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"(To Edith) You stupid woman!"
"(To Madame Fanny) Shut up, you (silly) old bat."
"You may wonder what I am doing...."
"Oh Yvette!"
"René! What are you doing with that woman?"
"René! What are you doing, holding that poor servant-girl in your arms?"
"Ooooh, Rrrrenéééé!"
"Edith! Yvette! Maria/Mimi! Oh! Does nobody hear the cries of an poor old woman!?"
"Ze flashing knobs, ze flashing knobs!! (in later seasons, Leclerc often comes out from the bedclothes)"
"Not the onion soup!"
"Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once."
"Can you do nothing right?!"
"Monsieur Alfonse, undertaker - Swiftly, and with style."
"Ze small hearse with ze small horse."
"Ohhh... my dicky ticker!"
"I love you, I love you! (running after Madame Edith and pinching her bum)"
"It is I, Leclerc!"
"Leclerc: It is I, Leclerc, man of a thousand faces!"
"René: All of them the same."
"May I kiss you?"
"Yes, Herr Flick!"
"[at the top of her voice] GENERAL VON KLINKERHOFFEN!"
"Gid moaning."
"I have bad nose."
"I have a massage from Michelle."
"I was pissing by the door..."
"I was in the poop"
"Hole Hotler!"
"Take off your clothes."
"You may kiss me!"
"Flick ze Gestapo... no, I said FLICK ze Gestapo!"
"Give me my powerful Gestapo binoculars."
"You vill dress as a woman of the opposite sex"
"What-a mistake-a to make-a"
"Da a beautiful laidy i-a kiss-a your hand"
"Heil-a Mussolini! (in response to General Von Klinkerhoffen's "Heil Hitler")"
"My heart goes boom-titi-boom... titi-boom"
"Colonnello! (kisses Von Strohm on his bald head)"
"Ow are you getting on, ey?"
"'tler! (pronouncing only the last third of "Heil Hitler!")"
"Hello! (when they come out of hiding)"
"(Jolly) good show!"
"Gorden Kaye - René Artois"
"Carmen Silvera - Edith Artois"
"Vicki Michelle - Yvette Carte-Blanche"
"Francesca Gonshaw - Maria Recamier"
"Rose Hill - Fanny La Fan"
"Sue Hodge - Mimi Labonq"
"Jack Haig - Roger LeClerc"
"Robin Parkinson - Ernest LeClerc"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.