Not the Nine O'Clock News (TV Series)
Episode #2.5 (1980)
Pamela Stephenson: Various Roles
Quotes
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[a scientist is being interviewed about his project to communicate with a gorilla sitting next to him]
Interviewer : Professor, can Gerald really speak as we would understand it?
Prof. Timothy Fielding : Oh yes, yes. He can speak a few actual words. Of course it was extremely difficult to get him even to this stage. When I first captured Gerald in the Congo, '67 I think it was...
Gerald, the Gorilla : '68
Prof. Timothy Fielding : '68. Umm... there was an awful lot of work to do. He was enormously slow and difficult. I had to do a lot of work with him on a sort of one-to-one basis...
Gerald, the Gorilla : [interrupting] Yes, yes, if I might just butt at this point Tim, I think I should point out that I have done a considerable amount of work on this project myself and if I may say so your teaching methods do leave a bit to be desired...
Prof. Timothy Fielding : That's a bit ungrateful, isn't it?
Gerald, the Gorilla : ...and your diction for instance...
Prof. Timothy Fielding : I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Can I put this into some sort of perspective? When I caught Gerald in '68 he was completely wild.
Gerald, the Gorilla : Wild? I was absolutely livid!
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Gerald, the Gorilla : I went to evening classes.
Prof. Timothy Fielding : Oh, shut up about your bloody evening classes, Gerald!
Gerald, the Gorilla : As Aristotle once said...
[speaks Greek]
Prof. Timothy Fielding : You arrogant little bastard, you're wrecking my life's work! Trampling around the garden... eating daffodils!
Gerald, the Gorilla : I do *not* eat daffodils.
Prof. Timothy Fielding : Well, somebody does, don't they?
Interviewer : Well, I'm afraid that's all we've got time for. Professor, Gerald, thank you very much.
A Daffodil : He bloody does eat daffodils, you know.
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Female Reporter : And fears for President Carter's sanity increase after he was seen at a protest rally calling for his own resignation.
