“The Golden Age of Ballooning” quotes from Monty Python's Flying Circus
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“The Golden Age of Ballooning”· Season 4, Episode 1
AAntoinette
Oh, Joseph! All you think about is balloons. All you talk about is balloons. Your beautiful house is full of bits and pieces of balloons. Your books are all about balloons, every time you sing a song, it is in some way obliquely connected with balloons... Everything you eat has to have "balloon" incorporated in the title. Your dogs are all called Balloono. You tie balloons to your ankles in the evenings!
JMJoseph Montgolfier
I don't do that!
AAntoinette
Well, no, you don't do that. But you do duck down and shout, "Hey! Balloons!" when there are none about. Your whole life is becoming obsessively balloonic, you know... Oh-h-h! Why do I have to hang from this bloody gas bag all day?
[Joseph Montgolfier bursts out of his bath, wearing only a towel, to confront the fake Louis XIV]
JMJoseph Montgolfier
Just a moment! That man is not Louis XIV!
JMJacques Montgolfier
Joseph, are you out of your mind?
JMJoseph Montgolfier
I've been looking it up in my bath. Louis XIV died in 1717 -- it's now 1783! Answer me that!
LXLouis XIV imposter
Did I say Louis XIV? I'm sorry, I meant Louis XV.
JMJoseph Montgolfier
He died in 1774!
LXLouis XIV imposter
[menacingly] All right, I'm Louis XVI! Listen to me, smart-ass, when you're the King of France, you've got better things to do than go around all day remembering your bloody number!
That was episode three of The Golden Age of Ballooning. May I remind you that there’s still time to get your Golden Age of Ballooning suppositories direct from the BBC, price 4.50 or 19 pound for a set of six. Well, in a moment the BBC will be closing down for the night. But first here is a party political broadcast on behalf of the Norwegian Party.
Good evening. You may think its strange that we should be asking you to vote Norwegian at the next election. But consider the advantages. In Norway, we have one of the highest per capita income rates in Europe. We have an industrial re-investment rate of 14 percent. And girls with massive knockers. Honestly, they’ll do anything for you. They'll go through the card. You name it, they know it. There’s one in Trondheim, who can put-
Highlights of that broadcast will be discussed later by Lord George-Brown, ex-Foreign Secretary, Mr. Sven Olafson, the ex-Norwegian Minister of Finance, Sir Charles Ollendorff, ex-Chairman of the Norwegian Trades Council, Mr. Hamish McLavell, the Mayor of Wick, the nearest large town to Norway, Mrs. Betty Norday, whose name sounds remarkably like Norway, Mr. Brian Waynor, whose name is an anagram of Norway, Mr. and Mrs. Ford, whose name sounds like Fiord, of which there are a lot in Norway, Ron and Christine Boslo.
