- Dolly Finkel: She ate all the chopped liver at my brother's wedding!
- Yetta Feldman: It was wartime!
- Dolly Finkel: You could have waited until they finished the ceremony!
- Tammy Rokeby: ...and guess who I found in my bedroom? Sweeny Todd snogging squad.
- Sally Rokeby: What?
- Tammy Rokeby: [lifts up video case of 'dirty film'] Oh, you're such a bloody hypocrite! You're at it, the Bill's at it, the whole of flaming Wilson's at it and I can't even have a nice Jewish Doctor up to my bedroom to study.
- Peter Rokeby: [posing in front of the mirror] Before writing the Great Mancunian Novel, Peter Rokeby was an advertising copywriter, he is married with children and lives in a house... somewhere off the North circular.
- [alters pose]
- Peter Rokeby: Before writing the Great Mancunian Novel Peter Rokeby was a lumberjack, an Olympic raftsman and a Freedom fighter in Angola...
- [realises Sally has walked in]
- Peter Rokeby: I'm just practicing the book jacket.
- Sally Rokeby: Perhaps you should try writing the book.
- Peter Rokeby: Guess who's coming Saturday? Grandma Vi.
- David Rokeby: Bloody hell, that's all I need!
- Yetta Feldman: David! You love Grandma Vi!
- David Rokeby: Can she wrestle? Give me strength.
- Tammy Rokeby: Oh, isn't it nice when someone else round here goes through a stage!
- Peter Rokeby: Well, there's Sally my wife, Tammy, David, Daisy and Mrs. Feldman.
- Elsbeth: Mrs. Feldman?
- Peter Rokeby: She's our pet.
- Elsbeth: Ah.
- Peter Rokeby: Parrot. Call me kind-hearted but we've adopted a Jewish parrot - born talking-trick is to get it to stop.
- Yetta Feldman: Vi. I'm sorry. I've been a pathetic, bitter, spiteful old woman.
- Vi Rokeby: Well...
- Sally Rokeby: You! Mum, don't listen to here! You're a pathetic bitter old woman!