from Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 - Episode 06 The BBC Entry To The Zinc Stoat Of Budapest Recorded 05-11-69, Aired 23-11-69 I'm slowly uploading the entire Flying Circus series... Got any requests?
Can't argue with his logic! Although...I suppose you could de-bone the beasty and stuff what's left with brittle? It's still a frog but it would have brittle! :D
I heard this when I was twelve! I am now sixty-two! I relate only the crunchy frog portion to young colleagues! With no exception, they love the bit, "If we removed the bones, they wouldn't be crunchy now, would they"!
He could make Crunchy Frog sound delicious, and he could also make a tiny mint leaf absolutely inedible/disgusting. What a range, what a range... We lost a legend. :-( He was my favourite Python, definitely.
I love it how he says that they use no additives in their chocolates before saying that the lark's vomit is right after monosodium glutamate, one of the most used food additives in the world.
I took my kids to a chocolate factory today. My oldest and I were really bummed that we didn't get to see the room where they "lightly kill" the baby frogs.
I was actually in the studio the night this was recorded - at the Golders Green Hippodrome, where the BBC recorded a lot of early colour TV series Later this studio was converted to a radio studio
"Stop talking to the camera!" I loved, that in the last live performance they did, John Cleese talked, or at least acknowledged the audience, when they laughed, and in the end said "Don't talk to the audience, it's the main rule of comedy!" That just made it funnier.
"Stop talking to the camera" is such a good line. That is the kind of "out of the box" thinking that seems so obvious when it is done, but so hard to come up with when nobody has done it before.
"What's this one, Spring Surprise?" "Oh, that's our specialty. Covered in darkest, creamy chocolate, when you pop it in your mouth, steel bolts spring out and plunge straight through both cheeks." He makes it actually sound delicious! Hilarious!!
I remember John Cleese saying in an interview when asked what his favourite lines from Python were he often thought of lines that most people didn't consider classics and one was the line from this sketch where he says "Where's the pleasure in that?" as he often thinks of it in everyday situations.
"we use only the finest baby frogs dew picked and flown from Iraq cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed and then sealed in a succulent swiss quintuple smooth triple chocolate cream envelope and lovingly frosted in glucose" :)
is the envelope made of chocolate cream? ...that sounds amazing! ...except for the frog part btw, how can it be both quintuple and triple at the same time?
One of the billion things I love about Flying Circus is the fact that the stream-of-consciousness nature of the sketches meant that there was no build to a climactic laugh as pay off, which meant more laughs on the journey. There were as many laughs in performances as there were on the page.
The cockroach cluster and the candy with coated with lark's vomit got me wheezing in extreme laughter upon watching this episode for the first time. Seriously, Monty Python is the GOAT of shock and surrealist comedy.
When I read in HP that Cockroach Cluster was a selection at Honeyduke's...I laughed. I even think the chocolate frogs were a variation of the crunchy frog.
There is now a frog logo on certain food products. If i understand it correctly, it means that the product doesn't contribute to destruction of rainforests, doesn't harm animals or something like that. Turns out, some unfortunate souls in Czech Republic took it literally and created a hoax that all these products contain parts of frogs. There's even a facebook group in Czech "monitoring frog containing products". I hoped it was made just for the lulz, but looking at the comments, at least SOME members are completely serious about it. I immediately remembered who started this lovely trend of adding frogs into confection. So i'm truly very happy that Whizzo Chocolate Company is back in business, and expanded out to include manufacturing of different food products, not just chocolate. GO WHIZZO!
This sketch is a family ledgend. Whenever we say something like - say, 'Lizzy made this salad herself' someone else has to come in with "Ah yes, the cucumbers were lightly killed, dew picked and flown from Iraq!" ALWAYS.
Ah I remember this performance as a 6th former in 1970. I have just realised how much since that day I have used the phrase Larks Vomit frequently throughout my life to describe anything remotely unpalatable. It is short, succinct and perfectly describes so much.
Never gets old. Also holds a special place in my heart for having originally exposed me to the expression "that's as maybe" which apparently no one in the US understands
@@MiNa-kv3lp Yeah, tbh, I debated a sec. I've seen it both ways. Clearly 'may be' is what's meant but I'm no expert on colloquialisms, esp outside the US
Have you noticed them mentioning 'Cockroach Cluster'? That's mentioned as sweets in the Harry Potter world. Methinks JK was watching Monty Python while thinking up these names!
Everything apart from the thousands and millions of Simpsons references, Marx Brothers references, Seinfeld references, Star Trek references, John Wayne references, Star Wars references, Michael Caine references, DIrty Harry references, Bible references, Shakespeare references.
Classic sketch! In a way, this reminds me of the Ren and Stimpy fake commercials for Dog Water, back in the 90s I think. On the Monty Python Flying Circus album, interestingly enough, this is listed as "Trade Description Act".
Robin Leedham My brother gave me a little box of chocolates to give to a teacher I had in 4th grade. There were 16 small chocolates with 4 different coloured wrappers. The label on the Pier One box didn't give the ingredients but they were: ants, cockroach clusters, bees, and crunchy frog. I know this because after I told him I gave it to her, he told me the ingredients. She said they were a bit crunchy, but I doubt she tried more than a few. This is the same brother who got me in trouble the year before with a blue loose leaf notebook with the phrase,"candy is dandy, but sugar is sweet". Quite the prankster, but I'm the one that got sent to the principal and had to explain it.
No that's rather a foetal frog if you like. Obviously the stages of development are different to mammals, but "baby" determines a young 'un in it's early stages AFTER birth.
Daniel Linger If there were a chocolate shop that actually sells these sort of things, they would really get sued for making people sick. It's almost like the opposite version of the chocolate frog from Harry Potter.
They would get it from the same place that the United States government got the anthrax to poison citizens and senators in late 2001 - from United States government military laboratories.
It's also sort of funny that they are more concerned about the chocolates that are disgusting than the one that would actually be deadly (the anthrax ripple).
No doubt up there with the obvious classics: *The Dead Parrot *Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam *The Lumberjack Song *Coal Miners of Wales *Naval Expedition to Lake Pahoe *Ministry of Silly Walks
I like the one where Ken (Eric Idle) comes home to visit his parents (Graham Chapman = Dad, Terry Jones = Mum). They're dressed as normal middle-aged working-class people, and he's wearing a suit. His dad seems resentful, and you think it's because Eric got into some high-dollar career and turned his back on his parents. Then it turns out his dad is a playwright, and he left home to be a coal miner. Dad: Hempstead wasn't good enough for ya, was it? Nooo, you had to go poncin' up to Barnsleigh! YOOOU and your COAL-MINING FRIENDS!!
Amazing....They knew that even the "Pitch to the executives" route. could be hysterical...True Genius....Even more so by a team of people who attended University in pursuit of a more traditional way of life.
