The Vicar of Dibley (TV Series)
The Window & the Weather (1994)
Trevor Peacock: Jim Trott
Quotes
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[first lines]
Owen Newitt : Filthy weather.
Jim Trott : No no no no no no no no I've known worse.
Owen Newitt : Oh yes? When was that, then?
Jim Trott : The Great Storm, when the windmill got blown over.
Owen Newitt : That wasn't the Great Storm; that was a moderately windy night. No, the really great storm was the Great Storm.
Jim Trott : When was that, then?
Owen Newitt : When Dave Batt got decapitated.
Jim Trott : That wasn't the Great Storm.
Owen Newitt : Well, it was pretty damn great.
Jim Trott : No, the greatest storm was the one when Old Harold got blown into the quarry.
Owen Newitt : Ooh, that! The Great Winds.
Jim Trott : The what?
Owen Newitt : The Great Storm there's got to be rain, and in the Great Winds there was just wind.
Letitia Cropley : Nasty night. It reminds me of the Great Storm.
Owen Newitt , Jim Trott : Shut up!
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David Horton : I *love* this kind of weather. Do you remember The Great Snow?
Owen Newitt : Oh yes. Froze your balls off.
Letitia Cropley : Poor old Gladys.
Jim Trott : What about her?
Letitia Cropley : Well, she died, didn't she? In The Great Snow. Froze to death one Friday.
Jim Trott : No no no no, that was The Great Frost. I-It w-were the Bottle twins, Mabel and Edith, that froze to death in The Great Snow of '54.
Owen Newitt : Rubbish. The Bottles died in The Great Freeze of '48.
David Horton : And I'm about to die in The Great Bore of '94.
[a thunderclap. The lights go out]
Frank Pickle : How exciting! It's just like The Great Eclipse of '53.
David Horton : Shut up!
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David Horton : Sadly, you must minute that Dibley can't afford a new window.
Geraldine Granger : Stop writing, Frank. "Can't" isn't in the Christian vocabulary.
Owen Newitt : Yes it is! You can't commit adultery, you cant steal...
Jim Trott : No no no and you can't even covet your neighbor's ass, even if it is very alluring.
