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| x Dead Parrot |
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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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| x The Argument Skit |
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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...
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| 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...
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| x Cheese Shop sketch |
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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.
John Cleese...
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| 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 narrator (John Cleese, with Michael Palin as MC in the Hollywood Bowl version) hastily reports the events.
The sketch includes...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| x The Fish-Slapping Dance |
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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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| x Kilimanjaro Expedition |
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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...
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| x Lifeboat sketch |
Monty Python's Lifeboat 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 features five sailors in a lifeboat, and features...
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| x The Lumberjack Song |
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The Lumberjack Song is one of the best-known and most popular sketches 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,...
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| x Marriage Guidance Counsellor |
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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...
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| x The Ministry of Silly Walks |
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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...
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| x Nudge Nudge |
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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...
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| 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...
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| 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),...
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| 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,...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| x Spam |
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"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...
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| x The Spanish Inquisition |
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"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...
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| 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...
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| 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,...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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.
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| 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'.
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| 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...
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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...
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| 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.
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| 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...
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| x The Coffee Cup | Breakfast | ||||
| x Baby Blues BBQ | BBQ | ||||
| x Louie Mueller Barbecue |
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| 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.
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| x Confronting Colon Cancer |
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Confronting Colon Cancer is a special 5 part series that aired on NBC's Today show.
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| x Treading on Danger |
Treading on Danger was an investigative report on the danger of the Firestone ATX tire.
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