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"Mind Your Language" (1977) More at IMDbPro »

Miss Courtney: [asking Mr. Brown questions from a sheet] Sex?
Jeremy Brown: Occasionally.
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Jeremy Brown: How about a toast for Ali and Su-Lee?
Giovanni Capello: No, sorry, we have no toast, only biscuits.
Jeremy Brown: No, I mean a toast for Ali and Su-Lee.
Giovanni Capello: We have no toast for them, either!
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Jeremy Brown: Where do you go to cash a check?
Ranjeet Singh: In Czechoslovakia!
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Jeremy Brown: Now, although most sports are international, there are some sports that are native to different countries. For example, the national sport of France is...
Danielle Favre: Football!
Jeremy Brown: Correct! And the national sport for Italy is...
Giovanni Capello: Girls!
Jeremy Brown: That's not a sport!
Giovanni Capello: Maybe not, but it's more popular than football!
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Ranjeet Singh: If at first, you are not succeeding, try try!
Jeremy Brown: [corrects Ranjeet] Again.
Ranjeet Singh: If at first, you are...
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Police Sergeant: What is your name?
Juan Cervantes: Por favor?
Police Sergeant: How do you spell that?
Jeremy Brown: That's not his name!
Police Sergeant: Oh, giving me a fake name, are we?
Juan Cervantes: Por favor?
Police Sergeant: I'll come back to you, Mr. Por Favor, or whatever you name is!
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Ali Nadim: Oh dearie me!
Jeremy Brown: You can say that again!
Ali Nadim: Oh dearie me!
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Miss Courtney: [points to a book with a pencil] What is this?
Ranjeet Singh: Pencil!
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Miss Courtney: Can anybody tell me who said "To Be or Not To Be"?
Chung Su-Lee: Chairman Mao!
Miss Courtney: This may come as a shock to you, but there are people who've written things besides Chairman Mao.
Chung Su-Lee: Chairman Mao lite evelything!
Miss Courtney: Well, he certainly didn't lite... *write* "To Be or Not To Be"!
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Jeremy Brown: Su-Lee, spell "Democracy"
Chung Su-Lee: C-H-I-N-A.
Jeremy Brown: And I suppose if I asked you to spell "Dictatorship", you would have spelt "England"?
Chung Su-Lee: Or "America"!
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Ingrid Svenson: I very much like teacher.
Danielle Favre: You will not make the eyes on Mr. Brown!
Ingrid Svenson: If I want to, I will!
Danielle Favre: Mr. Brown does not care for the blonde ladies!
Ingrid Svenson: Swedish women are the beautifulest!
Danielle Favre: [scoffs] The problem with Swedish women is that are they too big in the bosom!
Ingrid Svenson: The French are too big in the mouth!
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Miss Courtney: [Sid is drunk] You reek of drink!
Sid: Sorry?
Miss Courtney: Drink!
Sid: If you insist!
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[repeated line]
Ali Nadim: Jolly good!
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Jeremy Brown: [Mr Brown is talking to the class about everyday things they should know how to say and do] Ali, where would you go to get some aspirin?
Ali Nadim: The Tandoori Takeaway.
Jeremy Brown: What?
Ali Nadim: My jolly good friend who works there always has plenty aspirin.
Jeremy Brown: No, where would you *buy* aspirin?
Ali Nadim: Why would I be buying aspirin, when I can get it from my jolly good friend for free?
Jeremy Brown: All right, where would you go if the Tandoori Takeaway was closed?
Ali Nadim: Oh, blimey! The Taj Mahal Curryhouse
Jamila Ranjha: White Chemist!
Jeremy Brown: [Ali leaves his seat and begins to walk out of the classroom] Where are you going?
Ali Nadim: To buy aspirin.
Jeremy Brown: I thought you said you didn't have a headache?
Ali Nadim: Oh blimey! I do now!
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[repeated line]
Juan Cervantes: Por favor
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[repeated line]
Taro Nagazumi: Aso!
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Jeremy Brown: Take Danielle, for instance.
Giovanni Capello: I would love to take Danielle!
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Ali Nadim: Did you know, it takes two Sikhs to milk a goat? One to be holding the teats, and the other to be moving the goat up and down, up and down!
Ranjeet Singh: And did you know, that Muslims have no ice? Because the man who is making the ice has left!
Ali Nadim: Are you saying that all Muslims are stupid?
Ranjeet Singh: No, just you!
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Jeremy Brown: [calling out roll] Giovanni?
Giovanni Capello: [stands up] Si, professore!
Jeremy Brown: No "professore"!
Giovanni Capello: No "professore"?
Jeremy Brown: No, from now on, you are to address me as "Sir".
Giovanni Capello: "Sir"? Now I understand!
[bows]
Giovanni Capello: You have gone to get "notted"!
Jeremy Brown: [baffled] Come again?
Giovanni Capello: Si, you have gone to get "notted" by the Queen!
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Giovanni Capello: [misunderstanding the word 'bugged'] Hey, my boss, he all the time say he's buggered.
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