Talk:List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes

message: "American Astronaut Buzz Aldrin (and partly Neil Armstrong) wrote this episode."
Are you really sure about that ? It's in fact certainly a joke : he appears in the credit but I don't see him write an episode for a series in the BBC. (not a registered user).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.204.75.236 (talk) 05:42, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The 7th Python

message: I would like to add some supplemental information about some of these slightly less well-known Python sketches, particularly the Death of Mary/Exploding Penguin bit. Would such sketches be best described in brief sections, having anchor links in the top shortcut to them, or would any merit their own full article? --Ipso-De-Facto 19:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Adding Minor Sketches

message: Does anybody know for sure who sang "Yummy, yummy, yummy" (Episode 24)? There's nobody credited for it. To me, it sounds a bit like Beatles, but I'm not at all sure... Somebody who knows?
Jonathan Gr 09:11, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, the original Ohio Express version was the one used in the Python episode.PacificBoy 23:29, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Yummy, yummy

message: Has anyone considered splitting this up wither by each season or by each episode and creating a synopses of each episode? It is just a thought. Chris 20:26, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting this by season or by each episode 

message: Is there a source for the list of sketches within each episode (ie. do they appear as chapters on the DVD or anything?) Some seem rather arbitrary...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by And4e (talk • contribs) 21:55, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The index to All the Words would seem an authoritative list of skits. I don't know if this article reflects that, though. —Tamfang (talk) 18:01, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Assume that you mean Just the Words (see thread below). In that book, the contents pages (volume 1 pp. vii-ix; vol. 2 pp. vii-x) seem to have the best lists of sketch titles by episode. The sketch titles do also appear in the index, but that is better for locating which episode a particular sketch appears in, not the other way around. The index in vol. 2 is more complete than that in vol. 1, although both of them attempt to cover both volumes. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:54, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

text: I recently unpacked my copy of All the Words, whose credits page says "Published in the United Kingdom as Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just the Words, by Methuen London." —Tamfang (talk) 08:20, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for sketches listed within each episode? 

message: Being not a native speaker I was wondering, is it "Fraud Film Director's Squad" or "Fraud Film Directors Squad" ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.189.39.37 (talk) 16:35, 27 April 2008
:The questions are, (a) is "film directors" the plural of "film director", or is the squad owned by the director(s); and (b) if owned, how many directors own the squad? If one, it's "Director's Squad"; if several, it's "Directors' Squad".
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:As shown above, the script states "Film Director Squad", so we must assume that "Director" is a singular noun (and not a possessive), used here as a noun adjunct (instead of using an adjective) to describe the noun "Squad". "Film" is also a noun adjunct. "Special" and "Fraud" are adjectives. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:02, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar problem 

message: The Python group was highly educated and given Ehrenfest was mentally ill and committed suicide,
it seemed possible that they made the connection.  See 1924 picture on p. 260 of John Wheeler's "Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam" of Ehrenfest sitting [clothed] at a piano/organ, turned sideway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.105.104.198 (talk) 17:16, 2 April 2009
: This is out of the blue! Are you saying Paul Ehrenfest was known for nudism, or merely that the Nude Organist was inspired by the idea of a depressive who played an organ?  The latter would be a very tenuous "connection". —Tamfang (talk) 18:06, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, whether it adds to the subject at hand or not, in live performances of the “Blackmail Sketch”, Palin usually said “Thank you,Onan.” whenever the organ was played. ( That being a bible reference to Onan playing with his organ. ). 75.107.41.198 (talk) 00:28, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naked Organist Paul Ehrenfest ?

message: 1.1 1. Whither Canada?
1.2 2. Sex and Violence
etc.
Is there a particlular reason for this? I would have thought just 1.1, 1.2 and so on would do or even just 1, 2 etc.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by SteveDavey (talk • contribs) 00:50, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a side-effect of the way the table of contents is built (see Help:Section for details); the "1. Whither Canada?" part comes from the level 3 heading, whereas the "1.1" is part of the TOC. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:06, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I see. Well, not really, but I'll take your word for it, thanks. Is there no other way of doing it? It looks pretty bad and it makes a right mess if all you want to do is copy and paste a list of the episodes. It makes my brain hurt, as Mr. Gumby would say. cheers 17:24, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are the episodes numbered like this? 

message: Please add a table of DVD releases in various regions. -71.174.180.113 (talk) 21:48, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  DVD releases 

message: Both "Grandstand" and and "Golden Age of Ballooning" claim to contain his last appearance.  Which is it? - Richfife (talk) 15:16, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless someone can point him out in L'Age doré du ballonage, I'd go with "Grandstand". —Tamfang (talk) 04:44, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleese's last appearance? 

message: I'm glad the author of this page was keen eyed enough to realise - unlike say Kim Johnson and other published book authors - that the seductress , in the t.v. version , is NOT Carol Cleveland! But ... she is also NOT Donna Reading! ( Featured in the "You're No Fun Anymore!" episode. ). Donna Reading was much more petite than the seductress in question! According to the book "Monty Pthon's Flying Circus-Complete & Annotated" by Luke Dempsey , she is "Thelma Taylor" , another one of Ian McNaughton's "discoveries". So , I have changed that accordingly. Harvey J Satan (talk) 16:18, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Milkman Seductress Revealed! 

message: According to the Larsen source (page 68) the "Whizzo Butter" sketch was in episode 2, not episode 1.  The confusion may have arisen because it was written as episode 1 but not broadcast in that order.  So either the episodes need to be renumbered, or the broadcast dates need to be changed. SpinningSpark 09:47, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Why did you revert this? SpinningSpark 13:14, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Since you haven't replied, I've reverted you.  Your source was BBC Genome which is based on Radio Times listings.  In the vast majority of cases this will be reliable, however, it does happen that programmes listed in Radio Times are sometimes cancelled, delayed, or replaced and do not match the actually broadcast programmes.  My thinking, therefore, is that BBC Genome does not trump reliable book sources giving a different broadcast order, especially as one of them explicitly says they were broadcast in a different order to written. SpinningSpark 09:28, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Episode 1 or episode 2? 

message: Should the order of episodes be amended? RfC relisted by Cunard (talk) at 00:02, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC on episode order 

message: During the Crackpot Religions sketch, among the vox pops, is an uncaptioned  Eric Idle as John Lennon, whom is “fighting a war for peace”. ( All the others are captioned as, “Bishop < insert silly name here > “). This is possibly Eric’s first impersonation of a Beatle.
The Dennis Moore theme is meant to be a parody of the popular British television show “The Adventures of Robin Hood”.
The final episode of Series 4, ends with a sketch titled, “Ursula Hitler”. The sketch, like many items, was edited out, for whatever reason. (Re-inserted on the latest blu-ray / dvd release by Network.) 75.107.41.198 (talk) 00:44, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops! Slight error … the Ursula Hitler sketch, is still introduced on the Network release of season 4, episode 6, but, cuts off. The full intended sketch is included as a deleted scene. ( Not sure if the full sketch was ever broadcast, or edited out(?). The current version cuts out rather abruptly. ) Sorry for the confusion! 75.107.41.198 (talk) 22:47, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivial Bits & Bobs …