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The Thin Blue Line :: The Queen's Birthday Present (01x01)
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| Title: | The Queen's Birthday Present |
| Episode #: | 01x01 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday November 13th, 1995 |
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There's trouble in paradise when Raymond remembers the Queen's birthday, including buying her a present, but forgets his tenth anniversary. Kevin, on the other hand, is more than eager to show Maggie how much he cares.
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Queen Elizabeth II's birthday is on April 21, but this episode aired in November.
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Habib: Sir, if Holmes and Watson are lovers, so what? Is there anything wrong with that?
Fowler: Yes, Constable, there is! Because sex plays no part in these stories whatsoever, hetro or otherwise! The point of Biggles and of Sherlock Holmes is to solve crimes and kill Germans, and by heavens, that should be enough for any man!
| Dawkins: Raymond, have you bought a birthday present for the Queen?
Fowler: Uh, yes, is there a problem?
Dawkins: When did you last buy me a present?!
Fowler: Why, on your last birthday, I believe.
Dawkins: A set of reversable spanners is not a present. It is a coded request to get a smack in the mouth!
| Fowler: And never forget, that in the grand order of life there are but two forces: those of order, and those of chaos, and between them there lies us, the thin blue line.
Goody: So that's three forces then.
Fowler: Two forces, Constable Goody, as I've explained: the forces of order and of chaos.
Goody: Yes and us in the middle, the police force.
| Dawkins: Name?
Drunkard: I can't remember.
Dawkins: (Writes) Mr. R. Sole.
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Fowler: We have all seen the musical Oliver! . . . Thieving is thieving, and no amount of 'oom-pah-pah' . . . will change that.
Oliver! is the name of a Lionel Bart musical that began in 1960, and is based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. One of the songs within the musical is titled Oom-Pah-Pah.
| Fowler: There's a place for fatuous flippant would-be humourous inanities, and that place is on Noel's House Party.
Noel's House Party was a 'light entertainment' program that had lots of gags, practical jokes, and games; it ran from 1991-1999.
| Fowler: Not all right for you I fear, Goody, because I have relieved you of the contents of your pocket: in this case, a Mars bar.
The Mars bar mentioned in this episode is called a 'Milky Way' bar in America, and consists of caramel topped nougat covered in chocolate.
| Goody: I've got a Curly Wurly in my trungeon pouch.
A Curly Wurly is a chocolate covered toffee candy bar that is shaped like a braid. You can see Goody eating one during the opening credit sequence.
| Gladstone: You bought Gloria Hunniford a Mars bar?
Frank's dream woman, Gloria Hunniford, is a radio and TV personality who had her own Radio 2 program for nearly thirteen years.
| Dawkins: A set of reversable spanners is not a present. It is a coded request to get a smack in the mouth!
When Patricia mentions 'reversible spanners' as her birthday gift (see quote here), this is British English for what Americans call 'wrenches'.
| Fowler: . . . for there is more that is true and relevant in one page of Scott or Thackery than in every newspaper ever printed.
- Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832, is best known for his novels Ivanhoe and Rob Roy.
- English novelist, William Thackery (1811-1863), wrote novels such as Vanity Fair and The Luck of Barry Lyndon, upon which Kubrick's 1975 film was based.
| Dawkins: You haven't read any Walter Scott in years, or any flipping Thackery. You read Biggles books!
Biggles is a series of stories about a pilot, beginning in World War I, and continuing until after World War II. Biggles, the protagonist, has several friends, including Ginger, who Habib says is Biggles' lover; furthermore, Raymond describes them as 'comrads in arms', which is the name of one book, seen here.
| Habib: It's the same with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
Sherlock Holmes & Watson, detective and sidekick respectively, are fictitious characters in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous mystery novels.
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