Coronation Street Catch Up: the Piranhas or Pariahs edition

your one-stop update on what happened last week on Canada's Coronation Street...


It's a little, how you say, contrived. Suddenly, Tracy, who has never been attracted to any woman in her life, gets bladdered and has a one night stand with Paula the lawyer.

Amy then finds out and threatens to tell Steve (I actually don't think he'd mind. After all, he's been fairly "athletic" in terms of his sexual history).  Amy doesn't follow through with her threat but milks it and uses her leverage to continue her work placement with Paula, leave home and move in with half sister Emma. Meanwhile Steve brings a cute kitten home.

While this New Year's Eve & Eve story unfolds, Shona remains in hospital on a ventilator. The prognosis is not good and David remains by her bedside but is convinced by Gail to make his court appearance at the trial of Josh.

To save his relationship with Maria, Gary decides to become a kinder, gentler loan shark but changing careers proves to be a little more difficult than he planned as the punters still want to borrow money from him.  Gary's gestures seems to placate Maria... for now.

Abi decides that Kev is the man for her.... until she gets a skinful and falls (literally) for handsy Ray. Despite the revelation that Abi is a former jailbird, Ray remains interested in Abi. Sally is not amused.

Jade's pernicious plan to tear apart the Dobbs family continues as Jade sees the doctor and shows her the fake photos which seem to indicate that Hope has suffered abuse at the hands of Fiz. This prompts a visit to Fiz from child services. Over at Quad central, Gemma and Ches are struggling to deal with the babies who are sick.

And now some lines from the week that was:

Tracy confides her anger to Jenny:
"I finally see Steve for the slimy, two-faced sewer rat that he is"

(yes, but as sewer rats go, he's one of the best)

Tracy to Paula, while they are drinking:
"I used to think you were a right stuck up cow"

(I guess that's Tracy's idea of foreplay)

Maria to Gary about the fact that they're being ostracized by the Street:
"Is this what it's going to be like from now on? Everyone just treating us like piranhas"

(Could be worse. They could be treating you like pariahs) 

Sally to Kev:

"You've got a face like a yard of gravy"

(that's .914 metres in Canada)

Mary tells Steve how Tracy may react to the kitten:
"She doesn't like any living creature to be honest"

(she isn't that crazy about the non-living either)

Ray to Abi after being told to be explicit:

"Do you want to go and have sex somewhere?"

(what are the other choices?)

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Well, Corrie compadres, so ends another week. The Tracy-Paula story is a bit of a stretch, don't you think. But, you know, live and and let live. Things don't look too good for Fiz (thanks to Jade) and even worse for Shona (thanks to Derek). Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!