They were hilarious in their pretensions, so marvellously unaware of the real impressions they were making, and yet somehow so up front in their crusade to be superior that it was brave.

In an attempt to make callers think she is wealthy enough to employ domestic staff, she repeatedly answers the telephone with, "The Bouquet residence; the lady of the house speaking."

This false accent had previously been used for Edie Pegden in Last of the Summer Wine, another series written by Clarke.

For the show's middle- and upper-middle-class audience, the comedic pivot is the many ways and multiple occasions that Hyacinth is slapped down for failing to recognize her position in the status hierarchy.

[3] Dickason concludes that Hyacinth is a "relatively rare example of a wholly unsympathetic weak Britcom character that the audience can only delight in laughing at and not with".