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to still be smiling at this ages after I heard it?

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Baileyscheesecake · 09/12/2017 14:47

A trailer for the tv comedy Gameface had the line which went something like "Don't pick up the cat. He's just eaten a kebab." This was on tv weeks ago and I still break into a smile when I think of it. AIBU to ask this or just slightly doolally but what other one liners from comedy programmes do people still find funny no matter how many times they hear it or how long ago it was last on tv? Another one that springs to my crazy mind is Basil Fawlty saying "Is this a piece of your brain" to the annoying woman who wouldn't turn her hearing aid on because it used up the batteries. Smile

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WhatALoadOfOldBollocks · 10/12/2017 15:04

Oh I really enjoyed "What We Do In The Shadows". Such an unexpectedly good film.

Mine isn't a quote either, it's a scene from Hot Fuzz...

Onetraumaatatimeplease · 10/12/2017 15:08

Another league of gentlemen one. Where the man walks into the local shop “are you a shop?” “No I am a Laydee” undo’s cardi to show a breast.
And then there’s Barbara “as a woman I could have you under the sex discrimination act” “as a woman we could have you under the trade description act”

HippyChickMama · 10/12/2017 15:18

So many but the ones that have really stuck with me:

Blackadder: "yes it is not that it be"

Austin Powers: "there you are!"
"Do I know you?"
"No but you're there, that's where you are"

The League of Gentlemen movie: "they locked me in a box and made me keep my coat on"

spankhurst · 10/12/2017 15:19

Hodgesargh is Carpe Jugulum (Pratchett pedant).
From Friends
I gave up my old job because I wanted to help people and make a difference.
Wow, so what do you do now?
I’m a party planner (simpers).

QueenThisTime · 10/12/2017 16:02

Chandler in friends when they go to hospital: "YES it's an emergency! Otherwise we'd be in the PREDICAMENT ROOM!"

Also Phoebe when invited to something: 'Oh I'd love to come! Except - I don't want to."

Mrs Doyle - so many moments but I love it when she's in the supermarket trying to hear gossip and instead of walking just glides around like she's on a skateboard. Also her face when she discovers Father Ted has got her teasmade and the point of her existence is gone.

spankhurst · 10/12/2017 16:34

Ride me sideways was another one!

Spangles1963 · 10/12/2017 16:44

I loved the bit in Fawlty Towers,when Mrs. Richards was complaining about not having a sea view from her room's window. Basil retorted 'Well next time might I suggest you stay in a hotel nearer the sea,preferably in it'. Grin Always makes me smile when I think of it.

Spangles1963 · 10/12/2017 16:49

I liked the bit in Blackadder (can't remember which series) when Blackadder says to Baldrick 'I think you deserve a holiday Baldrick'. Then about 30 seconds later says to him 'Did you enjoy it?'.

pollymere · 10/12/2017 17:33

I love Father Ted generally. Comments comparing mafia and the church, the one about priests socks being black and others very very very dark grey. Favourite is when Dougal gets stuck on a milk float and they decide to say Mass on a trailer, it doesn't help and then one of them suggests they say another mass.

starkid · 10/12/2017 17:35

Love so many of these! I've been looking up the scenes on YouTube Grin
A couple more Mighty Boosh ones I love:

Howard: Just imagine the headlines, "Howard Moon, colon, Explorer." Got a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
Vince: "Colon explorer"? I think that's got the wrong ring to it.

Vince: It said in there that it takes about ninety mink to make a small ladies' glove.
Howard: That's 'cause they're really crap at sewing.

SeamstressfromTreacleMineRoad · 10/12/2017 17:41

@Redbuttons The scene about throwing away a perfectly serviceable woman comes from the David Essex comedy series 'The River' - I too laughed my socks off at it - in 1988 Shock

toffee1000 · 10/12/2017 17:42

Also from Fawlty Towers episode with Mrs Richards... especially when Sybil kicks Basil in the shin after he says it Grin

to still be smiling at this ages after I heard it?
chaseylayne76 · 10/12/2017 18:02

Mine isn’t off a tv show, rather a misheard line from my partner. I’ll set the scene.
We hadn’t long started dating. We were in a well known supermarket looking at the books and cd section. He turns to me and asks is my birthday the 6th or the 5th? I hear is your birthday sex with a fish? I crease up giggling. He looks at me weird and then starts laughing too. However, he at this point, has no idea why I’m laughing so hard which makes me laugh harder. I eventually manage to speak and say sex with a fish. We came close to being kicked out of the supermarket because we must have looked like we’d taken something and was high lol still kills us 7 years on 😂

Nervousrex · 10/12/2017 18:06

Oh, goodness, Lord Percy Percy and his nugget of purest green!

I always grin when I think about Ronnie Barker doing his appeal on behalf of people who can't "pronunciate their worms properly". "Just pop a pond newt into and envelope and address it to Dr. Podger Smish..."

And Spike Milligan, either from Q8 shuffling towards the camera - "What are we gonna do now?" "What are we gonna do now?" etc.

Or the raspberry song...

But there are so many. The black monster of Aaaaargh! from Monty Python and the Holy Grail ("he must have been dictating"), Morecambe and Wise and Glenda Jackson, "She does not have beauty like what I have got"... the list goes on.

Ok, I'm old. But I must have smiled a lot!

MCamp10 · 10/12/2017 18:07

My family's favourite that has now been adopted by grandchildren: From the musical "Oliver", one of the streetkids to Fagin "These sausages are mouldy!" Fagin - "Shut up and drink yer gin!"

supersop60 · 10/12/2017 18:07

Blackadder "You don't know what a Rotten Borough is, do you sir?"
Blackadder "Who's Queen?"
Red Dwarf (a PP quoted the first bit) "They're dead Dave,"
Kryton "But I only left them for a minute!"
Only Fools "Rodney, do you prefer grass or astroturf?"
"I dunno, I've never smoked astroturf!"

Maireadplastic · 10/12/2017 18:10

Two Ronnies singing to tune of Dance of the Mirlitons from Nutcracker (look it up, you'll know it), 'Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- never played at home to Wolverhampton.'

Any line from 'Let's do it', Victoria Wood.

alltoomuchrightnow · 10/12/2017 18:17

you're right Annie, it certainly is Percy and not Baldrick!

Efnisien · 10/12/2017 18:22

Dawn French and the puddle scene in Vicar of Dibley!

DeadButDelicious · 10/12/2017 18:24

Oh I really enjoyed "What We Do In The Shadows". Such an unexpectedly good film.

It's become a firm favourite.* So much so I actually purchased the DVD. Which I very rarely do these days. I love the procession of shame as well.*

Efnisien · 10/12/2017 18:27

Also the French policeman from Allo Allo .. "Half pissed sox" ..* "I was pissing by the door, when I heard two shats. You are holding in your hand a smoking goon; you are clearly the guilty potty."Grin

purplebunny2012 · 10/12/2017 18:28

Crackers and nuts is the Two Ronnie's, Priscilla

YouTheCat · 10/12/2017 18:28

Dead, he's supposed to be doing a Werewolf film soon.

RaqsMax · 10/12/2017 18:34

Withnail & I movie; the Tea Room scene. Makes me weep with laughter every time...

morningconstitutional2017 · 10/12/2017 18:43

The Two Ronnie's - "Four candles/fork handles".

Fawlty Towers - almost anything from the Mrs Richards episode. I wear hearing aids now and I still find it funny.
Also the episode where a guest dies and Basil has a kipper sticking out of his jumper. Oh God, the rat in the biscuit tin.