Category: Corrie Culture

Toyah Habeeb is packing everything she’ll need for her stay in hospital, including three paperbacks. She chooses Lisa Jewell’s psychological thriller Then She Was Gone and Gillian Flynn’s Satanic cult novel Dark Places, plus a...

Tim Metcalfe isn’t happy that his next job for Streetcars is to pick up someone called Mrs Jenkins. When Cassie Underwood asks why this customer fills him with such dread, Tim explains that she talks very loudly and sounds like...

‘No rest for the wicked,’ says Dee-Dee Bailey, after Joel Deering tells her he has to see a client on his day off. If the phrase from the Old Testament’s Book Of Isaiah is at all accurate, sleazy Joel’s levels of wickedness...

Evelyn Plummer thinks Fiz Dobbs indulges her daughter Hope too much. Drawing upon William Shakespeare’s As You Like It to make her point, Evelyn says: ‘“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” –...

We often hear tales of young Bernie Winter’s hedonistic nights at Manchester’s legendary Hacienda club, but now it’s Beth Sutherland’s turn to hark back to her youth spent in one of the city’s most famous music venues. Having...

Abi Webster shows she has a decent grasp of Zoomer cultural habits when she suggests a restless Jack Webster should occupy himself by shooting monsters in a video game. Or he could watch clips of pimple popping. At Roy’s Rolls,...

Kirk Sutherland complains that his other half Beth has been throwing his stuff out of their house. She tries to justify it by saying she needs to make room for her new Harry Styles onesie. Speaking of childish things, Joel...

There’s an unusual start to the episode, as we see a dream sequence where Paul Foreman is dancing to the 1984 Bronski Beat hit Why? He’s briefly joined by Billy Mayhew, who then disappears. Paul is in a panic looking for his...

David Platt isn’t known for his tact, so he thinks nothing of asking Nick Tilsley if Leanne Battersby is ‘still mental’. He also likens the tech-aged approximation of her late son Oliver to the Star Wars droid C-3PO. At Speed...

In an episode that focuses on depressing news for Toyah Habeeb, there’s a bit of light relief at The Rovers when Bernie Winter’s extended family play a game of Who Am I? Bernie correctly guesses she’s Cilla Black. Her son Paul...

When Betsy Swain stumbles across Beth Sutherland’s counterfeit T-shirt scheme at Underworld, Beth argues that stitching designer labels onto cheap clobber is just her way of making exclusive clothing more affordable for the...

  When Joel Deering doesn’t hear Dee-Dee Bailey enter the room, she credits it to her ninja abilities. She should be selective about using her gifts, since there’s no telling what she might catch her creepy fiancé doing....

Irony often plays an important role in the awarding of nicknames in Coronation Street. Betsy Swain is referred to as ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ by Underworld boss Carla Connor, despite her failure to display any discernible signs of...

Joel Deering wouldn’t be too many people’s idea of ‘a knight in shining armour’, yet that’s how he self-identifies in a flashback sequence that reveals where Lauren Bolton has been all this time. The poet Henry Pye, who appears...

Roy Cropper is back behind the counter in his cafe again, but he still isn’t his usual self. The situation isn’t helped by Evelyn Plummer leaving him on his own because she needs to cover for Dev Alahan at The Corner Shop. Dev...

David Platt awards Nick Tilsley the unwelcome nickname ‘Golden Balls’ – not because of any association with David Beckham, but in honour of Nick and Toyah Habeeb conceiving after a one-night stand. It was revealed as...

Leanne Battersby may feel The Altovalent Institute has given her a greater understanding of how the world works, but she still slips up when Sam Blakeman asks her how many planets there are in our solar system. She forgets that...

Toyah Habeeb tells Leanne Battersby she’s looking for a new place to live. Toyah reasons that a middle-aged woman living with her sister and her brother-in-law is a very ‘Dickensian’ arrangement, so it’s time she moved on. She...

Dee-Dee Bailey shares some etymological knowledge with Joel Deering when she tells him about the origins of the word ‘fiancé’. She explains it comes from the Latin word ‘fidare’, which means ‘to trust’. Joel teases that Dee-Dee...

Tyrone Dobbs has serious misgivings about the way Kevin Webster is tackling the problem of Stefan Brent. He reckons Kevin’s subterfuge is like something a James Bond villain would get up to. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service And...

Toyah Habeeb is packing everything she’ll need for her stay in hospital, including three paperbacks. She chooses Lisa Jewell’s psychological thriller Then She Was Gone and Gillian Flynn’s Satanic cult novel Dark Places, plus a...

Tim Metcalfe isn’t happy that his next job for Streetcars is to pick up someone called Mrs Jenkins. When Cassie Underwood asks why this customer fills him with such dread, Tim explains that she talks very loudly and sounds like...

‘No rest for the wicked,’ says Dee-Dee Bailey, after Joel Deering tells her he has to see a client on his day off. If the phrase from the Old Testament’s Book Of Isaiah is at all accurate, sleazy Joel’s levels of wickedness...