Line #25 Funny/LifeOnMars2006


1	* "Is it Gene Hunt?" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHP3Jih_rfA "Is he kicking in a nonce?"]] A scene that ends with Sam, now awake, telling Gene to "stay out of ''WesternAnimation/CamberwickGreen''!"
2	** The same scene, as Annie explains why they called Sam in:
3	-->'''Annie:''' We were hoping you could be a voice of reason...\
4	'''Sam Tyler:''' ''[Feverishly intense]'' I came out of a musical box.\
5	'''Annie:'''... a stabilizing influence...
6	* Chris's date in the third episode of second season. First Ray suggests he gets her drunk, so Chris got drunk and...threw up all over her. It loses something in description but it's hilarious on screen.
7	* This exchange:
8	-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4QYZoJHnBg "The Law! The Law! Get down, ya divs!"]]
9	--> "... WE ''ARE'' THE LAW, you bloody clowns! God help us!"
10	** In the same episode: [[RunningGag Mrs]] [[NoodleIncident Luckhurst]]. Especially if you follow a certain line of thought on what, exactly, her party trick ''was''...
11	* "You are surrounded by armed ''bastards!''"
12	* Sam [[YouDoNotHaveToSayAnything reading suspects their rights]] and being told, by fellow-coppers and villains alike: "That's not how it goes!"
13	* The opening scene from 1.02, wherein Sam, Gene, and Chris are chasing a suspect out of a public swimming pool while wearing ''Speedos''. Even more hilarious are Chris's water-wings and Sam getting whacked by the old woman with the bag, even though he's the one who's stopped to help her pick up her shopping that's been knocked out of her hands by the others as they ran past.
14	** In the same episode, Sam reassures a scared witness being asked to pick somebody out of a lineup that they won't be able to touch him or even see him, because he'll be behind special glass. GilliganCut to the witness just standing in the canteen within arm's reach of a row of [[DeathGlare Death Glaring]] thugs. Afterwards, Gene turns to Sam and says, ''"'Special glass'?"'', and somehow it sounds like the stupidest thing in the world, even to an audience that's used to the concept of two-way mirrors in police stations.
15	** Also from the same episode, Sam asks the witness to remember the registration number of the car that he saw:
16	--->'''Witness:''' E... [''pause''] I dunno.
17	--->'''Gene:''' Sorry, was that you saying the letter E and then you don't know the rest, or was that you saying: [''exaggerated Manchester accent''] "EE, I DUNNO!"?
18	** Still with that epsiode ... Sam, Gene, and the witness are staking out a neighbourhood in an ''ice cream truck'' so the witness can identify the suspect without being seen. There's just something blackly hilarious about a bunch of little girls skipping up to the truck to buy ice cream, the Gene Genie giving them the British equivalent of [[FlippingTheBird the finger]], while eating an ice cream cone himself, and the girls running off crying. What seals it is the combined reaction to the whole exchange from Sam and the witness: the witness (who is already terrified of Gene) stares at him with pure horror while Sam just glares at him before [[{{Facepalm}} facepalming]] like he's already told Gene not to do this.
19	* "I met a bird. Medical bird." "Yeah, they're called nurses."
20	* Gene Hunt's [[PocketProtector Pocket Protectors]] in 01-06. "What are the chances of that?" "Pretty good actually."
21	* The police find a stash of [[ParallelPornTitles Western-themed pornos]] in 1.08; what follows is two minutes of comedy gold as Gene Hunt expresses his disgust at the pollution of the Western genre by titles like ''Once Upon a Time in Her Vest'' and ''For a Few Donnas More'', following which Sam calls for volunteers to go over the evidence with a fine-toothed comb, whereupon [[AllMenArePerverts the detectives to a man all raise their hands]].
22	* The scene in 2.4 where Chris has a bit of an accident in a cramped "surveillance" van.
23	--> '''Gene:''' What have you been eating, Pedigree Chum?!
24	* "Anything happens to this motor, I'll come 'round your houses and stamp on all your toys. Got it? Good kids."
25	* In 1.3, Sam tries to explain to Gene that the street they're parked on is one-way. Gene reverses and smashes through a pile of boxes, while holding a roll in his mouth, to the tune of "[[Music/{{Sweet}} Ballroom Blitz]]".
26	* Sam Tyler convinces a dubious Gene Hunt to use a bug to gather information on the bad guys, saying "One day this stuff will bring down UsefulNotes/RichardNixon." Gene is sitting in the surveillance van when he [[BrickJoke suddenly says]], "Wouldn't they notice a great big van parked outside the White House?"
27	* This bit in 1.8
28	-->'''Gene:''' I think you have forgotten who you are talking to.\
29	'''Sam''' An overweight, over-the-hill, nicotine-stained, borderline-alcoholic homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealthy obsession with male bonding.\
30	'''Gene:''' You make that sound like a ''bad'' thing!
31	* "A television? In a '''''pub'''''?!"
32	* Gene has to do a ClearMyName after a crooked fight promoter is murdered with his gun. Sam, after some wavering, is on his side. But Gene can't go back to the station, much less break into his office while another, hostile detective is the acting DCI. But there's a Tufty Squirrel costume Annie's been using in a children's safety class...
33	* In 2.1 when Sam tells Gene they're going out on a raid without enough facts and that it may be a setup:
34	-->'''Gene:''' You know, if I was as worried as you, I'd never fart for fear of shitting myself!
35	* Gene has just about had enough of Sam and unleashes one of the most epic insults heard on television:
36	-->'''Gene:''' You great, soft, sissy, girly, Nancy, French, bender, [[MurderArsonAndJaywalking Man United supporting]] POOF!!
37	* In 1.4, Sam meets Music/MarcBolan and advises him to "drive carefully" [[note]] while Bolan died in a car crash in 1977, he wasn't driving at the time[[/note]].

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