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Series Two, Episode Four
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Four:
Caption: "Reggie & Elizabeth both sacked. Reggie decides to open rather unusual shop." |
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| Scene 1: Reggie leaves the house, on his way to visit C.J. to ask for a loan. He is ignored by his neighbours Dennis Milford and Peter Cartwright, ostracised from their lives after his faked suicides and numerous sackings. |
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| Scene 2: C.J.'s heart misses a beat when his secretary tells him that Reginald Perrin is here to see him. He thinks he has found out the truth about his near-affair with Elizabeth, and prepares himself for a heated debate. Instead, Reggie asks him for a loan for £30,000 to kickstart Grot, but C.J. thinks it is blackmail. He readily writes out the cheque. |
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| Scene 3: The first Grot shop is empty, except for Reggie, Elizabeth and stocks of useless products, such as empty biscuit tins, clangerless bells and square hoops. They both wonder what they've got themselves into. A customer enters, looks around, realises it's all rubbish, calls the idea stupid, and leaves. An elderly man enters to buy something for his sister-in-law whom he can't stand. He notices a collection of Tom's wine on the counter and Reggie gives him flavours and prices. The man buys a bottle of sprout wine for £1.75, Grot's first sale, with a full refund if she likes it. Next, a well-dressed lady enters and her eye is caught by one of Dr. Snurd's, Reggie's dentist's, paintings of The Algarve. Grot's fourth customer enters, and buys a square hoop for her grand-nephew, as it would be something nobody else has got. |
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| Scene 4: At the end of Grot's first trading day, Reggie rushes home to tell Elizabeth they have made £93.82. It's more than Reggie ever expected, and £93.82 more than Elizabeth expected. |
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| Scene 5: Day two of Grot, and a male customer is deliberating over which painting to buy for his friends with no taste. Tom and Linda visit to see how it's going, but Tom orders Reggie to remove his wine from sale. The previous day's wine customer returns and buys a dozen bottles. Reggie introduces him to Tom, and he congratulates Tom on making such repulsive wine. Tom retracts his earlier orders, now that the wine is actually being sold. A young schoolboy enters and buys a square hoop, as part of a new craze going around his school for being Irish. Watch video |
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| Link: The success of Grot is charted by scenes of advertising hoardings displaying the Grot names, ringing cash registers, children playing with square hoops and square footballs, and Grot vehicles on Britain's roads. |
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| Scene 6: Grot is a massive success. Invites from debating societies and schools pour in, and Reggie is enjoying every minute of it. He sets off to work with a smile on his face. |
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| Scene 7: In Coleridge Close, his neighbours clamour to invite Reggie to dinner, but Reggie declines, in revenge at their ostracism of him just a short time ago. |
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| Link: Reggie arrives at the head office of Perrin Products (Grot) Ltd., a huge four-storey building, complete with a uniformed doorman. |
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| Scene 8: Reggie virtually skips into his office, looking forward to the day ahead. He rings for his secretary, Miss Erith. When she enters, he wishes she was Joan, as Miss Erith is dour, straight-faced and miserable. He asks her for a bottle of champagne, and fantasises Joan, dressed as a Playboy bunny-girl pouring from a huge bottle of champagne into a huge glass held by himself. David Harris-Jones, made redundant from Sunshine Desserts, enters to brief Reggie on the sales position of all the Grot shops nationwide, and Reggie invites him to share in the champagne. |
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| Scene 9: Later in the day, Reggie holds a planning meeting in his office. Present are David, Esther Pigeon from market research and Morris Coates from Crumley Advertising. Reggie reads out the forthcoming press release, and asks for Esther's report on the viability of an innocuous white pill. He decides it should go ahead, and asks Morris Coates for some advertising ideas for the pills. Reggie then demonstrates a few new ideas from the design team, including oversize eggcups and cruet sets with no holes. |
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| Scene 10: Reggie has returned to Sunshine Desserts to repay C.J.'s loan, and to give Joan a job. The company is in dire straits, and Tony is in C.J.'s chair looking over the company figures. Tony tells him that Joan has left, after Tony commited adultery on their honeymoon. He tells Reggie that he thought she was on the rebound from him, but Reggie laughs it off, then imagines being dressed at Tarzan, and swooping in on her wedding day to whisk her off in his arms. C.J. returns from his crucial meeting, declaring it a disaster, then spots Reggie and changes the subject. Reggie hands over his loan, plus interest. C.J. says he is a gentleman and does not take back blackmail ransoms. Reggie insists that it was nothing of the sort. |
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| Link: As Reggie leaves Sunshine
Desserts, a newsagent's newspaper headline board opposite reads "Food Firm
Crumbles - Jelly Giant Bankrupt".
Reggie feels sorry, then laughs to himself. |
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