Peep Show Quotes

[Mark is making a list of everything that Jez can consume.]

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Mark: Toilet paper, OK. Soap, OK. But not shower gel. And no razors. If you're poor, grow a beard. Tea Bags are allowed within limits.
Jez: What Limits?
Mark: No making a Pie out of tea or anything weird

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Mark: You ate your nest egg? You're meant to sit on your nest egg until it hatches, not eat it like some greedy, mad chicken.

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Jez: It's not that easy mark, there's just not that many jobs in the media. That's the reality.
Mark: Do something else. Get on your bike.
Jez: I can't believe you're making me get a job not in the media. You're such a bastard.

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Jez: (Mmm... Delicious Cumberland final straw, dripping in onion gravy.)

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Mark: (Ugh, speed dating. That was horrible. No one else seemed to mind. Maybe this is the future. Three minute date, three minute fuck, three minute marriage.)

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Mark: (I'm just another reject slowly slipping out of the gene pool to get hoovered up by the sex industry.)

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Mark: I've been thinking ... it's been great having you here. But you've done the south now - the London Eye, the Trocadero - so you probably want to be heading up north. [...] There's a Harvey Nichols in Leeds that everyone goes on about, as if it's the answer to something.
Saz: Please don't kick me out, Marco.
Mark: There's an ANZAC memorial in Huddersfield.

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Jez: So that's what it comes down to, is it? You don't want to bone me, so I'm out - it's that brutal. Have you seen the old man, down by the seaman's mission? Yes - not very fuckable, is he?

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Dobby: [sings] Jeff's doing a joke, Jeff's doing a joke, everybody quiet 'cos Jeff's doing a joke!
Jeff: Freak.

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Super Hans: It's a pisser though, innit - cancer. They should find a fucking cure.
Mark: I think they're trying
Super Hans: Yeah, sure they are. They should pull their fucking fingers out. It's important, Mark.

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Jez: Twenty thousand pounds. I'm going to be a millionaire!

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Super Hans: Wow, nice. Nice gun. Must be, what, a... war gun.

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Jez: You've got sarcasm. I've got a big gun.

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Mark: (It's Paddy Ashdown.It's Indiana Jones.It's Indiana Ashdown)

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'Mark: @ (Why doesn't Jeremy want You to be His Dad? I want You to be My Dad.I want to sit on Your knee right now)

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Jez: She's the one person for me, in the whole world.
Mark: Isn't it convenient that out of the approximately three billion adult women in the world, your one true love happens to live in the same block of flats as you instead of in a village in Mozambique?

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Mark: Why does everything have to be fun to be worthwhile? Crick and Watson have discovered the double helix. Did they do it on a skateboard? No? Well fuck off then, I'm not interested.

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Sophie: Obviously it would be really great if you were happy but it's not the most pressing thing.
Mark: No... no, of course not.

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Jez: Why do you have to bring worry and doubt into everything? You're like some kind of mad evangelist for anxiety!
Mark: (Lots to go around old son. I'm probably a few grams lighter now.)

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Sophie: When our child looks up at you, I want them to see a happy, contented role model - not some grey faced, dull eyed drone who's hated his job and his life for years.
Mark: (Must ring Dad).

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Mark: (Good old Jeremy's Mum. The more sophisticated end of the mum spectrum. The sort of mum you'd buy in John Lewis.)
Jez: Mummy, coffee, fucky hurry uppy.
Mark: (Whereas he's the sort of son you'd get free with Nuts magazine.)
Jez: Did you bring those CDs like I told you?
Jackie: Oh yes, they're in my handbag. Shall I fetch them?
Jez: Might be an idea. Oh, and guess what, you forgot to top-up my phone. Again.
Mark: Sorry, Jez, is there some reason why you're being so incredibly rude to your mum?
Jez Oh, right, stick up for mummy. You don't know her, Mark. You don't know her tricks. Anyway, what's it to you? Do you want to fuck my mum, is that it? Mum, Mark wants to fuck you.
Mark Shut up Jeremy.
Jez He definitely wants to fuck you, Mum.
Jackie Stop showing off to Mark, Jeremy.
Jez Me? I'm not the one dressed like a prossy.
Mark: Please, Jez! This level of conflict may be usual for you, but it's not healthy - I'm going to have a heart attack!
Jez: Oh, and I suppose your relationship with your mum is healthy, is it? Sitting in silence watching Taggart. Thirty years of mutual resentment eating away at you.
Mark: We like Taggart. Even the new ones.

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Mark: You really do have to get over this thing with your mum - you're not Hamlet. Stop being Hamlet.
Jez: Well, all right, I'll stop being Hamlet when you stop being ....
Mark: (He can't think of a Shakespearean character!)
Jez: ... a massive twat.
Mark: (Ha! He couldn't even think of Romeo! Romeo's easy!)

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Mark: (I would literally stab a baby to do it!)

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Mark: (This is a fantastic evening. I've become a military historian and Jeremy's future happiness rests in my hands...And I've got a tiramisu. This is fucking amazing!)

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Super Hans: Jez - can you tell me, yeah, as a mate, someone who knows me really well, is the bottom half of me on fire?

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Super Hans: Come on Mark, don't piss on my strawberrys.

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Jez: How was the rest of your evening with Peaches Stalin?

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Jez: It sounds like you've been raped, by a soldier, like in a Mike Leigh film.

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Jez: You, my friend, are a rape victim. [...] Do you have feelings of guilt and shame, self-loathing?
Mark: You know I do - don't load the question!

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