17 of the greatest 'Gogglebox' quotes of all time

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Sam Haysom
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LONDON -- Watching a TV show about other people watching TV shows sounds like a pretty strange concept, but when the people you're watching consistently come out with an assortment of hilarious quotes -- some of which are intentionally funny, and some of which probably aren't intentional -- everything makes a whole lot more sense.

With the help of the new Gogglebox book -- The Wit and Wisdom of Gogglebox -- we've put together some of the all time greatest quotes from the show (covering everything from Game of Thrones to some unusual observations about the animal kingdom).

1. On childbirth: "If nature had done things properly, instead of having this messy arrangement and pain for the mother, you'd do the same as you'd do with chickens. Lay an egg, nice and simple, and put it in the airing cupboard for nine months." -- Josef

2. On the human body: "Your ears line up with your nipples. Your nipples and ears are for balance." -- Scarlett Moffatt

3. Betty Moffatt on Game of Thrones:

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4. On Antiques Roadshow: "What this programme does is that after a heavy weekend, you can sit in front of the box, cross-eyed and bored to death, and not have to think about anything, apart from you have to get up for work tomorrow." -- Stephen

5. On that Sharon Stone scene in Basic Instinct: "If you were flashing your vulva at a policeman, they'd say, 'Come on, that's not appropriate.' And they'd go and get her some pants from the lost-and-found box. They wouldn't be letting her sit on that seat. It's unhygienic." -- Scarlett Moffatt

6. On Bear Grylls: "I used to think Bear Grylls was one of those grill things where the fat drips off the side." -- Dom

7. Shaun Malone on the fall of the Berlin Wall:

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8. On Jamie Oliver: "He's all: 'Whack a bit of this in, whack a bit of that in.' I could slap him." -- Leon

9. On the animal kingdom: "Name an animal that's sexier than a lion." -- Alex Michael

10. On the animal kingdom: "I hate spiders. Some of them have really big Kim Kardashian arses, don't they?" -- Chris

11. Leon on the animal kingdom:

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12. On Poldark: "I think he's very good-looking. I'm not sure how good he is at acting, but I'm not sure it really matters." -- Mary

13. On Titanic: "She's a bitch: there's enough room on that bit of wood for both of them. There's loads of ways they could have got on it together; all she had to do was sit up. Then she pushed him into the water at the end." -- Tom Malone Jnr

14. On Star Wars: "I'd be delighted if Darth Vader was my father. Big strong fella." -- Leon

15. Josh Tapper on Star Wars:

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16. On Doctor Who: "How do they eat? Have you ever seen a Dalek whip up an omelette?" -- Dom

17. On Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: "And this is why we don't want our daughter to go on a gap year. She'll go across a rope bridge, because all her friends say it's safe. And then crocodiles will eat her." -- Giles

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