As she delivered her final Assembly speech as First Minister, Arlene Foster likened herself to Father Ted receiving the Golden Cleric Award.
The deposed DUP leader teased it had been suggested her speech should be in the same style as the TV sitcom character, who used his chance to settle a lengthy list of old scores.
"But after a moment of reflection, I thought perhaps not," she joked.
Instead Mrs Foster, who plans to leave the DUP and is expected to later step down as an MLA, focused on her proudest moments in the Stormont Executive and constituency politics.
Her only taunt of her successor Edwin Poots, who was considered a key figure in the putsch against her, came when she spoke about intending to spend more time with her family.
"It's just as well, Mr Speaker, I am such a good daughter, wife and mother," she said.
It echoed comments Mr Poots made in 2016 when Mrs Foster took up office. The Agriculture Minister was criticised by gender equality campaigners for saying her "most important job" remained "that of a wife, mother and daughter".
Mr Poots sat to Mrs Foster's right as she gave her closing speech to MLAs.
But in a socially distanced Stormont chamber allowing only limited numbers, she was spared the awkwardness of being surrounded by most of the DUP colleagues she once considered friends who joined the coup against her.
On the party benches behind her sat only her outgoing Executive colleagues and allies Diane Dodds, Peter Weir and Gordon Lyons.
Beginning her Assembly speech, Mrs Foster quipped that she promised not to sing.
But while she refrained from another verse of Frank Sinatra's That's Life, MLAs from across the political spectrum were singing her praises.
A key theme of the chorus was their respect towards Mrs Foster as a female political leader - the first woman to hold either the position of DUP leader or First Minister.
Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she was pleased they had highlighted the challenges and misogyny faced by women in public life.
"If there is one thing we have done well together, it is highlight that on numerous occasions," the Sinn Féin vice-president said.
Justice Minister Naomi Long closed her tribute with a Sinatra song reference in a nod to Mrs Foster singing at last Friday's British-Irish Council in Co Fermanagh.
Speaking via video call, the Alliance leader said: "I'll simply hope that for you Arlene, The Best Is Yet To Come."
The musical theme continued in the tributes, including from the DUP's Mr Weir who recalled a duet Mrs Foster sang with former MLA Nelson McCausland.
"I can remember a duet once that involved Arlene and Nelson McCausland when they sang Islands In The Stream, when somehow Nelson started singing the Dolly Parton part," he said.
Mrs Foster said her time as First Minister may have ended "abruptly" but she vowed to pursue "unfinished business" in championing Northern Ireland in other ways.
Wearing pale blue and with a crown brooch on her lapel, she closed her speech with the Christian parable of the good Samaritan.
Mrs Foster acknowledged she had not always made the right calls during her tenure, and closed her speech with an appeal for MLAs to act as "good neighbours".
The former DUP leader became emotional as she ended with the words, "over and out".
There may not have been any singing, but MLAs across the chamber still gave a rare round of applause.
