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Lauren - French Exam

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The setup

Lauren Cooper refuses to speak a word of French in her oral exam, until her teacher threatens to fail her.

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The premise

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When her teacher starts the class's French oral exam, Lauren Cooper answers in English and insists the language has nothing to do with her. Instead she needles the teacher with jibes about body hair and razors, asks whether she appeared in a wartime sitcom, and pesters her into a cod-French greeting. Once the teacher loses patience and threatens to fail her for the whole module, Lauren suddenly unleashes a rapid-fire tirade in French, folding her trademark defiance into every French reference she can muster, from Thierry Henry to nursery rhymes and a kilo of apples. The stung teacher replies with a proud speech in praise of French culture.

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Highly quotable.

But I ain't a French oral. I'm an English oral.

Are you scared of razors, miss?

Est-ce que mon visage bovvered?

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