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Are You Being Served? featured mostly obvious humour based on sexual innuendo, misunderstandings, and mistaken identity, as well as sight gags generated by outrageous costumes the characters are sometimes required to wear for store promotions, and gaudy store displays frequently featuring malfunctioning robotic mannequins. The show is well remembered for its prolific use of double entendres. Many jokes also confronted the English class system - especially those built into the interaction between maintenance men Mr Mash or Mr Harman and the ostensibly higher class store personnel. Characters traded-on such stereotypes as the effeminate Mr Humphries, who lived with his mother; Captain Peacock, the haughty floorwalker who allegedly fought Rommel in the North Africa Campaign of World War II; and the snobbish and boisterous Mrs Slocombe of the ever-changing hair colour. The show spawned the catch phrase "Are you free?", usually said by Captain Peacock to the staff; more often than not, the staff are noticeably free, and each would look solemnly from side to side before saying, "Yes I'm free, Captain Peacock." As John Inman remarked, when Mr Humphries trilled "I'm free!" it became his own personal catchphrase.

• Are You Being Served? at the bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy
• Are You Being Served? at the British Film Institute
• Are You Being Served? Central at www.aybscentral.com
• Are You Being Served? Virtual Video Vault
• Are You Being Served? at Ganymede's Place
• Are You Being Served? Forever
• Grace Brothers' Multimedia Department
• The Are You Being Served? Picture Gallery

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Are You Being Served? Is a show that made many peoples lives worth living. Even if you have never heard of it! As many other comedys have stolen hilarious lines and scenes from this kickass show (Damn those thieves!). fred-fred