Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series)
E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease (1972)
Eric Idle: Second Assistant, Elizabethan Gent, Mr. Husband, Various Roles
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Quotes
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Superintendent Gaskell : Look. This is the last time. I'm warning you, I'm not Sir Philip-bleeding-Sidney. I am Superintendent Harold Gaskell and this is a raid.
Second Assistant : [to a customer, ignoring Gaskell] That'll be 540 quid, sir.
Man with Pile of Books : Oh, I'll just have this one then.
Superintendent Gaskell : Maddox!
[Turns to all in shop]
Superintendent Gaskell : Look, this is a raid... Honestly!
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Voice Over : [and caption] The Free Repetition of Doubtful Words Skit, Spoof, Jape or Vignette, By a Very Underrated Writer.
[a Post Office counter window with "Telegram Enquiries" over the top, seen through an ornate vignette. The clerk is behind the counter and Mr. Peepee enters. They speak very stiltedly]
Mr. Peepee : I've come for some free repetition of doubtful words on an inland telegram.
Clerk : Have you got the telegram in question?
Mr. Peepee : I have the very thing here.
Clerk : Well, slip it to me my good chap and let me eye the contents.
Mr. Peepee : At once, Mr Telegram Enquiry Man.
Clerk : [taking the telegram and opening it] Thank you Mr Customer Man. Aha! "Parling I glove you. Clease clome at bronce, your troving swife, Pat." Which was the word you wanted checking?
Mr. Peepee : Pat.
Clerk : Pat?
Mr. Peepee : My wife's name is not Pat at all.
Clerk : No?
Mr. Peepee : It's Bat. With a B.
Clerk : And therefore I will take a quick look in the book.
[Caption: One Quick Look in the Book Later]
Clerk : You're quite right, old cock. There *has* been a mistake.
Mr. Peepee : I thought as much. What really does it say?
Clerk : It say "Go away you silly little bleeder. I am having another man. Love, Bat". Quite some error.
Mr. Peepee : Yes. She wouldn't call herself Pat, it's silly.
Clerk : Daft, I call it.
Mr. Peepee : Well it has been a pleasure working with you.
Clerk : For me also it has been a pleasure.
[to camera]
Clerk : And that concludes our little skit.
[the two men slightly hold a final pose, with string quartet music playing. Camera pulls back to reveal a string quartet playing the music]
Voice Over : [and caption] The Free Repetition of Doubtful Words Thing, by a Justly Underrated Writer. The End.
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Second Assistant : There's a 'Bridget - Queen of the Whip'.
Porn Shop Customer : Yes...
Second Assistant : Or 'Naughty Nora'... or there's this one: 'Doug, Bob and Gordon Visit the Ark Royal'. Or there's 'Sister Teresa: The Spanking Nun'.
Porn Shop Customer : Mmmm, I see. You don't have anything specially about Devon and Cornwall?
Second Assistant : No, I'm afraid not, sir.
Porn Shop Customer : The one I was really after was Arthur Hotchkiss's 'Devonshire Country Churches'.
Second Assistant : Well how about this, sir: 'Bum Biters'?
Porn Shop Customer : No, not really. I don't suppose you have any general surveys of English church architecture?
Second Assistant : No, it's not really our line, sir.
Porn Shop Customer : No, I see. Well, never mind I'll just take the 'Lord Lieutenant in Nylons' then, and trade in these two copies of 'Piggie Parade'. Thank you.