Keeping Up Appearances

[garej]

Does anyone here love the show, apart from me?

[seahorse]

yes me to glad I am not the only one

[garej]

Thanks for your reply seahorse.

I have the entire series on DVD, and the 2 books (one of the few books that are on my shelf which arent pony related).

I got an ipod for my birthday, and am in the process of putting the series 1-4 on my ipod as we speak (as it has to play each episode entirely, it is taking a rather long time).

My favourite episodes are Series 2 Episode 2 (referred to as "Driving Mrs Fortescue" in some online sources) where she offers to Drive Mrs Fortescue into town. It always makes me laugh right out loud. Especially when Mrs Bucket says "You must come to my Candlelight Suppers, Mrs Fortescue?"

Mrs Fortescue replies: "Candlelight what?"

Mrs Bucket then replies: "Candlelight suppers"

Mrs Fortescue replies: "Have they cut off your electricity?"

The other one which is my favourite is Series 4 Episode 6 (referred to as "Please Mind Your Head") when Hycacinth and Richard spend their time in the new country apartment, which involves much banging of heads on the rather low and sloping beams. Then on her way out, she meets Elizabeth and Emmett on their way there, and because she is in riding clothes, they think she can ride, and Emmett offers to go riding together (Hycacinth cant ride, she is just dressing like that to be posh). The consequence is that they get onto the horse, and the horse carrying Hycacinth takes off and (presumably, though it is never actually seen) she falls off.

Though really I shouldnt laugh, as a flat I used to live in had a sloping ceiling and beams in the kitchen/living room and the amount of times I banged my head was not funny. But I cant help it.

Whenever I am feeling really crappy, I watch those 2 episodes and because they make me laugh, I feel much better after seeing them. I am the kind of person that prefers literal humour (people falling over banana skins that kinda thing) rather than jokes saying verbally.

[Claire]

Oh I forgot about that episode with the horse it is really funny. I like that episode where her sister Rose is up a ladder. I love Patricia Routledge, she is such a good actress. I like her in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. She also has a bit of a down trodden husband in that too.

[garej]

admin said:

Oh I forgot about that episode with the horse it is really funny. I like that episode where her sister Rose is up a ladder. I love Patricia Routledge, she is such a good actress. I like her in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. She also has a bit of a down trodden husband in that too.

Yeah I forgot about it until the other day, when the BBC have kindly been repeating Hetty Wainthropp over Christmas.

Patricia Routledge is more of a theatre actress than a TV one - she can sing better than what she does in Keeping Up Appearances!! The other day at the end of one of the Hetty Wainthropp they showed her singing as Burlington Bertie in quite a decent voice - whereas Hycacinth does not have a good one!

Ever wondered why there is no 1994 series of Keeping Up Appearances (save for the QE 2 special)? It's because she and Clive Swift where in a play throughout most of the year. The play was called "Mr and Mrs Nobody", in which they played husband and wife (but not the parts of Richard and Hycacinth).

Robert Rawles, the milkman in the series, also went to the same school as me (he left before me, so I never met him though).

[kunuma]

I like 'Keeping Up Appearances' too - I love all those old sit coms like the Good Life, One Foot in the Grave and To the Manor Born (adored the Xmas special this year!) They seem to be a reminder of the time when everyone was basically good at heart, and you could leave your house and car unlocked and accept help from a stranger! (Nothing like looking back with rose coloured spectacles I suppose, but it WAS different 20, even 10 years ago.
I also loved an American one from the same time - Kate and Allie.