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** Henry Crun: "You can't get the wood, you know."
** Also "Yuckabakakakoo", "Needle-nardle-noo", and of course "Ying Tong Iddle I Po", which was the basis for their hit record "The Ying Tong Song".
* ''[[ITMAIt's That Man Again]]'' has been described as "consisting entirely of [[Catch Phrase|Catch Phrases]]. And no actual jokes." The one remembered today is Mrs Mopp, the charlady's "Can I do you now, sir?"
** Others included the perpetually inebriated Colonel Chinstrap's "I don't mind if I do" in reply to any remark which sounded the least bit like one homophone or another for the offer of a drink ("Is this the first-class refreshment room?" "A first glass of refreshing rum? I don't mind if I do!"), the Middle Eastern postcard seller Ali Oop's departing "I go...I come back", the overweight character Atlas' "What, me? In my state of 'ealth?!" and the perpetually glum Mona Lott's ironic "It's being so cheerful as keeps me going", among many, many others.
** This was parodied in a 1970s ''[[The Burkiss Way]]'' sketch, followed by a phone call from a listener complaining about the parody because ''ITMA'' was the one thing that gave his troops the morale to carry on fighting during the war. No prizes for guessing that the caller is {{spoiler|[[Adolf Hitler]]}}.