"Monty Python's Flying Circus" Spam (1970)

User Rating:

8.8/10   

Director:

Ian MacNaughton

Writers:

Graham Chapman (written by) &
John Cleese (written by) ...

TV Series:

"Monty Python's Flying Circus" (1969)

Original Air Date:

15 December 1970 (Season 2, Episode 12)

Genre:

Comedy | Music

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Reference To Spam Canned Meat | Vladimir Lenin | Viking | Che Guevara | Doctor

Cast

Terry Jones	...	Magistrate / Karl Marx / Floor Manager / Bumpkin / Spam Waitress (as Spam Terry Jones)
Michael Palin	...	It's Man / Fireman / Alexander Yahlt / Second Journalist / Lenin / First Ypres Voice Over / Sergeant / First Critic / Animated Venus de Milo / Radio Voice / First Richard III / D.P. Gumby / A Historian (as Michael Spam Palin)
John Cleese	...	The Announcer / Hungarian / Defence / Second Ypres Voice Over / Auctioneer / Padre (as John Spam John Spam John Spam Cleese)
Graham Chapman	...	Policeman / Che Guevara / Solomon / Major / Overacting Specialist / Mrs. Bun (as Graham Spam Spam Spam Chapman)
Eric Idle	...	Tobacconist / Clerk / Journalist / World Forum Presenter / Jenkins / Second Critic / Second Richard III / Mr. Bun (as Eric Spam Eggs and Chips Idle)
Terry Gilliam	...	Mao Tse-tung / Cherub / Various Painting Voices / Animated Overacting Hamlets / Animated Magician (as Terry Spam Sausage Spam Egg Gilliam)
The Fred Tomlinson Singers	...	Vikings (as The Fred Tomlinson Spam Egg Chips and Singers)

Goofs:

Factual errors: In the "World Forum" sketch, the host (Eric Idle) says that Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr won the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest with "Sing Little Birdie". They actually came second place; Dutch singer Teddy Scholten won the contest with "Een beetje".

Quotes:

Vikings: [singing] Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam! Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam! Lovely Spam, wonderful Spam!

Movie Connections:

Spoofs 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)