To really like Hyacinth Bucket :)

She is one of those characters who is insufferable, yet somehow endearing. I absolutely loved her character. We quote her all the time!!

She reminds me of my late grandma. Obsessed with what other people thought, and wildly out of touch in so many ways.
When I had my induction day aged 11 at my local (independent, slightly snooty) girls' school, she was convinced I needed to wear this horrific knee length dress and straw boater type hat as "that's what all the doctors' and solicitors' daughters will be wearing." I furiously protested but to no avail.
Where the other girls in similar attire? Were they fuck. I will never forget the silence that descended as I scurried in dressed like an 11 year old Hyacinth.
But, like the real Hyacinth, she really was a kind and loving woman, and genuinely did her best to look after everyone. I do miss her.

Programs like Kepping up Appearance make me feel happy. They are the kind of thing i put on a rainy day, with a cold. It just makes me smile from beginning to end. Love Hyacinth!

It's about snobbery. It was of its time and gave an outlet to laugh at socially mobile middle class folk moving from the council estate to the new build estate in a nice southern town, and affecting airs and graces as to how they imagined society was in their new neighbourhoods. The sad thing is a modern version wouldn't be possible now, because the ladders have been drawn up and not enough people would identify with it. ☹️

Hyacinth would 100% be on mumsnet. I agree she wasn't a bad person and probably loved her son too much !

Agree the Emmet character hasn't aged well, he oozes misogyny.

Keeping up appearances was on air when I was at secondary school and I loved it even then. Each character is brilliantly written and played. Everyone knows a Hyacinth, that's its appeal.

I loved her expressions every time she arrived at Onslow and Daisy's road!

And onslow's car backfiring. .no matter how many times I've seen it I still laugh!

I think she's one of the best written and imagined sit com characters ever

Roy Clarke always had pathos in his writing. Usually people trying to escape something but they were doomed never to do so.

Granville in ‘Open All Hours’ desperately wanted to be loved and was determined he wouldn’t end up like Arkwright. He cannot escape though and, like Arkwright is left to bring up a child from a brief liaison and morphes into what he so very much wanted to avoid.

The characters in ‘Last of the Summer Wine’; Howard never had the courage to leave Pearl, Clegg never remarried. Foggy desperately wanted to be remembered as a military hero, even though he had been a sign writer.

Hyacinth wants to break away from her upbringing but something always pulls her back. I think all the characters were played more sympathetically from Series 2 onwards. I love Hyacinth, she was kind, helpful and you’d never go hungry or thirsty at her house! KUA is my comfort TV.

I was surprised to find out recently that 'Hyacinth Bucket' was actually a character played by the actress Patricia Routledge, and 'Keeping Up Appearances' was in fact a situation comedy and not the fly-on the wall documentary that I had supposed for nearly five years.

It makes one wonder what the BBC do with our licence fee, seemingly squandering it on make believe television - it's just one step away from that Tik-Tok stuff that is pumped out by the youngsters of day.

She reminds me of my nana. I loved my nana and going to her house in the summer holidays as a teenager. It was spotless and felt like respite compared to the chaos at home. She was so glamorous with her makeup and hair blowdryed everyday. She always dressed nice too and chatted to everyone.

Oh, I have never watched the episode where Richard shouts....
I did not think him capable of it. I need to watch that.

It is Bouquet, dear.

LOL, I do like old comedies and I do enjoy this one indeed.
Also George and Mildred. He does need a bit more salt and pepper in his life though, bless him!

She’s a queen!

Oh, I think MN is deeply lower-middle in outlook. Hyacinth would fit right into those threads about what you call your midday and evening meals, settee/vs/couch vs sofa, what you say when someone says something you don't hear, the current 'clinking glasses as social faux pas/always wear tights to a funeral' thread.

Not to mention the ones excoriating the nouveau riche (white Jeeps, conspicuous brands, Quooker taps, bad manners) at the expense of 'old money' (the Duke who dresses like a tramp covered in dog hair and is so unassuming strangers assume he's his own gardener until some passing Hyacinth addresses him as 'Your Grace').

I remember the vicar asking Richard how he coped with her and he said "She's actually quite kind." She was.

William Hanson is quite repellent enough to be an actual character in Keeping Up Appearances.

Though also weirdly compelling. He's like one of those prematurely aged ten year olds who show up in a giant blazer and bowtie discussing Socrates on 1980s documentaries about gifted children.

I love “Keeping up Appearances”, it’s my comfort telly on the player.

And she was regularly sexually assaulted by The Major but carried on without a fuss.

I love Hyacinth too. And Margo from The Good Life, I’d happily be either of them.

Help I Sexted my Boss is the funniest podcast - proper laugh out loud stuff.

Yes and to be fair to her whenever Daddy has one of his funny turns Hyacinth always rushes to help.

Emmett was a horrible man so sneery

Actually, you're right, it is sad, but everyone in it is awful, including Hyacinth herself. Though I suppose she's got a kind of grandeur in her social fight away from her Low Origins and to try to reinvent her lower-middle-class present as upper-middle (upper-class? I don't think I've seen an episode since about 1992.) She puts a huge amount of work into her pretence.

I had to look up the broadcast dates, and was taken aback that it was broadcast in the 1990s -- I think of it as being mid-80s or earlier.

Hyacinth is a brilliantly recognisable character, even if I find her (and every one else in the show) repellent.

I'm going to get flamed for this.. probably.

But.

Back when KUA was on, Hyacinth lived in a lovely home on a lovely street where she knew her neighbours and it was lovely.

Onslow... He lived in a dirty home on a dirty street with old cars and broken gates and vicious barking dog.

Now look at society.
Doesn't it feel like there many more Onslows than Hyacinths these days? That pride in houses and gardens has just gone in a lot of areas.

If people were honest, wouldn't the world be a much nicer place if everyone was a little less Onslow and a little more Hyacinth?

Imagine Hyacinth on mumsnet though. AIBU to call the Chinese ambassador about the wrong number calls I get for the Chinese take away?

Style & Beauty: “Am I suitably dressed to answer my white slim-line telephone with last number redial?”

Property: “Where does one acquire a luxury security system for executives in dusky pink?”