pete9012S wrote: Imagine if all the Find Outers went to school locally in Peterswood - Goon would have surely needed constant sedation to control his blood pressure.
I've never really thought about that. I've imagined that Ern might become Fatty's assistant and maybe eventually move on to become a senior detective himself (in a Morse and Lewis sort of fashion), but hadn't thought about the other actual Find-Outers. Pip, Larry and Daisy might well end up in more conventional careers, but I like to believe Bets would have stuck with Fatty — and that they would have ended up getting married (as some fan-fic writers, including Julie from this forum, have imagined)! Although Bets' admiration for Fatty is pretty much at the level of schoolgirl hero-worship — she is under 12 years old for presumably the entire series, after all — he certainly treats her with far more kindness and respect than her brother ever does (or than even Larry and Daisy do, for that matter), and I can imagine their mutual affection growing into something deeper as they both got older...S-Dog2001 wrote:Yes, it seems to be quite a common idea that Bets would have been Fatty's assistent later on (I fully agree with this as well), but does anyone think that the other three would also have worked with Fatty? He would probaby have enough money to pay all of them. I know when Bets brings up this idea in the spiteful letters the others sort of laugh it off as if it's unlikely, but I don't really see why that couldn't happen - they all work really well together already!
... or am I just reading too much into these things??
(And am I the only one who thinks Fatty in that illustration looks like a younger version of Ronnie Barker?? )