#102: Fatted calf is off the menu - will the Easter Bunny save Lower Loxley's bacon, or will there be egg on Russ's face? Will Tom's sausage business get the chop? Join us here to discuss The Archers!

[GabrielleNelson]

Thanks due to @PseudoBadger for kicking off this long, long series of Archers threads and to @DadDadDad for being our resident statistician and keeping the ball rolling when Pseudo stepped back a bit. Thanks also to all those who contributed to the thread title, principally Dumdedumdedum and MikeUniformMike on this occasion.

All views on The Archers welcome here! New blood welcomed. We don't all agree on all points and most of us are posting tongue in cheek a lot of the time, so don't worry about revealing that you'd like to be Susan's best friend or other odd unusual views.

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So, to business: will Helen's new cheese be a success? Will Kate succeed in keeping her visiting Brummies under control? Will Pip, Toby, Tom and Natasha fall into the slurry pit, leaving Rosie to be brought up by Anthony Head Robin Fairbrother? Will we ever hear Lee again, and will he casually drop in a mention of his fine collection of framed Bruce Lee posters?

Just to say, CMR made it to the sand-pit!

To be fair there are quite a few disabilities and chronic illness in TA, it's just that they are all magically cured or forgotten about.

Till it's convenient to revive them, e.g. Helen's anorexia, Lizzie's heart problems.

Listening to the film this morning (having heard the individual episodes already) I’d like to give a Boop to Lily for the scene with Freddie where she explains how important her job is to her.

There's been an incident at the ha- ha !!

Ha ha !!

will the Easter Bunny save Lower Loxley's bacon, or will there be egg on Russ's face?

How prophetic.

@LassOfFyvie - you may be interested in this road, not far from where I grew up: Ha Ha Road, London

So Russ was stung in the unmentionables? Oh dear.

Natasha and Trevor having lunch. Hmm. Will Tom and Natasha still be an item by the end of the week?

God knows but she's hard work. Kirsty karma.

I hope Trevor tells Natasha he's never been happier.

I hope Trevor tells Natasha he's never been happier.

And then Natasha reports that comment back to Tom, and Tom innocently says "well, at least you were able to tell him the same thing... Natasha?..."

While the follies of marrying in haste are being acted out, I feel too much stuff is emerging too soon, almost as if there's need to a write Natasha out pretty quickly.

Thinking of the beautifully decorated crook? barn all done by volunteers?? The Eggstravagnza is part of LL's income stream, so rather shameful that Elizabeth is making money out of free labour.

Much as I dislike CMR I thought the farce of the bee/ wasp sting in the ha-ha was unnecessary.

It was RIDICULOUS!!!!!!

There has been a fair bit of uncharacteristic innuendo - Jakob's organ, the carrot and now CMR. Odd!

Yes, the carrot/organ jokes are wierd

Yes, they could have just said a wasp got in his costume and stung him.

Tom is so obviously going to end up with Hannah (poor girl).

I assumed the organ joke was to illustrate Jacob's autism.

And I never imagined Kenton as short.....

Me neither Bert - in fact that comment just sounded wrong to me.

Kenton certainly comes up short in reference to his brother.

Otherwise Kenton is 6 foot at least.

I always imagined Tom to be short and slight, not stocky but frail.

I think if Tom was slight or frail we would have heard about it from Jazzer before now when they’ve been shifting the arks around...,,l

It would have been so much more believable if they’d said that Kenton was too bulky to fit the costume, whereas Russ and Tom are skinny.

Quite discombobulating when they tell you something about a character that seems completely wrong.

As much as I dislike Tom and Natasha I feel the script writing is far too clunky, with the wheels falling off too quickly. Whilst I'm delighted things are going wrong it seems so unlikely to have gone from sickeningly dreamy to awful so fast.

Do you think Natasha has far greater debts and during divorce will try to fleece them for a large portion of bridge farm? The demise of the PatnTone empire may be down to Natasha.