Mind Your Language (TV Series)

No Flowers by Request (1979)

Dino Shafeek: Ali Nadim

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Quotes 

• Chung Su-Lee : You are not yourself tonight.

  Ali Nadim : Of course he is himself. Who else could he be?

  Anna Schmidt : Don't be fool. Su-Lee means something is wrong.

• Jeremy Brown : So tonight I'm going to ask each of you to pick one of the ten subjects I have written on the blackboard. And I shall ask you a few questions on them. Fairly straight forward, music, British history, the royal family, poetry, Shakespeare, etc, all right? Now who is going to start the ball rolling?

  Ali Nadim : We aren't having a ball to be rolling in everywhere.

• Jeremy Brown : Who is known as the father of television?

  Ali Nadim : Eamonn Andrews.

  Jeremy Brown : Logie Baird.

  Ali Nadim : Oh blimey. I'm seeing him last night with his little friend Boo-Boo.

  Jeremy Brown : That's Yogi Bear. I'm talking about Logie Baird, the man who invented television.

  Ali Nadim : Sorry, please.

• Jeremy Brown : How much is a television license?

  Ali Nadim : I am not knowing. I never buy one.

  Jeremy Brown : I hope you realize you can get a serious trouble for not having a license.

  Ali Nadim : Please tell me something, that money for a license is for BBC, yes?

  Jeremy Brown : Yes.

  Ali Nadim : Then I am jolly OK. I only watch ITV.

• Miss Courtney : Mr Nadim, name me two seasons.

  Ali Nadim : Salt and pepper.

  Miss Courtney : Those are seasonings! Now give me the names of two of the seasons of the year.

  Ali Nadim : Oh dear me.

  Miss Courtney : Anybody?

  Chung Su-Lee : Spling time.

  Miss Courtney : Sprrring time!

  Chung Su-Lee : Sprrring time.

  Miss Courtney : Now Mr Nadim, what comes after the spring time?

  Ali Nadim : Holiday time.

  Miss Courtney : Summer time!

  Ali Nadim : Jolly good.

• Miss Courtney : You are all Philistines!

  Ali Nadim : Oh No! I am Pakistan!

  Juan Cervantes : I am Spain!