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FAO, parent of posh toy store FAO Schwarz, on Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, hurt by weak sales and intense competition.
FAO on Monday said it would close nearly a quarter of its 253 stores and received a brief reprieve from its bankers as the parent of posh toy store FAO Schwarz struggles to stay out of bankruptcy.
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Rimington was joined by comedian Matt Forde and film expert Matthew Sweet, who offered insights and gentle BBC4-style jokes between clips of posh establishment men toying with plebeian lives and broken agents unable to trust anyone.
Although extraordinary funds are lavished on children - in the form of pricey gifts, posh fashion, fabulous toys and competitive super-education with regal after-school activities, the alarming incidence of child abuse - including sexual abuse - is skyrocketing!
All the stuffed toys can be upper class and "posh" if you like or some can be maids, and knaves and serfs.
As well as selling books, One Tree has diversified into board games, educational toys, sheet music, classical music, postcards and posh stationery.
One scene still makes me laugh through tears: Hugh Dennis (the posh foil to Frankie Boyle on Mock the Week) carries his son out of a toy shop, with Ben clutching on to shelves and bawling: "Stranger!
He approaches the notoriously disagreeable Lady Francine Gryffoyn Diana Quickk), one of the many customers his mother waits on in a posh restaurant, and insinuates himself into her life as an assistant in her gallery and an all-purpose boy toy.
"Posh, posh, posh".
"Not posh posh, though".
You really are posh.
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