Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series)

Inventor of the Forty Foot Ferret (1973)

Bill Owen: Compo

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Blamire : It's an open question, life. Anything's possible. I mean, what do we really know about anything?

  Clegg : Maybe we're already dead.

  Compo : Then wha'?

  Clegg : Maybe we had to die to get here, from some other place.

  Compo : Ah, give us a fag afore I get headache.

  Blamire : So this is Heaven then. Or the other place.

  Clegg : Well, it can't be the other place.

  Blamire : Why not?

  Clegg : In Yorkshire? Be further south, wouldn't it?

• Compo : Ah, there were that time during the war with Hilda Mason and them three Yanks. Everybody knew it were rape. But she were never prosecuted.

• Blamire : [about Compo]  No wonder he's an atheist. If cleanliness were next to Godliness, there's nowhere else he can go. Come on, we'll take a walk up the hill, and if he won't admit to feeling a sense of wonder in church, we'll see how he feels when faced with the wonders of nature.

  Compo : Wonders of nature! One cow-cake after another.

• Compo : I'll say this much for thee, Cyril, tha's a lovely talker.

  Blamire : Have less of the Cyril. Try 'Mr Blamire' while doffing your tatty cap.

• [first lines] 

  Blamire : It'll not hurt ya.

  Compo : I just don't want to go into a church, that's all.

  Blamire : It's just an experiment. I'm going to prove to him that he does believe whether he believes it or not.

  Compo : I had enough experiments when they had me in hospital.

  Clegg : What were you in for?

  Compo : Two weeks.

  Clegg : Ooh, very nasty; two weeks!