Waiting for God (TV Series)

A Trip to Brighton (1990)

Graham Crowden: Tom

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• [last lines] 

  Diana : You did quite well in there... for a fossilized old fruit loop. You should hang out in the real world more often.

  Tom : You think so?

  Diana : Why not? You could be a sort of late developer. Sort of Grandma - or Grandpa Moses.

  Tom : You're right. Absolutely right. And it's never too late to start. From now on I'm going to be brilliant, and famous in the real world. No more fantasies.

  Diana : Jolly good.

  Tom : I'll get on to Jimmy Stewart right away, and we'll really turn the place upside down. Come Christmas I should at least be front runner for president.

  [steps out onto patio] 

  Tom : My fellow Americans, think not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country!

  Diana : Dear God, if you want to prove to me that you really do exist, blow him up.

  Tom : [shouting]  I have a dream! I have a dream!

• Tom : Geoffrey, how lovely to see you. I thought you were coming this morning.

  Geoffrey : We did, dad - you were out.

  Tom : Oh, of course - Washington. So sorry!

• Diana : There is something essentially English about seaside candy floss. Its quite revolting. Goes with the grey sea and the fried food, and the appalling hopelessness of all those dead people dragging their lumpen bodies up and down waiting for the blessed relief of autumn, where they can let their brains fur over and their limbs atrophy while they crawl back into their holes and spend their winter breaking wind in front of the telly.

  Tom : Oh bloody hell...

• Tom : If you think life is one long bath in acid, why don't you pull the plug?

  Diana : Suicide?

  Tom : Mercy killing, in your case.

  Diana : No. Too many people to get even with, and the best way to do that is outlive them.

• Tom : We've been to Brighton!

  Marion : I knew it. Brighton! Seaside hotels, Mr and Mrs Smith. Filth!

  Geoffrey : They've only been a few hours.

  Marion : Oh God, not even a hotel. How could you!

• Diana : C'mon. We are going in search of some real traffic and real people.

  Tom : Where?

  Diana : Brighton.

  Tom : Brighton? Does Brighton really exist beyond the confines of naughty postcards?

  Diana : Possibly not, but we'll go and have a look. We'll take the Porsche. I'll drive and you can run up a huge bill on my niece's car-phone.

  Tom : Brighton! Porsche. Car-phone. Goodness.

  [pause] 

  Tom : I'm going to be a *guppie*!