Auf Wiedersehen Pet / Porridge Bit Similar

[Merle haggard]

Anyone else noticed this

Great comedy dont get me wrong but if watch both programmes closely there a few lines that are in porridge also in auf pet

When somone steals fletchers tin of pineapple chunks he says to godber " I know you didn't take them son godber how you know that fletcher when you were in the shower I went through everybody's gear

Same line is used by oz when speaking to Dennis at the bar in suspicion

There are a few others typical can't think of them now

[HerrPfister]

Both written by Clement & Frenais so bound to be similarities. 'Porridge' is another of my favourites, actually.

[The Magnificent 7]

Porridge is another favourite of mine, it's another show that I've got the complete box set of, shame there wasn't more episodes.

The word 'naffin' is used a lot in Porridge and can be heard a few times in AWP. It's not a word I've heard used anywhere else. Clement and La Frenais used the word in Porridge in place of swear words.

[Hallwood]

I saw the repeats of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads on BBC Four over the summer (they haven't repeated series 2 for some reason), and there was a few bits of dialogue in there that cropped up on Pet, like the phrase 'jammy Arab'.

[Geordie]

Billy Connolly did the "fart in a spacesuit" line about five years before Oz said it. I wonder if Dick and Ian worked with Billy or they just liked the line and used it.