The Good Life (TV Series)

Mutiny (1976)

Penelope Keith: Margo Leadbetter

Quotes 

• Boy in Play : Overture and learners, please. Overture and learners.

  Margo : [screaming]  Overture and beginners, you ghastly little child!

• Margo : [to Jerry]  Well, thank you very much, Jerry. Thank you very much.

• [Margo is playing Maria in the amateur dramatic society's performance of The Sound of Music, Jerry is helping her with her make-up] 

  Jerry : Margo! Sit still!

  Margo : I'm sorry, Jerry. It's these flowers they've given me. I mean, one does not pick dahlias and chrysanthemums in an alpine meadow.

• [Barbara points at the basket of flowers] 

  Barbara : Shouldn't they be edelweiss?

  Margo : [hysterically]  You see? Barbara's noticed! I told Miss Mountshaft she should have ordered the real thing from Moisy Stevens but no, "plastic will do." The whole thing is tat, tat, tat!

• Margo : The people who have moved in next door to you are charming.

  Tom : Yes?

  Margo : That's it, that is the good news.

  Barbara : But they only moved here yesterday. You were in there a bit quick.

  Margo : I was not in there a bit "quick*ly*". Adverb, Barbara.

• Margo : And I'm still desperately worried about Baron Von Trapp's lederhosen.

  Jerry : Why?

  Margo : Because they have not been dubbined properly, and every time he bends over they squeak!

  Jerry : Darling, that's *his* problem. You can't worry about everything.

  Margo : Oh, I know, but I do.

• Tom : Is this the stars' dressing room?

  Margo : Oh, Tom, Barbara. Do come in.

  Barbara : We couldn't afford a telegram, so we made you that.

  [gives her a home-made good luck card] 

  Margo : Oh, how kind.

• Tom : Oh, now, come on, Margo. We saw some of the cast on our way round here. They looked very, very good. Except for a kid with a runny nose.

  Margo : I detest that child. With his nose running on one side, and the Baron's lederhosen squeaking on the other, I shall go to pieces. I know I shall.

• Margo : So much for James and Maggie Preston. At least we won't have to listen to any more of those interminable stories about her womb.

• Margo : [preparing to go on stage for a performance of The Sound of Music]  Don't trip over the mountains. Don't trip over the mountains...

• Barbara : What is it about this particular scene that bothers you?

  Margo : It's Miss Mountshaft's nephew. He's playing one of Baron Von Trapp's children.

  Barbara : So...

  Margo : His nose runs, Barbara. And whenever he's onstage there's nowhere else I can look.