Are You Being Served? sharp-tongued, witty responses, along with his trademark catch-phrase "I'm free!", were enthusiastically embraced by many audience members, and the character evolved into a gay icon in popular culture. Despite this, Inman pointed out that Mr Humphries' true sexual orientation was never explicitly stated in the series, and David Croft said in an interview that the character was not homosexual, but "just a mother's boy". In an episode of the spin-off "Grace & Favour", the character is further described as neither a "woman's man" nor a "man's man" and as being "in limbo". The characters (Mr Humphries especially) sometimes broke the
Are You Being Served? (Australian TV series) where "Are You Being Served?" was popular, such as Ireland, the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. The series has not been repeated on Australian television since the late 1980s. (The UK original "Are You Being Served?" had been repeated by ABC Television in Australia several times. By 1978 it had been repeated by Channel Seven in Australia to even larger audiences.) In a recurring joke on the radio show "Get This", it was stated that only the loss of the master tapes for the series is preventing its release on DVD. The National Film and Sound Archive does in