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Victoria Wood Commemorative Thread

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DMCWelshcakes · 20/04/2020 10:33

In memory of Victoria Wood who died 4 years ago today, FAR too young.

Please share your favourite sketches, songs and quotes, not least to keep us all amused during the current weirdness.

I'll start with one of my favourites, the legendary Kitty:

"No the secret of my youthful appearance is simply mashed swede. As a face-mask, as a night cap, and in an emergency, as a draught-excluder."

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triedandtestedteacher · 20/04/2020 17:11

One of my faves m.youtube.com/watch?v=EEtqRjRBj3A

triedandtestedteacher · 20/04/2020 17:13

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEcqU7u8jJ8
And this is epic

vampirethriller · 20/04/2020 17:50

"Have you seen my Clint?!"

Whatthefunk · 20/04/2020 18:01

There's two ways to Urmston....Grin

motorcyclenumptiness · 20/04/2020 18:01

I'm sorry I haven't been a very good mother. You can't be good at everything and I was A1 with a hula hoop.

Sparklingbrook · 20/04/2020 18:02

Yes, I do look rather startled, don't I? It was taken in a photo booth, and someone had just poked an eclair through the curtains.

ChrisAndJonty · 20/04/2020 18:31

So many to choose from.

Some of her songs from the "As seen on TV" were genius

"Tracey Clegg and Nicola Battersby out on a Saturday Night"

And I loved Kelly Marie Tunstall - "I did, you didn't, I did"

(I think this can be found on YouTube)

RoseLavenderBlue · 20/04/2020 18:59

‘If you’re going up town, can you get us a raspberry yogurt? And if they don’t have raspberry, can you get somat else instead?’

‘They didn’t have any raspberry yogurt so I got you a meat’n’potato pie’.

Upwiththisiwillnotput · 20/04/2020 19:00

“Aren’t prawns an aphrodisiac?”
“I wouldn’t put it past them.”

MrsGrindah · 20/04/2020 19:07

Agree with everything on here. She was Frank Sinatra on toast , she was.

Dinner ladies is also fantastically intricately plotted too.

flapjackfairy · 20/04/2020 19:07

I loved her and Julie Walters in the skit about the blitz. Just so clever and spot on along with the Brief Encounter spoof. She got both absolutely right with the cockney in the first one and the queens perfect English in the other. V funny lady. I just loved everything she did.
Still can't believe she has gone!

Allmyfavouritepeople · 20/04/2020 19:10

She had so much more writing in her. Gone far far too soon.

I watched the Christmas special as I always do last Christmas but by God it was just a who's who of my childhood favourites who are no longer with us. I cried more than I laughed.

I never knew her but I miss her.

12345kbm · 20/04/2020 19:12
MadamBatty · 20/04/2020 19:15

@12345kbm my favourite

12345kbm · 20/04/2020 19:17

@MadamBatty wonderful isn't it.

Windyatthebeach · 20/04/2020 19:23

Dinner ladies when Petula gets whisked off on Stan's trolley and her friend asks if another one will be along for her!!

IWillWearTheGreenWillow · 20/04/2020 19:33

"given some time of structured post-nuclear society, do you think people are more likely, or less likely, to be eating Hellman's mayonnaise?"

She was "totally phoney bido" and we feel the loss of her talent hugely.

Tablefor4 · 20/04/2020 19:34

I was watching a documentary at Christmas about Clive James just after he died. And there was an conversation between Clive and VW about their early days in London. It turned out that they "bed shared"! Literally, she was there part of the week and he was there the other part and slept in the same bed (singly). I think they knew the deal and at some they met, and had been back in touch as their careers had blossomed.

It made me simultaneously happy and sad. Happy to see two people that always entertained me and I thought fondly of together and clearly enjoying their time with each other. And sad that it was no more.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 20/04/2020 19:57

Ahh love dinnerladies , got DD into watching .
Favourite episodes "Fog" and "Minnelium"

We try to fit as many dinnerladies quotes into a trip to Lakeside as we can.

Especially the "I meant Richard Whitely" one Grin

DMCWelshcakes · 20/04/2020 20:04

We're listening for the sleigh bells.
We're looking for the sleigh.
We hope this special person comes in time for Christmas Day.
Let's join in the magic of Christmas make believe.
Who do we all want to see on Christmas Eve?

Ann Widdecombe, Ann Widdecombe, that's who we want to see. (We agree)
Not Santa Claus, not Zoe Ball, not William Hague. He's too vague. (He is quite vague).

Who's the girl that gets us giddy? Eyes so blue and shoes so diddy.
Who's our favourite Tory biddy? (Hmm)
Give me A-N-N and E. W-I and double D. E-C-O-M-B-E spells Widdecombe.

By day, I'm the shadow home secretary.
But hey, deep down, you know there's so much more to me.
Ann Widdecombe, Ann Widdecombe, I sing, I dance, I lean to the light.
I'm truculent, I'm succulent, I am a star. (Yes you are, by gum you are).

We'll gather round to the festive sound of the carols of a distant choir.
As we raise a toast, what will we roast on the embers of an open fire?
(Ann Widdecombe, Ann Widdecombe) I'm like the suits I wear.
Unsquashable, unwashable, I can't relax, when in slacks.

As the children dream of a reindeer team and a figure in a coat of red.
Dare we divulge what is that bulge at the bottom of the children's bed?

It's Widdecombe, Ann Widdecombe.
I'm firm but fair and cool as a rule.
My gnattiness, my battiness, men can't resist.
Is she pissed? (She's round the twist.)

As the snowflakes fall and the neighbours call like the Christmases in days of Yore.
As they ring our bell, what will they smell coming through the open door?

Ann Widdecombe, Ann Widdecombe,
I'm woman through and through. (This is true)
Exuberant, protuberant, I inspire lust with my bust.
I'm not that fussed.

We'll start the lunch and we'll serve hot punch to the singers in the snowy drive.
And who's not chuffed to be plucked and stuffed and done at gas mark five?
Ann Widdecombe, Ann Widdecombe,
The people's chum, the bells of Christmas ring. (Ding-a-ding)

Inflackable, unsackable, is what it's thought of? (needs fixing)
Do-re-me-so-fa-so-fa-so-fa.
Do-re-me-so-faaaaaaaaa.
Ta

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Socksorting · 20/04/2020 20:19

Wetty Hainthrop

dementedma · 20/04/2020 20:23

I can’t believe its been 4 years. So many favourites -2 soups, cacherelle, Kimberley...and the cross channel swimming one which makes me cry.
She was utterly, utterly brilliant. Say her live in Edinburgh and laughed until I ached.

wheresmyhairytoe · 20/04/2020 20:28

"He made a pass at me once Jean. He didn't get anywhere, I was in a wrap round cardigan".

triedandtestedteacher · 20/04/2020 20:30

I'd love to have heard what she would have said about this lockdown

Victoria Wood Commemorative Thread
dementedma · 20/04/2020 20:42

My friend will often ask me to get her a meat n potato pie and I respond that they didn’t have any so I got her a raspberry yoghurt.
It’s hard to believe that Victoria Wood has gone. it’s one of the celebrity deaths I genuinely struggle with

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