Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series)

Going to Gordon's Wedding (1976)

Bill Owen: Compo

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Compo : [holds out flowers]  Hey.

  [Nora slams the door] 

  Compo : Ah, come on, Nora. Don't muck about. I'm not after thy luscious body. I just want thee to fix me flower to me button-hole.

• Compo : It's a long time since we've been to a wedding.

  Clegg : Oh well, I dare say we'll soon get the hang of it.

  Foggy : With this lot, you never know what we might get. God, I hope there's not going to be any fighting.

  Compo : Ah, don't be daft; everybody fights at weddings.

  Clegg : I don't believe it's actually compulsory.

  Compo : No, but there's such a thing as tradition, isn't there!

• Foggy : Half the joy of a gift is in the unwrapping.

  Compo : That's what I keep telling Nora Batty, but she won't unwrap nowt.

• [last lines] 

  Vicar : The ring.

  Compo : Ah-ha, ha-ho, the ring!