Remember "Mind Your Language"?

I bought the 6-disc DVD for RM78 (Viva la piracy!) and watched it over a few days, a couple of weeks ago. I decided to blog about it to educate uncivilised durian gobblers. LOL! Kidding! This, was in all likelihood my favorite comedy in 1984. Uproarious to say the least!

The series was known for its buffoonish take on national stereotypes, the German woman was dour and humourless; the French woman was sexy and flirtatious; the Swedish woman was liberated and straightforwardly sex-mad; the Chinese woman a uncontrolled Maoist; while the Sikh and Pakistani men were often on the brink of war, and the Spaniard, the Greek and the Italian were macho. Much of the humour also stemmed from the trouble the students had with the English language, their often outrageous speech patterns and the students' hilarious mispronunciations of English.

Barry Evans, who played Jeremy Brown was evidently murdered in 1997 at the age of 53. George Camiller, who played Giovanni Cuppello, occasionally acts - last seen in Gospel of John. Kevork Malikyan, who played Max Papandrious, acted in the Flight of Phoenix and Indiana Jones's Last Crusade. Albert Moses, the famous Ranjeet Singh, has his own website http://www.albertmoses.com/. Pik-Sen Lim, who played Chung Su-Lee hails from Penang, Malaysia. Francoise Pascal (Danielle Favre) and Anna Bergman (Ingrid Svensson) are both, not in a forthright manner involved in pornography.

Famous Quotes
Ali Nadim (Pakistani) : "Squeeze me please!", "Oh Blimey!", "Jolly Good"
Giovanni Cupello (Italian) : "Santa Maria!", "Holy Ravioli!"
Maximillian Papandrious (Greek) : "Hokay!"
Jamila Rahjha (Indian) : "God heavening!"
Ranjeet Singh (Punjabi) : "A thousand apologies."
Chung Su-Lee (Chinese) : "The Democlatic Lepublic Of China", "...peace-roving Chinese!"
Taro Nagazumi (Japanese) : "Ah-so"
Juan Cervantes (Spanish) : "Por favor?","s'awright"
(Excerpt from Wikipedia.com)