"Monty Python's Flying Circus"
Sex and Violence (1969)

Directors:

John Howard Davies
Ian MacNaughton

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"Monty Python's Flying Circus" (1969)

Original Air Date:

12 October 1969 (Season 1, Episode 2)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Flying Sheep, French Lecture on Sheep-Aircraft, A Man With Three Buttocks, A Man With Two Noses, Musical Mice...

Plot Keywords:

Nose Joke | Absurd Humor | Eccentric | Actor Playing Female Role | Surrealism

Cast

John Cleese	...	Voice Over #1 / First Frenchman / Pepperpot #4 / Interviewer / Southerner / A Scottsman on a horse / Mr. A / Stockbroker / Vicar
Michael Palin	...	It's Man / Jean-Brian Zatapathique / Pepperpot #3 / Compére / Arthur Pewtey / Alfred Lord Tennyson / Man banging on the ceiling with a broom / Voice over #2 / Linkman
Graham Chapman	...	Rustic / Pepperpot #1 / a man with two noses / Gladstone / Dad / Kargol / Accountant / Unnamed vox pop man #2
Terry Jones	...	City Gent / Pepperpot #2 / Arthur Frampton / Arthur Ewing / Queen Victoria / Mum / Harold Voice / Unnamed vox pop man #1 / Porter
Eric Idle	...	Announcer / Marriage Counsellor / Ken / Arthur Waring / Viking / Window Cleaner
Terry Gilliam	...	Knight with Chicken
Carol Cleveland	...	Deirdre Pewtey / Janet

Trivia:

"The mouse problem" sketch was originally written for and not used in The Magic Christian (1969).

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: During the "Flying Sheep" sketch, two French experts on "ovine aviation" share one mustache between them, which is worn by whichever expert happens to be giving the lecture at the time. At one point, Michael Palin takes off the mustache and puts it back on John Cleese. In order to hide his laughter, he turns away from the camera immediately afterward.

Quotes:

Rustic Shepherd: It's my belief that these sheep are laborin' under the misapprehension that they're birds. Observe their be'avior. Take for a start the sheeps' tendency to 'op about the field on their 'ind legs. Now witness their attempts to fly from tree to tree. Notice that they do not so much fly as... plummet.