Richie feeds some money into the machine and presses the relevant buttons. Nothing happens. He hits the machine a few times.]

Mayall and Edmondson write retirement home comedy". British Comedy Guide. 7 April 2011 . Retrieved 14 July 2013. Joe Weisberg, a former CIA officer, came up with the idea for the show after leaving the service. He says “ The Americans is at its core a marriage story. International relations is just an allegory for the human relations. Sometimes, when you’re struggling in your marriage or with your kid, it feels like life or death. For Philip and Elizabeth, it often is.”

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Beeb's strip show stoppers!". Daily Record. 22 August 1991. p.23 . Retrieved 23 September 2022– via Newspapers.com.

This TV series was created by British screenwriter, Steven Knight who hails from the same area of Birmingham as the show’s setting. As he began researching the project, he was surprised to find that the gangster stories he’d heard growing up hadn’t been embellished at all—in fact, they’d been toned down. Assistant: Pheromone! Oh yes, that's the sex spray for inadequate men who find it impossible to attract women? Lily Linneker: Lady Natasha Sarah Jane Wellesley Ritchie: Oh, she sounds ni— Lily Linneker: (continuing) Obstronsky Ponsonsky Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Oblomov Boblomov Dob, Third Vicountess of Maldavia Eddie: Sounds great, we’ll have half a dozen! Episode 2 - Culture [ edit ] [Doing a crossword] Eddie: Err right. " Ironmonger", six letters. Oh, got it! "Harold". Richie: Harold? Eddie: Yeah, well he's an ironmonger, isn't he? Harold the Ironmonger, remember? We ate his dog! Richie: Oh right, we bloody won that bet, didn't we! Eddie: No, we didn't. That's why we had to eat his dog.