The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (TV Series)

Episode #1.5 (1987)

Gian Sammarco: Adrian Mole

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• [first lines, Adrian shares his thoughts while looking in the mirror in the morning] 

  Adrian Mole : Tonight is New Year's Eve. Look at me! My ears stick out, my hair's got three partings, and I've only grown a couple of inches in the last year. I suppose I must reconcile myself to the fact that I will always be one of those people who'll never get a good view in the cinema.

• Nigel : Moley, I want to ask you something... . Y'know there are three different kinds of, uh, sexuality.

  [Adrian, about to bite his hamburger, slowly lowers the sandwich] 

  Adrian Mole : Three?

  Nigel : Yeah. Homo, bi, and hetero.

  Adrian Mole : [nonplussed, unsure where this is going]  Uh... yeah.

  Nigel : Yeah, well, I don't really know which one to opt for.

  Adrian Mole : [bewildered]  Well, but, which one do you feel more comfortable with?

  Nigel : [his mouth now full of hamburger]  All three, Moley.

  Adrian Mole : [in his thoughts]  Nigel never could make up his mind.

  [later, a poster for the 'Gay Club' appears on a school bulletin board] 

  Adrian Mole : [to Nigel]  So, you've finally decided.

  Nigel : Well, I'm still exploring the possibilities.

  [when the headmaster sees the flyer, he tears it down and rips it in half] 

  Mr. Scruton : Is this your doing, Partridge?

  Nigel : [meekly]  Yes, sir.

  Mr. Scruton : How disgusting.

  Nigel : Well, why, Sir?

  Mr. Scruton : I will not, and neither will the school governors, sanction the use of the school gymnasium for immoral purposes.

  Nigel : What? No, but Sir, the Gay Club is for people who want to be lively, playful, frisky and frolicksome during the dinner break.

  [at a loss for words, the headmaster looks again at the flyer] 

  Nigel : What's immoral about simple gaiety, Sir?

  Mr. Scruton : [quietly, tentatively]  The word 'gay', Partridge, has changed its meaning over the years, hasn't it.

  Nigel : Oh, has it, Sir?... What does it mean now, then, Sir?

  Mr. Scruton : [obviously uncomfortable]  Well, it means, ahem, something quite different now.

  Nigel : What?... What does it mean now, Sir?

  Mr. Scruton : Now? I, uh, well, uh...

  Nigel : [with a sly smile]  Well, I see I'll just have to get a more up-to-date dictionary, won't I, Sir.