Peter Barlow fell off the wagon this week and ended up in bed with Steve McDonald. Yes, Peter got stonking drunk after Carla told him she was pregnant and Tina told him she thought she was with child too. That would be enough to drive anyone to drink and it knocked Peter over the edge and into the nearest pub. Steve goes to collect him to bring him home but realising he can’t take Peter home in such a drunken state, he stays overnight with him in a bed and breakfast.
Tina pops round with a pregnancy test and to Peter’s relief she’s not pregnant. But Tina’s distraught. “I wanted our baby,” she cries. Peter dumps her – slowly and carefully, but definitely, and she leaves the flat, telling Steph later at home: “If he thinks he can live happily ever after he’s got another thing coming!”. I’m just glad little Simon’s rabbit is already dead because there was a definite bunny-boiler glint in Tina’s eye as she said that.
Elsewhere this week, Anna calls Valerie Phelan to the house for a chat. She tries to play to Valerie’s soft side, asking her to call off Pat’s campaign against Owen and Gary. However, what Anna hasn’t realised is that Valerie Phelan doesn’t have a soft side and she couldn’t care less.
Over at Sally’s, she’s not best pleased to find out that Sophie and Maddie are together. You know, together. When Kevin tells Sally that there’s something Sophie needs to tell her, Sally asks: “Are they doing drugs?”. “It’s not drugs they’re doing, it’s each other,” Kev replies. Ooh, you should have seen Sally’s face.
The gym at Victoria Court opens for business this week and first through the door at V Court Fitness is Norris, followed by Kirk. Norris is only there for the free coffee and Kirk wonders how long the place has been open. They’re not exactly the type of customers that Dev and Kal were hoping for, but everyone has to start somewhere.
And over at Barlow’s Buys, Peter tells Rob and Tracy that their six month free-rent period is now up and he wants his rent paying, in full. It’s rent that Rob and Tracy can’t afford and so when Jason’s dad tells them he can get them some knock-off goods cheap to sell in their shop, Tracy’s interested to find out more.
Oh and something else happened this week… I can’t recall what it was. Hang on... what was it again? Oh yeah. Blonde woman, shrill, cockney accent. Yeah, her. She left.
And that’s just about that for this week.
This week's writers were Joe Turner, Damon Rochefort, Susan Oudot, Mark Wadlow, Simon Crowther. Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
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11 comments:
Congratulations to Simon G and ChrisG who were an absolute scream . Never have I genuinely laughed as much since the days of Jack n Vera . I see Simon Crowther wrote the scenes - give that guy a rise and sharpen his pencils . I watched the scenes 3 times ! Well done to all / hilarious :))
Brilliant scenes, Peter and Steve sharing a bed in a grotty room. Mmm!, does that mean Steve might be pregnant too?!!! Corrie is definitely improving, hope it lasts.
What a class act, SG and CG in bed together. Really funny script, and brilliantly delivered. Equally good were their scenes together back in W'field. Just shows what both actors can do given the right scripts. And I have to say that, though I really don't like Michelle's nagging, on this occasion it kept up the pace: 'Did you say 'thank you' to Peter?' and dragging Steve by the ear.
These are the gems we love; the small unheralded scenes that haven't been spoilt by hyping up.
postscript: Nobody plays a drunk better than Chris Gascoyne. Hope he gets lots of work when he leaves.
So, the world's smallest gym has finally opened. I somehow doubt it will be open for long, otherwise surely they would have invested in in a few more machines?
Hopefully Kal and his father will go with it.
Up popped Kal again and again like the Jack in the Box of the Street. Now tiresome Nick is getting suspicious of Kal and his ex prostitute, fire starter, junkie wife, who cares?
I thought Michelles shreaking behaviour was frankly a disgrace yesterday and marching him along the road by his ear like he is 1 years old? Why does he put up with this shrew he is not even married to her!
I think Kal's acting is atrocious. Yes, we KNOW he is a personal trainer, but even personal trainers can walk normally occasionally, without always look they are "training" the whole damn time.
Peter and Steve - hilarious.
Michelle - a fish wife. So smart? Then how come she could not call to have the fusebox looked at.
Kal as the new jack-in-the-box....agree completely.
What, the two most prolific "whoops I did it again" Sperminators were actually in bed together... at the same time? I wonder if the awesomeness magnetism of their DNA finally imploded, leaving only a soft, glowing light under the covers and they'll both be shooting blanks from here on in?
In Canada, cannot wait to see these scenes, thanks for the heads up, something to look forwards to at long last.
Uh-Oh,Now that Steve knows about Tina due to Peter's drunken confession,I shudder at the thought of more scenes of Michelle screeching at poor Steve once she realises she knew about Peter and Tina's affair but didn't tell her with his mother standing by or worse hyporcriticaly joining in even though Liz also knew but kept quiet to protect Tina while allowing her to serve her boyfriend's wife!
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