Keeping Up Appearances: The Full Bouquet Review
Lundi, mai 10th, 2010
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This official name of this re-release is “Keeping up Appearances: The Rotund Bouquet Special Edition”. Based on images of the area it appears to be in either slim-pack cases or a digi-pack accomplish. This position contains the same 8 disks as the modern “Corpulent Bouquet” region along with the special “Keeping up Appearances: Life Lessons from Onslow” added as the 9th disk. The Onslow special is available separately so you don’t need to double-dip for this title if you already possess the first station.
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Here are the Special Features (which are the same as on the recent release) :
Outtakes
“Four Women” profile of Patricia Routledge
The Kitty Monologues
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Second Chance Shorts: Queer UK commercial featuring Hyacinth and Elizabeth
Pebble Mill interview with Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift
The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket
“Extra Footage” interviews from the cast
Comedy Connection
Children in Need
Cast Biographies
This is a fantastic series from the BBC about everyone’s approved social climber, Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced “bouquet”) . Her house is spick-and-span. Richard, her long-suffering and hen-pecked husband, keeps the car in immaculate condition (under Hyacinth’s every-watchful peer) . The empty milk bottles sparkle on the doorstep after their obligatory rinse in the dishwasher. To Hyacinth’s alarm and shame, most of her family is plain current, living together in a rundown house that looks like a junkyard. Sister Daisy and her husband, Onslow, are out-and-out slobs while another other sister, Rose, is an aging tart, and Daddy is not quite “all there”. At least she is proud of her 3rd sister, Violet, the one “with the Mercedes, a sauna, and room for a pony” although Violet’s husband is a cross-dresser and somewhat of an embarrassment to Hyacinth. However, she loves them all, and never fails to run to their assistance when they need her abet. Often it is Daddy that has got into an embarrassing area which Hyacinth (or Richard) has to always solve.
Highly recommended!
Why is it that the best British sitcoms have incredibly annoying lead characters?
First there was John Cleese as a wrathful hotelier, and Rowan Atkinson as the entire offensively sarcastic Blackadder dynasty. Now, there is Patricia Routledge as a social-climber with affected manners and a piercing screech. And with the support of talented supporting actors and some gloriously madcap scripts, this sitcom becomes almost pure droll bliss.
Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced “Bouquet,” ss) is the local social climber, and a panic to all who know her — she views herself as the doyenne of pleasurable taste, artistry, morals, decorum, and class, and her perpetually-in-debt son Sheridan as being the next Einstein.
She kisses up to the wealthy and aristocratic, and anyone who is closely associated with them, unaware of how noteworthy her self-promotion scares them and occasionally offends. Her weary husband Richard (Clive Swift) and nervy neighbor Elizabeth (Josephine Tewson) awe whatever she has next, especially when Elizabeth’s sharp-tongued brother Emmett moves in.
She adores her sister Violet, who married a wealthy, unfaithful transvestite and has “a swimming pool, Mercedes, and room for a pony.” But she’ll do anything to conceal her impoverished family members: her wacked-out father, sloppy romantic Daisy (Judy Cornwell) and skanky Rose (Mary Millar), who has a unique boyfriend for every episode. Not to mention Daisy’s couch potato hubby Onslow (Geoffrey Hughes) .
The series opens with Hyacinth trying to screen the fact that “dear Daddy” was afflict while bicycling naked after the milk lady. And when she makes an inconvenience to help the fine fresh vicar (the “dishy vicar” as Rose calls him), her family shows up in fleshy crazy mode, announcing that dear Daddy has been kidnapped by a gypsy.
From there on, she must tackle dozens of other problems: athlete’s foot, exasperated cruises on the QE2 (with Onslow and Daisy), inadvertent theft of a Rolls Royce, riverside picnics gone awry, suicide attempts, estate sales, country retreats, anniversaries, nautical disasters, musicals, barbecues, raunchy Majors, Richard’s ill-fated stint as a filmmaker, Christmas kisses, and Rose’s decision to become a nun in a miniskirt. “It’s all proper,” she announces as she drunkenly smooches the vicar. “I’m going to be a nun!”
This one also includes the later-produced “Life Lessons From Onslow,” a amusing miniature clip demonstrate in which Onslow finds himself teaching a university course, illustrated by various clips from the series. God abet those students.
“Keeping Up Appearances” is in the mammoth tradition of really embarrassing British sitcoms, usually with at least one person who makes everyone else insane. And there’s no excessive need to rep Hyacinth out of her various dilemmas — the writers objective crank up the humiliation and craziness, and let it climax as the explain finally ends.
Sure, there are some dud episodes — the amusement park one with all the former people is tubby of one-note jokes. Sorry, but aged ladies throwing up is not laughable more than once. Most of the time, however, the writing is spot-on, from Rose’s affairs with married men (”You swore you’d be faithful… and then… I collect you sneaking encourage to your wife!”) to Hyacinth’s efforts to mask her family (singing so people won’t hear Violet’s brawl with her husband) .
Routledge is the star of this series, no doubt about it — she makes Hyacinth a magnificently bad character. She is frighteningly annoying, but she’s also completely oblivious. Not only is she unaware that other people inspect her as an upholstered harpy, but she’s unaware that her son is blissful, her hubby is the walking dreary, and that when people screen from her it’s not a cute limited joke.
Swift is a colossal counterpoint, as the weary husband who has stopping trying to fight Hyacinth, and only hopes that he can come by a few reprieves at work. Tewson and the perpetually grimacing David Griffin are superior as her neighbors, and Judy Cornwell and Geoffrey Hughes as Hyacinth’s distinctly unaristocratic sister and brother-in-law.
Social appearances, family and madcap misunderstandings are the heart of “Keeping Up Appearances.” Snobbery has never been so droll.
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