The Goodies (TV Series)

Hospital for Hire (1973)

Bill Oddie: Bill Oddie

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Quotes 

• Tim Brooke-Taylor : 'Bout time, too. Where have you been?

  Graeme Garden : We've been to the hospital. Sorry, they kept us waiting.

  Tim Brooke-Taylor : For three weeks?

  Bill Oddie : Yeah, and even then we were lucky, you know. Bloke ahead of us died.

  Tim Brooke-Taylor : For a sprained ankle?

  Bill Oddie : [indicating the cast on his leg]  And, what is more, they put this on the wrong leg! Mmm.

  [points at Graeme] 

  Bill Oddie : Should've been his.

• Tim Brooke-Taylor : [On the phone]  Hello? Is that the Minister of Health, no less? It is. Good. I want to complain about the National Health Service.

  [a rapid stream of angry jabbering issues forth for about two seconds, followed by a loud click] 

  Bill Oddie : What'd he say?

  Tim Brooke-Taylor : He said, how dare we complain about the National Health Service. If they are a bit slow, that's because they keep being pestered by sick people and, as we do anything anytime, why don't we help out by studying medicine ourselves and going to work for the National Health Serivice, so there.

  Bill Oddie : He said all that just then?

  Tim Brooke-Taylor : No, I left out the rude bit.