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Favourite Royle Family quotes or scenes

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MakeYourOwnFuckingTea · 14/09/2018 21:56

Saw on Facebook that its now 20 years old! Shock
I adore it and watch it over and over. Even the missing episode from series 3 where they leave baby David with Anthony so they can go boozing. Plus all the specials including the brilliant Queen of Sheba.

Dad! Your flies are undone!

Jim Royle: Ah, the cage might be open, but the beast is asleep.

Barbara Royle: Beast my arse!

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0urKid · 15/09/2018 02:07

They get the little things right.
Such as Barbara wiping the dusty glasses on her boobs.
Anthony getting a sovereign on his 18th.
Sitting in the kitchen with your mateblooking through her catalogue together.
Everyone knew a Twiggy.
Barbara taking her cleanser off with loo roll.
Always having a spare quilt or sleeping bag in the airing cupboard.
Pissed up arguments on a saturday night.
Bit of decorating you never got round to.
Everyone getting excited about a chippy tea.
Being sent to the chippy or the shop for booze fags and chocolate. You might be allowed to keep the change.
Caroline grew up in my area. She was in the same year as my sister and we knew the same people and places. I swear when I watch the show sometimes I recognise whats going on. The Feathers is based on one in Chorlton Manchester.

crazydoglady6867 · 15/09/2018 07:29

All these posts are making me laugh. I can still see new things when I watch it now, little things I missed before.

Chocrock · 15/09/2018 08:19

Reminds me of my childhood, all the characters are exactly like mine or my friends family. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling and makes me roar with laughter not many tv shows can do that!

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DollyWilde · 15/09/2018 08:31

Ah Twiggy!

I know the Christmas specials have been panned a bit but I love when Denise hosts Christmas dinner and the turkey’s still frozen Grin carrot crush!

When Denise goes into labour the scene with her and Jim makes me sob.

My mum is v middle class and doesn’t get it, my dad thinks he is a latter day Jim Royle and thinks it’s fab. I didn’t really get it when younger but the older I get the more I love it. Might pop an episode on now actually...

PuddleglumtheMarshWiggle · 15/09/2018 08:32

When Mary dies and Joseph carries the ashes eveywhere.
Cheryl "Mam's not in the dyson, mam's in heaven. It's aboutvtime you realised that"
Sitting at my dad's funeral thinking that. He's not in the coffin, he's in heaven. Very poignant!
All of it brilliantly written.

DollyWilde · 15/09/2018 08:37

Literally just put it on:

  • JIM! Who’d you thinks the oldest out of her and Gloria Hunniford?
  • I couldn’t give a shiny shite!
hmmwhatatodo · 15/09/2018 08:44

You’ve all inspired me to sit and watch it now!

Ameliarose16 · 15/09/2018 08:51

The xmas special one with Denise cooking the turkey and having cup a soup to start, do you want oblongs or triangles- then having a break down to Dave- this is so me I'm as dramatic- it's the best esp IMO I love it

Rockbird · 15/09/2018 08:53

Is it on Netflix? Fab. I'm having a lazy day today after being rushed off my arse for ages, was just looking for something to binge watch.

OhDearGodLookAtThisMess · 15/09/2018 08:55

DollyWilde Your mum not getting the humour won't be anything to do with her being middle class!

crimsonlake · 15/09/2018 08:58

I loved it, could watch re-runs forever and the classic one liners. I had a 'baby David' shortly before the series ever aired and funnily enough that is how we referred to him. Twenty years later it always makes me smile when they speak of their 'baby David'.

Clarabella8 · 15/09/2018 09:00

“Get your coat Barb “
“Oo are you taking me with you ?”
“No , I’m turning the heating off “

doyawannabuildasnowmaaaaaaaan · 15/09/2018 09:02

Jim " I've got a pounds worth of pants on and 50p of it is up my arse" Grin

DollyWilde · 15/09/2018 09:04

@ohdeargodlookatthismess

Sorry, I was responding to @iheartniles:

“I think it’s a working class thing rather than a northern thing. We all roared at it. DH family (middle class) don’t get it.”

That said you may well be right. Bless my mum, anything with swearing in isn’t really her bag Grin

ThefusilliJerry · 15/09/2018 09:11

I don’t agree it’s pstronising at all. It wasn’t made for middle class people to laugh at northerners. It was made so we could have a laugh at and with ourselves. There was no nastiness in it. I think that’s why it’s remembered with fondness. The world is much nastier now

pumpkin1209 · 15/09/2018 09:12

"Have a recline Jim" from the Christmas special! 😂 me and my husband love it for some reason!

Also the caravan episode when they're watching the One Show from their neighbours caravan and are completely outraged at lack of deep fat fryer!

AnneOfCleavage · 15/09/2018 09:13

HabbyHadno it was Our Ant'ney's 18th Birthday. When Joe finishes singing the song and the room is all quiet then Darren pipes up "Still smells of shite" 😂🤣

I love it when they are all saying "Goodnight baby David" and nana says "Night night Daby Bavid" - so cute.

AnneOfCleavage · 15/09/2018 09:13

Oh yes the Anniversary one and they all go on about eggy bread.

Bellabutterfly2016 · 15/09/2018 09:17

The episode Denise is sat on the floor in labour being comforted by Jim with her birthing tape on the cassette player - so moving total genious script writing by the amazingly talented Caroline Aherne

And yes - Mambo number 5, getting rid of the "awful" wallpaper to put woodchip up - more comedy genious

BelfastBloke · 15/09/2018 09:26

The Christmas scene before Denise is giving birth was all very moving and everything; but rather undercut by the neglectful way she treats Baby David later.

KnotsInMay · 15/09/2018 09:36

“I’m not fiddling with meself! I paid a quid for these underpants and I’ve got fifty-pence worth jammed up my arse”

Any mention of someone being a vegetarian in our house is met with “can she eat wafer thin ham?”

PrincessWire · 15/09/2018 10:52

I can't watch the bathroom scene. My DD was only a few weeks old when it was first aired and my DF had died a couple of years earlier. I find it too upsetting.

ColinsVeryJolly · 15/09/2018 10:58

Every Sunday we’d all go round to my parents house which was basically the Royle’s, flop on the sofa and enjoy just being together.

My dad was so much like Jim, looked like him too. My mum was just like Barbara, and when I fell pregnant with DS1 they started calling me Denise and baby David.

On Christmas 2009, we were all there together watching the Royle family Christmas special. My dad didn’t find much funny but he was laughing away with us all and I remember feeling so happy and cosy together.

9 days later my dad died.

The following year was horrible too, my mum became ill and had to sell the family home we all loved. She died too 5 years ago.

I’ve only recently been able to watch The Royle family again, it was hard to watch because it felt like watching my past, happy life.

Bedheadretention · 15/09/2018 12:26

Cheryl talking about her dads ingrown toenail, and that he's been 'resting his foot on a pouffe'
Antony and Darren's reaction...so juvenileGrin

Also big Julie from Argos, and the fact she looks like Tina Turner made me crack upSmile

Bedheadretention · 15/09/2018 12:31

Oooh just thought of another one from the wedding episode from Jim.....
"Antony have you had a haircut, or just had you ears lowered?" 😂