In Sickness and in Health (TV Series)

Episode #6.3 (1992)

Carmel McSharry: Mrs. Hollingbery

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• [Alf is cursing as he attempts to cut his toenails] 

  Mrs. Hollingbery : [entering]  Who are you swearing at?

  Alf Garnett : This bloody toe I'm trying to cut; it wont let me.

  [he sits down, exasparated] 

  Alf Garnett : I dont know... I dont know why we have to have bloody nails, I mean what use are they?

  Mrs. Hollingbery : Well I wouldnt want to be without mine.

  Alf Garnett : Look I'm not talking about fingernails, I'm talking about toenails, int I?

  Mrs. Hollingbery : What's the difference?

  Alf Garnett : Whooo, blimey! You'd soon see the difference if you had to have these growing out your fingers!

  Mrs. Hollingbery : I wouldn't want them growing out the end of my toes even.

  Alf Garnett : I don't know why they have to keep on growing, I mean nothing else is growing on me. Everything else has *stopped* growing, I mean why can't your bloody nails stopped growing?

  Mrs. Hollingbery : Your hair's stopped growing.

  Alf Garnett : Shut up. What do you want anyway?

  Mrs. Hollingbery : Well I come down to see if you'd help me hang a picture up.

  Alf Garnett : Oh gordon bennett! I'm old int I? I'm 75 abouts, I'm not a young man anymore! You want me to risk accident climbing up a ladder hanging pictures?

  Mrs. Hollingbery : No. You wont have accident. No. It's a holy picture. It's been blessed.

  Alf Garnett : Well if it's been blessed it should be able to hang itself, shouldn't it?