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I'm confident that it isn't "Travels With My Aunt" — the main characters in that are an adult man and his actual aunt, who he reconnects with after they both attend his mother's funeral.
I don't know what it really is, though.
Thank you for replying, but that is very disappointing to hear. Does anyone have any ideas at all?!
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Don't know why I'm bothering, but bump again.
Bump. Please help, any guesses would truly be appreciated.
Many years ago (this example was posted by a poster in 2008), British on-off TV play, son is so embarrassed by erratic hyperactive mother that eventually he can only bring himself to refer to her as his aunt, a drama (since it is not played for laughs) or maybe a dramedy
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After some googling, I found an ITV play called Mrs Silly which looks promising:
http://www.oldyorkeronline.com/mrs-silly-tv/
You found it, thank you, thank you!
Someone posted on this on the amazingly embarrassing parents trope page, and it looks interesting to me. Unfortunately, I have not watched much British TV or film to know this, but I noticed (and I saw this when I happened to edit the page, because I was temporary going to provide an example, but forgot what it was) that it was posted in 2008):
"Many years ago there was a one-off British TV play, not played for laughs, about a boy who is so embarrassed by his mother's erratic hyperactive behavior that eventually he can't even bring himself to tell people she's his mother and calls her "a sort of aunt"."
I asked this on the IMDB and one person responded with "Travels with my aunt", but they were not entirely sure. Does this seem familiar to anyone? Please help, thanks.