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Why didn't Hyacinth just change the surname from BUCKET to BOUQUET?


It is simple enough in the UK to change your entire name by deed poll, so if Hyacinth was so frustrated by people refusing to pronounce Bucket as she wanted it, Bouquet, then surely that was the answer?

Maybe Hyacinth has to keep the family name Bucket because of some reason, and it does generate laughs from the audience in the show. The problem is, the same joke is repeated over and over again every episode and this aspect of the show, aside from many, many repeating jokes per episode, is why this is a shitty comedy along the lines of 'Allo, 'Allo, another shitty comedy that's way past its sell-by date.

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She had to keep the spelling of the surname, so they could keep making jokes about it.

And I just love this show and "Allo Allo".
All of the running jokes is a huge part of their charm to me.

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There's certainly an art to doing a repeated joke.

Some things would get tiresome if you heard them every episode, but some things get funnier the more you see them.

The joke has to be funny to begin with, I guess. It can depend how flexible the joke is to different situations. And also it has to be performed well. Here you know how Hyacinth is going to react when somebody mispronounces her name, but that is part of the joke.

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Richard's family name.

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