Monty Python's Flying Circus, Series 2

Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969-1974) was a British sketch comedy television show.

Radio Announcer:
That was Part 2 of the death of Mary Queen of Scots; adapted for the radio. And now, Radio Four will explode. [interval music plays until the radio suddenly combusts]

Pepperpot 1:
We'll have to watch the telly then.

Pepperpot 2:
Yes.

Pepperpot 1:
Well, what's on the television then?

Pepperpot 2:
Looks like a penguin.

Pepperpot 1:
No, no, no, no! I didn't mean 'what's on the television set?' I meant 'what program?'

Pepperpot 2:
Oh.

Pepperpot 2:
Funny that penguin being there, isn't it? What's it doing there?

Pepperpot 1:
Standing.

Pepperpot 2:
I can see that!

Pepperpot 1:
If it lays an egg, it will fall down the back of the television set.

Pepperpot 2:
We'll have to watch that. Unless it's a male.

Pepperpot 1:
Ooh, I hadn't thought of that.

Pepperpot 2:
Yes. Looks fairly butch.

Pepperpot 1:
Perhaps it comes from next door.

Pepperpot 2:
Penguins don't come from next door; they come from the Antarctic!

Pepperpot 1:
BURMA!

Pepperpot 2:
Why'd you say 'Burma'?

Pepperpot 1:
I panicked.

Pepperpot 2:
Perhaps it's from the zoo.

Pepperpot 1:
Which zoo?

Pepperpot 2:
How should I know which zoo? I'm not Dr. Bloody Bronowski!

Pepperpot 1:
How does Dr. Bronowski know which zoo it came from?

Pepperpot 2:
He knows everything.

Pepperpot 1:
Ooh, I wouldn't like that. It'd take all the mystery out of life. Anyway, if it came from the zoo, it'd have 'Property of the Zoo' stamped on it.

Pepperpot 2:
No it wouldn't. They don't stamp animals 'Property of the Zoo'! You couldn't stamp a huge lion!

Pepperpot 1:
They stamp them when they're small.

Pepperpot 2:
What happens when they moult?

Pepperpot 1:
Lions don't moult!

Pepperpot 2:
No, but penguins do. There! I've run rings around you, logically.

Pepperpot 1:
Oh, intercourse the penguin!

Hegelian Bruce:
Ah, here comes the boss fella now!

Boss Bruce:
[enters with Michael, an Englishman] Ah! G'day, Bruce, hello, Bruce, how are you, Bruce? Gentlemen, I'd like to introduce a chap from Pommyland who'll be joining us this year here in the Philosophy Department of the University of Woolloomooloo.

All:
G'day!

Boss Bruce:
Michael Baldwin, this is Bruce; Michael Baldwin, this is Bruce; Michael Baldwin, this is Bruce.

Classical Bruce:
Is your name not Bruce, then?

Michael:
No, it's Michael.

Hegelian Bruce:
That's going to cause a little confusion.

Neopositivist Bruce:
Mind if we call you "Bruce" to keep it clear?

Boss Bruce:
Well, gentlemen, I think we'd better start the meeting. Before we start, though, I'll ask the padre for a prayer.

Classical Bruce:
[puts on a priest's collar as others bow their heads] Oh Lord, we beseech thee, have mercy on our faculty, Amen.

Boss Bruce:
Amen! Crack the tubes! Right. [Neopositivist Bruce opens beer cans] Er, Bruce, I now call upon you to welcome Mr. Baldwin to the Philosophy Department.

Hegelian Bruce:
I'd like to welcome the pommy bastard to God's own earth, and I'd like to remind him that we don't like stuck-up sticky-beaks here.

All:
Hear, hear! Well spoken, Bruce!

Boss Bruce:
Now, Bruce teaches classical philosophy, Bruce teaches Hegelian philosophy, and Bruce here teaches logical positivism, and is also in charge of the sheep dip.

Neopositivist Bruce:
What does new Bruce teach?

Boss Bruce:
New Bruce will be teaching political science - Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett, and Benaud.

Hegelian Bruce:
Those are cricketers, Bruce.

Boss Bruce:
Oh, spit.

Neopositivist Bruce:
Howls! Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce!

Boss Bruce:
Ha-ha! In addition, as he's going to be teaching politics, I've told him he's welcome to teach any of the great socialist thinkers, provided he makes it clear that they were wrong.

All:
[stand up suddenly] Australia! Australia! Australia! Australia! We love you! Amen!

[The Hungarian gentleman enters with phrase book and meets the tobacconist]

Hungarian:
[reading his phrase book] I will not buy this record, it is scratched.

Tobacconist:
[confused] Sorry?

Hungarian:
I will not buy this record, it is scratched.

Tobacconist:
No, no, no. This is tobacconist's.

Hungarian:
Ah! I will not buy this tobacconist's, it is scratched.

Tobacconist:
No, no, no...tobacco...er, cigarettes?

Hungarian:
Yes, cigarettes. My hovercraft is full of eels.

Tobacconist:
[more confused] What?

Hungarian:
[miming matches] My hovercraft is full of eels.

Tobacconist:
Matches, matches? [showing some]

Hungarian:
Yah, yah. [taking cigarettes and matches and pulls out loose change; he consults his book] Er, do you want...do you want to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?

Tobacconist:
I don't think you're using that right.

Hungarian:
You great pouf.

Tobacconist:
That'll be six and six, please.

Hungarian:
If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? I am no longer infected.

Tobacconist:
[miming that he wants to see the book; he takes the book] It costs six and six... [mumbling as he searches] Costs six and six...Here we are...Yandelvayasna grldenwi stravenka.

[The Hungarian hits the tobacconist between the eyes. The policeman, walking along the street, suddenly stops and puts his hand to his ear. He starts running down the street, round corner and down another street, round yet another corner and down another street into the shop]

Policeman:
What's going on here?

Hungarian:
[to the policeman] You have wonderful thighs.

Policeman:
[shocked and confused] What?!

Tobacconist:
[points to the Hungarian] He hit me!

Hungarian:
Drop your panties, Sir William! I cannot wait til' lunchtime!

Policeman:
Right! [drags the Hungarian away]

Hungarian:
Ah! My nipples explode with delight!


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