Monty Python's Flying Circus · Season 2, Episode 9
“How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body” · Season 2, Episode 9
In this episode: Pepperpot 1 (2)
Rule 1 -- no pooftahs. Rule 2 -- no member of the faculty is to maltreat the abos in any way whatsoever if there's anyone watching. Rule 3 -- no pooftahs. Rule 4 -- I don't want to catch any of you not drinking after lights out. Rule 5 -- no pooftahs. Rule 6 -- there is NO Rule 6. Rule 7 -- no pooftahs!
Bruce, I call upon you to close our meeting with a prayer.
Oh Lord, we beseech thee etc., etc., etc., Amen.
Amen!
Right. Now let's get some Sheilas.
Exploding Penguin sketch
That was Part 2 of the death of Mary Queen of Scots; adapted for the radio. And now, Radio Four will explode. [intreval music plays until the radio suddenly combusts]
We'll have to watch the telly then.
Yes.
Well, what's on the television then?
Looks like a penguin.
No, no, no, no! I didn't mean 'what's on the television set?' I meant 'what program?'
Oh.
Funny that penguin being there, isn't it? What's it doing there?
Standing.
I can see that!
If it lays an egg, it will fall down the back of the television set.
We'll have to watch that. Unless it's a male.
Ooh, I hadn't thought of that.
Yes. Looks fairly butch.
Perhaps it comes from next door.
Penguins don't come from next door; they come from the Antarctic!
BURMA!
Why'd you say "Burma"?
I panicked.
Perhaps it's from the zoo.
Which zoo?
How should I know which zoo? I'm not Doctor Bloody Bernofsky!
How does Doctor Bernofsky know which zoo it came from?
He knows everything.
Ooh, I wouldn't like that. It'd take all the mystery out of life. Anyway, if it came from the zoo, it'd have 'Property of the Zoo' stamped on it.
No it wouldn't. They don't stamp animals 'Property of the Zoo'! You couldn't stamp a huge lion!
They stamp them when they're small.
What happens when they moult?
Lions don't moult!
No, but penguins do. There! I've run rings around you, logically.
Oh, intercourse the penguin!
. . .
It's just gone eight o'clock and time for the penguin on top of your television set to explode.
[The penguin explodes]
How did he know that was going to happen?
It was an inspired guess. And now...
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