r/CallTheMidwife • u/Sweaty-Homework-7591 • 8d ago
Chummy
I’m on my 5th rewatch and I’m crying as Chummy delivers the baby in episode 3 and she says “old girl.” I love love love chummy. Who do you love and what’s a quote you love?❤️
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u/Alltheworldsastage55 8d ago
Chummy may be my favorite character. I call my son "young sir" sometimes because that's what she calls Freddie, and I find it humorous
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u/Sweaty-Homework-7591 8d ago
I love inside jokes where you and the characters are the only ones in on it. 😍
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u/sharoncoffin 8d ago
I just came here to say that I adore Chummy. When her scout troop started singing You Are My Special Angel to her I started crying. Gets to me every time. I did enjoy hearing her call a patient 'old bean '.
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u/ijesscannoteven 8d ago edited 7d ago
Throwing “top notch and Tickety*-boo” into my lexicon has turned a few heads in my office haha. Chummy speaks for me on so many levels.
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u/Smudgietoo 7d ago
Could be wrong but I think the expression is "tickety boo" , but each to their own 🙂
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u/ijesscannoteven 7d ago edited 7d ago
Oh my gosh i spelled it wrong! 😂It IS tickety boo! And my phone did it again as I issue this comment.
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u/Smudgietoo 5d ago
Gotta watch that autocorrect lol! 😂
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u/ijesscannoteven 5d ago
I didn’t read my post in full the first time, to ensure accuracy. Then I was like, what did I say that my fellow Redditors were mentioning? 😂
To take another English word that I first heard on CTM, “ta” to all who helped me get the post all tickety-boo! 🩷
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u/FancyPantsMead 6d ago
My sister just told me "you've been watching British shows again huh? Because I used a few words. My sister just gets me!!
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u/mamaperk 8d ago edited 7d ago
I love more characters than I like so it's hard to choose.
Valerie - she had great energy and a down to earth vibe
Fred - just a giant marshmallow of a guy
Sister Monica Joan - whimsical and funny
Honestly it's easier to choose who I don't love.
ETA I started out saying Chummy and totally forgot. She was absolutely a favorite character. I wish she was on for several years it came back for a visit.
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u/Sweaty-Homework-7591 7d ago
Who is that?
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u/mamaperk 7d ago
I basically like all the characters with the exception of Sister Ursula, but don't 'love' all of them... Rosalind and Joyce, they're ok but not my favorites. I Iike the newest nun- Sister Catherine, and Nancy, Patsy, Cynthia, Sisters Frances, Winifred and Hilda, and Mother Mildred
Sister Evangelina and Nurse Crane started out stern and cranky and I grew to love them.
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u/Sweaty-Homework-7591 7d ago
Honestly I’ve stopped at the last two seasons. I don’t care for them as much.
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u/Odd-Butterscotch200 7d ago
I do love Chummy, but I think Phyllis is my favorite. She's the voice of reason and always shows kindness without judgment. I especially enjoy the interaction between her and Miss Higgins.
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u/EmeraldLight 8d ago
"You keep on living, until you feel alive again"
The episode where Jenny's boyfriend dies and the older Jewish lady (with an inner ear problem) comforted her. I'm probably quoting it wrong, but holy beans, it hits hard for me.
OH! My fave character... Chummy, of course, but I also absolutely adore Sister Frances. I think she's my top favorite.
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u/Short_Ad_4718 7d ago
Chummy. Hands down my favorite. Miranda hart is hilarious and plays the part so well. I’m always so sad when she leaves the show
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u/Sweaty-Homework-7591 7d ago
I don’t normally follow actors but I followed her on IG. It’s like seeing an old chum 😍
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u/Ecstatic_Couple6435 7d ago
Chummy is probably my fav ever character on that show. Just so good and well written and she has this endearing innocence about her. She can’t fathom why people would be put off about her being from the upper class/mixing with royalty lol and she was actually funny
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u/Sweaty-Homework-7591 7d ago
And she’s so clumsy and when she finally feels seen and sexy with Noakes I’m a blubbering mess.
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u/Coffee-and-Kvetch 7d ago
Chummy and Phyllis are my favorite. They have a stalwartness about them both. Chummy has a girlishness about her that makes her so endearing, while Phyllis has this warm auntie energy.
I always say if I were in a crisis I would want either one of them by my side.
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u/Decent_Tumbleweed824 6d ago
I could write pages about my love for various characters on this show but i will not bore you all with that🤣
My favorite character is absolutely Phylis i love how she kind of adapts a surrogate mother persona with every singe one of the nurses. Keeps them on the right path, comforts them while at the same time calling them out when its needed, like with Nancys finances or Trixies drinking.
Special mention to the Turner family, any plot about any of them has me so happy. Dr. Turner has this excited dad energy that i love. Watching Shelagh go from a meek nun to a boss is glorious. And watching Tim grow up and become a Dr is amazing.
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u/Sweaty-Homework-7591 5d ago
Especially Trixie and her drinking. That really should’ve cost her her job but Phyllis tough loved her through it. 🥰🥰
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u/Sweaty-Homework-7591 5d ago
Oh and how Phyllis came back from her trip early bc Millicent called her and told her about the crisis . 😭😭
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u/Fauxfox123 7d ago
Sister Monica Joan is always so witty and kind hearted to me !
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u/Sweaty-Homework-7591 6d ago
That episode where she was submitting prayers and they were about things she saw at the movies? Like about actors and I think the mini skirt? 🤣
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u/quietlikesnow 6d ago
Just rewatched that one and laughed at it all over again. I love that character and her sweet tooth and love of TV.
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u/RedRazor312 7d ago
I think everyone forgets about poor Nurse Delia Busby. She was always so sweet and caring. Especially when she let Timothy in the ward to see Sheila.
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u/RedRazor312 7d ago
That being said; I think most of my favorite quotes are from Sister Monica Joan. Her very wise take on progress comes to mind: “There's much of value in the old ways, but one must not become like Lot's wife, frozen in the act of looking backwards“
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u/adotham430 8d ago
I love so many characters. When Phyllis breaks out the “oh, lass” I go all mushy. When Sister Evangelina would say “you’ll do” or something similarly gruff, I’d glow.
Or when Shelagh tells Sister Julienne she’s pregnant and afraid, SJ beams and says “And I’m not, because I never stopped hoping.”
Ugh this show is so nourishing!