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Scene Fourteen
Some Past Lives Of Lord Jools
[It is the main sales floor from "Are You Being Served?". Jools is Mrs Slocombe.
Inman and the bird from Eastenders are also there. A robot stands in the middle of
the floor.]
Inman So this robot is supposed to be replacing us all as the latest in shopkeeping
technology?
Bird I won't stand for it.
Inman You don't stand for much, if the rumours in menswear are anything to go by.
Jools Look what I've got. It's a machine that gives you an erection.
Bird What, like a porn mag?
Jools Better. You put it on your penis and it sort of sucks up the blood and gives you
the horn.
Bird But you haven't got a penis, Mrs Slocombe.
Jools [confused] Haven't I?
Bird No, you've got a pussy. A lovely, hairy pussy. [canned laughter]
Jools Pussy? [canned laughter]
Inman So technically, that could be used to give a dead man an erection.
[The scene changes fluidly again, with the quantum leap effect. Jools now sits in
the Queen Vic pub with Inman - a whoosh sound separates the scenes, but the
conversation is not stilted]
Jools Not really, because the blood would have congealed in a dead body.
[a nun has got the round in. She joins Inman and our Jools]
Inman But if you were really quick, I mean, if they'd only just died....
Jools Well, I suppose so.
[Inman picks up the device and runs off]
[The nun looks at Jools, belches like a foghorn, blows Jool's purple wig off, then
she gets up and walks off - as she walks through the pub doors, the Quantum Leap
body change happens again and Lord Jools is now the nun]
[Lord Jools walks up to a front door. It is answered by a Dalek wearing a pinny. The
purple wig flies back into the scene and lands on the Dalek.]
Dalek And where have you been? You left the toilet seat up. You know how I have trouble
with toilet seats. I had to blow it up again.
Jools [to the camera] Boh, why did I have to marry a Dalek?
[A caption with cheesy Ronnie Hazelhurst music - "Dalek And The Nun" - an
introduction sequence shows the story of their premarital romance. The Dalek talks
in a normal-ish voice unless it is in capitals]
Song He's a dalek, she's a nun,
She loves to lick, he's got no tongue,
His laser stick is set to stun,
It's Dalek & The Nun....
So sit down and don't be late,
Dalek Or I'll EXTERMINATE!
Jools So, what's for dinner?
Dalek I blew up a chicken in the kitchen. There's some left on the walls but our dog
had what went on the floor.
Jools We haven't got a dog.
Dalek Well, a dog ate it. You haven't said anything. Haven't you noticed?
Jools You've had your hair done. Very nice.
Dalek No, I blew up the lounge. I thought you'd be angry.
Jools Fine, fine.... I'm just going upstairs to lie down.
Dalek [giggling] I'll be up in a minute. I'll just slip into something a little more
comfortable. [her gun goes off, and blows up a vase] Oh, no! The priceless Ming
Vase! Durrr!
[Jools wakes up on a table in an operating theatre. Two doctors prod at him.]
Dr1 He's coming around.
Jools Where am I?
Dr1 You're in the Year 2046.
Jools Where's that?
Dr2 [Black Country accent] Dudley.
Dr1 Give him the tinned baby.
Dr2 Yes, he'll feel better after he's eaten a tinned baby.
Jools Eur.
Dr1 We all eat tinned babies in the year 2046. We make poor people have them so
doctors and architects can eat them. They're considered quite a delicacy.
[he licks his lips with a lizard tongue]
[A knock at the door - the atmosphere lightens and an audience of children
are revealed. Suddenly we're in Emu's Pink Windmill]
Dr2 There's somebody at the door!
Dr1 There's somebody at the door!
All There's somebody at the door!
[Grotbags bursts into the operating theatre - the children boo]
Grotbags Shaddup, you brats.
Doctors Grotbags!
This scene goes on... but you've read enough. You
may have noticed Dalek And The Nun on the other SitCom
page. Since writing that, I discovered a sketch on Spike Millligan's "The Best
of Q" video, featuring a Dalek who keeps blowing things up around the house, and
also Harry Hill's "Fruit Corner" features singing Daleks, which I had used in
a later episode. And that Victor Lewis Smith chap was at it as well. I clearly
underestimated the comedy appeal of Daleks.
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