What is your favorite Keeping Up Appearances episode?

The one where Hyacinth becomes part-owner of a grand estate. How many steps do they climb to get into their garret?

This one!

The one where she sings at Emmet.

let me check my spreadsheet.

The one where Onslow, Daisy, and Rose show up to one of Hyacinth's fancy dress suppers or church dos and embarrass her fancy ass!

Riparian Entertainments.

R4, now Richard, you know you don’t have to fool with spreadsheets since you took early retirement.

The one where the neighbor lady can't drink tea without shaking.

The one where Onslow says, “Oh, niiiice!” Or maybe the one where Hyacinth says, “Now Richard…”

For A Plotline: "Holiday Brochures" is a standout.

But "Riparian Entertainments" as mentioned by R6 is among my top three.

Any scene where she and Richard are in bed wrapped in their rosebud sheets.

R11, after all, Sheridan has the best rosebud.

R1 I think I have the same, they end up in a small apartment under the roof, with no room to move in the kitchen.

R13, it’s old world bijou!

I think Hyacinth was driven to her snobbery as a defense mechanism brought on by the repeated put-downs of that bitch Barker Finch!

R10 Hyacinth pronounces brochures as BRA-shurs.

Pat now 92, has retired to Chicester, West Sussex with her longtime lady companion.

OP, I love that episode too, especially the part where they turn up to the pub and Richard notices Onslow's bicycle parked outside. Hyacinth's reaction makes me laugh every time.

I can't remember when the episode aired, but I love the one where Hyacinth and Richard go 'yachting' on this old, little river boat.

Hyacinth Hosts a Gangbang.

Richard finds another use for candlewax and Hyacinth finds out why Daisy has stayed with Onslow.

Rose needs a stiffener!

Hyacinth riding a horse was a good one. Trying to impress some English "gentlemen." Made a fool of herself as usual.

The one where Sheridan goes on the hunt for BBC at a London bathhouse.

Hyacinth gets soused on "Old Mumsy's Dynamite"

R15, in the prequel Young Hyacinth, you see Hyacinth embarrassed by her father’s drunkenness in front of her fancy employers who employ her as a maid. She’s always making up excuses as well as fanciful tales to explain things.

Additionally, you’re right. The Barker-Finches as well as other neighbours are always showing their shock at Onslow and her other family members.

Mrs. Donahue even pretended to hear her phone ring when Hyacinth was helping push her car wearing fancy dress. She had ample reason for her snobbery.

R15, this is what I mean.

Too many favorites to just pick one episode.

But one moment that always pops into my head is the episode where the delivery van with the royal crest is due to park in front of their house. Hyacinth calls Mrs. Barker-Finch across the street on the phone to bring her to her window so she’ll see, just as the van is scheduled to arrive. When Mrs. Barker-Finch answers the phone Hyacinth veeeeeery slowly puts the receiver back silently with this hysterically sinister look on her face. Great moment.

I liked the episode where neighbor, Emmet, tells Hyacinth that he is currently in a relationship with Michael, the dishy Vicar. Upon this news, Hyacinth quizzes Emmet on the meaning of the word relationship. Richard, eavesdropping mumbles "drat, I wanted the Vicar."

So many to choose from! I'll go for the one where Hyacinth and Richard go on a cruise on the QE2 -only to find Onslow and Daisy aboard. Hyacinth is sure they are stowaways, but they actually won the cruise and are in a better cabin and eating at the captain's table. Poor, poor Hyacinth...

What they should have done is have Hyacinth being treated like royalty and she wake up to find it’s all a dream. She should have have gotten a taste of the aristocracy just once at least.

R29 I liked how at the end of that episode Hyacinth and Onslow dance together.

Also, until this thread made me look it up I didn't realize that I believe GPB didn't air the series in order. The "Please Watch Your Head" episode R1 and R13 is speaking was the second to last episode of series 4. But, I distinctly remember them airing it last, like a series finale. Maybe they don't do it anymore.

R32 my GPB station never aired episodes in order and also would repeat some episodes before even airing the rest of them.

R33 I just always remember they would air that episode and then the next one would be the first episode. Which is why I assumed it was the finale. I wonder why they did that with KUA because I'm pretty sure AYBS? ran in order, except for not including "Monkey Business" for the longest time.

R34, they ran Are You Being Served? out of order too. However, they usually ran As Time Goes By in order. Go figure.

R35 As Time Goes By, has to be run in order because it is serialized just like AYBS, Again.

R27, that IS a great scene. Patricia Routledge's physical comedy is unmatched. I believe in that scene she also clutches excitedly at Richard, pushing him into the wall as she slowly lowers the phone, haha.

R37 Yes! To make sure he keeps quiet! A hysterical moment with no dialogue. So great.

I also love how after she brings La Barker-Finch to the phone, she spends such a long time trying to get everything in place for her to see the van, despite the fact Mrs B-F would've long since left the window, but Hyacinth was adamant she had to go through with the plan despite everything going wrong. There's also another great bit of physical comedy where she pretends Onslow, Daisy and Rose are strangers for the benefit of the neighbours, and starts acting out giving them directions.

I too loved the "nautical buffet with riparian entertainment" episode.

The one where she test drives a Rolls-Royce is amusing.

^Haha all because she wanted to get even with that woman who had said, loudly at one of her candlelight suppers: "I think kiwi fruit are so lower middle-class, don't you?"

I love the one where Hyacinth arranges to have one of Rose’s gentleman callers pick her up at the Bucket residence, because Rose said he drives a limousine. Hyacinth is lead to believe he “works in oil” (he actually just owns a petrol station). Hyacinth throws a party so everyone will be there to see a limousine pull up in front of her house and pick up a family member. He ends up showing up in hearse because his limousine is in the shop. I’m pretty sure this is the episode… but there’s a hysterical moment where a panicking Hyacinth runs and opens the door to the room of the party and laughs maniacally and loudly at everyone then slams the door again. So simple, and says so much. Hilarious!

Is this show popular in England or is it one of those mediocre shows that Americans like thinking they're getting quantity entertainment from Britain. Sniff.

Richard has had it ... officially

I always hoped one day to see Richard slap Hyacinth across the punim. Sadly I was disappointed. One the same idea I always hoped to see Sheldon beaten almost to death on Big Bang Theory. If I had been his roommate I would have smothered him in his sleep.

What was the episode where hyacinth answered an ad for prostitutes.

If that bastard Barker-Finch and her smug cronies had treated Hyacinth with respect and included her, she would have become such a paranoid snob.

Say what you want but at least Hyacinth was always there for her family, in spite of being embarrassed by them.

R48 I will say Hyacinth's devotion to her family, actually being there for them when they needed, was the one thing that really helped to ground the character and make her seem real. Everyone can relate to having relatives that embarrass you, but that you still love.

R47 That I believe was a later episode where the wording of the ad she answered was confusing. Hyacinth thought it was looking for someone with expertise with social entertaining and party planning tips, but it was actually looking for strippers.

I didn't care for the "new" Rose (looked older) when Mary Millar passed away. I enjoyed the episodes with Councillor Mrs. Nugent. Also the episode where the vicar, in shorts is exercising on his indoor bicycle.

Mary Millar was the second Rose. Shirley Stelfox was the original Rose, but she had to quit because of prior commitments. Mary died shortly after the show ended, but neither of them died during production.

So sad that Richard and Onslow are gone now too.

I loved Hyacinth and Richard getting stuck face to face and belly to belly in their kitchenette doorway in that small bijou apartment in the manse. "I don't care for this level of intimacy, Richard."

I did not realize the first Rose, Shirley Stelfox, went on to play the very un-Rose like Edna Birch on Emmerdale for 15 years.

R48/R49 - I rewatched the show recently, and what struck me so much that I mentioned it to my friend I was watching it with was that however much she irritated her family, she is the one all her sisters turn to when they need advice or a shoulder to cry on.

The episode where Councillor Mrs Nugent comes across Onslow and Rose and Hyacinth pretends they are actors for a film that Richard is shooting is very funny - but on the discussion above, note that when Councillor Mrs Nugent says, re: Onslow: "Obviously some kind of THUG!" Hyacinth's first reaction is almost one of rage at the woman she otherwise wants to impress because she insults her brother-in-law. It's a very quick, subtle moment, but a good bit of character work.

One of the sweetest moments, in my opinion, was in series 1 when Rose tries to drop-off her lingerie at the charity shop when she's bereft at yet another relationship breakdown. Hyacinth forbids Rose entry, but as she takes the bag of clothes, she gives Rose a quick peck on the cheek before sending her on her way.

They should have made a spin-off about Sheridan.

Found the clip of Mrs Nugent helping to push the car:

I think the Councilor Mrs. Nugent might have been, shhhhhhhh........a lesbian. I think she wanted some action under the duvet with Our Rose.

I like the one where Rose is in room 210 and making inconsiderate noises. Hyacinth is then felt up by the weird old Major.

I liked that they had Hyacinth attracting lecherous older men. She was also manhandled by that old coot at the flower nursery when she went to check on some flora for one of her candlelit suppers. (I don't think it was of the riparian sort though.)

Our Hy wound up with all kinds of plant life clinging to her and her hair from trying to deter the old gentleman from assaulting her person.

R61 it was the Major and he drove a Morgan two seater sports car.

Riparian entertainments is the best episode

Best moment is Hyacinth dancing with Onslow on the QE2

Mr. Jeremy Gittins was hot as fuck in his younger days.

No wonder Rose and all those church ladies were always after him!

Like so many other British actors, Jeremy Gittins did his share of television commercials when starting out.

Another....

He is dreamy!

I like the episode "Driving Mrs. Fortescue" when the spot spot Rose, Onslow and Daisy. Rose starts a conversation with the wealthy Mrs. Forescue about love and men.

R68, that’s also the same episode Hyacinth gets caught by the lorry in front of Mrs. Barker-Finch!