"Keeping Up Appearances"

I love this show. Mrs. Bouquet(Bucket) is hilarious. Have you seen Fawlty Towers, it's another British Comedy from the same years. If not, check that out as well. As for your actual question, I think everyone to an extent puts up a front when they first meet people, clearly not like this TV show, but everyone wants to be seen as a better version of themselves, it's human nature.

Yes Rozie, you can see those types whereever you go. I have seen some and they have made me laugh. It is very difficult to maintain the appearances, oneday or the other the truth will come out. Then what will happen? Some will enhance the money and the position they have just to show off. How long canthey show it off like that if the guests come and stay in their home for a longer period, thinking it is not difficult for them. Some who would not have passed out school but say that they had passed out college and know everything. When you talk with them for sometime we'll know how wrong they are. There is no point in making up stories of having a better life than one has and getting into difficulties while trying to show them off. I prefer to tell the truth of what I am or what my family is made of etc. Keeping up appearances is very difficult. I have not seen the serial but I have seen in real life people like that.

right now i cant say i havent known someone who acts or pretends something who in reality they are not.since im too engrossed with my family and work..ive got friends too..but havent noticed it in them ... but i had experienced once in my college days a friend..who i think the most lovable one but i found out that she was just making a face infront of me and i hate it..

The very first time that I went to North America Rozie I sat in my hotel room and channel hopped. "Keeping up Appearances" was the only show that I found that was something that I wanted to see. All that way just to watch something that I could have seen at home. I have known many Hyacinths. I worked once with a woman that bought her house in the best street, drove a smart car, always boasted about her daughter the Flight Attendant and her membership of the golf club. But she didn't have a single friend in the World. To have someone that close would have betrayed the fact that really her existence was very empty and shallow. It is what we are inside that matters, not what we own or the way that we look.

When I watched the show I always felt sorry for the woman who lives next door to Hyacinth. She get so nervous in Hyacinth's house, for fear of spilling something or leaving a mark. That would be me.

I think that those that constantly pretend to impress friends and people around them are most times doing a good job of it. You know first it is not an easy job to pretend for people without being ditected. Most time people i know who do alot of pretence, dont really do them to fraud others but to be accepted into a group, others do it to keep up with the expectations of the friends or those around them. Though the truth may come any time, but i still say more energy to the arms of those who do this as it is not an easy thing to live a false life. People might feel disapointed if they found their friends who they feel are sopposed to be hot to be just cool or those they think to be white to be black. It dememorise people when they come to find out that their friends have being leing about who the really are too. So it is never easy any way, and for it i would advice everyone to show their real life and allow people who really care about them to accept and love them.

I love this show! I was watching it on BBC a few days ago, the episode where they are renting/buying (I walked into the show 1/2 way through) a boat. I was in stitches the entire show, it was so funny First she had to get her hubby dressed for the part, he looked like PopEye the sailor man, then they are on the docks and people are laughing at them for their dress, then they get to the boat they THOUGHT was theirs and Hyacynth finds out that it is not, then they get to the one they're really renting and it's all shabby and too small... then they try to take it out on the water and end up in circles as neither knows how to maneuver it. Funny funny.... I also liked the episode where they tried out the new Rolls Royce.

It is funny I like Hyacinth's crazy family, and the poor downtrodden husband.

yeah. I know this kid named kevin. He is truly a wannabe he get on everyones nerves because he says he better then everyone. He thinks he is cool but kevin is not. he pretends to be something he aint a hotshot. People shuld really know there place

omg it's so funny although I have to admit that sometimes I get the tendency to want to punch Mrs. Bucket or should I say "Bouquet".