As It Occurs To Me whispering something and at one point exits pursued by a bear; a reference to a stage direction in "A Winter's Tale". Tiny Andrew Collings is also famous for exclaiming his own compliments and pretending they came from the audience, with the faux self-effacing phrase "Be quiet, you people in the crowd saying those things". Despite having died at the end of Series Two (reciting the poem "Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep"), Tiny Andrew returned on the Edinburgh special, claiming responsibility for most of the bad things that had occurred to Richard over the previous month (with the
The Bear (play) "The Bear". The main similarity between the two involves the idea of the male being a 'bear' tamed by a woman. "Les Jurons de Cadillac" was originally performed by the actor Nikolai Solovstov, whom Chekhov dedicates "The Bear" to and ultimately plays the role of Smirnov. It had its first English language premiere in London in 1911. The United States premiere was in New York in 1915. In 1935, Russian theatre producer and director Vsevolod Meyerhold produced "33 Swoons" (also translated as "33 Fainting Fits"), which was a production that combined Chekhov's "The Anniversary", "The Bear", and "The Proposal". Meyerhold