"Keeping Up Appearances" The Hostess (TV Episode 1995) Poster

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(1995)

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8/10
Titled "Scintillating Socializing" on the DVD
papabearEG8 November 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Hyacinth wanting to attract people to educate in the ways of elegant socializing runs an add in the paper for "experienced hostess offers her services for your special occasion". Obvious misunderstandings over the add lead her into an awkward situations with phone calls and later with her father. The Milk Man has a small side part in coming very early to the Bucket home with a younger man to teach him the ins and outs of not actually running into Hyacinth. Hyacinth comments that she doesn't understand why he comes so early these days and how she misses their little chats. Hyacinth, impatient for the paper to come bearing her add, repeatedly pops in and out of her house, making an escape for Emmet difficult. Emmet quips that she is "like a demented coo-coo clock". The paper boy avoids the Bucket house and we find out that Hyacinth made him clean his ears. Hyacinth ends up chasing him down the street after he spots her waiting on him. favorite quote Daisy: "what was it you liked about my pink one?"
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9/10
The final episode, and it's a cracker.
Sleepin_Dragon5 September 2022
Scintillating socialising, it was never going to end well.

Hyacinth is super excited by the thought of the newspaper delivery, it turns out she's advertising.

It's hard to believe that this was the final episode of the show, but it's a cracking episode. It's very very funny, some good one liners and a very interesting premise, the final revelation is seriously funny. Hyacinth went through all manner of things in this final episode, nothing quite like this though.

I've always wondered how well off Richard and Hyacinth were, they never really explained it, but the fact that she's picked up

The jokes about Rose's former engagements were hilarious, I loved the way that Onslow mocked her. Coffee with Elizabeth is also a hilarious scene.

What a ride, great episode.

9/10.
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