What is your favourite sarcastic comment that you remember from a sitcom?
For me, it's from One Foot In The Grave.
MARGARET AND VICTOR ARE TRAPPED IN THE GARDEN SHED WHICH IS SURROUNDED BY A SWARM OF BEES.
Victor: It's not like we can even get a message out to anybody.
Margaret: Saying what?
Victor: Saying what? What the hell do you think, 'Send more bees'?
Quote: 404 Not Found @ May 30 2011, 10:45 PM BSTWhat is your favourite sarcastic comment that you remember from a sitcom?
For me, it's from One Foot In The Grave.
MARGARET AND VICTOR ARE TRAPPED IN THE GARDEN SHED WHICH IS SURROUNDED BY A SWARM OF BEES.
Victor: It's not like we can even get a message out to anybody.
Margaret: Saying what?
Victor: Saying what? What the hell do you think, 'Send more bees'?
That is going to take some beating.
Father Ted.
Mrs. Doyle: Shall I make the beds in the spare room?
Father Jessup: [sarcastic] No, we'll sleep outside in a ditch!
Blackadder had a nice line in sarcasm. So to did Tim from The Office, especially when he was talking to the IT guy in series 2.
From Dictionary.com
"In sarcasm, ridicule or mockery is used harshly, often crudely and contemptuously, for destructive purposes. It may be used in an indirect manner, and have the form of irony, as in "What a fine musician you turned out to be!" or it may be used in the form of a direct statement, "You couldn't play one piece correctly if you had two assistants." The distinctive quality of sarcasm is present in the spoken word and manifested chiefly by vocal inflection ..."
From "Absolutely Fabulous"
Mother: What is my email again?
Edina: old-woman at risk-of-being-strangled-by-own-daughter-dot-com I should imagine.
Mother: I'd forget my head if it wasn't screwed on.
Edina: Yeah, well that can be remedied.
Mother: Talking to yourself again dear? They say its the first sign of madness, you know.
Edina: Really, I thought it was talking to you.
Mother: Its a bit like the war again, isn't it.
Edina: A bit like the war? Only except without the drab fashions and bombings and food rationing - yeah - its a bit like the war, but without the war.
and finally...
Edina: inside of me, sweetie, inside of me, there's a thin person just waiting to get out!
Mother: Just the one,dear?
Quote: ToddB @ May 31 2011, 2:40 PM BSTEdina: inside of me, sweetie, inside of me, there's a thin person just waiting to get out!
Mother: Just the one,dear?
I did love that one!
I think it's been repeated in various forms since on other things, but that was the first time I heard it.
Some great exchanges of sarcasm in Fawlty Towers, Basil (after forgetting their wedding anniversary) - to Sybil 'Do I detect the smell of burning martyr?'
Mine actually is from Blackadder...
Percy: "My lord! Sorry I'm late."
Blackadder: "That's okay Percy. I'm sorry you're alive"
Blackadder: This place smells worse than a pair of armored trousers after the Hundred Year War. Baldrick! Have you been eating dung again?
Percy: My Lord! I have waited on your return!
Blackadder: And thank God you did, Percy, for I was just thinking to myself, "My God, I die in 12 hours, what I really need now is a hug from a complete prat."