Rab C. Nesbitt
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 1988 - 2014
- 66 episodes (10 series)
Long-running Scottish sitcom starring Gregor Fisher as Rab C Nesbitt, a rude, dirty, lazy, foul-mouthed, sexist alcoholic. Also features Elaine C. Smith, Tony Roper, Barbara Rafferty, Andrew Fairlie, Iain Robertson and more.
- Series 4, New Year Special repeated Wednesday 25th December at 10:30pm on BBC Scotland
Quotes
Rab: "Mary, you and I go back a long way to let a pound of dead meat come between us."
Mary: "Let's leave our sex life out of this."
It's not Buckfast that sign should say, it should say Fastbuck
Rab C. Nesbitt (Gregor Fisher)
After meeting his Spanish double on a holiday to BenidormThere's nothing that restores yer faith more in human nature than meeting some poor bastard that's just as mad as yourself.
Rab C. Nesbitt (Gregor Fisher)
Some place Govan eh? Where else can you get a fish supper at 9am? Simple, just steal it off a drunk that's been lyin pished outside a close all night.
Rab C. Nesbitt (Gregor Fisher)
Therapist: "Mr Nesbitt, were you close to your father?"
Rab: "Not unless I could help it, otherwise I would get a boot about the melt, but I always remember the friction burns he left on the carpet when I handed over my first wage packet."
Mary: [shocked] "My God" [to the therapist] "It's weird that you can live with someone for so long but you never really know them"
Rab: "Didn't you know my father was an alky?"
Mary: "Oh aye, but I didn't know you had a job!"