My Family (TV Series)

One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest (2002)

Robert Lindsay: Ben Harper

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Quotes 

• Nick : [Pointing Ben to beer bottle]  Erm, Dad. Coaster goes under bottle.

  Ben : It's a cardboard box.

  Nick : Well, it's an antique. My interior designer says cardboard is the new walnut.

  Ben : Yeah, if you live in a storage unit.

  Nick : My gaff, my rules.

• [first lines] 

  Susan : I've made you a cup of tea.

  Ben : Ah, thank you.

  [pause] 

  Ben : Hang on, there's something wrong.

  Susan : Why am I not surprised?

  Ben : I've got my favorite spot on the couch; you've made me a cup of tea; I didn't fight to get the remote, and there's a Jammie Dodger left.

  Susan : Oh, really?

  [Susan takes the Jammie Dodger] 

  Ben : Good. That's lovely. Things are back to normal.

• [last lines] 

  [Ben and Susan are in bed] 

  Susan : You know, you're amazing.

  Ben : I know. I'm an amazing kind of guy.

  Susan : No, I mean the way you handled things with Nick tonight.

  Ben : I do my best.

  Susan : I guess I'm going to have to face the fact that our little boy... has gained his independence.

  Nick : [Nick enters and pulls the duvet off them]  Yours has got a higher tog rating. See ya.

  [Nick leaves with the duvet] 

  Ben : Tomorrow we change the locks.