We don’t watch tv around here much, we don’t even have the basic channels anymore since our tv is older and needed one of those boxes for the digital conversion blah, blah, blah. What we do have is a netflix subscription and if there is one show I fervently recommend it is a little BBC series called Black Books. I own all three seasons of the series on DVD and watch them repeatedly. I recently lent them to a friend of mine which has started a bit of a quote a thon on facebook. My husband thinks I am a little too similar to the main character but I don’t think an enthusiasm for books and wine paired with occasional crankiness means anything. I have quit smoking after all…
A few memorable quotes:
Bernard: (to Manny) Don’t make me laugh… bitterly. Fran will fail. You’ll toil your life away. And I’ll die alone, upside-down on the floor of a pub toilet.
Bernard: I’ve got to get a girlfriend, just for the summer, until this wears off. She’ll be a summery girl. She’ll have hair. She’ll have summery friends who know how to be outside. She’ll play tennis and wear dresses and have bare feet, and in the autumn, I’ll ditch her, because she’s my summer girl!
Bernard: Perhaps you’d like me to put the price down.
Customer: Well I was thinking two pounds.
Bernard: Because three pounds is just naked profiteering? For a book, a mere… 912 pages long? What’ll I do with that extra pound? I’ll add an acre to the grounds. I’ll chuck some more koi carp in my piano-shaped pond. No, I know, I’ll build a wing on the National Gallery with my name on it.
Fran: (talking to Bernard about about him and Manny) You know, if the two of you could do something relaxing together, this place wouldn’t be so tense.
Bernard: What? Every time we bicker we should have sex? Just have a drink and be yourself again, will you?
Fran: So what’s it like then? The fags and booze.
Bernard: Well, to be honest, after years of smoking and drinking, you do sometimes look at yourself and think…
Fran: Yep…
Bernard: You know, just sometimes, in between the first cigarette with coffee in the morning to that four hundredth glass of cornershop piss at 3am, you do sometimes look at yourself and think…
Fran: Yep…
Bernard: … “this is fantastic. I’m in heaven.”
Mostly I have a big school girl crush on Dylan Moran, something about an Irish accent…
Adventures in Simple Living 