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The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words, Volume 2 Paperback – November 12, 1989
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The complete scripts from the four Monty Python series, first shown on BBC television between 1969 and 1974, have been collected in two companion volumes.
Characters' names, often not spoken, are given as in the original scripts, along with the names of the actual performer added on their first appearance in each sketch.
This second volume contains twenty-two classic episodes, featuring some of the most entertaining writing to have gone into television anywhere. The minister of silly walks, the dead parrot, banter in a cheese shop - here is every silly, satirical skit, every snide insult, every saucy aside.
- Print length384 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPantheon
- Publication dateNovember 12, 1989
- Dimensions6.1 x 1 x 9.2 inches
- ISBN-100679726489
- ISBN-13978-0679726487
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"Your Highness, you are also like a stream of bat's piss."
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- Publisher : Pantheon (November 12, 1989)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 384 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0679726489
- ISBN-13 : 978-0679726487
- Item Weight : 1.18 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.1 x 1 x 9.2 inches
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"No, it isn't. This is zany madcap humour."
With that immortal exchange, nearly everything Pythonian is summed up. For those who haven't memorized every single Python skit (or for those who have and who are looking to free up some short-term memory), this book and its companion volume ("All The Words, Volume I") are must-haves. Every single word from every single bit ever done on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" is in here. It's a joy and a treasure and a non-stap laff riot.
Every Python nut is familiar with the "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" tale, the dead parrot sketch, the Ministry of Silly Walks and so on. But even beyond these justly famed classics, there is wonderfully silly stuff herein. I never realized until buying this and the companion Volume I how utterly the Python crew had mastered the gorgeously silly non-sequiter. To wit:
"Would Albert Einstein ever have hit upon the theory of relativity if he hadn't been clever?"
"Don't call me señor! I'm not a Spanish person. You must call me Mr. Biggles, or Group Captain Biggles, or Mary Biggles if I'm dressed as my wife, but never señor."
"I'm afraid we are unable to show you any more of that letter. We continue with a man with a stoat through his head."
"Were you worried when his head started to come loose?"
It just doesn't get any better than this, and being able to sit and peruse the scripts without watching the frenetic activity on the screen only goes to strengthen the generally accepted view that these guys were genius writers. As the book back states, these volumes are the winners of "the 1989 PYTHON PRIZE for their own books." ARE there higher honors than this?
And so it was that when my wife bought me the two-volume "All the Words" at last I had the resource that is indispensable for every true Monty Python fan. I now could repeat the dialogue of every sketch without fear of getting it wrong. As every Monty Python fan knows, accuracy is of the essence. A good approximation is not enough.






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