Such a normal scene is rare in today's EastEnders. A normal family discussing normal problems over fish and chips, far more watchable than over-blown fake drama.

Something that's still as exciting 35 years on, a chippy tea.

Now it's a pleasure to watch the natural script writing.

A family fish and chips supper is a rarity these days due too the prices in the chippy! A long lost era is long gone 😪

Every Friday night having a chippy, cup of tea, those were the days!

When EastEnders was great rest in peace Pauline and Arthur

I don't watch eastenders anymore but I do watch the old repeats on drama channel

£9 for all of that. In 2020 it's £9 for one portion

This just proves how much EE has gone down the pan (or down the sink in Arthurs case)!

This is decent script-writing. Multiple characters interacting over fairly day-to-day things. By comparison, today's scripts are a series of dramatic monologues. The difference is stark!

Apparently, when Wendy Richard joined the cast, the producers wanted her to cut her hair. If you have a look at her in this clip, her hair has grown back to the size it was, when she was Shirley in Are You Being Served, since then.

The most authentic the show ever got

You're right. When Wendy was cast as middle aged Pauline, Julia Smith ordered that she removed all makeup, wore conservative skirts & clothes and her hair cropped, to ensure she looked much older than that of the glamorous Shirley Brahms! Here, she looks remarkably like Miss Brahms as that's the same hair style she had back then! :) Thanks for Watching. x

And to think only Ian is still o The Square. I've been to a place called Brit & Chips and I love having a Chippy myself. It's also synonomous in Toronto, Ontario and Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Yes Michelle, and you're STILL part of the problem in 2017!

Even Pauline can have a laugh

£9 for all that now its that much for one fish and chips

I really like Arthur, I like his mindset and the way he thinks... but he definitely piles all the stress on, that’s why it all got too much for him

Michelle when she didnt bore anyone

Is kathy not having a Gillian Taylforth "sausage" with hair chips 🤔

LOL Arthur

Indeed!

It would be £22 odd

£40 that lot would have been nowadays - probably dearer if Kath hadnt went for the sausage instead of fish the dirty bitch