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| | BBC - Comedy Guide - Keeping Up Appearances (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Sure, she suffered occasional setbacks, and was put in her place from time to time, but only momentarily, and then she was bouncing back, ploughing another path through the lives of her friends, relatives and acquaintances, never once truly learning from her numerous mistakes. |
 | | But while Hyacinth Bucket was a ghastly creation, she attracted huge audiences and was beloved by a large proportion of the population, proof positive of the British viewer's inexhaustible appetite for comic snobbery. |
 | | Hyacinth was also considered by Americans to be a character worthy of further TV exploitation, and network producers momentarily contemplated a US adaptation, to have been set in Boston, perceived as the heartland of American social snobbery. |
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