Phil Cook<\/a>\u2018s topic for May earlier in the month and thought \u201cOh great, that\u2019s perfect for me!\u201d I then promptly forgot about it until I started to see other people\u2019s posts popping up today. So once again, strap yourself in for my stream-of-consciousness, seat of your pants contribution to The Session #147 \u2013 beer and pubs in art and fiction.<\/p>\nAs I spend more time than is healthy thinking about beer and pubs, seeing them in film and on TV always makes me stop. I spend far too long trying to read pumpclips that are shown for no more than a second. When I first watched the Bank of Dave film (which is excellent and features a good amount of Def Leppard if memory serves) the main thing I shouted at the telly was \u201clook how many handpulls there are on in that pub!\u201d instead of focusing on whatever community meeting was taking place in the narrative.<\/p>\n
I suspect I won\u2019t be the only person to mention the central role of the pub in the work of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, also starring Nick Frost. These somewhat eccentric comedies have etched themselves in our minds because of their attention to detail of the mundanities and ritual of every day life. The Cornetto trilogy may have the frozen treat as its headline, but for me, the pub is the heart of all three films \u2013 Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and the World\u2019s End. While The World\u2019s End naturally settles into the boozer, since it is based on a pub crawl, there is little more iconic than Shaun suggesting his friends and family go to The Winchester, have a pint and wait for all this to blow over.<\/p>\n
Hot Fuzz is less pub-centric than the other films, but the action still returns there time and again. I could not laugh harder at the scene where the newly arrived police officer man, Nicholas Angel, manages to clear the local hostelry by challenging its underage patrons.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen\u2019s your birthday?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c22nd of February.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat year?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGET OUT!\u201d<\/p>\n
I think the older films and TV shows are my favourite. I\u2019ve spent a lot of time looking up the wines that are served by Basil Fawlty and marvelling at the popularity of a gin and orange in Torquay. OK, not beer related, but it\u2019s still a bar environment. I could watch Citizen Smith forever just to look at the glasses on the bar, the beermats and all the other details that you see of the pub settings from the late 70s.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t say I particularly like Last of the Summer Wine or Only Fools and Horses, but I\u2019m in for the pub scenes. I even made my husband sit through Al Murray\u2019s Time Gentlemen Please recently which, it has to be said, has aged pretty badly. It was only made in 2000 too. Beyond all the cringe, even that still takes me to my happy place of watching regulars get up to various hijinks. It makes me wonder whether people who don\u2019t go to pubs ever watch such programmes and whether they realise that some of these narratives really are being played out, day after day, in the pubs of their own areas. The daily routines of true regulars who have their own chair and drink the same drink at the same time.<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019ve got to thinking, my brain\u2019s thrown up Gary and Tony visiting The Crown for ceaseless pints of lager in Men Behaving Badly, the alcoholic landlord in at The Crow and Crown in Withnail & I, the pub quiz at The Two Brewers in Detectorists.<\/p>\n
Yes, the pub is everywhere, particularly in British sitcoms. A natural home to observations on the gentle cadence (or downright bizarreness) of every day life. But not in Keeping up Appearances, I don\u2019t think. The nearest you get there is cans of lager cracked in front of the telly. But I\u2019m still interested to have a nosy at what Onslow is drinking.<\/p>\n
Which TV sitcom pub would you want to drink in?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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