As much of a fan as I am of British humor, I honestly could never get into this show. I usually watched if it happened to be on TV, but it never actually made me laugh. The premise is a group of people, mixture of young and old, who work in a London department store. Except for Mr. Humphries and Mrs. Slocumb, none of the other characters are humorous. The jokes mostly revolved around sex. Every episode had a female mannequin who did some kind of obscene trick. Mr. Lucas was always saying something off-color to Miss Brahms about her appearance (it was portrayed as funny, but would be considered sexual harassment in this day and age). The other women often had on short, tight dresses. Maybe that's why it didn't make me laugh all that much. I like British comedies that are sarcastic and witty. Are You Being Served is just sophomoric humor and women are treated like objects. Somewhat mediocre if you ask me. Plus I'm not interested in shows about people at work. Like The Office and Superstore. Nothing in the show happens outside of the characters' workplace. How boring! And they're always working a job that's relatively low on the totem pole. But the focus of the show isn't the job, it's the characters' quirky personalities. Whatever, I still find those types of shows to be dull. I used to work in a library. A day never went by without drama and bizarre situations thanks to the customers. Now that would make for an entertaining show.
