- [Nora has caught Wally trying to go out, and orders him back inside]
- Wally Batty: Marriage is so unequal.
- Nora Batty: How do you make that out?
- Wally Batty: Because you're only married to me, but look how much I'm married to.
- Compo: Why is he tidying me up?
- Norman Clegg: It's nothing personal. It's only that he thinks you look scruffy, and he's ashamed of you.
- Compo: I just wondered.