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"Bank manager Belinda Braithwaite (Hannah Gordon) wants to retire, but her house husband David (Peter Egan), likes things the way they are, and doesn't want to go back to work. " IMDB Also starring John Bird, Lill Roughley, Ruth Mitchell, Richard Aylen.
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00:00The Lone Ranger
00:45Thanks, Ben. It's getting heavier and heavier.
00:52If they make the papers any bigger, they're gonna have to make Sundays longer.
00:56What?
00:57Bigger. Longer.
00:59Who is?
01:02Why don't you ever listen to anything I say?
01:04Most of the time you talk rubbish.
01:05Right, that's it. Up to your room and stay there till I tell you you can come down.
01:09Yeah.
01:10Yes, miss.
01:12You've got a logical mind. Have a look at this.
01:16Where should I sit?
01:17Well, in your office, I should have thought. Where is it? I can't see it on here.
01:20I haven't got one. I'm gonna be out here with the rest of the serfs.
01:23You can't be serious. What, are you in the open plan area?
01:25You're the manager. Whose stupid idea was that?
01:29Mine.
01:32Well, it's still a stupid idea.
01:33Why is it?
01:34You're the manager. You should be separate, apart.
01:37Not featured, footed, dressed, approaching like the rest.
01:42In the dapple shade of the sunlight caught.
01:45And thought, here comes my heart.
01:49I sent you that on your birthday.
01:51I was impressed.
01:53I know.
01:54I'd have been a lot more impressed, though, if you'd written it yourself.
01:57It did the trick, though, didn't it?
01:59A fine trick.
02:01Well, in half a night...
02:05Why does it sound at least twice as dirty when you whisper it?
02:09Now, who's that at this hour?
02:10There's a great way to find out.
02:12Right.
02:19Oh, hi, Jessica. Come in.
02:25It's Jessica from the bank.
02:26So it is. Hello, Jessica from the bank.
02:28Hi.
02:29Coffee?
02:30Can I have a lift into work?
02:31Ah, sure. I'll be going in in about half an hour.
02:34It's Sunday.
02:35Why are you going to the bank on a Sunday?
02:36I told you.
02:37Why don't you ever listen to anything I say?
02:40Touche.
02:41I'll wait outside, if you like.
02:42I know.
02:42Fighting's more fun than somebody watching.
02:44We are going in to the bank one last time
02:46to check out the new open plan office before the grand opening.
02:50I'll run you in, if you like.
02:51Why?
02:52I like to come and interfere with the way you've got it laid out.
02:55There's nothing wrong with the way you've got it laid out.
02:59Well, Jessica from the bank, where's your car this morning?
03:02It's at home.
03:04I had a date last night.
03:05Still shaking with burning passion, are you?
03:08It was just easier to come here than it was to go home and get the car.
03:12Who did you go out with?
03:13I don't want to tell you.
03:15Why don't you want to tell me?
03:16I've always told me before, even when I didn't want to know.
03:20I haven't been out with a married man, have you?
03:23Linda, I just don't want to tell you, that's all.
03:25All right, all right.
03:27Just wait till you do want to tell me something.
03:29Anyway, there's nobody around here worth going out with, married or unmarried.
03:34Oh, thanks a lot, bun face.
03:37Oh, you mean you.
03:39Oh, no, she wouldn't go out with you.
03:41I signed her annual reports.
03:43You haven't been out adulterating with him, have you?
03:45No, I have not.
03:47A little less vehemence.
03:48Would have been a little more flattering, thank you.
03:51Eh, unless you went in Valentine's Disco, were you?
03:53About 11.30.
03:55Only I didn't have my eyes in because of the smoke.
03:57Yes, okay.
03:58I was in all night.
03:59You went out about half past 11 to get some logs.
04:02Well, the older you get, the slower you get.
04:07Anyway, it can't have been much of a date if he couldn't even run you back home for your car
04:11this morning.
04:12He had other things to do.
04:19Who do we know with a sports car?
04:21Nobody.
04:22We're too old and Jessica's too poor.
04:26I can't believe it.
04:30Remind me to check the suspense account.
04:42Oh no, he's coming in.
04:44What?
04:45Nothing.
04:50Well, looks as if the under-manager's been on the town too, eh?
04:55What?
04:57Nothing.
04:58Oh, right.
05:00What?
05:01Nothing.
05:03I was just thinking, I mean, it'd be a bit of a laugh if old Jessica and Ned were having
05:07a thing, you know.
05:10Look, I'm only joking.
05:11I mean, who wanted an affair with Ned Berger? Certainly not Jessica. I mean...
05:14Have you cleaned your teeth yet?
05:16Why don't you just tell me to clear off so you can check the truth of my hypothesis with Jessica?
05:20Why don't you just clear off so that I can check the truth of your whatever it was with Jessica?
05:26Certainly, dear.
05:29It's a long story.
05:31I don't think the world's ready for it yet.
05:34I wonder where Ned's gone to.
05:36Probably around the back, peering through the window.
05:43I found this outside. I think it's a peeping Tom.
05:46No, it's not.
05:47No, I'm not.
05:48And why were you looking through the window?
05:50I was just making certain you weren't doing anything I'd find embarrassing to look at.
05:54Like what?
05:55How do I know? I couldn't see properly.
05:58Where's David?
05:59He's upstairs.
06:00Right.
06:06So, to what do we owe the honour?
06:08What honour?
06:09It's a figure of speech. Why have you come to our house on a Sunday morning?
06:14It's sarcasm, is it?
06:16Why didn't you say so? I need a lift to the bank.
06:18Why didn't you ask your girlfriend to give you a lift?
06:20Why what?
06:21A gorgeous blonde in the status symbol.
06:23I wasn't a gorgeous blonde. That was my wife.
06:27That was Estelle.
06:28There's nothing gorgeous about Estelle. She's married.
06:32You're a car giving you a bit of trouble this morning, is it?
06:35Are you going to give me a lift to the work or not?
06:45Well, I thought it was fine the way it is.
06:48That's exactly what I said. Exactly.
06:50Both reactionaries, the pair of you. Come on, troops.
06:56Oh, can't I have a look?
06:58Oh, don't be mean, Belinda. Do you promise not to steal anything?
07:01I'll try really hard, honestly.
07:03Can't you have a word with her? You're a husband. Can't you make her see sense?
07:07I recognise that face. I've got one at home just like it.
07:11Come on, I'll buy you a drink.
07:14A beer?
07:15Well, yeah, whatever you like.
07:18Are you asking me to go for a drink with you?
07:21Yes, I am.
07:25All right.
07:32Where's your office, Belinda?
07:34I haven't got one.
07:35Well, I'm going to be out here with a hoi polloi.
07:38It's not very private, is it?
07:40What happens if someone gets overdrawn?
07:42You have them in to tell off.
07:44We're going to have a roped-off area just here.
07:46With a set of stocks and a ducking stool.
07:49Jessica, will you behave yourself?
07:52Some people are frightened of banks.
07:54I'm frightened of banks myself.
07:56If I didn't work in one, they'd never come through the door.
07:59Everyone will be able to see what you're doing.
08:01Well, I don't do anything in here that I'm ashamed of, Louise.
08:04Hmm.
08:05I would have thought you'd have been ashamed to bounce one of your next-door neighbour's checks, I would have
08:09thought.
08:11Louise, you asked me to, so that Desmond would give you a raise in the housekeeping.
08:15Well, yes.
08:17But I didn't think it would be so nasty, really.
08:19I'm not supposed to be listening to this, am I?
08:22Misuse of banking powers.
08:23You typed the letter.
08:25I may have typed it. I didn't read it, though.
08:28That's why they're always wrong, is it?
08:30Listen, you choose. Confidentiality or accuracy. It's up to you.
08:34If you worked for Desmond, he'd sack you for talking to him like that.
08:37You're fired.
08:38You can't sack me on a Sunday. I'm on overtime.
08:41You see? It's not that easy dealing with staff.
08:44Which brings me to the next point.
08:47Ned is terrified of you moving out here with us.
08:50Why?
08:51You'll be able to keep your eye on him.
08:53She'll be able to keep her eye on me.
08:55That's why they're doing it, of course. They don't fool me.
08:58Mr Race, they are spending about £100,000 on this reorganisation, I understand.
09:02I know that. They write it all off in the first year.
09:06Why did you call me Mr Race? Was that more sarcasm?
09:09No, no, it wasn't.
09:11But as soon as I called you Ned.
09:13Would you still want to call me Ned when I made manager here, when your wife's left the bank?
09:19Well, not necessarily, no.
09:21You sure?
09:22Well, you could withdraw the privilege at any time.
09:26No, how could I?
09:27You see, once you encourage familiarity, it just leads on and on.
09:31I used to make Jessica call me Mr Race, but now she doesn't look where that's led.
09:36Where?
09:38Where what?
09:41This conversation seems to be disappearing into nowhere.
09:45What did you want to say to me?
09:46I want you to tell your wife to sit in her own office and not to sit out amongst me
09:50spying.
09:53Does all beer taste like this?
09:55Give or take. You're not a beer drinker.
09:57I don't drink anything.
09:59Well, at least I didn't until last night.
10:02Um, have you ever heard of a drink where you lick salt off your hand and you bite a lemon?
10:08I have, yes. I wouldn't recommend it though.
10:10Why not?
10:10You might make a mistake and bite your hand.
10:13Can you hear the other, the other half please?
10:17Your benighted wife?
10:18Yes.
10:19I mean Mrs Braithwaite.
10:20Well, I thought you might.
10:21She's trying to get rid of me so that she can have the pick of the jobs when the whole
10:25thing gets centralised.
10:26That's why she's sitting in the outer office to watch me making mistakes.
10:29Now, you can't hit me. You must have hit me.
10:32What?
10:33Well, you're bigger than I am. It wouldn't be fair.
10:35I have no reason to hit you.
10:37I called your wife benighted.
10:38So you did.
10:38Not that that's a reason for hitting anyone. I agree with you, absolutely.
10:42Uh, this, um, change of policy, this centralisation thing.
10:46How long has it been going on?
10:48Ages. Why?
10:50Oh, I just wondered.
10:51It's a bit late to be doing all this, isn't it?
10:54How do you mean late?
10:55Well, it'll be opening tomorrow.
10:57I thought you'd have got it all sorted out long ago.
10:59Well, it's new company policy.
11:01Leave everything to the last minute and then it's too late for anyone to complain.
11:05It's never too late for you to complain, or too early, come to think of it.
11:08And it's a bank holiday tomorrow.
11:12Oh, my God.
11:13What?
11:14I've got no money left.
11:15The fruit machine in the walls open.
11:16It ate my card on Wednesday.
11:20What do you mean it ate your card?
11:22You've got plenty of money.
11:23It was pouring with rain.
11:25They work in the rain, too.
11:27I wrote my number on my hand and the rain washed it off.
11:31So I had three goes at remembering, got it wrong every time.
11:34The machine grinned at me and swallowed my card.
11:38Well, why did you come into the bank and tell someone?
11:41I did.
11:42Who?
11:43The peeping Tom from this morning.
11:45Well, it all looks very nice.
11:50See you later.
11:52Okay.
12:02Fine.
12:03Now then, Louise, we'll have to be getting on.
12:06Okay.
12:07What do you want me to do?
12:08I'd like you to go home, please.
12:10Oh.
12:11Okay.
12:14Bye.
12:15Bye.
12:18What if I have?
12:22What if you have what?
12:24Been drinking.
12:25What if I have?
12:29It's got nothing to do with you.
12:31If a man asks another man out for a drink with him, it has nothing to do with women.
12:36For men must work and women must weep.
12:42It's in the Bible.
12:44Look not upon the wine when it is red.
12:47For it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.
12:51I suppose you think you're very clever, don't you?
12:55What did you do to your hand?
12:57Don't ask me.
12:58Ask his secretary.
13:00Stupid games.
13:01That looks like a bite.
13:03Excuse me.
13:06For a moment.
13:09Jessica, I hardly know how to ask you this.
13:13Bet you find a way though.
13:17Have you been biting lead?
13:20No.
13:22I was there when it happened though.
13:24Are you having an affair with Ned?
13:27No, I am not.
13:28Thank the Lord for that.
13:30That's all I need.
13:31Well, I'm not an affair as such anyway.
13:34I can't tell you anymore.
13:35I've been sworn to secrecy.
13:38See who that is, will you?
13:45I would ask you to respect my privacy in respect of this mark on my hand, please.
13:50Of course I will, Ned, if you want me to.
13:54Why are you being nice to me?
13:56I went on a course to learn how to be nice to people.
13:59It's part of management practice.
14:01Oh, I see. It's a trick then, is it?
14:03That's all right then.
14:05The plants have arrived.
14:06Looks more like a forest.
14:12Good heavens, Lucinda.
14:14You going in for forestry, are you?
14:16Hello, Charles. How well landscaping the office.
14:18You've got to have some plants to make it look more inviting.
14:21Looks like the Mekon Delta to me.
14:23Aren't you going home to put the meat in?
14:25Meat? We can't afford meat.
14:27I thought we settled that.
14:28We're sharing it in a pilchards.
14:33What are you all looking at?
14:35Right, come on. We've got work to do.
14:38Who's got the plan for the desk arrangement on it?
14:40It's on your desk inside.
14:41How do you know which desk is the plan?
14:42I haven't decided where I'm going to sit yet.
14:44You're going to have to sit right at the back.
14:46Come in and stop.
14:50Right, I'm off. See you later.
14:52Bye, Lou.
14:53So, how's the world treating you, Charles?
14:57What? What?
14:58How are you?
15:00If you want a professional opinion, it'll cost you 50 pounds an hour, I'm afraid.
15:05Can I give you a lift somewhere?
15:07About two.
15:09Anywhere you like, Charles. Anywhere you like.
15:10No thanks, dear boy.
15:12I'm not going anywhere.
15:16What is it, Charles?
15:18I've got a strange recollection that there's something I should tell you.
15:24Yeah, it's completely gone.
15:26Poor old sod.
15:28Fading fast.
15:30Oh, well. Knacker's yard next.
15:32Something to do with the advice bureau?
15:34No, no, no, no, no.
15:35I was like this long before I went to work for them.
15:39Well, er, give us a ring if you remember, will you?
15:42Will do.
15:44Roger!
15:44Over and out.
15:56Who's going to look after all these damn plants? I can't grow parsley.
16:00Maybe David could do it. In between Meals on Wheels and the CAB.
16:05Oops.
16:06I can say it. I'd really rather I was the only one.
16:11Ned?
16:11What?
16:12Don't monopolise all the greenery, will you?
16:14I don't want to have to get the SAS in on Tuesday to find you.
16:20SAS?
16:21I think that might have been a joke, Ned.
16:23She's not going to uproot you from your desk with hand grenades.
16:26No, there's more to this than meets the eye.
16:28She doesn't fool me.
16:29SAS.
16:32Staff audit supervisor.
16:35I've never heard of one of those.
16:37Well, you wouldn't, would you?
16:38They keep it very secret in case the union found out.
16:40Could you ask him to give me a call, then?
16:44Bye.
16:45Yes?
16:46I want you to know that I'm informing the union immediately about this SAS man.
16:57Have you any idea what is ringing his bell at the moment?
17:02I know he's worried and insecure.
17:03And why aren't you making jokes about it?
17:06I know what it's like to be worried and insecure.
17:10Oh, it works.
17:12Good.
17:13What are my course notes?
17:15I didn't know you had any course notes.
17:17I thought they were all terribly refined.
17:20This is serious.
17:21Top drawer, green filing cabinets.
17:27I'm busy.
17:29It's me.
17:30I know it's you.
17:31I'm still busy.
17:34What?
17:36I've been asked to have a little talk with you.
17:38Oh, tomorrow, then.
17:38After Meals on Wheels.
17:39We can talk, then.
17:41It'll be too late, then.
17:42Hello, Louise.
17:43Don't suppose it's me you want, is it?
17:46I just came in to borrow some horseradish.
17:51Bye.
17:54Louise has got a head like a butterfly.
17:58What are you doing?
17:59Something I should have done a long time ago.
18:02Management by objectives, eh?
18:04Aggressive behavior in subordinates.
18:06You've got quite a problem with that Mr. Race, haven't you?
18:10Have I?
18:10Well, he's terrified of you.
18:12Well, not you exactly.
18:12More like everything, really.
18:14I know.
18:14Has he been talking to you?
18:16Well, he wanted me to tell you not to sit out in the office with the rest of the staff
18:20spying on him.
18:21You're not serious.
18:22He also sees this bank reorganization as a trick to get in the sack.
18:26It's just an efficiency exercise.
18:29Aimed at him, personally.
18:30Paper shuffling is going to be centralized, and he's the best paper shuffler in the bank.
18:34It's going to make him more important, as a matter of fact.
18:36Because when I get promoted, he...
18:39Well, don't stop.
18:41I'm sure I'll be fascinated.
18:46In the bank reshuffle, some managers are going to be given more responsibilities.
18:52You know, their roles are going to widen.
18:55Wider roles?
18:57Good gracious.
18:58What will they think of next?
19:00Not making this very easy.
19:02Oh, I'm sorry.
19:03What would you like me to do?
19:03Lie on the ground and do my famous impersonation of a Basset hound?
19:07Look, though.
19:08We have been screwing our brains for the last month to try and find a way for you to leave
19:12the bank,
19:12and for me to get a job that won't leave us on the breadline.
19:14Now I find that not only are you not leaving the bank, you're being promoted to a better job.
19:19Well, look, it does make all the soul-searching a bit redundant, don't you think?
19:21It's not that simple.
19:23Time doesn't stand still while plans come to fruition.
19:27Oh, no, God.
19:27That's it.
19:28That's the end.
19:28I've turned into a management training manual.
19:31Well, don't worry about it.
19:32It could happen to any high-ranking bank official with a housebound spouse.
19:36That's part of the price we all pay for success in our chosen field.
19:39Cut it out.
19:40No, I will not cut it out.
19:42I will not cut it out until we've had a long and detailed chat about where our lives are leading
19:46us.
19:47Oh, God.
19:47Now, look, Belle.
19:50Hi.
19:52We don't need this now.
19:53Well, we're having lamb.
19:57Horse radish doesn't go with lamb.
20:00Got any mint sauce?
20:03You're having a row, aren't you?
20:05Goodbye, Louise.
20:07Goodbye, Louise.
20:08OK.
20:09I'd better be going then.
20:14So,
20:17Jessica suggested that you might like to take care of the plants in the bank.
20:20I don't get it, sorry.
20:23Well, it started off as a joke.
20:24Now I can't laugh at it.
20:27So, what has this got to do with your being promoted?
20:31Do you remember that time when Jessica raided the suspense account?
20:35And I came and asked for my keys.
20:36I had to withdraw my notice.
20:38Yes?
20:39The following day, personnel rang up.
20:42They thought that I was unfulfilled.
20:46So?
20:47They said that there was a promotion in the offing that would make me feel much better about myself.
20:52Oh.
20:52And did it?
20:54Well, it didn't make me feel any better about you.
20:57Look.
20:58Do you want to leave work or not?
21:00Part of me wants to have the choice.
21:03Part of me wants to stay at work.
21:04Part of me would like...
21:05Well, which part am I talking to now?
21:08The part that doesn't want its staff making snide remarks about you and the fact that you...
21:13Or the fact that you're married to an apology for a man who can't get a job.
21:18A man who wastes what's left of his life on coffee mornings and useless lame charities.
21:24Yes.
21:26Yes?
21:27Yes.
21:28You're supposed to say no.
21:30When I make elaborate speeches pulling myself down, you're supposed to leap to my defence.
21:34I've been doing it too long. I felt like a change.
21:36Oh.
21:39Another 15 minutes.
21:42If you could invent one of those that worked on people, you'd make a fortune.
21:46Where would you stick it though?
21:51Bring a whole new dimension to appraisal interviews.
21:55Do you really think I'm an apology for a man?
21:57No.
21:58Well, I should get a job. I know that.
22:01Hello?
22:03Oh, right. Oh, thanks. Thanks for ringing back.
22:05Can I come and see you?
22:07Oh, any time.
22:09I mean, I know I'm going to end up flattening my back and half naked.
22:15I always do when I come to see you.
22:18Friday 10.30?
22:20Fine.
22:21Bye.
22:24What's the matter?
22:28I wouldn't normally ask, but since we're talking about things, who were you talking to?
22:33Who do you think I was talking to?
22:36Oh, Ian.
22:37What are you going to the doctors for?
22:40The doctor? Oh, no, that wasn't the doctor. That was Barrington Ricketts from Personnel.
22:48Oh, I mean, you need more than banking exams these days, you know, to get fast-track promotion.
22:53I've been to see Barrington three times. He's got some very funny ways, you know.
22:58The last time I went, oh, no, no, no, I'm not going to tell you. You'll just get upset.
23:02I'll murder you one of these days, winding me up.
23:04Of course, if you got a job, I wouldn't have to go and see Barrington. He could come here. Be
23:10a lot more comfortable.
23:13She'll never wear that.
23:15Why not? The use of plants and shrubs is to be encouraged.
23:20Do me a favour, will you?
23:22It's not the kind of favour that's going to end up with me biting my hand, is it?
23:25I was doing you a favour. You were the one who wanted a refresher course on how to behave on
23:30a night out. Not me.
23:32No, you mustn't tell anybody.
23:35It's not something I'm likely to boast about, is it? Going out with you.
23:39Oh, no, I suppose not. Don't talk to that, sorry.
23:42Oh, just go in there and sit down.
23:47Jess, I want a word before Rumpelstiltskin comes in.
23:51What are you doing that for?
23:52My name is not Rumpelstiltskin.
24:00Do you sit at home at night thinking of ways to get up my nose,
24:03or do they just come to you in flashes of inspiration?
24:07I am merely rearranging some plants. I don't see what all the fuss is about.
24:11It looks silly.
24:12The whole idea is silly. At least this way I get some privacy.
24:16The whole idea of making the bank open plan is so that people won't feel intimidated.
24:21That they will feel that the bank is welcoming, approachable, friendly.
24:25And that, in my opinion, is the silliest idea of all.
24:28If you get people to like coming into banks, how on earth are you going to exercise any control over
24:33them?
24:33Mr Race, will you please put those plants back where they should be?
24:38Is that an order?
24:38It is, yes.
24:40Fine.
24:42If I can cope with orders.
24:45It's all this mock friendliness and pretending to be nice, I can't stand.
24:52What is going on between you and Ned?
24:54I can't tell you I promised.
24:56I order you to break your promise.
24:58Oh, don't start getting power mad, will you?
25:01It's not much of a secret anyway.
25:02So?
25:04Him and Estelle, they never get invited anywhere.
25:07She says it's because he's boring.
25:09So I've been giving him some life skills tuition.
25:12In Valentine's Disco?
25:14There's more life skills to the square inch in Valentine's Disco than the rest of this town put together.
25:19Did it do any good?
25:20He was sick twice and he bit a hole in his hands.
25:24You see, a fairly average start then.
25:27What are you two whispering about?
25:30Ned, what makes you think that you are boring?
25:32Oh.
25:33Sneak.
25:35You can't discipline somebody for calling a sneak a sneak, you know.
25:38I am making a note to recommend you for a course.
25:41It's not one of those initiative courses, is it?
25:43Where you swing across muddy rivers and fall off the rope.
25:46Because I've learned how to do that, thank you very much.
25:49And it's got very little to do with banking.
25:51It's a course called Community Relations and it's to teach you how to get the best out of life.
25:55The best what?
25:58Things are better off out in the open.
26:00What things?
26:01You took a dinner. You can't deny it.
26:03You took one when you were having that economy week.
26:05I took Mrs Banners.
26:07She threw it at my windscreen three days in succession.
26:10She complained to the organiser.
26:12She was making a gesture.
26:14And they asked me what had happened to it.
26:16Well, thanks a lot, Lou.
26:17Things are better off out in the open.
26:21No, things are better off out in the open.
26:24Let me get this straight.
26:25Am I being sacked from the CAB?
26:27No, not at all.
26:29No.
26:30Good.
26:30They'd rather you resigned.
26:33But did they really call me a woolly-minded liberal?
26:36What's wrong with that?
26:37You are a woolly-minded liberal.
26:39That's what I like about you.
26:40I lent some money to clients. Is that it?
26:43Part of it, dear boy.
26:44But they were genuine people in desperate need.
26:46It doesn't matter.
26:48You also discussed a case with your wife.
26:50My wife recommended them to me.
26:52She knew more about the case than I did.
26:54Anyway, they don't think it's your cut-out for this type of work.
26:57I was really getting involved with it.
26:59Part of the problem, dear boy. Too involved.
27:02No, things are better off.
27:04Out in the open, I know. Thanks a lot, Charles.
27:06Cheers.
27:08Who are the jolliest people we know?
27:10We don't know any jolly people.
27:12Why?
27:13I want to give a dinner party for Ned and Estelle.
27:16He's not jolly. He's a weasel.
27:18Even weasels need life skills.
27:21Jessica says he's under a lot of pressure at home.
27:23I want to do something about it.
27:24Management by objectives, eh?
27:27Things are better off out in the open.
27:28Oh, no.
27:30Is there something I said we ask ourselves?
27:33I need help.
27:35Oh.
27:37Tell auntie.
27:40Today, I was fired three times in quick succession.
27:44Rapid fire, was this?
27:46Sorry.
27:47In quick succession, from the CAB for being woolly-minded,
27:51from Meals on Meals for theft,
27:52and the parish council for being a man.
27:55Tomorrow, I expect to apply for a re-entry visa into the human race.
27:59I also expect to be turned down.
28:02Bad day at Black Rock.
28:04And I'm not Spencer Tracy.
28:07Is there anything we can do to cheer you up in the short term?
28:14Well, I suppose we could cover you in honey, roll you in the down out of the duvet, and I
28:18could bite the feathers off one by one.
28:22Now, would you settle for a French kiss?
28:28I would, actually.
28:33It's a pity we don't know any French women.
28:35I could do it.
28:37Do it.
28:55You can do it.
29:04It's a pity.
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