The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (TV Series)

Episode #1.1 (1987)

Gian Sammarco: Adrian Mole

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Quotes 

• Adrian Mole : I spent hours looking at our world map, but I couldn't see the Falkland Islands anywhere. Then my mother found them. They were hidden under a crumb of fruitcake.

• [after hearing his Mum and Dad describe the son they wished they'd had, Adrian discusses the matter with his Gran] 

  Grandma Mole : To be honest, Adrian, you were rather a grotesque baby. I mean, you were completely bald until you were two. And you did have a very fierce expression.

  Adrian Mole : [thinking to himself]  So that's why my mother hasn't got a gilt-framed photograph of me on top of our television, like other mothers.

  Grandma Mole : And the glasses didn't help. You looked like a cross between Winston Churchill and a rabid dog. I remember people tended to keep their distance a bit. Y'see, you weren't exactly... cuddly.