The Good Life (1975–1978)

Felicity Kendal: Barbara Good

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• Barbara : I suppose we must be rather a blot on the avenue's escutcheon.

  Margo : Yes, you are.

  Barbara : Oh.

  Margo : But you are very dear friends. And by now I have risen like a phoenix from the fires of your eccentricities.

  Tom : Ah, don't she talk lovely!

  Barbara : Yeah, very nice.

  Margo : You know what I mean. Nothing you can do now will shock me. It's quite simple.

  Tom : Yes. I see that. When's the boar-walker coming, Barbara?

  Barbara : Tomorrow.

  Margo : Boar-walker? What's a boar-walker?

  Tom : This chap we know is bringing his boar to serve Pinky.

  Margo : With what?

  [Tom smiles] 

  Margo : Oh, my God!

  Barbara : Margo, you're shocked!

  Margo : Where?

  Tom : Not in here, in the garden.

  Margo : But I shall be able to see it over the fence.

  Barbara : Only if you're looking.

• [Tom and Jerry have been playing golf with Sir] 

  Tom : Hello, girls. Had a good gossip?

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

• Barbara : [Barbara is visiting Tom in jail]  Oh, Tom. I do miss you.

  Tom : I miss you too, love. There's two-thousand of us in here but it's ever so lonely.

• Tom : I'm stronger than you are and I can pin you to the bed any time I feel like it.

  Barbara : Rubbish.