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Who, may I humbly ask, and do please forgive the intrusion, but who is Mrs. Bucket?

A British sitcom called Keeping Up Appearances about a middle class woman from a working class family, and the many ways in which she tried to pretend she was something she wasn't.

I guess that's the reference, in that so many people on social media are pretending to lead exciting happy lives when in reality they are quite ordinary and boring.

It's a reference to an early 90s British sitcom (that I never thought I'd see on HN)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_Up_Appearances

I'd suspect the reference was at least partly prompted by the recently released prequel (it was broadcast 2 days ago):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Hyacinth

Keeping Up Appearances was better than Young Hyacinth IMO. Here's an intro to Mrs Bucket:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsZGHxb4caA

Nope. Never heard of it. Though quite cool.

The reference came from being about to write 'people keeping up appearances', then remembering the show.

Fair enough. The prequel timing was just a coincidence then.

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