The Good Life (TV Series)
Home Sweet Home (1976)
Penelope Keith: Margo Leadbetter
Quotes
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[Barbara is in tears at the thought of having to move]
Margo : Loyal, passive Barbara. Very well, I shall tell Tom myself.
Barbara : [jumps up, no longer in tears] You take one more step and I'll drop you where you stand.
Margo : Barbara!
Barbara : Yes, I may be smaller than you but I'm a better fighter.
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Margo : I'll tell you this, Jerry. The male animal has a lot to answer for.
Jerry : What have I done now?
Margo : All of you. Down through the ages, and it's the woman who always suffers. You drag her alone behind you like a mere thing. An object. A chattel.
Jerry : Margo, I simply...
Margo : Don't interrupt, Jerry. Just put that hi-fi equipment away and make the coffee.
Jerry : Anything you say, chattel.
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[first lines]
Tom Good : Hey!
Barbara : Coming.
[Tom and Barbara carry two large halves of a carcass into the kitchen]
Tom Good : There we are. And the next. Sorry. Right, I got it. Alas poor Perky, I knew her well.
Barbara : Don't be ghoulish.
Tom Good : Sorry.
Barbara : Do you think Pinky'll miss her?
Tom Good : No, she'll have other things on her mind, she'll be on her honeymoon soon.
Barbara : Now then, hang them somewhere cool and drafty for a few hours the man said.
Tom Good : Yes. The spare room. That's cool.
Barbara : It's not drafty.
Tom Good : It will be when I take the door off.
Margo : [Margo enters] Hello! It's only Margo. What a lovely morning... Oh, my God! What *have* you got on your kitchen table?
Barbara : Miss Mountshaft. That'll teach her to throw you out of the musical society.
Margo : I resigned, Barbara.
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Barbara : I suppose as far as you're concerned, Tom and I must be a blot on the avenue's escutcheon.
Margo : Yes, you are.
Barbara : Oh.
Margo : But you are very dear friends. And by now I have risen like a phoenix from the fires of your eccentricities.
Tom Good : Oh, don't she talk lovely?
Barbara : Yeah, very nice.
Margo : You know what I mean. I mean, nothing you can do now will shock me. It's quite simple.
Tom Good : Yes. I understand that. Oh, when's the boar-walker coming, Barbara?
Barbara : Tomorrow.
Tom Good : Oh, yes.
Margo : Boar-walker? What's a boar-walker?
Tom Good : This chap's bringing his boar to serve Pinky.
Margo : With what?
[Tom smiles]
Margo : Oh, my God!
Barbara : Margo, you're shocked!
Margo : Where?
Tom Good : Not in here, in the garden.
Margo : But I should be able to see it over the fence.
Barbara : Only if you're looking.
Margo : Well, what about Mrs. Weaver?
Tom Good : She can watch if she likes.
Margo : This sort of thing simply does not go on in Surbiton.
Tom Good : It must do, Margo. That is how little baby Surbitonites are made.
Margo : Good morning.
