Mind Your Language (TV Series)

Many Happy Returns (1978)

Barry Evans: Jeremy Brown

Quotes 

• Jeremy Brown : In future you will be given extra homework and I hope that I see some improvement. Some of you are just simply not trying; for example, Max, the opposite of Anti-Meridian is not Uncle-Meridian but Post-Meridian.

  Maximillian Papandrious : h'OK

  [Giovanni laughs behind hand] 

  Jeremy Brown : I don't know what you're laughing about Giovanni, your answer to the question 'write a sentence using 'a metaphor' was unbelievable.

  Giovanni Capello : [surprised]  But I did write a sentence using a metaphor!

  Jeremy Brown : Oh yes, last night I phoned my girlfriend and a metaphor a drink.

• Jeremy Brown : Silence! Look, in future you will be given extra homework and I hope that I see some improvement. Some of you just simply don't try! For example, Max. The opposite of anti-meridian is not uncle-meridian but post-meridian.

  Maximillian Papandrious : [Looking at Giovanni with anger]  Hokay!

  Jeremy Brown : [Notices Giovanni]  What you're laughing about Giovanni? Your answer to the question 'Write a sentence using a metaphor' was unbelievable!

  Giovanni Capello : But I did write a sentence using a metaphor!

  Jeremy Brown : Oh yes!

  [Reads Giovanni's answer] 

  Jeremy Brown : 'Last night I phoned my girlfriend and I metaphor a drink.'

• Jeremy Brown : I don't know what you're laughing about, Giovanni. Your answer to the question 'write a sentence using a metaphor' was unbelievable.

  Giovanni Capello : But I did write a sentence using a metaphor.

  Jeremy Brown : Oh yes. Last night I phoned my girlfriend and 'a metaphor a drink'.

• Jeremy Brown : Make your mind up, Juan! In a debate, you can't sit on the fence!

  Juan Cervantes : Not sitting on fence! Sitting on chair!

• Danielle Favre : I think television is very bad for the eyes.

  Juan Cervantes : Yes and also bad for the legs.

  Jeremy Brown : Legs?

  Juan Cervantes : Si, My brother Miguel, he had bad legs from his television.

  Jeremy Brown : Juan, how can your brother have bad legs from his television?

  Juan Cervantes : He dropped it on his foot.

  Jeremy Brown : I shouldn't have asked.

• Ali Nadim : I am thinking television is very bad because it is showing too much of the violence.

  Jeremy Brown : A good point.

  Ali Nadim : Thank you. Last night, I am seeing somebody being drowned, then shot, and then having their heads chopped off.

  Jeremy Brown : What was that? The Professionals or Starsky and Hutch?

  Ali Nadim : Tom and Jerry.

• Jeremy Brown : l am human, you are human. And human beings are fallible. l am fallible, you are fallible.

  Ranjeet Singh : Oh no, l am Punjabi.