Monty Python PBS 10pm tonight...

[Otter]

Debut: A six-part series featuring cast members' favorite moments from the classic British comedy series. First up: Eric Idle. Included: the 27th Silly Olympiad; the International Hairdressers Expedition to Mount Everest; the “Lumberjack Song.”

 

[kwillia]

Lovely Spaaam! Wonderful Spaaam!
Lovely Spaaam! Wonderful Spam.

Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am.
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am.
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am.
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am.

Lovely Spaaam! (Lovely Spam!)
Lovely Spaaam! (Lovely Spam!)
Lovely Spaaam!

Spaaam, Spaaam, Spaaam, Spaaaaaam!

 

[Tonio]

(Like you couldn't tell from my avatar.)

The Silly Olympiad wasn't part of the original BBC series. It came from one of the two specials that the Pythons did for German television. American audiences saw it in one of the clips at the Hollywood Bowl show, and later in the 1989 reunion special.

Commentator #1:...Now over to Hans Clegg for the start of the marathon for incontinents.

Commentator #2: Well, we've got an enormous entry for this event: 44 competitors from 29 different countries, all of them with the most superbly weak bladders. Not a tight sphincter in sight. Ready to embark, nevertheless, on the world's longest race and they're just aching to go!

Starter: On your marks! Get set! (He fires his pistol.)

Commentator #2: And they're off! They're off! (The competitors begin running but head immediately into an adjacent lavatory.) Well...

 

[cattitude]

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