- Arnold Jackson: ...So how am I doing with the saxophone?
- Mr. Kingsley: ...I've got two versions of that answer: Nice and Honest. Which do you want to hear?
- Arnold Jackson: The Honest version.
- Mr. Kingsley: ...No, you don't. Let me put it another way: You have *potential* - in the same way that I have the potential to be a rocket scientist.
- Arnold Jackson: *You*, a *rocket scientist*?
- [laughs hysterically for a few seconds, then abruptly stops as the meaning sinks in]
- Arnold Jackson: ... That bad, huh? Well, let's say I took a week or so of intensive short-term round-the-clock training. How good might I be afterward?
- Mr. Kingsley: Afterward, you'd be good enough to...
- [searches for the right words]
- Mr. Kingsley: ... good enough to make Harmony Smurf sound like Dizzy Gillespie.
- Arnold Jackson: ...You're right; I should've asked for the nice version.
- Mr. Kingsley: That *was* the nice version... Seriously, Arnold, not everybody can expect to be good at everything they try.