The Bill (TV Series)

The Sweet Smell of Failure (1985)

Tony Scannell: Det. Sgt. Roach

Quotes 

• [Dashwood is typing up a report for Roach] 

  Det. Sgt. Roach : That's not how you spell 'accommodation', is it?

  [Roach tries to write it himself] 

  Det. Sgt. Roach : That doesn't look right does it? Come on, you went to bloody grammar school. Let's see you spell it without a dictionary.

  [Dashwood writes the word 'lodgings' on a notepad] 

  Det. Sgt. Roach : [Roach picks up the notepad and looks at it]  Lodgings. I suppose you think that's funny.

• [Cryer walks furiously out of Galloway's office after an argument and drops pieces of paper on the floor without picking them up] 

  Det. Sgt. Roach : Hey! What the bloody hell do you think you're doing?

  [Once more Cryer ignores Roach] 

  Det. Sgt. Roach : Well say bloody sorry or something, ya berk!

  [Roach picks up the pieces of the paper off the floor just as Galloway comes out of his office] 

  Det. Sgt. Roach : What the hell was all that about, guv?

  Det. Insp. Galloway : [Galloway licks his finger and pretends to draw a number 1]  Superstars: 1, Woodentops: Nil.

  [Galloway, Roach and Dashwood chuckle in amusement]