My Last Post About Hallmark's Inside Joke

For a few years now, Wife and I have been noticing that in nearly every Hallmark movie, somebody says, "What are you doing here?" (See one of my previous posts on this topic at Summer Love (2016).) I believe I counted six of those in this movie. At least four of them followed the trend of being out of place, not something the characters in real life would have said right then.

They are closing down the message boards - what a mistake. But here's my last post on this subject, and I think it proves my point better than any other example.

In A Royal Winter, the single time the question was asked was positively the most inappropriate time possible: When the Queen visits where the Prince is working with a choir, the Prince is totally surprised by her visit to his secret activity. So he says, "What are you doing here?" ... to the Queen ... loudly and in front of her subjects. That outrageous impertinence and disrespect would have cost the Prince his head in a previous era.

"What are you doing here?" -- to the Queen! The writer must have known that was fatally inappropriate -- and thus inserted that line into the script precisely because it is part of the running joke to do so.

There were a hundred other ways for him to react. A more "royal" way to react might have been: "Your Majesty, this is awkward."

Anyway, we're convinced it has been a running Hallmark screenplay inside joke. Too bad there will be nowhere to share this with others in the future.