Drop the Dead Donkey (TV Series)

The Trevorman Cometh (1991)

Haydn Gwynne: Alex Pates

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• Alex Pates : [George and Damien are totally distracted reading a leaked memo about staff downsizing]  George, TV Times have been on the phone, they want Sally to do a piece on her favourite recipe.

  Alex Pates : ...So I told them that Sally eats children lightly sauteed with a sprig of rosemary.

  George Dent : Mmm-hmm.

  Alex Pates : And then I said that Henry was a sexual pervert who buggers budgerigars.

  George Dent : Oh right, well done.

  Alex Pates : [grabbing the document]  What the hell are you looking at?

• Alex Pates : [reading document]  Cuts will be radical and swift. Staff over 50 must be forced to take voluntary early retirement.

  Henry Davenport : Don't be silly that doesn't apply to me!

  Alex Pates : [quoting document again]  This especially applies to newsreaders, who should be replaced by younger personnel on smaller salaries.

  Dave Charnley : Right, everybody down into the shelter...

  Henry Davenport : Isn't that bloody typical? They want to replace me with a colourless, pre-pubescent dullard. It's the spirit of the age. I blame... John Major. HOW DID HE BECOME PRIME MINISTER FOR GOD'S SAKE, THE MAN'S A BLOODY HOLOGRAM! BUT HE'S YOUNG! DULL AS AN AMOEBA'S ARSEHOLE, BUT HE'S YOUNG!

• Alex Pates : God, what a ditherer Major is. Half the time he can't even make up his mind whether to dither or not.