Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances1990

Director: Harold Snoad
Genre: Comedy
Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke. It aired on BBC One from 1990 to 1995. The central character is eccentric and snobbish middle class social climber, Hyacinth Bucket (Patricia Routledge), who insists that … more »



the Registrar:
[Hyacinth's father is in the Registry office but has nodded off, and the registrar is trying to wake him. But Hyacinth thinks she is the woman her father went there to marry] Can you give me a hand with him?

Hyacinth:
Madam, I will not lift a FINGER to assist you towards matrimony with this man! He's in no fit condition to be...

the Registrar:
Now, let's not get excited. I think he's just asleep.

Hyacinth:
You ought to be ashamed of yourself! Forcing Daddy into marriage, when you can see how uninterested he is in the demands of the flesh!

the Registrar:
[to Richard] What is she talking about?

Richard Bucket:
Listen, if it's all the same to you, I ought to be getting back. I had to leave a meeting.

Hyacinth:
But you can't go now, Richard! I want you to prefer charges against this woman!

Richard Bucket:
On what grounds?

Hyacinth:
Kidnapping! [to the stunned registrar] If I hadn't arrived in the nick of time, you'd have whipped him away into wedlock!

the Registrar:
Oh what is the woman talking about... Madam, I AM THE REGISTRAR!

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