Monty Python's Flying Circus

Hermit, before the opening titles: 'It's... Announcer: And now for something completely different.

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Pepperpot 1: I can't tell the difference between Whizzo butter and this dead crab. Interviewer: Yes, we find that 9 out of 10 British housewives can't tell the difference between Whizzo Butter and a dead crab. Various Pepperpots: It's true...We can't...No. Pepperpot 2: Here. Here! You're on television, aren't you? Interviewer: [humbly] Yes, yes... Pepperpot 2: He does the thing with one of those silly women who can't tell Whizzo Butter from a dead crab. Various Pepperpots: Yeah, yeah. Pepperpot 3: You try that around here, young man, and we'll slit your face. Pepperpot 4: [quietly] Yeah, with a razor.

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Get your own arts programme, you fairy!

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This morning, shortly after 11:00, comedy struck this little house on Dibley Road. Sudden...violent...comedy.

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"Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"

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Voiceover: It was a fantastic success. Over 60,000 times as powerful as Britain's great pre-war joke [cut to stock footage of Neville Chamberlain returning from Munich and holding up the Munich Agreement, the "this is peace in our time"-bit.], and one which Hitler just couldn't match. Hitler: [subtitle] My dog's got no nose! Soldiers: [subtitle] How does he smell? Hitler: [subtitle] Awful!

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