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Came fifteenth in ''[[Britain's Best Sitcom|Britains Best Sitcom]]''.
 
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* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: The father / son equivalent; for all the bitterness and bickering, it was sometimes hinted that Harold and Albert really did care about each other. It's worth noting that Corbett and Brambell did not get along at all in real life, particularly later in their lives; much like their characters, Corbett and Brambell found themselves stuck with each other.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "You ''dirty'' old man!"
** Parodied with Brambell's appearance as Paul McCartney's grandfather in ''[[The Beatles|A Hard Day's Night]]'', where people keep saying he's a ''clean'' old man.
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* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Harold's attempts at upward mobility.
* [[Kitchen Sink Drama]]: Well, kitchen sink comedy, anyway, but the general point stands.
* [[Missing Episode]]: A notable aversion to the state of most BBC 60s TV Shows,shows from the 1960s in that every episode exists,from butthe era has been preserved. However, many of the early 70s episodes, although taped in colour, only survive in black and white copies. A couple were only preserved in the form of domestic off-air recordings made by Galton and Simpson themselves.
* [[Missing Mom]]: Albert is a widower, and it's established that his wife died when Harold was young.
* [[Perpetual Poverty]]: One of the first British sitcoms to show characters living in this state.
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