Line #13 Awesome/CoronationStreet


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3	* First off the fact that it's lasted more than 60 years is amazing and that despite being in the era of mass wiping there is next to nothing missing in the Archive.
4	* In Episode 2 Ken Barlow spends his date with Susan Cunningham apologizing for the commonness of the area, however when in the Rovers she shuts Ken down, just because she lives in the suburbs doesn't mean she thinks that she's slumming it, she still gets their class looking down their nose at her and also her Grandfather lives in an similar terraced house so Ken can end the snobbery.
5	* In 1961, Elsie Tanner's husband Arnold returned to ask for a divorce, since VE Day he had nothing to do with his family leaving Elsie to raise Linda and Dennis, she acts stubborn at first but after her sparring partner Ena Sharples saw him outside, she began to claim Elsie was on the game again only Elsie to print a notice in the paper warning action and she confronted Ena in the Sung with everyone mocking Ena for being the joke for a change. The Divorce went through with Elsie wanting nothing more than to keep her married name, however just as she thought it was over and she began to start a relationship she receives a poison pen letter threatening her affair she discovered she yet to make the divorce absolute, upset and angered she wants revenge:
6	--->''Dear Mrs Tanner. It is quite obvious that you do not know the law of the land, for if you did you would know that you are not allowed to go messing about with men until you are absolutely divorced. Certain people would like to know what happened in Blackpool illuminations between you and a certain gentleman who wears a uniform, and this information will be passed on if you do not put your house in order.''
7	** She convinced herself that it was Annie Walker who had insulted her relationship, talk fills the Rovers Return and Jack tries to hide it from his wife but when Elsie confronts her Annie defends herself saying the idea anyone had of her writing such a thing makes her wonder what people must think about her.
8	*** Elsie leaves the letter behind and Annie upon reading it sends it back to No 11 with Brandy, Elsie apologies for her behaviour but Annie is still cold after she leaves Annie tells Jack that if she was compassionate Elsie would walk over her again.
9	** Then Elsie upon hearing that Ena Sharples claimed Annie wouldn't write such a thing, so it was perfect that Ena was the writer, she confronts her in the street all guns blazing, when Ena tells her straight she knows a lot worst about Elsie than she knows and if she had written the letter, she would have signed as she isn't ashamed. Elsie is defended realising Ena is right and ends the fight close to fainting.
10	*** However, she is still trying to understand who wrote it but then another letter appears from Arnold reading it reveals that Norah Dawson his fiance confessed to writing the letter and so Elsie is forced to apologize to Ena who still tries to get a raise out of Elsie with her last word all for nowt.
11	* For each episode before to Christmas or on Christmas Day in the early years would have something speical:
12	** 1962 had a play in the Glad Tidings Mission Hall called Lady Lawson's Losses which had Emily falling over due to taking pills for the nerves.
13	** 1963 had the street doing This Is Your Life for Annie Walker.
14	** 1964 had the Pantomime Cinderella with Elsie Tanner as the Prince and Lucille Hewitt as Cinderella, with Annie Walker as the Fairy Godmother and Dennis Tanner as Buttons. Minnie Caldwell was the prompt and took it seriously.
15	** 1969 had a Concert in the Select of the Rovers, with the whole street as players and Jack Walker, who had accidentally brought a large Turkey (he thought Annie had forgotten, which she hadn't) found a Oven big enough and served it as a interval surprise.
16	*** The Select Concerts would carry on for a few Christmases.
17	* In 1965 the Misson Hall was threatened with closure and Ena feared homelessness, however she inherited the ownership No.11 which was Elsie Tanner’s, she served her tenant an eviction notice, they had a massive fight in the street, climaxing in Ena breaking Elsie’s front window as they were held back Leonard Swindley stopped them announcing to Sharples that the Mission was saved for the moment. When Ena vowed Elsie would pay for this battle but Elsie reminds her as her Landlord she can pay for the smashed window, Ena leaves defected.
18	* The Train crash of 1967 when you realise it was all done in the indoor Studios.
19	* Emily Bishop might have been a meek looking figure but she had a powerful side to her:
20	** When she was still Miss Nugent, she was about marry Leonard Swindley but stopped the wedding realising she was only marrying to end her loneliness, Swindley admitted he felt the same and they remained friends.
21	** She told off Vera Duckworth for being a bully to one of the Factory Girls.
22	** The time she saved Bethany Platt from her mentally unstable parental grandmother using the woman's new religious beliefs against her.
23	** She climbed a tree with her nephew Spider to stop it being redeveloped.
24	** When she ever gave Norris Cole a taste of his own medicine.
25	* In 1974 Maggie Clegg and her son Gordon were planning to sell the Corner Shop to The Hopkins, however they discover his Birth Certificate that his mother wasn't Maggie but instead his Aunt Betty Turpin, while Idris and Vera were willing to keep the secret returning the Certificate, Megan the grandmother who was overbearing and felt that she was in charge, tried to use the information for a cheap sale. So pressured Maggie and Betty told Gordon and while in shock he grew to accept it.
26	** However after Granny Hopkins causes more trouble for Betty and Gordon, her behaviour had already caused the shop to lose it customers, sending him a letter revealing his parentage however confronting her with the fact he knows, she threatens to tell the Street so he tells them that he won't sign the shop over meaning they were evicted as well. Granny is chewed out by her son for her actions and The Hopkins are forced to leave that night in shame.
27	* In 1977, Ken did a OAP night near Christmas and the Comic cancelled minutes before, so thankfully the staff of Baldwin’s factory, Bet Lynch and Rita came to the rescue and made a great night.
28	* In 1978, Albert Tarlock and the British Legion Domino Committee took over the Rover's Snug while Ena Sharples was away, however she refused to go without a fight, she sat in the Snug and refused to leave all the time speaking of Domino tricks they could do. The next day the Committee camped outside the Rovers in order to stop Ena however she's there helping to clean, finally she breaks up the Committee by revealing Albert is using them to buy drink unfairly and they fire him resulting in Ena finally returning to her old seat.
29	* At Alf and Rennee Roberts’ wedding her drunken Step Father spends the Reception insulting her and joking that Alf only married her out of pity. Once he jokes a little too much Alf gives him a deserved right hook.
30	* Ena Sharples leaving the street, her flat in the Community Centre was yet to be finished and tired of staying with Albert and Ken she revealed old friend Henry Foster in St. Anne’s whom she regularly had been visiting for her health, invites her to stay and with that she is quitting the caretaker’s job and will return if she wants to.
31	* Elsie Tanner kicking out Suzie Birchall for making a pass at Gail’s husband as Elsie tells her straight compared to her she wouldn’t betray friends.
32	* Bet Lynch trying out for the Rover's manger in 1984, she has competition from relief manger Gordon Lewis, who has plans to change everything, however during her interview she talks about that while she is only a barmaid, she knows that the Rovers doesn't need to change and an petition from locals showed the owners that Bet was the preferred. Then in the new year they decide that Bet with a course was prefect for job.
33	** Then in 1991 Bet bars talk of Jim Mcdonald's extension and forcing the Duckworth's to give her the petition.
34	* When Mavis Wilton lost her husband Derek, she is trying to deal with the grief but at the wake his sister Edith who never hid her dislike for Mavis tells her everyone treated Derek like a joke. Mavis in tears tells everyone that she knew that they treated Derek like a joke but for the little time they were together both were never happier. Rita then shows Edith the door.
35	* In the episode shown on 13 January 2011: Deirdre has a go at Claire for attacking Tracy. Gail, David and Graham instantly spring to Claire's defence, giving the Barlows a collective BreakingSpeech with such lines as:
36	--> '''David:''' Pity she didn't finish the job! Give the girl a medal, that's what I say!
37	--> ''Deirdre starts crying and calls them a lynch mob. David's response?''
38	--> '''David:''' Hey, now you're talking! Knock some gallows up! Anybody got a washing line?
39	--> ''Deirdre leaves in tears.''
40	* The episode shown on December 17 2010: The whole episode was fantastic because, at long last, after his affair with Molly Dobbs, Kevin Webster finally got ''[[TakeThatScrappy exactly]]'' what he deserved. His entire family no longer wanted anything to do with him, all of Weatherfield talked about what a creep he was and he got a long overdue beating. [[TakeThatScrappy Tyrone punching Kevin]] in the face at Molly's funeral after finding out that he's baby Jack's father is especially satisfying to watch, [[TookALevelInJerkass considering that Kevin's been an even bigger arsehole lately.]]
41	* The episode shown 17 November 2011: Rosie and Sally start bitching about Fiz's husband's criminal record. Cue Chesney coming out of nowhere (perhaps hidden from view behind Fiz) to defend his sister.
42	* The episode shown September 18 2012 (in Canada at least): Tina finally took down Kirsty and had her about to reveal that Kirsty beat Tyrone and was a lying and manipulative person. [[OhCrap Then Kirsty, who was 9 months pregnant at the time, went into labour.]]
43	* Natasha's exit from the street had her RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap for many. For the context, she had gotten pregnant with Nick's baby and been rejected by him. But he had changed his mind, just after she'd had an abortion, so she pretended she was still pregnant. Gail had been suspicious that she was never pregnant and hacked into her records to discover the abortion (which is kind of illegal). After recovering from an intentional overdose of sleeping pills, Natasha grew a much-needed backbone. First she chewed Nick out in front of everyone at the factory for only staying with her because he couldn't have Leanne - also telling the women Nick's {{Embarrassing Nickname}}s for them. Rounding things off, she walked into the medical center and announced to Dr Carter about Gail hacking into her medical records. When Gail tries to invoke IDidWhatIHadToDo, Dr Carter promptly fires her in front of everyone.
44	--> '''Natasha:''' "Ooh, back of the net!"
45	* One for the production team: One of the episodes aired on Christmas in 1991 started early and showed Alf Roberts sitting down to watch the Queen's Christmas Message - which the network aired a few minutes later, switching back to Corrie when it was done.
46	* During Hayley's last Christmas when she was given a complimentary hairdo from Maria at the salon (complete with a few streaks), [[{{Jerkass}} Tracy]] proceeded to [[KickTheDog make fun of it and saying how out of style it was.]] She fired back saying how no one truly loved her, even pointing out how both her daughter and her ''kidney'' were among those who rejected her. Shocked and hurt, she stormed off nearly in tears.
47	* During the EvilVersusEvil storyline of Pat Phelan vs Vinny Ashford in late 2017, Vinny sends a hitman to deal with Pat once and for all. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uolmAMiT9DE It doesn't go well.]]
48	** Phelan gets another during his GrandFinale week. He absolutely [[CurbStompBattle annihilates]] Gary Windass when the latter breaks into his caravan, to the point that Gary's friend Josh had to intervene.
49	* Anna Windass somehow manages to top all of the above examples during Phelan's GrandFinale. She shocks him when he drags Michelle into the bistro kitchen, allowing Michelle to kick out at Pat. Although Michelle still ends up being shot, Anna uses her chance to promptly stab Pat right in the heart, and as the residents promise to claim the attack was self-defence, dishes out an epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Pat as he lays dying.
50	* Having gotten off with raping David and other men in the past, Josh Tucker is badly beaten by a potential victim thanks to the intervention of Billy Mayhew who warns the man about Josh's past. This leads to Josh being on a life support machine in hospital and in a vulnerable state, which is no more than he deserves after his actions.
51	* Liz giving Jim a well- deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Jim after finding out about his and Hannah's horrible deception.
52	* Jack filming Phil being a JerkAss to Brian, and then all the people in the pub, like Kevin, Cathy, David, Tyrone, Gemma, Shona, and even Evelyn rallying round Brian.
53	* DomesticAbuser Geoff Metcalfe's cathartic and long overdue KarmaHoudiniWarranty during the 2020 Winter season. First after he attempts to frame Yasmeen for attacking him (in fact self defence after a long run of bullying), her defendant manages to push his {{Berserk Button}}s enough for him to go into a vicious tirade and reveal his true colours to everyone in court. He is exposed as a monster, loses the case and is disowned by his son (who was denied his mother due to Geoff's previous terrorising of her). When he decides to murder Yasmeen in a VillainousBreakdown, he chases her onto the roof. Instead of cowering, she delivers a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, listing down all his misgivings and insecurities she had suffer for while he can only throw a tantrum and scream denial. Upon a dare from her to kill her, he makes a lunge, only to slip and slowly fall off the roof, begging for his abused wife to save him all the way down.
54	* Shona telling Tracy what a nasty, evil person she is.

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