Top 5 Moments… Gavin & Stacey
With the recent shock announcement that Gavin & Stacey is to be returning this Christmas with a one-off special episode, MoodyComedy is taking a look back at the top five moments of Gavin & Stacey history…
5) Christmas present time
It’s Christmas day at the Shipmans’ and after everyone has finished eating dinner, they share out the presents. Bryn picks up a suspiciously small package with a label that reads from ‘Nessa, David and Neil’, and Nessa tells the family that they might as well all open theirs together. It turns out everyone has been given one chocolate from a box of Celebrations, intricately wrapped in a little box. This disappointment mingled with the competition for who got the best chocolate perfectly sums up family Christmas.
4) Dawn and Pete renew their vows
Dawn and Pete are a fiery couple. Though not particularly passionate about each other, they are certainly passionate about one thing: despising one another. So when the Sutcliffe’s (yes, most of our characters are named after notorious serial killers) decide to renew their vows for their 26th wedding anniversary, it is an undeniably tense affair. But the pair have a surprise up their sleeves; Pete gives a spoken rendition of Fix You by Coldplay as his vows, and Dawn, Michael Jackson’s Ben. Despite the loving words, Dawn’s disparaging looks at Pete do not go unnoticed…
3) Pam becomes a vegetarian
In the epitome of an overthinking frenzy, Pam convinces herself that upon meeting and catering for Stacey’s family for the first time, one of them is bound to spring the bombshell that they are a vegetarian. But this is a last minute realisation as the Wests are on their way. In the frenzy, Pam somehow comes to the conclusion that she must tell the Wests that she herself is a vegetarian. What ensues is months of snaffling slices of ham out of the packet when nobody is looking; it’s ridiculous but hilarious.
2) Ness is pregnant…
As the family gather round the table at Capriccio’s to celebrate Gavin and Stacey returning from their honeymoon, a commotion arises in the ladies toilets. One by one the dinner guests enter the toilets to be greeted with the exclamation: ‘Nessa’s pregnant… and Smithy’s the father!’. The only person who doesn’t know now, however, is Smithy…
1) When Doris was not in the mood to make a salad.
People don’t want to eat a salad at Neil’s christening buffet (‘People don’t want it Gwen, they want filling up!’) and Doris certainly doesn’t want to make it. But we soon learn that that’s not the only reason for Doris’ hostility. Doris and Nessa have history and Doris tired of being made a fool of. So… there’s your salad.