Den And Nick Slag Off The Residents Of The Square

[@Chris_34]

1:38 Den: "punk Mary has moved on." Nick: *"slag!"* 😆😆😆

[@mcwebbysam8672]

I like the libertines too mste havebt listened in a while tho

[@Glenn1967ful]

@@mcwebbysam8672 I can remember punk Mary, she must have been one of the few punks left in 1985.

[@j.c985]

🤣🤣🤣 hysterical, the writing was so good back then

[@nobodyshome4633]

Nick is so nasty, yet so gorgeous at the same time. John Altman was a stunner in the 80’s.

[@lloyddenvermckay1410]

Dirty Den & Nasty Nick banged up together. Classic 80's EastEnders. 😃❤️📺

[@AlbieGray]

"And, I'm not fat, you cow!" LOL! Lovely line by the choral leader!

[@DavidFlood-f3q]

Queenie is hilarious 🤣

[@chrishoy77]

The writing in this scene is excellent and a good example of the quality of EastEnders in it's first decade. It's the little touches like the mention of Lofty and Nick's comeback about him not being missed.

[@kailashpatel1706]

i think British TV was in the general better back then..only four channels..but so much more on TV..

[@arserobinson7118]

Unlike now, writers were more talented and made more effort. Scripts weren't cobbled together and restricted to being "Politically Correct", and they didn't push harmful ideologies. Also back then, the actors weren't wooden like in Eastenders now, in the 80s/90s/00s they were entertaining and put passion into their characters in both emotionally charged and comical scenes. Nowdays the characters are a load of obnoxious, one-dimensional narcissists without any depth performed by actors who should not have even made it to the theatre, and they're in a show that should have ended about 10 years ago.

[@davidjones6470]

2 of the best characters in the history of EastEnders!!! Dirty Den and nasty nick bloody brilliant

[@BLTKellys]

“Punk Mary’s moved on.” “Slag!!!”

[@Glenn1967ful]

I can remember her appearing in the show in 1985 and Sharon Watts telling her she was out of fashion. Also became a stripper.

[@stemple11100]

Den was the only character nick actually seemed to have a certain amount of respect for, with nearly every other bloke he went out of his way to wind them up even if they battered him, with den he usually backed off straight away

[@Eire_Go_Deo]

Jesus this dialog is so pre-PC! It's brilliant 😂😂

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

KILLING OFF NICK WAS ALMOST LIKE KILLING OFF EASTENDERS ITSELF. ;*(

[@adamknight7041]

Did you forget to mention killing Den *twice* ?

[@s0d100]

They better not kill of phil or grant then

[@accountuser5588]

STEJTHEGREATEST The reason they killed him off was because he was getting too old. Altman was like 63 in 2014.

[@sharktails6468]

i think the gut derseves his break from being beat up cos ppl could not detatch him from nick

[@TimothyRice135]

EastEnders at its best back then.

[@patriciadooley5833]

Sentimental old rhubarb 😂😂😂

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

0:59 If I was Nick, I would've said, "It's an honour to be threatened by such an intelligent convict as you, Sir".

[@wotdoesthisbuttondo]

Those prison guards are bizarre just ignoring him grabbing and threatening Nick.

[@lovelondon806]

Every wings gotta have its queen nick... I used to love pre pc eastenders

[@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff]

No way the BBC would allow rape to be discussed and dismissed so casually these days!

[@natalieann6711]

@@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff course, let's forget they employed and COVERED UP a prolific nonce case. BBC= buggering British children

[@kaysmith8992]

@@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff lol I know, my jaw dropped when I heard that 😂 Script was way more realistic back then.

[@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff]

@@kaysmith8992 let’s be real prisoners today would use the exact same kind of language!

[@David-h4z2s]

​@@PlayMoreGolf-RipOffTo be blunt people that know each other well and trust each other still talk about things in a non pc way political correctness is not natural it goes against human nature

[@rorymckernan502]

Den was the only hardman that Nick never answered back to. Other men, he just laughed in their faces. Phil, Pete, Tony, Mark, even though they all battered him, he just wound them up even more. If he’d had fights with Derek, Jack and Max(his stepbrothers), he’d have laughed in their faces too. He never did that to Den, every time Den got mad with him, Nick didn’t do anything, he just walked away. Whenever Den confronted Nick, he always did it like a father would discipline his son. In a weird way, Den treated Nick like a son and Nick saw Den as a father figure IMO. Apart from Den, the only hardmen that Nick would back off too IMO, would be Grant, Dennis Rickman and Sean Slater.

[@testaccount1345]

And Dan the Man

[@ClassicEnders1985]

Nick disrespected Grant, wasn't even scared at Grant in 1991.

[@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff]

Nick was scared of Big Mo

[@deanscott4956]

Sean?😂😂 having a laugh

[@yemalad1.]

Those screws were stealing a living 🤣🤣

[@seamusseeley6816]

Nick was awesome as the baddie!

[@teddownum7428]

"Then, and only then, are you allowed to take the Michael." Heh.

[@alfiemoon2516]

Den was probably the best in eastenders when it came to using his mouth. He always had an answer for everything and was funny with it to lol

[@kyachdistent1301]

I love that guy whoever he is. EastEnders was so cutting edge back then they even dispensed with the stereotypically based wussy and bullied gay guy stuck in jail. EastEnders was also so funny back then, mixing the grimy, gritty yet realistic enough dramas of everyday people with hilarious one-liners, observations and situations, as in life. I reckon the show lasted for 10 years really well, then lost in past 1996. A shame. Still 10 years of cool, I'd love to see every episode of them if likely.

[@kailashpatel1706]

The idea that Eastenders was brilliant when den returned post 2003 with all the hardman outdoing hardman is rubbish.....it never held a torch to the 1985-89 period..it was innovative and brilliant TV soap drama...

[@chloemarsh612]

Queenie definitly secretly wants abit of Nick

[@David-h4z2s]

🤢

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

0:36 It sure makes you nostalgic for the eighties when even the top dog prisoners sounded like eloquent cavaliers from a Shakespeare story. *Dries tears* Now the conversation would just be, "YOU LOOKIN' AT ME BOY?????? *STAB*", and the guards being like, "Ohhhh... that poor man accidentally lunged into the shard of glass the top dog was holding!!!!! Lets get him to the hospital!!!! Sorry his blood splattered on your shirt, top dog!!! Allow us to clean it with a lemon wipe for you!!!!!!"

[@David-h4z2s]

Don't think Nick's a woke 😂 the 🐄 cow Every wing's got to have it's queen Nick fantastic writing here very true to life gritty and realistic

[@girlygirlyblonde]

Nick was really softly spoken here.

[@markgreet3543]

But rough voice was put on to much in the end don't get me wrong he was amazing but the voice sounds my natural here

[@JamieBoy-ij2ri]

Wasn’t this seen on the tv in This is England 88 when Lol was watching it?

[@rorymckernan502]

Den is Fletcher and Nick is Godber

[@rusrus29]

When London was like this...good ole days

[@billytoffingham9608]

the good old 90s ....when even the cons in jail didnt have any visible tatoos ....now the PM has them

[@lovelondon806]

80s

[@davidhaney1394]

Ahh the good old days , before eastenders turn into the shite it is now

[@hjp1hjp22]

Isn't that Gareth Hale from Hale and Pace?

[@arserobinson7118]

no just looks like him, he was big during the 80s and was unlikely to appear on EastEnders.

[@jameshowarth4214]

Its John Labanowski

[@ih8hertz1]

Then they brought den back from the dead and had him walking around with his hands in his pockets and no story line

[@holyboy1]

I thought the hands in the pockets added a certain swagger to his persona.

[@deanscott4956]

The setting Phil up story? Dennis? Do agree by the end he had nowt to do by the first six months of his return was great

[@David-h4z2s]

He was in that canel for 14 years Must been living like flipper

[@anthonymooney8636]

To legendary characters magic

[@billytoffingham9608]

dirty den ......fantastic actor who made eastenders ...might as well have written off the programme when he left first time

[@ronmccullock1407]

I agree

[@deanscott4956]

Disagree great character legend and he did make the show but there was multiple good years and characters after that point probably for a good 15 years really past his return was when it went to shit

[@Shellcleanit]

I’m watching this on tv right now ! I’m sure that’s the bloke from brookside..

[@cathy3613]

Wish the EE writers now were as good as they were then

[@chloemarsh612]

I think Queen fancies Nick abit, the way he stroked hes cheek and spoke to Nick when he shared a cell with him

[@benbridgen1426]

Is this like porege with ronie barker

[@trishyangel123]

*_Dirty Den and Nasty Nick in the same room._*

[@liamjohnston5099]

Nick and Den appeared together many times in eastenders

[@rorymckernan8502]

@@liamjohnston5099 Yes, they had a funny kind of relationship. Den acted like a father figure in a way to him.

[@GinolasSon]

@@rorymckernan8502 …in what way was Den a father figure to Nick?

[@LANBritain1]

EastEnders summary 1985-1988

[@markgreet3543]

Nick should have done silent night for revenge

[@Dwayne3007]

'SLAG' 😂😂

[@leonardssenkindu5802]

SLAG!!, lol 😂😈 (SHADE)

[@abbieroseholden4174]

In his own way Nick loved Dot

[@richhughes7450]

The scripts and actors were a fair bit better back then.

[@BobBarnes2005]

30 Years later, Nick is now dead and not missed

[@Quirky_Ventriloquist]

I miss Nick and cried when he died 😭😭

[@natalieKatzenjammer6348]

what was den in prison for?

[@justmanic9673]

"Scumhead" What sort of insult was that?

[@gregbouchard414]

Hi all how are u OK u all do a rally good job on her mate keep up the good work on her mate

[@jimmiebullitt9059]

Slaaag

[@PlayMoreGolf-RipOff]

No way would the BBC allow rape to be discussed so flippantly now!

[@laminage]

If Nick & Den ended up in The Men's Gay Section in Prison in Atlanta, GA., they would have been terrified. If you can, check out Beyond Scared Straight.

[@scottrudland3481]

That’s pentonville prison on d wing

[@stevemorley5099]

Can someone tell what month and year this is ?

[@chrishoy77]

December 1988

[@charlottethecat6302]

What was qreenny in prison for

[@laminage]

At least they can wear their own clothes. In US Prisons it would either be Gray, Blue, Green or Orange Uniforms. They would also have to wear a Bracelet to indicate who they are and without it they can't get their meals.

[@diamond66ist]

The grey jumpers and striped shirts were actually prison issue clothes ( prison blues) nick had his own clothes on so he must have been on remand .

[@TokyoJoe703]

He’s right about Lofty.

[@markgreet3543]

Nick should have kissed him and made up

[@christopherdrennan5819]

What was Den in prison for?

[@rorymckernan502]

He torched Willmott Brown’s bar.

[@lovelondon806]

Anyone know what year this is?

[@mehhandle]

At a guess? 1989

[@liamjohnston5099]

@Adam Oliver no its December 1988

[@smokepepsi]

2020

[@lovelondon806]

@@smokepepsi you weren’t even in the country in 1989

[@smokepepsi]

@@lovelondon806 It's 2021 mate

[@scotty87able]

nick picked on the daddy bad move

[@laminage]

Don't mess with The Prison "Daddy". On The US Beyond Scared Straight Show they tell the "Children" that if you are to survive in Prison you have to have a Daddy and that's something you don't want.

[@RTWUROTTS]

Pauline still there! Not any more!

[@tombaringer633]

She outlived Den though.

[@rorymckernan502]

It’s funny how he mentions Pauline, and then she appears in the next scene.

[@vikingraiders4138]

Queenie

[@MinecraftandRobloxfanFortniteT]

1:03

[@laminage]

The UK Soaps do the best Prison Scenes ever. Victor Newman from The Young & The Restless would have scared the you know what out of Nick and Den.

[@ELPaso1990TX]

Was Grant and Phil in Eastenders then?

[@Hulk2k6]

+ELPaso1990TX Nope. It'd be a good year before they started filming.

[@rorymckernan8594]

No this was 1988, the Mitchell brothers joined two years later in 1990.

[@Hulk2k6]

They made their first appearance in Feb 1990 but probably began filming in Dec 1989

[@rorymckernan8594]

+Hulk2k6 More than likely yeah. Who do you think.would have won between Den and Grant. Its a shame they never met.

[@tomhiggins6542]

+Rory Mckernan Grant in a fight,too much power. Den in a war, too clever.

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

Den looked too nice for prison in his smart sweater. ;*(

[@christschinwon]

I thought he looked the part as the actor playing him has been in prison. Easy acting job!

[@David-h4z2s]

He done prison in real life Shot a taxi driver dead In a robbery gone wrong He served about ten years He learnt drama in prison Leslie Grantham

[@chloemarsh612]

Queenie**

[@laminage]

Hey can you imagine if Neil talked to David Brent like that on The Office. That would have been so humilating.

[@CB-xr1eg]

Neil?? Who the fuck is Neil?

[@laminage]

@@CB-xr1eg Neil Godwin is David Brent's Boss on The Office (UK). Nick And Den were a riot at times.

[@PianoandKeysStudio]

This is your lucky day, Nick. You're still breathing - and I don't agree with that in the workplace!'