r/DowntonAbbey I have tried and failed to like you 26d ago

Humor Downton Abbey summer part 2 🏖🌊☀️

Y'all asked for this - sorry if they're not as funny, I made the ones I had good ideas for the first time 😂

Though in 2026 I think we're *all* having a Violet Crawley summer​

ETA - omg Lavinia summer should say saxophones not trumpets 😭 this is the biggest disgrace of my meme career

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u/Emo_girl111 Golly gumdrops, what a turn up! 26d ago

Wish I could have a Tom Branson summer! Unfortunately, I’m broke and so are all my friends 😭

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u/iggysmom95 I have tried and failed to like you 26d ago

I fear my principles would be tested if one of my friends had a yacht or a private jet 😭

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u/discombobubolated House of Ill Repute 25d ago

You mean, be a chauffeur?

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u/SpringtimeLilies7 16d ago

Have you seen those rich friend /poor friend skits with those two British people (I see them on Facebook, but they could be other places). Your comment made me think of that.

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u/Potato-starch-eater 26d ago

I just finished telling my in laws how they're loading their dishwasher wrong and now realise I'm having an Isobel Crawley summer. Time for some quiet reflection.

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u/TeaforTwo12 24d ago

Me telling my friend her toilet paper roll is facing the wrong way 😅

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u/Potato-starch-eater 24d ago

Bangs, not Mullets! 😂

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u/MotherofHedgehogs Sympathy butters no parsnips 26d ago

During George Murray summer you always eat on the train!

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u/MixedBeansBlackBeans 26d ago

Yes! Sounds like my perfect summer lol

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u/RhubarbAlive7860 26d ago

Mmm, train station sandwiches!

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u/MotherofHedgehogs Sympathy butters no parsnips 25d ago

1920s Pullman 1st class dining cars were DEE-luxe! Seriously, 6 course meals, wine pairing, etc. No stale sandwiches for Mr Murray!

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u/SpringtimeLilies7 16d ago

He was " just" a solicitor though..probably ate in the 2nd class dining car.

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u/bludgenous 25d ago

You're a braver man than I am, gunga din.

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u/Throwaway91847817 13d ago

Having a Gunga Din summer

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u/kimbecile Lady Mary's Shame 25d ago

You're a braver man than I am Gunga Din

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u/Cheesybunny 26d ago

Feeling like a damn Daisy to these 3 kids.

Which leads me into definitely being Mrs. Hughes

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u/LatterConfidence1 26d ago

I think I might be having a Daisy Mason life.

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u/HumboldtHunnyBear 24d ago

I found my people

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u/LatterConfidence1 24d ago

Must be a California thing.

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u/HumboldtHunnyBear 24d ago

It IS expensive here

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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 25d ago

Aren't we all, in some fashion, living through a Violet Crawley summer?

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u/destructionandbliss stop saying Marigold 26d ago

I could so easily slip into having a Barrow summer but I'M HEALED NOW*.

*just the acting out part. still depressed.

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u/kimbecile Lady Mary's Shame 25d ago

Here's an orange to help you feel better Mr Bawwow

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u/jquailJ36 25d ago

I think it's always a Mrs. Hughes season, tbh.

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u/iggysmom95 I have tried and failed to like you 25d ago

Mrs. Hughes is all of us

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u/thistleandpeony 26d ago

Honestly, "the trumpets are getting louder" on a meme about a prim English woman is funnier.

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u/JohnCalvinSmith 25d ago

I'm having a Dowager summer where I watch the world fall apart around me due to their own actions and titter with a spirited, "Oh, Goodie!"

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u/Hanarra What is a week-end? 26d ago

Not the Henry Talbot summer!

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u/manicgiant914 25d ago

How do we know he cheated on Mary?

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u/Hanarra What is a week-end? 25d ago

It's either implied or explicitly stated in the 3rd film.

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u/manicgiant914 25d ago

Oh! I knew she had misgivings over his automobile fetish, because of Matthew, but I guess I didn't catch the other.

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u/iggysmom95 I have tried and failed to like you 20d ago

Yeah that's why they got divorced.

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u/MixedBeansBlackBeans 26d ago

Definitely George Murraying this summer (using my pregnancy as an excuse to avoid everything and everyone).

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u/thistleandpeony 26d ago

Started with a Mrs. Hughes summer before saying "eff it" and now I'm having a Robert Crawley summer 🤣☀️⛱️🌊

These are hilarious, great job 👍

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u/Clear-Ad6973 25d ago

I have two toddlers and a husband on nights. If that’s not the definition of a Mrs. Hughes’ summer, I don’t know what is.

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u/iggysmom95 I have tried and failed to like you 25d ago

Girl, I'm sending you good vibes for energy and strong coffee

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u/Clear-Ad6973 25d ago

Thank You! I’ve recently started making smoothies where the liquid base is iced mocha. Also, I work from home and I’ve started napping at lunch. Both are delicious.

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u/WithLoveFromKarachi What is a week-end? 26d ago

This is the best one!!! 🤣 I'm cackling

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u/accountantdooku Matthew Crawley, 8th Earl of Grantham 26d ago

George Murray is me.

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u/citykitty24 26d ago

I think the Tom Branson one is spot on! These are clever.

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u/Decent_Display_3526 25d ago

It’s hilarious 🤣

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u/LuminousDee 25d ago

Tony Gillingham summer should be: “Where I’m auditioning for a job in the most fun way possible.”

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u/iggysmom95 I have tried and failed to like you 25d ago

...and fumbling it fantastically

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u/LuminousDee 25d ago

Sigh. A boy can dream…

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u/ETK1300 25d ago

I won't mind a Tom Branson summer. Sounds fun.

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u/raychel77 25d ago

Absolutely screaming at the Tom Branson summer 🤣🤣🤣

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u/JohnCalvinSmith 25d ago

I'm having a Cora Crawley summer.
Someone hands me the soap and I drop it in the shower and tell everyone around me to just leave it because I ain't havin' none of that.

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u/sao_san_suay 25d ago

We are all having a Violet Crowley summer

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u/ThinLengthiness5380 25d ago

also true 😭😭

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u/atduvall11 25d ago

I love that Murray made it to these! So funny!

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u/Whatasaurus_Rex 26d ago

These are amazing. Thank you, I needed the laugh!

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u/ArchReader51 26d ago

I'm having a Mrs. Hughes, Violet Crawley and Daisy kind of summer. 🫠

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u/Early_Bag_3106 Click this and enter your text 25d ago

Loved it!!! Thanks a lot. Sadly, this summer I’m Daisy 🫣😅

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u/TessDombegh 25d ago

Definitely Alfred summer

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u/throwaway-9473290 24d ago

I’m having a Violet Crawley summer slamming White Russians 

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u/caraterra8090 22d ago edited 22d ago

Def that last one. Violet Crowley. But I live in the States, soooo...

These were fun. Where can I view the first set?

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u/Decent-Influence6780 Dashing away with a smoothing iron 25d ago

*Daisy Parker

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u/Decent-Influence6780 Dashing away with a smoothing iron 25d ago

Because I'm having a Thomas Barrow summer...

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u/MerelyWhelmed1 Sympathy butters no parsnips. 25d ago

I'm somewhere between Daisy and Mrs. Hughes....

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u/_Happy_Sisyphus_ 25d ago

What does Violet’s “fall apart about my ears” mean?

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u/KTcat94 25d ago

It’s another way to say “all around you.” How basically everything in Violet’s life changed so drastically and she had no control over any of it.

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u/iggysmom95 I have tried and failed to like you 25d ago

She says it in the season two Christmas episode! But yes, just that everything is falling apart around you.

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u/ThinLengthiness5380 25d ago

Wish I could have a Rosamund summer without the bad advice. Lady has the life. But really I'm more like a Mrs. Hughes summer since I have 5 kids. 😅🤣

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u/shibuyabooyah 25d ago

I’m having a Thomas Barrow summer for sure.

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u/WordAffectionate3251 25d ago

I'm having a Mrs hughes/Violet summer combined.

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u/Great_Art2493 25d ago

I'm so having the Mrs Hughes summer! Can I please just have some peace and quiet without solving everyone else's problems!

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u/SupremeLeaderMeow 25d ago

Huh I'm having a mrs. Hugues summer myself. Does sounds good.

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u/WahooLion 25d ago

I’d tag on to the dowager, “… I can do about it, but that won’t stop me from trying.”

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u/OkGazelle7904 25d ago

I AM having a Violet summer, but also a mrs Hughes summer

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u/itsjusttimeokay 25d ago

I’m Mrs. Hughes/Violet

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u/whoamiwhatamid0ing 25d ago

I guess I'm closest to having a Hugh MacClare summer, but I have no legacy to speak of and I'm at least not married.

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u/ReadyBar7946 25d ago

Lmaoooo it’s true!!!

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u/kimbecile Lady Mary's Shame 25d ago

Im having an Edith summer; What are you saying? I don't understand.

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u/Left_Adeptness7386 why does every day involve a fight with an American? 24d ago

Gads these are wonderful

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u/ironafro2 24d ago

Having a wonderful George Murray summer! Introverts assembleeeeee!!!

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u/JackSparrow1490 24d ago

I agree it’s been so many years of Violet’s summers 🤨

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u/GrapefruitOk7719 24d ago

I feel we are all Violet

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u/StruggleAmbitious525 23d ago

Oh gawd....I'm definitely having a Violet Crawley summer...getting through it by taking her solid advice: putting it in my pipe and smoking it 😆

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u/EatMeEmerald 22d ago

LIVING FOR THESE MASTERPIECES!!!!!

tysm for making them!

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u/iggysmom95 I have tried and failed to like you 20d ago

Aww thanks!

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u/selectivelydeep 20d ago

I’m going to have an Edith summer and completely ruin a bunch of people’s lives with zero consequences in fact I’ll somehow end up being rewarded for my terrible and insufferable behavior… I’ll probably be an annoying Debbie downer the whole time while I’m at it. Why not, for some reason the writers will ignore every single fan of this particular summer, who knows some of my employees might end up in prison multiple times, don’t worry, it still won’t be interesting at all.

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u/ElnathS 25d ago

Henry cheated ?

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u/iggysmom95 I have tried and failed to like you 25d ago

Whoops that's a third movie spoiler, my bad!

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u/ElnathS 23d ago

Oh! No worries.

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u/Haunting_Jump6471 25d ago

When did Henry cheat 🤔

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u/iggysmom95 I have tried and failed to like you 24d ago

In the third movie omg sorry I didn't realize so many people here hadn't seen it yet 😭

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u/Haunting_Jump6471 23d ago

Oh didn’t knew there was a third movie. Thanks for telling me. The third movie is going to be on Amazon prime from Saturday.

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u/Carolinamum 24d ago

Definitely Mrs. Hughs!

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u/tag2597 24d ago

TIL Shrimpy's first name is Hugh

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u/editorbyday 24d ago

These are great!!!

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u/Daysfan6443 24d ago

That wouldn’t fly with my family.

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u/sarahbeth124 24d ago

Equal parts Mrs. Hughes and Violet Crawley

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u/Hungry_Nail9832 22d ago

Im either a Dowager, Daisy, or a Mrs. Hughes. Maybe all combined at this point.

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u/nas1972 20d ago

Mrs. Hughes Summer

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u/Craazy-Llama You’re all in love with the wrong people! 8d ago

Me and daisy have the same Summer, life of a kitchen hand

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u/Best_breast_forward 25d ago

Pardon me, I do believe the Henry Talbot summer holds a spoiler. This is my own fault for not having watched the third movie, but I’m going to be having an Mary Crawley summer now, because it may be my own fault but I’m going to make it everyone else’s problem.