House, MD

Just A Bit of Fry and Laurie:

"Double balls and bollocks!"

Our General linguistics exam is in fact a so-called [neutral use ;-) SL] "take home exam". One of the proposed questions — because we are to pick two of them out of a set of six — requires us to analyse, among others, the phenomena of hyper- and misunderstanding in the sketch "Customer attacks Jane Eyre", aka "Balls!" from A bit of Fry and Laurie.



Just in passing, I would like to highligh a commentary that has been dropped on this video:

Stephen Fry's character looks like a young Jeremy Clarkson with that perm and the same crass,uneducated, uncultured yoboik attitude that encapsulates his extremely irrating personality and that never popular car show that isn't about cars anymore called top gear.Classic sketch depicting the modern masculine attitude with completely no brain at all!!!.

We got that, but imagine if we had to analyse the silly metaphors uttered by Fry towards the end of this sketch about the English language: