The Thick of It (TV Series)

The Rise of the Nutters (2007)

Olivia Poulet: Emma Messinger

Quotes 

• Oliver Reeder : I'm extremely impressed. I'm highly impressed that you're going to see the leader of your party.

  Emma Messinger : You should be impressed.

  Oliver Reeder : Although, ultimately, the leader of your party is just a man, isn't he really? He's just a guy.

  Emma Messinger : That's a good point, actually, because yours, on the other hand...

  Oliver Reeder : No, no, mine is... the leader of the country, also. What I'm just saying if we were playing Top Trumps, which we kind of are...

  Emma Messinger : We absolutely are!

  Oliver Reeder : I win!

• Phil Smith : [Emma comes back from the meeting with her party leader]  Had fun there?

  Emma Messinger : Yeah, useful.

  Phil Smith : Playing with the big boys?

  Emma Messinger : Yeah, and now I'm back with the little boys, ah?

  Phil Smith : No.

• Emma Messinger : [arguing about Emma stealing Ollie's coalface idea and their relationship]  Christ, Ollie, if it'd been such a fucking disaster, why didn't you break up with me sooner?

  Oliver Reeder : Well, if it'd been up to me, I would have broken up with you sooner!

  Emma Messinger : If it'd been up to you... This is Malcolm, isn't it? Malcolm has been pimping you out!

• Peter Mannion : How is my blog? My own personal blog, personally written by me?

  [all reading the blog] 

  Phil Smith : There we go. Yesterday you liked the leader's speach, it was bold, corageous and sent up the right signals. And you had fruit for lunch.

  Peter Mannion : Oh, I write very well. What's the feedback like? Let's see that.

  Phil Smith : Open this page here. Here we go.

  Peter Mannion : [reading]  "I don't trust you, you Cypriot crook". Cypriot? This is the shit room! You've opened the shit room door. "How're the maintenance payment going on, you bastard?" Christ, that was 12 years ago!

  Phil Smith : I haven't seen that one...

  Peter Mannion : [reading]  "Adulterous Nazi!"

  Phil Smith : Or that one.

  Emma Messinger : That's actually, I think, the same one.

  Peter Mannion : This is the trouble with the public, they're fucking horrible!

  Emma Messinger : Peter, you can't say the public are fucking horrible.

  Peter Mannion : Yes I can, I've met them.

  [reading] 

  Peter Mannion : "You've always got such a pained expression. Do you take it up the chutney?" Really? I mean, for God's sake...

  Emma Messinger : The chutney?

  Peter Mannion : It's up the arse.

• Phil Smith : [complaining about Ollie being in their flat]  Why the fuck do you keep inviting him round here?

  Emma Messinger : Why, are you a bit jealous?

  Phil Smith : What, of the man from the Mister Muscle adverts? I just think it's just unreasonable that I have to watch what I say in my own flat! You could at least give me warning when he's coming round or something.

  Emma Messinger : I'll tell you what, we can put a sex-grid on the fridge, so that you can have dates and stuff. I'll put an A-4 piece of paper for me up and then you could have a half a post-it note. You could share with Affers, maybe.

  Phil Smith : Yeah, I'll have to write very small, though. I've slept with 3 women in...

  Oliver Reeder : Your life?

  Phil Smith : Yes.