Classic Corrie - 2003 begins! Maxine’s met a sticky end, but dear old Emily’s on the mend, and Maria’s betrayed her dearest friend

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Place your bets for how many years out of date the storylines in the title will be by the end of the thread… 😁

@CherryogDog I also said to my partner that Joe looks like a Simpson 🤣 it's the constant five o clock shadow and mouth shape.

Yes that bit made me laugh too 😁 🐟

I am really liking Claire. She is so lovely.

I also keep wondering when Peter will get his just desserts. I think the writers are biding their time until they drop the Lucy bombshell on Shelley.

Someone on the latest Corrie thread to watch YouTube with Blanch going to an AA meeting with the family, absolutely hilarious. Watched a few yesterday , all circa 2008. Catch them if you need an old Corrie fix !

@CherryogDog

I think Joe looks like one of the Simpsons.

OMG. 😆I can't unsee this now. It's the mouth/around the area of the mouth isn't it?!!

D'oh doh, doh........! 😂

Never noticed that Joe smoked before

Never noticed that Joe smoked before.

Oh gosh me neither @ODFODeary ! But he has indeed got a ciggie on that pic. Maybe Joe - the character - doesn't smoke, but the actor who plays him (Jonathan Wrather,) does... Could be a pic taken of him on set while he was making an episode of Corrie...

Joe, Karen and Steve smoke like chimneys.

Oof Dev is so SLIMY.

@BeggyMitchell it just seems so random this personality switch! He was such a 'player' and now has literally changed overnight.

Yes, not exactly consistent characterisation.

But it was as I was catching up with eps this morning as Sinita asks him if he fancied her in the shop and he looks her up and down like a piece of meat that put me off my brekkie, the whole tamed lothario thing really doesn't âge well !

Dev is so ewww. I never know what they are going on about when they say he’s handsome and a catch.

Joe definitely smokes. I noticed because I have been trying to quit and so I’m attuned!

Ooh! Eileen’s front room is very plum coloured!

Did anyone else notice the name of the florist that delivered the flowers to Sunita that Ciaran intercepted?

Florizel Flowers. Florizel Street was going to be the name of the soap before they settled on Coronation Street 😆

Any one else go dum dum duuuuuum when Mike revealed Artrec was an anagram of Carter!!!

Me!! 🤣

Yes!

Back in the day when the writers thought about and discussed the story lines/characters <<deep sigh>>

The creepiness has started 😬 I saw this coming for a while but still felt really shocking to see that scene.

On another note.. Curly celebrating his 40th birthday?! 40???? All the characters look so much older than the ages they play.

It’s the teens that make me shake my head with the ages, most of the time I can suspend belief that all these 20 year olds are 16 but then they put an actual 16 year old playing a 16 year old next to them a while ago (Adam) and it was very obvious!

I'm slightly behind at the moment. Just past the Richard Hillman story - he was a great villain - but it doesn't half show how much the show has gone downhill since then

I saw a clip of the one that used to play Candice in Hollyoaks. Shes barely aged at all.

@Redglitter the Richard Hillman storyline was soooo good!

@buzz91 yes Adam looked so young compared to the others.

I've just done a bit of a marathon and caught up on Classic Corrie. Did Todd even apply to or have an offer from Oxford? In Corrie-land they just seem to assume that anyone who gets straight As will automatically get in and there are no other suitable universities

I’d forgotten how annoying Katie was, such a stroppy eye rolling teenager, she makes all the other teenagers look sensible and mature.

Lol at Roy prophesying electric cars.