Rock & Chips (TV Series)

Five Gold Rings (2010)

James Buckley: Del Trotter

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Quotes 

• Denzil : What? You just get engaged to a girl, and she comes across with the goods?

  Del Trotter : It's give and take, Denzil. In a week or so later, before she starts talking about lampshades, you let her see you drunk, she chucks the ring back at you. It's easy, ask him.

  [points at Albie Littlewood, who reacts] 

  Del Trotter : You've had a lark, you've still got your ring. Next!

• Albie Littlewood : I had a dream. Now it's dead.

  Del Trotter : Let's have a one-minute silence then.

• [talking about Joan] 

  Vi Trotter : She's got something the young people nowadays call the "baby blues". I had it with your dad. Oooh, I was moody and irritable.

  Del Trotter : Does it last long?

  Ted Trotter : [mutters]  Thirty-six years so far.

• [at the dinner table, Joan tries out a French phrase that Freddie the Frog has taught her] 

  Joan Trotter : J'adore un soixante-neuf.

  Ted Trotter : She all right?

  Reg Trotter : What's that?

  Joan Trotter : It's French.

  Del Trotter : Where did you learn that?

  Joan Trotter : At the flicks. A Brigitte Bardot film.

  Vi Trotter : What's it mean?

  Joan Trotter : I was told it means "I am enjoying this dinner".

• [Del is having dinner with Glenda and her family. Glenda's mother, Edna, is a French teacher] 

  Glenda's Gran : What's this?

  Edna : It's coq au vin. Have you ever had coq au vin, Derek?

  [Del smirks because he thinks it means "sex in a car"] 

  Del Trotter : No, this is the first time, Mrs Wilkins.

  Roger : We discovered it on one of our visits to France.

  Glenda's Gran : It's shit.

  [Del tries out the French phrase that his mother has learned from Freddie the Frog] 

  Del Trotter : J'adore un soixante-neuf.

  [stunned silence]