Corrie Comicals week ending Friday 31 January 2020

You know where you are with Evelyn.  Ty has been trying convince Fiz to ask social services for Jade to have supervised visits with Hope.  When he tells Evelyn this she makes it quite clear what her views are of Jade's mental state (above).

Jenny is trying to ruin her business as she refuses (at least initially) to sell Tim some pork scratchings as she is worried about his heart (and the beer is good for it?) as she does not want Sally on her case.  Super large lugholes Charlie overhears this and demands to know who Sally is.  Apparently she is Tim's sister - as everyone knows.  My wife has a great theory about Charlie; she believes Charlie divorced Tim years and years ago and cannot go to the solicitor because she is already divorced.

It is endangered species today at Bessie Street and these two are well into the spirit of the event - Ruby spends both episodes refusing to talk and merely going "Rrrrooooaaaaarrrr" at everyone when she is asked a question.  Slim pickings at a polar bear picnic too I think!

So ginger Ches is upset that he is not ginger and Gemma reckons she could not look smart, aspirational and upmarket ever - but we know the image Freschco want and there it is writ large.  Who really wants a puffy face or bags under eyes in adverts?  Certainly not Freschco!

Sally has been away visiting Gina and although she was pleased to see her sister, she admits she was even more pleased to see Gina getting smaller and smaller in the rear view mirror as the taxi pulled away!

Later this evening Sally and Charlie met in the Rovers and Sally denied she shares a gene pool with "muppet" Tim and states she is not his sister but is in fact Tim's wife.  Charlie says that is not possible because she is Tim's wife.  And above we can see the reaction on the faces of various Street residents who are in the Rovers to hear this exchange!  It will be a shame if we lose Charlie (Sian Reeves) permanently from the Street - but I cannot see Sally being very forgiving.

I am away for a few weeks but will resume these posts when I return from holiday and have caught up with events!


Written by: Cameron McAllister & Chris Fewtrell (Monday); Sam Holdsworth & Susan Oudot (Wednesday); John Kerr & Emily Gascoyne (Friday)
Directed by: Sean Healy (Monday); Pip Short (Wednesday & Friday)

Kosmo
@Kosmo100

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Corrie Comicals week ending 15 March 2019

Sometimes these throwaway lines go by almost un-noticed but I thought we could celebrate Eileen's reluctance to go out on the town unless it is with a large number of hunky soldiers.  And only a little later she is "not" on a date with hunky builder!

Ms Plummer has returned from her alter ego's Christmas stint on South Bank or jail in France as the storyline has it.  Ruby shows Evelyn a picture she has drawn - but it includes Mary not Evelyn and is promptly discarded as unimportant (above).  Neither Tyrone nor Evelyn wants to be where they are - allegedly - but both engineer her staying with a debt to pay by working in the garage - which has to be better than cleaner and dogsbody at "Trim Up North" where Nick employs Gail without telling David; so there will be more of Gail in the near future.

Jenny, lacking enough bread to do the job properly, has made an open sandwich which she claims is called a smurdy burdy - which is a new name to me.

Now I cannot tell the difference between a stoat and weasel, but everyone seems convinced this is in fact a weasel, Vin Diesel, which seems to be taking extreme pleasure in Nick's discomfort arising from the blackmail pressure which Natalie the money stealing assistant and waitress from Nottingham who was introduced to Leanne as Nick's solicitor; Leanne is going to recognise the new assistant in the barbers when Nick succumbs to the pressure and employs her!

Main event on Wednesday evening was the hen do.  I think they have finally got around to the prosecco puffs.  Although I am sure Moira has consumed more than Maria and Toyah she fails to win as Craig has lost count.  The look on her face implies many more!

Daniel has just given Bethany an update on his life - radiotherapy with Sinead, spending time with Bertie and trying to do an MA.  As Bethany observes above - who said blokes cannot multi-task.  Daniel by the look of it!

Hearing you may be about to lose your job is not particularly comical and in my view we have not had enough ensemble discussions in the factory since it re-opened.  Izzy observes that she remembers Carla screwing Nick over before to which Sean cuttingly adds as above.  Despite several factory scenes tonight there was no sign of Dirk.  So I have to hope Dirk is on holiday and will not die next week.

Just a brief apology for not turning up last week.  During the week I reached a significant birthday and we were away for a couple of days which meant I fell behind and never caught up!  Sorry.  One line from last week is still cheering me up.  Brian was in the barber's chair and asked about a "Trim Down South" in case it was part of a chain - but viewers saw David taking an involuntary glance at Brian's crotch area!

Writers: Mark Wadlow & Susan Oudot (Monday); Jonathan Harvey & Jan McVerry (Wednesday); John Kerr & David Isaac (Friday)
Directors: Suri Krishnamma (Monday); David Kester (Wednesday & Friday)

Kosmo
@Kosmo100

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