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"Monty Python's Flying Circus" Mr. Neutron (1974)
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28 November 1974 (Season 4, Episode 5)
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An interesting episode with as many hits as misses more (1 total)
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(Episode Credited cast) | Graham Chapman | ... | Mr. Neutron / Lumberjack / Eskimo / Various |
 | Terry Gilliam | ... | Various Roles |
 | Eric Idle | ... | Captain Carpenter / Mrs. Smailes / Chairman / Prime Minister / Continuity Announcer / Various |
| Terry Jones | ... | Scrap Man / Mr. Entrail / Second Eskimo / Trapper / Giuseppe / Mrs. Scum / Various |
| Michael Palin | ... | GPO Official / Mrs. Entrail / Commander / Mr. Smailes / Italian / Secretary of State / Voice of Teddy Salad / Conjurer / Various |
| Carol Cleveland | ... | Various Roles |
| Bob Raymond | ... | Real Eskimo (as Bob E. Raymond) |
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Scrap Man: [about his wife's relatives] They're a couple of little bastards. I hate 'em. They've got eyes like little pigs, just like their mother. She's a disaster... a really horrible-looking person, she is. I thought that one would stay on the shelf, but along comes this stupid dentist git. He's a real creepy little bastard, he is. I hate 'im. more
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The fourth series of Monty Python, without John Cleese, is a mixed bag that managed to produce three very good episodes, one disaster (the Golden Age of Ballooning) and two episodes that don't quite come off. Mr Neutron falls into the latter category, but there are some good bizarre laughs to be had if you're willing to go with the flow and wait for them. It's a more linear episode than usual, with 'dangerous' superhero Mr Neutron (Graham Chapman in a costume that unflatteringly shows off his rather skinny legs) hiding out in dreary suburbia while the global superpowers fret over his whereabouts and the FBI send for the brilliant master of disguise 'Teddy Salad' (who turns out to be an absurdly funny dog puppet). After an interminable opening sketch about Post Office boxes which even seems to bore the studio audience, things fall into place as the usual parade of bizarre characters and situations weave in and out of the nominal plot, including Terry Jones's brutally misanthropic Mr Entrail ("they're a couple of little bastards - they've got eyes like little pigs!"), Mrs S.C.U.M (Terry Jones again), Michael Palin's personal hygiene-fixated military man (to say nothing of his genuinely creepy bloodthirsty magician), fish-fixated Eskimos, ballet-fixated mountain men and an over-attentive gypsy violinist. Far from running on empty, even at this late stage the Python boys were still full of offbeat ideas.