"Reggie and The Greasy Bird"
- Plot
Reggie Mumford is heartbroken and penniless, again, to no surprise of his Junior Rotters Club fellows such as Beano Bagshot. And his uncle Lord Uppingham will only provide should Reggie seduce and marry Constance Rackstraw, who does Good Works in a sort of a mission over on Notting Hill. Falling in love with the girl as is his habit, Reggie borrows a few bob to shower the Notting Hill mothers with cocoa and buns, but loses it on a bet, so he must enter an Amateur Night competition to recover his funds and woo Miss Rackstraw. Unfortunately, with pianist Sid Montrose as his accompanist, and Ginger Murphy with an egg, this may be harder than it sounds.
- Notes
The titular "greasy bird", slang for an unctuous person, is pianist Sid Montrose.
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Famous quotes containing the words reggie, greasy and/or bird:
“TV has changed!”
—Roger Spottiswoode, U.S. screenwriter, Walter Hill, and Larry Gross. Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy)
“When icicles hang by the wall,
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail;
When blood is nipped, and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl:
Tu-whit, tu-whoo!—
A merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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