Rock & Chips (TV Series)

Five Gold Rings (2010)

Paula Wilcox: Vi Trotter

Quotes 

• [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".

• [Amita, whose parents are Indian, has just introduced herself to the Trotters as Del's fiancée] 

  Vi Trotter : Do you ever wear Indian clothes, Amita?

  Amita : Only at family gatherings.

  [Vi is obsessed with knitting] 

  Vi Trotter : I'm going to give you the *best* Christmas present you've ever had, darling. I'm gonna knit you a sari.