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This never happened to the other fellow.
— On Her Majesty's Secret Service · 1969
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is the most famous wink in the series: the film admitting out loud that the face has changed and daring the audience to mind. It is a joke about Bond losing the girl, and also an apology that Lazenby never quite had to make. Fans use it whenever a replacement steps in, and it remains the series' first and best fourth-wall break.
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In context
Spoilers for On Her Majesty's Secret ServiceShow the scene
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) is George Lazenby's only film as Bond, and it has to introduce a new face after Sean Connery. In the opening scene Bond rescues a woman from drowning on a beach. She is Tracy, and while he fights off two attackers she drives away without a word. Bond turns to the camera and says the line. The producers deliberately inserted this and other reminders that it was the same Bond, among them a credits montage of earlier films and objects from earlier missions in his office.
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- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) - WikipediaPlot and Writing sectionReference checked
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) - WikiquoteJames Bond sectionReference checked
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