The Royle Family

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

I'm re watching them all on Netflix and I love it.Yes it's not PC but it was a wonderfully subtle look at "normal" Northern working class family life.Liz smith who played Nana was brilliant.Anyone else a fan?

think i might stencil the cupboards
stencil my arse!
pure gold must admit

Love it!!

“It’s not about the golden egg cup - it is about the golden egg cup”

Love it
I often answer my arse when I’m annoyed about something

“Jim, I’m only doing a finger buffet”

“Oh finger my arse!’

😂

I can't Mambo No 5 now without think of Mam Dad & Twiggy jigging about... 😂 😂 😂 😂
I always remember lying in a Premier Inn bed sobbing watching The Queen Of Sheba episode.... 😔 😔 😔 😔

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I loved it until Baby David was born, and then I thought the way Denise treated him bordered on neglectful and it made me uncomfortable.

I’m working class as they come, and babies are treated like little gods - not left covered in fag ash all day and not given Christmas presents

Love the 'new sofa' episode. Everything was with a twist

"Cup-a-soup with a twist, served in a bowl"
"Crushed carrots, from David's allotment, with a twist - knob of butter".

I LOVE Barbara's enthusiasm at everything her children do. I think it's the 2nd episode when Denise is talking about the wedding gift list and asking for a dish washer. She says "I'm not washing pots", the look of pure pride from Barbara is so touching.

Also when Denise is pregnant and says she'll get a nanny to keep her independence. The way Barbara agrees with her, "oh yes you must keep your independence " is hilarious.

"Am goin' fer a Tom tit!"

I also love Early Doors DonKey, I'll have that Policeman's laugh as an earworm all night now

If anyone gets a chance to go see the early doors stage show, I cannot recommend it more, it's brilliant.

The Royle family is genius, oooh a boob job AND a Dyson!

I’m London working class and yet it was still close to home. It’s the only thing I can think of from tv land that matches my upbringing right down to the pants drying on the radiator in the front room and walking round each other’s knees to sit down.

Love the Royles, Early Doors & dinnerladies. Watch them all on a loop. The only Royle episode I didn't like was when Joe from next door had a few blind dates. I remember Dave applying his haemorrhoid cream which made me a bit

There is currently pants drying on my living room radiator

Love the early ones before baby David is born. Reminds me of people I grew up with and is all comforting. Agree with the slightly borderline neglectful attitude towards baby David making me uncomfortable though.

I can’t watch Queen of Sheba and turn it off when it’s on. Too sad and too close to home.

Thank you OP for starting this thread. Caroline Aherne RIP.

I loved each series, but it should have ended with The Queen of Sheba, the one about Nana's death. The later Christmas specials were awful, the characters had become caricatures, and the humour was crude and unfunny, and all the warmth and understated love had gone.

I adored it up to and including the Queen of Sheba.

After that I felt the characters became more caricatures and it lost its realism

The scene where Emma's Dad (Anthony's gf) is bragging about his bit on the side and what she lets him do to her to Jim on the quiet made me cringe. Her mother seems to know about it but seems to just put up with his affair.

The bowl of punch haunts me - from when Deniseand Dave did Xmas dinner.

The whole unpeeled banana lobbed into the bowl of blue punch to make it tropical just makes me die.

Especially Denise and her Christmas Day timetable for the day which she reads so earnestly i.e. 11.15am to 11.25am there's mingling in the living room.

DH and I use the phrase, 'mingling timetable' when I've left a sauce simmering on the hob i.e. the ingredients are mingling, they've got a mingling timetable to adhere to.

The bit where they make such a huge deal out of whether people want their bread cut into oblongs or triangles to go with their cup-a-soup in a bowl starter. Then Denise gets to het up about Dave not being man enough to ask whether people want their bread that they are having with their soup cut into squares or triangles !

Dave sitting in the bath with the frozen solid turkey they are desperately trying to defrost. Dave just balances his shaving mirror on the turkey and continues with his shave. Comedy gold !

The most unlikely bit about those later Xmas ones was the way the small children were never there - totally unrealistic in any working class family on Xmas Day. And Denise and Dave had basically turned into two adults with learning disabilities - totally unfunny.

Love this show! If ever we can't find anything to watch I am happy to watch an episode

@MyGhastIsFlabbered "there's been a murder" has me crying with laughter