The Good Life (TV Series)

The Pagan Rite (1975)

Richard Briers: Tom Good

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Quotes 

• Tom : Shall I throw the cat on the fire?

  Barbara : No, not just now. Just got comfortable.

• [first lines] 

  Tom : Did you know the surinam toad has got a pointed head?

  Barbara : What brought that up?

• Sir : You do much skiing, Tim?

  Tom : Tom. No, I do quite a bit of waterskiing.

• Sir : Well, Tom, here's to you and to your good lady, uh, uhm...

  Barbara : Fatima.

  Sir : Yes. Yes, as I said when you left the company, I said, of course, a lot of people think that this self sufficiency is just a dream, you know, but here's a man with the guts and the determination to make it work.

  Tom : Actually, you didn't use those words. You said I was a mindless idiot who'd come crawling back in three weeks.

• Tom : [to Barbara]  Anything you miss about the old days?

• Barbara : Do you remember every now and again we'd go mad, have a big blow out, and stay at a fancy hotel for a night?

  Tom : Ah, yes, the old pagan rites.

• [last lines] 

  Barbara : Oh, Tom, I don't deserve you.

  Tom : Oh, yes, you do.