Tuesday, January 20, 2004

SHAZZA UNLEASHED
Sham, and later Billy, are questioned by DS Estelle Morris and her stubbly side kick. They mention that the snooker hall was losing money, that Sham is related to Fill "Mr Potatohead of Crime" Mitchell and that Billy used to work at the club and knows all it's top secret secrets etc. Sham is quite cool, compared to yesterday, but Billy acts all guilty. Denman wants to wreak a terrible revenge against Sham but Shazza tells him not to do anything that could send him back to HM Lakeland Plastics. Denman ambushes Sham and tells her that he is going to get his own back, but that he is going to take his time about it so that she least expects it. Sham spends the whole episode being nauseatingly nice to Shazza, while Shazza's bottom jaw wobbles back and forth so fast that it starts to smoke and issue a low pitched hum. In the end she is about to smack Sham in the face but Kyert and Denman grab a shoulder pad each and hold her back. I wish Shazza was having a vendetta with a lady who didn't have such a similar name.

Nat asks to see Bad Bro and apologises for flying off the handle when she discovered that Bazza had gone up to the Great Fried Food Emporium in the Sky. BB finds out from Pat that Nat is having money trouble now that Baz is dead. What is Nat's job anyway? BB is wracked with guilt (still) and gives her most of the money that Juhneen gave him yesterday.

Rickay says he is going to look into the books/car suppliers etc and confirms that he will be opening any cans of worms that he might come across (yes, I saw that spoiler email that was going around...)

Dot and Jim express concern that Moomin is going out with the boy WHO MURDERED THE LOVE OF HER LIFE but Moomin is all Stepford Wife happy and serene and doesn't care. Who you gonna call? A cult deprogrammer!

Fool goes crawling to Sham to get Andy evicted. When Sham finds out that Andy is a gangsta (albeit the worst gangster evah) she says he can stay as long as he likes but he owes her a favour.

The headline of the Walford Gazzette is "Disco Inferno". Ok, heh.

A cute, semi naked man does some washing in the laundrette thus giving Dot and Poline something to talk about. Thumbs up to gratuitous nudity. Drippy takes some washing in and has a funny turn, causing D and P to instantly guess that she is pregnant - before long everyone knows. Meanwhile everyone keeps coming up to Billy and begging him to sort out his issues with Drippy. Maybe they could go on Trisha or something. It is even worse when word gets round that Drippy is with child. In the end Billy stands up in the Vic and announces to everyone that Drippy was raped and is having the baby (seeing as how she is soft hearted and pure etc etc) and that Billy can't have anything to do with the baby. Drippy, who is working in the Vic at the time, runs away and everyone else looks shocked and appalled etc. Nicely acted and all but this episode was pretty dull.