imamazed
Monday 26th February 2007 3:13am
116 posts
I haven't actually looked yet but will make this comment for now and then will add more once I have looked, but at the risk of stating the obvious, I think with sitcoms as opposed to sketches, I feel you need a basic storyline that can maybe even be summed up in a few lines that wouldn't even give it away as a comedy and then you later add funny scenarios and jokes to pad out the basic storyline.
Apparently the chandelier scene from Only Fools and Horses did actually happen and as a stand alone sketch by itself would still have worked, but I'm imagining the writer had the going to do a clean and repair job plan, but as that would only have lasted 2 minutes or so, the rest of the episode was spent setting it up where the Trotters gave a lift to the house owner and padding it out with jokes saying that they came from a little village just outside London called Peckham etc.
He also set up the part where Del overheard the owner on the phone talking about getting the chandelier fixed and then seeing that as an opportunity to repeat the knowledge he'd just heard by claiming to be an expert and offering to do the repair work.......then he mentions to Granddad about buying some superglue and windowlene which acted as another gag.