Monty Python's Flying Circus - Season 2 VHS ~ Graham Chapman  (3)
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This set contains the 12 "persistently silly" episodes from Monty Python's third and final full season (the ones introduced by Terry Jones's naked keyboardist). The quality of the sketches is not as consistent as in the first two seasons, but no Monty Python collection is complete without such series benchmarks as Njorl's Saga, an exciting Icelandic tale appropriated by the North Malden Icelandic Society; the Argument Clinic sketch; Gumby brain surgery; and the Fish-Slapping Dance, which Michael Palin is on record as saying is his personal favorite bit of Python nonsense.
This set contains the 12 "persistently silly" episodes from Monty Python's third and final full season (the ones introduced by Terry Jones's naked keyboardist). The quality of the sketches is not as consistent as in the first two seasons, but no Monty Python collection is complete without such series benchmarks as Njorl's Saga, an exciting Icelandic tale appropriated by the North Malden Icelandic Society; the Argument Clinic sketch; Gumby brain surgery; and the Fish-Slapping Dance, which Michael Palin is on record as saying is his personal favorite bit of Python nonsense.
A warning to more sensitive viewers: There is "material that some may find offensive, but which is really smashing," as well as blatant violations of something called the Strange Sketch Act. Some may also wish to fast-forward through clunkers such as Prices on the Planet Algon or the rather obvious game-show sketch Prejudice to reach beloved sketches such as The Cheese Shop, a fermented curd variation on the famed Parrot Sketch, in which John Cleese is unable to get any "cheesy comestibles" from woefully understocked proprietor Michael Palin; the extended epic Cycling Tour, perhaps Palin's finest half-hour; the increasingly surreal Tudor Jobs Agency, in which an intrepid smut confiscator (Palin again) finds himself seemingly transported back to Elizabethan times, where he turns "the tide of Spanish porn"; Cleese's lupin-stealing highwayman Dennis Moore; the Oscar Wilde Sketch, in which Wilde (Graham Chapman), Whistler (Cleese), and Shaw (Palin) match wits in an escalatingly profane game of verbal oneupsmanship ("Your Highness is like a stream of bat's piss....") and the self-explanatory Dirty Vicar Sketch. --Donald Liebenson
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Python fans rejoice. A&E has finally completed their long, expensive journey through the first three seasons of the legendary FLYING CIRCUS shows that caused mass confusion, hysteria and mayhem when originally aired. Now digitally- remastered and presented in their original order, uncut and with attractive packaging, this 6-video set of all thirteen shows from the final season with John Cleese is a must-have for all Anglophiles (the rest of you can look it up, but you should buy this just to be on the safe side). So don't wait another second, reach for your credit card and negotiate the purchase of some of the finest, aged humor available on the planet. This treasury of inspired looniness includes such classic bits as Argument Clinic, Cheese Shop, Sherry Drinking Vicar and the Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign. All conveniently sliced into single serving packages to keep your VCR happy.
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