This is part of unending quest for me, and I really hope it ends soon. Way back in, oh, probably 1999, my mom and I were watching the very final episode of The Vicar of Dibley on PBS, when bam the power went out. Needless to say, our local PBS station didn’t run the final episode again (at least not when we could catch it.) I was heartbroken and still am. What happens in it?!? Can anyone tell me? Does Geraldine accept David’s proposal? Or can’t she bring herself to? I need to know. I’ve been trying to find out for at least 2 years now on the internet, and I can only get teasers, not spoilers! Help!
Spoilers:
I loves me some Dawn French. My favorite parts are at the end, when she’s telling some slightly off-color joke to Alice, who usually doesn’t get it, then deconstructs it hilariously.
As to the end:
She has a dream that is a bit, well, over the top in that special Dawn French way (hair full of Cadbury bars, for instance.)
She eventually does turn him down, very nicely of course. David agrees with the logic behind her decision, but is rather crushed. Nonetheless, this helps develop a genuine friendship between the two
What’s the point of selling them by series (season) if there’s only 4-6 episodes per series? I thought they seemed reasonably priced until I realized it’s $75-100 for a mere 16 episodes. <pouts> Why does PBS almost never show it? And the BBC-A not at all?
Pointless aside: During the opening credits, the camera flies through a chalk cutting in the Chiltern Hills. That’s 1 mile from where I grew up. “Dibley” is a village about 5 miles from where I grew up.
I suppose friend Cath must be mid-thirties now so this was 20-ish years ago. ‘Miss French’ taught Drama at her regular state school in North London (Belsize Park/Swiss Cottage area, for those who might know the manor).
By all accounts she was, as you might imagine, a very enthusiastic and conscientious teacher (and pretty fresh out of teacher training, I’d imagine). Also very popular and keen to get everyone involved – I remember Cath describing the way Dawn French went about things was very similar to how she played the Dibley thing.
I suppose on one reading you could describe the vicar as primarily a teacher . . . maybe that’s why she developed the part, basing it on her experiences as a teacher.
Just don’t remember as much as I thought I might, for example can’t now recall any anecdotes at all. Cath and I used to get drunk a lot in the Student Union ….Sorry!
Where exactly is the cutting? I’d wondered whether it was where the M3 cuts through a similar cutting near Twyford, but obviously not if it is in the Chilterns.
was Dawn French also performing with Jennifer Saunders then? I was watching French & Saunders on A&E twenty years ago & then seeing them again on MTV’s British Comedy shows Sunday evenings.
Btw, anyone catch their send-up of LOTR? Bloody Brilliant!
Then I won’t tell you about Dawn when she was one of my best friends drama teacher at the local school . . . 