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The Coopers and Robinsons: Stately Home

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The setup

The Robinsons have bought a stately home, and with it a pair of titles, so they give the Coopers a lordly tour designed to prove just how English they have become.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

A stiff butler admits the Coopers to the Robinsons' newly purchased country manor, where their hosts now insist on being addressed as Lord and Lady of Epping, titles that came free with the house. The guided tour is a parade of half-understood heritage: ancient floorboards protected by plastic matting, a stained-glass window the Coopers offer to clean, and a garden being dug up for an enormous patio. To fake the smell of country life the Robinsons keep a sack of manure in the great hall, bark orders at their butler Mellors, and unveil a bulldog family crest whose Latin motto spells out an exclusionary creed. They boast that the neighbours could not be more welcoming, cheerfully failing to notice that every kindness, from lighting their fire through the letterbox to a generous head start on next week's shoot, is a sign the village wants them gone.

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Stained, huh? Have you tried rubbing it with vinegar?

If it ain't white, it ain't right.

And they've even offered us a 15-second head start.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

British Comedy Guide lists this segment as "The Coopers and Robinsons - Stately home" in Series 2, Episode 6; BBC Comedy Greats' official upload titles it "The Coopers' Country Manor". The same episode closes with a separate Coopers and Robinsons fox-hunting segment.

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