The Thick of It (TV Series)

Episode #2.1 (2005)

Graeme Mearns: Frankie

Quotes 

• Frankie : Shagging your way to the top, then, is it?

  Oliver Reeder : Well, I'm not Scottish, so I got to get there somehow.

• Oliver Reeder : So. I've been given a desk at Nr.10 to ring my girlfriend?

  Frankie : That's about the size of it. Shagging your way to the top, then, is it?

  Oliver Reeder : Yes, well, I'm not Scottish, so I've got to get in somehow, haven't I?

• Malcolm Tucker : [trying to get the news people to edit the footage of Hugh being confronted by an angry member of the public into something less embarrassing]  And do you know about that woman? Have you made any enquiries into the background of that woman?

  Mark Davies : I'm sure my researchers have, yes.

  Malcolm Tucker : Yes, your researchers have. Well, I've got to tell you I don't think they have.

  [his phone rings] 

  Malcolm Tucker : Just excuse me a second.

  Oliver Reeder : [phoning from the office at Number 10]  Malcolm.

  Malcolm Tucker : Have you anything on the woman?

  Oliver Reeder : Well, I've got Frankie up there now, just rooting through the bins. Hang on a second.

  [speaks into another phone] 

  Oliver Reeder : Have you got anything?

  Frankie : [outside the woman's house, literally going through her dustbins]  Nothing. Er... bloody chips, Daily Mail, bin stuff.

  Oliver Reeder : Nothing, Malcolm. Just bin stuff.

  [Malcolm thinks for a moment, then goes back into the editing room] 

  Malcolm Tucker : BNP, Mark. She's standing for the British National Party. Stamford Bridge.

  Mark Davies : [thumps his desk in disappointment]  For fuck's sake!

  Malcolm Tucker : Very straightforward. Basic stuff, Mark. Do your research. Standing for the British National Party.

  Mark Davies : All right, what do you want, Malcolm?

  Malcolm Tucker : Two little bits of tit. Two titties.