All Creatures Great and Small

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All I have to say is: Get outta here, Harbottle!

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Nobody wants you here!

No one ever likes this key in of character.

Theyre busy saving cows and bonding with the local folk at the pub.

Side eye emoji We also get a cow subplot and aferret, which is very fun.

First: the animals.

We start out chaotically with some goats on the loose in the practice.

James has them in surgery together because they refuse to be split up (extremely cute goat behavior).

Siegfried keeps acting out, apparently by accidentally freeing goats, who then rampage adorably around the practice.

The goats are named Betty and Hilda, and their owner pays for their treatment in preserves.

Why wont Target accept my poorly done cross-stitch in exchange for some yoga pants?

I want to commend this season for continuing to not murder any cows.

A grumpy farmer Dakin calls Siegfried out to see to his cow Blossom, who wasstepped onby another cow.

Apparently this has happened multiple times??

Not that Siegfried is being an asshole here; he just knows how precarious farming is.

We love you, Siegfried.

The number of times this show has made me weep over cows.Remember Clive the Bull?

I will never forget Clive.

So Blossom is saved!

Take your truck away, butcher; no slaughtering for you today!

Unless you had other stops to make, but that is not my business.

Miss Harbottle is entirely Siegfrieds fault.

Hes really just going through it with Tristan away, but thats no excuse!

Harbottle ruins the vibe.

Clearly you dont understand how things work around here.

Siegfried hires her to handle administrative work because the practice is disorganized, to put it lightly.

But also, its a veterinary practice in a small village in the 1930s!

Therefore itsendearingthat they keep their money in a jug.

Miss Harbottle, played by Neve McIntosh, a.k.a.

What is this fascist veterinary practice you envision, madam!

She also gets rid of the Money Jug, which is a crime.

Howdareyou make Mrs. Hall feel even the slightest bit bad at any moment of her entire life.

This rudeness inspires similar feelings.

Harbottle also risks a ferret with her coldhearted approach of making customers pay for goods and services.

The ferret has a suspicious lump and James tells Joe to bring it by the practice.

Only when Joe comes by does Harbottle demand half a crown.

How much do you think Ferret Roulette pays, Harbottle!

Just what I would expect from my lovable band of scrappy misfits!

James ferries Joe and his friends over from the pub after they watch Harbottle leave.

Vibe trumps plot here.

Siegfried finally has the courage to fire her, but she declares that she resigns.