Python Revolting Cocktails

[Big Daddy]

Was the "revolting cocktails" sketch actually originally recorded, or was it decided not to record it? What I mean is was there a time when some master tape would have had this sketch on it?

[Deleted]

All evidence says yes it was and later cut for censorship reasons. Certainly the "Wee-Wee" sketch was shot - there's a scene still in Show 9 (See www.sotcaa.co.uk for full details and the original shooting script).

The big question is whether "Half A Bee" was actually completed? Hard to imagine that would get cut for censorship, but it's often thought that this was the sketch that was abandoned cos Chapman was too pissed at the time. There's a rehearsal photo in existence, so it wasn't cut at the script stage, which leads me to believe that Cocktails wasn't either. However, as the rest of the show leads in directly from the Half A Bee sketch, how would they plug the gap if the sketch wasn't finished?

Oh, and looking again at the SOTCAA site, the animated punchline to the Cocktails sketch (the animals being shot and dumped into a giant cocktail shaker) is still there, adding further weight to the theory that the sketch was actually recorded.

Interesting, innit?