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Post by Charles Roberts on Oct 14, 2005 8:33:52 GMT
I realise that this sketch was never completed because Graham Chapman was intoxictaed and kept fluffing his lines. But I gather that up to the points where the director yelled "Cut!" that certain segments from this sketch must have been recorded. Thus the q is..do the pieces of this sketch that were successfully filmed/taped survive?
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Post by RWels on Oct 14, 2005 9:01:47 GMT
What happens exactly in this sketch?
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Post by Charles Roberts on Oct 14, 2005 9:05:12 GMT
Chapman is sculptor, doing a stature of Cleese. The statue is perfect except that the nose is rather too big. They argue over the nose, who is the better judge of art, and Helen Shapiro's sister. Eventually a bee flies into the studio, chased by two beekeepers (Idle and Jones), and the next sketch begins.....
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Post by John Stuart Milner on Oct 14, 2005 10:53:50 GMT
I have seen photos from this sketch, but it's unclear if they were taken in the studio or off a tape....  |
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Post by Laurence Piper on Oct 14, 2005 11:10:47 GMT
There's a photo of this sketch in the book Life Of Python but i've never managed to determine if any / all of the sketch was recorded (and if it still exists). I'd like to know. The sculptor sketch should follow into the Eric The Half Bee song (which also seems not to have appeared in an episode despite it being well known via it's appearance on a soundtrack LP - where it's tagged to the Fish Licence sketch). I seem to recall some kind of animation set to the song's soundtrack being used in something a while back on a TV doc of some kind (to illustrate the song), although it doesn't seem to have actually come from an episode as such.
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Post by John Stuart Milner on Oct 14, 2005 11:19:37 GMT
Don't think it's Eric The Half A Bee. It was a song about hlaf a bee, but not Eric, sung by the Fred Tomlinson Singers. They sang nonsense about half a bee in different musical styles. The Eric A Half A Bee is only on the LP version of Fish Licence. it's 2 different sketches/songs with a similar title. The Pythons did seem to repeat themselves ideawise, so I guess someone had a fixation with demibess....  |
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Post by B Thomas on Oct 14, 2005 11:50:39 GMT
No it's the one that went "I went down to the marketplace to get me half a bee". It's not the demibee Eric The Half A Bee. ;D
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Post by B Thomas on Oct 14, 2005 13:02:46 GMT
No it's the one that went "I went down to the marketplace to get me half a bee". It's not the demibee Eric The Half A Bee. ;D Again, this poster is not me. Sod it - I'm going to register with my full name... |
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Post by Charles Roberts on Oct 14, 2005 13:14:46 GMT
I apologise if I offend you, Mr Thomas, but I would appreciate people keeping on-topic, since no one has given a definitive answer to my original question yet |
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Post by RWels on Oct 14, 2005 13:47:04 GMT
The sculptor sketch should follow into the Eric The Half Bee song (which also seems not to have appeared in an episode despite it being well known via it's appearance on a soundtrack LP - where it's tagged to the Fish Licence sketch). I seem to recall some kind of animation set to the song's soundtrack being used in something a while back on a TV doc of some kind (to illustrate the song), although it doesn't seem to have actually come from an episode as such. Yes there was a - normal old-styled cartoon - animation used in From Spam to Sperm, one of the documentaries made for the 1999 30th anniversary Python Night. There are a number of sketches and songs that were never in the circus but did get to be on records or live shows, including the Philosopher's Song. But back to the question. It does not seem to have much of a chance. There is a BBC archive employee who visits this board sometimes, maybe he is still looking ito it. |
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Post by Laurence Piper on Oct 14, 2005 16:35:53 GMT
No it's the one that went "I went down to the marketplace to get me half a bee". It's not the demibee Eric The Half A Bee. ;D Really? Where did this song eventually end up then? I only know Eric The Half A Bee. Never heard the other one. I was assuming the Bee song was the former, going by some stuff i'd read in one of the Python books! |
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Post by Politeness Costs Nothing on Oct 14, 2005 16:38:55 GMT
I apologise if I offend you, Mr Thomas, but I would appreciate people keeping on-topic, since no one has given a definitive answer to my original question yet I think that fact that you've had no answer to your original question so far is because no one so far can answer it conclusively! We don't HAVE to bother to answer these questions, you know, Mr.Roberts; most of us wanted to be lumberjacks... |
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Post by Monty Burstein on Oct 17, 2005 2:24:16 GMT
And notice the big nosed bust of the amantillado-drinking priest near the end of the show.The studio audience laughs but we at home didn't get it.
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Post by Charles Roberts on Oct 17, 2005 7:46:07 GMT
Once again I'm sorry if I offended Mr B Thomas(both of them?) by my comments. I also realise that nobody HAS to give relevant, informative replies to anything on this site, but I personally have been a victim of "identity theft" by someone on these very message boards, and I didn't lose my rag. I was more amused really. By the way, the cartoon used for "Eric The Half A Bee" song appears to be some of that 1930s Disney stock cartoon footage that was also used for some disco videos in the 70s and 80s? The other Half A Bee song was never ecorded because it flowed through from the Sculptor sketch, which was never recorded. The unrecorded song itself would have segued into the "Disgusting Cocktails" sketch, which was supposedly set in a pub called the "Half A Bee". That sketch also never appeared in the telly show, but an audio version appeared on the Drury Street LP. I also assumed that the aforementioned photograph from Messrs Milner and Piper may have been from the unused recorded bits, which just makes one all the more curious, and all the more frustrated when posters indulge in personal comments.....  |
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Post by Andy Henderson on Oct 17, 2005 11:01:43 GMT
Yeah, there's no need to be smarky and/or cheeky. Let's just keep on-topic and polite, and everything will be jolly well decent. I have also seen a CARTOON of this sketch, but that obviously wasn't from the show. If you go over to the "some of the corpses are amusing" site, I think they go into greater detail about the contents of this sketch, but sadly are also clueless as to whether the taped bits survive.......
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