The professor in the opening montage describes the various characters in words ranging from "unswerving, philanderer, gregarious, acquiescent, prevaricator, sedulous, gullible, adjudicator and confusionist," while he describes himself professorially as "erudite."
While upbraiding his house help, Caro, played by Mercy Johnson-Okojie for turning herself into the ‘’Witch of Endor," Professor Johnbull opines that her rather queer way of differentiating between two alphabets was an "exhibition of primitively atavistic tendencies’" and "unabashed educational jingoism."
Consequently, he accuses his daughter, Elizabeth (Queen Nwokoye) of
failure to subject the housemaid to "anthropological larynphalothrophy"
before she was employed. The university egghead, also accused his son
Churchill of "filial insubordination."
When he encounters the fake D’banj at Olaniyi (Yomi Fash-Lanso’s) restaurant, he views his sobriquet,
Kokomaster as an anomaly. "The Cocoa?", he
quipped. "You mean somebody's name is cocoa. Cocoa belongs to the genus
theobroma family, subfamily sterculioidea of the mallow family. The
botanical name is theobroma cacao. How can somebody's
name be cocoa? That is taxonimical anomaly.
Just as the argument was becoming laborious to D’banj, he told the
erudite elderly man that he would rather refrain from entering into an
argument with him. The scholarly man subsequently described the
no-argument stance as "chivalrous, courteous and conciliatory."
At his home to which he had invited the fake music star, Professor
Johnbull offers his guests a plate of garden egg as is customary among
the Igbo tribe. D’banj and his accomplices settled to munch the fruit
while Professor Johnbull acknowledges that his guests
had sufficiently "massaged their phalanges" and asked the house maid to
return the bowel of water used in washing hands.
But as the drama reached its denouement where Churchill, Professor’s son
entered to blow the lid off the real identity of the impostor, the
professor in obvious disbelief of the extent of deceit, threw brickbats
at the fake music icon, noting that he had committed
an act of "catastrophic deception’" which could lead to a
"conflagration of hostility" as well as a "vilified opprobrium."
In all, the character Professor Johnbull
is a stereotype for a normal academic who loves to display his
brilliance by employing highfalutin grammar in his bid to oppress,
impress or coerce whoever happens to be on the receiving
end of his bombastic utterances.
In addition to this, his profile as a
respected academic and community leader puts him in good stead to
deliver homilies on good conduct, discipline and moral rectitude and to
ensure that the full weight of the law falls on whoever
contravenes set social standards of morality.
The first episode of the drama which aired on NTA Network, NTA International and Startimes on Tuesday from 8.30 p.m. to 9 p.m. received wide acclaim from viewers. Repeat broadcast holds on the same stations from 8.30pm to 9pm on Fridays. It's a powerful clincher
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25 comments:
BUHARI will soon be impeached. Who wan bet?
Will chk it out
...merited happiness
Lol
okay!
I prefer Novellas but not indian novellas o!
Nice movie,dope cast
See grammar, it will be so interesting
It should be aired on a better station pulizz.
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Lol mice
Sounds like it would be very interesting. Linda take note!
Unfortunately,neither Startimes nor any of it NTA channels aaired it.
Kanayo wan finish people with grammar
Amazing stuff. Love the first episode.
Super Cast. Nothing like it currently in Nigeria. Unique. Bound to do great thing in the Tv series terrain.
We need more of this and we need them to be archived for future generation. The only Ibo programme we have in the past wasnt archived by NTA and all we can do is tell our children about the stories, Nowhere to watch.
i need to watch this it
LOL KANAYO THOU
AUNTY LINDA👩
I watched the debut episode. just couldn't stop laughing. Really hilarious. I didn't know KOK had such humour in him. Something to look forward to every Tuesday evening after a hard day's work.
So happy for Kanayo O. Kanayo. He's paid his dues. Good work.
Johnbull my son
Lol
erudite professor in flavour's voice
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds
I watched it on Tuesday. It's a welcome relief from the boring contents on terrestrial TV, particularly NTA. This should give The Johnsons a run for it's money.
Just like "the Village Headmaster series" I hope this thrives.kudos to them
Of all networks... NTA. Are they trying to resuscitate it?
Nice,,but why NTA na,haba....... #Lindatakenote
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