The Radio Times published the top 25 telly put-downs as voted for by their readers; unsurprisingly most of the best put-downs came from classic situation comedies like John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers, but a couple come from BBC science fiction shows, including the brilliant Life on Mars:
“To Gene Hunt: “I think you’ve forgotten who you’re talking to.” Sam: “An overweight, over-the-hill, nicotine-stained, borderline-alcoholic homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealthy obsession with male bonding?“”
And I’m pleased to see the Boys From the Dwarf made it in there too with this line from the one and only Arnold Judas Rimmer: “Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence.” Although I have to say trying to pick put-down lines from Grant and Naylor’s Red Dwarf would offer up an embarrassment of riches; one of my all-time favourites is still “forgive me if I am being thicker than the offspring of a village idiot and a TV weather girl.” (via the BBC)
February 28th, 2008 at 8:58 am
That is so unfair to village idiots …!
