Never tire of Dinnerladies

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Even though I can join in with the words

Love Petula's celebrity stories. Remember when she said she was carrying twins for Gwynnie! And that she danced in 'summer holiday' but they just put Una Stubbs' head on her body!

Get my dander up? I wouldn't even give it a nudge with a wet flannel.

Bren, I wondered if you'd consider having some sort of sex with me.

brianbennett Oh the "Bring Your Mother to Work" episode was briliant with Thora Hird looking down her nose at randy Dora Bryan. And poor Celia Imrie's character still being bullied by her dm about ironing her blouse.

"she's gorgeous isn't she? Like a white Nina Simone."

The episode where they're being visited by royals . Maxine Peake's (Twinkle's) face in the 'line up' is a picture . And Bren being propositioned by the royal bloke.

As it's not on Netflix I'll have to borrow my mum's box set to rewatch it.
(bought it for her for Christmas years ago)

Didn't they have to change the storyline re the baby - Twinkle was supposed to be the mum but lost so much weight between series they have to change it to Anita?

I didn't know that, they could've put her in a fatsuit. Though didn't Twink have a late period and thought she was pgn? In the "mums' episode.

Anita didn't ever look big did she?

Anita - It's a little bouncy kind of word...

Bren - Trampoline? Marzipan?

Anita - Impotent!

I love dinnerladies. Thought it was just me who has an annual box set marathon.

My favourite lines
"Tony Blair! Stick two poems in a bus shelter and call it a university."

"They hadn't invented panic attacks ten years ago and if they had bloody bread men didn't have them."

"I've got a pelvic floor like a bulldog clip."

The cast is so perfect apart from Mr Michaels - even those who just have one line of dialogue. The "Mums" episode has to have the best British comic actors all together in one show EVER.

The sexual tension between Tony and Bren was palpable.

I was once in a restaurant in Covent Garden and Anne Reid and Thelma Barlow came in and sat nattering like a much more glam Dolly and Jean. It has to be the most star struck and excited I have ever been in my life.

When DH and I are deciding what route to take we always say "there's two ways from Urmston" and we do the "he looks like a white Sammy Davis jr" shtick.

It's a classic and Victoria Wood is a genius and I don't think it's recognised enough.

It is truly a wonderful series. As with all of Victoria Wood's work.

I think she should be a made a Dame!

YYYY Tondelaye and Faye Vic. Wood is very clever, did you hear her talk about the making of Dinnerladies? She was changing the scripts actually at the rehearsals, and annoyed some people with her perfectionism but IMO if that's what it takes to make an amazing programme then so be it .

I saw a programme about VW too, the actors she works with love her because she often gives the funniest lines to them and doesn't keep them for herself. Unlike lots of other writers/actors!

Yes MistyMeena did you see her as Eric Morecambe's mum in the biog TV play about Morecambe and Wise? She's also versatile.

It's genius and has stood the test of time briliantly.

Have you seen my Clint?

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As Gerard Depardieu said to me that night in Deauville, what's the point of having a big nose if you can't stick a banana up it?

I did see that ppeatfruit! She is a genius. Woefully under-rated I think

I had forgotten about Stan's female women! I just watched the one with the blood donors, love it.

Thora Hird's performance in the 'mums' episode is utterly brilliant.

Did you get that skirt from a catalogue?

No...

Pity, you could have sent it back.

And from the same episode...

They tried to get me in a tracksuit once. They don't flatter.

Ooh I think I look rather good in mine!!

Do you?

woefully under rated Yes I agree I saw a bit of a programme about Porridge yesterday and they were saying it was the best sit com while I thing Porridge was good i reckon that Dinnerladies was better.

I think Dinnerladies is so underated because it is about the lives of a group of (largely) middle aged, (largely) working class women. Its also unusual in being entirely in two rooms, no glamour there!

Yes you're probably right CMOT But "There's infinity in a grain of sand" The characters are what makes it sooo good; the sitcoms that are character led are definitely the best.

I think Dinnerladies is so underated because it is about the lives of a group of (largely) middle aged, (largely) working class women.

Totally agree - and also they are all very sexual as well IYSWIM - from Twinkle the teenager to Dora Bryan in her 80s - people aren't used to seeing plain middle aged women talking about sex in a matter of fact way - the 'massager' in Dolly's underwear drawer, toyboy Clint, doing it on coconut matting etc.

And none of them are stereotypes at all - all rich characters with complexity. The men are secondary but they are still multi-dimensional.

I love dinnerladies too, although DH hates it

"How was the traffic"

"Traffic?"

"You know, cars on the road going past each other"

"I didn't go that way"