Drop the Dead Donkey (TV Series)

The Godless Society (1996)

Robert Duncan: Gus Hedges

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Quotes 

• Gus Hedges : [to the sociologist]  Get out - go on - and take your dandruff with you.

• Takuguru : I'm sorry but we find your management style a bit... old fashioned.

  Mishima : Yes, a bit too severe.

  Gus Hedges : Too severe?

  Mishima : Yes.

  Gus Hedges : Well that's rich coming from you lot.

  Takuguru : I'm sorry?

  Gus Hedges : Mr. "Soldier Johnny, work or die" says I'm too severe! Well naughty naughty, throw me in a hole and push bamboo under my fingernails!

• Gus Hedges : If you don't go into that studio and say how terrific God is, we'll sue the Ecclesiastical pants off you.

  Helen Cooper : Gus!

  Gus Hedges : Not now Helen. And another thing, I'll be putting in a call to your lot's customer relations department.

  Helen Cooper : Gus, I've got somebody.

  Gus Hedges : What?

  Helen Cooper : I've found somebody who can do the programme.

  Gus Hedges : Oh! Well you can sod off then, bishop.

  Bishop Waddle : ...Thank you...

• Gus Hedges : You are looking at the most hard working and dedicated team in TV news. They all report for work at 8:30. Then we kick start the day by singing the company work song.

  Takuguru : What is the company work song?

  [Gus looks panicked] 

  Joy Merryweather : ...Old MacDonald Had a Farm.

  Gus Hedges : Yes... uh, that's right!