TV Comedy Quiz.

[prospero]

M6: Minder
M7: Last of the Summer Wine

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P6: "Stop calling me IV. You're driving me up the wall!"

P7: "What's a flamin Rilk then?"

P8: "Oh....No. My wig's going bald"

[Moglet]

M6: 'allo, Dave!

M7: "Ye gods!!!!"

M6: Fools and Horses. (Name that character...)

M7: Doctor in the House (Name that character, too.)

You're gonna hammer me on this quiz. The only point I've scored thus far was an edumacated guess...

[Moglet]

P6: Red Dwarf???

P8: Rumpole???

[prospero]

P6= Up Pompei. Lurchio is conscirpted into the army and the centurion keeps refering to the soldiers by number....I,II III IV. Oh please youself....

P7= Porridge. Godber keeps telling Fletcher his crossword answerss....

P8= Fools and Horses. Del has a box of men's syrups.

M6 Could be Minder. Could be Red Dwarf too.....

M6 Char= Trigger. M7 Char = Sir Jefferey Lofthouse (???)

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Two ezee ones and a not-quite-so-ezeee one.....

P9: "The swallows are leaving. And they're leaving it all over our window"

P10: "That's Brahms! Brahm's third racket!"

P11: "I'm not a cat person. When men look at me they think dog"

[The Jolly Good Framer #1]

Smelly cat - Friends


can you get this one? -
"This theory goes as follows and begins now. All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is my theory, it is mine, and it belongs to me, and I own it, and what it is, too. "

[prospero]

Oooooh Let me think now.......errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......hmmmmmmmmmmmm.


My brain hurts.

[Moglet]

JGF - Freddy Boa???

M6 Could be Minder. Could be Red Dwarf too.....

But it wasn't Minder, and it wasn't Red Dwarf. (Remember, you're the one that asked for iconic quotes in the first instance... )

M6 Char= Trigger.
M7 Char = Sir Jefferey Lofthouse (???)

Near as dammit. Sir Geoffrey Loftus.
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P9: Guess: One Foot in the Grave? (or else that dreadful Hyacinth Bucket person... )
P10: Guess: Are You Being Served?
P11: Pass

[prospero]

Ok OK. I'll concede the Trigger one.

Shame on you though for not g-g-getting P9: Open All Hours.
And even more shame for P10: Fawlty Towers.

P11 is Gimme Gimme Gimme.

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P12: Identify the series from which this little soliloquy is taken>>>>

"An ill wind is blowing.
Last night I was stirred from my slumber by a crow calling three times....
Caw,
Caw.
.....Oh you know what a crow sounds like.
Passing to my window I trod on a piece of Lego.
Oooh, it went right in the heel.
Turning on my television set, I noticed the reception was not great.
Not terrible, just not great.
Hear me well! No good can come of your trip to the theatre tonight!
No good at all and if you ask me..........
That's just bloody rude!
Where's my Heat?"

[Bill Henry]

Good grief, even the liability of being an American, these quizzes are way too obscure. I can’t even Google the quotes.

I graciously (well, maybe not so much) admit defeat.

[Moglet]

Bill, can you give us a steer on the UK comedy series that have been screened in your neck of the woods? I'm sure that the Venerable Prospero and Moggers the Insolent can come up with a few teasers for you.

The transatlantic nature of our membership prompted me to try to come up with some quips from some of the top-notch US comedies (particularly the likes of Cheers, Frasier, and Taxi ), but the trouble is that the scriptwriting was so exceptionally rich and slick that trying to remember a single line here and there proved impossible: spoiled by the miasma of excellence! Shows of that calibre make even running gags much too clever to single out.

[prospero]

Well I already gave him and easy Cheers one, but came there the answer none.

[Bill Henry]

We get mainly comedies from you guys. And, all of them are on Public TV – not commercial channels.

I’m not sure that I can remember them all, but the ones that keep popping their heads up are Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Keeping Up Appearances, Red Dwarf, Black Adder, and Vicar of Digby.

Some of the detective mysteries are on public TV, but I seldom watch them. The dialog and some of the references to local events eludes me.

We also get As Time Goes By, but I don’t get that one at all. Is it supposed to be funny? If so, it goes right over my head.

[Moglet]

Well I already gave him and easy Cheers one, but came there the answer none.

Well, Bill, he scored points of the pair of us if that's any comfort to you, because I missed it too.

[prospero]

P13: "I've always found you fowl Mrs.Scratchit. And more than a little."

[barefaced framer]

Boom Boom Boom

some very obscure quotes !!

[prospero]

I point to barefaced. Despite obscure answer.

Here's a nice clip for Bill while he is thinking......

** Double points for this one.

P14: "In the chocolate box of life, the top layer has already gone. And some sods nicked the orange creme from the bottom....."

[barefaced framer]

An easy one, compared to most on here, and maybe appropriate methinks:

' A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed'

[Moglet]

Ok Prosp. Can't take any more. PG '72 time...

Thing is, I don't tend to remember most comedy scripts in the way that I do song lyrics (no musical accompaniment...).

My parting shot is...

"I'm a teapot! I'm a teapot!"



I shall take some small comfort from the fact that you still haven't got my "Millwall" submission.

Also, yer man is welcome to the orange creme. (If he'd nicked the hazelnut whirl, I'd have sent the boys round... )

[Moglet]

Ah, to frell with it... Might as well add this one:

"I'm watching you, Ghandi!"


C'mon Barefaced, give 'im a run for 'is money!!!!

[barefaced framer]

Now you are showing your age, Geordie boy