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AmandaByNight
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I also like this episode quite a bit. I love the guest stars, especially Nicholas Hammond who plays the son because he was Doug Simpson in the infamous "Ow, my nose," episode of the Brady Bunch!
I like Higgens-centric episodes because Hillerman is just untouchable as an actor. While I love the entire cast, there is something so... I'm not sure there are words for it... he's just amazing and I love when he gets a lot of screen time.
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| AmandaByNight wrote: | | J.J. Walters wrote: | I knew I recognized him from somewhere! I just never bothered to look him up. Wow, The Amazing Spider-Man television series AND the Marica-broke-her-nose Brady Bunch episode! Ha! 
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Doug Simpson is such a jerk. He could have dated Marcia! |
LOL!!  It's been probably 25 years since I've seen that "Brady Bunch" episode...famous as it is, I did not remember that Hammond was the boy! He looks so much older than Marcia, too. 
As for "The Sound of Music", the late Robert Urich's wife, actress Heather Menzies, was also one of the VonTrap children, along with Hammond. But, other than those two, I don't remember any of the others. Anyway, Hammond's been in tons of different things, but I for some reason also remember him guest-starring in a "Murder She Wrote" episode once. But, his biggest claims to fame are probably "Sound of Music" and "The Amazing Spider Man" series.
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| I thought this was a very entertaining episode. Good characters and fun to learn of Higgin's past. Pretty hilarious seeing him fence if you ask me.
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| J.J. Walters wrote: | | Jay-Firestorm wrote: | | Surprisingly, when Channel 5 broadcast this episode in 2002, they did not edit out William Troubshaw twice calling Higgins “knob”. Not sure about Stateside, but in the U.K., knob is slang for penis and considered very crude. |
Heh! I didn't know that! 
I always assumed that when Troubshaw said "long time old knob", he meant "long time old friend". So, he was calling him "an old penis"? 
Boy, the show sure didn't hold back on any of the derogatory British slang did it. |
I didn't realize the double meaning either. I thought it was more like snob. However the British do seem to have older phrases that either we have updated over the years to mean other things or they have a truly devious way of referring to each other.
Example: On the show Miami Vice, ep. Phil the Shill, starring Phil Collins, Collins is obviously British and he has a line where he calls some one a "tea bag". Well I never gave it any thought but a member on a Miami Vice web site mentioned that the urban dictionary has a pretty vulgar meaning and was wondering if that was what was meant. I don't know for sure. I would thing that the vulgar meaning was rather recent and not used in the 80's but I can't say for sure what terms the British used back then or what their mean is. If you wanna look it up, go for it, but I'm not going to post or link it here.
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| timm525 wrote: | | I didn't realize the double meaning either. I thought it was more like snob. However the British do seem to have older phrases that either we have updated over the years to mean other things or they have a truly devious way of referring to each other. |
Timm, I think you missed jno's clarification to this...
| jno wrote: | As an English teacher (and a Brit), I was certain when I watched this that the meaning of the word is definitely "nob" and not "knob" i.e. nob is a slang expression referring to person of wealth or high social position. Admittedly, this is an old-fashioned expression and does feature in other period dramas set in the mid 20th century.
It is only when I read this forum, I felt the need to reply to this. I think the original poster who believes it to be "knob" is probably not so familiar with the old fashioned British public schoolboy speak of yesteryear. It is definitely "nob" and not "knob".
If you look at many British TV shows of that time, the cruder "knob" isn't heard anywhere and this derogatory expression was not commonplace in everyday British English (I would guess and as I remember) until the late 1980s, early 1990s when alternative comedy became more prominent in the UK. |
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