Joe Haskell calls Carolyn "idiot"

[retzev]

Episode 24 -

Joe: I was looking at boats this morning...

Carolyn: (giggling) Of course you were, you work with the shipping fleet.

Joe: Not your mother's boats, idiot. A boat.

 

[MagnusTrask]

Millicent foreshadowing.

[Janet the Wicked]

Joe: I was looking at boats this morning...

Carolyn: (giggling) Of course you were, you work with the shipping fleet.

Joe: Not your mother's boats, idiot. A boat.

Then what happened?

[retzev]

Then what happened?

Not much. Joe went on to tell Carolyn that he might be able to afford to  buy the boat soon, refurbish it, go into business for himself, etc.

Carolyn hardly seemed to notice, just went on smiling and eating her hamburger.

[proudhug]

Carolyn returns the "compliment" in episode 49 after he tells her he loves her.  Wow, I wonder why they never worked out?

[Midnite]

Didn't he once joke that he would name his boat "Idiot" after her?

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Referring to someone as an idiot or their behavior as idiotic seems to be a favorite thing for many DS characters (Roger and Jason and Jeb, just to name a few off of the top of my head) with insulting, self-effacing or other intentions. But I think my favorite time is in 1795 in Ep #387 when Andre calls Trask "a complete idiot!" It's what most in the audience are all too probably thinking themselves - and the look of self-righteous indignation on Trask's face afterward is priceless! 

[IluvBarnabas]

I think Carolyn was a bigger idiot for blowing off Joe for Burke, who so obviously was out to get her family.

[Midnite]

Referring to someone as an idiot or their behavior as idiotic seems to be a favorite thing for many DS characters (Roger and Jason and Jeb, just to name a few off of the top of my head) with insulting, self-effacing or other intentions. But I think my favorite time is in 1795 in Ep #387 when Andre calls Trask "a complete idiot!" It's what most in the audience are all too probably thinking themselves - and the look of self-righteous indignation on Trask's face afterward is priceless! 

 

I wonder if the 2nd most popular practice was calling someone a fool or foolish.  Barnabas, Quentin, Angelique, Burke, Jeb, Bruno (possibly the biggest fool of all), and especially Joan Bennett's and Louis Edmond's characters got in on it.  "You fool!" loses its impact, I think, because it gets tossed around so often.  But one incident sticks in my mind was Barnabas calling Julia "a bumbling fool," ouch!

[Mysterious Benefactor]

But one incident sticks in my mind was Barnabas calling Julia "a bumbling fool," ouch!

Ah, yes - I love that! The infamous exchange in Ep #329 after Julia didn't do something that Barnabas had ordered her to do. But then, thank heavens Julia often had a mind of her own, especially in this case because, if she had followed through, DS would have lost one of its best characters and possibly one of its best actors from that point on. And that would have been a terrible shame.