Are You Being Served? (TV Series)

The Father Christmas Affair (1976)

Mollie Sugden: Mrs. Slocombe

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• Mrs. Betty Slocombe : [a faulty Father Christmas mechanical display has just opened his arms, revealing that he's naked underneath]  I wonder what that costs?

  Mr. James : Why, do you wanna buy one?

• Mr. Cuthbert Rumbold : [Mrs. Slocombe is dressed as Father Christmas]  What are you playing at, Mrs. Slocombe?

  Mrs. Betty Slocombe : I'm not playing at nothing! Only I would ask you to remember that Parliament has passed the Sexual Relations Act, which states that women are just as good at it as men! And, what's more, they should be paid the same for doing it!

  Captain Stephen Peacock : What exactly are you suggesting, Mrs. Slocombe?

  Mrs. Betty Slocombe : That I should be allowed to have a go at Father Christmas.

• Mrs. Betty Slocombe : If I'm not home on the stroke of seven, my pussy starts clawing at my busy lizzy.