Great Show, as we all know. But can you remember the classic Tom and Linda One liners? I'm sure there are plenty of fans out there
Linda: "Bitch, I do not look like Elizabeth the first" Linda: "you can only judge a Sh*t hole from the turds that pass through it" Tom: " The first sight of you jumping around in skin tight Lyrca is enough to turn any man Queer"
There are just so many to choose from, lets see what I can remember......
Tom, after shagging Linda's escaped convict boyfriend: (In a Cockerney Accent)"Oi SLAAG, go in va barfroom, and draw me a barf, and if you touch your fing while Im not lookin, Ill give ya a slap. Naw get out you slag! (In his own voice) Oh Lindy Im so scared!"
Linda about her sister: "Oh Shes like a young Nanette Newman... We washed this many dishes in ordinary liquid, (Shouting) AND THIS MANY IN FAIRY LIQUID!!!"
Linda in her dreams To Melinda Messenger.... "Helloo Mel, See Ya Would'nt wanna be ya"
linda: excuse me?, do you wanna shag me?? linda: god i sniffed some glue when i was in the brownies, does that make me a drug addict? no, i wore an a line skirt in the 70's does that mean i got no taste now no. i sleep with one woman and all of a sudden i'm branded a tennis player!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
linda: (reaching up her skirt) oh i got sometihng in me eye. tom: (in disgust)... sometimes you make me physically sick do you know that.
linda: well most blokes say on me head beckham, not give me head beckham
linda: i ain't phobic homos i just can't stand the sight of them
"Linda about her sister: "Oh Shes like a young Nanette Newman... We washed this many dishes in ordinary liquid, (Shouting) AND THIS MANY IN FAIRY LIQUID!!!" "
Who is/was Nanette Newman? I think its a hilarious line the way its delivered, but i never know who Nanette Newman is.
One of My faves is when Tom comes back from the supermarket dressed as sushi and says
Nanette Newman is an actress who was in the original version of "The Stepford Wives" in the 1970s and she was the wholesome mother figure in the Fairy Liquid Ads in the 1980s. She's actually on IMDb if you wanna look her up!!
Linda about her sister: "Oh Shes like a young Nanette Newman... We washed this many dishes in ordinary liquid, (Shouting) AND THIS MANY IN FAIRY LIQUID!!!"
I love the Nanette Newman line, but because people have mentioned that, i'll leave it.
There are 2 that stick with me:
When they find the coffin in their living room Suze: (about breaking into Beryl's apartment) "I can't do that, I'm far too middleclass, Linda, you do it."
And when Tom's parents come to visit and his mum refers to Linda as 'a social reprebate'
Brilliant!
"god show me the way, 'cos the devil's trying to break me down"
Wow what a sucessful thread !! Didn't realise the show was so popular !! :)
I also like these lines: Linda - Mr Adam's, what you got on? hahaha Mr Adams, I think im gonna be sick..."
Tom - "Just spit it out bitch !!"
Linda - "Well its latin for Oh dusky madien and oh dusky madiens homosexual flatmate" Tom - "Now i know your making that up, and that is SO rasict" Linda - What?? With the amount of ethnics I've slept with?? Do me a favor !!
Linda: There's no such thing as gay, it's just laziness!
Tom: Oh big fat hairy bollocks.
Beryl: Is he a ventriloquist? Linda: I wouldn't mind if he put his hand up my skirt and made my lips move
Shirley (the suicidal male home help Tom got when he broke his leg, has now turned Christian): God made it very clear what he thinks of bottom explorers.
Shirley: Linda, Joe would like you to be his girlfriend, it doesn't matter how ugly you are.
I also love the argument that Tom and Linda have when Tom tells Linda he's marying Gloria, a lesbian...here's only parts of it...
Tom: Gloria is American Linda: So's Charles Manson, mate, it don't mean he's perfect.
Linda: Are you or are you not a big fat 'omosexual? Tom: Well it wouldn't put it quite like that, but yes. Linda: So why ya marrying a woman then, ya wanker?
Linda: Some story, it's more confusing than Hansel and Gretel! Tom: HANSELL AND GRETELS NOT CONFUSING!!!!!!!!!!!!! Linda: When did you last live in a 'ouse you could eat??? IT TWISTS CHILDRENS MINDS, THAT DOES!!!
Linda: I might've had more pricks than Kerplunk, but I won't join no happy clappy cult for no one!
Gloria: Von golay, von golay, fish I eat, meat I don't. Linda: We heard.
Tom: Lindy what was like when you turned 30? Linda : I'm 28 Tom: Stone.
Not to mention
Linda: Oooh mummy's dutch cap, uncle peter used to make me wear this for my special treat. later revealled to be a dutch milkmaid's cap, stinothing like a dubious incestuous paedo gag.
Linda's long lost son she had adopted out came to meet her and he asked what she had named him as a baby. She said she named him after a character in a book(no one would believe that she actually read a book), so she said it was actually a character from a TV show. He asked her the name and she said "Zippy".
Best one- Linda has met her son Zippy, and he calls her weird, to which she shouts, 'yeah, well at least I aint adopted!' and the classic. (Tom is reading a book) Linda: I read a book once. They all went to the shops. It was great. Do they go to the shops in that? Tom: (sarcastically looking thru book) I don't know, I'll check shall I? Do they go the shops in 'A Tale of Two Cities'!!!???!!!
Tom: And all I've ever wanted was a big purple chopper to get my hands on. Linda: Your filthy! Isn't he filthy Vern?! Tom: No a chopper bike you prepostrious bitch!
(Tom and Linda are trying to remember what they did last night) Tom: Don't you remember anything? Linda: I remember one christmas daddy laughed 'cause all I got was a pencil sharpner! Tom: No! About last night you prattling pig.
"They don't know that we know they know we know" - Phoebe
"Sofa Man" where Lina and Ron are on the potato-squirting production line and they are talking. He says "Tongues can be vicious things Linda..". She gives him a seductive look an goes "Ooh I know".
"Lollipop Man" where she says "Oh, if you smell anything untoward don't worry its just my vanilla surprise. Only it tends to drip when hot". (She's reffering to her tub of ice-cream).
"Decoy" where she is in the back of the taxi disguised as Fatwa an she says to the driver "Stop lookin' at my tits you rotten bugger!". I loved Fatwa, the yashmak, the way they did her really heavy eye make up and her cod-arab accent "Uggg friggin bunions guy"...."ohhwa jeiz...whatta nisa bigga aindashaika you aiv" etc.
She actually says that twice. In the first series she also says it to India when shes a bridesmaide at the wedding when they are getting out of the taxi. "Will you stop lookin at my tits India" LOL soooo funny
--------------------------- Ride to ruin...and the worlds ending !!!
Tom: Wincy willis, wincy willis who the bloody hell is wincy willis?
Linda: (Screams at maddy) Hurry up i wanna go back to bed!!!!
Tom: (Mimics toyah) Its a mystery
Tom; Oh look its zoe ball lovely lovely lovely zoe ball, mirror mirror on the wall the fairest tv kids presenter of them all has to be miss zoe ball. Linda: Shut up!!
Tom: this would make a fantastic scene for the film of my life, Linda: Wod play you? Tom: possibly ross kemp Linda:i wonder whod play me?
Beryl: (To linda) Who as mama cass?
Jez: a close friend revealed tom lives with his mother linda Linda: get out there and tell em its a pack of lies
Tom: oh linda please your bringing on one of my heads Linda: ohhhhh
(The Lollipop Man) Linda: I'm stuck, I'm stuck! My arse it too big for the hole! I'm stuck, I'm stuck! My legs are wrapped right round this pole... I think I like it, I think I like it...
(That one with Linda's son) Linda: He's named after someone in a book, literature... Tom: Oh let me guess, I'm very good at guessing games... Er... Heathcliffe! No, Darcy! Linda: Actually, it's more of a television programme, really. It's a very good television programme, I watched it quite a lot when I was preggers... Tom: Oh, well... What's your name? Linda's Son: Zippy
(Trauma) Linda: I fell off a bus conductor
(The final one thingy) Tom (pointing at phone): What's this? Linda: It's a telephoooone
(Final one, again) Tom: Linda, I've just got a part on on of Britain's top rated soaps... Linda: No Tom, it's Crossroads!
(Final one, again...) Tom: You can always come and visit me you know... Linda: No, I get lost on trains unless I got a label!
But there's one I like from one of the earlier series'... (Beryl's twin's death) Suz: (I don't know the exact phrase here, but...) You can't use the coffin as a table! Tom: It's an occasional table, occasionally it's a table and occasionally it's a coffin!
The one I remember the most is from the wedding episode at the end of Series 1 with Gloria and Tom getting married so her girlfriend can stay in the country:
Gloria: Fish I eat, meat I don't Linda: We heard
Millennium Episode: Mel: Hi, Linda. God I wish I could look as good as you in that frock Linda: Well wish on babe. See ya wouldnt wanna be ya
Probably the best: Linda: Here they're homosexuals. You dont mind do you? Taxi Driver Maddie: No Linda: They're harmless. Ooh look she collects pictures. Do you collect pictures? Maddie: No they're me twins. Pearl and Dean (Neville starts singing the theme tune) Linda (pointing at Neville): who's that? Tom: I don't know, I don't know. I'm not listening Linda: Oi trade! Keep it shut!
RE: Episode where Beryl has suddenly died (I know, I know - but I'm trying to avoid spoilers!) - the part that had me roaring with laughter was the background music when they're setting up the coffin & such - they were playing Roll Out the Barrel <Beryl> which I thought was just the greatest play on words I'd heard in a long, long time...
When Tom claims he was in Silence of the Lambs, Linda says he wasn't. Tom then syas he was in the Musical version called Silence, he then kneels down, joins his Hands and sings the line he had. I think its hilarious.
Tom Singing:
"Help me I'm down a hole so far away from Home at the end of the Tunnel I see some LIGHT I'M SOMEONE'S DINNER TONIGHT"