Satellite City (1996– )

Islwyn Morris: Dad, Dad (Idris Price)

Quotes 

• [the boys are watching Wales losing at Rugby] 

  Gwynne : We was better when we all had initials... JJ, JPR...

  Dai the barman : MD.

  Gwynne : MD? Who's MD?

  Dai the barman : Mervyn Davies.

  Gwynne : Mervyn Davies wasn't known as MD.

  Dai the barman : No but they's his initials though.

  Gwynne : Yes Dai, but he was known as 'Merv the Swerve'

  Dad : In that case he should be called M the S. M for Merv, S for Swerve and 'The' for 'The'.

• Dad : I went to Cardiff once. There was a big shop and we had fish and chips sitting down. I didn't like it much.

• Doctor : Why didn't you marry again Price? Open your shirt.

  Dad : No woman could ever replace my Angharad.

  Doctor : She was a formidible woman Price, I agree.

  Dad : Do you know she could carry a goat in one hand from Ton Pentre to Maerdy.

  Randy : Why would she want to do that Idris?

  Dad : Well she had the shopping in the other hand.

• Dad : You are the nicest young bloke I ever slept with.

  Mandy : You are the nicest young bloke I haven't slept with.

• Dad : You can't go to Cardiff mun

  Randy : Why not Idris?

  Dad : Why not?

  Randy : Well yeah, why not?

  Dad : Well they eat people's heads in Cardiff

  Randy : I don't think that's true.

  Dad : Well you'll have your head eaten then

  Randy : I'm not saying I want to go to Cardiff

  Dad : It's the capital of head eaters mun!

• Dad : Satan's handmaidens will get you, they'll force you to dance

  Mandy : Aye, and take drugs

  Dad : That Worthington stuff

  Mandy : 'E' Mr Price

  Dad : Aye, 'E', and then you'll dry up and die. Like it says in the papers

• Dad : I'll crush my own windpipe with a hammer if he goes

  Mandy : I'll take all my clothes off and scream

  Dad : I'll live in a suitcase under the bed without holes

  Moira price : ...and I will join Plaid Cymru

• Randy : Are you alright Idris?

  Dad : No!

  Randy : I noticed you were up half the night

  Dad : I was in the garden

  Gwynne : Sitting in his vest in the rain he was

  Dad : I was trying to catch pneumonia

• Dad : You'll grow a little moustache and forget all about us

  Randy : A little moustache?

  Dad : Aye, like that Ian Rush

• Randy : There must be some jobs, Gwynne's got a job

  Dad : Yeah but he's been there since he left school. I think they forgot to sack him

  Randy : It's still a job, what is it you do exactly?

  Gwynne : Do?

  Randy : Yeah

  Gwynne : Well it's difficult to put into words really Randy boy. I go in in the morning, and then I potch about until dinner time... then I have dinner. Then after dinner I... that's a good question and I can't answer it, not off the top of my head just like that... but I do do something, remind me to ask Moira

• Dad : You stupid, useless, shoplifting bugger!