The Buckets give the aristocratic Mrs. Fortescue a lift into town. "I hope you're not going to spoil things with lower-middle class humor."
Hyacinth scemes to impress Emmet with her vocal ability. Meanwhile, Richard is offered early retirement. [Richard]"You're going to have to promise me that when we have our talk you'll make an effort and try to listen when you're not actually saying anything."
Daddy visits a toy store. "Try not to make a noise in the bathroom, dear."
Hyacinth plans to take Daddy out for a picnic in the country. It's the dustbinmen I feel sorry for. I mean, how can they distinguish between what they're supposed to take and what's supposed to stay?"
Hyacinth tries to use holiday brochers to impress her friends. "People who try to pretend they're superior make it so much harder for those of us who really are."
Hyacinth gives Richard a hobby. "I have to hold my head up in this community. I'm looked up to. What are they going to think if I go three days without mail?"
Hyacinth and Richard are invited to an art exhibition. "Philistines!"
The Buckets go yahting. [Onslow]"I'm sitting here completely surrounded by no beer." [Emmet]"If I hear the word yaht from that woman just once more, I swear I'll buy a U-Boat." [Emmet]"Just imagine, a whole night on board some old bucket, with another old Bucket." [Hyacinth]"It's very tiring boating on foot."
Hyacinth scemes to get Richard a new executive job - unfortunately for Richard, her plans combine a mixture of golf and Onslow. "I should have thought postmen would be trained to recognize first-class stamp houses."
Hyacinth agree's to meet the Ladies Luncheon guest speaker at the rail station. [Richard]"We don't have to be friends, we're married."
Hyacinth volunteers Richard to fix the church hall electrical problem. "I will not have you spreading rumors that I might be married to somebody who wears overalls."
The Bucket's look for a country cottage. [Richard]"For me, one woman is enough."
Hyacinth continues searching for the perfect country get-a-way.
"I cannot have the neighbors assuming I'm in trouble with
the police."
The Bucket's spend some quality time in the country.
"It's so lower-middle class to go into details."
"I don't like this level of intamacy, dear. I don't think it's natural at our age. Would you please remove yourself from my person?"
Hyacinth invents the 'indoor-outdoor luxery barbeque with fingure buffet.'
"I cannot abide people who run around making a meal out of their little social triumphs."
Hyacinth offers to take some senior citizens to the sea. "I always think you can tell a gentleman by the way he honks his horn."
Hyacinth wants to go to the Mayor's fancy dress ball. "I'm not the sort of person who goes fishing for invitations."
It is Hyacinth and Richard's wedding aniversary. Richard forgot the aniversary but redemed himself by buying Hyacinth a home security system. "I want you to be the first to know, Elizabeth, I'm going to be alarmed."
Hyacinth plans a waterside supper with riperian entertainment. [Postman]"I can't show you what I've got for next door." [Hyacinth]"I don't want to look inside. I just want to be sure that you have an envelope in my handwriting for next door. So that I know their invitation has arrived. They're invited to my waterside supper with riperian entertainment." [Postman]"You posted a letter that only going as far as next door?" [Hyacinth]"Yes." [Postman]"Why didn't you just push it through their letterbox?" [Hyacinth]"Because I like people to know that I use first class stamps. Please could I see it?" [Postman]"I'm sorry Mrs. Bucket - Bouquet. Sorry. But no, no no, it's more than my job's worth to start showing you other people's mail." [Hyacinth]"It's not other people's mail. It's my mail. I wrote it."
Hyacinth gives Richard a birthday present he'll never forget. "Richard and I will be an entity for eternity." "I will not have you not excited, Richard."
Hyacinth is excited at the thought of going to a Country House Sale. Richard , on the other hand, is not. "And if people should mistake me for someone aristocratic, I don't want you telling them I'm not. It would simply confuse them. It's only good mannors to let them believe it."
Hyacinth is pleased to discover that Emmet will be casting for 'The Boyfriend.' [Hyacinth] "You know me, I am a great believer in understatement." [Emmet] "I'm destined to go through the rest of my life bearing a Hyacinth." [Hyacinth] "I think Richard and I are the perfect pair. I can't think of a couple I admire more."
Hyacinth plans for the holidays, with a little help from Richard and Elizabeth.
[Richard]"More Christmas cards? Are the genuine, or are they more of those you've written to yourself?" [Hyacinth]"I regard it as a service to those people who may have misplaced my address. I'm sure they'd like to think they sent me a card."
Hyacinth and Richard buy tickets for the QEII. This episode is definately the 'jewell of the Bucket crown."
"You'll pay for this Richard Bucket - Bouquet."
"Important as I am in local circles, I have not yet risen to the level where I can walk on water." [Onslow]"So then, this purser chap came up to the cabin and said we're on the captains table and I thought, blimey! I mean, you win a competition, you get a luxery cruise, and then they expect you to eat with the crew."
Hyacinth looks into getting new kitchen counters but Richard's foot problems take top priority. [Hyacinth]
"What did the doctor say?" [Richard]"It's athletes foot." [Hyacinth]"But it can't be athletes foot. Didn't you tell him you're a retired executive? If you've got anything it's executives foot." "Richard,
do you seriously believe that I would have married an athlete with a fungus infection?" Your gout is an infliction acceptable in the very highest circles. It comes from an excess of good living. Gout is practically a pedigree. You have gout."
