Red headed fury: Rita's furious at Sylvia and Dennis' recreational eating.
Cold Shoulder award: I don't blame Fiz for blanking Julie.
Humble Pie award: Kirsty is getting help.
Doctor Sylvia award: Sylvia the pusher's in town.
Fashion shout: I loved Mandy's ring.Barking up the wrong tree award: Sunita did not try to kill Stella. Even if she had lit the fire, like Karl, she thought Stella was still in the Bistro.
Misplaced heroism: Karl did NOT save Stella's life, Paul did. He's the one went up the ladder and got her back down it safely.
It's not you it's me award: Stella insists Karl has nothing to do with her breaking up with Jason. Heck as like it is.
Me Me Me award: Stella is moaning about Sunita dying hating her.
Lines of the week:
Sylvia to Dennis "I've not let a man inside my purse since we went decimal."
Rita about the brownies "Let's hope one of them will shut Norris up" (um...)
Karl "It's always you. You ruin everything"
Tyrone "I'm glad I came so I could see you for what you really are"
Sophie to Karl "I reckon you've done enough, Karl" (more than you know)
Tina "I'm simply a womb with a view"
Sylvia "I have never been so insulted in my entire life" Rita "Well, that's a shame because I'm just getting warmed up"
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The Frosty Awards:
ReplyDeleteLet’s have a cuppa award: This seems to be St Ella’s new saying now she can no longer take people in the back.
Stuff your face award: is there any scene where scragend Gloria is not either eating or drinking somatt?
Confused opening hours award: Gloria returned from Frescos on Easter Monday saying they were closed yet Tina managed to stock up from there for Ty’s welcome home party.
In broad daylight award: Tina’s flat is bang opposite Roy’s Rolls where there is always a busybody enjoying a full English or a bacon barm – strange that nobody saw or heard anyone breaking into Tina’s flat by smashing down the front door.
Ham award: The brownie story was cringeworthy with Rita acting more holier than thou than normal from her high horse and hamming it up with Dennis like nobody’s business. Pulling exaggerated faces and pretending to fall over is not comedic, even a great actress like Stephanie Cole couldn’t pull this utter nonsense off. Just silly.
Getting creepy again award: Gary, there is something very vulpine about him and its obvious he is going to develop a crush on Tina. Her father’s wedding ring being stolen I presume was supposed to be poignant, it would have been less so if Gary hadn’t stolen his tools and started him on the path to destruction in the first place. Soap amnesia again
Spells award: Poor old Jason, he needs to take a step back and stop banging on Stella’s door and his hardly a relationship expert mother needs to give him some proper advice: Quite what the expressionless personality-less 50 something landlady has to make men weak at the knees and want to argue over her is beyond Frosty. Perhaps she is a witch.
White Knight..Dr Carter..once again comes to the rescue of the dullards on Coronation Street.. counselling the quartet of drug addicted seniors (or so the writers would have us believe after a couple of hash brownies) on the dangers of 'weed'. I thought I'd taken a trip in a time machine back to the 50's..'Reefer Madness' comes to mind.
ReplyDeleteSt. Carter..will drop whatever he's doing and rush out of his office, or in this case, let people rush in at a moments notice and lets them take up his time with such silly nonsense. Where did Sylvia get the money for the special ingredient? It's not cheap. Stan must be loaded if he can keep his cronies supplied with 'mind altering' brownies. Sylvia better grab on to him!
Also, Rita recognized the hash with one whiff..and it was cooked into a brownie! She should get a job with the drug squad..sniffing out smuggled pot! And of course with all his other duties, (delivering babies in a pub..giving a pelvic exam on a table in the rovers (that in itself was miraculous)..dropping in on Paul to tell him he needs counselling..on and on, our wonderful and only local MD has a pain clinic every Friday evening. But of course he has. Cover your swimming pools or you'll see the saintly Dr. taking his nightly stroll on them.
Shutting up now.
Hasty Sober Award: Sylvia walk in high as a kite into the Kabin after being summoned along with Roy by Rita. The next minute she is logical, coherent and sober.
ReplyDeleteFor one hopeful moment, I thought Dr Carter was going to hint that taking marijuana for pain relief wasn't such a bad idea for the over-70's. The oldies were portrayed as dim-witted, naïve creatures. Sylvia says: 'I feel so foolish.' Like she and her contemporaries would never have heard of the potential side-effects of the drug. It would have been more in character if she had told the others once they had left the surgery that she was an adult and she would do as she pleased.
ReplyDeleteSince when would Dennis Tanner not know the effects of 'weed'? Him lying on the floor after a candy binge..wrappers all around him. Who writes this crap? Heaven forbit somebody might find a bit of pain relief from something other than pills.
ReplyDeleteAgree with anonymous that Dr Carter should be up for a Sainthood award. I hate this portrayal of a GP which is as inaccurate in its way as Brian being a Headmaster. It's virtually impossible to get a home visit if you are at death's door, never mind GPs offereing to pop around for a chat because you might be a bit upset by a collegaue's death.
ReplyDeleteNever come across a more miserable bunch of moaners in my life!
ReplyDeleteHad several very large belly laughs at Corrie this week, none of them ironically at Dev's acting. For a change.
Particularly liked the sweet wrappers across the floor round Dennis. And Rita- always a laugh.
I will have a moan though (always tempered by recognising what I love about Corrie FIRST) The Stella and Gloria show is repellent. Horrible characters. Can't wait til they're gone.
Reasons to be cheerful - we had thelast Collinson episode on Friday :)
ReplyDeleteSo now the lynch mob have got their knives out for the Dr! Couldn't agree more Mrs Barton.
ReplyDeleteI don't suppose they can be seen condoning the use of an illegal substance in spite of it's pain relieving qualities. I thought the spacecake story was good fun and i reckoned that Sylvia didn't know the appropriate proportions to bake into them and put so much in that Rita was able to smell it easily.
ReplyDeleteD. Carter is clearly not meant to be a real character but rather someone who helps everyone else's storylines along; most of the time I'm surprised when he pops up and is still on the Street. Perhaps in that context, there's little reason to take him very seriously?
ReplyDeleteThere was a question on this blog last week about whether or not Corrie should be political. I guess it depends on what people consider "political" means. Having unrealistic portrayals of a doctor and a teacher seems pretty politically biased to me, in this age of government austerity cutbacks. As for the ridiculous heavy-handed condemnation of marijuana by the usually perspicacious, circumspect Rita and Dr.Carter, sure seemed like following someone's party line!
ReplyDeleteWow, from bad storyline to government conspiracy theory? That seems a stretch.
ReplyDeleteAnd the second award for Sainthood goes to Mrs Barton who tells us one thing she LIKES about Coronation Street before putting the boot in.
ReplyDeleteMary Prankster, spot on.
ReplyDelete- ELK in Canada
They can't be seen condoning illegal substances on the street yet Tracy a cold blooded murderer walks around free as a bird..... Or is bashing somebody over the head and killing somebody ok and eating magic brownies to help with a bit of arthritis not?
ReplyDeleteWhich makes you think too that Karl doesn't have to be caught and punished in the Corrie world either then.... They can just ignore it.
Until Tracy is properly punished then nothing makes sense.
Do the words 'lighten up' mean anything to anyone? Don't you think the brownies story line was simply for a bit of comic relief? Not much of that left since Jack/Vera left. The writers have to try to appeal to a pretty broad (age)range of viewers...not an easy job! If I have to put up with the story lines about the problems of todays youth. You should have to put up with the foolishness of we oldsters.
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