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The Thin Blue Line :: Yuletide Spirit (01x07)
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| Title: | Yuletide Spirit |
| Episode: | Season 1 Special |
| Original Airdate: | Tuesday December 26th, 1995 |
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It's Christmas Eve in the police station and something seems oddly familiar when a woman and man appear with no where to go and a baby on the way. Derek is cracking down on a Christmas carol burglary scheme, while he, and Raymond, are trying to stay involved with the 'Peter Pan' pantomime.
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The music during the end credits of this episode is in a Christmas style, using a xylophone.
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Fowler: A lesser woman wouldn't even have attempted oeufs à la mayonnaise.
Dawkins: Yes! And it almost worked, didn't it?
Fowler: Absolutely, absolutely. Apart, of course, for the absence of 'oeufs'.
Dawkins: I broke them all.
Fowler: And mayonnaise.
Dawkins: Well, it curdled!
Fowler: But, all and all, the most delicious plate of 'à la' I've ever tasted.
| Gladstone: You know, fellas that talk about it [sex] most do it least. I know. I talk about it all the time, and I haven't had any since the days of Harold Wilson.
Goody: (Looking shocked) I never knew you had a gay relationship!
Gladstone: What are you talking about?!
Goody: This bloke, Harold Wilson, you were having it with.
Gladstone: Kevin! He was the Prime Minister.
Goody: (Even more shocked) Blimey, and you an ordinary copper! You did do well!
| Fowler: You make a wonderful 'red Indian maid'.
Dawkins: Oh, I don't think so. That silly little costume, (chuckles), my thighs are too fat.
Fowler: Patricia, what an absurd thing to say.
Dawkins: Oh, you're just saying that to be nice.
Fowler: No I'm not! I'm sure any number of Indian maids have fat thighs.
| Fowler: You'd be bored watching Olivier play Hamlet.
Grim: Well, I don't like football. Especially foreign teams.
| Grim: You should've seen me Kray. They were all there, the snooty-snotty, toity-hoity, farty-arty, decaffeinated, fruit flavoured tea bag, semi-skimmed, cream of Gasforth elite! Fowler was wearing leg-warmers!
Kray: (Laughing) Noooo!
Grim: The bloke stood there like a bird at an aerobics class. Fannying on about internal motivation. I said, 'Rubbish mate! All you have to do is shout!' And I got the part. The director said, I was clearly a suppressed 'thesbian'.
Kray: Blimey, I'd have smacked him in the mouth!
| Grim: You seem to forget, Kray. It's my ass on the line, so you'd better pull your finger out.
| Homeless Man: (Standing over his girlfriend who is in labour) I think drugs would be a good idea.
Dawkins: No need, she's doing it all naturally.
Homeless Man: Yeah, well that's what I'm sayin', I-I think maybe we ought to celebrate.
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Fowler: 'Avast ye lubbers, 'tis Pan and his lost boys come to board me.'
This is the first reference to Peter Pan, a novel by James M. Barrie. This entire series deals with a play about this story and the episode is full of references to it.
| Gladstone: . . . I haven't had any since the days of Harold Wilson.
Harold Wilson was the Prime Minister of the UK throughout the '60s and '70s, and left office in April, 1976.
| Fowler: Any community, which has been forced to listen to 'Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime' on every occasion they've entered a shop since mid October, is bound to be a bit restive.
Fowler is referring to the 1979 Paul McCartney single titled, 'Wonderful Christmastime', which can be heard here.
| Dawkins: It's the first sexy, romantic thing you've done since you bought me that box of Milk Tray when I had shingles.
- Milk Tray, according to it's manufacturer Cadbury, is the most popular box of assorted chocolates on the market.
- Shingles, also known as Herpes zoster, is a result of a virus, and leaves a series of painful blisters and/or a rash on your skin.
| Dawkins: God! It makes me hornier than Rudolph's antlers.
Rudolph, erstwhile scorned and presently renowned for his glowing red nose, is the leading reindeer among Father Christmas' herd.
| Dawkins: You're my little Christmas cracker . . .
If you're British you certainly know this unique tradition; however, few Americans hold this custom. A Christmas cracker, as seen here, is a toy-like object shaped like a candy, with two ends, and when pulled on either end, it pops with a mild 'bang'. In the centre is a small toy or novelty item.
| New Age Travellers: (Singing) We shall overcome . . .
The song 'We Shall Overcome' is steeped in history, particularly as an American civil rights protest anthem.
| Homeless Man: You are Babylon, but I will speak to you.
This does not refer to the ancient Babylonian empire directly, rather, the Rastafarian concept of modern social power systems, such as – in this case – Fowler and the police.
| Fowler: I mean this is all we need on Christmas Eve, isn't it? A couple arrive from far away with nowhere to stay for the night . . . the woman heavily pregnant.
This alludes to the original Christmas story of the birth of Jesus.
| Homeless Man: At Stonehenge
Stonehenge, seen here, is a mysterious megalithic monument in the south of England. The ambiguity of its origins have made it common New Age focal point.
| Christmas Carollers (Singing) Away in a manger . . .
They are singing (horribly and incorrectly) the Christmas song 'Away in a Manger', heard here.
| Goody: . . . so I got her this carton of Ribena . . .
Ribena is a popular blackcurrant juice drink.
| Christmas Carollers: (Singing) God rest ye merry gentlemen let nothing you dismay . . .
This is the second Christmas tune to be sung by carollers in this episode, and this one is 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen', heard here.
| Goody: That is a great idea because Noel Edmonds is the spirit of Christmas, isn't he?
Noel Edmonds, seen here, is a long-time and prolific television presenter in the UK.
| Grim: I reckon Scrooge got it right with his bag of humbugs.
Ebenezer Scrooge is the protagonist in Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The character was fond of the exclamation, 'Bah Humbug!', which Grim erroneously refers to. Perhaps Grim was thinking of the striped mint candy, 'humbug', seen here.
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