Mind Your Language (TV Series)

Many Happy Returns (1978)

George Camiller: Giovanni Cupello

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'.