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Keeping Up Appearances

Who can explain the phenomenal success of a series like Keeping Up Appearances? Well, we can...and her name is Patricia Routledge. In one of the great comic performances, Patricia Routledge pries Hyacinth Bouquet loose from the imagination of Roy Clarke (creator of Last of the Summer Wine and Open All Hours) and tumbles into our living rooms, fully formed and utterly monstrous. No one is immune, not even herself, from her pretentions and snobberies, yet to her eternal confusion and embarassment, she's saddled with a family that just can't say no to bad taste and bad behavior. Standing in for all of us is her long-suffering husband Richard and her neighbors Elizabeth and Emmett. Just remember to check before you open the front door!

"A tour de force of slapstick humor and weirdness ... Ms Routledge squeezes every bit of humor out of this juicy role." - Wall Street Journal

"Keeping Up Appearances gets better and better. The finest sitcoms are driven by monsters ... and Hyacinth Bucket (sorry, Bouquet) is right up there with the best." - Sun

"Roy Clarke's sitcom is consistently entertaining, and Patricia Routledge's portrayal of infuriating, manners-mad Hyacinth Bucket is nothing short of brilliant. Her attempts to ingratiate herself with the local well-to-dos and her efforts at etiquette are guaranteed to make any viewer's toes curl in delighted embarrassment." - Today