Funniest moment?

one of my funniest moments is when victor picks up the phone after Margaret but the other end has not hung up then victor says that they will accept old body replacement parts and they start receiving all the fake legs etc. lol


Another is when they are in the pub and they meet an old friend from school i think it was and he thinks victor is someone called steve and starts going on about victor being a bastard i think the word was lol

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The best moments for me are:

1) Nippy the Dog! "He doesn't look very bloody nippy from where I'm standing!"
2) Laughing Policeman Song
3) Mrs Warboys collecting the gorilla outfit for Victor
4) "Good Morning!", "Good Bye!"
5) Victor and the Daddy Longlegs in The Trial
6) Victor buried in the garden

All great moments!

There are so many it's almost impossible to note down all of them. I was recently rewatching the one where Victor makes Mrs. Warboys sick by giving her carpet cleaner, then accidentally making her watch aliens and then giving her alligator eggs for breakfast. Her expression when she opens that egg is priceless!

Victor's reaction to the news that his car, stolen some months earlier, had been found in Finland.
It is so extreme that even Annette Crosbie, who plays Margaret, is perilously near cracking up onstage. Notice how she covers her face with her hands while Richard Wilson (Victor) sputters and stutters uncontrollably in a high-pitched wail.
Frankly, I don't know how Annette managed – throughout the series – to keep a straight face while listening to Richard deliver his outrageous lines. He stole practically every scene.

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-When Margaret's friend Harold thinks she wants to start an affair and have sex. Because they're having work done on their bedroom, the bed has been moved into the living room, and Victor has returned home unbeknownst to them. So Harold undresses in the front room and gets into the bed, then almost has a panic attack when he lays on the hot water bottle--all while unaware that Victor is watching from the next room. Victor blusters in, of course. "What the hell are you doing?" And when Harold realizes he wildly misinterpreted Margaret, he rushes out into the streets still naked, wrapped in the Meldrews' bedsheets while Margaret looks on in a mixture of shock and concern, and Victor is still ranting about his bed being rented out to strangers!

This is after Victor had earlier found a lazy contractor in their bed--and awakened him by pummeling him with an inflatable banana. So he's had it with finding strange men in his bed.

And what about when he has to go to the ER because he got injured when the garden shed collapsed on him. There was red paint all over him, so his injuries looked worse! Margaret is filling out a survey that asks whether the accident was unavoidable or caused by the victim's own carelessness. "His own carelessness", chimes in Mrs. Warboys helpfully. "Put stupidity". Later on in the conversation, it emerges that the neighbor who found Victor saw a piece of broken glass between his legs and assumed the worst. "Still you'd think someone would have checked", says Mrs. Warboys of the paramedics, "before rushing that lump of moldy carrot to hospital." I nearly had to go the ER myself from busting my gut and or putting my back out laughing.

By the way, I love Mrs. Warboys--such brilliant writing and delivery. Somebody else mentioned the time when they were lost in the wilderness and Victor and Mrs. Warboys got their feet stuck in a bag of cement together. There was also when they were in the Algarve (special) and Victor thought he'd gotten Mrs. Warboys killed by letting her drunkenly wander over the edge of a cliff, when in fact, while he'd been out of the car, some people had found her slumped over drunk, thought she was in an accident, and rushed her to the hospital. When they're looking for her, the police actually ask Victor and Margaret to identify a found severed foot as to whether or not it was hers. In the same episode, Victor gets into a hilarious series of scrapes with a boxer, which does not end well when he inadvertantly causes a horse to pee on the man in the bath! I kid you not. This stuff happens on 'One Foot in the Grave'.

Speaking of baths, one of the all time best was when Margaret ran a bath for Victor but poor Mrs. Warboys thought it was for her. She got in first, then Victor came in not knowing she was there and sat on her. "Well, I haven't got eyes in the back of my head, have I?" Says Margaret "Evidently not. To think she'll be afraid to fall asleep in the bath ever again for fear of what might suddenly land on her face." Mrs. Warboys suffers yet another trauma when she finds a severed, deep-fried finger in their fish and chips dinner. And as if all that isn't enough, Victor manages to inadvertently get a creepy smile tattooed on Mrs. Warboys' arm (it looks sort of like the Rolling Stones' emblem), thinking he's taking her to the dentist to repair the crown that got knocked out when she hit her jaw on the tap during the aforementioned bathing experience.

I do have to mention just one more, though I know I've gone on far too long. It's from the Christmas special 'Wisdom of the Witch', one of the best episodes ever in my opinion. Through convoluted means, Patrick ends up locked in Victor's trunk/car boot without Victor knowing he's there. When Victor drives off, Patrick thinks he's being abducted by a murderous psychopath (who actually drives away in Patrick's car thinking he does have Patrick), so when Victor veers off the road (it's winter and the roads are bad), Patrick stages an escape attempt by knocking on the trunk until a totally mystified Victor opens the door, and then Patrick sprays toilet freshener in Victor's face, thinking he's assaulting his captor.

"What the hell are you doing in there?" Victor asks.
"Don't ask", says Patrick, exhausted and not in the mood to talk.
"Don't ask? I'm twenty-five miles from home in the middle of nowhere; you leap out of my car boot squirting at me with toilet freshener. I think you owe me some explanation."


Is it bad that I can quote so accurately from this show?

Oh, and one more: when Victor gets a new car, he ends up with an obscene license plate reading "PISS OLE". Later on, Margaret accidentally gets caught up in a funeral procession, much the dismay of the mourners the whole way to the crematorium.



'Irregardless' is not a word

In the episode, "the big sleep", Victor wakes up and thinks he's dead. At the hospital, unaware of where he is and frustrated by the information policy, he says, " I think if a patient's dead he's got a right to be told!"