Coronation Street - Current Episode Discussion - IV

[flappinfanny]

I was expecting the Mary and Tracey Luv scenes to be highly amusing, but so far not really a titter. Perhaps I was expecting too much? I think Coronation Street has lost the ability to be funny.

[Dazzle]

I was expecting the Mary and Tracey Luv scenes to be highly amusing, but so far not really a titter. Perhaps I was expecting too much? I think Coronation Street has lost the ability to be funny.

You're right! I hadn't noticed before but Corrie has become far more serious since Kate Oates took over.

[Splashy]

Yeah the street is missing Lister, whos now doing his Red Dwarf stint on Dave ( Criag Charles)

Im still hoping Tod was just playing the ex bloke from BBCs Doctors (Howard Balamy pre that Emerdale) and Phelan, but then Todd has always been a git!?

Kathy? Alex wants his own brand new expressive flat so she thinks whats his face should pay for it, its a delusional story line, but then she is the hoarder who owns a house who no longer hoards or has a house or the money she would get from selling her house.?

Even if Alex is the seed of her husband, it still makes the kid her nephew, no change there and she knows of the afair anyway.

[Dazzle]

I've been thinking about Cathy's big house too.

Corrie being deliberately vague about financial and legal matters is something we've discussed on this forum several times in the past. (For example: Carla was going to buy half of the Rovers and even celebrated the deal in the pub, only for it to dawn on us months later that the sale couldn't have gone through.)

If I remember correctly, when Roy first got to know Cathy she was in debt and hiding from bailiffs because she hadn't paid any bills since her husband had died. However, I find it unlikely that - even if she's sold that big house to pay off her debts - there wouldn't be a substantial sum left over (presumably she would have owned it outright after his death). Why on earth didn't the writers include a line or two to explain what happened to the house? It's a pretty big part of her life to ignore!

As far as the hoarding goes, well it's just to be expected that a completely disabling psychological problem that few completely recover from in reality is cured by the well-meaning interference of some nosy neighbours. Luckily Cathy didn't even need the magical counselling that soon cures most soap mental health problems!

[RogerOver]

I was expecting the Mary and Tracey Luv scenes to be highly amusing, but so far not really a titter. Perhaps I was expecting too much? I think Coronation Street has lost the ability to be funny.

I would have normally posted this sort of stuff in the Classic Quotes forum, but all these were from the last episode.
Maybe my sense of humour is just too obscure, but this is why I love British humour, as there's just so much hidden away in there:

Cathy: I don’t want Norris complaining he’s found a hairy sultana under his table again.

Mary: People would flock from all corners of the cul de sac to admire my hanging gardens of Babylon.

Audrey: Not everyone’s got the cheekbones for Victoria Beckham, have they? (Funny for me, because or a split second I thought Audrey was going to say Victoria Sandwich.)

Tracy: The last time I looked we didn’t have any Latin customers, so just stick to the English. Comprende?

Alex burns his arm. Freddie: Put his head between his legs.

The dog that swallowed a ping-pong ball. Audrey: The dog was insured for illness, not accidents. Freddie: Huh, an act of dog.

Rita outside the shop talking to the Weatherfield Gazette dummy.

I think there's loadsa humour on-going, maybe not too obvious though?

[Snagglepus]

It looks like Sharif will have to run off with his floosy now he has been sacked.

[RogerOver]

It looks like Sharif will have to run off with his floosy now he has been sacked.

Quite, he'll be a non-existant character living in a non-existant flat.

[RogerOver]

It looks like Sharif will have to run off with his floosy now he has been sacked.

Quite, he'll be a non-existant character living in a non-existant flat.

[Dazzle]

You're quite right, Roger, there was more humour in Friday's episodes than I remembered. I particularly liked Mary's hanging gardens of Babylon quip!

[Perdita]

I would have normally posted this sort of stuff in the Classic Quotes forum, but all these were from the last episode.
Maybe my sense of humour is just too obscure, but this is why I love British humour, as there's just so much hidden away in there:

Cathy: I don’t want Norris complaining he’s found a hairy sultana under his table again.

Mary: People would flock from all corners of the cul de sac to admire my hanging gardens of Babylon.

Audrey: Not everyone’s got the cheekbones for Victoria Beckham, have they? (Funny for me, because or a split second I thought Audrey was going to say Victoria Sandwich.)

Tracy: The last time I looked we didn’t have any Latin customers, so just stick to the English. Comprende?

Alex burns his arm. Freddie: Put his head between his legs.

The dog that swallowed a ping-pong ball. Audrey: The dog was insured for illness, not accidents. Freddie: Huh, an act of dog.

Rita outside the shop talking to the Weatherfield Gazette dummy.

I think there's loadsa humour on-going, maybe not too obvious though?

I smiled at all of those