Archers thread #188: New Order, please! Discuss The Archers here.

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In some haste as we are going out for the day. I was asked weeks ago to put I've Killed the Vicar in as the new title but I agree with more recent comments that Peggy's funeral feels like old news now. Great line, though. Sorry not to have used Markie Malarkey, though. I've settled on something that will only make sense to people who were also youngish in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Here's a clue. If a certain person appears in tomorrow's episode the title will be relevant.

Over to you!

I very much enjoyed the introduction of the previously unknown third Kray triplet - Rodney, perhaps? - in his role as chaplain. I suppose after 50-odd years in prison he's too old to work in the kitchen. Do the SWs have something against the church? (If so, this is not a criticism.) But what with Alan, Peggy's dreadful collapsing vicar who was sadly not dead, and now this ...

I did rather like him, though.

Me too, Gonners. I’d like them to spend more episodes exploring George’s insecurities.

Spin-off series?

They could call it "Two Dads George".

Why would Lynda need another fete dogsbody?

They could simply recast him, as they've done with people like Emma, Tony and Robert.

Tony, Robert and Neil all sound very similar to me.

Neil sounds very distinctive to me. Tony and Robert have posher accents. I'd hate for Neil to be re-cast , although I suppose I'd get used to it. If Neil is killed off instead, Susan as grieving widow would be tough, but Charlotte Martin is a very good actor, so could do it plausibly. It would be a big shake up in the Carter/Grundy clan.

Remind me - has Tracy taken Jazzer’s surname - McCreary - or is she still Tracy Horrobin? (Maybe I missed a bit and he’s now Jazzer Horrobin?)

Horrobin-McCreary has a nice ring to it!

61, surely?

Another load of Coddswallop. And I thought bouncers were licenced, not some village idiot deciding to dress up.

Will Mick charge into Marky and his thugs, convinced his velcro'd on epaulets give him superpowers? Will Joy try to rescue him?

😁She is indeed, in the same way that I shall remain the age I am until next Monday <sob>. I have a childlike need to hang on to my prime-number ages to the bitter end!

I did once again begin to hope Mick has been invented to be wiped out. But it would be a long game for someone who doesn’t matter to anyone who matters in Ambridge.

I don't quite understand why someone who was going to be in the pub anyway, and who will be wearing his usual clothes, is going to be called a bouncer. Surely Mick would wade in if there were trouble whether he was wearing epaulets or not?

Promise me that this isn’t the sw setting joy and mick up to be the new publicans

They'll be running Crassdoors, the motel near the charging station.

May I just say I loathe Snell and Jazzer?

The way Snell talked about the other members of the fete committee was appalling.

So far as Jazzer, he's just appalling. Full stop. Tracy is (just about) bearable on her own

Don't bouncers need a lisence? Another nonsense story.

They do. Mick might hold one because of the Grey Gables job, but whether it can be used at another establishment, I don't know.

https://www.gov.uk/check-a-private-security-licence#:~:text=You%20could%20be%20fined%20or,of%20birth%20and%20security%20role

I know you mostly hate Mick but he's not actually an idiot; he does the security at GG, he roadied for years and apparently knows a professional bouncer. I thought the conversation with Kenton was really badly written and implausible.

Can't edit; if Mick has a licence for his GG job he can work at The Bull but Kenton should have checked.

Mick is an idiot with the way he acted in the pub though, frisking Jazzer was a total overreaction.

Oh yes, that was idiotic, it wasn't plausible however.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g - title suggestion for next thread

Dross! A ropey band of no-hopers.

Courtesy of Tracy Horobin.