― One day all things will come sliced, Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 27 January 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 27 January 2005 11:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Phantom of the Operating System (kate), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― My Aunt Eileen On X (blueski), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link
So Paul Trueman is properly dead then? I was hoping they were going to keep it open, in a Dirty Den kind of way.
Eastenders has got so much better since they dropped the absurd pretence that Leslie Grantham is supposedly attractive to women and made him into the durty old man everyone really thinks he is. Did you hear Den say "its so vulgar having your photo in the paper" the other week?
Also there's a Den whodunnit coming up, apparently. Soap whodunnits are always great in a preposterous kind of way.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 27 January 2005 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link
will anyone tell the difference?
― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 27 January 2005 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
I was terribly disappointed at Andy Hunters death, I was expecting him to be torn apart by Alfie or Patrick, but hey ho, can't have all the square murderers.
Gosh, I'm sad.
― Rumpington Lane, Monday, 21 February 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 21 February 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
how did Den fake his dead pulse?
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Andy's death was cool, especially the ruthless economy of it. Actually the Andy story was much more compelling than the Den storyline, I thought.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― alix (alix), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
I was saying to my wife the other night that with the two new rent-a-thugs, the return of Den and the bloke of The Bill that 'enders now had way too many tough/bad guys in it. Good plan to get rid of two at once.
Rumour azzit Grant Mitchell may return later in the year.
um, xpost, some wrestling stuff, folding table gtting smashed or something
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 21 February 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 21 February 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 21 February 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
I thought the bit in the Vic with Ian playing the air guitar was quite sweet because it involved all the characters who've been there from the beginning. I can't believe I've been watching that programme for 20 years now.
I also can't believe that the best plotline they could come up with for their 20th anniversary was to kill Den again. I agree, Andy's death was much better.
And hey! The Ferreras aren't gone at all! There they were at the bar with no-one saying "where the bloody hell did you lot slope off to?"
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 21 February 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I was quite stupidly impressed with them keeping Sharon's brief return quiet - I read quite a lot of trashy papers and magazines and didn't know about it. I should get out more.
I said that thing about Ian being like his twattish 20-years-ago self with Pauline and Dot and Den and that to my husband when it was on on Friday, like what accentmonkey said, and my husband said I was really sad. :(
Are there any gays in Eastenders at the moment? I like a good gay character.
The guy who plays the Moon brother that isn't Lee from the Office is gay in real life, but that's not what you meant, was it? Corrie has the best soap gay in Sean.
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 21 February 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link
I can't help myself, my head is full of old soap plots - I'm therefore frequently baffled at the company some people keep in the soaps ("Why are you buying him a pint? He shagged your wife in 1992!"). It seems the characters have shorter memories (or are more forgiving) than me.
Tony and Simon were a top gay couple. Simon was totally over the top bad acting camp guy and Tony spent the whole time going "I'm not gay, give us a kiss Si."
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 21 February 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, and WTF is with Ronnie Ferrera? Has he got mumps?
― Rumpy Pumpkin, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link
According to teh beeb "The Banned was a pop group consisting of Ian Beale, Sharon Watts, Kelvin Carpenter and Eddie Henderson. In the show they performed a track called Something Outta Nothing. It was then released as a single."
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Me too. When Den was bludgeoned I thought, wow, it's just like when Steve and Matthew did Saskia in. And cementing over the body. How Brookside!
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 08:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 08:58 (nineteen years ago) link
The 'Lords of the Bling' lads had a scrap (can't remember the names) over the Ferraro girl.
That blonde girl who hangs around with the Ferraro's shouted at them a bit and then did one.
― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 09:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Denise and Jack? Are they honestly going to pair up every single adult with every other adult at some stage in this programme? Can't wait till Phil and Martin have their spring awakening and end up together for six months.
― trishyb, Monday, 17 October 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
Jack’s become incredibly dull and in dire need of a good plot. He’s been basically reduced to overprotective dad. Rumours are he’s about to stray from Denise.
― Luna Schlosser, Monday, 17 October 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
I've only just found out they're a couple and now I'm furious that he's going to cheat on her. Who with? Is it his turn with Sharon?
― trishyb, Monday, 17 October 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link
Jack's already been engaged to Sharon.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link
Jesus christ, this programme.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 13:10 (one year ago) link
Innit though. it's like how everyone in Corrie is no more than one degree of separation from Steve, Gary, Leanne or Maria.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
I read an interview with the Maria actress in one of the soap mags lying around my grandparents' house a few weeks ago and she was saying the character has had 31 partners in her 20-odd years at Corrie.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
I'm sure I said it earlier in this thread, but it is always funny when anyone in a soap lays out the history of any house or character on the street/square/close. It always sounds just crazy.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
Who with?Keep watching … Duff Duff duff duff du du du duff
― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
Tonight, we say goodbye to a Walford legend. 7:35pm on @BBCOne #EastEnders #RememberDot pic.twitter.com/miw1QLZsFu— BBC EastEnders (@bbceastenders) December 12, 2022
― Luna Schlosser, Monday, 12 December 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
[wipes away a tear]Good to see Colin, Mary, Lofty and Ian.
― Luna Schlosser, Monday, 12 December 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
I was expecting it to be cheesy and full of pomp, but I thought it was really good considering how it could have been otherwise... until they started comparing her to the Queen. It took me right out of it. Also, everybody standing up in the church felt like a Harry Hill TV Burp moment.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
Yes that was a real clanger
― Luna Schlosser, Monday, 12 December 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
Toe-curling, because it was nicely done until that point. Ian lurking in a bush was unexpected. They brought it back at the cemetery though, Jack throwing her cigarettes onto her coffin, Abide With Me seguing into the theme tune...
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
Rip Mick… a full Vera Lynn farewell complete with White Cliffs of Dover.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 25 December 2022 22:36 (one year ago) link
he'll be back, Harold Bishop/Dee Bliss style
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 25 December 2022 22:49 (one year ago) link
We absolutely reckoned he's up for the full Harold Bishop reveal. Janine husbands should really stay away from cliffs.
― ailsa, Monday, 26 December 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
The actress playing Lola is doing an incredible job.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 20 May 2023 10:37 (one year ago) link
Cindy reportedly returning from the grave in a few months, with Ian. How many of Ian's wives have tried to murder him? He doesn't bear a grudge.
― technopolis, Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link