Carly has just smashed up a car she was working on. She put a wrench through the windscreen and side windows. This makes her the third women in EastEnders in recent months to physically damage a car in anger.

In November 2006, Dawn smashed Rob's car by putting a brick (or was it a slab) through his car windscreen. At Christmas, Stacey did the same thing to Bradley's car and damaged the bodywork.

Martin Fowler smashed the windscreen on Phil's Range Rover to set the alarm off and get him to come outside the Queen Vic. Deano took a car from the car lot and crashed it (I'm assuming the windscreen on that got damaged too).

What do you think about the way soap characters deal with their anger? They do seem to have short fuses and like to smash things up (Martin smashing up the living room, Carly throwing all the kitchen table items on the floor). This is a lot of damaged goods, cars and windscreens all destroyed in a rage. What do you think about all of this? Has any of it been justified?

How do you behave when you get angry?
Last edited by gargleroadside : 06-02-2007 at 09:59

I think Eastenders is being sponsored by Autoglass.

that could be true ...........

my hubby the other week noiced an autoglass phone number card on the notice board in the arches.


he only spotted it because of the colours in the logo .

I don't smash windscreens when I'm angry

I tend to bawl at the offending person

I agree with the OP. It is ridiculous how frequently EE use the plot device of smashing things to show anger.

I can imagine the writer. "Hmm, I've got to show that Carly is really angry and upset. I know, how about she smashes the car windows? Genius!"

This has always been the case in EE. Usually, to show that somebody is quite angry, they sweep all the stuff off a table/shelf with their arm. To show that they're very angry, they'll upturn a table or smash a window.

How about using a bit of imagination and having a character express their anger differently for a change?

It would go through my head at the time that no amount of anger is worth a criminal record and a repair bill. I think I react by ranting to anyone who will listen.

I think I can remember Cindy smashing up a car when one of her kids got ran over.

Insurance premiums must've gone up quite a bit around Walford what with all those damaged cars and smashed windscreens.

i would have aimed the crow bar at phil mitchells head ...

I smash things when I'm angry.

If I have no one to shout at I tend to throw things; not smash though. I've thrown my phone across the room a few times; surprised it's still working tbh

I could understand Martin being so angry the other week, after looking at Harry Hill's picture.

In EE they can't (or won't) show "mind sequences" or have those kind of cinematic tricks for showing an angry state of mind, so they have to use physical or sonic means.

The best thing was when Peggy smashed the pub up.

It's going to be called Windscreenenders soon

lots of laughs the the last comment!!

Ian and Jane threw mud when they were angry!

Martin gave the fridge a slap. That was really tough of him. It wasn't even his fridge too, it was Gus's from what I remember.

Yes, you're right. The only one I can remember was when the Little Mo, Alfie and Cat love triangle all came to ahead in the Queen Vic. The microphone fell to the floor and it all went blurry and echoey from what I remember.

Autoglass repair, Autoglass replace! lol

Good to see Phil is chasing Carly for all the damage she did to that car. She hasn't really explained why she trashed that car the way she did. Was it the time of the month or something?

She now seems to running Kevin's car lot while he's away. How will she react if she loses out on an important sale?

I blame Half a Fowler for all this smashing things up.

If ever I was tempted to smash anything up, by the time I had worked out which item I could afford to damage, I would have forgotten why I was angry.

I suppose that smashing something up compensates for their i nability to display anger without doing damage.

In a rage Carly rips posters off the car lot portacabin walls, sweeps items off the table and generally smashes the place up. Whoopee. She really needs anger management classes. I wonder if they run any sessions at Walford Community Centre?

Carly loses it
eastenders 8pm(thur 8th march)

I forgot to add that Billy smashed up baby Petal's cot when he was 'really angry' too.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/a3...y-and-joe.html
Last edited by gargleroadside : 09-03-2007 at 15:49

Thats a lot of windscreen bashing