Eric & Ernie2011

[Eric and his mother discuss the disastrous TV series]

Sadie Bartholomew:
How long are you going to keep this up - this sulking malarkey. You used to sulk when I made you wear that schoolboy outfit - right up till when it got you a big laugh.

Eric Morecambe:
Television isn't about dressing up as a schoolboy and singing, you know.

Sadie Bartholomew:
Well it certainly isn't about being funny. Not if what I saw you two do is anything to go by.

Eric Morecambe:
[sarcastically] Don't go easy on me just because we're related, will you.

Sadie Bartholomew:
I don't know how to soft-pedal - it's not in me nature.

Eric Morecambe:
You don't have to tell me that.

Sadie Bartholomew:
I'm hard on you because you and Ernie are better than that. When I saw you on that television show, doing that *tripe*... Biggest break? Your chance? You forgot everything. You and Ernie *know* what's funny. You know what plays funny, you know what tells funny. You must have known deep-down that material was not funny.

Eric Morecambe:
What d'you want me to say?

Sadie Bartholomew:
You could start by telling me I'm right.

[Ernie is lost for words. He knows his mother is right but he can't admit it]

Eric Morecambe:
I'm sorry if you feel we've let you down.

Sadie Bartholomew:
I'll get over it. Will you?