The Thin Blue Line (TV Series)

The Queen's Birthday Present (1995)

Rowan Atkinson: Inspector Raymond Fowler

Quotes 

• Inspector Raymond Fowler : Never forget that in the grand order of life, there are but two forces, those of order & those of chaos, and between them lies us, the thin blue line.

  P.C. Kevin Goody : So that's three forces then.

  Inspector Raymond Fowler : Two forces Constable Goody, as I've explained. The forces of order & chaos.

  P.C. Kevin Goody : And us in the middle, the police force.

• P.C. Kevin Goody : I don't want to buy the queen a present sir. She's an anti-christ.

  Inspector Raymond Fowler : I beg your pardon?

  P.C. Kevin Goody : Oh no, I mean anachist.

  [pauses] 

  P.C. Kevin Goody : Oh no no, what's that word for something that's out of date & doesn't matter anymore?

  W.P.C. Maggie Habib : I think you mean an anachronisim.

  P.C. Kevin Goody : Yes that's right, the queen's an anachronism.

  P.C. Frank Gladstone : Well I thought that was someone who was scared of spiders.

  Inspector Raymond Fowler : No, no that's an arachraphobic.

  P.C. Frank Gladstone : I thought that was someone who was scared of wide open spaces.

  W.P.C. Maggie Habib : No that's agoraphobics. They can't handle going outside. Arachraphobes hate spiders.