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If ever a single throw away line deserved an award for comic genius...


"If you can get him out of the bath"

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"These phones are amazing aren't they? I've got an application here that can throw grenades into people's dreams"

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On finding out that the person in the focus group was an actor:

Glenn: We have been abused! We are the victims of abuse!

Just love how he desperately tries to play the victim in a situation that is entirely his own fault.

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You are a diamond Glen, not just any form of ancient carbon, the best: a diamond.

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Malcolm to Nicola: "You are like one of those all-in-one coffee machines. From bean to cup, you fuqq up!"



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Surprisingly, in last night's episode (ep 6), it wasn't lines/quotes by Tucker that made me chortle. It was these two (can't remember which characters said them):

"Christ on a crystal meth binge!"

"It looks like a paedophile's funeral."

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I loved Mannion's snap at Stuart

"Shut The *beep* up you prancing *beep*

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Two of Jamie's best lines:

(to Ollie) Shut it, "Love Actually!!"

(after being told by Cliff whatsisname "There are shades of grey you know!") "Yeah I know. I'm looking at fuqin fourteen of them right now!!"

Tucker to Ben Swane after his Newsnight ordeal.
"What was all that business with your hands? You looked like a sweaty octopus trying to unhook a bra.!"

from In The Loop.

"Yeah keep saying diorreah! You're supposed to be talking about food parcels, not arse-spraying mayhem.!!"

@Twitzkrieg - Glasgow's FOREMOST authority

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my favourites in series 4 have to be either referrring to Stuart as the 'Human Smowman', or some of Fergus' outbursts 'I just wanted one solid *beep* to go in one direction, not *beep* Madras EVERYWHERE!'

finally this one had me crying - How do you turn Mister Tickel into Mister Happy? Lithium.

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I'm watching the series 1 DVD, one bit just made me laugh out loud:

Hugh: Just grow up, Terri!
Terri: You should be the one who's doing the growing up!
Hugh: I am a f*<king grown-up, thank you!
Terri: You could have fooled me, Hugh!
Hugh: Glenn's son could have fooled you! No offence, Glenn, I'm sorry.

(it's said earlier that Glenn's son went to a special needs school)

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Adam to Terry

"you know what puzzles me about you terrie? How you've remained un-murdered"

Or words to those effect

He's as useless as a marzipan dildo

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On "Rise of The Nutters" after Ben Swain's Newsnight appearance, in the car afterwards Jamie turns to him

"You don't deserve to live"

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Ha! I just posted that one. You beat me to it. By about 15 months.

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Some great lines in here.

Julius Nicholson's "Ooh hello, the Golden Girls"

and Malcolm to John Duggan "tw@t features, and I mean that literally" are hilarious as well.

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From Ep 1 Series 4
Peter: I hate talking to school kids; they're volatile and stupid and haven't got the vote. Might as well be talking to *beep* geese.

From Rise Of The Nutters:
Jamie: You're the *beep* sh*test James Bond ever! You're...you're David *beep* Niven!


Someday I'm gonna make a movie then laugh watching people over-analyse it

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