frank spencer quotes
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lpokeefe — 19 years ago(August 23, 2006 05:31 PM)
"Case case! Card card! Sample sample!" or
"We'll put it in the corner and take it out in the morning!" or
"Deeeeeemonnnnn Kinnnggg, this is Deeeeeemonnnnnn Kinnnnggg!"
My personal favorite Spencer interchange (I hope I get this right):
Mr. Bedford: "Did you hear a noise?"
Frank: "Oh, that was the floorboards."
Mr. Bedford: "Pardon?"
Frank: "The good boards. Boards good they are, these boards floors."
And of course, the best Spencer quote of all:
"I'm sorry, George I've wet the bed!"
"Whennaya gonna give me some time, Sharona?" -
sm_500 — 19 years ago(March 07, 2007 07:03 PM)
"I'm being ejaculated from my fixed abode!"
"I had to keep the girls clothes and wear emI had to keep the dolly toocos the head fell off"
"My Aunty Dingle wasn't very niceshe used to bring round home-made jelliesand they didn't even wobble"
"I've tried to come more oftenbut ive had a bit of bother..first the door fell offplus..i blew my pudding up"
"ohhhh you dirty dollop"
"I'm trying to be more verbally excruciating"
"Betty, I always try.noone could be more trying than me" -
garreh — 19 years ago(March 08, 2007 04:51 PM)
Betty: "Well I am a bit worried about leaving my mother."
Mr. Lorace: "Arrrr. Getting on a bit is she?"
Frank: "Well you know about your age."
Mr. Lorance: "According to this you spent three months in a monastery and graduated as a gas fitter."
Frank: "I did the gas fitting before I went in. I was just living in the monastery."
Mr. Lorance: "That was your home?!"
Frank: "I didn't have a home. That was where I was doing the part-time monk-ing." -
Scapegoat_Y — 19 years ago(March 15, 2007 05:38 PM)
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martynfreak — 18 years ago(June 19, 2007 04:23 AM)
'27 Sodbury Terrace'
After Mr Lewis smashes into a milk float: 'If there's any left, could you leave one extra at number 27 please? Thankyou'.
After blowing up a house and exiting with his clothes in rags and covered in soot: 'Well I'm afraid that's all I can do at the moment'
'I've been articulated!' -
tohu — 18 years ago(September 15, 2007 08:20 AM)
My favourites include when he is greeted by the heavily pregnant couple in the Pregnancy Class, and they say they remember him from the Family Planning Clinic. "Oh," says Frank. "How did you get on?"
and later that same scene when the doctor is goading him,
"When you were a baby you had a soft spot, didn't you?"
"I was very fond of treacle pudding."
Or when he is with Fulton Mackay in the RAF Aptitude Test, and Fulton is writing his name.
"Fra-a-a-nk."
"Yes, Herbert?"
But often the great lines are from other people, like when Dr Smedley tells Betty she is pregnant.
"There's no doubt at all, Mrs Spencer. These tests show you are pregnant"
"Oh my goodness.I can't believe it!"
"I can hardly believe it myself!!"
Or James Cossins giving the lecture to the class at the Motivation Weekend: "I've got a little word in mind. It begins with F!" Frank's face at this point is a pure joy to watch.
And then - this one might sound strange - but I will always remember watching the closing credits of an episode, and the BBC voiceover said, "Don't forget to tune in next week at the same time, when Frank tries his hand at hang-gliding with less than successful results." It was just such a brilliant description of the show it had my whole family in stitches! :))))
But the best moment of all is not even a line. It's visual. Richard Wilson is surveying their home as they try to sell their furniture. Frank invites him to sit down so they can discuss a deal, and RW sits on a sofa chair which sinks down to floor level. The audience is in stitches - and so are all the actors. You can see them all trying not to laugh. Today that scene would have been cut as unprofessional. Thank God they left it in then, it is impossible not to laugh.
Great show - thankyou Frank and everyone involved.
"Maybe I should go alone"
- Quint, Jaws.