‘A CELEBRITY FOR THE BARBECUE’

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In this episode, Hyacinth tries to host an outdoors-indoors barbecue for a celebrity guest named C.P. Benedict, the Garden Centre king, that nobody has ever heard of. This is due to Hyacinth’s very ridiculous jealously of one of her neighbours entertaining another celebrity guest of cement making.

This isn’t one of my absolute favourite episodes from ‘Keeping Up Appearances’, although it was funny to see Hyacinth and Richard driving home in a car full of garden plants after visiting a Garden Centre. Hyacinth is pretty obsessed with entertaining and impressing C.P. Benedict at her barbecue.

Also, while at a bank, Hyacinth and Richard try to locate C.P. Benedict in order to invite him to the barbecue. Richard keeps on cashing in cheques for small amounts of money such as £5 and £6 which gets a little silly. But Hyacinth is keen not to give up, especially when the real C.P. Benedict turns up.

The episode’s guest stars include Clovissa Newcombe as the cashier at the bank. She must have been very patient when Richard cashed in cheques for £5 and £6 at the bank. There’s also Paul Williamson as C.P. Benedict who gets revealed at the episode’s conclusion once he turns up at Hyacinth’s house.

There’s a sub-plot in the episode where Daisy demands to know from Onslow where he was last night. Onslow tells Daisy he was with the lads, but Daisy suspects he’s got another woman. I do think Daisy is rather over-the-top in this episode with her jealously and the sub-plot doesn’t go anywhere.

This is especially when Daisy tries to get herself another man as she and Rose visit the hairdressers. I don’t think Onslow is that bothered since he’d rather eat crisps whilst watching the TV. I’m not sure if Daisy tried to prompt Onslow to make love to her once accusing him being with another woman. 😐

By the end of the episode, Daisy and Rose turn up at Hyacinth’s with new makeovers and wearing mini-skirts. Hyacinth gets embarrassed…until C.P. Benedict turns up. He recognises Rose and it turns out she’s an old flame. Of course! Rose would be an old flame of C.P. Benedict! This upsets Hyacinth.

The only guests that turned up at Hyacinth’s outdoors-indoors barbeque were Elizabeth and Emmet. The Vicar and his wife were invited, but I imagine they must have found some way to back out of it. I don’t think the outdoors-indoors barbecue idea works, especially with there being so many plants. 🙂

‘A Celebrity for the Barbecue’ rating – 6/10