Are You Being Served? (TV Series)

Big Brother (1974)

Nicholas Smith: Mr. Rumbold

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Quotes 

• Mr. Humphries : [hangs up phone]  Mr. Lucas?

  Mr. Lucas : What's up?

  Mr. Humphries : You're wanted in the office.

  Mr. Lucas : What for?

  Mr. Humphries : Someone has seen you smoking. And as your senior here, I should have told you to put it out.

  Mr. Rumbold : [watching in his office on surveillance camera]  Quite right, Humphries! Good man.

  Mr. Humphries : You never know when old jug-ears is snooping round.

• Mr. Rumbold : [talking about shoplifting in the store]  Only this morning, Mrs. Slocombe informed me that she'd had a skirt lifted.

  Mr. Humphries : Some people have all the luck.

  Mr. Rumbold : And I seem to remember Miss Brahms lost something last week.

  Mr. Lucas : It wasn't me.

  Mr. Humphries : Do you know, only the other day, a customer reached across the counter and put his hands in my Fair Isle drawers. He said he was going to pay.

  Mr. Rumbold : Yes, well, I've got a man to handle that sort of thing.

  Mr. Humphries : Oh, nice.

• Mr. Rumbold : [Watching the CCTV from his office]  Mrs. Slocombe's come back at last! Make a note, make a note! Four visits to the powder room!

  The secretary : [Wearily]  Yes, sir...

  Mr. Rumbold : Grainger's eating a pie, now - a PORK pie!

  The secretary : [Writing it down]  Pork Pie...

  Mr. Rumbold : It's amazing what you can see with this thing!

  The secretary : Mmm. About the only thing you haven't spotted so far is a shoplifter!

• Mr. Rumbold : Let's see what's going on.

  [Turns on the CCTV for the first time, only to catch Miss Brahms just finishing the act of pulling up her tights] 

  Mr. Mash : [laughs]  Hey, we just missed THEM going on, didn't we?

• Mr. Rumbold : What you do outside here is no concern of mine. I just don't want to see you smoking on the Floor!

  Mr. Lucas : Oh, don't worry, you won't see me again, sir. Which part of the floor can't you see, from up here?