They always say that award: "Neither of us meant to hurt her, We tried to fight it, I hate myself for it" (hollow words. They mean nothing. If they did, you wouldn't have done it in the first place.)
Perception award: Gold Star and the Oscar goes to... Frank Foster. Boy could he put a spin on what happened that night!
Fraud award: Gold Star: Sylvia was pretending to Milton to be far more upscale than she and her family are. Truth comes out so now there's lofty ambitions to take the place.
Performance Fail: Apparently, though Brian has only been the head of the school for a couple of months, he's on the edge of losing his job. You'd think they'd give him more of a chance than that.
Gossip Central award: Sally wasted no time spreading the verdict, did she?
Obligatory Trial outbursts: Leanne and Peter. You can tell the jury to disregard it but they've heard it. The door can't be shut on it. And there's always one to protest the verdict.
Mr. Cellophane award: Transparent Star: Steve is so obvious, I can't understand why Tracy can't see right through him and detect he was up to something.
Techy award: Milton had the whole "Beef Encounters" presentation on his laptop in days!
Lines of the Week:
Leanne "I know you've done absolutely nothing wrong" (Phrase of Doom)
Roy "Americans are very tactile...unfortunately"
Owen about Frank "Never mind being locked up, he should be put down"
Sally "Didn't you know? They're having an affair. Have been for ages. ... Cheers!" (*smack smack smack*)
Leanne to Peter "One thing was true. You were going to see a dog!"
and "There's no such word as 'couldn't' only 'won't'"
Deirdre "A woman scorned is a very different kettle of fish from a man scorned" Ken "Tell me about it"
Stella to Peter "I hope you're proud of yourself!"
Milton to Roy "Goodbye Roys Rolls, Hello Beef Encounters"
Roy about Milton "The Brashness! The contempt for the English language!"
Foreman of the Jury "Not Guilty"
Deirdre "They're like busses to Peter, always another one along in a minute!" (Ha!!)
Frosty's Awards:-
ReplyDeleteTwo little poodles award: Now we know the pointless Michelle has nothing else to do bar hang around Carla – oh and because she stumped up the deposit or her to return to the kebab flat that she found so repulsive before, but Maria really is an A Class Dimwit, has the brains of her brother Kirk without the wit and charm - can’t she realise that Carla is a serial cheat? Don’t either of them have one iota of sympathy for Leanne?, Why are these two lap dogs fawning around this woman? Beats Frosty who remembers Michelle sleeping with the randy garden gnome herself at one time.
Disappointment Award: Sorry but Frosty is disappointed in Milton who mumbles his way through a script looking like he shouldn’t really be there, still a rather debonair sort, he looks out of place with white haired sensible shoe wearing, everyone’s great gran looky likey Sylvia. The railway themed restaurant was a great idea though, but Roys like the rest of the places of work on the Street are stuck firmly in the 1980s.
Garbage story of the week award: The silly house divide with Steve and Tracy both who are acting more hammy than a pack of Danpack bacon. Builder Owen was of course available at a moment’s notice to undertake something that is illegal and surely Steve wouldn’t leave his daughter without access to downstairs. I thought the writing was improving until this sorry tale. It’s just an excuse for the two actors to engage in a gurning competition.
Corrie can produce great stuff award: The Leanne and Peter story, whatever you think about these two characters – the actors that play them are second to none and hold your attention the whole time they are on screen.
Piece of Human Detritus Award: How could Peter constantly put himself and his needs before his son’s, especially with all the little lad has had to go through in his short life. Peter is now a middle aged man and should have some sense of duty and responsibility, not a bit of it. Cindystella was right, this very unsavoury pair really deserves each other. Cheers to their ultimate downfall.
Bonding Award: Leanne calling Stella “Mum”. Now I know Stella has a lot of critics, myself included, but I quite like these two together with Stella fighting Leanne’s corner.
"Lapdogs"!!! :-D YES, that's the word I've been looking for to describe those two fools. I really don't get the incredibly short memories some of the characters have.
ReplyDelete~JB in Canada
Poor wee Simon crying for his mum as she drove away. Peter is a dog and Carla is a beyotch so they surely deserve each other. Peter's gonna get his tho as Carla cannot keep her pants on when it comes to other women's blokes...if she takes a fancy to one it's not long before they're doing the horizontal mumbo.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff this week. Agree about Maria..she is one dumbass!!!
Agree the story of the house divided was really quite unrealistic and dumb - wouldn't Owen know the rules and regulations, though I did see him take cash from Steve so I imagine it's off the books and he put up the wall in only a few hours - amazing builder that Owen! Why doesn't Steve get a place of his own - he seems to have money whenever he needs it. Where is the bitterness he feels towards Tracy for making him lose Becky - all this divided house stuff and subsequent banter was so insipid and fluffy I half expect them to get back together.
ReplyDeleteI am beginning to wonder if one of the writers' conditions of employment is that they are not allowed to mix with the real word. If a school has "appalling SATS results", why would the Governors applaud the Headmaster examining the contents of the pupils' lunchboxes as response? Don't they have school meals at Bessie Street? And on which planet does the Head of English in a Secondary School suddenly become a "Super Head" in a Primary? What next? Kevin becomes Ford's Head of Marketing?
ReplyDeleteEven this story can't beat the garbage of the house divide. Tracy actually had a good line when she asked if Amy was going to get to Steve's part of the house via a catflap. This story clearly has been given no thought. Steve has been made to look like a total fool, flip flopping between Tracy and Becky and now banishing his daughter to a "flat" with no cooking facilities. Oh and Steve does not need a bathroom? Rubbish!
I think the writing is improving. There are now some cracking lines in most episodes. The stories are not.
Why on earth doesn;t Steve just move into the cab office flat - if it hasn't been sorted out after the fire, you'd expect he'd be moving heaven & earth to get it habitable again. Or stick Tracy in there. She was demanding it a few months ago.
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't envy Steve having to use that outside loo in this weather!
I guess it's supposed to be a few laughs here and there with the witty quips back and forth between Tracy and Steve...I got news for ya..it ain't funny..not one tiddley bit.
ReplyDeleteOwen throws up an entire wall, and wallpapers it to boot in a couple of hours? Steve just happens to have a wad of cash in his pocket for Owen..Steve who is so desperately broke he sold the Rovers to Stella and the prop she's married to? Idiotic.
Wake me when this Tracy/Steve go round (for the millionth time)is over.