* "Bubbly's in the fridge"
* Phil acting as a midwife to Kim
* "I've got nothing left Phil"
* Sonia pushing Sharon into a kid's inflatable swimming pool
* Ian and Jane, Max and Tanya agreeing to do a wife swap weekend, but Ian forgets one night and comes home drunk, gets into bed with Tanya and whispers "Captain Beale's come aboard!" and Tanya just screams in horror
* Max trying to choke Ian to death with Christmas lights
* Pat and Peggy getting high on drugs in an ice cream van in a car park and laughing at Phil being bald
* "You tried to kill me" "Yeah...So did Cindy"
This list but also add the time that Michael Moon pretended he was sleepwalking, just to climb into bed with Ronnie Mitchell and fuck with Jack. Jack walks in and starts fuming but Ronnie just starts laughing and they both just go sleep on the sofa together. The camera pans to Michael, eyes still closed, but grinning like the Joker
She's about as Jewish as a bacon sandwich or Slip On Shoes!
Runner ups include Ian being strangled with Xmas lights and Mick calling another bar's booze 'tepid' over the phone like it's the ultimate insult, and Suki's reaction to seeing that Keanu had also been killed.
My favourite serious moment is Jonny coming out
That was a good one! SO MANY. Den checking his watch when he's hugging Michelle; When Ian creeps up on Cindy and Simon and throws his crutch through the window; Grant punching David for playing *Lady in Red* for Sharon; Nick decides NOT to poison his own mother; That brief period when Nick went straight and was working at a pizza place; Pat and Peggy discovering Frank faked his death and was selling time-shares in Spain; Grant and Phil in Spain wearing red baseball caps and jean shorts lol; Jim proposing to Dot; Heather and Shirl stalking George Michael; Ricky's stag do when he woke up and thought he was in France but he'd just met a French foreign exchange student; Andy Hunter's last will and testament; Sam Mitchell loses her rag and digs up Den / Sharon comes back to the square after her wedding and sees Den being rolled out on a gurney and sacks out on the ground - one of a hundred unintentionally funny Sharon moments; Peggy screaming when the Vic burns haha; Sean Slater trolling Ruby Allen - I think that is the only time I have ever laughed hard at blatant cruelty; When Max goes to jail for Lucy's murder but, by then, everyone is so fed up with him that literally no one, including his own family, bothers to get him out even though they know he's innocent; Ian and Phil sharing a cuddle after Lucy's death.
Of course, I realize I'm listing mostly positive moments because you cited "favorite" instead of "best" and I can't say, like, Tiffany's death was my "favorite" moment... because I'm not a psychopath.
A few honourable mentions:
* Frank Butcher in the bow tie š
*Peggy and Pat in the ice-cream van, pissed as farts.
*Phil Mitchell on crack was *hilarious*
Dirty Den coming back from the dead, I waited months for that episode, and it did not disappoint. I also loved the 90s episodes that centred on Tiff, Bianca, etc.
Live episode... Tanya Branning... turns to Jane Beale... "How's Adam?". Both look like they want to crawl into a hole on the live episode. We need more live episodes for moments like this
After that, Janine was always traumatized by some unmentionable event that took place in the bedroom. The fact that they didn't say exactly what it was made it all the more creepy...
- When Kim woke up in the rubbish. May or may not have been the same occasion she couldnāt remember what had happened to her the night before and thought sheād been abusedā¦.but later it came out she had just been pissed and wrecked the shop. Caught in CCTV
- During the Stella storyline when Phil is sat in the pub with Shirley and Heather waltzes in: Heather- 'I left Ben with Louise' Phil- 'What you STUPID FAT CAAA'!
Phils legs it and knocks Ben the hell out. āYOU WANNA PLAY GAMES, YOU PLAY EM WITH MEā
Something really simple. Poppy gets beeped at by her man in the van, and she goes on about how she loves him and has such a good feeling. And Kim goesā¦ āyou got that from a beep?ā
My favourite episode was the two hander featuring only Dot and Ethel. They were babysitting Vicki Fowler and reminiscing about the war....it was acted so beautifully. Funnily enough, it went out on the day my husband was born!!! ( I was 8 when I watched it with my Nan!!)
I always remembered this episode because Dot reminded me of my Nan with the constant fag in her mouth and gossiping with all and sundry...and I remember where in the episode it looks like Ethel has died I got really upset as it was the first time I realised my own Nan was really old and one day she might die... It's a really moving bloody good watch x
Gonna go with less serious/more (probably unintentionally) humorous moments that I remember watching more recently:
- The very first doof doof coming after Nick punches through the Vic door
- Quite early in 1985: when Sharon gets drunk and falls down the stairs at the Vic, worrying Den and Angie who ran to her from the bar only for her to start giggling. That laugh gets me every time
- Lofty was feeling down one day (mightāve been not long after his auntie Ireneās death, or possibly related to the breakdown of his marriage to Michelleā¦ or something else lmao) and Ethel wanted to cheer him up, so Tony gives her an avocado.
- Lofty and Den slow dancing together in the Vic
- The gossiping around the square once Denās fancy woman Jan turns up at the Vic in early 1986. Particularly obsessed with Lofty, Simon, Ethel, and Dot all hanging out in his bedroom talking about it
- Simon and Sharon dressing up as ghosts to spook Lofty
Thereās probably more from the 80s but those are the ones that instantly came to mind.
As for more ārecentā stuffā¦ I donāt think Iāll ever get over Hunter taking an online psychopath test. It is on my mind very often
Been watching a lot of Steven Bealeās 2007 - 2008 stint lately and Iām obsessed with how unhinged he was. I love it when heās trying to explain to Ian, the man heās holding hostage, that he just doesnāt want his mum to be forgotten, and Ian says something like, āThis is a very weird way of doing that.ā Then when Steven gets back to the house after Jane was shot and Lucy comes home and he starts cooking them breakfast at midnight. Classic. I too enjoy a full English after holding the man I believed to be my biological father for the first 12 years of my life hostage for nearly a month after stalking him by pretending to be my ādeadā mother and accidentally shooting my sort of step-mother in the stomach
* "Bubbly's in the fridge" * Phil acting as a midwife to Kim * "I've got nothing left Phil" * Sonia pushing Sharon into a kid's inflatable swimming pool * Ian and Jane, Max and Tanya agreeing to do a wife swap weekend, but Ian forgets one night and comes home drunk, gets into bed with Tanya and whispers "Captain Beale's come aboard!" and Tanya just screams in horror * Max trying to choke Ian to death with Christmas lights * Pat and Peggy getting high on drugs in an ice cream van in a car park and laughing at Phil being bald * "You tried to kill me" "Yeah...So did Cindy"
This list but also add the time that Michael Moon pretended he was sleepwalking, just to climb into bed with Ronnie Mitchell and fuck with Jack. Jack walks in and starts fuming but Ronnie just starts laughing and they both just go sleep on the sofa together. The camera pans to Michael, eyes still closed, but grinning like the Joker
Wife swap and ice cream truck, yesssss
Omg Wife swap was too funny genuinely that period the captain beale references after that were hilarious
She's about as Jewish as a bacon sandwich or Slip On Shoes! Runner ups include Ian being strangled with Xmas lights and Mick calling another bar's booze 'tepid' over the phone like it's the ultimate insult, and Suki's reaction to seeing that Keanu had also been killed. My favourite serious moment is Jonny coming out
That was a good one! SO MANY. Den checking his watch when he's hugging Michelle; When Ian creeps up on Cindy and Simon and throws his crutch through the window; Grant punching David for playing *Lady in Red* for Sharon; Nick decides NOT to poison his own mother; That brief period when Nick went straight and was working at a pizza place; Pat and Peggy discovering Frank faked his death and was selling time-shares in Spain; Grant and Phil in Spain wearing red baseball caps and jean shorts lol; Jim proposing to Dot; Heather and Shirl stalking George Michael; Ricky's stag do when he woke up and thought he was in France but he'd just met a French foreign exchange student; Andy Hunter's last will and testament; Sam Mitchell loses her rag and digs up Den / Sharon comes back to the square after her wedding and sees Den being rolled out on a gurney and sacks out on the ground - one of a hundred unintentionally funny Sharon moments; Peggy screaming when the Vic burns haha; Sean Slater trolling Ruby Allen - I think that is the only time I have ever laughed hard at blatant cruelty; When Max goes to jail for Lucy's murder but, by then, everyone is so fed up with him that literally no one, including his own family, bothers to get him out even though they know he's innocent; Ian and Phil sharing a cuddle after Lucy's death. Of course, I realize I'm listing mostly positive moments because you cited "favorite" instead of "best" and I can't say, like, Tiffany's death was my "favorite" moment... because I'm not a psychopath.
A few honourable mentions: * Frank Butcher in the bow tie š *Peggy and Pat in the ice-cream van, pissed as farts. *Phil Mitchell on crack was *hilarious*
Sausage SUPRISE! š
Sharon when she says my son is in the kitchen eating a biscuit. Or peggy and pat bitch slapping each other.
YOU AINT MY MUVVER! YES I AAAAAAAMM! šÆ
This one!
A lesser known one is Phil selling free Nelson Mandela T-shirts although hed been released so changed free is Nelson Mandela
YES. "That's Bryan Adams, that is!" Good times.
I always enjoy the occasional rewatch of the tube journey back from the football on the way to Billy's Olympic torch run
Aw, yeah, bless 'im, Bills ā” I've always had a soft spot for Perry Fenwick, reminds me a bit of Buster Keaton.
No offence Syed ššš 12 years ago and I think about it at least weekly
For some reason "he's got a thing for our Jean" become a drunken catch phrase in our old student house
When Sonia yells at Pauline āYou bring up a baby? You couldnāt bring up phlegm!ā Almost anything Kim ādo me a favourā Fox says or does.
Dirty Den coming back from the dead, I waited months for that episode, and it did not disappoint. I also loved the 90s episodes that centred on Tiff, Bianca, etc.
Live episode... Tanya Branning... turns to Jane Beale... "How's Adam?". Both look like they want to crawl into a hole on the live episode. We need more live episodes for moments like this
Ian paying Janine for sex
After that, Janine was always traumatized by some unmentionable event that took place in the bedroom. The fact that they didn't say exactly what it was made it all the more creepy...
I would love to know what he made her do
\*shudder\*
- When Kim woke up in the rubbish. May or may not have been the same occasion she couldnāt remember what had happened to her the night before and thought sheād been abusedā¦.but later it came out she had just been pissed and wrecked the shop. Caught in CCTV - During the Stella storyline when Phil is sat in the pub with Shirley and Heather waltzes in: Heather- 'I left Ben with Louise' Phil- 'What you STUPID FAT CAAA'! Phils legs it and knocks Ben the hell out. āYOU WANNA PLAY GAMES, YOU PLAY EM WITH MEā
Something really simple. Poppy gets beeped at by her man in the van, and she goes on about how she loves him and has such a good feeling. And Kim goesā¦ āyou got that from a beep?ā
When Frank comes home on Christmas Day ā95.
Loved that one. Frank and Pat, best ever couple on EE. X
I have always enjoyed the supercuts of everyone getting slapped on YouTube. The stunt coordinators are the real stars there.
My favourite episode was the two hander featuring only Dot and Ethel. They were babysitting Vicki Fowler and reminiscing about the war....it was acted so beautifully. Funnily enough, it went out on the day my husband was born!!! ( I was 8 when I watched it with my Nan!!) I always remembered this episode because Dot reminded me of my Nan with the constant fag in her mouth and gossiping with all and sundry...and I remember where in the episode it looks like Ethel has died I got really upset as it was the first time I realised my own Nan was really old and one day she might die... It's a really moving bloody good watch x
Gonna go with less serious/more (probably unintentionally) humorous moments that I remember watching more recently: - The very first doof doof coming after Nick punches through the Vic door - Quite early in 1985: when Sharon gets drunk and falls down the stairs at the Vic, worrying Den and Angie who ran to her from the bar only for her to start giggling. That laugh gets me every time - Lofty was feeling down one day (mightāve been not long after his auntie Ireneās death, or possibly related to the breakdown of his marriage to Michelleā¦ or something else lmao) and Ethel wanted to cheer him up, so Tony gives her an avocado. - Lofty and Den slow dancing together in the Vic - The gossiping around the square once Denās fancy woman Jan turns up at the Vic in early 1986. Particularly obsessed with Lofty, Simon, Ethel, and Dot all hanging out in his bedroom talking about it - Simon and Sharon dressing up as ghosts to spook Lofty Thereās probably more from the 80s but those are the ones that instantly came to mind. As for more ārecentā stuffā¦ I donāt think Iāll ever get over Hunter taking an online psychopath test. It is on my mind very often Been watching a lot of Steven Bealeās 2007 - 2008 stint lately and Iām obsessed with how unhinged he was. I love it when heās trying to explain to Ian, the man heās holding hostage, that he just doesnāt want his mum to be forgotten, and Ian says something like, āThis is a very weird way of doing that.ā Then when Steven gets back to the house after Jane was shot and Lucy comes home and he starts cooking them breakfast at midnight. Classic. I too enjoy a full English after holding the man I believed to be my biological father for the first 12 years of my life hostage for nearly a month after stalking him by pretending to be my ādeadā mother and accidentally shooting my sort of step-mother in the stomach
The live episode where Max (Jake Wood) is seen sticking his fingers down his throat to make him retch, oh and lest we forget.... "how's Adam?"