Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series)

Serenade for Tight Jeans and Metal Detector (1982)

Bill Owen: Compo

Quotes 

• Compo Simmonite : Hey-up, things must be serious if Foggy's opening his purse. I shouldn't bother with that, Foggy; we've been decimalized since thee were last in there.

• Compo Simmonite : Buried treasure!

  Foggy Dewhurst : Yeah, buried treasure.

  Compo Simmonite : [laughing]  You should be locked up! I can just see Captain Morgan and all them other pirates coming up the canal desperate to bury their treasure somewhere near 'Uddersfield.

  Foggy Dewhurst : There's more than one kind of treasure, you know.

  Compo Simmonite : Oh yes, I can see all them jolly pirates singing their Yorkshire sea shanties: Yo ho ho, and a bottle of John Smith's

• [last lines] 

  Foggy Dewhurst : Dig it up; dig it up; it might be Roman.

  Compo Simmonite : Don't. Watch these trousers.

  [grunts] 

  Compo Simmonite : Yeah, it's an old beer can.

  Norman Clegg : Ingenious beggars, them Romans.

  Compo Simmonite : It's Tetley's.

  Norman Clegg : Gaius Julius Tetley. I like it.

  Compo Simmonite : Me too. Let's go and have one.