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  • Best one-liners from sit-coms – following on from the Allo Allo thread
  • breatheeasy
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    What ones do you think have fallen into comedy folklore?

    “Don’t tell him Pike”

    “He’s madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last year’s Mr Madman competition.”

    “I will say zeez only wance”

    MrSparkle
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    Four candles.

    Pook
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    Mrsparkle – not a sitcom

    perchypanther
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    Smoke me a kipper….i’ll be back for breakfast.

    fisha
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    Wibble

    RustySpanner
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    What, with these feet?

    perchypanther
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    If it’s a girl they’re calling it Sigourney after an actress, and if it’s a boy they’re naming him Rodney after Dave!

    perchypanther
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    This old broom has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles

    br
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    “Gas Man; it’s the GAS MAN!”

    theteaboy
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    Ah, Melchett. Still worshipping God? Last I heard he’d started worshipping me.

    edlong
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    There’s a few Malcolm Tucker ones, but I don’t think the swear filter will allow them.

    There was an ultimate payoff line in Allo All from the increasingly convoluted plots, I can’t remember the line where it all came together but it would have involved the candle with the handle on the gateau from the chateau, and doubtless the drug in the jug, which I think also involved the pill in the till.

    n0b0dy0ftheg0at
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    “We’re in the stickiest situation since Sticky the Stick Insect got stuck on a sticky bun.”

    mav12
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    I wouldn’t let my dog stay in this hotel,

    fussy is he, Poodle

    fawlty towers

    sc-xc
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    “Fray Bentos”

    edlong
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    One of my favourites is (was) Peter Cook. One sketch in particular. One bit of one sketch, has, imho, two of the greatest comedy lines in it..

    The leg division, Mr Spiggot. You are deficient in it to the tune of one.

    Your right leg, I like. I like your right leg, it’s a lovely leg for the role. That’s what I said when I saw it come in. I said, “that’s a lovely leg for the role”. I’ve got nothing against your right leg. The trouble is — neither have you.

    Ro5ey
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    I’m with Rusty in HMP Slade

    edlong
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    How about a couple that might not be the best per se, but have had the biggest impact on the language:

    “Spam” from Monty Python

    and

    “Gardening Leave” from Yes Prime Minister

    both passed into common usage, with many users unaware of the etymology.

    Ro5ey
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    Not that it was in a sitcom …

    “I’m playing all the right notes…. but not necessarily in the right order ”

    pete0773
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    “My knees hurt.”

    “Nearly done.” (Chris ‘Finchy’ Finch) The Office 😀

    thenorthwind
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    Also from Porridge:

    [After the governor removes a cake from a filing cabinet]

    Flecther: “That’s odd, it’s usually a file in a cake.”

    Or words to that effect. Gets me anyway.

    retro83
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    Do you want ants? Because that’s how you get ants

    Nobeerinthefridge
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    ‘Is he at the whankin’ yit?’

    surroundedbyhills
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    “Bob”

    tlr
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    I’ve got a cunning plan…

    Kate, short for Bob.

    Smeghead.

    perchypanther
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    John Wayne’s an arsehole!
    [video]https://youtu.be/Xld_CtE90NY[/video]

    edlong
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    “Bob”

    That’s the problem with this sort of thing, write them down and you lose what often makes them funny – the comic timing and talent of the delivery. I thought of loads of Blackadder ones but they’re not funny unless Rowan Atkinson, or Stephen Fry or Hugh Laurie or Rik Mayall are delivering them. “Hello Darling” isn’t intrinsically that funny a line on paper. So on the same note and for the same reason (although not a Blackadder one)

    Dan! (Alan Partridge)

    rwamartin
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    From The Thin Blue Line…..

    “Just remember, it’s your cockup, my ar$e.”

    nickc
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    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EpAHkBa7ww[/video]

    not strictly a one liner, but reminds me of arguments on here sometimes…

    maxtorque
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    General Melchett: Ahh, The healthy humor of the honest tommy. Don’t worry my boy, if you should falter, remember that Captain Darling and I are behind you.

    Captain Blackadder: Yes, About thirty-five miles behind you……

    😆 Brilliant retort!

    n0b0dy0ftheg0at
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    “Back of the net!”

    loddrik
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    “You know, Blackadder, for me socks are like sex. Tons of it about and I never seem to get any.” Prince George.

    “I have a bad feeling that whenever a lesbian looks at me they think “That’s why I’m not a heterosexual.”” George Costanza

    Cougar
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    So what is it?

    tomhoward
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    Pretty much anything flashheart (no, not him) says

    ‘Am I pleased to see you or did I just put a canoe in my pocket?’

    On being asked (after being prompted to) why he was not wearing underwear…

    ‘Because the pants haven’t been built yet that’ll take the job on’

    johndoh
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    (When Mr Balowski turns into a vampire in The Young Ones).

    What do we do when we catch him?

    Take him to Doggersea Bats Home.

    or

    (When Antony brings his vegetarian girlfriend home for the first time).

    Can you eat wafer thin ham?

    johndoh
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    Pretty much anything flashheart (no, not him) says

    I treat my planes like I treat my women.

    I take them to heaven and back twice a day.

    LeeW
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    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9PNoYSKx0A[/video]

    huckleberryfatt
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    Buzz Aldrin and Liz Lemon shouting at the moon in 30 Rock
    I walked on your face!

    johndoh
    Free Member

    From Alan Partidge…

    You’re a f&*$%£g mentalist!

    reluctantwrinkly
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    “I won’t have my dog behaving like an animal”-wolfie Smith’s girlfriends Dad (also Snoutie in porridge) in citizen Smith.

    jekkyl
    Full Member

    Please rush me my portable walrus polishing kit. Four super brushes to
    tackle even the trickiest of sea-bound mammals. Yes, I am over 18, although my IQ isn’t.

    &

    LISTER: Cat?
    CAT: Mmm?
    LISTER: Ya ever see the Flintstones?
    CAT: Sure!
    LISTER: D’ya think Wilma’s sexy?
    CAT: Wilma Flintstone?
    LISTER: Maybe we’ve been alone in deep space too long, but every time I
    see that body, it drives me crazy. Is it me?
    CAT: Well, I think in all probability, Wilma Flintstone is the most
    desirable woman that ever lived.
    LISTER: That’s good. I thought I was goin’ strange.
    CAT: She’s incredible!
    LISTER: What d’ya think of Betty?
    CAT: Betty Rubble? Well, I would go with Betty… but I’d be
    thinking of Wilma.
    LISTER: This is crazy. Why are we talking about going to bed with Wilma Flintstone?
    CAT: You’re right. We’re nuts. This is an insane conversation.
    LISTER: She’ll never leave Fred, and we know it.

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