No matter where you live in the world we all either know or are related to someone who can at times be a bit of snob. Which does at times make there downfall seem all the more funny and yet with all of that wealth of potential for jokes there's really only been one series that's had someone who is a bit of snob be it's main character and so then join me as I review the debut episode that introduced us to a British icon with the episode in question being called simply just "Daddy's Accident" enjoy.
The plot of the episode is when her father has an accident local snob Hyacinth Bucket decides not to tell her friends in the hope that it won't effect one of her candle light suppers. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty simple but simple in all of the best ways as you don't really expect or even want a deep and complicated plot for the debut episode of a sitcom as instead all you want is something that gives you a good idea of what the idea is show is about while still being a good plot and that's exactly what the plot of this episode is with the plot of this episode also being really entertaining and as well as being really engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth , Josephine Tewson as Elizabeth and Judy Cornwell as Daisy. Also starring in this episode is Geoffrey Hughes as Onslow , Shirley Stelfox as Rose , Clive Swift as Richard , Bruce Alexander as The Doctor , Peter Cellier as The Major , Leo Dolan as The Postman , Paul Toothill as The Meter Man , James Ottaway as Mr Oxley and George Webb as Daddy.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With all of the actors really turning in some really good performances in this episode however as this is the first episode of the show the acting in this episode isn't as good as it could have been and isn't as good as it gets in later episodes which does make sense as this is only the first episode and yet even with that in mind the cast nearly capture all of there characters perfectly with the cast really being helped by the fact that the episodes script is just so good that all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performances will come out of them naturally.
What was really impressive is the fact that the episode manages to paint the perfect picture of who the main character is without even showing her. Which is such a good way to set up the main character without actually showing her as the audience now has a picture of her in there mind of her being this monster type of character that alot of people including her own family really don't like and then you find out not only are they right but she's so much more worse then that it makes the episode seem alot more clever then what it actually is as while we do get a good idea of why people just straight up don't like Hyacinth but at the same time they make her seem like this really likable who is just oblivious to what people actually say and think about her with her just laughing it off or just straight up just ignoring it all together.
This episode does a really good job of making all of it's characters even the ones that your meant to hate seem like really likable characters. With all of the characters in this episode being given flaws and things that make them likable characters with Hyacinth being a snob to the point where she's willing to ignore family members if it means pleasing someone who's higher up socially then she is but at the same time she doesn't really know that she's ignoring her family members where as her sister Rose is a maneater who has lots of boyfriends most of whom are already married but she's just looking for love and that's the case with alot of the characters in this episode with alot of them being characters that can be seen as likable characters despite all of their flaws and yet the characters in this episode are still likable and fun characters that you want to spend alot of time and watch alot more of as there just that fun to watch in this episode.
To say that this show has aged horribly would be a huge understatement as it's a show that really hasn't aged all that well at all. Not that that's a bad thing in this case as this episode does feature alot of things that were only things in the nineties like the fact that the Hospitals won't let you visit anyone unless it's during visiting hours or the fact that orders on a Chinese menu are done in numbered form both of which aren't really things anymore and while they do help to age this show alot of them are also things that we still do to this very day like the fact that when an Ambulance stops at a neighbors house almost everyone goes out to have a look which is just such a great little thing to notice as it's something that alot of us do for no reason and it's that kind of writing that makes this show standout from alot of other comedies from around this same time period as it's something that we all do only now we'd most likely also be filming it on our phones and not being stood out there talking to our neighbors about what we think is actually really happening.
To be frank your only going to really like or even enjoy this episode if your from Britain as it's very British in nature. With the episode being fun but also being based on aspects of British society and thinks that only British people would understand and even then you'd have to have been born around the nineties to fully enjoy this show and while the show is very held back by the fact that it takes place in the nineties in alot of respects there's a huge chance that if you love British culture then you might find this episode to be enjoyable as it has alot of the things about British culture that you'll enjoy and that does in it's own unique way make the show seem timeless as alot of people who didn't grow up in nineties Britain or in Britain at all then you'll laugh at alot of the things that we used to do and in some cases still do do.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty nine minuets and five seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for not only this show but for alot of British sitcoms as well and to this episodes credit it does have more then alot there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time but with that in mind even tho it has the running time to end it's story the episode really doesn't finish it's plot with the episode just coming to an end which it really shouldn't have done but this is something that does happen in alot of the episodes of this show and while the show would get better at doing this with them ending on a really joke that does kind of tie into the main plot of the episode here the episode just ends when it really should have been starting it's third act and while that might be the point of the show as we're just viewing these characters for thirty minuets as a TV show it still needs to end it's plot but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the episode having alot of really painfully moments in it which really isn't all that shocking as this show is written by the writer of Last Of Summer Wine , Open All Hours and Still Open All Hours with this writer knowing how to tell a good joke and he really does tell of really funny jokes in this episode with alot of the series running jokes still being really painfully in this episode as there just that good of a running joke that will always be funny in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this is a really good episode of this really funny show that should be watched by alot of people as this show whilst dated in some respects more then holds up in others with the show and this episode still being really enjoyable in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Keeping Up Appearances fandom wiki page , Wikipedia and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very review being the great and legendary Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not all of the images that are really from this episode and are of course on Google Images are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.