The Complete A–Z of Everything Carry On. Richard Webber

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СКАЧАТЬ style="font-size:15px;">      BULSTRODE: My dear Mr Boggs, how good to see you again. Do sit down, sit down.

      BOGGS: Thank you, Mr Bulstrode. And how have you been?

      BULSTRODE: Oh, not too bad. But you know how trying this business is these days. Credit squeezes … bank rate … overdrafts … it’s all very worrying.

      BOGGS: Yes, yes, of course. In the circumstances, it must be a relief to know that it’s other people’s money you’re gambling with?

      BULSTRODE: (Not sure about this.) Yes … well, and what can I do for you?

      BOGGS: (Producing it.) I thought you’d like to see this contract we’ve just taken on. (Hands it over.) For nineteen thousand odd, as you’ll see …

      BULSTRODE: Very good, Mr Boggs. Congratulations. This should put you well in credit again.

      BOGGS: Thank you, Mr Bulstrode.

      BULSTRODE: Yes, indeed. (Producing box.) A cigarette?

      BOGGS: Thank you.

      BULSTRODE: Just help yourself.

       (Leaves open box in front of BOGGS and picks up telephone.)

      BULSTRODE: Coffees please for myself and Mr Boggs.

       (Replaces telephone.)

      BULSTRODE: Well, this is very good news. Very good indeed.

      BOGGS: I thought you’d be pleased.

      BULSTRODE: I’m delighted, Mr Boggs. I don’t mind telling you I’ve always had complete confidence in the ability of your firm.

      BOGGS: You’re too kind. Naturally there are one or two difficulties to be overcome yet.

      BULSTRODE: (Getting wary again.) Yes?

      BOGGS: As this is to be a completely new line for us, we’ll have to invest in new moulds and various other things which I won’t bother you with.

      BULSTRODE: I understand, yes …

      BOGGS: But a short term loan of … oh, fifteen hundred should cover it.

       (BULSTRODE starts fiddling with his hearing aid.)

      BULSTRODE: I don’t seem to be hearing you, Mr Boggs.

      BOGGS: (Louder.) I shall require a short term loan of fifteen hundred pounds!

      BULSTRODE: That’s what I thought you said! That’s quite impossible, Mr Boggs. You’re already in debt to us for too much as it is!

       (He grabs the cigarette box, snaps lid shut and puts it back in his drawer.)

      BULSTRODE: I cannot authorise any more. I hate to appear mean, Mr Boggs, but I’m sorry.

       (And he picks up telephone again.)

      BULSTRODE: Cancel that coffee!

      BUMBLE, MAYOR FREDERICK

      Played by Kenneth Connor

      The mayor of Fircombe is seen in Girls. An ineffectual man who’s regarded as a joke around the streets of this seaside town, he’s booed off the stage while preparing to say a few words at the Miss Fircombe beauty contest. Married to Mildred, a slovenly woman who does little for his status in the town.

      BUMBLE, MILDRED

      Played by Patsy Rowlands

      The frumpish wife of Frederick Bumble does little to improve her husband’s standing as mayor of Fircombe, a seaside town in desperate need of a makeover. A heavy smoker, who spends much of her time in the lavatory or slouching around in her slippers and dressing-gown, much to Frederick’s disgust, who classes her as an ‘old compost heap’. When she can’t take her husband’s pomposity any more, she joins Augusta Prodworthy’s women’s lib movement. Seen in Girls.

      BUNG, DETECTIVE SERGEANT SIDNEY

      Played by Harry H. Corbett

      In charge of investigations into the disappearance of Doris Mann, the sixth woman to vanish from Hocombe Woods within the year. Unhappily married to Emily, he accepts any chance to return to work, and ends up leaving his wife to be looked after by Virula Watt, whom he meets while sorting out the Mann case. He appears in Screaming!

      BUNG, EMILY

      Played by Joan Sims

      The miserable, nagging wife of Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung who ends up being turned into a mannequin in Screaming! Just to prove there was not the slightest whiff of romance left in their relationship, Sidney decided to leave her as a dummy when he had the chance to return her to normality, preferring the charms of Virula Watt instead.

      BUNGHIT DIN

      Played by Bernard Bresslaw

      The leader of the Burpas who’s based in the hill town of Jacksi in Afghanistan. Seen in Up The Khyber causing confusion and mayhem for the men of the 3rd Foot and Mouth company.

      BUNGHIT’S SERVANT

      Played by David Spenser

      As the Khasi and Bunghit are lounging, whilst Jelhi plays and sings in Up The Khyber, the servant enters and announces that the chiefs have arrived, opening their eyes to the fact that the ones they’ve been entertaining are impostors.

      BUNN WARD

      A ward in Finisham Maternity Hospital. Seen in Matron.

      BUNNY WAITRESS

      Played by Shirley Stelfox

      Works at the Whippit Inn in At Your Convenience. While serving Lewis Boggs and Myrtle Plummer, who are dining out at the inn, Lewis doesn’t know where to look when she leans over in her low-cut bunny outfit.

      BUREAU OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS

      Based in Washington, the Commissioner of the Bureau is seen in Cowboy, initially enjoying a bit of fun with a woman in his office until interrupted by Perkins, his assistant. A former janitor at the law school Judge Burke attended, he responds to Burke’s request for a peace marshal at Stodge City but can’t find anyone to fill the position until Marshall P. Knutt walks in looking for a job. Assuming he’s actually a marshal, he packs him off to Stodge City.

      BURGER, COMMANDANT

      Played by Kenneth Williams

      In charge of the Foreign Legion unit in Follow That Camel, Maximillion Burger used to teach fencing at a Viennese finishing school before donning the legion’s uniform. СКАЧАТЬ