Mr. Short

Mr. Short is a former principal of the school at which Jeremy Brown teaches. He appears in "The Examination" and is played by George A. Cooper.

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Mr. Short first meets Mr. Brown at The Red Lion after his wife mistakes the teacher for a waiter. He refuses to pay for his lager when he sees Mr. Brown accidentally take a sip of it, and his rude and arrogant behaviour causes Mr. Brown to pour the drink on his head.

Mr. Short later comes to the school to administer the Lower Cambridge exam to Mr. Brown's class, and curtly dismisses him before handing out the exam booklets. He stops by Miss Courtney's office for some sherry afterward, where he shares some of the students' incorrect answers with her and remarks that he will be "very surprised" if any of them pass. When he returns to The Red Lion to meet his wife, Mr. Brown (who is at the pub with his students to celebrate) accidentally sprays him with a soda syphon. Mr. Short then gets back at him by grabbing a drink off of Mavis's tray and pouring it on his head.

He is later mentioned in "All Present If Not Correct".