Bucket pronounced Bouquet - B-U-C-K-E-T! I just got my Keeping Up Appearances DVD, all 5 seasons in the mail yesterday. Is this show not the most hilairous Bristish comedy ever? It's like Golden Girls meets Monty Python! I know there are some BUCKET fans! (Darrel, I know you love this show!) I can't decide which is my favorite? The Riverside Picnic? Driving Mrs. Fortsychue? And I love how Hyacinth is oblivious to the fact that her son, Sheredon, is gay! Steve
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It's been one of my favorite shows for years. I love my DVD set, too.
Favorite episodes? Hmm. You mentioned two of my favorite episodes- the Riverside Picnic and Driving Mrs. Fortesque. Another of my top three is "A Strange Man," when Emmett first shows up (and when she first finds out he leads the Operatic Society!!!)
Don't you LOVE the outtakes!?!?!?!?
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Another good episode is How To Manage a Family Christening. And I love when she's on the phone with her sister Violet and talks about her transvestite brother-in-law. There is another episode, don't know which one, where Elizabeth drives Hyacinth to her poor sister Daisy's house and lies to Elizabeth where she lives......pulls over at a rich neighborhood, tells Elizabeth to wait in the car and Hyacinth goes around the house, climbs over the wall and bumps into a lady to get to her sister's poor neightborhood.
Steve
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Krypto wrote: pulls over at a rich neighborhood, tells Elizabeth to wait in the car and Hyacinth goes around the house, climbs over the wall and bumps into a lady to get to her sister's poor neightborhood.
Steve
That's "A Fate Worse Than Senility," I think. It's the one where her father promised some old bat he'd marry her.
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I love her father. He was such a cute old man!! lol. This show brings back lots of memories. :) Thanks for bringing it up! I'm going to wait for the price to go down a while. This is something I'd like to own, however.
Along with:
Mr. Bean Are You Being Served (not the sequel) Red Dwarf Allo Allo
The bucket lady is funny. She tries so hard to maintain that she has a perfect life--yet, everything around her is far less than perfect. Sounds like the rest of us, eh?? That was a wonderful show.
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I loved the episode, Three Piece Suite, it is sooo funny. Especially when she goes outside and pretends she doesn't know her sisters and gives them directions. x 2.
There was this other episode, I forget, where she's trying to close the door with her legs and Elizabeth doesn't know what she's doing and Hyacinth realizes that Elizabeth is watching lift her leg and Hyacinth lifts it all the way up to the counter claiming it's exercise. Okay, I guess you have to see it for yourself to really laugh! x2
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Oh, I LOVE the Three Piece Suite. "It's an exact replica of one at Sandringham House!" (sp?)
...and I know the episode you're talking about where she pretends she's exercising- ha!! Then her leg gets stuck up on the counter-top
Other episodes I really like include the one in which Hyacinth gets drunk on "The Dowager Lady Ursula's Homemade Gooseberry Wine," and the episode in which Hyacinth buys the SIPPER CUP so that Liz won't spill her coffee-- I just laughed out loud THINKING about that scene...
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I'm a big fan of the Bucket Lady. I love the "Electrics" one where Richard is sent to fix the electric lights for a stage production at the Vicarage. The Vicar and his wife are so funny when they always run and hide when Hyacinth comes near.
R U Being Served: Mrs. Slocumbe is too much with her hair color changing every week and the references to her cat in every episode.
Also: AbFab is a hoot too. Patsy and Edina are just a riot with Saffy as the foil.
British humor is so much more advanced, and the British language has so many double entendre's as well.
It's funny you posted about this show; I was just watching a few episodes of it last night! I watched the one where they go to the Charity Shoppe with Mrs. Councillor Nugent, and the one called "Our Daisy and Her Toy Boy." Both are such good episodes!!
Just a little fact about Angel Gabriel Blue-- if you're a fan of Are You Being Served?, the kitchen salesman "Mr. Merryweather" from Angel Gabriel Blue played Mr. "Dick" Lucas in Are You Being Served?, but he was much older in the episode of Keeping Up Appearances.
Also, did you know the actress who plays "Liz," the next-door neighbor in Keeping Up Appearances, is in real life the cousin of John Inman, who plays the queeny Mr. Humphries in Are You Being Served?
-Chris
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I like the scene when she's outside telling people not to cough or sneeze as they walk by because Richard is on the phone with the Chinese ambassador.....
Or another scene when she's telling a passer by to tread carefully as they walk by because she's recently installed a very expensive and sensitive alarm system.
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This is the best show! I've been watching it since High School. This show was something new and refreshing in an otherwise weird and altogether disturbing line-up of shows. And now that The silly sitcomes like Will & Grace, Friends and Seinfeld are gone, TV just isn't the same. Although I must say...I love Reality TV. Project Runway, America's Next Top Model and Top Chef are my favorites...
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