Month-long TV Meme - Day #24 - Best quote.

[nakeisha]

When nicis_anatomy started to post this meme last month, I promised her that I would do it in June. So I am keeping my promise. From seeing Nici's posts last month, I know several of my answers will be the same as hers.

Comments

[madmogs]

Funny, I was talking to an American Yes, Minister fan just the other day. So they may be rare but they do unquestinably exist. (And he wasn't even a LOLitician, or a UK resident!)

Brilliant, brilliant show.

My fave quote from it was (this was from my adolescent days when my tastes were a little less refined):

Bernard: Maybe we should put a paper up.
Jim: Up what?

[nakeisha]

Oh, that is good to know - thanks for letting me know. It's great that it can be enjoyed by non-Brits.

And yay for another fan. It's so good.

*Grins* Oh, yes, that is another good one. There are so many.

[plutos_revenge]

I think this would have been one of the hardest to do for me. So many great shows with so many great quotes. Excellent choice with this one though!

Sir Humphrey's speeches are the stuff of legend *g*. I've not watched for a while so I may be imagining things but isn't this one of those series where you can clearly see the actors struggling not burst out laughing? I have visions of DF valiantly trying not to breakdown.
Mork & Mindy is another, you can clearly see PD trying not to laugh when RW goes off on one of his improvs.

Have you ever watched The Thick Of It with Peter Capaldi?

[nakeisha]

It really was so hard, as you say so many great quotes. Another one J and I use a lot is 'It's a technical term' usually with the 'Tobias'. Glad you liked my choice.

They really are, so good. So very good. I seem to recall the odd time, but not that often, but actually it's been a while since we watched. Hmmm.

I haven't, no. Never heard of it even.

[nakeisha]

Glad you like it too - and it's very 'me' *g*

If it's anything like my pile, it's teetering.

Ah, thanks. Probably not my type of thing, re: lots of swearing, although the concept sounds fun.

[caffyolay]

Simply one of the best comedies *ever*. One of these days must get the dvds. Hmm. Might be an idea for P's b/day pressie...

[nakeisha]

Indeed, absolutely wonderful.

Amazon has the complete YM and YPM for £15.00 rather than £50.00

[caffyolay]

Ta muchly. Duly ordered. One b/day present problem solved. Thank you *so* much!

[nakeisha]

You are most welcome. Glad to have been of assistance.

[franciskerst]

I was tempted to buy it as it came with an heavily discount on Amazone.uk but wasn't sure it was worth the effort of listening to long speeches (I rightly guessed there were). Now I am torn; the show seems very interesting to me but you confirmed there actually are long speeches and my understanding of quick, colloquial English dialogs is still quite low. The only British person I understand as perfectly as if she was speaking in French is...Her Majesty the Queen!

[nakeisha]

I think you'd enjoy it. It's very much an intellectual humour for the most part, thus I think you'd like it.

Ah, the thing is you aren't meant to follow his speeches *g* I still get lost at times, that's the whole point of them. He makes them long and winding and convoluted simply to befuddle the PM.

And you wouldn't have an issue with the accents, they all speak very proper English.

[sally_maria]

Yes, Minister - a work of sheer genius. :-)

We used to love Bernard's attempts to correct Hacker's mixed metaphors:

"You can't grasp the nettle and take the bull by the horns, because you don't have enough hands. You could take it by one horn, but that might be rather dangerous because...*makes head gesture to imply being gored by the other horn*"

"You can't have a graveyard in a minefield, because all the bodies would go...*makes explosion gesture*"

We have the book versions, which are well worth it. They're not just straight transcripts but tell the story from one or more of the characters' points of view, with lots of memos, telephone calls and other official government documents.

[nakeisha]

Yay for another fan.

Oh, yes, I love how Bernard corrects him and how solemn he is about them and how he ends up getting himself into knots over it.

And the 'they don't flock, they kind of . . .' more gesturing.

We have the books too and I've read them several times - so good.