as described, but it does sound like something that could well have happened to Victor Meldrew in One Foot In The Grave?

Why not? One Foot In The Algarve...or the classic episode set on a freeway?

Sherl, could you give us some more clues? Surely, the banana thing isn't the only thing you can remember.

Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 26th August 2015, 6:45 PM BST

Sherl, could you give us some more clues? Surely, the banana thing isn't the only thing you can remember.

Yes, surely Sherl. :P

Mr. Bean or The Two Ronnies maybe?

Quote: Woozie @ 26th August 2015, 8:26 PM BST

Mr. Bean

I thought of that too. A banana/mattress on a car roof sounds so 80s and 90s.
How about The Brittas Empire?

Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 26th August 2015, 6:45 PM BST

The huge banana could be an inflatable mattress.

Does that chat up line ever work? Is there a back up?

Surely, the banana thing isn't the only thing you can remember.

Er...

I'm pretty familiar with Mr. Bean and don't recognise the scene description.

The film version of Whoops Apocalypse?

That is set in banana republics.

Indeed. I shall endeavor to pull a bit more information from the memory. :)

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