As Time Goes By (TV Series)
Surprise, Surprise (1992)
Geoffrey Palmer: Lionel Hardcastle
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Quotes
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[last lines]
Denise Cropper : Get out of my house.
Lionel : What do you think I'm doing, getting ready to play pass the parcel?
Denise Cropper : You've taken advantage of me; that's what you've done.
Lionel : Now we really are in the realms of fiction, aren't we.
Denise Cropper : Of all my guests, all the gentlemen that have stayed here, you are the only one, and now you're being unkind to me.
Lionel : You're not losing anything, Denise.
[pause]
Lionel : It's just that I... can't. Look, it's probably stupid, but...
[pulls pictures out of dresser drawer]
Lionel : Who are this lot?
Denise Cropper : People.
Lionel : Well, call me suspicious, but why do I guess that they all have a pair of pyjamas with Macho Man printed across the chest?
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[first lines]
Headmaster : Hardcastle, so good of you to come out to the wild on such short notice.
Headmaster : It's very kind of you to meet me, Master, but you really shouldn't have bothered.
Headmaster : Oh, nonsense. Always enjoy railway stations. It's the only time I weigh myself, when I'm at a railway station. Car's this way. "My Life in Burma", isn't it, your lecture?
Lionel : "My Life in Kenya" actually.
Headmaster : So it is.
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Headmaster : Yes, the fellow who dropped out was going to talk about rail travel in Russia in the twentieth century.
Lionel : Why did he drop out?
Headmaster : Got knocked over by a bus, poor fellow.
Lionel : Ironic.
Headmaster : Mmmm, that's what I thought.
