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

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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

"I'm back! New venue, new caravan, new kidney! And this will tickle you... I'm pregnant."

I am proud to say I have raised 2 VW fans who can quote more than I can. Dinnerladies I love but probably my favourite is Patricia Routledge as Kitty. Every monologue is packed with quotable snippets but the one which I constantly quote is when someone is claiming to be hard done by: "My mother gave birth to twins in an unheated wash house then got straight up and finished the mangling so think on."

Only the other day DD1 referred to the difference between Jane Austen and Catherine Cookson (one is bosoms up here , the other is cutting the heads of mackerel)

But the real question is.... what had Jane McDonald (also a favourite of mine) ever done to VW?

(the song with the changes of key she misjudges is a cracker.)

Tony to Jean:Get your dumplings of the menu.

Dinner ladies and birds of a feather. Ahhh! I loved them

Love VW and Dinnerladies especially, but there isnt a single thing VW did I haven't liked..

The OH took a while to 'get it' not being a northerner, but being from VW's home town, when he moved in he had no option - it isn't permitted to NOT like VW if you are from Bury, ride the number 93 bus and shop on Bury Market... just isn't. Get drummed out of town you would.

Miss her as if I actually knew her and I don't normally get like that about famous people.

Love dinnerladies!
"Never mind your bloody coffee! Get in the bloody bloody bloody frigging car!"

Tony (reading blood donation guide): have you ever had sex in a dangerous area?

Anita: like mosside?

Love it

Anita after the royal visit, "I SAID NIPPLES!"

• What would happen if I asked for a chamomile tea?
• Nothing
• You mean you wouldn't be fazed by such a request?
• No I mean you wouldn't get one.

It's quoted all the time in our house.

"Let me just perform an accurate assessment of the situation"

"He's like a coiled spring"

"Manky! Manky! Manky!"

Such a great talent.

My Favourites:

Petula: I haven't the pelvis for a Futon!
"" She's too highly strung Gwynnie, they only got her through Shakespeare in Love by sending her line dancing with Dame Judy!

Stan and Babs: There's two ways to Urmston
You can go three ways, just you wait...

Stan re sex with Jean: Bobby was very much your three items and straight to the quick checkout, jean might expect more of a polava, Mantivani and lava lamps..

Dolly: I can't have an open house on Christmas Day, Bob can't go to the toilet if we have visitors.

Twink: Course I were drunk, what else would I get in a skip for, The DOE award scheme?!

Love that line too, Ribena

I watched the Victoria Wood night on Ch5 a couple of weeks ago, even the stuff from when she first started on That's life is still so fresh, I loved Pat & Margaret, Dinnerladies still makes me laugh that much it hurts, even her straight acting in Housewife, 49 is done with so much feeling, I cried with her when her son was posted missing & returned home injured. We lost a true genius when Victoria Wood died & I honestly think we will never find anyone to match her talent.

Have finally remembered to find out who the hell Spyro Gyra are, and having listened to 30 seconds I'd have downed myself in that pea soup if I'd had to listen to that all evening!

Anita with the baby at the end of the millennium episode. That broke my heart. Poor Anita and Bren.

Shut the door! And I love work experience episode with Derwent and Sigourney.

I loved anything Victoria wood did. Still so sad she is gone !
In fact the best Christmas viewing was repeats of her Christmas specials. She could play any character to perfection and her and Julie Walters spoofs were comedy gold. Particular favourites for me are the Brief Encounter spoof and the black and white blitz propaganda film. Just brilliant !

I adore DL, but its the sad bits that get me. Bren going to look at the planes with her social worker, the way she is so desperate for her mum to be nice, and the bit with the baby...

'she's about as much use as knickers on an avocado'

'this is a canteen not a groundsheet at Glastonbury!'

'I didn't just come up Manchester Ship Canal on a Ryvita you know'

Stan: 'men and women have different brains' Dolly: 'that's right, it was in the Daily Mail, women cant fold maps and men cant get interested in headboards'

But my total favourite is the whole bit where Bren's trying to explain the difference between Austen/Cookson/Dickins/Shakespeare to Anita, has me in stitches every time.

Oh, just though of another!
'Look at that, it's like a cat stuffed in a Tuppaware!"

"Sniper's bullet could have had his jaw off, he was saved by a mess tin, he 'ad it over his face, licking a bit bit of mince!"

*Are you not pregnant then?

• Not unless sperm can get through a sash window*

In my top 5 media quotes of all time!
Dinnerladies was one of the best written programmers ever, the characterisation was amazing of women working in a low paid environment, it may be a life many on here have never experienced.

It never strayed into some of the awful areas young men experienced in a largely female working environment, as a student I saw some terrible 'pranks' played on young men.
Victoria Wood was a brilliant writer and performer, we saw her in the very early days at th'Octagon in Bolton and we were still laughing when we reached the ferry at Felixstowe.

I’ve laughed till I cried reading this thread.

I’ve asked this before. Is adoring VW a northern thing? My friend got tickets as a present for one of her live shows and took me. I howled with laughter all the way through and my Sunningdale born mate hardly twitched a cheek muscle.

Bren: Do you know who I like? Woody
Twinkle: Allen?
Jean: Woodpecker?
Dolly: Who's Allen Woodpecker?

Love DL!! Cracks me up everytime!

Aw Dinnerladies was brilliant. Funny and comforting at the same time. And I agree with a PP, Dolly got a lot of the best lines.

Surrey here and have loved VW all my life. You don't have to be northern at all!

That’s good to hear.

Bloody love it! My friend borrowed my box set and had it for months. I was bereft! It’s so comforting to know it’s there to watch.

The world is a darker place without Victoria Wood.