Keeping Up Appearances

A Celebrity For the Barbecue

Season 4, Episode 3, Aired 9/19/93

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Hyacinth is very annoyed when she learns that the Barker-Finches, rival snobs who live down the road, have held a barbecue which was attended by "the Douglas Chater"! ''She's decides to organise an "outdoors indoors luxury barbecue and finger buffet" and is also determined to persuade a "celebrity" to attend.moreless

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Jeremy Gittins

The Vicar (Michael)
Patricia Routledge

Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "Bouquet")
Josephine Tewson

Elizabeth Hawksworth Warden

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Hyacinth feels that she has been outdone by the Barker-Finch's after they have a celebrity guest at their barbecue so she intends to do the same herself.

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By Lady_Lancaster, May 18, 2010 Report Abuse

If there is one thing that Hyacinth hates it's being outdone by others, particularly the snobbish Mrs. Barker-Finch. When she learns that Mr. and Mrs. Barker-Finch have held a luxury barbecue and had a celebrity in attendance, she is determined that she will go one better and so, she decides to have an outdoor/indoors luxury barbecue (which means the house will be full of foliage!) and invite a celebrity in order to make the snooty neighbours green with envy.

Unfortunately, things don't go quite as Hyacinth expects them to when she fails to get a celebrity attendee and the foliage threatens to obscure everything in sight anyway.moreless

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- On the DVDs, this episode is titled "Indoor/Outdoor Luxury Barbeque and Finger Buffet." Edit
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