"I got 30 bob for the trousers!"

"She says he's spent the last sixty years trying to work that one out."

"Then, bound as he was to the chair, he assaulted myself and three other constables while bouncing around the cell. The end."

Incidentally, BBC Publications have prepared a special pamphlet to go with this programme called 'Hello Pianist', and it contains material that some people might find offensive but which is really smashing.

My absolute favourite part of the Multiple Murder court scene: The casual reveal all the murders were "on or about the morning of the 19th of December…"

"There are always plenty of sitcoms around with no apparent audience"
The AV Club: Where they don't know anyone who voted for Nixon.

Vyvyan, if you can't control your socks you shan't be allowed to have any.

It's like the kettle's killed itself rather than be used by me.

We would have brought Harry, but… we don't know anyone called Harry.

"Amazulu!"
"Oh, is that right? Am'a Glaswegian."

God, you'd think Devil Woman had never been written!

"Doesn't it hurt?"
"Nah, it's polyester and cotton."

"Joe, who finally leads his new friend on a hippie-killing rampage that ends with Patrick unknowingly shooting his own daughter in the back, was meant to be a figure of horror and revulsion, but thanks in no small part to the charm and energy of Boyle’s performance, a lot of like-minded viewers were on his side, just…

Dammit Tumblr, go back to bed. You know you've got school in the morning.

Oh yes, it's past the Post Office, 200 yards down, then left at the lights.

The only real word is "stravenka", which is Czech for "Luncheon Voucher".

McKelvie's art leaves me cold in much the same way Mike Allred's does - It's like someone's somehow turned Soulless Hipster Irony into an actual drawing style. It's hard to put into words, but - you know how print ads sometimes use 'fake' comic strips? And sometimes the art looks like actual comics, and sometimes it's…

There's Dale Gunn over in DC's Vibe, who's not just black and gay but actually married to a blonde white guy. But it's all presented in a matter-of-fact non-melodramatic way and he's a grown adult who isn't drawn to look like an Abercombie & Fitch underwear model, so NO TUMBLR FANGIRLS FOR HIM!

Barry Humphries' Les Patterson character used to remark that he was informed of the correct pronounciation of Cockburn by "A plummy-voiced pom who presumably asks his wife every night for a fuh."