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Dr Jekyll & Ms Hyde
Time: 11:13
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This hilarious video (by the great comedian Carol Burnett) is based on the story of Dr Jekyll transforming into Mr Hyde, but here, Mr Hyde is a woman, so we come across lots of funny situations.
(transcription for the first 5:37 minutes)
The entire world is against me and my experiment. They denounce me (as) mad. But, is it mad to take the beak of a penguin, grind it into a powder and mix it with a chocolate phosphate? Is it mad to take the inner pieces of a concertina and sauté it with an artichoke? Is it mad to squeeze all the juice out of a venetian blind and mix it with parts of the San Bernadino freeway? Is that mad? A little goofy maybe... but not mad. Why am I so misunderstood. But with this potion I will no longer be thought of as weak and unimportant. It will make me powerful, strong, virile! But then again, it may only be a laxative. Who knows what a chance! Alright, here it goes.
What is this? What's come over me? All of a sudden I have this strange desire to take myself out. Aaagh! I just took advantage of myself.
Tonight, on "Horror Round-up", Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde. The story of a man who not only turns to the woman he loves, but turns into the woman he loves.
What have I done to myself. I've turned from a man into a woman, oh. What possibilities this conjures up. I wonder, if I'd married me, would I live happily ever after?
Kock, knock, knock
- Who is it?
- It's doctor Kimbell, is Dr. Jekyll at home?
- Just a minute, I'll see. Dr Jekyll, it's for you. I'll be right up. Just a minute. Let me change into somebody more comfortable.
- Jekyll?
- Yes.
- What's going on? I thought I heard a woman's voice.
- A woman's voice? Ha, ha, ha.
- Jekyll, you've been acting strangely lately. Why, it's been months since you've attending any of our social engagements.
- I've been busy. You see, I'm standing on a threshold of making a discovery that may well change the meaning of the word "fondle".
- Jekyll, you're always tampering with the unknown. Why, when there's so many known things to tamper with? Tamper with... pizza. Find a juicier pepperoni.
- No, I refuse to go into baking.
- Well, alright, do what you will. At least come into my house this evening for cocktail. My cousin Rowena's in town and I would like to have you meet her.
- Excellent suggestion. I need the relaxation.
- Good.
- What? Wait a moment, I'll find out. Oh, what would she be wearing?
- What?
- Ah, (it) might be embarrassing if we both wore the same thing. Are you joshing, Jekyll, or are you just jerky?
- Well I... better ++++.
- Aaaah! ++++ of myself. Who do I think I am?
- Ah, Dr. Jekyll, come in, come in.
- Thank you
- Make yourself a drink while I call Rowena.
- Excellent suggestion.
- So you're Rowena, the beauty.
- So you're Dr. Jekyll, the goofball.
- (I'll let it drink) in the beauty of your eyes, your nose, your lips, your arrrgh... Not now, can't you see I have a hot cookie here?
- Do you have a frog in your throat?
- No, it's a... just my tonsles. I'll take them out. Excuse me.
- Hi, you must be Rowena. Uhm, Heidi, Heidi Hyde.
- Where is Dr. Jekyll. Something very strange is going on here. First Dr. Jekyll acts weird and has mad convulsions. Then he has to go into the closet to take his tonsels out. Then I hear wild screams coming from behind the door and then you appear as if from nowhere. The whole thing is so bizarre and ridiculous and unbelieavable and yet somehow the whole thing seems to make sense. Excuse me.
Report mistakesDENOUNCE= If you denounce someone as X, you say that they are X and X is a bad thing.
MAD= Crazy
BEAK= Peak, bill. The beak of a bird is the hard protruding piece of horn they have on their mouths. (see picture)
GRIND= To smash something hard and make it into powder.
INNER= The inner pieces are the pieces from inside.
CONCERTINA= A kind of small hexagonal accordion. (see picture)
SAUTÉ= To fry lightly in fat in a shallow open pan. It is a French word, so it is usually spelled with an accent.
ARTICHOKE= A kind of light green vegetable with hard leaves. (see picture)
VENETIAN BLIND= A window blind consisting of a number of thin horizontal adjustable slats that overlap when closed. It is used to soften or stop the light in the street from coming inside the house, so it is mainly used in Mediterranean and hot countries. (venetian blind)
FREEWAY (AmE)= Highway (AmE), motorway (BrE). A kind of dual carriageway, a road with two or more lanes running in each direction, so you can’t find any cars coming in front of you. (see picture)
GOOFY= Silly, ridiculous.
LAXATIVE= Something to help you go to the toilet (if you know what I mean).
CHANCE= Opportunity
WHAT’S COME OVER ME? = What’s happened to me?
ALL OF A SUDDEN= Suddenly.
TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SOMEBODY= We usually use this expression to mean that a man kissed, touched (sexually) or had sex with a woman who didn’t want to or was, for some reason, too week to oppose.
TURN TO SOMEONE= Go to that person for support.
TURN INTO SOMEONE= Transform into another person, become someone different, change.
CONJURE UP= To produce as if from nowhere. To suddenly come true.
I’LL BE RIGHT UP= I’ll be back in a minute.
WHY, IT’S BEEN MONTHS SINCE... = We can use the word WHY meaning nothing, just to start talking or to show surprise or strangeness. Here we could just as well say: "well, it’s been months..."
THRESHOLD= An entrance or a doorway. If you are in a threshold of something, you are about to do it.
FONDLE= To handle, stroke, or caress lovingly. Also used (like here) to some kind of sexual touch.
TAMPER WITH= To change improperly or dangerously.
BAKING= Cooking with dry heat (especially in an oven).
DO WHAT YOU WILL= Do what you want. The verb WILL, in old English, was a normal verb with the same meaning as WANT (not an auxiliary as today). And now we still use it with that meaning sometimes.
JOSHING= Joking, kidding.
JERKY= Stupid.
GOOFBALL= A foolish, incompetent, or stupid person.
TONSILS= Either of two small oval lumps of spongy tissue situated one on each side of the back of the mouth.
BIZARRE= Strange, unconventional.
