Episodes
The Vicar of Dibley first aired on 2 September 1994. After 18 episodes and three short specials, two 60-minute episodes were filmed in September 2006 and introduced a new character, Harry Kennedy, whom Geraldine marries. The first episode featuring Harry aired on Christmas Day 2006, the second was on New Year's Day 2007. The Christmas Day episode was watched by 11.4 million people, more than any other programme on that day while the New Year's Day episode was watched by 12.3 million people. This was publicised as the last episode to be aired However, a few days later it was announced that a short special would be shown for Comic Relief and this, the last ever episode, was aired on 16 March 2007.
Following the opening credits of each episode, there is usually a humorous scene, e. g. a woman knitting straight off the sheep, or a man falling off a roof. At the end of each episode, after the closing credits, Geraldine tells a joke to Alice, her verger; most of the time, the joke is rather off-colour. Alice generally fails to understands to the humour and tries to interpret the joke literally, explaining to Geraldine why the premise is implausible, much to the latter's chagrin, occasionally causing her to react violently. In the final episode, the joke is explained to Alice by Harry, in a comically convoluted manner which involves grammar. Contrary to expectations, given the character's limited intelligence, Alice does finally get the punchline. In the episode "Love and Marriage, " David is the recipient of the joke and understands it straight away, but Geraldine begins to explain it to him, out of habit. In the 2005 episode Happy New Year, the joke was told at the beginning, as the end of the episode focused on the Make Poverty History campaign.
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