Keeping Up Appearances (TV Series) The Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball (1995) User Reviews

Funny episode.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 18 August 2022]

Hyacinth is desperate to attend The Mayor's fancy dress ball, she's also keen to make the acquaintance of new neighbour, Mrs Donaghue.

It's a good, solid episode, it doesn't exactly have anything unique happening, but it is funny, and there are a few good moments.

Rose's new man, Mr Wotsit is amusing, Cuddly Chops, I want to know what his name is.

Best of all, seeing Hyacinth dressed as Boudica, she looked quite something. Richard looked wonderfully terrible as the peasant.

Emmet has definitely been getting more than his fair share of funny moments, I love how desperate he is for Hyacinth to be far away.

7/10.

Onslow's hidden depths

[keysam-02610 · 8/10 · 31 March 2023]

It's fairly standard episode, with all Hyacinth's usual social climbing nonsense, a new beau - this time a fiance! - for Rose (who the episode doesn't really make much of in the end) and more of Daisy's passion for Onslow. There are some laugh out loud moments - Emmett's terror at being caught outside by Hyacinth and Elizabeth's glee at Hyacinth saying she thinks Emmett fancies her.

The terrified postman comes off worst in an exchange with a small child and Elizabeth thinks she's solved the coffee problem, only to find there's a biscuit one instead.

The big laughs are supposed to come from Hyacinth & Richard's fancy dress costumes, and they are funny (though actually Hyacinth's is by far the nicest version of Boudicca - love the hair!) but for me the highlight of this episode isn't a gag.

No, it's spotting - right in the first few minutes - that Onslow's bedtime reading is a book entitled "Principles of Condensed Matter Physics"! Onslow obviously has more to him than we thought.