Welcome to the final episode thread of the week! 'Oh eck it's Friday 13th and it ain't a very lucky one for Karl cos all his pigeons are coming home to roost.'

What I've enjoyed this week:
1. Thicky bricky Jason becoming the Street's Sage
2. Carla's involvement in Hayles' story
3. Karl attacking the bullies
4. The attempt to make Craig look like a boy on the streets
5. Roy verbally attacking Emily
6. Peterphile creeping on the factory workers
7. Eva's knockers
8. Hearing Mr. Blobby
9. AudREY remembering Sarah Lou trying to smother Demon
10. The way Audi says 'hair.'
11. The Phantom of the opera making an appearance
12. The weather trying to cause continuity problems
13. Stella's wedding dress being beige
14. Detective Devendra minus the mac
15. Ches giving Hayley balls


Coming up tonight:

Time To Karl It A Day:


Open Your Heart


Dry Rot Decision Downers


The Devil's Friend


Thanks to mrb, Rk and agatha for this week's threads.

KARL MUNRO:

Born: 27th April 1963
Residence: 13 Coronation Street
First appearance: 17th June 2011
Duration: 2011 to 2013
Number of appearances: 289 (as of Episode 8201)

Karl Munro is the partner of Stella Price, the current landlady of the Rovers Return Inn. He got a job at Street Cars in June 2011. Later in the year, he had won himself £1,000 from Ciaran McCarthy after playing poker with some of the lads in the back room of the Rovers. This was Ciaran's and Michelle Connor's wedding money, but Karl went and spent it at Barlow's Bookies and didn't give Ciaran the money back.
Karl developed a gambling addiction, and went to spend his Street Cars fares at the The Sunset Casino, but despite winning a lot of money, he had lost it all on one gamble. When Lloyd Mullaney questioned him about being absent all day, he made up the story that his car had broken down. Unbeknownst to Karl, Lloyd had tried to kiss Stella after helping her in the Rovers, as she was supporting him after his break-up with Cheryl Gray.

In 2012 he started an affair with Sunita Alahan and began creeping about and almost got caught out by Dev and Kevin Webster. In July, Karl resumed his affair with Sunita for one night until Stella and her daughters Leanne and Eva came back to the Rovers to see Karl and Sunita. After that Stella broke up with Karl and banged on Sunita's door causing several of the neighbours to emerge. Stella then slapped former friend Sunita before calling her a slag just as Dev came out. Later that night Karl had to sleep in his cab after Stella threw him and his belongings out. However he was sacked by Lloyd the next morning.

Karl moved in with Sunita at 7 Coronation Street after Dev allowed her to continue living there. However Karl still missed Stella and began to regret his actions and disliked being with Sunita. Several times Karl pleaded with Stella to take him back, however she kept refusing. When her mother, Gloria turned up on the scene, Karl began asking her to talk to Stella, with no avail. When Karl came to realisation that Sunita had deleted his text message on the night she wanted to rekindle their romance, he angrily confronted her. He left, and returned to find Sunita changing the locks of the house. Karl later moved into a bedsit, and begged Steve to give him his job back, which Steve agreed to after talking with Stella.

In 2013 Karl began to spiral out of control and it was clear he was still missing Stella. When Gloria's new fiancé Eric Babbage passed away, Karl offered his support by comforting Gloria and helped out behind the bar. However he was still in love with Stella and wasn't happy with her relationship with Jason Grimshaw and tried to convince her that it wouldn't work as he was younger than her. When she got a cab back after a meeting with the brewery, Karl picked her up and took her away for a talk. Karl broke down and a sympathetic Stella comforted him, but said he should try and move on and stop seeing her. The next day he returned, only for Gloria to blurt out about Karl locking Stella in the taxi, which prompted Lloyd and Steve to sack him a second time, and a smug Sunita looking on in glee. Karl later visited Sunita and threatened her that he wasn't going anywhere. The next day, Karl stole Jason's van and torched it and gave Jason's description to the police. However Jason had an alibi that he was in the Rovers at the time. Stella, who didn't think Karl could be capable of doing such a thing, got him a job working for Owen Armstrong at his builder's yard.

Karl's jealousy of Jason and Stella began to grow and on the evening of 18th March, as other Coronation Street residents were out partying at Nick's Bistro, Karl secretly let himself into the Rovers' cellar and using alcohol as an accelerant, set fire to a piece of paper. Sunita - who had followed Karl down the ginnel - so on spotted him and immediately asked for an explanation on what he was doing. She tried to escape from the cellar, but Karl grabbed her and pushed her down the stairs.
Sunita landed next to the roaring flames and got knocked unconscious by the push. Karl was shocked to see his ex-girlfriend lying on the floor and quickly ran down the stairs, but he discovered that Sunita was not moving. Panicked and thinking that he has killed Sunita, he ran out of the pub, leaving her to get covered in flames.

Karl returned to the party just in time to join in with the rest of the boys for the finale of the Full Monty. As Norris Cole and Emily Bishop came out of No.3 commenting on the noise coming from the Bistro, they spotted the fire and called the fire brigade. When Karl realised that Stella was in the Rovers, he used the spare set of keys to rescue her. They made their way into the bedroom, where firefighter Toni Griffiths aided them out. Toni was killed in the process.

Convinced that she owed her life to Karl, Stella asked him to move in at 13 Coronation Street where the Price family were temporarily living, and although Jason didn't approve, he went along with the arrangement. Stella promptly dumped Jason and asked Karl to accompany her to Sunita's funeral. At the Crematorium, Karl broke down and admitted to Stella that he killed Sunita - although she didn't believe him and misread his confession. Stella and Karl then shared a kiss, before pulling back. Shortly after this, the pair rekindled their relationship.

In June, Dev started to work out that Sunita was framed for the Rovers fire and that the real arsonist must have stolen Sunita's keys and planted the pub keys on her instead. Karl came very close to hitting Dev with Aadi's golf trophy but managed to persuade Dev to drop his investigation into the fire. Guilty Karl was very shaken by what he nearly did and when Gloria assumed he was having flashbacks to the fire, goes along with it. In August, Craig Tinker, told Karl that he believes he burnt down the Rovers by dropping a lit cigarette that he had secretly been smoking. Obviously, Karl knew that this was not the case, as he had started the fire himself, but Karl convinced Craig that it was his fault and told him to keep schtum.

Karl arrives

Dinner at Peter & Leanne's

At Stella's bedside

Karl 2011

Karl/Sunita

Stella finds out about his gambling

Stella finds out about Karlita

Rovers fire

Kills Sunita

Karl tries to confess

Karl/Jason

Threatens Leanne

Karl/Dev

Karl/Craig

Corrie Exits:

Elsie

Hilda

Bet

Alma

Maxine

Hillman

Karen

Todd

Martin

Mike

Charlie Stubbs

Liz

John Stape

Graeme

Jack

Becky

Lewis

Hope everyone enjoys the show and has a great weekend!

Thanks for the thread, can't wait for the episodes.

Good evening all and thanks for the thread dullagj2! Loved the after party pics!

***Lauren to win CBB 2013!***

Woot woot, brilliant thread, dj, I love it!

I've loved all the things you listed too, although on item 4, I think the last three words were superfluous.


Hi Cobbleheads, hope you're all well. I'm missing the first half hour of the CBB final for this, so it better be top notch.

Specially the pic of Duffy eh?

I'm really looking forward to tonight's episodes! Think my favourite ever bit of corrie was hearing mr blobby the other day

what about all of the above option

I have a picture in my mind of all FMs and that's pretty much how I imagine JD! Phwooooah!

Thank you!

Wot a fred!

See, dullag, this is why you won best threadmaker! The detail you put in is brilliant! The after-party pics are fantastic too There's just no way I can argue against mine

Can't wait for this Karl stuff! Everything else sounds blah.

Welcome, ditto.


Welcome. Glad you liked.

Agree, I hope the Geordie one doesn't nick it.


Thanks Jade. I think the first 1/2 hour is just a countdown to the final.

Didnt know you watched Corrie dullagj?

What do I look like? .............don't answer that.


Thanks k9.


Ah thanks MsW.


Yep, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks draw me in now and again but I watched EE and Corrie religiously.

Hewwo I wont be posting while it's on - we eat dinner then, and watch it on delay - but I'm here *waves*

Early evening all, hope tonight doesn't disappoint. Go get him Dev,

I fully expect some dreadful over reaction from Stella and Gloria

Evening dj

Hello there Cobbleheads - and nice to see you Beth

Evening Cobblepeeps

Love the thread Dullag, especially the after show partyThis is why you won best thread maker! Though I have to say, I had Aggie?! As if my reputation wasn't bad enough And as the Dailans will tell you, Cain's the only one for me No offence Aggie

Thanks for the thread

Gloria will probably be doing some major face-saving, suddenly declaring that she always had her suspicions about Karl.

Evening all & thanks for the thread.

Well tonight's the night I lose this months team leader but his performances over the past fortnight have done me well, especially with that double episode on Sunday September 1st.

Looks like we have two new super heroes in town, Dev and Jason but will they be wearing their underpants outside their trousers?

Evening all and thanks for the thread dullag

I see why JD won the sexiest male award

bib:

Jason in just his underpants would be fine with me though!

Thanks for the thread DJ

Raining very quickly here at the moment - got soaked coming home from work


Hi all!

Fourteen people have voted in Round Twenty Eight so far!

Below you will find a list of current Corrie characters.


Simply cast your eye down the list then work out which THREE characters you dislike the most / feel the most ambivalent about.


Once you’ve worked out who they are simply post your choices on here or send them to me via PM.


The two characters with the most votes will be evicted whilst the remainder will go through to Round Twenty Seven which will be posted next Monday. In the event of a tie votes accumulated in the previous rounds will be taken into account.


Voting closes at Midnight on Sunday 15 September


Your choices are:-

01) Deirdre Barlow
02) Peter Barlow
03) Carla Connor
04) Hayley Cropper
05) Roy Cropper

06) Sylvia Goodwin
07) Steve McDonald
08) Gail McIntyre
09) Kylie Platt
10) Audrey Roberts

11) Sally Webster




Those who have voted so far are:-

+ boxer1988
+ CollieWobbles
+ dullagj2
+ jolly turnip
+ Justonecornetto

+ k9fan
+ KaylaL
+ kwynne42
+ Lewi26
+ MsWilder11

+ newlampwick
+ Ownnnn
+ rhumble
+ SULLA