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The Beiderbecke Affair (TV Mini Series)
We Call It the White Economy (1985)
James Bolam: Trevor Chaplin
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Quotes
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Big Al : [Totting up the additional LP records Trevor wants to buy] I make it that you owe us for 19 records at two quid a throw, equals 38 quid less cash discount and goodwill. Call it 35 quid - how's that?
Trevor Chaplin : [Astonished at the bargain and starts to dig out cash from his pocket] That's amazing!
Big Al : Good, I like to amaze people! You don't have to pay right now.
Trevor Chaplin : No, I don't like being in debt.
Jill Swinburne : His old mother used to say 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be'.
Trevor Chaplin : No she didn't. It's what I believe in...
Trevor Chaplin : [to Jill, realising he's not got quite enough cash] Can you lend us a quid?
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Trevor Chaplin : [Arriving at school, contrary to Mr. Carter having received an anonymous phone call claiming that Trevor will be absent due to illness] I never have diarrhoea!
Mr. Carter : I envy you!
Trevor Chaplin : My policy. Never catch anything you can't spell in case you have to write a sicknote!
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Trevor Chaplin : [Jill had screamed on discovering an unwelcome newcomer to her class] I still think it's a lot of fuss over a dead cat.
Jill Swinburne : You wouldn't have liked it!
Trevor Chaplin : [On the 'gift' that had been left for him] I had a noose and I didn't scream.
Jill Swinburne : [Sarcastic] You big, brave, macho, incredible hulk, you!
Trevor Chaplin : I just got up on the desk and took it down. As my mother used to say, 'No noose is good noose!'
Jill Swinburne : [Unappreciative of Trevor's attempt at humour] Gordon Bennett!
Trevor Chaplin : You don't even like cats.
Jill Swinburne : It's not the cat - it's the... death aspect.
Trevor Chaplin : I wonder if they killed it specially or just found it somewhere.
Jill Swinburne : Oh, that's awful.
Trevor Chaplin : [Unperturbed and scoffing his school lunch] Just making a rational analysis of the situation.
Jill Swinburne : [Referring to Trevor's meal] I think it's the same sort of dead cat as they use in that!
Trevor Chaplin : [Puts down his cutlery, suddenly no longer hungry]
Jill Swinburne : I think somebody is trying to frighten us. Successfully.
Trevor Chaplin : Uh-huh.
Jill Swinburne : You're frightened?
Trevor Chaplin : Oh, yes. I only *pretend* to be brave.
Jill Swinburne : I think I might need somebody to give me a cuddle tonight.
Trevor Chaplin : Me too.
Jill Swinburne : See Mrs Swinburne in her classroom after school.
Trevor Chaplin : [Teasing] You what! I'm not going in *her* classroom - it's full of dead cats!
Jill Swinburne : I don't find that funny, Trevor!
Trevor Chaplin : [Darkly] I don't suppose it was a barrel of laughs for the cat, either.
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Trevor Chaplin : [On the edibility of school meals] It's always curry on Fridays - it gives everyone the weekend to recover.