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The Thin Blue Line
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S1Yuletide Spirit

The local amateur drama society's annual pantomime is approaching again and Fowler is putting up a poster

GGrimm

"Gasforth Amateur Drama Society"? What's all that, then? Fannying about in tights?

No, Derek. We only "fanny about in tights" when we do Shakespeare. This concerns the annual pantomime. "Robust singers required for the chorus". Interested?

GGrimm

It sounds boring to me. I'd rather have a cup of tea in front of the telly.

Of course you would, Derek. That is because you have the soul of an amoeba and the imagination of a Pot Noodle.

Every year, I've gone to the Peter Pan auditions and buckled my swash till my timbers shivered, and every year, I've been presented with seven feet of green foam rubber and informed that my lines are "tick" and "tock".

Goody is showing off his Christmas present for Habib

Dead sexy, knickers and a bra. I was that embarrassed buying them, I had to say they were for me.

KKray

There's only one set of underwear a girl wants at Christmas: yours. You hitch up your boxers and say "There's the wrapping, doll. The present's inside!" (laughs and leaves)

I think I'm gonna be sick...

Oh it's alright, son. You know fellas that talk about it most do it least. I know. I talk about it all the time. And I haven't had any since the days of Harold Wilson.

I never knew you were in a gay relationship!

What are you talking about?

This bloke Harold Wilson that you were having it with.

Kevin, he was the Prime Minister!

Blimey! And you an ordinary copper! You did do well.

What to name a child born on Christmas Eve

Well it is Christmas. How about calling him Noel?

That is a great idea, because Noel Edmonds is the spirit of Christmas, isn't he?

S2Court in the Act

That used to be a decent little corner-shop, which sold string. Any day now, I expect to find my chocolate frog replaced by caramel private parts. Or a strawberry-flavoured lesbian.

Fowler attempts to prepare Goody for the tactics of an aggressive defence counsel

You're lying, Constable! The evidence you have presented to support your case is so contemptibly slight and circumstantial, one is forced to think it may be no more than a tissue of lies. A corrupt concoction. Well? WELL?!

[Goody looks at Fowler, and bursts out crying]

Goody, you are supposed to fix me with a steady manly stare, not snivel like a Frenchman who's caught his baguette in his bicycle spokes.

(tearfully) I can't help it, sir. You're being so mean!

Look, this is an exercise. Do you know what an exercise is?

It's a running-jumping sort of thing.

S2Ism Ism Ism

Which came first: the chicken, or the egg?

I know, I know!

Do you, Goody? Then what is the answer?

Because it wanted to get to the other side.

Grim does not like culture

Bleeding ballet an' opera. Especially when they spend lottery money on it; wasting the working man's bet on fat screeching old bags from Italy singing like they've got piles. Or some bunch of scrawny bints in tutus called Darcy and Tilda flashing their gussets at a lot of horny perverts. Art? Culture? Staring at posh bird's knickers, that's all Swan bleeding Lake boils down to! They should use all the money for kids with incurable diseases. When me and my Tina buy our lottery ticket, out of the goodness of our hearts...

And in the hope of winning twenty million pounds.

Yes, and we want to know that, by winning twenty million pounds, we will be helping little kiddies, NOT haughty, hoity, stick it up your toity, high and mighty, tight-nosed, toffee-arsed, sun-dried-tomato-eating lah-de-dah-dy lah-de-daas.

Fowler is giving a PSA about political correctness and Grim disagrees

What 'ism' ever robbed a bank? What 'ism' ever mugged anybody? What 'ism' ever put a gun to somebody's head?

BBoyle

Terrorism?

Yeah, alright. What 'ism' ever threatened the security of the state?

BBoyle

Marxism?

What 'ism' ever hurt anybody?

BBoyle

Sadism.

Boyle! D'you think they'd do a uniform your size?

S2Fly on the Wall

I suppose all mothers think their kids are beautiful, but the interesting thing is, Sir, I actually was. A GORGEOUS little fella. Big eyes, big smile, chubby little cheeks and the purest of pure soprano voices. I could curdle milk while it was still in the cow, Sir. Anyway, one day, Radio Trinidad advertised for a boy soprano. It was my big chance, Sir. The whole street turned out to watch me get on the bus. "Young Frank Gladstone going to be a star," they said, and I would have been but for two things.

What were they?

My testicles sir. They dropped on the way to the auditions sir. I still believe if that road had been tarmacked I would have got away with it. I was going to sing "O For the Wings of a Dove"; I had to give them "Old Man River" instead.

[Goody is on the radio at a stake-out, talking nervously whilst being filmed for a BBC documentary]

Right. Standing to one side now. Purpose: to avoid scaring silly old sod to death if not pop-clogs already. [gets flustered] Tango... er, Gemma. Angels one-five, bandits at six o'clock - dive, dive, dive!

(on the radio) Shut up, Goody!

S2Alternative Culture

When I was an adolescent, my idea of a major sensory stimulant was sucking on a fisherman's friend.

The problem with old copper tricks, Constable Boyle, is that old coppers know 'em.

S2Come on You Blues

Men! Tiny-brained, sexually-frustrated, emotionally retarded, inadequate, puerile, juvenile, drooling, leering, sneering, pointless bloody men!

Could be half the blokes I know.

[telling Fowler that the domineering mayoress, Dame Cristabelle, has arrived] The world's finest example of womanhood is at the front desk.

Gloria Hunniford!

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