# Regency House Party 11/24 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 25, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regency-house-party-11-24/276600 "2004-11-25T04:49:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regency-house-party-11-24/276600/1 "2004-11-25T04:49:14Z")
After all the build-up and heart break, Miss Hopkins chose dear, sweet Mr Everett after all and kicked the charming but stand-offish Mr. Carrington to the curb, though the rose petals almost conned her And people finally smooched and even had sex! My faith in British libidos is restored! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regency-house-party-11-24/276600/2 "2004-11-25T06:18:40Z")
Everett is a mopey loser. And a whipped one, now. As charming as the overflowing bosoms were, I fear I was looking more at the men’s clothes. The Regency was the absolute high point of men’s fashion. I’d go on a super-duper diet if there were some place I could dress like that. I laughed that, though the maids were dolled up for that dinner served by the gentlemen, the footmen wore their uniforms. I had to explain to my daughters the role of a footman was to look BAY-AD! and they were supposed to look just fine in uniform. Capt Glover’s prize seemed rather high. There must’ve been terrible inflation in the 18th century if his third was £50,000 for one ship because a hundred years before I could’ve put him behind the wheel of a low-mileage bark for just a few hundred pounds. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regency-house-party-11-24/276600/3 "2004-11-25T12:48:48Z")
I’m glad she picked Mr. Everett – I think she made the right choice. I don’t think he’s a mopey loser – or whipped. I would have liked some update as to whether any of these couples went on IRL after the show – esp. Mr. Gorrell Barnes and either the countess or whatsherface who he was carrying on with throughout. Miss Hopkins’s chaperone. I also loved the woman who wanted to become a courtesan – and Mrs. Rogers’s comment that she seemed cut out for the life… All in all, a really good series, I enjoyed it a lot. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regency-house-party-11-24/276600/4 "2004-11-25T16:53:32Z")
I wanted them to go to the present and see “Where are they now” bit. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regency-house-party-11-24/276600/5 "2004-11-26T05:07:23Z")
I didn’t tape the last episode, and I was knitting, so I might have missed a bit. But during the dinner where the men waited on the servants, did one of the servants actually pee into a chamber pot behind a screen in the dining room? Is this in anyway historically accurate…people peeing in the dining room not three feet from where people are eating? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regency-house-party-11-24/276600/6 "2004-11-26T13:02:50Z")
Yes it happened – and yes, apparently it’s historically accurate. :eek: (See the sixth paragraph of [this](http://www.pbs.org/previews/regencyhouse/).) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regency-house-party-11-24/276600/7 "2004-11-26T13:44:35Z")
I have only watched a short bit of this series and _I could eat it up with a spoon_ I love it so much. I hope my library will carry the DVD version… Shirley Who just lurves the Regency Time Period.