Coronation Street - NO SPOILERS! Ches and Gem have got no money, Lydia’s boiling Adam’s bunny - does anyone remember when Corrie was funny?

[WomanStanleyWoman]

Bring back Debs Brownlow - the show just isn’t the same without her…

@BigHairyCoconut

Has Tracy forgotten that she also lived in a grotty bedsit with Craig? I had to laugh when Tracy was going to say that Jacob just wanted to get into Amy's knickers then changed it to 'good books'!

What? When?

Oh I remember now she lived with Craig and Beth somewhere. For some reason 🤣

I meant when she was a teenager, she lived with a bloke called Craig and Deirdre kept trying to get her to come home. Mind you, Tracy had a different head then so no wonder she can't remember.

@BigHairyCoconut

I meant when she was a teenager, she lived with a bloke called Craig and Deirdre kept trying to get her to come home. Mind you, Tracy had a different head then so no wonder she can't remember.

Was that a Chalkie Whitely relative?

Tracy talked about living in a grotty bedsit with someone dodgy, when they were sitting round the table.

Was that a Chalkie Whitely relative?

Different Craig. That Craig was Phyllis Pearce’s grandson.

Tracy’s Craig was a child star before he was in Corrie. He was in a CBBC comedy called Gruey.

@Clawdy

Tracy talked about living in a grotty bedsit with someone dodgy, when they were sitting round the table.

She said that was Robert.

Poor, unburied Robert.

I vaguely remember Deirdre visiting her in a grotty flat and begging her to come home when she was young and living with Robert, i don't remember how long ago, but iirc he had a long pony tale. It was all very grungy.

I think Craig was the grungy boyfriend

Yes, he was. It would have been around 1993, as I’m sure Tracy was only 16.

@WomanStanleyWoman

Was that a Chalkie Whitely relative?

Different Craig. That Craig was Phyllis Pearce’s grandson.

Tracy’s Craig was a child star before he was in Corrie. He was in a CBBC comedy called Gruey.

Ahh thanks, it all blurs abit 😀

I must have got Robert mixed up with Craig, it was a long time ago.

They have remembered the Co Op.

I'm still annoyed that ITV showed a clip of Adam's big fall during the break of another show last week. Fucksake.

Oh fuck. I zoned out out totally. Can I have a run down of tonight please? My last memory is something about blonde woman with cancer taking pills in the pub and Adam falling over a railing. Fuck.

@thenightsky

Oh fuck. I zoned out out totally. Can I have a run down of tonight please? My last memory is something about blonde woman with cancer taking pills in the pub and Adam falling over a railing. Fuck.

That, and Amy will be working at the florist's with her mum in the morning. Sarah isn't answering her phone to Daniel, so she doesn't know Adam's taken a nasty tumble and is still planning to divorce him.

Oh, and Maria's cunning plan to stitch up her political opponent, which had me slightly zoning out too. Kelly's mum got off her face in the Rovers, to no particular end.

Missed nothing vital then...

Bloke who played Craig was in Corrie and Cracker. Him and his agent used to get proper wound up when they came into a pub I worked in and we kept asking him was he Gruey

He clicked his fingers a lot at members of staff

Adam’s big hair must surely have cushioned his fall?

I don’t like to boast, but I do believe Adam and Lydia’s backstory was exactly what I said it would be

I laughed quite a lot at Adam’s ‘fall’. Not terribly realistic…

Couldn’t Derren Litten get better work than a bit part as a counsellor? I wonder if he’s joining the writing team and is doing this part as a sort of side job.

Kelly's mum got off her face in the Rovers, to no particular end.

Wasn't it Bernie (Gemma's mum) that found Rick's watch with a metal detector? With Brian?

And now Laura has hired the PI to look for Rick, so I think the scene with Laura in the pub was just there as a way to get Laura and Bernie to meet, and she'll end up finding out about the watch.

(What happened to the watch anyway? I remember Sarah ending up with it, but did Gary manage to get it off her?)

Oh, dotty, we're not supposed to give the scriptwriters clues about plotline threads, are we? That's cheating. Though I admit I'd forgotten about the watch.