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To ask if there are any 'dinnerladies' fans here?

154 replies

HildaZelda · 11/01/2019 22:14

Just re-watching it here on Gold. Jean and Dolly have to be my favourites. They definitely had some of the best lines.

Dolly: Who has sex on Christmas morning?
Jean: The Dalai Lama
Dolly: Well! He must peel his sprouts the night before!

And, discussing Jean's relationship with Stan.

Dolly: Is he laying your new lino then?
Jean: He's laying anything he wants to lay!

Jean discussing her ex husband with Bren

Bren: "So the earth didn't move?"
Jean: "Even the headboard didn't move"

Hilarious

Grin Grin Grin

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LiGlitterBug · 11/01/2019 22:49

Bren: Twink, what's the soup?
Twinkle: Minestrone
Bren: Why didn't you put it on the menu?
Twinkle: Can't spell it!

Loved dinnerladies!

ShowOfHands · 11/01/2019 22:50

I love it desperately. Its beautifully observed, well acted and so poignant. I still can't believe Victoria is gone.

Breathe in. Can you smell my Charlie?

ShowOfHands · 11/01/2019 22:52

I was going to go on Mastermind but I can't sit on leather.

notyourmummy · 11/01/2019 22:52

dinnerladies is my goto gentle comedy too. "I'm from Urmston. There's two ways to get there." Grin

3out · 11/01/2019 22:54

Even just the theme tune makes me smile. Wonder if I can get it as a ringtone? (Do ringtones even exist these days?)

FabulouslyFab · 11/01/2019 22:58

@notyourmummy There’s three!! (Stan)

I have two friends that I can have entire dinnerladies conversations with! We went to see The Full Monty and ran across the car park fir Andrew Dunn’s autograph shouting ‘Tony!’ - and he stopped for us!! Grin Could hardly speak, we were so excited!

notyourmummy · 11/01/2019 23:03

@FabulouslyFab, I cry, proper snotty, gulpy sob, every time I watch the bit where Tony gets the brass band in the cafeteria for Bren. Every blooming time.

SundayShawl · 11/01/2019 23:07

Tony: Come on if you think you're hard enough. Period?

Twinkle: Ha ha, three weeks late!

Tony: Bren you sort it, I'm having a fag!

I love all the little call backs to earlier episodes that you don't notice first time round. Like the baby hat Anita is showing off in S2 Ep1...

Mumshappy · 11/01/2019 23:08

Loved this. Victoria Wood was brilliant in anything.

Buntybearbess · 11/01/2019 23:09

Love it, when I was little I’d lie and watch it in bed with my mum, I’m 24 now and trying to convert my friends 😂

TitchyP · 11/01/2019 23:10

Love Dinnerladies! One of my favourite bits is Petula describing her near death experience of being in a tunnel with a bright light and Dusty Springfield beckoning...

'Turned out I'd passed out in the Mersey tunnel with a drag act'

😂

HildaZelda · 11/01/2019 23:14

Jean's new boyfriend.

"You said he looked like Richard Madeley"
"I meant Richard Whitely"

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Lovingbenidorm · 11/01/2019 23:15

Petula’s will video is a tv classic

SchnitzelVonCrum · 11/01/2019 23:17

We re-watched it at the end of 2017, absolutely blinking brilliant!

Gormless · 11/01/2019 23:18

Love it, especially the ‘I’m from urmston’ line which still makes me laugh even now.

TheFaerieQueene · 11/01/2019 23:20

There will never be another like the sublime Victoria.

MaudAndOtherPoems · 11/01/2019 23:24

Another one who loved Victoria Wood and all her works. I watched Housewife 42 again at Christmas.

funnelfanjo · 11/01/2019 23:25

I’ve just remembered moving back up north from living down south for a long while, and in my new job I got taken to the site “coffee shop” in the morning, where I got stuck behind someone doing a complex toast order for their office. Made my day and felt right at home.

Lovingbenidorm · 11/01/2019 23:28

I love all of VW’s songs from her original show in the 80’s.
I wanna be 16 again
Run out of paraffin
Only the lonely etc
Can only find some on line

iklboo · 11/01/2019 23:29

Loved it and DS is a huge fan. So many great lines. The cast really bounced off each other.

ChanklyBore · 11/01/2019 23:33

Oh Victoria, we miss you.

MissLadyM · 11/01/2019 23:33

That's begging for chaos with your bowl out! My dad was a desert rat! Brilliant stuff

Lovingbenidorm · 11/01/2019 23:41

Everything she ever did was perfection.
‘Ann Widdecombe’ 😂

vampirethriller · 11/01/2019 23:49

I love it, it's the only thing my mum and I agree on!

Howyoualldoworkme · 11/01/2019 23:56

What have you been cooking? Food?

I've been to Guildford. I could tell from the carpark it wasn't my style...

Love, love Dinnerladies. It's a sad day when I cant get a line in Grin
Mind you, I fell off a diving board in Guernsey

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