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

Me and my friend met Tony (Andrew Dunn) in a pub on Whitehall in the early 2000s. My friend pointed and shouted "you're from dinnerladies" very enthusiastically at him! He was really jolly and friendly with us and said it made a nice change from people calling him Alastair Campbell.

Dolly again

'Tony Blair. Stick a poem up in a bus shelter and call it a university.'

'Irritable bowel. What happened to flatulence?'

Where's my Clint?

I'm stuck here with Niffy Nora the Aura Explorer!

Smells like the Elephant house here.

Can you tell that Christine is my favourite episode?

I love the Christine episode too

WHIFFERAMA!

I especially love that bit as you can really see VW trying not to laugh.

Petula: And this is my daughter. Born on Christmas Eve, so we called her Brenda.

Anita: I only work here because I’m too nice to be an estate agent.

I love dinnerladies so, so much. The way Victoria can make us laugh and cry in one episode. I did my nurse training in Manchester, and lived there for six years in all, and for me, her grasp of the people of Manchester, their speech and sayings, their mannerisms, is spot on - watching dinnerladies makes me nostalgic for my Manchester days.

Petula talking about Brenda

"Put her in an orphanage, lost the address"

Twitchy that is one of my favourite lines ! She carries on " we laugh about it now " . Poor Bren

Look at him,look at him! He's like a coiled spring!
camera pans to mam gently looking at chocolate bars

Poor Bren indeed.

The episode where she gives her holiday money to Petula after the caravan explosion gets me every time!

I need to get out more

I can have entire conversations using only lines from Dinnerladies.

Southern jessie here and bloody love Victoria Wood and Dinnerladies. But then I've always thought I had a northerner in me trying to get out!

"Bren, can you spread em for Tony?"

"Why do people have to spit? That ruined Titanic for me, the spitting. The iceberg couldn't come fast enough after I saw that!"

I also loved Clint's mum and wished she could have been cast in more episodes

"SHE'S FAMILY, SHE'S IN. She comes to the stock car racing, she comes to Llandudno..."

"How's he going to cope in a caravan? He's used to a through lounge!"

Shall we have a round of egg and chips in her honour? Victoria, we love you!
Honourable mention for the Mens Sana in Thingymmy Doodah series as well.
“The North, the North, my North, I love it, I love it, I feel passionately about it, they’re killing it, they’re letting it die-My North!”
Where are you from?
“Chiswick”

I do wonder what we have missed with her early death. And Caroline Aherne. Rare talents.

My absolutele favourite programme. Its just perfect

Southerner here too but went to university in’t’north so I caught the bug. She was the best.

I love dinnerladies, anything by VW.

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.

I'm a Southerner too.

• What's this?
• Cervixes.
• Motorway services?
• Ooh, they're building a new one near Mobbeley.
• No! This is at the top of my uterus.
• We've missed something Doll. They're never building a new motorway services at the top of Glenda's uterus....

Funnily enough, the only line I've never liked is the spread them for Tony one. Sounded too clunky and obvious. Every single other syllable was genius.

"You left a dead cat in an ornamental foundation"

Dinnerladies is easily the best sitcom ever, followed by Early Doors.

My favourite episodes are Night shift and Fog.

"Teabreak extension may lead to detention!"

I love Early Doors too. Perfect and real

Bren: Get your brain round this Jane. That ladder's stuck, Glen's bustin' for a wee, she's got internal staples, she can't bend down, she can't climb over, she can't go in the cold storage room, she can't get down the fire escape, we don't know if we can hacksaw the ladder. You're Glen what do you do?

Jane: Wet myself, it's quicker

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Tony: Any baby of Petula's would look like something out of the

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