No 73 (TV Series)

Episode #1.1 (1982)

Sandi Toksvig: Ethel Davis

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Ethel Davis : Oh good morning, I didn't year you come in. Do you wanna have a good joke? Hang on a sec, don't go away now, don't go away...

  Ethel Davis : [leaves kitchen, comes back in wearing a Groucho moustache]  Do you wanna buy a duck? It's a moustache. I got it in a Christmas cracker. It's just like my aunt Lucy's. Well, 'cept of course hers is real.

• [last lines] 

  Ethel Davis : I just wanted to say: thanks very much for dropping in, I hope you'll come and see us coming to see us next Saturday, we're always here, there's always lotsa people, always lotsa things going on. I really appreciated you just dropping in, I'm sure Dawn did and Percy. Oh, and a very happy new year to ya, I'll go off to the loo. Stay and watch the telly if you like, you don't need to just rush off, you know. Have a look at the telly. Bye!

• Ethel Davis : [knocking on toiler door]  Harold, have you got a book in there?

  Harry Stern : [opens the door]  No, it's a dictionary!

• Ethel Davis : Schizophrenia? Who said that?

  Harry Stern : Well, you did, Ethel.

  Ethel Davis : Oh well, I've always been in two minds about schizophrenia.