YMMV / Carry On at Your Convenience

• Fanon 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.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Watching Mr. Coote's chronic drinking during the works outing becomes uncomfortable once you remember how bad Charles Hawtrey's alcoholism got towards the end of his life.
• Heartwarming Moments: Fred Moore confessing to Chloe about how guilty he is when he's not around enough to spend time with her is pretty sweet. Her forgiving reaction adds the icing on the cake.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Willie and one of the bunny waitresses are played by Geoffrey Hughes and Shirley Stelfox, who would later be best known for playing Onlsow and the first Rose on Keeping Up Appearances.
  • The Rifle Range owner is played by Larry Martyn, who would later be best known as Mr. Mash in Are You Being Served?.
• The Scrappy: Vic Spanner, through an unfortunate combination of Obstructive Bureaucrat, Entitled Bastard, and It's All About Me. Thankfully, most of the jokes are on him.
• Sequelitis: Considered the first real misfire for the series. While the following four entries had better fortunes, being released to decent audience reactions and box-office numbers, the series would never again reach the heights it had held prior to this film.
• Spiritual Successor: The film is considered to be The '70s' answer to I'm All Right Jack, both being comedy films about union troubles.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Vic Spanner is the most unfortunate character in the film. He loses his trousers in the street, gets beaten up by Lewis, misses out on dating Myrtle, and is spanked by his mother Agatha in front of all the other workers.
• Values Dissonance: The movie ends with Vic's mother Agatha bending him over her knee and smacking his bottom. Depending on your view of parental discipline, this is still very old-fashioned.
• Values Resonance: In retrospect, some feel that the message against overly powerful trade unions was actually quite prescient (albeit executed in a way that was far too anvilicious for a series known for its light-hearted comedy romps) as the UK was increasingly crippled by industrial action as the 1970s went on, eventually culminating in the Winter of Discontent and the rise of Margaret Thatcher.
• Vindicated by History: This was the first Carry On to lose money at the box office and was written off as a failure. Nowadays, it's considered by some to be one of the overlooked gems of the series.

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