🎲 Archers thread #134: Ambridge as human board game. We’ve had Pandemic. What now - Game of Life or Trivial Pursuit? Go! Discuss The Archers here.

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Thank you, @PseudoBadger, for kicking off this long, long series of Archers threads.

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 warm to Hazel Woolley, or other unusual views.

Spoilers: not on this thread, please. We don't wait for the omnibus to discuss the weeknight episodes, but we do try our best to avoid cross-contamination from www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/4197199--The-Archers-spoilers-thread-6-Cant-wait-for-7-02pm-Join-us-here, where spoilers are positively welcomed!

For newer listeners, lurkers or those who just have no idea what we're talking about, @DadDadDad has created this useful thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/3557323-For-Archers-fans-a-guide-to-acronyms-on-the-long-running-discussion-threads-and-any-other-meta-thread-questions-you-may-have - BOOP point for him! (See thread for explanation.)

Thanks to @LiterallyKnowsBest for the thread title idea. I also liked @LillianGish's suggestion which was Conversions abound and it’s not just Harrison - Lily’s kitchens, Hazel’s flat, Jazzer’s finances, Bert’s bungalow...come and discuss The Archers - are you a convert or could you be converted? and that seems like a good place to kick off this thread.

Who'll get the bungalow? Pip, Josh or A. N. Other?

Will Lily leave the cold calling behind and launch a bid to run LL when Elizabeth hangs up her clipboard?

Will Jazzer become a financial whiz after mastering Tracy's state of the art budgeting techniques, viz, writing it all down in a little notebook with a kitten on the front?

Over to you!

I officially love Brian tonight.

BOOP for him!

But eeeeewww for the rest …

Though I like the paving stones being laid to carry Hannah out of town.

Twas Steve P Cock.

Ugh! Need mind bleach. Wonder if ickle Marthyr will have a sibling by Christmas

I meant half-sibling, of course, and she/he won't be an Archer/Aldridge but she'll be an Horrobin

@WhoppingBigBackside

Oh yawn. I hope Rex and Aimless get on famously.

Who's the scriptie this week?

Hope not. I’ve always quite liked Rex. Talking about your clients in that way is not attractive. So it didn’t surprise me in the slightest that it was Chris in the bed with her.

Doubt we’ll meet the result of tonight’s rendezvous for years. She’ll appear at just the right moment to provide maximum mortification for her long lost Pa.

Hang on. How did it move from Rex and Amy getting along famously in the pub to a post-coital Chris and Amy?

@BoreOfWhabylon, they had to squeeze it in to 12.5 minutes

It felt like a very soap-y end to this week episodes.

But I too love what Brian did

You'd have thought we could at least have heard Amy saying she wanted an early night and leaving Rex in the pub though.

Yes, full marks to Brine. I think the 🔮 is right about the future of the piggery.

Oh come on ... it was a dramatic device meant to trick us. We were expecting Rex to speak, thinking 'that was quick', but it turned out to be Chris. Surprise!

Yes. Well done Brine. Good man.

No way would Brine have accidentally left the printout on the printer by accident.

@BoreOfWhabylon

Hang on. How did it move from Rex and Amy getting along famously in the pub to a post-coital Chris and Amy?

She dropped in to see him presumably on her way home from Rex

Scratch my last post. Wasn’t paying proper attention!

What a Christmas Chris will have!

Alice being even more idiotic tonight.

Well, that was just plain ridiculous.

@BoreOfWhabylon

You'd have thought we could at least have heard Amy saying she wanted an early night and leaving Rex in the pub though.

Exactly my thought!

That was very badly written/performed.

@WhoppingBigBackside

No way would Brine have accidentally left the printout on the printer by accident.

Again, my thought exactly!

I hope someone points out to Alice what a stupid and environmentally unsound idea a balloon release is

@KimikosNightmare it was a virtual balloon race she was talking about. Environmentally friendly apparently:
www.balloon.co.uk/virtual-race/

(And a bit weird if you ask me. But, she didn’t. And maybe someone in the prod team wants to publicise such things for some reason).

@WhoppingBigBackside

No way would Brine have accidentally left the printout on the printer by accident.

Absolutely. My eyeballs nearly fell out of my head with the rolling.

That printer business was so blatantly contrived, I'm wondering if it's meant to convey him doing so intentionally, to forewarn the employees. Especially as he seemed so blasé about his mistake.

I'm wondering if it's meant to convey him doing so intentionally, to forewarn the employees.

Yes. He did it intentionally.

(And the SW might be disappointed that they hadn’t managed to make that apparent to every single listener. But they tried.)

I'm sure he did it intentionally, but what an odd way to leak this to Hannah and Neil. I was initially unsure, but as this is Brian we're talking about, who is usually very canny (clearly doesn't drink the waters of the Am which addle most other Ambridgeites' brains), I assumed it was deliberate.