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Fans of the relentless social climber and unapologetically
prying neighbor,
Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced
"Bouquet," of course),
get the full Hyacinth treatment. Everyone
is here: nervous coffee-spilling neighbor Margaret with her musician brother Emmet, who's tormented by Hyacinth's spontaneous tryouts; her ever-patient
husband, Richard and the unaccountably amorous Major. And no episode would be
complete without the antics of her family including the romance-addled Daisy
and jobless husband Onslow, who favors the vest-without-a-shirt look. Packed
into their grubby apartment is aging tart of a sister Daisy, who specializes in
married men, and their befuddled elderly Daddy, who frequently escapes to elope
or bicycle naked or both. Even the well-married (never-seen) sister Violet got a
hysterical, cross-dressing husband along with the Mercedes. The marvelous
Patricia Routledge pulls it all together with her amazing combination of
matronly indignation and outrageous physical comedy. |
