#TeamEdith
As a few of you might be aware of, I am co-moderating the Downton Abbey live Twitter Parties for Masterpiece Classic PBS’s weekly airing of the hit mini-series. For the benefit of those unknowing souls who have not experienced a Twitter Party, just image thousands of fans tweeting 140 word messages to each other in response to the dramatic doings being thrown at us during the broadcast. It’s one giant love/laugh fest!
Co-moderating is a blast – it’s like trying to watch a ticker tape parade on speed. It is so fast that I miss most of the thousands of tweets whizzing by on Tweetgrid. Every week, I do go back and read my stream in case some poor soul really needs an answer to some puzzling bit, and just for laughs. Here are a few that just made me LOL (laugh out loud) even four days after the party on Sunday. Enjoy!
Oh, and please do join in the fun this Sunday during the national broadcast of the finale episode of Downton Abbey on February 19th at 9:00 pm ET & PT.
Laurel Ann Nattress @Austenprose
- RT @OBriensBangs: LOOK at how awesome my bangs look in this scene. If I do say so myself. (nice curl job along with terse words) #DowntonPBS
- Oh no Anna – don’t go into Sir Richard Murdock’s room. No, no. Evil center of world. #DowntonPBS
- Sir Richard, you are a slithering sod to recruit Lady Mary’s maid to spy on her! *Hisssss* #DowntonPBS
- Shocking the ladies in the library is so middle class! Granny not there to tell them, so I must. #DowntonPBS
- LOL Matthew feeling tingling. I promise to keep my remarks on this subject as clean as possible! #DowntonPBS
- It a miracle. The Lourdes water worked. Matthew walks…. #DowntonPBS
- Ooo Lady Mary. “Aren’t all of us stuck with the choices we make.” Speaking after being pamuked by the best. #DowntonPBS
- RT @masterpiecepbs: Dowager Fixer. (Is that like the Downton whisperer?) #DowntonPBS
- RT @ParentheticaLex: That curtain is wrinkled. Unacceptable. #DowntonAbbey #DowntonPBS
- Blank face lie Lady Mary. You do still love Cousin Matthew. Cut that Sir Richard the Murdock loose. #DowntonPBS
- Eloped to Gretna Green??? Oh no, Jane Austen spinning in grave. #DowntonPBS
- RT @BloodyMarquis: Thomas’s next plan after ruining cakes is to pop a couple birthday balloons. #DowntonPBS
- And…Edith gets to carry the luggage. Not fair. #DowntonPBS
- RT @sue_oz: RT @tomandlorenzo: HAHA, Thomas! Point and laugh! HAHA! #DowntonPBS @masterpiecepbs
- Edith looks down in concern for Sybil’s love of Branson. It looks bad when the Edith-o-meter looks down #DowntonPBS
- RT @clayton988: @Austenprose @masterpiecepbs You laugh now. Thomas will have evil power bangs like O’Brien next week. #DowntonPBS
- “I do hope I am interrupting something.” LOL granny – we love you! #DowntonPBS
- “If you are turning American on me, I’m going downstairs.” LOL Lord Grantham #DowntonPBS
- RT @TessTalks: Lady Sybil is pretty darn mouthy tonight. I bet Robert now regrets letting that phone in the house. #DowntonPBS
- RT @OBriensBangs: I made the Spanish Flu. (we knew that already.) #DowntonPBS
- Cinnamon in milk prevents the flu? Who knew? #DowntonPBS
- Everyone YELL at your TV screen. NOOOO LORD GRANTHAM #DowntonPBS
- RT @alexandrasear: Cousin Isobel always seems so happy to deliver bad news. #DowntonPBS
- RT @RogueReverend: It’s Men Behaving Badly night on #DowntonPBS
- RT @AlisonStratton: That awkward moment when you’re dancing with your cousin & your fiancée walks in on you kissing #DowntonPBS
- RT @tomandlorenzo: We think we can hear a choir singing…. #DowntonPBS
- Lavinia is the Marilyn Monroe of Downton Abbey. She just wanted to be loved #DowntonPBS
- RT @pumpkinshirt: Could they make Matthew look any more like a vampire? (Edwardian Twilight ) #DowntonPBS
- RT @LMJGrl: These hussy maids have GOT to go!! #DowntonPBS
- *avert eyes* Bates and Anna in bed? No, this is too much to see. Are the shades of Downton to be thus polluted? #DowntonPBS
- RT @0bFuSc8: RT @thisbrokenwheel: Bates! Anna! So much pale, pale English skin! MY EYES #DowntonPBS
- Matthew definitely a zombie – not a vampire. #DowntonPBS
- RT @gfrancie: Not only does Matthew have a PhD in being miserable, he even scored a sweet post-doc in suffering. #DowntonPBS
- RT @thisbrokenwheel: Sweet merciful…did the Bronte sisters write this episode?! (HILARIOUS) #DowntonPBS
- RT @Juls_oliveira: RT @TheClaireFraser: Cousin Matthew Cullen! (SNORT) #DowntonPBS
- RT @MrsPremise4: @Austenprose have the boundaries of propriety been vigorously assaulted? (INDEED) #DowntonPBS
- RT @L_MarysEyebrows: @theladygrantham Don’t worry Granny! Your one-liners and our perfect arches will hold everything together! #DowntonPBS
- RT @OBriensBangs: I DID IT! I GOT RID OF BATES! It took a really long time and was totally unjustified but I WON!!!! #DowntonPBS
- RT @KEC9: RT @travisjohnbye: FREE JOHN BATES #DowntonPBS
- Dinner break before the start of the west coast Downton Abbey twitter party in one hour. Be there or be O’Briened #DowntonPBS
- RT @KDCaulfeild: Beginning 2 paraphrase Dowager Countess 2 my 15 y.o.: “Don’t date a boy w/ earrings~It’s so middle class” #DowntonPBS
And…. The best tweet of the night goes to my fellow Janeite Vic
- John Bates in bed just doesn’t twirl my cookies. #DowntonPBS
I hope I see a few familiar Janeites at this Sunday’s Downton Abbey Twitter Party. Just use hashtag #DowntonPBS and your favorite Twitter aggregator like TweetDeck or TweetGrid to join in the fun!
Cheers Downtonites,
Laurel Ann
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Dreading the end of the season, but can’t wait for this Sunday! I’ll be there with my Twitter bells on!
Laura
(@LHartness)
A arched collection of tweets. Thanks for including us Brows. We’re enjoying the live tweeting, but are already feeling withdrawal since this coming Sunday is the last episode of S2.
Well then! We’ll have to go out with a bang. A tip of the arched brows to you! ^^ @L_MarysEyebrows
I snickered and snorted my way through this tweet stream. For some reason I’m multi-tasking impaired and cannot tweet and watch at the same time. But after the fact, these tweets are STILL hilarious! Especially loving the special tweet accounts (L_MarysEyebrows, ObriensBangs, theladygrantham)
Love the wit in those 140 characters or less. I have to say “great minds think alike” about the Gretna Green tweet, because I said something nearly identical to my husband as we were watching.
I can’t tweet and watch at the same time either. But I do enjoy going onto Twitter afterwards and catching up with all the tweets. I love that this blog post collected some of the best here.
I’ve so enjoyed this twitter party! I’m very excited for Sunday’s episode, while also being sad about the end of the season.
Oooh, thank you Laurel Ann, for showcasing my tweets. I am just now getting around to reading all the Downton Abbey posts. As usual, your coverage is superb. See you at tonight’s twitter party.