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80sTrivia · 05-23-2002, 11:14 PM

Oh my gawd!!! I love Keeping Up Appearances!!! Hyacinth Bucket is such a hoot!!! My fave characters after Hyacinth are Daisy and Onslow... such dead beat slobs!!! And I feel so sorry for Richard for having to put up with it all. Not to mention poor Elizabeth from next door... will she ever be able to finish a cup of coffee without spilling it all over Hyancinth's rug or dropping her Royal Doulton with the handpainted periwinkles?

Blair85 · 05-24-2002, 06:24 PM

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Originally posted by 80sTrivia
Oh my gawd!!! I love Keeping Up Appearances!!! Hyacinth Bucket is such a hoot!!! My fave characters after Hyacinth are Daisy and Onslow... such dead beat slobs!!! And I feel so sorry for Richard for having to put up with it all. Not to mention poor Elizabeth from next door... will she ever be able to finish a cup of coffee without spilling it all over Hyancinth's rug or dropping her Royal Doulton with the handpainted periwinkles?

lol I know! Daisy & Onslow are like British rednecks he,he! I haven't seen this show on BBC America for a long time. Will it be on again sometime?

80sTrivia · 05-24-2002, 08:28 PM

Hi Blair!!! I don't know if KUA will be rerun on BBC/America or not. It is currently running on PBS. My local PBS affiliate runs the show on Saturday nights, at 9:00PM, Eastern time. I'd check my local PBS listings to see if it is shown in your area!!!

Blair85 · 05-24-2002, 10:27 PM

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Originally posted by 80sTrivia
Hi Blair!!! I don't know if KUA will be rerun on BBC/America or not. It is currently running on PBS. My local PBS affiliate runs the show on Saturday nights, at 9:00PM, Eastern time. I'd check my local PBS listings to see if it is shown in your area!!!

Well hey there 80sTrivia! I hope KUA returns to BBC America cause I don't have PBS anymore. On our local PBS channel it came on Saturdays I think @ 9:30 AM.

80sTrivia · 06-05-2002, 01:58 PM

My fave episode of KUA is when Richard and Hyacinth go to the golf resort where "Dicky" is supposed to play a round with the Colonel. Of course, Rose just so happens to be staying at the lodge, entertaining a gentlemen friend of hers and rather noisely at that! The Colonel takes Hyacinth on a ride in the country in his roadster where he can't keep his hands off her. Hyacinth finally manages to escape from his embrace and hops over a fence into a pasture, as a flock of sheep start fleeing from her in fear!!! Classic...

Tweety · 06-09-2002, 11:48 AM

I think that KUA is as good as ANY show that's ever been on TV. The characters are amazing. And so many great running gags...my two favorite running gags are: (1) Hyacynth having Elizabeth over for coffee...Poor Elizabeth is always either spilling the coffee, dropping her cup, or dropping her "biscuit" into her cup, and then trying to pick it out with her fingers...IMHO, the scenes in which these two get together for coffe is as good as anything Lucy and Ethel ever did, and I love I.L.Lucy.

My other favorite running gag takes place whenever Hyacynth and Richard visit Onslow and Daisy's place...I LOL whenever Hyacynth walks up to the house and that dog sticks its head out of the car window and starts barking at Hyacynth, forcing her to fall back into the hedge...

And, of course, there's always Hyacynth lecturing Richard when he drives ("mind the pedestrian, Richard"...Richard: "Minding the Pedestrian".)

And the poor "postman"...the dread he feels every time he approchase the Bucket's house...like going to his own execution.

The episodes with Mary Millar playing Rose are better then the episodes with that other actress playing Rose...

Never miss this show on Sat. night!!

wren · 06-29-2002, 06:51 PM

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Originally posted by 80sTrivia
My fave episode of KUA is when Richard and Hyacinth go to the golf resort where "Dicky" is supposed to play a round with the Colonel. Of course, Rose just so happens to be staying at the lodge, entertaining a gentlemen friend of hers and rather noisely at that! The Colonel takes Hyacinth on a ride in the country in his roadster where he can't keep his hands off her. Hyacinth finally manages to escape from his embrace and hops over a fence into a pasture, as a flock of sheep start fleeing from her in fear!!! Classic...

I remember that ep! I couldn't stop laughing!!!

jmy9595 · 08-08-2002, 11:42 AM

Ugh, I absolutely cannot stand this show. It's such a one-joke show (gee, this old bat is trying to pretend she's someone she's not and she's mortified by everyone around her) and frankly not even a funny joke at that. Why so many station shifted away from Are You Being Served? to put this rubbish on is beyond my comprehension. At least AYBS? had multiple characters and areas of plotlines.

Also, no, it's not only PBS that ever airs Britcoms. I remember WPIX (Ch. 11 in NYC) airing 'Allo 'Allo! for a while back in the 80's, but it was with commercials, of course, and 'Allo 'Allo!'s not meant to have commercials, so they were awkward. I imagine that also required editing, which is a problem in a series with 'Allo 'Allo!'s plot twists and turns.

Blair85 · 08-08-2002, 11:51 AM

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Ugh, I absolutely cannot stand this show. It's such a one-joke show (gee, this old bat is trying to pretend she's someone she's not and she's mortified by everyone around her) and frankly not even a funny joke at that. Why so many station shifted away from Are You Being Served? to put this rubbish on is beyond my comprehension. At least AYBS? had multiple characters and areas of plotlines.

Also, no, it's not only PBS that ever airs Britcoms. I remember WPIX (Ch. 11 in NYC) airing 'Allo 'Allo! for a while back in the 80's, but it was with commercials, of course, and 'Allo 'Allo!'s not meant to have commercials, so they were awkward. I imagine that also required editing, which is a problem in a series with 'Allo 'Allo!'s plot twists and turns.

I don't know why (call it intuition) but when I saw your user name, I knew you'd be dissing this show. Since you're new here, maybe you haven't noticed that these are "fan" boards, and people were talking about how they like KUA... IMO, I don't like Are you Being Served, and on the local PBS here AYBS is about all they air & I'm sick of it.

jmy9595 · 08-12-2002, 01:23 PM

> I don't know why (call it intuition) but when I saw your user name, I knew you'd be dissing this show. Since you're new here, maybe you haven't noticed that these are "fan" boards, and people were talking about how they like KUA

They are fan boards and, yes, I am a fan of several Britcoms. I don't see what prohibits me from posting a dissenting view re: one particular Britcom.

80sTrivia · 10-31-2002, 07:58 PM

Unfortunately, now I have a conflict in watching my beloved KUA. I've become addicted to Trading Spaces and it comes on at the same time as KUA on Saturday nights!

Sitcoms of the 90s · 12-04-2002, 08:49 PM

Oh I do love Keeping Up Appearances! It's deffinately one of the best. I also really love AYBS? KUA had such great characters, actors, and stories, that it all just came together perfectly.

My backgrounds Portugues, and I have a satalite that picks up a channel that only shows Portugues shows, did you know there was a Portugues Remake of KUA. Yeah, the was good, but not as the original. A lot of the episode plots were the same, but there were also new concepts to the show, and worked. A lot of the same running gags(Hyacinth answering the phone, Sheridan, Elizabeth breaking the cups, ect.) The only thing I really didn't like was that it didn't have a laugh soundtrack, it was too wacky, and the actors. Not that the actors weren't good, but they just didn't look the part. Richard was like 20 years younger, Rose seemed a little too old, and Daisy was really thin and younger(not good looking though.) My mother loved watching that show, too bad it doesn't give anymore.

Speaking of which, I almost never get to see KUA in English because the station I watch it on gives it at 12:35am on weekdays, and once on sunday evenings.

Does anyone know how the actress who played Rose die? And about what Patricia Rouglett said in an interview, I'd never get tired of watching this show.

Jason16 · 01-30-2006, 01:52 PM

I like this show. We're currently watching reruns of series 5 on a sunday afternoon in the UK and yesterday they showed the episode where Hyacinth bought skies for Richard on his birthday and Violet dumped Bruce!.

80sTrivia · 02-02-2006, 07:46 PM

Violet and Bruce are another one of my favorite running gags on the show... they are always fighting and Bruce is always trying on women's clothing!!! I always wondered why they didn't show Violet as often as they did Rose and Daisy? I also enjoyed it whenever Hyacinth was forced to go over to Daisy and Onslow's house, which was always so filthy!!!

Jason16 · 04-15-2006, 12:57 PM

I also like how Hyacinth brags about each relative whenever they phone up like "Its my sister Violet, you know the one with a mercedes, swimming pool, sauna and room for a pony"

05-23-2002, 11:14 PM	#16
80sTrivia Member Forum Celebrity Join Date: May 23, 2002 Posts: 21,714	Oh my gawd!!! I love Keeping Up Appearances!!! Hyacinth Bucket is such a hoot!!! My fave characters after Hyacinth are Daisy and Onslow... such dead beat slobs!!! And I feel so sorry for Richard for having to put up with it all. Not to mention poor Elizabeth from next door... will she ever be able to finish a cup of coffee without spilling it all over Hyancinth's rug or dropping her Royal Doulton with the handpainted periwinkles?
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05-24-2002, 08:28 PM	#18
80sTrivia Member Forum Celebrity Join Date: May 23, 2002 Posts: 21,714	Hi Blair!!! I don't know if KUA will be rerun on BBC/America or not. It is currently running on PBS. My local PBS affiliate runs the show on Saturday nights, at 9:00PM, Eastern time. I'd check my local PBS listings to see if it is shown in your area!!!

06-05-2002, 01:58 PM	#20
80sTrivia Member Forum Celebrity Join Date: May 23, 2002 Posts: 21,714	My fave episode of KUA is when Richard and Hyacinth go to the golf resort where "Dicky" is supposed to play a round with the Colonel. Of course, Rose just so happens to be staying at the lodge, entertaining a gentlemen friend of hers and rather noisely at that! The Colonel takes Hyacinth on a ride in the country in his roadster where he can't keep his hands off her. Hyacinth finally manages to escape from his embrace and hops over a fence into a pasture, as a flock of sheep start fleeing from her in fear!!! Classic...

06-09-2002, 11:48 AM	#21
Tweety Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Jan 18, 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 6,804	I think that KUA is as good as ANY show that's ever been on TV. The characters are amazing. And so many great running gags...my two favorite running gags are: (1) Hyacynth having Elizabeth over for coffee...Poor Elizabeth is always either spilling the coffee, dropping her cup, or dropping her "biscuit" into her cup, and then trying to pick it out with her fingers...IMHO, the scenes in which these two get together for coffe is as good as anything Lucy and Ethel ever did, and I love I.L.Lucy. My other favorite running gag takes place whenever Hyacynth and Richard visit Onslow and Daisy's place...I LOL whenever Hyacynth walks up to the house and that dog sticks its head out of the car window and starts barking at Hyacynth, forcing her to fall back into the hedge... And, of course, there's always Hyacynth lecturing Richard when he drives ("mind the pedestrian, Richard"...Richard: "Minding the Pedestrian".) And the poor "postman"...the dread he feels every time he approchase the Bucket's house...like going to his own execution. The episodes with Mary Millar playing Rose are better then the episodes with that other actress playing Rose... Never miss this show on Sat. night!!

08-08-2002, 11:42 AM	#23
jmy9595 Member Forum Hawk Join Date: Aug 08, 2002 Location: Watertown, NY Posts: 4	Ugh, I absolutely cannot stand this show. It's such a one-joke show (gee, this old bat is trying to pretend she's someone she's not and she's mortified by everyone around her) and frankly not even a funny joke at that. Why so many station shifted away from Are You Being Served? to put this rubbish on is beyond my comprehension. At least AYBS? had multiple characters and areas of plotlines. Also, no, it's not only PBS that ever airs Britcoms. I remember WPIX (Ch. 11 in NYC) airing 'Allo 'Allo! for a while back in the 80's, but it was with commercials, of course, and 'Allo 'Allo!'s not meant to have commercials, so they were awkward. I imagine that also required editing, which is a problem in a series with 'Allo 'Allo!'s plot twists and turns.

08-12-2002, 01:23 PM	#25
jmy9595 Member Forum Hawk Join Date: Aug 08, 2002 Location: Watertown, NY Posts: 4	> I don't know why (call it intuition) but when I saw your user name, I knew you'd be dissing this show. Since you're new here, maybe you haven't noticed that these are "fan" boards, and people were talking about how they like KUA They are fan boards and, yes, I am a fan of several Britcoms. I don't see what prohibits me from posting a dissenting view re: one particular Britcom.

10-31-2002, 07:58 PM	#26
80sTrivia Member Forum Celebrity Join Date: May 23, 2002 Posts: 21,714	Unfortunately, now I have a conflict in watching my beloved KUA. I've become addicted to Trading Spaces and it comes on at the same time as KUA on Saturday nights!

12-04-2002, 08:49 PM	#27
Sitcoms of the 90s Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 6	Oh I do love Keeping Up Appearances! It's deffinately one of the best. I also really love AYBS? KUA had such great characters, actors, and stories, that it all just came together perfectly. My backgrounds Portugues, and I have a satalite that picks up a channel that only shows Portugues shows, did you know there was a Portugues Remake of KUA. Yeah, the was good, but not as the original. A lot of the episode plots were the same, but there were also new concepts to the show, and worked. A lot of the same running gags(Hyacinth answering the phone, Sheridan, Elizabeth breaking the cups, ect.) The only thing I really didn't like was that it didn't have a laugh soundtrack, it was too wacky, and the actors. Not that the actors weren't good, but they just didn't look the part. Richard was like 20 years younger, Rose seemed a little too old, and Daisy was really thin and younger(not good looking though.) My mother loved watching that show, too bad it doesn't give anymore. Speaking of which, I almost never get to see KUA in English because the station I watch it on gives it at 12:35am on weekdays, and once on sunday evenings. Does anyone know how the actress who played Rose die? And about what Patricia Rouglett said in an interview, I'd never get tired of watching this show.

01-30-2006, 01:52 PM	#28
Jason16 Roseanne Fan. Frequent Poster Join Date: May 08, 2003 Location: London, England Posts: 118	I like this show. We're currently watching reruns of series 5 on a sunday afternoon in the UK and yesterday they showed the episode where Hyacinth bought skies for Richard on his birthday and Violet dumped Bruce!.

02-02-2006, 07:46 PM	#29
80sTrivia Member Forum Celebrity Join Date: May 23, 2002 Posts: 21,714	Violet and Bruce are another one of my favorite running gags on the show... they are always fighting and Bruce is always trying on women's clothing!!! I always wondered why they didn't show Violet as often as they did Rose and Daisy? I also enjoyed it whenever Hyacinth was forced to go over to Daisy and Onslow's house, which was always so filthy!!!

04-15-2006, 12:57 PM	#30
Jason16 Roseanne Fan. Frequent Poster Join Date: May 08, 2003 Location: London, England Posts: 118	I also like how Hyacinth brags about each relative whenever they phone up like "Its my sister Violet, you know the one with a mercedes, swimming pool, sauna and room for a pony"