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1* The introduction of Sister Monica Joan is somewhat amusing, despite the character's senility.
2* While discussing a character's history of kissing (or lack thereof) in 2x04:[[note]]Ten times funnier in hindsight, given that the nun in question later leaves the convent to marry the local GP!![[/note]]
3-->'''Trixie''': But to have lived her life without so much as a kiss!
4-->'''Sister Bernadette''': You're speaking to a nun, Trixie.
5* How Sister Evangelina takes care of the [[TwiceShy unspoken feelings]] between Chummy and Peter:
6-->'''Sister Evangelina''': Constable Noakes, would you like to take Nurse Browne to the pictures on Saturday?
7-->'''Peter''': ...yes. Yes, I would.
8-->'''Sister Evangelina''': Nurse Browne, would you like to go?
9-->'''Chummy''': ...yes, very much.
10-->'''Sister Evangelina''': Excellent. I'm so pleased for you both. Now I can enjoy my cake.
11** And earlier in the same episode (quoted from memory):
12--->'''Sister Evangelina''': It's times like this that make me very glad I took vows.
13** Almost anytime Sister Evangelina uses her blunt personality to take care of a situation.
14* When Trixie goes to deliver a baby, the patient's sister doesn't approve of her modern medical techniques and keeps trying to interfere. When the sister demands to know who sent for a midwife, Trixie cheerfully says "No one. We operate purely on telepathy!"
15* Any time Sister Julienne thinks someone is an idiot, but can't say so. God bless Jenny Agutter!
16* Sister Evangelina being volunteered for crowd control during a free medical examination hosting, and by Sister Monica Joan no less! Sister Monica Joan makes her decision on the basis that Sister Evangelina's voice is "reminiscent of a foghorn". (Which... is a rather apt description.)
17* Sister Evangelina getting CrazyCatLady Mrs. Jenkins to warm up to her... by farting loudly over and over again.
18** And earlier in the scene, when Mrs Jenkins decks her when she tries to take her pulse (after berating Jenny for being unable to do so):
19--->'''Sister Evangelina''': [''taking notes''] Pulse attempted. Patient demonstrated a strong right hook.
20* When Chummy comes back to Peter after [[spoiler: she'd been pressured by her mother to break off their engagement]], she proceeds to "turn herself in for criminal cowardice and robbing two people of something that would make them both very happy." She then tells Peter [[spoiler: "because underneath this raincoat, I am practically naked"]] and they start making out. Two scenes later, Chummy is talking on the phone to her mother, discussing her wedding plans.
21-->'''Chummy''': You may take me to Norman Hartnell [a famous fashion designer], where you can buy me a skirt suit. Preferably crimplene.
22-->'''Lady Browne''': [''through gritted teeth''] Will it be white?
23-->'''Chummy''': [''bashfully''] Sorry. [[VirginInAWhiteDress No longer entitled]].
24* In series 3, episode 4, the main plot revolves around an expectant patient with a Jewish immigrant mother, who has not left her home in 12 years. She is suffering from a medical condition that causes vertigo and trauma from living through the war. Sister Winifred tries to help her, but to no avail. After her granddaughter is born, she is finally able to bring herself to leave the apartment, and turns a heartwarming moment into a funny one when the first thing she does is scold her daughter (who is showing the baby off to the neighbors) that the baby is not warm enough and will catch pneumonia. It stands out as the only light moment in an otherwise depressing episode.
25* In the final episode of series 3, when a frantic Shelagh is trying desperately to find something for her choir to sing:
26-->'''Shelagh''': [[CigaretteOfAnxiety Puff, please!]]
27-->'''Patrick''': [''gives her a puff of his cigarette''] You know, you ''could'' always have one of your own.
28-->'''Shelagh''': No, because that would make me a smoker.
29* In the otherwise very heartwarming moment where Shelagh and Patrick go to pick up their adopted baby girl, the toddler in the next cot is standing up in the background taking a great interest in proceedings.
30* When Patrick and Shelagh are being particularly [[SickeninglySweethearts mushy]], Timothy, with his baby sister on his hip, only has this to say:
31-->'''Timothy''': And this, Angela, is them doing their "mushy stuff". You ''really'' need to get used to it.
32* June Dillen, a deaf mother-to-be, snarks to Trixie about her husband's sign language that "he wouldn't win any prizes, but he's okay," with an amused flair to her signs and a grin on her face. Trixie and the husband -- who notes that he started learning [[LoveAtFirstSight the moment he met June]] -- can only laugh.
33* The Turners' preparations for their camping trip in Series 5. It's funny enough seeing the normally unflappable Dr. Turner burst into the room saying "Shelagh, I can fit the tents ''or'' the children in the car, but ''not both''," but the sight of him in ''shorts'' is enough to make all the Nonnatus nurses burst into giggles.
34* Patsy describing a dessert as looking "Like Stonehenge, made out of penises."
35* In 05X07, Tom and Barbara get a little carried away in a moment of passion and are horrified to discover they've left a greasy patch on the wallpaper from Tom's Brylcream. Tom suggests they lie and say Barbara slipped while carrying the butter dish. Later, Barbara tries to deflect attention away from the stain...with hilarious results.
36-->'''Phyllis:''' Good grief! Where did that stain on the wallpaper come from?
37-->'''Barbara:''' What stain?
38-->'''Sister Mary Cynthia:''' Oh, dear, I hope it's not another patch of damp. Sister Julienne is worried the building is getting wet rot.
39-->'''Barbara:''' Oooh, perhaps it's just an optical illusion!
40* In her introductory episode, Valerie Dyer, a Poplar native, talks with the other nurses about seeing them work in the neighborhood as a child. She and her sisters used to watch them come on their bikes, and then hear later that a neighbor or relative had had a baby. Being young, they thought the [[DeliveryStork nurses brought the babies]] with them in their medical bags.
41* In 08X10, Fred starts having issues with his "waterworks," but is reluctant to see a doctor about it. Dr. Turner eventually finds out and confronts him, and Fred confesses he's scared because he looked up his symptoms in one of Sister Julienne's medical books.
42-->'''Dr. Turner:''' But she's a midwife, Fred.
43-->'''Fred:''' Well, it wasn't a particularly well-thumbed page.
44* A ''lot'' of Nancy and Matthew's OddFriendship.
45** From 11X02, Matthew has unwittingly become part of the Poplar scabies outbreak.
46--->'''Matthew:''' I feel like the Queen Mother after Buckingham Palace was bombed. Finally able to look the East End in the face.
47--->'''Nancy:''' You'll need to get yourself down to a cleansing station.
48--->'''Matthew:''' I was on my way to a private clinic, actually.
49--->'''Nancy:''' Do you get a better class of mite if you pay for it?
50--->'''Trixie:''' Nancy...
51--->'''Nancy:''' You know they have to paint every inch of your body? Every inch. ''(Matthew squirms uncomfortably, excuses himself)''
52** In 11X04, Nancy giving Matthew advice on dating Trixie, because he's hopeless at it.
53** In the 2022 Christmas Special, Matthew enlists Nancy's help in obtaining Trixie's ring size. She agrees, and they meet surreptitiously.
54--->'''Matthew:''' Any news?
55--->'''Nancy:''' Gah, I feel like I'm in the French Resistance. All I need is a beret and a belted Mac!
56--->'''Matthew:''' ''(gloriously baffled expression)''

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