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How dare you wake the Emperor Napoleon up in the middle of his retirement.

8 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 9, The Battle of Spion Kop classic radio program.

You can hear this line at 00:25:20 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

(Wind up and wolves howling)

- Meantime in Parliament the British Government had written off the Battle of Spion Kop as a dead loss.

- Gentlemen, urn, um... To save face and the honor of England, we're going to bring back that old favourite urn, ah... The Battle of Waterloo.

- Gentlemen, we shall send out immediate notification to the original cast.

- Mon Emperor, wake-up!

- How dare you wake the Emperor Napoleon up in the middle of his retirement.

- Wonderful nouvelle wonderful news...

- Quel news?

- By special request, we have to do an encore of the Battle of Waterloo.

- What... But we lost it.

- This time we've got a British backer.

- Sapristi nabolas! Get my trousers oiled and unwrap a fresh Josephine...

- Ahh, there's going to be fun tonight in the camp!

[...]

The Goon Show Sound Clip

The Goon Show RadioQuotes with sound clips from The Goon Show radio comedy programme produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960.

Actors: Peter Sellers (Bloodnok / Bluebottle/ Grytpype-Thynne), Spike Milligan (Eccles / Minnie Bannister), Harry Secombe (Neddie Seagoon)

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