Are You Being Served? (TV Series)
Hoorah for the Holidays (1974)
Nicholas Smith: Mr. Rumbold
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Quotes
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Mr. Mash : Eh, Mr. Rumbold. Have the high-ups come to their senses about the holidays, then.
Mr. Rumbold : If you'd like to stay, I've called a meeting to give a ruling.
Mr. Mash : Cause I've been on the blower, and I can't cancel the Seychelles.
Mr. Rumbold : The Seashells Boarding House?
Mr. Mash : No, the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.
Mr. Rumbold : Seems a long way to go for someone in your position.
Mr. Rumbold : I've got the urge for some of them native girls in grass skirts. Way-hey!
Mr. Rumbold : Indeed.
Mr. Mash : I'm leaving the wife and taking the lawnmower!
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Mr. Rumbold : [describing possible locations for the staff holiday] "Belly-dancing and sword-swallowing are a nightly attraction for the diners as they sit, cross-legged, on their jhibos, toying with their couscous
[to Mr. Humphries]
Mr. Rumbold : I think a jhibo must be some sort of cushion!
Mr. Humphries : I was going to ask you about that.
Mr. Grainger : What exactly is a couscous?
Captain Peacock : It's a... It's an Arabic, sagoey sort of dish. You eat it with the cut-off ear of a sheep.
Mr. Grainger : Eurgh!
Mrs. Slocombe : Well, I'm not sitting on my jhibo in a Foreign Legion fort, toying with me couscous. Not even with a knife and fork!
Mr. Rumbold : I thought it sounded rather fun.
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[last lines]
Young Mr. Grace : Oh, yes, there's just one thing. - The decorators cant make August, so you'll have to take the last two weeks in November.
Mrs. Slocombe , Mr. Humphries , Mr. Lucas , Mr. Grainger , Mr. Rumbold , Captain Peacock , Miss Shirley Brahms , Mr. Mash : November?
Captain Peacock : Where can you go in November? It's out of season!
Mr. Grainger : Oh, no, it's alright. You can all come and stay at Mrs. Featherstone's. I have a photograph here.
Mr. Lucas : Ah, well, there's one consolation. - If we all go to Mrs. Featherstone's, we won't have to go forty miles to find a pot there.