Monty Python's Flying Circus: Full Frontal Nudity

Air Date

December 7, 1969

Production Code

54698

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  9.5 Superb

  This parrot is no more, it has ceased to be, this is a late parrot... hide show

  An excellent episode, one of the best of the series with a very funny running theme of Graham as the army general ending sketches due to them being too silly. Then there's the dead parrot sketch, one that is up there among the greatest sketches the show's ever produced and the one that the mainstream public remember the show most for. It's not my personal favourite sketch (due to the poor ending) but it's up there with all the one's I like best. Then there's the matress sketch, another classic with Graham putting a bag over his head when he hears the word mattress, a very silly idea that works incredibly well. Two other top sketches here are the frontal nudity sketch near the end followed by the granny gangs sketch. The rest however aren't really worth bothering with, but the good considerably outweighs the bad. So overall a fantastic show and one you shouldn't miss

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• Guest Cast

  • Katya Wyeth Elsie
  • Rita Davies Wife of Kidnapping Victim
  • Flanagan uncredited

• Stars

  • John Cleese Various Characters [ series 1 - 3, Deutsche shows & features ]
  • Eric Idle Various Characters
  • Graham Chapman Various Characters
  • Terry Jones Various Characters
  • Terry Gilliam Various Characters
  • Michael Palin Various Characters

• Directors

  • Ian MacNaughton Director

• Director Of Photographys

  • Alan Featherstone Director of Photography
  • Max Sammett Director of Photography
  • James Balfour Director of Photography

• Make-Up Artists

  • Joan Barrett Make-up Artist

• Costume Designers

  • Hazel Pethig Costume Designer
Episode Cast and Crew Details »

• When Mr. Verity says that you must multiply everything Lambert says by three, shouldn't he have said by thirty? (Since every number he says is ten times too high) [edit]
• In the Pet Shop sketch, John Cleese's character states that the palindrome of Bolton would be Notlob. Actually, it wouldn't. A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same backwards as forwards, not a word that is the reverse of another word. [edit]
• The wife in the "Buying a Bed" sketch seems to have more lines than "her only line". [edit]

• When John Cleese guest starred on The Muppet Show one sketch made an in-joke reference to the "Pet Shop" sketch. Dressed as a pirate with an annoying Muppet parrot on his shoulder, Cleese looks at it and says, "Do you want to be an ex-parrot?!?" [edit]
• The "Buying a Bed" sketch was different on the record album. On the TV version, Graham's Mr. Lambert character puts a paper bag over his head, prompting Eric's Mr. Verity to sing while standing in the tea chest. On the album version, though, the paper bag is replaced by a bucket, and Eric stands in a fish tank instead. Also, Carol Cleveland's stressed wife character says a few more lines in the album than on television, but still claims "We want a mattress" to be "her only line". [edit]

• Groom: We want to buy a bed, please.
  Mr Lambert: Oh, certainly, I'll, I'll get someone to attend to you. (calling off) Mr Verity!
  Mr Verity: Can I help you, sir?
  Groom: Er yes. We'd like to buy a bed...a double bed...about fifty pounds?
  Mr Verity: Oh no, I'm afraid not, sir. Our cheapest bed is eight hundred pounds, sir.
  Groom: Eight hundred pounds?!?
  Mr Lambert: Or, perhaps I should have explained. Mr Verity does tend to exaggerate, so every figure he gives you will be ten times too high. Otherwise he's perfectly all right, perfectly ha, ha, ha.
  Groom: Oh I see. I see. (to Verity) So your cheapest bed then is eighty pounds?
  Mr Verity: Eight hundred pounds, yes, sir.
  Groom: And how wide is it?
  Mr Verity: Er, the width is, uh, sixty feet wide.
  Groom: Oh... (laughing politely he mutters to wife) six foot wide, eh. And the length?
  Mr Verity: The length is ... um ... (calls off) Lambert! What is the length of the Comfydown Majorette?
  Mr Lambert: Uh, two foot long.
  Groom: Two foot long?
  Mr Verity: Ah yes, you have to remember of course, to multiply everything Mr Lambert says by three. Uh, it's nothing he can help, you understand. Apart from that he's perfectly all right.
  Groom: I see, I'm sorry.
  Mr Verity: But it does mean that when he says a bed is two foot wide, it is in fact sixty foot wide.
  Groom: Oh, yes I see... [edit]
• John Cleese: In 1943, a group of British Army Officers working deep behind enemy lines, carried out one of the most dangerous and heroic raids in the history of warfare. But that's as maybe. And now...
  Caption: AND NOW...UNOCCUPIED BRITAIN I970
  (Cut to colonel's office. Colonel is seated at desk)
  Colonel: Come in, what do you want?
  (Enter Private Watkins)
  Watkins: I'd like to leave the army please, sir.
  Colonel: Good heavens man, why?
  Watkins: It's dangerous.
  Colonel: What?
  Watkins: There are people with guns out there, sir.
  Colonel: What?
  Watkins: Real guns, sir. Not toy ones, sir. Proper ones, sir. They've all got 'em. All of 'em, sir. And some of 'em have got tanks.
  Colonel: Watkins, they are on our side.
  Watkins: And grenades, sir. And machine guns, sir. So I'd like to leave, sir, before I get killed, please.
  Colonel: Watkins, you've only been in the army a day.
  Watkins: I know sir but people get killed, properly dead, sir, no barley cross fingers, sir. A bloke was telling me, if you're in the army and there's a war you have to go and fight.
  Colonel: That's true.
  Watkins: Well I mean, blimey, I mean if it was a big war, somebody could be hurt.
  Colonel: Watkins, why did you join the army?
  Watkins: For the water-skiing and for the travel, sir. And not for the killing, sir. I asked them to put it on my form, sir - no killing.
  Colonel: Watkins, are you a pacifist?
  Watkins: No sir, I'm not a pacifist, sir. I'm a coward.
  Colonel: That's a very silly line. [edit]
• The Colonel's Speech About The Sillyness of The The Program: Now, I've noticed a tendency for this program to get rather silly. Now I do my best to keep things moving along, but I'm not having things getting silly. Those last two sketches I did got very silly indeed, and that last one about the bed was even sillier. Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do. Except perhaps my wife. And some of her friends. Oh yes, and Captain Johnson... Come to think of it, most people like a good laugh more than I do, but that's beside the point! Now! Let's have a good clean healthy outdoor sketch. Get some air into your lungs. Ten nine eight and all that. [edit]

• Mr. Verity: Lambert will be able to help you.
  The "Buying a Bed" sketch had two salesmen collectively named for Verity Lambert, a British TV and film producer. Among Verity Lambert's credits was as executive producer of the John Cleese film "Clockwise" and the first couple of seasons of Doctor Who. [edit]