Quintessential sitcom props Page 2

The hippopotamus in Reggie Perrin

Only Fools And Horses:
The flat's wallpaper.
The three-wheel van.
Grandad's chair and hat.
The chandeliers.

One Foot In The Grave:
Victor Meldrew's hat and coat.
The pot plant in the toilet.
The huge collection of gnomes.
The loaf of bread with a wig inside of it.
The garden fence with a revolving panel.

Nora Batty (Last of the summer wine)has a few :curlers,wrinkly stockings and broom.

David Brent's guitar

Mr Brittas' blazer

The costumes from Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

THAT dress from the Young Ones

The kipper from Fawlty Towers

The Holly Hop Drive from Red Dwarf

Homer Simpson's pants

A tin of pineapple chunks from Porridge.

Uncle ( I heard that,pardon) Stavely's box of ashes in "I didn't know you cared".

Mr Georges glasses and the Get To Falkirk sign from Mr Don and Mr George.

The Old cold steel of Corporal Jones

Steptoe's bath-tub

Jack Jarvis's Weclome door-mat

Alan Partridge's big plate

Alf Garnett's pipe

Jim Royle's banjo

There's a blue cabinet from the 1950s in Del and Rodney's flat.

My parents had an identical one.

Tony Hancock's Homburg hat.

Mildred's lava lamp.

Quote: A Horseradish @ 14th April 2016, 5:50 PM BST

Mildred's lava lamp.

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That George was scared of. Whenever it got turned on/shown on close up he knew Mildred wanted sorting out and so he ran off to the pub.

Major's papers, Cybil's telephone, Manuel's tray, Polly's duster. Cleese may have preached about not wanting to use cheap catchphrases the way sitcoms often did, but he used props in the same way which was crafty and a touch hypocritical maybe.

The doctor's sausages

"I'm a doctor. I'm a doctor and I want my sausages"

Quote: wigwam willy @ 13th April 2016, 8:06 AM BST

Tony Hancock's Homburg hat.

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Nice one And to go with it his Astrakhan collar coat.

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 14th April 2016, 10:42 PM BST

Cleese may have preached about not wanting to use cheap catchphrases the way sitcoms often did, but he used props in the same way which was crafty and a touch hypocritical maybe.

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He was/is a bit like that - he was once asked what are the three golden rules of comedy and he said "No puns, no puns, no puns", which was very hypocritical as the entire series of ISIRTA on the radio was virtually all puns.

Quote: David Gersch @ 8th April 2016, 2:51 PM BST

This is turning out great, I'm going to add some more as well..

Father Jack's Brick in Father Ted
The Tortoise in One Foot In The Grave

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Extras, surely?