Wednesday’s double Coronation Street brought us yet more
offerings from the dressing-up box that time forgot. Poor Chesney, given the
reins as manager of Dev’s new chippy “For Your Fries Only” was forced to wear
a haddock costume to help promote the business. Which he ended up getting stuck
in. Dev was very excited. It was kind of funny but made me wonder how many
fancy dress scenes in Corrie is too many?
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| Oh my cod |
Not long ago Chesney and Sinead were planning to get
married. Beth had arranged a get-together in the Bistro to celebrate and watch
a DVD of Sinead’s childhood. It all went wrong. And again they were in fancy
dress. Beth as some kind of 1920’s madam and Ches as a toy soldier. Hilarious.
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| Armed and ridiculous |
Charming but simple-minded Kirk discovered his political
ambitions back in September. Or rather he was coerced into standing for Mayor,
going up against ultra-ambitious Sally Webster. But he didn’t campaign the
conventional way. He ran as ‘Buzzer the Bee’ – Weatherfield County’s football
mascot. My sides are splitting here.
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| Kirk wants to “Bee” Mayor |
Henry Newton, heir to the famous brewery, was recently
exposed in his cruel prank on Gemma, revealing he was only ‘dating’ her for a
bet. Gemma was heartbroken. She’d not long ago organized a FANCY DRESS party
for his birthday. He went as a sailor and she went as frog spawn (I think).
Anyway how novel.
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| You be my seaman I'll be your spawn |
Roy Cropper showed his grumpy side over Christmas, channeling
a mash-up of Ebenezer Scrooge and Santa Claus. He claimed to be impersonating
Pelznickel, a sort of German Father Christmas that comes out of the woods in a
bad mood and scares children. He offered fruit and veg as Christmas presents to
Weatherfields kids. They obviously loved it.
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| The bag is non-negotiable |
In a separate Christmas episode, more dressing up took place.
Eva and Adam got steamy at the community centre between scenes of Billy’s
Christmas play. No wonder he turned to drugs.
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| Once upon a time... |
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| Merry Kiss-mas |
I don’t really understand why Corrie keeps turning to fancy
dress. It rarely adds much to a storyline. I know the show has a long tradition of getting out the silly costumes (see below). But perhaps they should lock up the costume box for a bit and focus on some nice juicy summer storylines for us.
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| If you're going to do it, do it proper'! |
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8 comments:
I disagree, I love the costumes!
Kirk and Beth's 80's themed wedding was the bomb!
I also loved the toy soldiers bit for Chesney's stag do (that never was) I thought that was very clever.
PS - when will we find out the results of the last 'spot the prop' quiz?
Dying to know if I got the vase's location right...
It all boils down to Kate Oates' desperate campaign to perpetuate the myth that Corrie is still a wonderful blend of drama and comedy. Unfortunately the current writers are inept at comedy and bereft of ideas. So let's put everyone in costumes! The audience will be in stitches. Especially with a few shots of Cathy and Brian gurning, or the zip breaking on Chesney's fish costume. Guaranteed laugh-a-minute stuff...not!
Sorry but Chesney in that silly fish costume coupled with Jimmi Harkishin's horrendous acting did not make for a fun time. Why in the world don't they get rid of those stale, useless characters and give the writers something to work with?
It can work. But it's like the producer is saying 'throw in a funny costume to keep the moaners happy'. As my old granny used to say 'It's not funny if it's too daft to laugh at'.
Kate Oakes is on record as saying she does not find slapstick funny, yet apparently daft costumes is ?
Norris got dressed uр a couрle of times recently - most notably as Obi Wan Shoрkeeрer to Mary's Рrincess Leia :)
Just sooooo lame....
Agree... get rid of old stale, characters.... that describes the entire cast at the moment... this show could really use a serious reboot.
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