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  • The scene that went viral when the series premiered, of Tony talking to a child at the local school as he walks past:
    Robbie: Paedo!
    Tony: What?
    Robbie: Paedo!
    Tony: I’m not a paedo and if I was, you’d be safe, you tubby little ginger cunt.
  • “Hardly scarred for life. She’s 93. If she lives to 100, she’s only been scarred for 7% of her life.”
  • This exchange:
    Lenny: I think he’s quite handsome. I’d love to look like Kenneth Branagh.
    Tony: Of course you would, because you look like fucking Shrek.
  • When Tony first meets Roxy the sex worker, she says that she'll "do anything for 50 quid". So Tony takes her home and pays her... to do his dishes.
  • Tony's discussion about God with Kath. The hilariously befuddled way that she tries to respond to his arguments against God existing are priceless.
  • Everything involving James, the fat kid who can play two recorders with his nose and aspires to be a singer and dancer, becomes doubly hilarious with the revelation that the character was based on James Corden.
  • Tony takes his nephew George to a local café; he tries to order the same meal as George, only to be refused on the grounds that it's from the children's menu. So he orders two of the meal for George, and quickly scoffs one down while being watched by the waitress and the cook. It's the hilarious way he just eats the whole thing in one mouthful, while looking them dead in the eye, that sells it.
  • When Tony, Lenny and Sandy finally agree to interview Loony Fan Brian at his home, Tony has had enough, and decides to leave Sandy to do the interview... but not before stressing to Lenny:
    Tony: Stay here. Do not leave her alone with him.
  • The hilariously disastrous Tambury Players Revue. Just... all of it.
  • Pretty much all of Tony and Lenny's interview subjects are comedy gold:
    • The couple who claim that their baby looks exactly like Hitler. It's just a regular baby that they've drawn a mustache on, and dressed in a uniform.
    • The overweight woman who fell on a garden spike, and claims that the doctor told her that her fat is what saved her life, by closing around the spike in such a way as to prevent bleeding. As Tony points out, however, if she had been thinner, she would have missed the spike entirely.
    • The woman who makes pudding from her own breast milk, including Tony retching at Lenny slurping the pudding down. The capper is what she says when he asks her to change the subject:
    So, for the bread, I use my own vaginal yeast.
    • The old lady celebrating her 100th birthday. Contrary to expectations, she's anything but a lovely interview subject, describing living so long as pain, calling her fellow nursing home residents "cunts", and flipping the bird when she gets her picture taken with the certificate sent to her by the Queen.
    • There's also the old guy who spent a year putting his mail in a box designed for dog turd disposal because he confused it for a mail box. Despite the smell and the giant letters saying "Dog Waste" on the front of it.

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