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Keeping Up Appearances star Dame Patricia Routledge dies aged 96
Yahoo News / BBC ^ | 10/3/2025 | Ian Youngs

Posted on 10/03/2025 8:57:48 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat

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1 posted on 10/03/2025 8:57:48 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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2 posted on 10/03/2025 9:00:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Video: Hyacinth's Hilarious Back-Seat Driving | Keeping Up Appearances
3 posted on 10/03/2025 9:00:59 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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Great, funny lady.


4 posted on 10/03/2025 9:08:54 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Republican Wildcat

That bucket woman.

That’s Bouquet.


5 posted on 10/03/2025 9:12:49 AM PDT by DannyTN
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Raise a toast to Dame Routledge.
She played the quintessential “royalist”.
Thank goodness she is on re-runs on BritBox.

And, fo course my MIL \\and\\ my wife epitomize Hyacinth.


6 posted on 10/03/2025 9:12:58 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration (CACA); The acronym defines the science.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

She hosted a documentary on Beatrix Potter that was very good


7 posted on 10/03/2025 9:13:53 AM PDT by freds6girlies (many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. Mt. 19:30. R.I.P. G & J)
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“The BOO-KAY residence, the lady of the house speaking.”


8 posted on 10/03/2025 9:15:21 AM PDT by AF_Blue ("America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad ass speed." - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936)
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Such a great show. Onslow was my favorite character.


9 posted on 10/03/2025 9:18:05 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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I watch that show - along with As Time Goes By and Are You Being Served - on Saturday nights on PBS. I guess GOD needed some humor in Heaven ...

Sheldon, it's mommy...flower decorating?

10 posted on 10/03/2025 9:21:25 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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Ah, yes, Hyacinth Bucket. Perhaps the first “Karen” I saw on telly.


11 posted on 10/03/2025 9:27:31 AM PDT by jimtorr
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RIP. Always liked this show on either PBS or Vision TV (Canada). My favourite scene in all of KUA was seeing the stoic look on her face after she and Richard got a thing of wet mess dumped on them while they rowed down a river looking for an appropriate spot for their picnic.


12 posted on 10/03/2025 9:38:27 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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Great series. She was also in To Sir With Love. My favorite characters in Appearances were “Our Rose” (the second one) and Onslow. In fact ever since first “meeting” Onslow I've tried to model my life after his.
13 posted on 10/03/2025 9:51:59 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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RIP. I’ve enjoyed this show, and Britcoms, in general; the thing that sets them apart from American sitcoms is that they are generally written by one or two persons, almost never a “team.” I guess it’s also true that they are not milked for 10, 15, or more, seasons...


14 posted on 10/03/2025 9:52:12 AM PDT by mononymous
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She was good...as was Richard. But I think my two favorite moments were when Our Rose (the second one),after having taken too many tranquilizers,went to see “that “dishy vicar” and,while stumbling all over herself said “I want to become a nun”....and in one scene Onslow’s sitting in his chair and exclaims “I'm sitting here surrounded by no beer!”
15 posted on 10/03/2025 9:59:56 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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It’s bouquet. LOL


16 posted on 10/03/2025 10:00:00 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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“picnic”? You mean the “water side supper with riparian entertainments.”

“You’ve got to admire that stiff upper lip”


17 posted on 10/03/2025 10:02:07 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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I used to watch that. Funny for its time, I outgrew it a long time ago though. Only so much of certain characters you can take.


18 posted on 10/03/2025 10:15:51 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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That was essentially her attitude as well - she left the show because it was starting to get repetitive. Better to leave before they get tired of you.

Now she’s having “candlelit suppers” with Richard again (Clive Swift, who played Richard, died in 2019).


19 posted on 10/03/2025 10:27:28 AM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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Don’t forget Sheridan and his roommate Tarquin (who wears silk pajamas)


20 posted on 10/03/2025 10:30:25 AM PDT by freedomlover
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