History Film / CarryOnAtYourConvenience

It seems the works outing to Brighton may hold the solutions to many of the firm's issues however, as HilarityEnsues.

* AccidentalMisnaming: {{Invoked}}. Sid purposely calls Miss Withering "Miss Widdling" when disguised as Gipsy Rose the fortune teller to trick Mr. Boggs into not realising who he was.
* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: After the works outing, Sid and Chloe share a heartfelt scene where they discuss whether they should have an affair or not.

** The works outing takes the workers to '''P'''alace '''P'''ier.

* BattleDiscretionShot: During the works outing, when Lewis and Myrtle kiss on the ghost train, Vic (who fancies Myrtle) crashes the scene. Lewis asks Myrtle to excuse him a moment and the camera cuts to the monster animatronics moving to the sounds of Vic getting the stuffing kicked out of him.

* CampStraight: Mr. Coote is played with all the camp silliness of Creator/CharlesHawtrey's other characters, yet he plays StripPoker with Agatha and tries to get close to Miss Withering on the works outing.

* DisguisedInDrag: Sid dresses up as Gipsy Rose, a female fortune teller, to help trick Mr. Boggs into getting with Miss Withering, though he ruins his fortune-telling credibility by predicting 14 children for them. As Miss Withering has been a secretary for 30 years, she is at the very least in her mid-forties so this would be impossible.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When the coach drops Sid and Chloe off after the works outing, Mr. Coote can be seen sleeping in the boot of the coach with a child's doll in one hand and an empty bottle in the other.

* TheGhost: Gipsy Rose, the fortune teller who Sid pretends to be.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Vic gets his pant ripped off by Bernie's motorbike, leaving him standing in the street in his heart-patterned underwear.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being the boss, Mr. Boggs cuts loose on the works outing and gets incredibly drunk.

* OfficeRomance: Miss Withering begins one with Mr. Boggs after the works outing (much to his displeasure).

* OperationJealousy: Myrtle spends the works outing clinging to Vic's arm to get back at Lewis after their disastrous date.

* PottyEmergency: The pub crawl the workers go on during the works outing culminates in this, with the bus stopping next to a bush for them to take a leak behind.

* {{Troll}}: Miss Withering cheekily refuses to tell Mr. Boggs if they had sex after the works outing or not.

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: After getting completely drunk on the works outing to Brighton, Mr. Boggs wakes up the next morning in bed with his secretary, Miss Withering. He uneasily asks her if they did anything he should know about, and Miss Withering smirks and says she knows the answer to that question... and will never tell him:

* WhatsAHenway: Mr. Boggs and Sid when drunkenly arguing about fortune tellers:

** In Bernie's first scene he mutters "I only arsked", which was the CatchPhrase of his actor Creator/BernardBresslaw on ''Series/TheArmyGame''.

--->'''Fred''': Well I mean, look at 'em. Like... two bald-headed convicts tryin' 'o burst out of jail.

* CargoEnvy: Sid surprisingly seems to resent Joey the budgie because of Beattie's obsession with him.
* CatchPhrase:

* WeirdTradeUnion:
** Vic Spanner is a lazy worker at a toilet factory who is (supposedly) the head of the factory trade union and organised worker strikes whenever he doesn't want to work.
** When, near the end, the workforce ignores him and abandon their strike, in real life that would have rendered his position as union representative untenable and he would have resigned as representative immediately. In a subsequent scene, he is shown as still the union representative, although now without his tendency to call strikes.

** Miss Withering waking up W.C. Boggs after their tryst.

* LoserSonOfLoserDad: Vic's mother Agatha yammers to herself about how much of a lazy ne'er-do-well her dead husband was and how her grown son has become the same thing with his work on the strike organisations.

* LoveTriangle: More so in this film than any other ''Film/CarryOn'' film:

* NiceGuy: The Plummer family members that are in love triangles have one of these as either a suitor or a rival.

* NosyNeighbor: Mrs. Spragg is a mild one, who only pokes her nose into other people's business when she's wondering where the motorcycle noise is coming from.

* TakeThat: The whole film is one long insult to trade unions.

* FanonDiscontinuity: The film made many fans at the time abandon the series after 1970. Instead of the film being relatable, like many of the films were, it portrayed the working class as lazy people who went on strike whenever they felt like it. Unfortunately, many of their audience '''were''' the "lazy" working class, who immediately stopped watching the film series after that one.

* {{Discontinuity}}: The film made many fans at the time abandon the series after 1970. Instead of the film being relatable, like many of the films were, it portrayed the working class as lazy people who went on strike whenever they felt like it. Unfortunately, many of their audience '''were''' the "lazy" working class, who immediately stopped watching the film series after that one.

It is noted for being the first [[BoxOfficeBomb box office flop]] in the ''Film/CarryOn'' series; with few exceptions, most of the films that followed it were flops as well. This was mostly due to the portrayal of the working class as stupid and lazy, and the middle class as superior and clever; most of the audience of the ''Film/CarryOn'' films were the "stupid and lazy" working class, so they reacted [[{{Understatement}} rather negatively]] - some even boycotting the movie when it was first released.

** Vic gets everyone to agree to his strike when he reminds them that the [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams Rovers]] are playing at home today. [[note]]The teams called Rovers then in the Football League were those of Blackburn, Bristol, Doncaster and Tranmere, but the characters' accents fit none of these locales and all of them are several hours' journey from Brighton. Of course, Vic might be a fan of his local non-league side - if they are a non-league club without floodlights, that would explain them playing a midweek match at 3pm.[[/note]]

** Sid bets on horses named [[UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII Cleopatra]], [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Tiny Tim]] and {{Literature/Pollyanna}}.

** The Rifle Range has balloons of WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}, [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Pluto]] as prizes to be won.

* SnobsVsSlobs: Perhaps the entire movie in a nutshell with the management as the snobs and the workers as the slobs. The movie writes the snobs as the heroes of the picture, though. [[note]]Creator/PinewoodStudios and most of the production were extremely right-wing at the time so it's no surprise that they found the middle class to be better and have more common sense than the striking working-class.[[/note]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: Lewis is a shoe-in as a nicer love interest to Myrtle than Vic, as well as being the only other young man in the main cast. Then when he spots Myrtle enjoying her time with Vic in Brighton, he pays the pier staff in charge of the Ghost Train to stop the machine and kidnap Myrtle in the darkness so it'd be easy to get her to marry him.

* {{Tuckerization}}: The character Creator/CharlesHawtrey played, Charles Coote, was so named in honour of his life long and very close friend film producer Bernard Coote.

** Mr. Boggs does so after hearing how much money the bidet order will make.

** Mr. Boggs does so again when calling Lewis after his night in Miss Withering's bed.

* VirginWhoreComplex: Although it's not the focal point of the movie, there is an obvious parallel with Vic's attractions to women. He pines after the nice girl Myrtle, but seems to be unable to control himself around female colleagues that wear shorter skirts and wear shirts that expose some cleavage.

** Lewis accidentally tears off Myrtle's skirt at the Whippet Inn, and did the same to a bunny waitress in a DeletedScene.

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: After getting completely drunk on the works outing to Brighton, Mr. Boggs wakes up the next morning in bed with his secretary, Miss Withering. He uneasily asks her if they did anything he should know about, and Miss Withering smirks and says she knows the answer to that question... and will never tell him.

''At Your Convenience'' starred Cope as lazy union representative Vic Spanner, who works in the W.C. Boggs & Son toilet factory, run by its traditionalist owner W.C. Boggs (Williams) and foreman Sid Plummer (James). He organizes strikes over the most minor of inconveniences (or when he wants to watch a football match), much to the disgust of the workers - except for Bernie Hulke (Bresslaw), his DumbMuscle - the company they work under, and his mother, Agatha (Creator/ReneeHouston). The firm cannot afford the constant strikes because they are losing loads of money, yet Vic holds yet another strike over the banning of tea servings on the factory floor.

* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: A non-military example in the staff of W.C. Boggs & Son; Mr. Boggs the boss is rather refined, while the foreman, Sid, isn't afraid to let his opinion be known and take action with the workers.

* FamilyBusiness: W.C. Boggs & Son, where most of the movie's action takes place is run by W.C. Boggs and his son Lewis.

** Lewis balances on a thin line on whether the viewer likes him or not. It might be satisfying to see a younger character being the complete opposite of the self-centered Vic, but he also resorts to unnecessary violence when he doesn't get his way and practically kidnapped his crush in order to win her affections back

* LoveTriangle: More so in this film than any other ''Film/CarryOn'' film.

* {{Malaproper}}: Vic frequently does so. In one of his first scenes he mixes up "irrelevant" and "irreverent", and later tells Lewis he is "avaiding" the issue.

* MythologyGag: Music from ''Film/CarryOnCamping'' plays when Sid, Chloe and Myrtle drive back from the factory.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: W.C. Boggs and his son Lewis would be quite happy to negotiate with the union to resolve the many disputes they have with the management, but Vic is not willing to negotiate with them.

** When, near the end, the workforce ignore him and abandon their strike, in real life that would have rendered his position as union representative untenable and he would have resigned as representative immediately. In a subsequent scene, he is shown as still union representative, although now without his tendency to call strikes.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: After getting completely drunk on the works outing to Brighton, W.C. Boggs wakes up the next morning in bed with his secretary, Miss Withering. He uneasily asks her if they did anything he should know about, and Miss Withering smirks and says she knows the answer to that question... and will never tell him.

* WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons: Part of the reason the film did so poorly when it was first released was because it portrayed the working class (who made up most of the film's target audience) as stupid, entitled and lazy.

[[caption-width-right:345:"The biggest basinful of fun since the invention of water-''loo''!" boasts the trailer. The box office begs to differ.]]

''At Your Convenience'' starred Cope as lazy union representative Vic Spanner, who works in the Wm.C. Boggs & Son toilet factory, run by its traditionalist owner W.C. Boggs (Williams) and foreman Sid Plummer (James). He organizes strikes over the most minor of inconveniences (or when he wants to watch a football match), much to the disgust of the workers - except for Bernie Hulke (Bresslaw), his DumbMuscle - the company they work under, and his mother, Agatha (Creator/ReneeHouston). The firm cannot afford the constant strikes because they are losing loads of money, yet Vic holds yet another strike over the banning of tea servings on the factory floor.

* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: A non-military example in the staff of Wm.C. Boggs & Son; Mr. Boggs the boss is rather refined, while the foreman, Sid, isn't afraid to let his opinion be known and take action with the workers.

* FamilyBusiness: Wm.C. Boggs & Son, where most of the movie's action takes place is run by W.C. Boggs and his son Lewis.

* CoolCar: The car that Sid buys himself after he starts winning on the horses to replace his decrepit-looking Ford 100E, is a 1971 Morris Marina 1.3 Deluxe Coupe in Bedouin, which is especially notable by the fact that the Marina was a brand new model in 1971 and the car in the film was one of the very first.

* TheyDo: [[spoiler:Lewis marries Myrtle on the night of the works outing]].

** Vic gets everyone to agree to his strike when he reminds them that the [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams Rovers]] are playing at home today. [[note]]The teams called Rovers then in the Football League were those of Blackburn, Bristol, Doncaster and Tranmere, but the characters' accents fit none of these locales and all of them are several hours' journey from Brighton. Of course, Vic might be a fan of his local non-league side.[[/note]]

* OverprotectiveDad: Sid states nearing the end of the movie that he's always been wary of Lewis and his possible interest in his daughter Myrtle. [[spoiler:When he finds out that Myrtle eloped with him, Sid nearly hits the roof, but Mr. Boggs is much more accepting and even calls for a celebratory party.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Everyone gets a happy ending, except for Sid and Chloe who now have no chance of having an affair now that Beattie is working at the factory, and Mr. Boggs who has to fend off Miss Withering's amorous advances more than ever.

* BrainsAndBrawn: Vic and Bernie, respectively. Vic leads the strikes, and uses Bernie as intimidation to anyone in his way.

* CampStraight: Mr. Coote is played with all the camp silliness of Creator/CharlesHawtrey's other characters, yet he plays StripPoker with Agatha and tries to get close with Miss Withering on the works outing.
* CargoEnvy: Sid surprisingly seems to have resent for Joey the budgie because of Beattie's obsession with him.

** "Everybody out!" used by Vic when he calls a strike.

* TheChewToy: Vic Spanner, as the entitled union boss who calls a strike at the drop of a hat, is also the film's main object of comic misfortune, as he loses his trousers in public when he tries to follow Lewis and Myrtle on their date, gets beaten up by Lewis when he follows them onto the ghost train, and gets spanked by his mother Agatha in front of the entire workforce.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Vic gives the strikers weapons to stop the others from coming back to work, Bernie asks for a cricket bat over a tennis racquet, because he doesn't know how to play tennis.
* CoolCar: The car that Sid buys himself after he starts winning on the horses to replace his decrepit looking Ford 100E, is a 1971 Morris Marina 1.3 Deluxe Coupe in Bedouin, which is especially notable by the fact that the Marina was a brand new model in 1971 and the car in the film was one of the very first.

* FlippingTheBird: Vic shoots a v-sign at Lewis from the coach to mock him for losing his chance at getting with Myrtle.

* AllThereInTheScript: On the works outing, Bernie spends all of his time with a pretty girl played by Creator/MargaretNolan. While her name is never said in the film, cast lists give it as "Popsy".

** "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" plays when the coach gets to Brighton and the workers drunkenly sing it in the hotel bar.

** "Battle Hymn of the Republic" plays as Mr. Boggs' group leave the Rifle Range.

--->'''Vic''': Ah, you can talk I must say!

Alongside this fiasco, there are other problems around. Sid is divided over caring about the situation because he is attracted to factory worker Chloe Moore (Sims) who is unsatisfied with her TravellingSalesman husband Fred (Creator/BillMaynard), and also because he is earning lots of gambling money from his wife Beattie's (Jacques) budgie, Joey, who makes correct predictions over the horse races; Mr. Boggs' son Lewis (O'Callaghan) is competing with Vic over the affections of Sid's daughter Myrtle (Piper), who doesn't seem to be able to make up her mind; product designer Charles Coote (Hawtrey) is considering manufacturing 1,000 bidets for the wealthy King Frauzi of Aslam, even though Mr. Boggs is unimpressed with the idea; and Mr. Boggs' secretary Hortense Withering (Rowlands) is madly in love with him, much to his displeasure.

* TravellingSalesman: Chloe's husband Fred is one. The fact that he's never around puts a strain on their marriage and is what leads Chloe to flirt with Sid on the side.

Alongside this fiasco, there are other problems around. Sid is divided over caring about the situation because he is attracted to factory worker Chloe Moore (Sims) who is unsatisfied with her travelling salesman husband Fred (Creator/BillMaynard), and also because he is earning lots of gambling money from his wife Beattie's (Jacques) budgie, Joey, who makes correct predictions over the horse races; Mr. Boggs' son Lewis (O'Callaghan) is competing with Vic over the affections of Sid's daughter Myrtle (Piper), who doesn't seem to be able to make up her mind; product designer Charles Coote (Hawtrey) is considering manufacturing 1,000 bidets for the wealthy King Frauzi of Aslam, even though Mr. Boggs is unimpressed with the idea; and Mr. Boggs' secretary Hortense Withering (Rowlands) is madly in love with him, much to his displeasure.

-->'''Sid''': Balls.

'''Sid''': Cock.\\

** Vic gets everyone to agree to his strike when he reminds them that the [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams Rovers]] are playing at home today. [[note]]The teams called Rovers then in the Football League were those of Blackburn, Bristol, Doncaster and Tranmere, but the characters' accents fit none of these locales and all of them are several hours’ journey from Brighton. Of course, Vic might be a fan of his local non-league side.[[/note]]

** Vic gets everyone to agree to his strike when he reminds them that the [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams Rovers]] are playing at home today. [[note]]The teams called Rovers then in the Football League were those of Blackburn, Bristol, Doncaster and Tranmere, but the characters' accents fit none of these locales. Of course, Vic might be a fan of his local non-league side.[[/note]]