Coronation Street: Discussion Thread

[DRW50]

This has been a hellish year for Corrie. I think they will be thrilled to say hello to 2010.

[DRW50]

Blanche's best one-liners:

http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/s3/coronationstreet/scoop/a189626/a-look-back-at-some-classic-blanchisms.html

This is touching:

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Aw, Blanche added so much to the show and was always a hoot. I'll miss her greatly.

RIP Maggie Jones.

[TC]

THANK YOU!

Blanche to Deirdre:

"You need to learn to enjoy other people's misfortune; otherwise, you're going to have a very unhappy old age."

hahahaha!

Blanche to Tracy:

"You look remarkably chipper. Trod on a snail?"

Double hahahahahahaha

Blanche talking about Ross at Peter's AA meeting:

"I've never heard so much self-indulgent whinging in all my life. Is there some correlation between how boring you are and how much you drink?"

triple..

And this just typifies Blanche:

Blanche to Deirdre:

"Good looks are a curse. You and Ken should count yourselves lucky."

[All My Shadows]

The AA scene was an instant classic. I wish that clip would have included the part where Ken's walking down the stairs, and Blanche is just sitting there on one of those motorized chairs that go up and down the stair railing. The look on her face was too much.

[Sylph]

[YRBB]

Oh, Maggie....

The AA meeting scenes were indeed just pure gold...

Meanwhile, Joe smashing his way into the medical centre in search of pills made it far easier to accept all the months of his addiction. (yeah, I'm still watching Aug eps ) It was a good, unexpected climax.

[YRBB]

The way Blanche insists that Ken is gay--and the random references to his gayness--always got me.

[Sylph]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY2pqLbGHK0

[Sylph]

Daily Mail has an article saying how "TV writers have been doing their best to ensure this Christmas is the worst on record".

Not only on The Street, but on every other soap opera too.

Edited December 4, 2009 by Sylph

[DRW50]

Yeah, they say that every year now. It's a shame. Soaps used to have some happy moments on Christmas. On Corrie, for years they would spend part of the time watching the Queen's speech.

[Andrew]

I just recently found out about Maggie Jones, my absolute favorite on the entire show, so sad, i really loved her, such a great actress.

Rest in Peace..Maggie

[DRW50]

This is the Corrie site tribute to Maggie/Blanche. She looks so different in her first appearance, smacking Deirdre's husband Ray Langton. Ray was a great character -- he and Deirdre always bantered and sparred, there was much less of the misery she has with Ken.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY2pqLbGHK0&feature=player_embedded

[YRBB]

OMG What a shock to see her in her first episode! I had never so much seen a single photo of hers from an earlier era....

I just feel sad they didn't use her more since the 70s... it was decades before they brought her on permanently.... She will be so missed.

[DRW50]

I also wish they'd used her more earlier on. She was a talk-to for Deirdre, she dated Dave Smith (a bookie who also dated Elsie Tanner), and for a few episodes ran the Rovers (can you imagine later Blanche doing that). She was a very different character back then. Then they wrote her out for years and mostly focused on Deirdre alone. It was only when they brought her back 10 years ago that they added more of the sarcastic touches, but even in the older stuff you can't take your eyes off her.

Of course she wasn't even the first actress to play Blanche but she did take over early on and she was amazing.

Funny, you can see Ken in that 1974 clip, looking on after the slap.

Edited December 27, 2009 by CarlD2