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Great as The Good Life was, the endless reruns have drained something from the clips dug up on the death of Richard Briers. Other splendid performances in the Briers repertoire were aired once and forgotten, including the relentlessly upbeat simpleton Godfrey Spry, the star of 1993's If You See God, Tell Him. Falling debris deprives Godfrey of his critical faculties, cuts his concentration span to 30 seconds – and so renders him a compulsive consumer of advertisements. Slapstick mishaps, painful faux pas and freakish flukes follow, as he struggles to live by the mindless marketing slogans he has swallowed wholesale. There was, as the Guardian said at the time, an irony, since Briers himself was a sought-after TV voiceover with a "breathy, rushy, slightly querulous delivery" that soon had you hankering "for a Cadbury's caramel or a Honda lawnmower". But as Godfrey he revealed the absurdist results of believing the ad men too much.Great as The Good Life was, the endless reruns have drained something from the clips dug up on the death of Richard Briers. Other splendid performances in the Briers repertoire were aired once and forgotten, including the relentlessly upbeat simpleton Godfrey Spry, the star of 1993's If You See God, Tell Him. Falling debris deprives Godfrey of his critical faculties, cuts his concentration span to 30 seconds – and so renders him a compulsive consumer of advertisements. Slapstick mishaps, painful faux pas and freakish flukes follow, as he struggles to live by the mindless marketing slogans he has swallowed wholesale. There was, as the Guardian said at the time, an irony, since Briers himself was a sought-after TV voiceover with a "breathy, rushy, slightly querulous delivery" that soon had you hankering "for a Cadbury's caramel or a Honda lawnmower". But as Godfrey he revealed the absurdist results of believing the ad men too much.
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