Peculiar comic priorities this week. With Kate
having delivered their baby daughter in hospital, George awakes hung-over in
his friend's flat. Resulting in an enormous amount of convoluted farcical
business with concocting and maintaining excuses, at the expense of the much
more interesting matter in hand of a new baby and the parents' reactions to
her.
It perks up once George eventually arrives at the maternity ward, patrolled by an archetypal battle-axe Matron. Even though the actor himself was much-loved, Richard Briers' characters were usually unsympathetically selfish types, and much the funniest thing in this episode is George's poorly-disguised reactions to his new daughter: "She's not going to make that noise every night, is she?" "Why has she got blue hands? And a pointed head? And a chapped face? Oh yes, darling, she's beautiful!"
It perks up once George eventually arrives at the maternity ward, patrolled by an archetypal battle-axe Matron. Even though the actor himself was much-loved, Richard Briers' characters were usually unsympathetically selfish types, and much the funniest thing in this episode is George's poorly-disguised reactions to his new daughter: "She's not going to make that noise every night, is she?" "Why has she got blue hands? And a pointed head? And a chapped face? Oh yes, darling, she's beautiful!"
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