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Pookah
Aug 21, 2008

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Ein cooler Typ posted:

Pauline just died in 2006 on Christmas

I've known this was coming for a long time because I spoilered myself wikipediaing the actress (PBS also shows Are You Being Served)


they really did ruin her character near the end

You know she died as an after-effect of getting smacked on the head with a frying pan?

It was the same frying pan she smacked Arthur on the head with back in 1993.

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Pookah
Aug 21, 2008

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Ein cooler Typ posted:

yeah I saw the episode where Joe admitted he killed her with the frying pan

I never saw the one where she hit Arthur with it

Here's the scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyaeQe8DJVw

Poor Arfur :(

I love the way that within the show almost everything is played completely seriously and is usually very bleak, but once you step outside the show universe, it's frequently very funny - like how Ian's wives keep trying to kill him and the glorious period when Phil was a crackhead.

Having Pauline be killed 30 years later by the same frying pan is peak Eastenders comedy.

Pookah
Aug 21, 2008

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Gyro Zeppeli posted:

I don't think I've ever laughed at intentional comedy more than I laughed at Crackhead Phil Mitchell.

I told a good few people that the climax of that story arc was that Phil started the fire in the Vic, Peggy's wig went up like a torch after it caught a stray spark and she ran to her death across the square like Denethor.

That would have been great.

Pookah
Aug 21, 2008

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Look forward to the wonderful day when the Connor family's tanker of black hair dye finally runs out and they all switch to a variety of flattering shades of brown.

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