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Monty Python's Flying Circus · Season 1, Episode 9

“The Ant, an Introduction” quotes from Monty Python's Flying Circus

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“The Ant, an Introduction” · Season 1, Episode 9

In this episode: Bevis (3), Victor (3), Mr. Equator (3)

AWArthur Wilson

[talking to George Head about the trek to Mt. Kilinmanjaro, after he explains about the route] Does anyone speak Swahili?

GHGeorge Head

Oh, I think most of them do down there.

AWArthur Wilson

Does anyone in our party speak Swahili, sir?

GHGeorge Head

Well, the matron's got a smattering.

AWArthur Wilson

Apart from the two matrons.

GHGeorge Head

Good God! I forgot about that.

AWArthur Wilson

Apart from them, who else is coming?

GHGeorge Head

Well, we've got the Arthur Brown twins, two botanists called Maychen, the William Johnston brothers-

AWArthur Wilson

Two of them?

GHGeorge Head

No, four of them; pair of identical twins. And a couple of the Ken Zobana quads; the other four pulled out. And of course, you two.

WWoman

I object to all this sex on the television. I mean, I keep falling off.

[explaining his fear of cutting hair to his customer] When I was a kid I used to hate the sight of hair being cut. My mother said I was a fool. She said the only way to cure it was to become a barber! So I spent five ghastly years at the Hairdressers' Training Centre at Totnes. Can you imagine what it's like; cutting the same hair for five years?! I didn't want to be a barber anyway. I wanted to be... a lumberjack!

I always preferred the outdoor life…hunting…shooting…fishing…getting out there with a gun and slaughtering a few of God's creatures.

KLKenny Lust

Now, every so often here in the Refreshment Room it is my honor, my privilege, to welcome some the truly great international artists. And tonight we have one such artist. Ladies and gentlemen, someone who've I've always personally admired. More deeply, more strongly, more abjectly than anyone before. A man, no, more than a man, a god! A great god whose personality is so totally and utterly wonderful, that my feeble words of welcome sound wretchedly and pathetically inadequate. Someone whose boots I would gladly lick clean, until holes wore through my tounge! A man who is so totally and utterly wonderful, that I would rather be sealed in a pit of my filth than dare tread on the same stage with him. Ladies and gentlemen, the incomparably superior human being, Harry Fink! [crowd applauds]

SHStage-hand

He can't come!

KLKenny Lust

Never mind. He's not all that's cracked up to be.

KLKenny Lust

Ken Buddha. A smile, two bangs, and a religion.

STSpanish TV Host

"Pero las llamas son peligrosas. Si usted ve una llama donde hay gente? nadando, usted gritar: ¡Cuidado! ¡Llamas!" ["Llamas are dangerous, so if you see one where people are swimming, you shout: Look out, there are Llamas!"]

The Lumberjack Song

[sung] I cut down trees, I eat my lunch, I go to the lavatory. On Wednesdays I'll go shopping, and have buttered scones for tea.

MCMounties Choir

[sung] He cuts down trees, he eats his lunch, he goes to the lavatory. On Wednesdays, he goes shopping, and has buttered scones for tea. He's a lumberjack and he's OK, he sleeps all night and he works all day.

[sung] I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wildflowers. I put own womens' clothing, and hang around in bars.

MCMounties Choir

[sung] He cuts down trees, he skips and jumps, he likes to press wildflowers. He puts on womens' clothing, and hangs around- [starts to show signs of disgust] -in bars? [perk back up] He's a lumberjack, and he's OK, he sleeps all night and he works all day.

[sung] I cut down trees, I wear high heels, suspenders, and a bra. I wish I've been a girlie, just like my dear Mama!

MCMountie Choir

[sung] He cuts down trees, he wears- high heels? [choir storms out in revulsion, as Bevis continues singing, to his Best Girlie's dismay]

BSBevis's Best Girlie

Oh, Bevis. And I thought you were so rugged! [runs off crying]

MMan

[letter read aloud] Dear Sir, I wish to complain on the strongest possible terms about the song which had just broadcast about the lumberjack who wears women's clothes. Many of my best friends are lumberjacks and only a few of them are transvestites. Yours faithfully, Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Ms.). P.S. I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times.

The Visitors

[to his girlfriend Iris] I think I'm beginning to fall in love with you. It's silly isn't it?

IIris

No, not at all, sweet Victor.

No, I didn't mean that. I meant the fact we've spent time close together for so many months in the soft toy department, yet never truly daring to-

IIris

[bemused] Oh, Victor.

Oh, Iris.

ANArthur Name

Here's a joke I heard down in the pub: what's brown, and sounds like a bell? Dung!

[introducing himself to Victor] Good evening. I'm Equator; Mr. Equator. Like 'round the middle of the Earth, only with an L.

AAudrey

[laughs hysterically]

And this is my wife, Audrey. She smells a bit, but she has a heart of gold.

There must be some kind of mistake, because this isn't-

[of Iris] Who's she? Who's the bird?

I-

You've got a nice pair there, haven't you, love? [fondles Iris by the breasts and kisses her, causing her to spazz out] Shut up, you silly bitch. It's only a bit of fun.

AAudrey

[as Arthur Name is getting drinks for everyone] Three cans of beans for me.

I told you to lay off the beans, you whore!

AAudrey

I only want three cans!

BATTEN YOUR LIP, YOU RATBAG!! [both burst into hysterical laughter] That was rather witty, wasn't it?

Get out! All of you; get out!!

I beg your pardon?

I'm throwing you all out! I'm not going to have my house filled with filthy perverts. Now, I'm giving you half a minute to leave or I'm calling the police!

I don't much like the tone of your voice. [shoots Victor dead]

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