Modern Men Episode Review
Brief: Del has bought a book about how to be a sensitive new age guy but does not seem to be able to find the time to notice Raquel, Trig can’t con Dave to save his life, and Cassandra is pregnant then disaster strikes.
Transmitted: 27.12.1996
Duration: 60 minutes
Viewing Figures: 21.3 million
Del is reading a book called ‘Modern Man’.
Despite being convinced he is the dictionary definition of debonair masculinity, the book is making him behave irrationally and rashly.
Rodney is concerned about this. Cassandra is expecting, and he wants more responsibility and a better job to provide for his family. He unwittingly replies for a job advertisement, posted by Del to alleviate Rodney’s workload.
Del, meanwhile, has decided to take his manhood into his own hands and get a vasectomy. Doctor Singh is hounding him regarding dodgy paint, and the nightmare of him getting revenge on Del’s crown jewels puts him off the idea.
Cassandra is rushed into hospital, suffering a miscarriage. Rodney breaks down, and it’s Del who tells him he has to be strong for his wife. Del then blubs his eyes out, as Rodney supports his wife.
Episode Observations
- In Modern Men, Del snd Roodney are in the kitchen and del places his plate in the washing up bowl, this is after Del tells Rodney he is going to promote him to Sales Director. Del then rinses some water into the bowl, then turns off the tap and takes of a rubber washing up glove. In a scene of a few seconds you don’t even see him put the glove on!
- In Modern Men, when they are in the pub, when its Dels turn for the drinks, he gives Mike a hairdryer( really an electric paint scrubber). If you notice Del picks up the hairdryer off the floor.
- In Modern Men, When Rodney is modelling a crash helmet turban, in one take he has a scarf in front of his shoulder. Immediately on the next shot the scarves behind his shoulder.
- In Modern Men, the 3 wheeled vans registration is DHV 938 D whereas in “The Russians are Coming”and “A Touch of Class” the vans reg is APL 911 H, in many other episodes it’s clear that it’s not the same van used each episode.
- In Modern Men, when Del is in the bedroom , the extremely tacky purple headboard hasn’t a large golden heart within its design, whereas in “Chance of a Lunchtime” the heart was incorporated within the design.
- In Modern Men, when Rodney phones Del up for his own job, Raquel puts him on hold. The music that plays while he is on hold is… …”Ol’ Shep” – Del’s favourites song about dog, ever (from Diamonds are for Heather).
- In Modern Men, Sid’s Cafe increases significantly in size from Miami Twice and Dates in this episode. This is also the third different layout it has had as it is completely different in To Hull and back.
Modern Men Script
The script will be downloadable from here
In relation to “In a scene of a few seconds you don’t even see him put the glove on!” In the original script the scene was longer, so dialogue has been cut explaining the mysterious glove coming off.
When Raquel answers the phone in the bedroom watch closely, you can see someone/something going past on the left side mirror.
A strange edit in this episode on Netflix,they removed the laughter/clapping at the end of the episode where Del hits the drunk man and says, ‘bet you wish you’d gone private now don’t ya?’ to the elderly couple.
It’s a pretty bad edit as the sound messes up at the end, it seems for some reason they didn’t want a laughtrack to play when Del hit the person and walked off, but i’m not sure why they edited that one scene.
Anyone any ideas?
I thought this too, Dan.
Very, very strange why they cut certain things from the show.
There is literally no logical reason why they’d remove the laughter.
Do they not want to applaud ‘violence’ or something? Which wouldn’t make sense given this is a comedy, where the lead character is punching a stupid drunk abusing hospital staff and patients + it’s on Netflix so not as if it’s going to affect a ‘live audience’.