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Things that always or never happen in Eastenders or Coronation Street
Things that always or never happen in Eastenders or Coronation Street
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People leave for their holidays or leave the area in a cab from the pub with enough luggage for a night away.
People return to the area or from their holidays and get dropped off at the pub. No wedding goes without some major hitch or drama; loads of weddings don't even take place when they are supposed to. People who have lived in the same area for years suddenly start fancying each other out of the blue. |
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People just turn up at a local business and ask for a job, no CV, no interview, and get asked to start tomorrow.
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Never seem to see them watching the tV, dont they practice what they preach ?
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Church ceremonies - weddings, funerals, etc. - always full of people from the Street / the Square, nobody comes from far afield not even family members.
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A friendly card game will end up with someone throwing their car or house keys into the pot (Nap)
Four Aces or a Royal Flush are always dealt in this situation. |
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Whenever theres a betting story, the horse/dog is always 10-1 or more. Ive never seen a bet on a soap or any drama
at odds on. |
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still waiting for anybody to admit they are hacked off with the main political parties and will vote ukip at the next election.
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Was there any looting of shops in August when the riots were on a few years ago?
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Whenever betting - and this is in any tv drama - is shown, they invariably **** it up. Only slightly, just to annoy me!
Some bloke in Eastenders was having a punt on a race at Newmarket and they showed the end of the race - on a left-handed track. Some other bloke had a bet on Persian Punch and was looking at a copy of the racing post with coverage of Derby Day on the front cover. Persian Punch never ran on Derby Day That kind of thing. |
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Haven't watched EE since Phil & Grant were on it, but I bet you a million pounds that still nobody has ever ordered a carbonated soft drink in the Vic.
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Liz never appears in conservative clothing
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No one ever comes into a room and forgets why.
No one ever loses their glasses (spectacles). No one every speaks properly (like a BBC newsreader). |
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rogerthebutler 30 Sep 14 07:54
Whenever betting - and this is in any tv drama - is shown, they invariably **** it up. Only slightly, just to annoy me! I read on here once that somebody was taking bets on the sex of a baby about to be born, boy and girl were both odds against. |
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Any horses backed on Eastenders never have Arabic names like Al Mukaddram.
They are usually called Lucky Boy or similar. |
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One of the characters in Coronation Street may have a serious heart condition. I hope they've researched that more thoroughly. (I don't know which soap had the betting on the sex of the baby but CS did show a stewards enquiry which lasted about five seconds)
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Nicks Bistro has invisible Chef
Devs Corner Shop never has deliveries Sophie never bulk buys batteries for her Rabbit      |
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Never see a lead female character walking away from the toilet wafting the fumes away with a copy of the Daily Mirror.
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People who have rubbish jobs or no discernible means of income, spend 10+ sessions a week in the pub, wear decent clothes, smoke, eat copious amounts of takeaways, own cars, can have holidays at the drop of a hat and generally live a lifestyle to which most couldn't contemplate on anything less than about £500 a week.
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On the betting thing, in Heartbeat, Greengrass was taking bets on (i think) a boxing match.
The outsider was 5-1. The lads in the pub moaned that Greengrass was only giving 6-4 for the favourite, so he relented and gave 2-1. |
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Maybe it was a nailed-on draw?
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No baby can be born without a drama. Usually premature and delivered by someone who isn't a friend of the mother in the back of a car.
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Whenever anybody has an argument on the doorstep, the homeowner slams the door on the other person, turns around and leans against the door, looks up at the ceiling and sighs. Love it
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Re betting..
Watching The Bill a few years ago, they were over Rye House , a copper had a gambling problem, he had 10k on a dog.  |
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You never see good acting or people living boring lives like most of the rest of the UK.
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10 grand on a dog at The Rye?
Bunny would take a monkey at best and only if he was well in front. |
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Nigel and Grant had a race round the square once. Someone started laying bets, Nigel was 10/1 and grant was evens or 2/1.
One character once got a six or seven accumulator up. But the person putting the bet on made a mistake and backed the rank outsider in the last race instead of the favourite. He thought he had lost what would have been a 25k win but because the outsider actually won he got 30k. Difference between a favourite and a rank outsider would surely have been more thanthat. |
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imposed limit
small bookies |
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Slightly off-topic but Russell Howard was talking about the Grand National on his show and said something about the horses retiring and going off to stud
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Whenever I'm upstairs and the missus is watching soaps downstairs, every time all I hear is massive slanging matches, with copiuos amounts of shouting at the top of their voices at 100 decibels. Sounds more like torture than entertainment.
2) If a character has an accident they are always 50-50 live or die lying in a coma in hospital. They invariably wake up and next esipode they are perfectly fine like nothing ever happenned. |
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Any incriminating evidence is never disposed of, but hidden in a totally non-secure place, to be found later by somebody else, usually the person that you would least want to find it.
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In Eastenders the car lot is probably due to be burned down for insurance purposes.
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Funny how some stupid things stick in your memory.
Some people actually thought these were real life programmes, like the first reality telly ....ever.  I'm old enough to recall when Coronation Street started. One of the story lines was of Ena Sharple's greenhouse having lots of glass panes broken by stones being thrown. Granada studios were inundated with boxes of tomatoes addressed to Ena. |