What grammar will get you: or Harry Kennedy distinguishes between a noun and an adverb

Harry Kennedy (Richard Armitage) explains the grammatical basis of a pun that Alice doesn’t get. Clipped from the very end of Vicar of Dibley: The Vicar in White.

~ by Servetus on February 15, 2012.

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19 Responses to “What grammar will get you: or Harry Kennedy distinguishes between a noun and an adverb”

This was the ultimate end of The Vicar of Dibley. Alice finally gets the joke.

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bccmee said this on February 15, 2012 at 9:40 pm | Reply
- and because Harry explains grammar to her!!!!
  
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  servetus said this on February 15, 2012 at 9:45 pm | Reply
  - And poor Vicar Geraldine looks on in not so bemused amazement at Alice’s giggling uncontrollably at Harry’s explanation. Ha!
    
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    Gratiana Lovelace said this on February 15, 2012 at 10:33 pm | Reply
    - yeah, it’s the best part that Alice would actually understand the explanation.
      
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      servetus said this on February 16, 2012 at 7:43 pm | Reply
Alice appeared to get the joke. (Who knows hoe Alice’s mind works? 😀 )

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fitzg said this on February 16, 2012 at 12:06 am | Reply
- yeah, that was hilarious.
  
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  servetus said this on February 16, 2012 at 7:44 pm | Reply
That was cute. I’ve never seen it before.

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Jael said this on February 16, 2012 at 12:17 am | Reply
- this is the joke after the credits on the very last episode — worth looking at if you have access.
  
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  servetus said this on February 16, 2012 at 7:44 pm | Reply
Alise’s cerebral ganglia are not too tightly twisted.;) I don’t remember her name but I like this actress.

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Joanna said this on February 16, 2012 at 7:56 am | Reply
- Emma Chambers, she was very good in Notting Hill with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. I think she played Hugh’s character’s sister; had a bit of Alice in her, she was ditsy but lovable.
  Poor Geraldine, all those frustrating years of trying to explain her jokes to Alice…it was good fun though, I was sorry to see it end.
  
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  Mezz said this on February 16, 2012 at 8:31 am | Reply
  - Yeah, there’s a decisive scene where she meets the Julia Roberts character and says, “I’ve always thought we could be friends,” that I wrote about: https://meandrichard.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/could-we-really-be-friends-alices-perspective/
    
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    servetus said this on February 16, 2012 at 7:47 pm | Reply
    - Thanks for the link servetus, I’ve just had an enjoyable reread of that post, and a good chuckle over jazzbaby’s “I fell in a ditch.”
      I also now know the character’s names, which had escaped me when I commented! 🙂
      
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      Mezz said this on February 16, 2012 at 8:22 pm | Reply
      - I always forget that you have read the whole thing! Kudos for that!
        
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        servetus said this on February 17, 2012 at 8:48 pm | Reply
Thanks Mezz! Emma Chambers-distinctive actress.

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Joanna said this on February 16, 2012 at 9:59 am | Reply
- I think she gets typecast because of that.
  
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  servetus said this on February 16, 2012 at 7:48 pm | Reply
Why couldn’t Harry Kennedy have been my English teacher?

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gracie said this on February 16, 2012 at 12:54 pm | Reply
- Would you be able to learn from Harry Kennedy? If any of my teachers had looked like RA I wouldn’t have learned a thing. 🙂
  
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  Jael said this on February 16, 2012 at 4:24 pm | Reply
  - I do think I learned a lot from the male teachers I had crushes on 🙂
    
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    servetus said this on February 16, 2012 at 7:48 pm | Reply
    - The year I had an absolutely gorgeous science/maths teacher was the only time I could tolerate the subjects. Hated them otherwise, I had no aptitude for them.
      
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      Mezz said this on February 16, 2012 at 8:28 pm | Reply