History Trivia / SomeMothersDoAveEm

* BeamMeUpScotty: Despite popular opinion, Frank never said his popular CatchPhrase, "Ooh, Betty!" anywhere in the show. Still less "Ooh, Betty, the baby/cat's done a whoopsie on the carpet!" which seems to have been invented by the impressionist Mike Yarwood. This gets lampshaded in the 2016 Sports Relief skit, where the adult Jessica mentions doing a whoopsie on the carpet when she was a baby, and Frank is pretty sure it never happened.

* {{Corpsing}}: One noticeable example occurs in "Wendy House" where Creator/RichardWilson plays an insurance assessor who calls on Frank and Betty. All three sit on a sofa to discuss the situation and Wilson slowly sinks down into it so that he barely manages to come up to Crawford's shoulders. Michele Dotrice cannot stifle her laughter and this, in turn, causes both Crawford and Wilson to corpse. After a few seconds all three manage to pick up the script again and the take is retained in the finished edit.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DavidJason was considered for Frank Spencer, but was rejected because Creator/TheBBC executives at the time believed that he lacked star quality. Creator/DudleyMoore and Norman Wisdom were also considered.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DavidJason was considered for Frank Spencer, but was rejected because Creator/TheBBC executives at the time believed that he lacked star quality. Creator/DudleyMoore was also considered.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DudleyMoore was considered for Frank Spencer.

* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/ElisabethSladen was interviewed by producer Michael Mills for the role of Betty but lost out to Michele Dotrice. However, Mills offered her a guest role in the series as Judy in "The Hospital Visit".

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Raymond Smith based the show on his own experiences.

* TheCastShowoff: Michael Crawford sang a bit and did all his own stuntwork.

* WagTheDirector: Frank was written originally as a single man, but Michael Crawfod insisted that the character have a wife.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Ronnie Barker and Norman Wisdom turned down the role of Frank Spencer. Creator/DudleyMoore was also considered.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Despite popular opinion, Frank never said his popular CatchPhrase, "Ooh, Betty!" anywhere in the show.

* FatalMethodActing: Michael Crawford and stuntman Derek Ware made the newspapers when they were both nearly strangled during the window-cleaning segment of "The Employment Exchange". They were left 300 feet up the side of a London skyscraper after the cradle they were dangling from refused to budge. Surprisingly, the cameraman continued to film the entire ordeal.
* MoneyDearBoy: Michael Crawford expressed his fears at becoming typecast into Frank Spencer-like roles before being offered £10,000 (which was a ''lot'' of money at the time) to star in Season 3.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/ElisabethSladen appears as Judy the fruit shop owner at the beginning of "The Hospital Visit", nearly a year before her role in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
* VindicatedByReruns: By the very end of TheSeventies, the show's often {{slapstick}} humour and the appeal of Frank Spencer were starting to wear thin. However, when it was [[BetterOnDVD released on home video]] in TheNineties and reran on television stations shortly after, it experienced a {{Revival}} of sorts. The fact that Michael Crawford had since gone on to appear in Broadway musicals such as ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' and ''Barnum'' no doubt helped the cause.

* RetroactiveRecognition: * Creator/ElisabethSladen appears as Judy the fruit shop owner at the beginning of "The Hospital Visit", nearly a year before her role in ''Series/DoctorWho''.

* MoneyDearBoy: Michael Crawford expressed his fears at becoming typecast into Frank Spencer-like roles before being offered ten thousand pounds (which was a ''lot'' of money at the time) to star in Season 3.