As BBC Scotland comedy Still Game returns for a final series, we recall some of our favourite moments involving Craiglang's resident gossip Isa.
A magical mystery tour
Jack, Victor and Isa travel on a Dial-A-Bus but when the driver Davie, played by Robbie Coltrane, cracks, things go awry. As they hurtle along country roads, Isa distracts Davie using her feminine wiles. He swerves to a stop – narrowly missing a cyclist – and disaster is averted.
The world on a roll
Isa orders breakfast – a monster roll containing sausage, egg, bacon, black pudding, potato scone, beans and tomato – before spoiling an anniversary surprise. "That is remarkable, Isa," says Jack. "You managed to order the whole world on a roll and keep a secret for 52 whole seconds".
A party to remember
Stuck in a lift at Osprey Heights on Hogmanay, Jack, Victor, Winston and Isa reminisce about a New Year's Eve party they all attended in 1975. Told through a series of flashbacks, it emerges that Isa, fed up with the womanising ways of her husband Harry, stripped off and seduced Tam.
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Bake-off
As the Craiglang Bake Off looms, Isa plots to steal the crown of reigning champion Peggy. After trolling her rival with "trash talk" on a web forum, she pulls off the ultimate act of sabotage: Isa puts Winston's tarantula spider into Peggy's cake.
Gossip queen
When a breathless Isa bursts into Navid's corner shop, he calmly places a brown paper bag over her head, explaining to Tam: "I've seen this before, it's gossip overload." Once the bag is removed, Isa reveals a bombshell about Jack and Victor that she witnessed while snooping through the letter box.
The suitor
Craig Ferguson plays suave pensioner Callum who sweeps our leading lady off her feet with an old-fashioned romance. As he prepares to woo her in the bedroom, poor Isa receives a nasty surprise when it turns out that her dashing suitor is more Gollum than James Bond.
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Football crazy
Isa coaches Jack, Victor and the gang in a fiercely-contested walking football tournament. If you watch closely, you can see a certain lady writer from The Herald Magazine in the scene where Navid performs a crunching two-footed tackle on a rival player.
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