All Creatures Great and Small
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May we all live to experience the glory of a Daffodil Ball.
Until James mucks it up, but well get to that.
Also, even that turns out all right because itsAll Creatures!
The episode centers around the Daffodil Ball, a magnificent cow, and a cantankerous pig.
We are introduced to Mrs. Brompton, a.k.a.
Before any James/Helen fans come for me, I will have you know that I enjoyed them this episode.
Siegfried runs into Diana, who flirts with him intensely.
It goes completely over Siegfrieds head, as he thinks she is married (she is divorced!).
Also, I really lovedTopsy-Turvyas a teenager.
Go away, Gerald.
There are loads of three-legged dogs!
Ive seen them running all over the internet!
Living their joyful lives!
Anyway, the dog retains his leg, and Gerald leaves.
Onward, to the magnificent cow!
I know why you read these recaps, and its for Cow Facts.
They typically live up to twenty years, and this one is factually adorable.
George is not as good at being a vet as Siegfried, which is very satisfying.
In this rivalry, we are on the winning side.
No need to worry about THAT dilemma, for it does not exist!
Not for the blessed hour that we watch this show.
After the cow visit comes the cantankerous pig.
Her name is Buttercup, and she is amazing.
Buttercup has an engorged hematoma on her head, which apparently is something like a very large boil.
Siegfried assigns Tristan to lance the hematoma as Siegfried sings Im Called Little Buttercup from Gilbert & SullivansH.M.S.
Pinafore(two G&S references in one recap!).
The farmer advises Tristan to play dead if Buttercup attacks him.
Unless it seems like shes going to kill him, in which case he should not do that.
This does not inspire Tristan with confidence.
Buttercup charges him, and he leaps back over the sty wall.
I would also run from this pig.
She is terrifyingly huge.
I think were supposed to be like, no, Mrs. Hall, rejoin the human race!
The Daffodil Ball has a 1930s band and fun dancing and some kind of punch or bar situation.
James also does not really dance, but he shrugs that off to dance with Helen, which yes!
Its a cute thing.
Maybe they just needed to get off the farm for me to like them.
Or I am just so charmed by convivial atmospheres nowadays that they have tricked me.
Also, Helen looks very nice in red.
Tristan makes out with his date (Annabelle?
), and Siegfried takes Diana out in his car.
The next morning, theyre both very smug and it nauseates Mrs. Hall.
You might think enough events have happened for one episode, but they have not!
We are back to the cow to teach the colonel a lesson.
The lesson is: do not hire another vet and also stop trying to step all over Siegfried.
Most particularly all over the colonel.
And they find the wire!
The wire Siegfried said all along was in there!
The cow is saved.
They return to the practice, and Helen stops by asking for James.
She kisses him on the cheek!
How are there so many good sweater vests on this show?
Should we all buy sweater vests?
