All Creatures Great and Small
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Its the season finale!
Other than the Christmas special next week.
As always, British television is delightful and very confusing.
Siegfried is covered in mud and, possibly, pig shit.
And falling in mud.
Mrs. Hall is also scrambling, as she has a strawberry emergency.
The emergency is that there are too many strawberries, and now she must make jam.
But to make the jam, one apparently needs sugar, which is rationed.
And by things, I mean the process of making wartime jam.
Fortunately, Jimmy is there, lighting up all our lives and waving his little arms around.
I blame this interpretation of the character!!
Or, as Michael Scott says, smudge.
And his smudgeness makes it difficult to enjoy him.
Tristan says sorry like an asshole.
I will be kinder to him when he gives me a reason!
The goat-lady comment was indeed funny, though.
Mrs. Hall guilts Tristan into offering Siegfried some help with his calls the next day.
Again, its a good line, but maybe I just find goats funny.
Their calls involve two horses.
So many horses to gaze upon in wonder.
The first is a lil pony that has to be chloroformed so Siegfried can castrate it.
Apparently, this will make the pony less aggressive, so it can be used for pony rides.
I do not know how to feel about this.
It is a chloroform-resistant pony.
Finally, Tristan overdoses it and it passes right out.
This is why anesthesiologists are paid so much.
You never know when youll over-chloroform a pony (the pony is fine).
The second horse is at Mr. Dobsons, and his name is Algernon, nicknamed Algie.
The horse: truly the most majestic of animals.
Justlookat it; its perfect.
How lucky we are that we get to look at horses.
Siegfried thinks hes dead.
But then up, he pops!
Tristan didnt put gas in it.
Of course he didnt.
So now they have to walk home, drinking the elderflower wine as they go.
Tristan keeps bringing up Miss Grantley and asks why Siegfried hasnt asked her out.
Before they return to town, though, what is everyone else doing?
Well, James is in a good mood.
A weirdly good mood.
Some might say, a suspiciously good mood.
He tells Mrs. Pumphrey that Tricki is a ridiculous dog.
True, but still.
He starts peeling off his sweater, and we find out that he has a fever.
It seems to be a fever associated with Jamess brucellosis, which is causing him to have hallucinations.
James starts talking to Banerjee and he starts sobbing while apologizing.
Siegfried and Tristan return to town drunk, their shirttails out, holding nearly empty bottles of wine.
Everyone in the square giggles at them.
Mrs. Hall has made so many jars of jam.
James discovers that Trickis problem is a tiny chicken bone stuck in his teeth.
Until next time,All Creatures!
And by next time, I again mean next week when we see the Christmas special in February.
