Sunita's
aunties leave Manchester
for Mumbai and
they say bye-bye to Dev in the Rovers after munching on gristle in
Betty's veggie hotpot. "It's
horrible," they
cry at Steve's straight from the freezer
treat. And when
Steve goes over to ask them how the food is, they smile and say it's
great. It's the
scene from Fawlty
Towers when the
American, exasperated, asks Basil how on earth the hotel can keep
going when they're providing such despicable service and awful
food. The camera
cuts to two old biddies at a table complaining to each other about
the dreadful meal. "How's your
dinner, ladies? Everything all right?" Basil asks of them
both. "Ooh, it's
lovely Mr Fawlty," they tweet. To which
Basil walks back to the American who wanted to know how he keeps the
place open and tells him, quite proudly: "That's how!" Mind you, I'd still pay good
money to give Betty's veggie hot-pot a
go. The aunties
departure means that Dev and Sunita now have the place to themselves
and Dev delves in for a snog but
Sunita's not keen. Well, she
doesn't yet know that Ciaran's returned. By the time
Sunita's changed her mind and decides she wants Dev back, she's in
the Rovers chatting to Ciaran and when Dev spies them he turns round
and leaves. But then he
comes back, Ciaran goes back to his work, Sunita
cuddles up to her ex-husband in the Rovers and all's well with the
world.
Mind you, that
Ciaran, he's chatting up everything that
moves. He'd romance
a lampstand if it had a frilly shade. Yes, the old
Irish charmer wastes no time and he's working behind
the bar of the Rovers before you can say,
well, I don't know, something Irish. Guinness,
perhaps, or
Tipperary, something
like that. Liz is well
pleased with her new barman and the cocktail he mixes specially
for her ? The
Queen Elizabeth (it's a cheeky little number with a sour aftertaste)
and she gives him a drink and a debrief in the back room of the
pub. They get as
far as the drink together before Steve
returns with Becky and interrupts the cosy scene
before any
debriefing takes place. The women of
the nation rolled their eyes and tutted. Becky tells
Liz she's a cougar, an older woman who goes after younger
men.
Over at
Gail's, there's cops-a-hoy and questions-a-plenty, wanting to know
the ins and outs of texts and flowers sent to Tina from
Joe. The two cops
assigned to the case look like rejected members of a Take That
tribute band. Anyway, David
throws Joe's phone into the canal and Gail lies to protect her
son. Tina's
distraught when the cops tell her that Gail sent the text and
flowers, not her dead dad. Best settle
down and hunker in, this story's going to
run and run.
There's
heartbreak for Steve and
Becky when Becky miscarries the baby. She deals
with it by going on a bender but breaks down in Steve's arms,
eventually, as you knew she would, upstairs in the
flat.
Over the road,
Peter checks himself out of rehab and has an argument with Leanne in
her pyjamas. So distraught
is she that she takes herself for a jar in the
pub in her jim-jams. She doesn't
half get some odd looks but, hey, she's
worn
worse.
Tyrone's
trying to cope with having his mum back and Jackie has a go at Molly
in the shop. "You're a
plate-faced slapper with elevator knickers!"
she yells at Molly and asks Tyrone how long Molly's been dressing as
a Pussycat Doll. "She's not!"
says Tyrone. She is, we
replied. Jackie's
intuition tells her that Molly's got a new man although she denies
it of course and Tyrone tells his mum to back off but Jackie won't let it drop
and wrongly confronts Dev in the pub: "What's going on Dev, is it
prices up, knickers down?" Apart from molesting Molly and taking
Tyrone for all she can
get in the most rough/camp/scary voice I've heard on telly since
1986: "Gis twenty quid and I'll buy some saucy prawn balls,"s she
wastes no time in warming up the duvet with a nasty piece of
rough. The next
morning, Tyrone
comes downstairs for breakfast but
tells Jackie he's lost his appetite when he sees the state of the
place. Finding your
mother's bra being used as the tea-cosy can really put you off your
Typhoo.
And that's
just about that for this
week.
Coronation Street
writers this week were Stephen Russel, John Kerr, Mark Burt,
Julie Jones and Jan
McVerry.
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more about the
Coronation
Street writing
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