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Title: A Fate Worse Than Death.
Mind Your Language, Season 1, Episode 3.
Episode Air Date: 12 January 1978.

Episode Brief:
Ranjeet asks Mr Brown and the rest of the class to help him escape an arranged marriage with Surinder, the daughter of his father’s best friend. Once the 10-year-old Surinder was beautiful, but she now has become so fat, with a temperament to match, that Ranjeet would rather commit suicide than marry her.


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00:00Do-do-do-do-do
00:30Oh, Max. Can you help me?
00:51Sure. Anything you want.
00:54I'm in very big trouble.
00:56I kill him.
00:57The man who put you in big trouble
01:01There is no man
01:02Fio gracias
01:03No, it's my homework, I'll not finish it
01:08I haven't even started it
01:09But Mr. Brown is going to be very angry
01:13Don't worry, Giovanni, he's going to fix everything
01:16Yeah?
01:17Hola, Sarah
01:18Okay, who wants the homework?
01:21Only 10p each
01:22Hey, hey, hey, hey, 10p, no peseta
01:30Okay, who's the next?
01:34Giovanni
01:34How we know answers are right?
01:38Sure answers are right
01:39My landlady's little boy writes them down
01:41Where is Mr. Brown?
01:51Mr. Brown not alive?
01:53Oh, this is too bad, he should be here
01:56You want to give Mr. Brown a massage?
02:01I presume you mean message?
02:03Collect
02:04No, thank you
02:05No, I shall wait until he arrives
02:08It will give me an opportunity to find out how much you have learnt
02:11Which is precious little, I suspect
02:14But, madame, we learn a lot from Mr. Brown
02:17Quiet now, quiet, quiet
02:20Very well
02:22Let's see if we can find out how much you have learnt from Mr. Brown
02:25Can anyone give me a sentence containing the word, uh, catalyst?
02:31Catalyst?
02:32Well, come along, somebody
02:34Catalyst
02:35For favor, senora
02:37Yes?
02:38In my country, Spain
02:40Most of the people
02:43Are Roman catalysts
02:44I don't believe it
02:51That's not right
02:53No?
02:54Italy's a much bigger catalyst country
02:56Nah
02:57It's fine now
02:59Stay fine now
03:00It's fine now
03:02Quiet, please
03:08Good evening, Miss Cockney
03:10It's almost, good night
03:12Yeah, well, I'm sorry I'm late
03:13I was detained at the paper shop
03:15Mr. Brown, I know the times are hard
03:17But do you have to deliver newspapers?
03:19Oh, no, no, no
03:19I bought them
03:20They're for the students
03:20As part of their education
03:21Well, they certainly need some education
03:24Yes
03:25Well, good evening
03:26What is that?
03:27Ah, ah
03:28Oh
03:29Squeeze me, please
03:31I'm just this moment arriving
03:33Squeeze me again, I go
03:35What?
03:37Hey, Sally
03:37What are you doing?
03:39Ah
03:39I come back
03:41Are you moving house?
03:44Oh, not at all
03:45I'm coming here straight from work
03:48Oh, you've got a job
03:48Yes, please
03:49I'm a travelling sailman
03:51I go around nicking the doors
03:53Knocking
03:56That is correct
03:57What are you selling?
03:58Oh, blimey, everything
03:59For a master or a mistress
04:01I show you some example
04:02Maybe you will be wanting to buy something
04:05No, thanks
04:09I don't think that's my size
04:10I'm so sorry, please
04:11This case is for the lady people, certainly
04:13And this case is for the men people
04:16And everything very cut price
04:18Ah, look this, please
04:21You not have to be tying it
04:23And also
04:24If you are dropping soup
04:27You'll be wiping it off
04:29It's jolly good plastic
04:31Yes, very ingenious
04:33Only one pound fifty
04:35You're wanting one?
04:36No, thanks
04:37I'm telling you what I'm doing
04:39To you, only one pound
04:42Yeah, I don't want one
04:43How about a jolly good shirt?
04:45Ah, it is guaranteed
04:47One hundred percent substandard
04:50No, thank you
04:53Ali, you got any socks?
04:55Plenty socks
04:56Fifty p only
04:58Plenty woolly
04:58Yeah, Ali
04:59Excuse, I'm serving
05:01Okay
05:02I have a two
05:04Right
05:05One, two
05:06Money, money, money
05:07Thank you
05:08Now, tell me
05:10Anybody wanting any under trousers
05:13All different colours?
05:14How much?
05:14Only fifty p
05:16Ali, please
05:17Ah, you are wanting one
05:19I'm finding you a very good pair
05:21Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye
05:23Lovely, lovely
05:24Red, white and blue
05:26Just like Union Jack
05:28Very patriotic
05:30No, thank you
05:31Have you any scarf?
05:33Most definitely
05:34For you, only one pound
05:37Made in Hong Kong
05:38Hong Kong?
05:39I not buy from capitary stake
05:41Where workers exploit it as cheap labor
05:43Oh, ah, anybody else wanting something else?
05:47Ali, please
05:48You are exchanging your money
05:50No, I'm not
05:51Put your suitcase away
05:52This is not petticole
05:54Just sit down, everybody
05:55Come on
05:57Come on
05:57Come on, Taro
05:58Sit down
05:59Right, before we do anything else this evening
06:02I want to find a monitor
06:04Okay
06:05You tell us where to look
06:06We find the one
06:07Oh, Giovanni
06:09A monitor is a person who can take charge of the class
06:11During my absence
06:12Somebody intelligent enough to assume responsibility
06:15On second thought
06:16Perhaps it's not such a good idea after all
06:18Please
06:19I think I'm making good money, Taro
06:21I think we'll alternate
06:23Have a different one each week
06:24It'll be good experience for you
06:25Right, Anna, we'll start with you
06:27Thank you
06:28Thank you
06:29Thank you
06:29If you'll just hand these round
06:31And collect the homework
06:32Ya
06:32Yes, Anna
06:33Yes
06:34And from now on
06:35I want to hear no more foreign languages
06:36Spoken in this class
06:37From the moment you come in here
06:39You speak English all the time
06:41Is that understood?
06:42Ha, ha, ha
06:44Por favor
06:44No, por favor
06:46Por favor, finito
06:48English only
06:49For I
06:50Yes, good
06:51Thank you, Anna
06:52Now, have you all got a newspaper?
06:54Si, pro favor
06:54Right, well, I'm going to ask you each to read out a passage from the newspaper
06:58And then we'll discuss it together, okay?
07:00Max, you start us off
07:02American
07:07Embassy
07:08Bugged
07:09No, Max
07:13Bugged
07:14Hey
07:15My boss
07:17He all the time
07:18Say he's bugged
07:18Yes
07:19So that may be so, Giovanni
07:23But the word we're dealing with
07:24Is bugged
07:25Now read it again, Max
07:26Correctly
07:27American
07:28Embassy
07:29Bugged
07:30Good
07:31Good
07:32Now does anybody know what that means?
07:34Ah
07:34Tarot
07:35It means
07:43American embassy
07:45Full of
07:45Little
07:47Insects
07:48Now, Tarot
07:51They're not that sort of bugs
07:52Listening devices
07:53Tomila
07:54Can you read something from your newspaper?
07:57Yeah, read
07:57Follow me?
07:58Yeah, read something
07:58There
08:01No, that's right
08:01Ha
08:04Eight
08:06P
08:07Yes, well, that's a start
08:09Um
08:12Late again, Ranjit
08:16Oh, Mr. Teacher
08:17I am apologizing
08:18Most humbly
08:19Yes, well, perhaps next week
08:21You'll try and get here on time
08:22I'm thinking
08:23Next week
08:24I'm not being here at all
08:25Well, you're leaving us
08:27I'm going to be joining
08:29Honorable ancestors
08:30Does it mean you're going to die?
08:33Most definitely
08:34I'm going to die by my own hand
08:36Please
08:38If you're wanting any assistance
08:40I'm happy to be helping
08:45I thought you didn't like Sikhs
08:48That is why I'm happy to be helping
08:50All right, Ali
08:52This is no laughing matter
08:54I think Ranjit is serious
08:55Most certainly I am
08:56Oh, why are you thinking of killing yourself?
08:58I'm forced to be getting married
09:00Oh-ho
09:01You randy old chapati
09:03You are putting some innocent lady in the pudding club
09:08You're nothing of a certain Muslim tweet
09:10All right, that'll do
09:11Look, I don't understand, Ranjit
09:12Why are you being forced to get married?
09:15According to the Sikh tradition
09:16I was betrothed when I was 12
09:19To Surinder
09:20The 10-year-old daughter
09:22Of the best friend of my father
09:24She was a beautiful girl
09:27With hair like silk
09:29Eyes like black diamonds
09:31And a figure
09:33Like a tender bamboo shoot
09:35And now her father is saying
09:37It is time for me to be marrying her
09:39Well, if she said
09:40Eyes like black diamonds
09:41Hair like silk
09:42And a figure like a tender bamboo shoot
09:43What are you complaining about?
09:44Blimey, that was 20 years ago
09:46Now she is putting on so much weight
09:49That from behind
09:50She is looking like an elephant
09:51Matter of fact
09:54She is looking like an elephant
09:55From front also
09:56Can't you just tell her
09:59That you have changed your mind?
10:00Not at all
10:01Only lady can change mine
10:03I am up the creek
10:05Without a poodle
10:06I'm in a paddle
10:08You not do it
10:10It's a sin to kill yourself
10:11It's the only cause
10:13Which is left open to me
10:14When you do this
10:16Killing yourself?
10:18Tonight
10:18Can we come and watch?
10:22This is ridiculous
10:23People don't go around killing themselves
10:25Rather than break off an engagement
10:26But it is my religion
10:27Well, in that case
10:28Why don't you marry?
10:29That will be worse than killing myself
10:31Well, go and sit down
10:32We'll discuss whether you kill yourself
10:33Or not during the tea break
10:34No
10:34Would you all look at your new
10:36There is an Indian lady in my office
10:38Who wishes to speak to Mr. Ranjit Singh
10:41Excuse me, Missy
10:43This lady
10:44Is she resembling an elephant?
10:47I wouldn't exactly put it like that
10:49But she's rather large
10:50Lamy, please surrender
10:52Yeah, well, ask her to come along here, Miss Courtney
10:54That's very irregular
10:55Yeah, well, it is rather important
10:57Oh, very well
10:57But don't make a habit of it
10:59What are you doing that for?
11:01Oh, so we can talk to her
11:02Perhaps make her see reason
11:03It's not anywhere possible
11:05I'd kill myself
11:06Come on, put her in Max Giovanni
11:08Hold her
11:09Where is he?
11:11He's not here yet
11:12Haan
11:13I wait for him in the corridor
11:15He has promised to me
11:17And I swear by Holy Guru
11:20He is having me
11:21Sareye le kai samja hai
11:24Sareye khaanane na khataani hai
11:27Ready, booti booti karke
11:29Kauaana khwaade ga
11:31Haan
11:32Aray, bhiyan, ekareba da kich hai jae ba
11:34Nah, ghi, nah
11:35well what am i telling you yes i quite see your point about an elephant still don't worry ranji
11:49i'm sure some elephants are very nice can i have a nice bag please promise you won't kill yourself
11:53promise killing myself is not going to help me it's the attitude i have a much better idea
12:05so
12:23oh
12:35you're still there yes I still here I really think you ought to go home no I
12:45wait for Ranjit well I don't think Ranjit will be coming tonight I wait
12:50she's she being out in corridor yeah I'm afraid so Ranjit look miss Courtney is
13:02not going to be very pleased when she finds out about this oh dearie me what am I
13:06going to be doing can't you just tell her they're not gonna marry her but I am
13:10not going to be marrying Missy Courtney I am referring to surrender oh no if I am
13:18telling her that she's surely going to kill me ah you said you were gonna kill
13:22yourself that is correct yeah personal commuto
13:29hair arc hearing it is customer for best friender to be present or to chop up
13:36head head hi I will be happy to our system you will do nothing nothing of the
13:49sort oh no no please everybody just sit down you're here to learn English we've
13:52had enough disruption for one night you should leave your personal problems at
13:56home now look at your newspapers Juan read out a headline the newspaper
14:02I see a newspaper yeah read something out
14:08I see a newspaper yeah let's say increase in London rats London rats
14:21yeah increase in London rats right
14:27yeah Anna your turn Western world welcomes wind of change
14:42wonderful
14:46yeah Daniel prime minister sold a pop good now that is a very good example of a
15:02figure of speech prime minister sold a pop can you tell me what that means
15:05Giovanni he's buying a dog no it's a figure of speech look let me give you another example prime minister sold a dummy do you know what that means sure did you understand it yeah it's just the one thing I don't understand does he buy the dummy before or after he buy the pop
15:27he doesn't buy anything
15:29he doesn't buy anything
15:30ah the newspaper man's a big liar
15:34a figure of speech I told you it's just a figure of speech it doesn't mean what it says
15:38typical of imperial politicians who distort luth and surplus working classes
15:43thank you a figure of speech is a way of expressing an idea by way of contrast or comparison if you're being sold a pup or sold a dummy you're being cheated or deceived in England we use figures of speech quite a lot for example we say as quick as a
15:55lightning as light as a feather as clean as a whistle as blind as a Sully
16:02as bright as a bat
16:03good because bats cannot see Max as deaf as a postman
16:10now Max post because posts cannot hear neither can my postman
16:18neither can my postman
16:21honey as sly as a
16:25Sikh
16:27Fox
16:28Ranjit
16:29as mad as a
16:30Muslim
16:32Hata
16:34Tarot
16:35as drunk as a
16:36noodle
16:37yeah well Lord is more correct
16:40Jamila
16:41as white as
16:42you
16:43snow
16:46Ali
16:47as
16:48smooth as
16:50baby's bottoms
16:52all right we'll break for tea now and continue with the newspapers when we come back all right
16:59please
17:00how am I going to be getting out without being observed by the fat one
17:04well that's your problem my problem is how to get off the premises before Miss Courtney finds her
17:11look I really think you ought to go home
17:17no I stay
17:20what is going on
17:22what is going on
17:23what is going on
17:24what is going on
17:25yes well I'm talking to this lady
17:27why is she here
17:28well she's talking to me
17:30why is she sitting in the corridor
17:33why is she sitting in the corridor
17:34must you repeat everything I say
17:36I could have sworn that woman wasn't pregnant yesterday
17:57you're safe now
18:02thank you
18:07thank you
18:09what you do now
18:12maybe I jump out of the window
18:14you be lucky
18:15we're on the third floor
18:17oh
18:18Mr. Brown I have a feeling that something very peculiar is going on
18:22no no everything's perfectly all right I can assure you
18:24are you going
18:26yes
18:27to get a cup of tea
18:29I want a cup of tea
18:37oh blammy
18:38just to him
18:39ah
18:40that was sounding like my Ranjit
18:43where is he now
18:44I told you he's not here
18:46but here
18:47excuse me dearie
18:48huh
18:49are you looking for the darky fellow with the beard
18:51and the bandage round his head
18:53what's that going on
18:54here
18:55he's just come behind those curtains
18:57come out Ranjit
19:07I am knowing you are there
19:09come out
19:11what is the meaning of this
19:24I am noticing windows very dirty
19:26so I'm cleaning them for you
19:40I like very much cleaning windows
19:42in the pitch dark
19:44now come in off that window ledge at once
19:47most certainly
19:48a thousand apologies
19:50yeah
19:51no no no no no no no no I feel like that
19:54yeah well hurry up because tea break is nearly up
19:56i am really
19:57yeah well go on
19:59I am going to enjoy my ancestors
20:00don't keep them waiting too long
20:01bye bye everybody
20:03bye bye
20:05I am really
20:06yeah well go on man
20:07I am going to enjoy my ancestors
20:09Really?
20:10Well, go on.
20:11I'm going to join my ancestors.
20:13Don't keep them waiting too long.
20:15Bye-bye, everybody.
20:16Bye-bye.
20:17I'm doing it now.
20:19So you keep saying.
20:20This is it then.
20:23Come on, hurry up.
20:30Maybe I'm having a cup of coffee before I do it.
20:33Yes, yes.
20:34Well, Ranjit, we all know you haven't the slightest intention of killing yourself,
20:37so put your knife away and let's discuss this properly.
20:40Now, Surinder, as I understand it, you and Ranjit here were both betrothed when they were children.
20:45Most definitely.
20:46Now he's not wanting to marry me.
20:48Yeah, well, you can't get married unless you love each other.
20:50It is his duty to be marrying me.
20:53Otherwise, I'm losing my face.
20:55I think she's lost it already.
20:58You wouldn't be happy together.
21:00I mean, can't you just agree to release Ranjit from his promise?
21:02And what is to become of me?
21:04Oh, I'm sure you'll meet somebody else.
21:06Yeah.
21:07If I think I'll meet another man,
21:10oh, I'm most gladly release Ranjit.
21:13You would?
21:14Most certainly.
21:16But who is having me now?
21:18Hmm.
21:19You know, Surinder,
21:20there is something Mr. Brown is not telling you.
21:23There is?
21:24Oh, yes, indeed.
21:26He has special reason for wanting you not to be marrying me.
21:30I have.
21:32He is wanting to marry her himself?
21:37He is wanting to be marrying me.
21:39I'm wanting to marry her.
21:41Oh, I have some!
21:42Oh!
21:43Oh!
21:44Oh, hello, Mr. Brown.
21:45Good evening, Gladys.
21:46Here.
21:47When's the happy day, then?
21:48There's not gonna be any happy day.
21:49It was all a complete misunderstanding.
21:50Oh, what a pity.
21:51And I thought you and Surinder made a lovely couple.
21:53Well, with all due respect, she was a couple on her own.
21:54Hello, sir.
21:55Hello, sir.
21:56Hello.
21:57Hello.
21:58Hello.
21:59Hello, Mr. Brown.
22:00Good evening, Gladys.
22:01Hello, Mr. Brown.
22:02Hello.
22:03Hello, Mr. Brown.
22:04Good evening, Gladys.
22:05Yeah.
22:06When's the happy day, then?
22:07There's not gonna be any happy day.
22:08It was all a complete misunderstanding.
22:09Oh, what a pity.
22:10And I thought you and Surinder made a lovely couple.
22:11With all due respect, she was a couple on her own.
22:12Oh, my!
22:13Mrs. Price.
22:14Nice, nice, nice.
22:15Hello, man.
22:16Good evening.
22:18Good evening.
22:19Before we start, I've checked your homework last night.
22:22night and I have a feeling that there's been some sort of chicanery going on we
22:28not know what you mean no Giovanni well I'll tell you firstly there's the fact
22:32that five of them are all in the same handwriting it's a sheer coincidence
22:39and is it also a coincidence that you all answered question seven as follows
22:44question explain what is wrong with the following sentence my dogs is in the
22:48garden answer I do not have a garden extra homework tonight please this time
23:02make sure that you do it yourselves I thought she'd agreed to release you from
23:12your marriage now oh yes she has but her father is coming to see you
23:17look there's not gonna be any wedding I have broken it off oh dearie me how
23:23painful to surrender's parents explaining that I cannot possibly marry their
23:29daughter I've also pointed out the differences between our religious and
23:31cultural backgrounds and the fact that I have no intention of marrying anyone
23:37you've got the letter this morning oh yes he did that is why he's coming he's
23:43hoping to be slicing you to many pieces he's saying you are bringing this grace on
23:49his daughter ridiculous this isn't the Punjab it's England a civilized country
23:54people just don't go around slicing each other up and I should tell him so
23:58why is this illegitimate asking over six like it came over blimey I am not knowing where he is
24:04he's not here he has emigrated
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