Gene HuntYou so much as belch out of line and I'll have your scrotum on a barbed wire plate.
A character in Life on Mars
Played by Philip Glenister
Life on Mars · 186 quotes
Tied for 1st most-quoted character in Life on Mars: in 117 of its 186 quotes
Most scenes with: Sam Tyler (67), Chris Skelton (12), DS Ray Carling (9)
Gene HuntYou so much as belch out of line and I'll have your scrotum on a barbed wire plate.
[to Sam]
Gene HuntYou're never happy unless you're making my life complicated, are ya.
Gene HuntI don't know... [pause] ... who the biggest dickhead is round here. [to Ray Carling] You, for what happened... [to Sam] You, for your holier than thou act... or me, for having any of you on my team.
[Reading a title of a pornographic film]
Gene HuntOnce Upon A Time In Her Vest? [disgusted] You dare to pollute the glorious genre of the American Western?
Gene Hunt[disgusted] Looks like they've been thinking up [porn movie] titles.. Listen to this: "On Her Majesty's Secret Cervix".
[to Ray Carling whom he had demoted a few months ago]
Gene HuntGood work, Raymondo. I'm bumping you back up to DS... only this time make it stand for Detective Sergeant and not Dog Shit!
A villain farts in this city, our snouts should be able to name the arse responsible.
Gene HuntChris, round up everyone you can get your hands on. Ray, wake up and get a van. Cartwright, stick some lipstick on. There's a blag on at Raxton Street Post Office in an hour. I want the lot of you in there and undercover! We're gonna catch these bastards with their fingers in the till!
Gene Hunt[to Sam] You always do this to me - I run in certain and walk out confused!
Gene Hunt[to Sam] Y'know, If I was as worried as you, I'd never fart for fear of shitting myself
Gene HuntIf you think I'm gonna let you walk away from this investigation, than you're in for an even bigger disappointment than when we found out the plonk Doris Bangs was a name and not a promise!
I once punched a bloke for speaking French.
Gene HuntSo? He pushed a bird out a car. That doesn't make him a bad bloke.
[Sam gives him a look]
Gene HuntOh alright, pull him in! I'll dance the fandango on his head!
Gene Hunt[Seeing Annie Cartwright's organised all the files for the current case] Bloody hell, Cartwright! Do you wanna come over my house and sort out my garage?
Gene HuntHe's got fingers in more pies than a leper on a cookery course.
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