One Foot in the Grave (TV Series)

Hole in the Sky (1995)

Annette Crosbie: Margaret Meldrew

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Margaret Meldrew : Victor! If you're opening up that hatch, he says be careful because they've just put a bag of plaster inside the counter...

  Victor Meldrew : Fine!

• [first lines] 

  Margaret Meldrew : [answering phone]  Four two nine one.

  Margaret Meldrew : Oh, hello, Jean.

  Margaret Meldrew : No, no, just out the back, putting Victor's spaghetti vongole through the incinerator.

  Margaret Meldrew : No, we've tried putting it in the bin; the dustmen won't touch it. Not after last Monday's episode with the lobster curry. Said it clogged up their crusher for a week. Not the effect it had on me, I can tell you. Oh, it's hideous Jean. Ever since he bought this seafood cookery book, every mealtime has been like a Quatermass Experiment; clams exploding in the microwave, God knows what. Oh, God, no! I've put a stop to it now, don't you worry about that!

• Margaret Meldrew : I've told you I am having no more of it.

  Victor Meldrew : I was just going to do a little bit of poached salmon for lunch. Nothing complicated; nothing that's going to smell.

  Margaret Meldrew : That's what you said about the squid in Stilton sauce, and they had half the road up outside looking for a gas leak,

• Margaret Meldrew : If you want me, I'll be in the bathroom sandpapering my breasts!