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This type is for any discrete sub-section of a television episode. Examples of types of episodes that have segments include sketch comedy shows, anthology shows, and many cartoon shows.  This type is primarily to allow the recording of greater detail about the roles of writers, directors, and... more
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x Dead Parrot Palin, Cleese and the dead parrot, from And Now For Something Completely Different Full Frontal Nudity John Cleese  
The Dead Parrot sketch, alternatively and originally known as the Pet Shop sketch or Parrot Sketch, is a popular sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, and one of the most famous in the history of British television comedy. It was written by John...
Graham Chapman
x Hell's Grannies   Full Frontal Nudity    
Hell's Grannies is a skit performed by Monty Python. The skit features a gang of elderly women (played by John Cleese, Eric Idle, et al.) who prowl the streets beating up mild-mannered lower class youths. After the main part of the sketch...
x Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses        
"Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses" is a sketch from the thirty-first Monty Python's Flying Circus episode, "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition". This skit features Graham Chapman as a television interviewer and John Cleese in drag as...
x Architects Sketch   The Buzz Aldrin Show    
The "Architects Sketch" is a Monty Python sketch, first seen in episode 17 of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The Buzz Aldrin Show". The sketch is introduced by a group of Gumbies (on film) who keep shouting "The Architects Sketch" over and over...
x The Argument Skit The Argument Skit      
The Argument Sketch (or Argument, Argument Clinic, or Six More Minutes of Monty Python's Flying Circus when including the non-argument sections) is a sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus. It appeared in the show's 29th episode, following the...
x Bruces sketch   How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body    
The Bruces sketch is a famous sketch from the TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus, and appears in episode 22, 'How to recognise different parts of the body'. It involves a group of stereotypical lounging Australians who are revealed to be the...
x Cheese Shop sketch John Cleese (right) and Michael Palin (left) of Monty Python performing the Cheese Shop sketch      
The Cheese Shop is a well-known sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus. It appears in episode 33, "Salad Days". The script for the sketch is included in the book The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus : All the Words, Volume 2.. Graham Chapman...
x Colin "Bomber" Harris vs Colin "Bomber" Harris        
The sketch is about a wrestling match, in which Colin Harris (Graham Chapman) fights himself. As Colin fights himself, a commentator (John Cleese, with Michael Palin as MC in both versions) hastily reports the events. The sketch includes the...
x Crunchy Frog        
Crunchy Frog is a fictional confection originating from a Monty Python sketch titled "Trade Description Act," inspired by the British law Trade Descriptions Act 1968. It consists of an entire frog that has been coated with chocolate. According to...
x Dead Bishop        
Monty Python's Dead Bishop sketch, also known as the Church Police or Salvation Fuzz, appeared in the Flying Circus TV Show in Episode 29, "The Money Programme". It was also performed in Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl and featured on the...
x The Dirty Fork        
The Dirty Fork, also known simply as Restaurant Sketch, is a Monty Python sketch that appeared in episode 3 of the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus, and later in the film, And Now For Something Completely Different. It is notable for...
x Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook        
"Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook" is a Monty Python sketch that first aired in 1970. The sketch is set in Britain. A Hungarian enters a tobacconist's shop and begins a dialogue with the tobacconist; he wants to buy some cigarettes but his phrasebook is...
x Election Night Special        
"Election Night Special" is a Monty Python sketch parodying the coverage of United Kingdom general elections, specifically the 1970 general election, on the BBC by including hectic (and downright silly) actions by the media and a range of ridiculous...
x Fish Licence        
The Fish Licence is part one of a two-part segment of the popular British television series, Monty Python's Flying Circus, in it Eric Praline, played by John Cleese, takes on the role of the put-upon customer who, when seeking to obtain a licence...
x The Fish-Slapping Dance John Cleese and Michael Palin in the Monty Python sketch "The Fish-Slapping Dance"      
The Fish-Slapping Dance is a comedy sketch written and performed by the Monty Python team. The sketch was originally recorded in 1971 for a pan-European May Day special entitled Euroshow 71. In 1972 it was broadcast as part of episode two of series...
x The Funniest Joke in the World   Whither Canada    
"The Funniest Joke in the World" is the title most frequently used for written references to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, which is also known by two other phrases that appear within it, "Joke Warfare" and "Killer Joke", the latter...
x How Not To Be Seen        
"How Not To Be Seen" is a popular sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus. It was first aired as a the 11th episode of the 2nd season of the show. This filmed sketch purports to be a British government film (No. 42, PARA. 6.) presented for public...
x Kilimanjaro Expedition Jimmy Blenkinsop, George Head and Arthur Wilson      
Kilimanjaro Expedition is a sketch from the episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus "The Ant, an Introduction", also appearing in the Monty Python film And Now For Something Completely Different. It has been compared to a comic episode in Franz...
x Lifeboat sketch        
Monty Python's Lifeboat (Cannibalism) sketch appeared on Monty Python's Flying Circus in Episode 26. It was also performed on the album, Another Monty Python Record, retitled Still No Sign Of Land. The sketch was inspired by the famous 1884 English...
x The Lumberjack Song Michael Palin performs The Lumberjack Song, with Connie Booth as his "best Girl."      
The Lumberjack Song is one of the best-known and most popular songs by the Monty Python comedy troupe. The song was written by Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Fred Tomlinson. It first appeared on the ninth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, ...
x Marriage Guidance Counsellor Carol Cleveland as the stereotypical "blonde bombshell" in the Marriage Guidance Counsellor sketch      
The Marriage Guidance Counsellor sketch is from the second Monty Python's Flying Circus episode, "Sex and Violence". It was also featured in the 1971 spinoff film And Now for Something Completely Different, and is notable as being one of Carol...
x The Ministry of Silly Walks John Cleese as the Minister of Silly Walks in the halls of the Ministry Face the Press    
"The Ministry of Silly Walks" is a sketch from the Monty Python comedy troupe's television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, episode 14, which is entitled "Face the Press". The episode first aired in 1970. A shortened version of the sketch was...
x Nudge Nudge Idle's character gets on the nerves of Jones' character      
Candid Photography, better known as "Nudge Nudge", is a sketch from the third Monty Python's Flying Circus episode, "How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away" featuring Eric Idle (author of the sketch) and Terry Jones as...
x Patient Abuse   Party Political Broadcast Douglas Adams  
Patient Abuse is a sketch from the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Party Political Broadcast". The sketch is notable for being one of the few not written by a Monty Python member, and for its considerable amount of black humour. It...
Graham Chapman
x The Philosophers' Football Match   Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus, Episode 2    
The Philosophers' Football Match is a Monty Python sketch depicting a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics between philosophers representing Greece and Germany. Starring in the sketch are Archimedes (John Cleese),...
x Piranha Brothers   Face the Press    
"Piranha Brothers" is a Monty Python sketch, first seen in Series 2, Episode 1 (Face the Press) of Monty Python's Flying Circus (original tx September 15, 1970). The premise is a BBC current affairs documentary, inexplicably entitled Ethel the Frog,...
x Seduced Milkmen        
Seduced Milkmen is a sketch written and performed by Monty Python, portraying female sexuality as a trap. The sketch is wordless and just fifteen seconds long but was received well. It first appeared on the third episode of Monty Python's Flying...
x Self Defense Against Fresh Fruit        
"Self-Defence Against Fresh Fruit" is a Monty Python sketch. It is about an RSM-type instructor who is teaching a class about self-defence, but all he teaches is how to defend oneself against an assailant "armed" with a piece of fresh fruit. The...
x Spam Terry Jones (in the back), Eric Idle, and Graham Chapman in the Monty Python skit "Spam"      
"Spam" is a popular Monty Python sketch, first televised in 1970. In the sketch, two customers are trying to order a breakfast from a menu that includes the processed meat product in almost every dish. The term spam (in electronic communication, and...
x The Spanish Inquisition "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"      
"The Spanish Inquisition" was a series of sketches in Monty Python's Flying Circus, Series 2 Episode 2 parodying the real-life Spanish Inquisition. This episode was itself entitled "The Spanish Inquisition". The principal catchphrase in these...
x The Bishop        
The Bishop is a famous Monty Python sketch from season 2, episode 17 of Monty Python's Flying Circus (titled "The Buzz Aldrin Show"). It stars Terry Jones as a Secret Agent-like bishop attempting to stop several comical murders of various members of...
x Undertaker's sketch        
The Undertakers sketch (written by Graham Chapman and John Cleese) is a comedy sketch from the 26th episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, entitled "The Queen Will Be Watching". It was the final sketch of the final episode of the second season,...
x Upper Class Twit of the Year        
The Upper Class Twit of the Year is a classic comedy sketch that was seen on the TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus, and also in a modified format as the finale of the movie And Now For Something Completely Different. It is notable for its savage...
x Vocational Guidance Counsellor        
Vocational Guidance Counsellor is a Monty Python sketch that first aired on December 21, 1969. The sketch has been credited with creating the popular stereotype of accountants being boring. Four decades on, the Financial Times reported that it still...
x Chucky Vs. Patch Dolls   Plastic Buffet    
Sarah Michelle Gellar lent her voice to the episode "Plastic Buffet", which included a parodied would-be eighth season of Buffy. The story featured Chucky (voiced by Mark Hamill) and the soulless Lettuce Head Kids terrorising America.
x Poofy the Vampire Slayer        
When Anthony Stewart Head appeared on Norton's show he spoofed "Buffy" in a "Poofy the Vampire Slayer" sketch. Graham Norton portrayed 'Poofy', whilst Head portrayed 'Rupert Giles'.
x Bunny the Vampire Slayer        
Michelle Trachtenberg appeared in a sketch that has been entitled "Bunny the Vampire Slayer" by MadTV, and features the MadTV recurring character, Bunny Swan, (more commonly known as "Ms Swan)". The five minute clip includes Trachtenberg as Dawn...
x Buffy the Umpire Slayer        
"MADtv" (1997) "Buffy the Umpire Slayer" sketch in which Nicole Sullivan starred as 'Buffy'. The clip features Buffy, Willow, Xander and Giles attempting to control the threat from blood-sucking baseball umpires.
x Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Seinfeld sketch        
Sarah Michelle Gellar starred in a sketch first aired on 1999, in which the Slayer was relocated to the Seinfeld universe, starring as an Elaine Benes version of Buffy.
x Accidents Sketch   Live from the Grill-O-Mat    
The Accidents Sketch is a Monty Python skit that first aired in series 2, episode 18, Live from the Grill-o-mat, of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Eric Idle plays an innocent looking but seemingly accident prone man who happens to enter an...
x Mad Greek's Diner   Classics      
x Brint's Diner   Classics      
x Mac & Ernie's   Classics      
x Four Kegs Sports Pub   That's Italian      
x Pizza Palace   That's Italian      
x Hullabaloo Diner   That's Italian      
x Frosted Mug   Blue Plate Special    
The Frosted Mug is closed per the Diners Drive-Ins and Dives website.
x Patrick's Roadhouse   Blue Plate Special      
x Gaffey Street Diner   Breakfast      
x Franks Diner   Breakfast    
Franks Diner in Kenosha, Wisconsin is a Jerry O’Mahoney lunch car diner built in Bayonne, New Jersey. In 1926, the dining car was transported on a railroad flat car to Kenosha. It was then pulled by six horses to the downtown spot, near the...
x The Coffee Cup   Breakfast      
x Baby Blues BBQ   BBQ      
x Louie Mueller Barbecue louie_mueller_exterior.jpg BBQ      
x Barbecue King Drive-In   BBQ      
x A1 Diner   Local Legends      
x Leo's BBQ   Local Legends      
x Eveready Diner   Local Legends      
x The Dale Car: A Dream or a Nightmare?        
The Dale Car: A Dream or a Nightmare? was an in-depth investigative news report about a 2 cylinder car that would get 70 miles to the gallon.  Purchase options and dealerships were sold but it was all a con.
x Confronting Colon Cancer tn Katie Couric.jpg      
Confronting Colon Cancer is a special 5 part series that aired on NBC's Today show.
x Treading on Danger        
Treading on Danger was an investigative report on the danger of the Firestone ATX tire.
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