The Avengers (TV Series)

The Golden Eggs (1963)

Patrick Macnee: John Steed

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Quotes 

• Catherine Gale : Teeth?

  John Steed : Teeth? Oh. No, that's an old fallacy. Find a body, they say, doesn't matter what condition it's in, take it along to the dentist, and he'll identify it by it's teeth. Well, it's not so!

  Catherine Gale : Do sit down! As long as you're standing up, I'm terrified you're gonna shake this table.

  [Mrs. Gale is gluing a broken vase back together] 

  John Steed : In the first place teeth are not all that indestructible. In the second place, not everyone has got them. And in the third, most dentists wouldn't recognize their own teeth if you handed them to them on a *plate*. On a *plate*. Ha!

• Catherine Gale : Now what are you doing?

  John Steed : [Steed is cutting out two cowboy figures from back of a cornflakes box]  I often wondered if people really did cut these things out, harder than you might think, you know.

  Catherine Gale : They really do, but they usually wait until the packet is empty, first.

  John Steed : Ah well, these are for a friend of mine's kids! They got one of those cork pop-gun things, you know. Oh I got a present for you, you can take in the bath with you.

  [Steed hands Cathy a little plastic toy] 

  John Steed : . They're tired of shooting at cut-out lions and tigers, they want to shoot at cut-out people! Boom! Boom!

• Catherine Gale : Now what?

  John Steed : I think you should get back to Doctor Ashe. Under that pre-Raphaelite exterior, I think he's very impressed with you...