Trivia
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Trivia
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When Bernard is beating Manny with a stick outside the house, a woman pushing a pram looks on. This is the same woman who gave birth to a baby in the first episode, and whom Fran was supposed to act as birth-partner.
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When Manny and Bernard realise what they've done with the expensive wine, Bernard suggests in a brief moment of desperation that they burn down the house. Manny quickly responds by liberally splashing around the contents of a jerry can apparently readily available - why is there a huge container of petrol in the living room?
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The expensive wine is called: Le Vin du Rosier, which translates into The Wine of the Rose. It was made in 1985. The wine costs £7000.
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Quotes
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The Cleaner: (making his report to tape) Second degree unspecified soiling Zones B through K. North ceiling corner – cobweb containing several deceased arachnids …and beans.
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(Fran is at a restaurant with her date Ben) Fran: Tell me Ben... (lights up a cigarette) How many times a day do you talk to your mother? Ben: Oh God I don't know – a normal amount - about four or five times a day. Fran: Yeesss. (takes a deep breath) Ben, I've got something to tell you and it might come as a bit of a shock, but you are ga... (pauses) Question. What do the following people have in common? Elton John, Ian McKellen, Jean-Paul Gaultier? Ben: Well, they're all fabulous.
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Bernard: (Drunk) Look at the colors... all the colors... Well... Yellow. Manny: (Drunk also) This is like a farmyard of wine. Bernard: It's like looking into the eye of a... duck. Manny: And sucking all the fluids from it's beak.
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Bernard: HOW MUCH DID YOU SAY THE WINE COST!?!? Manny: Seven...thousand pounds. Bernard: Well, I've got Three pounds Fifty; how much have you got?
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Bernard: No one is willing to admit that wine doesn't actually have a taste. Manny: Of course you can't taste anything, you smoke eighty bajillion cigarettes a day. What's that you're eating? Bernard: Some sort of delicious biscuit. Manny: It's a coaster. Bernard: Is it? Are there any more?
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Bernard: (slurring) Old wine is good wine. Manny: (also slurring) Yes, but... expensive wine is good wine also. Bernard: Yes, but the older the wine is, the gooder it is. Manny: Ah, but by the same token, the more expensive the wine, the gooder it is also.
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Manny: I insist you come over right away! Ok, tomorrow. But first thing tomorrow! After lunch... right after lunch! Six o'clock. Fine.
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Bernard: Why are you stressed? Manny: Because I opened the fridge and there's shin bandages next to the cheese!
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Manny: (On the phone) The place is a mess! Look! (Manny points the phone at the room).
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Manny: You can't find anything! Right now, I'm eating scrambled egg, with a comb, from a shoe!
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Manny: You are a filth wizard. Friend only to the pig and the rat. Ugh. Look! (he opens a pizza box) Bernard: Pizza. I was going to warm it and eat it later. Everybody does that. That's normal. You are just looking for things to complain about. Manny: And what are these? Bernard: ...wasps.
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Notes
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When Freddy is showing Manny how to operate the heating system, they point to the same switch for 'On' and 'Off'. This is one of the more subtle gags in the show, but it's a good one if you know it's there.
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Allusions
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The Grapes of Wrath A book by John Steinbeck.
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Frankenstein In this episode, they set up an elaborate joke. The joke begins with Manny hurting his tooth on toffee, later he then hurts his leg and his back, giving him a limp and a hobble.
In the episode, Bernard is 'forced' to create a new wine from household ingredients. In this scene, with his wild hair and manic and eccentric look, Bernard becomes the Mad Scientist. With his ailments, Manny becomes Igor, assistant to the Mad Scientist in Frankenstein, a book by Mary Shelley.
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