Monty Python: The Parrot Sketch & The Lumberjack Song movie versions HQ

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14 жыл бұрын

Anecdotally, I once found myself IN this pet shop. It was in the Caledonian Road, North London. I wandered in - I was passing and needed something or other - and realised it looked familiar. Then I saw the signed picture behind the counter. It was a still of John and Michael in that "very boutique".
The shop-owner explained that when they'd done the bit on TV, they'd HAD to do it in the studio - for the audience reaction. But since this was for the FILM ("And Now For Something Completely Different") there would be no live audience. And with the superior definition of a film, a set just wouldn't MAKE it. Real pet shops have CLUTTER. And so they'd gone and found one - HIS.
I don't know if the shop is still there - if it is, the guy has probably made more money letting people be photographed there (like on the crossing outside the Abbey Road studios) than he has selling Norwegian Blue parrots!
p.s. xmichelledd asked me if I'd post the following URL - for good karma! I've checked it out and it is what she said it was - a huge DVD set of ALL the Monty Python sketches, on Amazon - so fair enough.
The URL is: urlsnippy.com/CompleteMontyPyt...
But please note: Amazon are only able to ship to certain countries - however, if you live in one they DON'T ship to, you should still be able to find a NEW example of this set on EBAY - whose merchants can usually ship ANYWHERE. Just AVOID their "third-party" shipper - "Channel Advisor" - and use the merchant's OWN shipping service. Good luck.

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@CliveGregory 13 жыл бұрын

The Parrot Sketch for the film was indeed filmed in my aunts pet shop on the Caledonian Road in London, named Child's Pet Shop (her married name), it, like the parrot, "is no more". We think it is now a Turkish coffee shop. As a kid in the 1970's I worked there assisting my now deceased aunty. They had a very big reticulated python in a large fish tank. It was fed on live rats.

@georgemedia1069 4 жыл бұрын

- 'Ello miss?

@sleuthentertainment5872 2 жыл бұрын

I love how half of the sketch is just John Cleese claiming the parrot is dead in many different ways

@Carnifex20 4 жыл бұрын

God I love how he describes the parrot's state.

@Thor_Odinson 3 жыл бұрын

I never realized that two of the funniest sketches in comedy history were conjoined

@brokensoul8390 12 жыл бұрын

"What about my bloody parrot?!" Forget the parrot, where did that forest come from?!

@sweatermonkey2604 3 жыл бұрын

”I wish i’d been a girly, just like my dear papa”

@feleouis 4 жыл бұрын

The irony of being called a lady in the beginning of a sketch, acting irritated and at the end of it telling everyone that you wish you'd "been a girly"

@hrrrrrrrrrrrn 4 жыл бұрын

“What do you mean miss?”

@davidsnow2420 4 жыл бұрын

Saw this when I was a kid when it first aired on the BBC. Dad was in the USAF and we'd been in England for a couple of months and when Python premiered, we could not believe what we were seeing. It became our favorite show and every week we laughed til we cried.

@kalebbruwer 3 жыл бұрын

"I'm sorry, this is irrelevant, isn't it?"

@TomFynn Жыл бұрын

Eric Idle said that one day they were performing that sketch on stage and there not not a sound from the audience. When he peeped through the curtains he realized that the audience was silently mouthing the lines. It was not a performance, it was worship.

@ZachariahMBaird 4 жыл бұрын

I didn't know Brits had so many words for "dead."

@lonestar6709 3 жыл бұрын

"This Parrot wouldn't voom, if you put 4000 volts through it. It's bleeding demised."

@danthompson1575 4 жыл бұрын

Rest In Peace terry jones. You will be greatly missed. You brought laughter to millions, and will not be forgotten for generations to come

@Mistertudball

My now-deceased brother Tom used to be a semi driver and would spend many hours on the road listening to Monty Python recordings, eventually memorizing them (the cheese shop was a fave) with spot-on tone of voice and accent. Needless to say he was called upon to perform often at family gatherings; hysterical.