To love Margo in The Good Life?

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I'm mean, obviously, she's a crashing snob, and small-minded and ridiculously bourgeois...

But, the outfits. The exquisite enunciation. The way she batters Jerry and Tom down with a single phrase. Magnificent 😁

Fab thread OP! Margo is magnificent (as is To The Manor Born). I love that she doesn’t stand for any nonsense (Rates office brilliant scene), and insists on maintaining standards even if others mock her. Very admirable. And the clothes!!! Feeling inspired to head to Harrods in search of a new kaftan, and to watch the show again. Cheque book, Jerry!

I have always been a proud Margo, I love her to bits

She's exceptionally kind and caring and fiercely defensive of Jerry (whom she loves). It's a very equal relationship between them, not so Tom and Barbara as Toms bloody whims rules the roost

@LaurieFairyCake
I am not sure Jerry would agree with you there! I think Margo definitely had the upper hand in that relationship.
I think all the characters were well rounded with faults and failings . And we are all conveniently forgetting Margo's racist and sexist side ( evidenced by her horror at Barbara working with her hands and her belief that a woman's primary role was to support her husbands career and look good at all times and what about her horror when she thinks a foreign family are about to move into the house next door )
She is a flawed character and I think that is part of her charm .

Yep, we're all flawed

Margot was the best, I so wanted to be her when I grew up.

The Christmas not delivered episode was brilliant - yuletide felicitations everyone.

penelope keith is a Dame

Oh yes @JustbemoreMargo the Rates Office scene, how many of us would just love to do that and get away with it!

if they made the good life today, they all would have children

Ah Sir Humphrey another great character, his Dear Lady and Shall I be mother? are often said in this house.

Just caught a trailer for a programme all about Penelope Keith from Margo to The Manor Born on C5 next Saturday evening!

Thanks @LlamasSitOnPyjamas and @Needhelp101

A wonderful character who had certain standards and expected them. A very fine lady.

I adored her and felt she was what I would be when a grown up .Sadly a little lacking in Height (5 feet 0) and elegance ! Loved the episode where Barbara wore her new dress paid for by selling Toms Dinner suit "I think its an unselfish act and I applaud it"To Jerry "Only do put him behind a pillar or something!"Non matching jacket and trousers!

Loved Margo! And Jerry ( very sexy!) , to the manor born is excellent too !
Grew up watching both and have the box sets now , dh gets a bit fed up when I'm having a marathon viewing moment!

Have all the DVDs best comfort TV ever .Used to watch with my Nan ,we both admired Margo so much .Tom was very bumptious and apparently even Richard Briers felt his character was very selfish .Depriving Barbara of any new clothes and coming on to Margo a lot(To be rebuffed thankfully!)

As a child I wanted to be Barbara, and all the attention was on 'sexy Felicity'. But at the age of about 25 I had to come to terms with the fact that really I was a Margot. She's marvellous. Such bearing.

Just wanted to join in with the Margot worship. Also Jerry was lovely. So kind, and always with a bit of a twinkle in his eye. Even when deferring to Margot's whims he was never a downtrodden worm and you always felt he probably quietly went off and did the things he loved in the background. My late DH was definitely a Jerry.

Can you imagine the number of AIBUs which would be posted by anyone married to a Tom?

• My DH, without consulting me, has announced he is giving up his well-paid job and we are going to keep pigs in the garden and live off homegrown carrots, AIBU?

My grandmother was Margot! Same accent, clothes, aspirations. She always felt wonderfully familiar.

Mum was Barbara!

Yes

Margot was quite privileged though not having to work but typical late 70s middle class

Yes, @GobbolinoTheWitchesCat I was just about to put the same. Her (and the scriptwriters') skewering of petty bureaucracy is brilliant. What is it she says?

Mr. Squires - Clerk:
Just who do think you are, Mrs. Ledbetter?
Margo:
I am the silent majority

My grandmother had a Margot voice for answering the telephone...

'... and I arrange all my own flowers'

Love her

I loved him in Yes Minister/ Prime Minister, watching it today, especially the wonderful Nigel Hawthorne's gobbledygook speeches, it's hardly aged at all!

Imagine Margot on MN!!!

Lol

Can't help but like her though

Loved Penelope Keith when she starred with June Brown as her cleaner in an ITV drama and they sang together a George Fornby song on a train, it was really funny