Stuart: Also, of course, they gave us the word "economics." Very sharp folk, your Greeks.
Gordon: And, of course, the word "genoymeen."
Stuart: What?
Gordon: The word "genoymeen." Only I think we gave that one back straightaway.
Hugh: (dressed in period costume) I suppose you must have to be quite a historian, really, to know about the details of the period and how wide the lapels were and all that sort of thing.
Theresa, a costume designer: That's right, because obviously audiences are so quick to spot mistakes.
Hugh: Are they?
Theresa: Oh, yes. They'll write in about the tiniest detail if they think you haven't got it right.
Doctor: Headaches?
Patient: What, apart from the children, you mean?
Doctor: (puts a cigarette on the desk) It's a simple arsinous monoxide nicotinal preparation taken bronchially as an infumation. Patient: An infumation? Doctor: Yes, you light the end and breathe in. Patient: Oh, like cigarettes? Doctor: Oh, you know them, then?
Special Agent (smiling, to woman he's been interrogating) We may be stupid, but we're not clever.
The baby who plays William Popey in the final sketch is Charles Green. He is the real life son of Hugh Laurie.
Points of View is a BBC program that offers a forum for the public to air their opinions on current events.
Hugh: Then I saw a bit of an interview with Kenneth Baker. Kenneth Baker was Britain's Secretary of State for Education, 1986-1989. In the 1988 Education Act, he introduced the "National Curriculum," which brought on a great deal of debate.
Hugh: I've just been watching that Noel Edmonds on television. Noel Edmonds has been involved with British television since 1970. At the time this episode aired, he had hosted such shows as Top of the Pops, with musical performances from popular artists; Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, a children's show; and The Late Late Breakfast Show, a talk show.
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