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Nan: Dead Mouse
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Jamie arrives to find Nan stranded on a chair, convinced the mouse in her flat mocks her, throws parties on her lino and has been raiding her crackers. She bullies him into the kitchen to sort it out, but when he comes back having killed it she turns on him as a murderer, insisting she only wanted it gently moved on and mourning the little companion who used to watch Countdown with her. Once he has apologised, she gets her own back by shrieking about a rat, sending Jamie leaping onto the sofa while she cackles.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 2
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
What, he's using my address now?
I only wanted you to shoo it gently on its way.
Look, there's a rat!
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.

Gordon Anderson
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Series 3 episode listings call this instalment "Old Woman - Mouse"; the Nan sketches were listed under Old Woman in series 2 and 3.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:06
Joanie Taylor
Is that you, darling?
- 00:07
Jamie
Right, Nan.
- 00:08
Joanie Taylor
Oh, thank God you're here. I'm frightened out of my life.
- 00:11
Jamie
Well, it's only a mouse, Nan.
- 00:13
Joanie Taylor
Little bastard's been getting me out of here.
- 00:16
Jamie
Come on, Nan, get down.
- 00:17
Joanie Taylor
I've been stood up here since seven o'clock this morning.
- 00:22
Jamie
Are you sure you've seen a mouse, Nan?
- 00:25
Joanie Taylor
Course I'm sure. It's been up my leg twice. He's torn me tights to pieces.
- 00:31
Jamie
Well, look, it's all right now, I'm here.
- 00:32
Joanie Taylor
And the attitude of him. Oh, it's unbelievable. Unbelievable. As soon as I get into bed at night, he stands outside my door and laughs at me.
- 00:42
Jamie
No, he's not laughing at you.
- 00:44
Joanie Taylor
Not much, he ain't. He gets all his little mousy mates round and they come up here and they slide about on my lino till morning. They think it's a fucking country club.
- 01:01
Joanie Taylor ?
Elliot!
- 01:02
Jamie ?
Where?
- 01:02
Joanie Taylor ?
In Here it is!
- 01:07
Jamie ?
I can't see it.
- 01:09
Joanie Taylor ?
Here it is!
- 01:10
Jamie ?
Oh, man.
- 01:12
Joanie Taylor
Oh, I bet it's gone in me kitchen, you greedy little git. He's already gnawed through a box of Ritz. Now, don't get me wrong, they are very moorish, but you ain't got to eat them up.
- 01:24
Jamie
Have you put anything down for it?
- 01:26
Joanie Taylor
Yeah, I put a little mattress down by the sky. What's the matter with ya? I mean poison. There's a bucketload of it in there, but he churns his nose up at it. He ain't got any room, see, cos he's stuffed his mouthy guts full of crackers.
- 01:46
Joanie Taylor
Oh, there he is!
- 01:49
Jamie
No, it's all right, Nan, it's just a post.
- 01:51
Joanie Taylor
What, he's using my address now? Getting You'll be getting me to go and cash his mousy gyno next? What a fucking wimp! Fucking
- 02:12
Joanie Taylor
Look there Look, there he is.
- 02:15
Jamie
Oh, where?
- 02:16
Joanie Taylor
Next to the microwave. He's eyeing up me mimp Viscounts the bastard. Now, get in there, son, and sort him out.
- 02:24
Jamie ?
I can't use this.
- 02:26
Joanie Taylor
He's been terrorising me for a fortnight. Now, you get in there quick enough if Stephen Gately asked ya. Go on, son, get in there before he tears the place apart.
- 02:38
Jamie
No, Nan.
- 02:39
Joanie Taylor
Now, he's making my nerves bad. it!
- 02:56
Jamie
I've done it, Nan.
- 02:57
Joanie Taylor
Did you do it?
- 02:58
Jamie
Yeah.
- 02:59
Joanie Taylor
Finished?
- 02:59
Jamie
All done.
- 03:00
Joanie Taylor
Is it gone?
- 03:01
Jamie
Yeah, I killed it.
- 03:02
Joanie Taylor ?
You
- 03:05
Jamie
I killed it.
- 03:06
Joanie Taylor
You did what?
- 03:07
Jamie
I
- 03:08
Joanie Taylor
killed killed the mouse? You fucking murdering bastard!
- 03:15
Jamie
But you asked me to.
- 03:17
Joanie Taylor
I only wanted you to shoo it gently on its way. Not pulverise its little mousy brains out.
- 03:25
Jamie
I thought that's what you wanted.
- 03:27
Joanie Taylor
What, to kill me, lovely little Mickey? He was the only bit of company I had. About this time, we'd be settling in to watch Countdown. I'd throw him a lump of cheese, you wouldn't hear a peep out of him, tell him a day, oh, I will miss him.
- 03:50
Jamie
I don't know what to say.
- 03:52
Joanie Taylor
I used to put Radio 2 on in the afternoon and he'd run up and down them curtains. He was a born entertainer.
- 04:01
Jamie
I'm sorry nan
- 04:03
Joanie Taylor ?
I'll never be able to look or it's a cracker in her face again
- 04:07
Jamie
I said I'm sorry
- 04:09
Joanie Taylor
no it's alright son you weren't to know
- 04:16
Joanie Taylor
Look, there's a rat!
- 04:28
Joanie Taylor ?
Use fucking old Mary Hay!
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