A time when advertising was good, anyone else remember the marvellous Maureen in this?

@dwreckkellyfant “You got an ‘ology” is our favourite family joke.

Oh I loved that one

Remember Agony?

@Fox_Claire ‘Agony’ is currently being shown on RewindTV - and it’s every bit as good now as it was on those Sunday nights in 1979. Superb.

@HeadWarriorTWM @Fox_Claire Thanks for this!

@HeadWarriorTWM @Fox_Claire Gone through schedule & can’t find it on😢

@HeadWarriorTWM @Fox_Claire I think it ended last Friday when Jane finally dumped Lawrence - it’s been screened the last three weeks or so. I’m hoping they might now show “Agony Again” but I can’t see it in the listings. I think it’s on YouTube also, however.

@HarknessMambo @Fox_Claire It's on YouTube.

Always a great character actress. Yes, I still use the word actress. 😉

@RosieKayK2CO I still quote this. My son has no idea where it came from

Says a lot about this ad that I remember the punchline 'an ology!'

My daughter is doing her GCSEs. Hoping she gets an ology.

My all-time favourite & most memorable advert. Nice one Maureen Lipman 👏👏. I stand with Maureen Lipman against the vile antisemitism she is being subjected to. @petercardwell @TalkTV

Better, more engaging, emotive, character driven writing in a 50 second TV ad than a whole season of Doctor Who today.

@poemanyone Loved all her adverts. Especially the one where she had a full fridge and her son rings to say he is going to visit . “I wish I’d have known you were coming I’d have got something in!” Hilarious.

@sarah_owl3 My all time favourite advert.

@sarah_owl3 Stone cold classic.

@Kat_Bee_123 Most ads these days are those awful globalist one-size-fits-all, characterless car/toothpaste/cleaning product types. Fortunately, we don't have TV Licence television any more, so we avoid most of it. Thank fuck

Of course ❤️ And now she’s been vilified just because of her religion 😢

When Jewish tropes were just humour. Happy Days

Yes ! I still say to my kids “you got an ology” they have no idea what I’m talking about .

@CaigerRob Some fantastic ads in that era always used to look forward to the Guinness ads

@fharris2011 Yes! You get an ology, you're a scientist.

From Today's Daily Telegraph. I wish I was making this up.

@dwreckkellyfant That advert was marvellous!

So you've got all the colours in all the sizes. Not exactly what you'd call all the rage then.

@LadyNorvician I have an 'ology in Maureen Lipman's books. If you're not familiar, do yourself a favour. She's as brilliant a writer as she is an actor. ❤️

@Fox_Claire I can still hear my children laughing when I hear Beattie’s “an ology?!”

@GlasgowAlbum Also an absolute scene stealer in Smiley’s People - which, given the standard of the acting there, is saying something.

@sarah_owl3 She was fab in these

@RosieKayK2CO Advertising now seems to be created by over-hyped toddlers trying to please everyone...N failing to sell the PRODUCT...😲🤪👍🌹

I remember her in the film Educating Rita.

Wouldn't you simply die without Marler

The irony of this, of course Barry, is that those who are trying to cancel her, likely are the very ones who don't even have a school 'ology' between them, let alone an actual one! I think there's barely a GCSE in any of their pockets!

An ology? 🤣

Here’s some of them (I hope).

On TV the other day I saw an old sitcom she was in from the 80's where she played a newspaper agony Aunt, I didn't remember that.

Agony. Brilliant.

Since this aired, it’s been the standard question to ask during exam results week “did you get an ology?” I suppose you have to be of a certain age to know 😬

@angelalevin1 That stands up there with some of the best scenes in British comedy! 🎭

Ology!

You got an ology ... you're a scientist ....

"You got an 'ology? ..." is a joke that runs deep in our family 🤭🤣

I want to go back x