Mind Your Language (TV Series)

A Hard Day's Night (1978)

Dino Shafeek: Ali Nadim

Quotes 

• [a dart game goes astray and a dart lands on Ranjeet's turban] 

  Juan Cervantes : [sheepish]  Por favour, Ranjeet...

  [removes the dart] 

  Danielle Favre : [laughing]  It's a good thing you had your turban on, Ranjeet, or it would have gone straight through your head!

  Ali Nadim : Oh, blimey... He wouldn't have felt it!

  Ranjeet Singh : You'll be feeling my FIST in a moment!

• [playing Scrabble] 

  Ranjeet Singh : Ah, I'm getting a good one. "Sugar!"

  Taro Nagazumi : No good-o!

  Danielle Favre : Quel idiot! "Sugar" is not spelled S-H-U-G-A-R!

  Ranjeet Singh : I'm thinking you are mistaken.

  Ali Nadim : [criticizing Ranjeet]  You damn fool! Everybody knows 'sugar' is spelled with two G's!

• Miss Courtney : I just had a telephone call from Mr. Brown. He says he would be along later. Apparently, he is tied up at his flat.

  Ali Nadim : Oh, blimey. Shouldn't we be going to untie him?

  Miss Courtney : I was speaking metaphorically.

  Taro Nagazumi : It is better you speako English.

• Miss Courtney : Give ma a collective noun for a collection of ants.

  Ali Nadim : Aunties.

  Miss Courtney : Not aunts. Ants. Insects. What is a lot of ants?

  Ali Nadim : A damn nuisance.

  Miss Courtney : Have you never heard of swarm?

  Ali Nadim : Yes please. England call Pakistan a swarm.