信条（普通话）

在笑点被无聊电视剧调得越来越高的今天，这部剧许多依旧让我笑得肚子疼，周末两天就刷完，好多部分忍不住安利同学。
好喜欢棕先生，包括他的主演，心疼这两个男人。当然了解更多的是Mr.Brown，喜欢他字正腔圆一脸无奈地纠正同学发音与语法错误，喜欢他被熊孩子的错误弄得忍不住笑，喜欢看他和同学打闹背地里说校长坏话一脸贱萌，喜欢他喝酒后晕乎乎傻白甜增加n倍，喜欢他内心正常男人但同时为人正直(正常？)善良又绅士，喜欢看到他每集各种倒霉催，但是又好心疼……
主演97年去世，同年年底我出生。君生我未生，我生君已去。他的眼睛会笑，笑起来整个人都在发光！能演出那么甜又纯真角色的人，生活里也一定是这样善良的一个人，好喜欢他。
打算去刷Doctor of the house.

虽然这个片子很古老，上世纪70年代的老剧，但在Mr. Brown的带领下，各个学生存在感满满。。。。Ali是印度人，他的英语倒是能听懂，把Oh Blimey, jelly good天天挂在嘴边，经常和巴基斯坦、口头禅是Thousand apologies的Ranjeet争吵，经常为宗教原因大打出手。。。。Giovanni和Max是一对好基友，虽然争着向Danielle献殷勤，但是课后依然勾肩搭背，其中Santa Maria是人高腿长的希腊小伙的口头禅。。。Taro来自日本，习惯每次说话前鞠躬；Jamila是整天针织不离手的印度家庭妇女；Anna是严肃正经的德国人，会在别人不正经的时候肘击对方，但对大家都跟热情友好；Juan是西班牙大胡子，经常说Por Favor和老师装糊涂；SuLee是整天大段大段背毛主席语录的中国红卫兵形象。。。

老师在剧中非常倒霉又可爱，一开始虽然没有很快适应当他们来自不同国家与文化的学生，但后来都很有耐心教他们，特别是面对来自印度的那位女同学，一开始还真以为是隔壁缝纫课的学生，走错教室的，Brown老师一直教导她开口说英语good evening，虽然一直发错音，也算是一个很大的进步。

剧中每个学生都没他们自己的特色，有热情拥护毛主席的中国代表素丽，有礼貌挂着相机的日本代表，有勤恳织毛线的印度女代表，有热情时尚性感的法国女代表，，，各有千秋，各带笑点，值得致敬的好片子，英国的喜剧都是不会过时的。

Mind your language S1E1

Ali:I am not going where I am looking.
Mr.Brown: No,no! I wasn't looking where I was going.
Ali: That makes the two of us!

Miss Countney: This is not unsatisfactory! This won't do at all.
I distinctly requested the Local Authority to send me a woman

teacher. Especially after the unfortunate incident involving Mr.

Warburton. I'm afraid he only lasted a month, then he departed.
Mr.Brown: Dead?
Miss Countney: Demented. Yes, the strain was too much for him.

Typical of the male sex! No stamina.

Mr.Brown: I'm Brown.
Ali: Oh no. You are committing a mistake.
Mr.Brown: Mistake?
Ali: Yes, you are not brown! We are brown! You are white.
Mr.Brown: My name is Brown! I'm your teacher.

Mr.Brown: What is your job?
Ranjeet: I'm a very important member of the British underground.
Mr.Brown: The underground what?
Ranjeet: Just the underground. Mind the doors.
Mr.Brown: Oh that underground.(=subway地铁)

Mr.Brown: Apart from one attempted murder and a possible race riot,

I think we're coping reasonably well.
Miss Countney: Well, we have one thing to be grateful for anyway.

Sex won't be rearing its ugly little head.
From past experience, it isn't race or religion that causes problems,

it's usually the presence of some foreign beauty. Jealousies,

intrigues, all sort of thing.

Giovanni: I never notice. You see its my eyes! I'm a little short

sighted. (And also a much big liar.) It's not true. Mr. Green.
Mr.Brown: The name is Brown.
Giovanni: You see! I'm a colour blind as well.

Ali: And you are asking for a kick up your big brown backside?

Su-lee: It is duty of every citizen to overthrow imperial warmongers.

So say Chairman Mao.

Mr. Brown: Ali. You are...
Ali: You are waiting for mu to speak an answer.
Mr. Brown: Well done.
Ali: Unfortunately, I am not understanding the question.
Mr. Brown: I want you to give me a sentence using 'You are...'
Ali: I am.
Mr. Brown: No, not 'I am', 'You are'! For example, you are from

Pakistan.
Ali: I am from Pakistan.
Mr. Brown: Yes, but now use 'You are'.
Ali: But I cannot say you are from Pakistan, because you are not, are

you?
Mr. Brown: Repeat after me. You are English.
Ali: No, I'm not! I'm from Pakistan. You are confusing me.
Ranjeet: You are stupid poof.
Ali: Don't you call me poof.
Ranjeet: Poof.

Miss Countney: Job getting you down already?
Mr. Brown: No, no, I'm fine! Never felt better. There's just one thing

rough. That window you nailed down! I think I ought to put a few more

nails in it.


Mind your language S1E2 An inspector calls

Juan: Por favor?
Miss Countney: Are you really as stupid as you look?
Juan: Por favor?

Mr. Brown: So we appear to be some missing, I hope they haven't

dropped out.
Ali: Please, it would notbe surprising me, I am always thinking that

Sikh, son of Guru, was a Punjabi drop out.(laugh at Ranjeet)
Ranjeet: I'm hearing what you are saying, you miserable spawn of a

jackal!
Mr. Brown: Don't you two start again! Actually, you are late.
Ranjeet: A thousand apologies for this unforgivalbe tardinees. But we

were all unavoidably detaained in the corridor by a lady...Sorry I forget

about her name. She was big lady, very large bosoms!

Su-lee: England is becoming more porriticarry minded, and gladually

more left wing.The overthrow of decadent capitaristic goverment will

soon take place. As working classes become more educated. And

embrace Communism as the true way of life. Workers revolution

getting nearer. With inevitabel collapse of Imperiaistic bougoise

intellectual society.
Mr. Brown: Yes! Well if thats what you like about England. I wouldn't

want to hear what you didn't like.
Taro: Excuse please. May I have small observations on young lady's

discourse, which will also irrustrate increased knowledge of English.
Young lady speak road of cobras!
Su-lee: Attitude typical of Fascist Nipponese!
Taro: Japan civilised country,not like China Ren by peasant.
Su-lee: Chinese not peasants!
Taro: Japanese not Fascist!.......I lose face, not my fault!
Mr. Brown: Never mind whose fault it was! Go and apologize!

Miss Countney: It has taken you 2 min 38 sec exactly to come to my

office immediately. I'm glad I didn't ask you to take your time.

Max: Danielle, what you do after class?
Danielle: I go back home to learn the English.
Giovanni: Hey, I'm going to learn English as well. Maybe we learn

together.
Danielle: Yes but what about poor Max?
Max: Yeah.
Giovanni: What about the poor Max? I'm crying my eyes out.
Danielle: I have an idea.
Giovanni: I have a lot of ideas.
Danielle: Why not you and Max study together?

Mr. Brown: I expect you'll a bit of difficulty finding your way round at

first. Things will seem rather strange.
Inspector: very strange.
Mr. Brown: It must be quite a change coming from one of the under-

developed countries to our more advanced way of life.
Inspector: Oh yes.
Mr. Brown: Still, your people are doing remarkably well. Did you fly

here?
Inspector: Fly?
Mr. Brown: Fly! In a big iron bird. Quite a change from riding an

elephant. Unless you came by Jumbo. haha~ English joke.

Giovanni: Professori.
Mr. Brown: You should call me Sir.
Giovanni: Oh, I understand. You have been to get knotted.
Mr. Brown: come again?
Giovanni: To become a Sir! you got knotted by the queen.
Mr. Brown: The word is knighted! And I'm not that kind of Sir.

Mr. Brown: Taro.
Taro: Aso.
Mr. Brown: Su-lee
Su-lee: present.
Mr. Brown: Ali.
Ali: Gift!
Mr. Brown: Gift?
Ali: I'm surprising you, no? Each day I am learning new English

word.And I am finding that gift is another word for present.
Mr. Brown: Very ingenious.

Mr. Brown: I'd better take down your particulars, otherwise I may get

into hot water.
Ali: You are going to have a hot bath?
Mr. Brown: No, Ali. It's just another way of saying I may get into

trouble.
Ranjeet: Oh Dear. You have been committing some grievous

misdemeanour?
Mr. Brown: Not at all.

I do assure you that Mr. Brown will be severely dealt with.
Ali: Blimey you are dropping a clinker.
Mr. Brown: You mean clanger. (Drop a clanger= say sth wrong)
Ali: Yes pls.


Mind your language S1E3 A Fate worse than death

Ali: How about ajelly good shirt? Guaranteed one hundred percent

substandard.(Ali was supposed to say standard.)

Mr.Brown: Now, before we do anything else this evening, I want to

find a monitor. A monitor is a person who can take charge of the

class during my absent, somebody intelligent enough to assume

responsibility.

Mr.Brown: I'm going to ask you each to read a passage from the

newspaper. Then we'll discuss it together, OK? Max,You start.
Max: American Embassy bugged.
Mr.Brown: Good! Now dose anybody konw what that means?
Taro: It means American Embassy full of little insects.
Mr.Brown: No, Taro! They're not that sort of bugs! Listening devices.

Ali: You are putting some innocent lady in the pudding club. (in the

pudding club=pregnancy)

Ranjeet: I am up the creek without a puddle.
Mr. Brown: Paddle.

Ranjeet: This lady, is she resembling an elephant?
Miss Countney: I wouldn't exactly put it like that although she is

rather large.
Mr. Brown: Ask her to come along here.
Miss Countney: That's very irregular.
Mr. Brown: It is rather important.
Miss Countney: Very well,but don't make a habit of it.

Danielle: Prime minister sold a pup.
Mr. Brown: Good. Now that is a very good example of a figure of

speech. It dosen't mean what it says.
Su-lee: Typical of imperial poriticians who distort truth and suppress

working classes.
Mr. Brown: A figure of speech is a way of expressing an idea by way

of contrast or comparison. If you are being sold a pup or sold a

dummy, you are being cheated or deceived. In England, we use

figures of speech quite a lot. For example, we say as quick as

lightning, as light as a feather, as clean as a whistle. As blind as a

bat. As deaf as a ...Max?
Max: Postman.
Mr. Brown: No Max, Posts. Because posts can not hear. (As deaf as

a post)
Max: Neither can my postman.
Mr. Brown: Ali, as sly as a...
Ali: Sikh.
Mr. Brown: Fox. (As sly as a fox) as a mad as a ...Ranjeet?
Ranjeet: Muslim.
Mr. Brown: Hatter! (As mad as a hatter) Taro, as drunk as a ...
Taro: Newt.
Mr. Brown: Lord is more correct. (As drunk as a Lord) Jamila, as

white as...
Jamila: You.
Mr. Brown: Snow! Ali, as smooth as?
Ali: A baby's bottoms.

Mr. Brown: With all due respect, she was a couple on her own!

Giovanni: It's a sheer coincidence.

Mr. Brown: I thought she'd agreed to release you from the marriage

now.
Ranjeet: Yes, she has. But her farther is coming here to see you

about your marriage now.
Mr. Brown: Look, there's not going to be any wedding I've broken it

off. I've written to her parents, explaining that I couldn't possibly marry

their daughter. I pointed out the differences between our religious and

cultural backgrounds. And the fact I have no intention of marrying

anyone. He should've got the letter this morning.
Ranjeet: Oh yes, he did. That is why he is coming. He is hoping to

be slicing you into many pieces.
Mr. Brown: Pardon?
Ranjeet: He say you are bringing disgrace on his daughter.



Mind your language S1E5 The best things in life


Ali: I am coming up on the puddles. the football puddles.
Mr. Brown: The football pools.
Ranjeet: That is typical of that Muslim twit! No brains whatsoever.

Mr. Brown: Do you wish to cash a cheque?

Danielle: How much to post a letter?
Mr. Brown: Is it someone in England?
Danielle: No, no, it's a Swiss letter.
Mr. Brown: Well, it's more correct to say you want to send a letter to

Switzerland, not a Swiss letter. It could be very embarrassing if you

were writing to someboday in France. (French letter = condom)

Mr. Brown: Don't be ridiculous.
Juan: Pretending. Haha...

Mr. Brown: Pretand you have a cold.
Ranjeet: A cold what?
Mr. Brown: Alright, let's forget about the cold. just imagine your have

a pain.

Mr. Brown: There's obviously been some misunderstanding.I'll sort it

out with the police. You scratch my back, I scratch yours. Ali, I'll do

the talking, alright? you just leave it to me.

Police: Before you go sir, would u like to make a donation to our

Police charity fund?
Mr. Brown: Well as a matter of fact, you've caught me at a rather

awkaward moment.
Police: What about the five? You remember Sir, the one you thought

you never had. You know what they say, what you've never had you

never miss, unless you knew it was there all the time. In which case

it would come under bribery and corruption. You scratch my back

and I scratch yours.

Miss Countney: Well, untill Mr. Brown returns I shall take the class. I

shall ask you a few questions on general knowledge. Now first of all,

can anybody tell me who said "To be or not to be"?
Su-lee: Chairman Mao.
Miss Countney: It may come as a surprise to you, but other people

wrote things besides Chairman Mao.
Su-lee: He wrote everything.

Miss Countney: Are you not familiar with Shakespeare's works?

Miss Countney: Let me ask you a simple question. Can you tell me

how many P's there are in a pound?
Taro: Depend on size of peas.

Miss Countney: Now look, sir, it was obviously just been a

misunderstanding. I see no reason why we should pursue this any

further.

Police: What is your name?
Ali: Watt is not my name.
Police: I don't want to know what your name is not. What is your

name?
Ali: And I am telling you it is not.
Police: What is his name?
Ranjeet: Absolutely not.
Police: Not what?
Ranjeet: That is correct.
Police: What is your name?
Ranjeet: Wrong again.
Giovanni: He's not here.
Max: Yes.
Police:Who?
Max: Watt.
Police: Pardon?
Max: Who is not here and Watt is not here neither.
Police: You are all barmy.
Mr. Brown, if I promise not to proceed with this report, will you do me

a favour?
Mr. Brown: Yes, what is it?
Police: Take these crackpots out of here, and promise never to bring

them back. Even if they've commited a murder.

Miss Countney: Pls don't remind me of last night's unfortunate

incident. I hope you've explained to your Indian lady the difference

between Free and Free Offer.


Mind your language S1E6 Come back all is forgiven

Mr. Brown: If you want to argue argue in English.
Juan: Go back to Italy, you Italian spaghetti.
Giovanni: Your big Spanish omellette.

Giovanni: Maybe she's gonna give you the birthday present.
Mr. Brown: Yes and maybe the pope is getting married.
Giovanni: He is ? I never read that.
Mr. Brown: It was a joke.

Mr. Brown: would you all pay attention pls. I have sth rather important

to tell you. I'm afraid that Miss Countney has terminated my

engagement.
Ali: That is very big surprise to me.
Mr. Brown: Yes, it was a bit of a shock to me as well.
Ali: We are not knowing that you and Miss Countney were engaged.
Mr. Brown: You don't understand. I mean to coin a phrase I've been

given the boot. No Juan, can't you understand! I've been fired. I've

been given the bullet.
Giovanni: Santa Maria! She tried to shoot you?
Mr. Brown: No, I've been dismissed.

Giovanni: We have a strike.
Max: Yeah, let's have the strike.
Ranjeet: what is this strike? Does this mean we are going to be

fighting?
Giovanni: No, No, No. It's like a big onions.
Anna: What onions?
Giovanni: The trade onions.
Ali: Excuse me, I am thinking your strike not going to be working.

What we are needing is to be revolting.
Ranjeet: And I'm thinking you are already revolting. (revolting has

dislike meaning too.)

Miss Hardacre: I've come to drum English into your respective alien

heads.


Mind your language S1E7 The cheating game

Mind your language S1E13 The final exam

我迷恋情景喜剧里的各种房间，各种布局，让人安心，温馨。

看KILL OR CURE那一集的时候，好喜欢Mr. Brown的公寓，那种老式公寓的布局，还有最后大家一起跳舞的样子，让我深深的迷恋。我迷恋这种生活。也许正因为这样吧，我才这么喜欢情景喜剧。




最后一集，考完大家一起喝酒说那些话的时候，竟然有点难过。最受不了的就是这种情节了...心里会发酸。

还好后面还有两季，还好还有16集...真的看完的时候，会很不舍吧。老友记我一直没有看完，我还没有体会过把自己那么那么喜欢的剧集看完时的那种空虚感。





Mr. Brown，好让人心疼。孤儿，单身，有一只暹罗猫陪着他。
其实这算是某种意义上我所希望的生活——独自居住，和一只猫。
他以为Sid就是他的父亲的那一集，最后Sid夫妇笑着说当年他们丢弃的孤儿是个girl的时候，大家都一起笑了，但我分明看到你眼里有苦涩。Jeremy大街的孤儿院，所以叫Jeremy，我突然就对Jeremy这个名字有了无比的好感。我妄自觉得Mr. Brown的扮演者Barry Evans自身的经历和剧中扮演的人物很像，孤儿，单身至离世。我不知道剧中人物 是否会一直这样独自居住在单身公寓下去，希望不要，所以我在最后一集看到法国美女说她好舍不得去拥抱Mr. Brown的时候，我看到他有亲吻她的脖子的动作，那么动人。以至于让我忍不住要截图，虽然图像质量并不好。


网络上海量的信息，然而 我能找到的所有关于你的——Barry Evans，只有短短的一篇生平简介，和几张剧照。在生命的最后那几年，你竟然开出租车，这份职业在我心里有种潦倒而迷人的印象。只是 一个出演过这么优秀成功的剧集的演员，最后做了出租车司机终究让人叹息吧。
验尸官在你的尸体里验出超过正常标准4倍多的酒精浓度。孤独、不安、或是焦虑的人大抵都酗酒吧。



死后被火化，葬在
Golders Green Crematorium 　　
London, England



愿你在天堂安好。请你不要觉得你的一生很糟糕。死去14年后，仍然有人看你的剧集，有人喜欢你，有人怀念你，所以......愿来生幸福，有家庭的温暖，情人的厮守，朋友的陪伴。





PS:小发现。Barry Evans本名为Barry Joseph Evans ，而剧中Mr. Brown的暹罗猫叫Josephine。

太搞笑了，迫不及待就一次性看完了，一个英语补习班上的故事，一集二十几分钟第一季总共也才13集就把每个人物特点都交代清楚，人物特征也很鲜明：极其耐心负责任和倒霉的Brown老师，比较刻薄的Miss Courtney，两个经常斗劲的巴基斯坦穆斯林Ali和口头禅“Thousand apologize!”印度锡克教Ranjeet，喜欢勾引Brown老师的法国美女Danielle，只有为了赢得法国美女Danielle青睐的时候才会争论的意大利人Giovanni和希腊人Maximillian，严肃和喜欢肘击Max的东德人Anna，一直织毛衣的北印度人Jamila和她的把老毛随时挂嘴边的中国同桌Su-Lee，毕恭毕敬每次站起来都要鞠躬的日本老先生Taro，还有个人认为最逗的学生，真没听到或是故意装听不见老是"Por Favor?"的西班牙大胡子Juan，以及Sid和Gladys，出场时间虽然不多也承包了不少笑点。反正是一部笑点密集，吃饭时候慎看的喜剧片，我已经不小心喷过两次饭了哈哈哈……