The Games · Season 1, Episode 2
“Athletics Schedule” · Season 1, Episode 2
In this episode: John Clarke (7), Bryan Dawe (3), Gina Riley (2)
John, what is this amount here?
Where it says 'contingency'?
Yes.
It's a contingency.
Yeah. What's it for.
I don't know what it's for. If I knew what it was for, it wouldn't be a contingency. That's what a contingency is.
John, I know what a contingency is. I want to know what it's for.
Well, the opening ceremony. How the hell are we supposed to know how much the opening ceremony's going to cost, it hasn't happened yet!
John, why didn't you guess a hundred million?
A hundred million dollars?
Yeah.
It's a bloody opening ceremony Bryan, it's not global poverty!
John? John?
[To President Clinton on the telephone] Sorry to do this to you again, I'll be with you as soon as possible.
John, this contingency here is supposed to be in the bank account according to your figures.
You're still here.
It's not in the bank account!
Bryan, look, I don't want to worry you. I've got Juan Antonio Samaranch coming here in half an hour to see a swimming pool. We haven't even finished stage 1 on!
Appreciate that.
We've finished the water! I can show him the water! I've got the Premier out there now having a cup of coffee, I hope he doesn't drop it - he'll set fire to himself Bryan! I've got a very nice Mr Clinton on the blower here, I've not even had time to speak to him! I haven't got time to go pushme-pullyou with all this budgetary crap!
Are you serious? No-one is going to see the final of the 1500 metres? It's one of the most popular events we've got going! I mean, the only people not watching it, Gina, will be people who like watching synchonised drowning on channel six million and eight!
It's on at a quarter to four in the morning!
A quarter to four in the morning out here, sure, by all means! But that's not where the bloody audience for the event is!
But there's not going to be an audience! You're not going to get an audience! You've got the thing on in the middle of the bloody night!
That is the only place ON THE PLANET where it will be the middle of the night!
[Discussing the film Chariots of Fire]:
It's about this guy Anderson...
Abrahams.
... and he's competing in the 400 metres ...
100.
... in the Helsinki Olympics.
In Paris.
In 1932.
24.
And there's this other guy, Little.
Liddell.
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