Season1 Episode 16 - 23rd March 2002
Episode Description
Karl tells some anecdotes about his Auntie Hazel and her Ken Dodd lookalike ex-boyfriend. Ricky realises he’ll be dead in 2050 so won’t be a soldier in the rebel underground. Karl has lost his enthusiasm at being lifted in the air by balloons.

Karl is apparently an expert in commerce after being taken round a Kellogg’s factory and explains how he got sacked from his supermarket job at Cordon Blue.

This weeks “Educating Karl” is Churchill. Ricky claims Winston was coked up during the war. Karl tells a fable about an old dog, a puppy and a lake.



Selected Quotes & Passages
Auntie Hazel
Karl: Once things are in your 'ead it's difficult not to mention it, when I was a kid me mam's sister Hazel was seeing another bloke, it's weird coz she's a lesbian now.
Ricky: (laughs)
Steve: That must've been an interesting christmas.
Karl: But anyway she was seeing this bloke and he looked like Ken Dodd apparently.
Steve: He looked like Ken Dodd!
Karl: So people said don't mention it coz it gets on his nerves when you meet him and you go oh he does look like Ken Dodd, so I said alright, his name is Will or whatever, and I was introduced to him, the first thing I said, "nice to to meet you Ken".
Ricky: (laughs)
Steve: (laughs) Did you do it as a joke?
Karl: No, no, because you know when you know I'm not allowed to say that, must'nt say that, and then I saw him and I thought Jesus, he does look like him and it just came out.
Steve: Was it Doddy who turned her into a lesbo d'you think?
Karl: We'll he wasn't a good looking bloke, so possibly.
Ricky: She started going out with Esther Rantzen then, which is weird, out of the frying pan into the fire.
Steve: What was the story with the lesbianism then, how did she announce that to everyone, what age was she when she realised?
Karl: Well we're not a close family d'you know what I mean, we're not the sort of family who keeps in touch with everyone, and I think me mam called her up one christmas and sort of said hows's...
Steve: How's the Diddy Men?
Ricky: Yeah, how's Nutty Ash?
Karl: And she said oh no I don't do that anymore, I'm knocking about with Sandra or whatever.
Ricky: Right, not big butch Sandra with the big earrings and the skinhead, used to live down the road from you, used to get Doc Martins wholesale, that Sandra?