One Foot in the Grave (TV Series)

Descent Into the Maelstrom (1993)

Richard Wilson: Victor Meldrew

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Quotes 

• [Mrs Warboys was meant to get Victor's dry-cleaning. But instead brought back a gorilla costume] 

  Victor Meldrew : What's this!

  Mrs Warboys : Oh, yes. She said they got almost all the beetroot out if you didn't look too closely. Myself, I can hardly see a thing.

  Victor Meldrew : No! This! I mean... It... It isn't my suit!

  Mrs Warboys : Isn't it?

  Victor Meldrew : Of course it... Where in the name of sanity did it come from?

  Mrs Warboys : Oh, don't tell me they mixed up the tickets again.

  Victor Meldrew : Mixed up the... You must have seen it as a mistake when you brought it out!

  Mrs Warboys : Well, I don't know what your suit looks like, do I?

  Victor Meldrew : Well, it doesn't bloody well look like this! I mean where do you think I shop? King Kong at C&A's!

• [first lines] 

  Margaret Meldrew : Will you just leave that for tonight!

  Victor Meldrew : Here we go; look. Three... two... one... Look at that. Look! At! That! All the models on the market, we have to end up with a waste disposal unit that can't keep its food down.

• Victor Meldrew : [about Margaret]  Doctor says it's nervous exhaustion mainly. Been building up over the last thirty-five years. I don't know what he meant by that.