Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series) Who's That Looking Sideways at Nelly? (2009) User Reviews

The benefits of whiplash.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 6/10 · 26 October 2021]

Everyone wants to know just where Nelly is going in the afternoons, and is it perhaps linked to Hobbo's claim, that she's his long lost mum.

Not sure about this one, the humour is a little more variety than sitcom, it has a very, very dated feel, but the main elements that make Last of the Summer wine endearing are lacking. We don't have a Howard and Marina sketch, Clegg and Truly are barely visible.

Perhaps the funniest scene was Hobbo's visit to Auntie's, and subsequent disguise, although even here it's perhaps twenty years out of date.

The Policemen are still more involved in the main action, but they're definitely getting a little more dim with each episode.

Not a classic, not terrible, 6/10.

Three weeks pretending to be Mr Igor Globnik

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 29 May 2019]

It just becomes more noticeable that Clegg and Truly only seem to appear in the episodes at the beginning. The ages of the actors meant that getting insurance for any outside filming was difficult.

Nelly is upset that people are starting to believe in Hobbo's claim that she is his mother. It is notable now that her main scenes tend to be with Pearl. A sign of the losses in the female cast.

Hobbo makes an observation of a dream he had that involved Putin. Strangely 10 years later, a Putin joke is still topical!

Hobbo rates himself as a master of disguise. He visits Auntie Wainwright for costumes. He claims that he does his twitches to exercise his facial muscles, he ends up getting his neck stuck.

The visit to Auntie Wainwright allows Russ Abbot to disguise himself as a German. Marina sees straight through it with his bad accent. It is another episode that relies on Abbot to provide the comedy but you can see now that Roy Clarke is employing a scatter gun approach with his wide cast.

There are still some nice lines. Hitler came from Hartlepool but moved to Germany as he could not handle the Geordie accent according to Alvin. Although there was a variation of a similar joke during the first Foggy era.

Entwistle quips that he was raised on black pudding and pickled tripe.