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1 wrenchwench  Thu, Jan 10, 2013 4:00:01pm
So his tamped-down rage becomes a torrent of increasingly baroque synonyms for death, which Cleese and Chapman composed with the aid of a thesaurus.

All my illusions are crushed! A thesaurus!

Thanks for the clip though. It’s been so long since I’ve seen that.

2 Romantic Heretic  Thu, Jan 10, 2013 5:06:48pm

This would have been a tragedy on the level of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

The PBS sale was fortunate for Python in more ways than one: when the offer came in, the BBC was on the point of wiping the tapes for reuse.

I choked on my pipe when I read that.

3 wheat-dogghazi  Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:22:47pm

Most of the early Tonight Shows with Johnny Carson had a similar fate, IIRC. The kinescopes were trashed — to make room for something else, I suppose.

4 sagehen  Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:15:17pm

re: #2 Romantic Heretic

This would have been a tragedy on the level of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

I choked on my pipe when I read that.

A lot of the early Doctor Who suffered that fate.


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