The Good Life (TV Series)

Mutiny (1976)

Felicity Kendal: Barbara Good

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Quotes 

• [Jerry, Barbara and Tom have been to see the musical society's production of The Sound of Music] 

  Tom : I mean... I mean... That *was* The Sound of Music wasn't it?

  Jerry : Possibly.

  Tom : I wondered. For a moment I thought we'd strayed into the Folies Bergères.

  Barbara : You mean the sunrise scene where all the nuns realized they were in see-through habits?

  Tom : Yes. I never really believed in them after that. Why did Margo sing Maria?

  Jerry : It's the name of the character she was playing.

  Tom : I know, but I thought the song came from West Side Story.

  Barbara : It did.

• [Barbara points at the basket of flowers] 

  Barbara : Shouldn't they be edelweiss?

  Margo : [hysterically]  You see? Barbara's noticed! I told Miss Mountshaft she should have ordered the real thing from Moisy Stevens but no, "plastic will do." The whole thing is tat, tat, tat!

• Margo : The people who have moved in next door to you are charming.

  Tom : Yes?

  Margo : That's it, that is the good news.

  Barbara : But they only moved here yesterday. You were in there a bit quick.

  Margo : I was not in there a bit "quick*ly*". Adverb, Barbara.

• Tom : Is this the stars' dressing room?

  Margo : Oh, Tom, Barbara. Do come in.

  Barbara : We couldn't afford a telegram, so we made you that.

  [gives her a home-made good luck card] 

  Margo : Oh, how kind.

• Barbara : What is it about this particular scene that bothers you?

  Margo : It's Miss Mountshaft's nephew. He's playing one of Baron Von Trapp's children.

  Barbara : So...

  Margo : His nose runs, Barbara. And whenever he's onstage there's nowhere else I can look.

• Tom : [Tom and Jerry have been playing golf with Sir]  Hello, girls. Had a nice gossip?

  Barbara : No, we've been playing strip poker with the postman.