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Nicola and Ollie in “Series 3, Episode 3”

(In this scene, Nicola and Ollie are working on her upcoming speech.)

OK, right, what have we got on the workplace gym reward scheme?

Er, fighting obesity is one of the biggest challenges we face, sleepwalking into a crisis, ticking time bomb –

You write almost entirely in generic meaningless buzzwords, don't you?

I could take it more street, if you prefer – 'You is all proper bloaters and it is well gay, biatch' – but, you know, this is the language –

No, but, you know – I just don't want to come across all nanny-state and sort of – 'Death by Chocolate is not a funny name for a pudding, it's a real and genuine concern', you know, I don't want to give the press another opportunity to see me as Mrs. Sour Power Vinegar Tits sucking on a lemon.

Fine, I understand, so we'll sugar-coat it.

Well, leaven it, ideally, with a couple of jokes.

Yeah, all right, no problemo.

(Nicola then gives Ollie a "Well?" look.)

Now-Now? Jokes now?

Yeah.

OK, how about: 'We want people to be fit, not fit to burst'?

I'm gonna have to go down the slapstick route, aren't I? Do the speech straight, but dressed as Freddie Starr's Hitler.

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