The Likely Lads

The Likely Lads1976

Genre: Comedy
The Likely Lads is a British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and produced by Dick Clement. Twenty episodes were broadcast by the BBC, in three series, between 16 December 1964 and 23 July 1966. However, only eight of t… more »



Bob:
I bet we could go right round the world and you'd have a pat response ready.

Terry Collier:
I've travelled man, I've seen a bit of the world now you know.

Bob:
What do you think of Koreans, for instance?

Terry Collier:
Not to be trusted. Cruel people. Much the same as all Orientals.

Bob:
That's a third of the world's population dismissed in a phrase. Russians?

Terry Collier:
Sinister.

Bob:
Egyptians?

Terry Collier:
Cowardly.

Bob:
Oh? I thought you might have saved that for Italians.

Terry Collier:
No, no, they're greasy aren't they? Not as greasy as the French mind.

Bob:
Germans?

Terry Collier:
Arrogant.

Bob:
Spaniards?

Terry Collier:
Lazy.

Bob:
Danes?

Terry Collier:
Pornographic.

Bob:
Well that's just about everyone. Oh, Americans?

Terry Collier:
Well, they're flash aren't they?

Bob:
So it's just down to the British, is it?

Terry Collier:
Well, I haven't got much time for the Irish or the Welsh, and the Scots are worse than the Koreans.

Bob:
And you never could stand Southerners.

Terry Collier:
To tell you the truth I don't like anybody much outside this town. And there's a lot of families in our street I can't stand either. Come to think of it, I don't even like the people next door.

Bob:
I see, so from the distant blue Pacific through the barren wastes of Manchuria, to 127 Inkerman Terrace, you can't abide anyone.

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