Monty Python - Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion

[ColonelMcboot]

THEY BREED IN THE SEWERS!!!!

[tarshark2]

John Cleese is an atractive female.

[victoriajayne91]

The man who inspired this sketch is a lecturer at my university. He told us all about this story this morning, Hooray for Bernard!

[KateMcT]

Love this, though I had to look up 'budgie' For any Americans wondering, Mrs. Conclusion (Chapman) aka the Woman in the Kerchief is talking about getting rid of what we would call a parakeet.

[SteRoKra]

"when will he be free? she says he spent the last 60 years trying to work that one out!" hahaha

[Lshannon90]

Lmao! Sartre always annoyed me. So did Camus.

[aquaticko]

This is still probably my favorite Monty Python sketch ever.

[CCNuck]

@aquaticko Dude, me too. I can't get over how well they play these old ladies, to the point that it's an absolute shock when John slips into his normal voice for the 'whoopie cushion' bit. Plus Michael's Madame Sartre looks like my great-grandma . . .

[PetiteSevi]

Did Michael say "bounjour" at 7:01? But it seems they arrived in the evening.

[kuriouskaytee26]

"Good Morning Mrs. Cutout!" xD

[JimTLonW6]

One of their very funniest sketches. I love the idea of the goat to eat JP Satre's leaflets.

[Pennywisea]

What are they singing?

[4Topwood]

@Pennywisea

"The Girl from Ipanema". You used to hear it all the time on the phone when they put you on hold or in elevators.

[RockyRoader]

@Pennywisea

It's "The girl from Ipanema" - the 'on-hold' music, I presume, though I'm surprised there was Hold music back then.

Quality sketch!

[Pennywisea]

Graham's my favorite!

[joejoewba4lyf]

"We're going to have to have our budgie put down"

"Really, is it very old?"

"No, we just don't like it..."

Hilarious :')

[faklempt1]

this one's even better than Mrs. Thing and Mrs. Entity

[TheUltimateEbil]

I don't get why they're called Mrs premise and COnclusion :/

[TheIrishlad12]

terry gilliam (from Minnesota) doing the odd art work

[DustBGD89]

7 people have wrong premises or conclusions...

[marsza11jm]

I've in love with Monty Python due to this sketch (and The Penguin on the television set sketch).

[jsabat28]

Budgies breeding in the toilet...lol..

[AliceMoving]

Michael Palin can't wear lipstick.

[dave2806]

mrs Premise looks just like my mother in law !

[LedZeppQueenBeatles]

@Ryoushadow, Jean Genet was gay, Mrs. Premise says Mr. and Mr. Genet.

[KetOoKa889]

I LOVE this sketch

[poleonil]

Strangely, even though I'm french, I've always found monty python's humor about us hilarious as hell !

[VayDooble]

@poleonil Hell is really that hilarious?

[tambourinechick]

Ah merde. Haha! I have to start saying that. Make use of what few French words I know.

[Ryoushadow]

Jean Genet and friend? Didn't Mrs Premise say at the beginning of the sketch that she went on a cruise with Mr and Mrs Sartre and Mr and Mrs Genet?

[erosmangr74]

The title is "Les chemins de la liberté", not "Routes à la liberté", but it is still a very funny sketch. Monty Python are brilliant as usual :)

[WoWmiester]

"FOUR HOURS TO BURY A CAT?!"

"Yeees, he wouldnt keep still!"

<3 Monty Python!

[barrytron3030]

I can;t believe that the British considered this popular comedy. As a North American, I dream to live in a world where more than 1% of the population understands this skit.

[JimTLonW6]

@barrytron3030 When this was first broadcast it pretty well altered London's life.

We used to go to the pub up until Monty Python time, at which point we would all, plus assorted hangers on troop back to our flat. I remember one bemused French lady saying 'but all zese people, zey live in that flat?" MP seems just as funny today though.

[russinhouse]

@barrytron3030 

[MercuryMay94]

Four hours to bury a cat? Yes, it wouldn't keep still.

[p0lyph0nyXX]

"An urban El Dorado where the businessmen of today can enjoy the facilities of tomorrow in the comfort of yesterday." hahaha, that sums it up perfectly!

[gaz2206]

Graham has nice legs :D

[saintlysinner666]

What is the joke behind Mrs Cut out? and Essence, Premise and Conclusion? Obviously some logical argument terms and I don't understand what it's got to do with Sartre?

[wonkeaux]

@saintlysinner666 Monty Python wrote often absurdist humour. there is no need for them to have anything to do with Sartre specifically, it's just funny, that's the point. I suggest watching the whole series as I think it has never been and can never be surpassed.

[Jackarunda]

what the hell is a budgie

[Broadsword255]

@Jackarunda It's a cute little bird, they come in all colours with big beaks and claws

[mikeoooze]

@Jackarunda you cannot be serious..............?

[Jackarunda]

@mikeoooze

some kind person already answered me. GTFO

[mikeoooze]

@Jackarunda Charming.......

[lynnsaoirse]

@Jackarunda It's short for budgerigar, what is commonly known in American English as a parakeet.

[starlitegaize]

Thank you so much for posting this! I remember watching this when it was first on TV - one of the best sketches! Cleese and Chapman are brilliant as the "pepperpots"!

[starlitegaize]

Flat 6 - Indira Ghandi? She get's about a bit...

[starlitegaize]

This is hilarious! BEen looking for this for years!!! Thank you for posting it

[penz5557]

stupid

[AsainOnTheInside]

What are them mumbling or singing or whatever?

[dharmaseed]

@AsainOnTheInside 'The Girl From Ipanema'.

[AsainOnTheInside]

I absolutely LOVE their French accents! <3 Monty Python!

[javakogan]

I just love this.... Thank you for posting!

[cvs2901]

omg what the hell is she spraying on her boobs (i don't know how i saw this) 5:07 

[srobinsoatmesastate]

@cvs2901 i think she's spraying hairspay on them :0

[QANTAS330]

priceless!!!

[Vatch1966]

I so miss Graham Chapman!! :o(

[mediamixprod]

Hahaha, srsly "...or you can shoot it right there, just above the beak." Aw man, best Monty Python ever imho.

[joshaf26]

Only Monty Python could take a random sketch about two crazy pepperpots in a laundromat a turn it into a journey to visit one of the most famous philosophers of the 20th century.

By the way, was there anything more to the "Mrs. Farley" bit?

[oliverjon80]

traveling to the ends of the earth over an opinion, reminds me of religion.

[darkprose]

I could watch hours of these sorts of sketches, the kind where very normal, otherwise seemingly prosaic people (here housewives at the laundromat) get into unlikely esoteric discussions. Great stuff.

[ScatmanKirby]

Rofl..."Ahh merde"

[n75ash]

Quand sera-t-il libre?

[acerflots]

cleese is so manly

[pika23]

at 5:15 I like "why is his computer so small?" Then I remembered it was a type writer, since this was the 70's

[annyid8]

Mrs Farley (3.14) looks like Baldric from Blackadder

[working0class0hero]

oh this is classic me and my freind would always do this sketch we did it perfectly it was hilarous

[GetBentley]

Is that Sir David Jason at 3:12?

[feraldarryl]

@GetBentley It certainly does look like him, although he isn't in the credits for this episode. David Jason was also in the 60's TV series 'Do Not Adjust Your Set' with Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

[mikeoooze]

@feraldarryl No its not. Looks NOTHING like him......Its actually Nigel Jones, Terry Jones' brother.....

[Kestryl]

@feraldarryl : I think it's Terry Jones :)

[princeofdaftness]

@GetBentley I think it could be Keith Moon, looks a bit like him

[kurtizzyflush]

@princeofdaftness Moonie? You are daft! JK

[princeofdaftness]

@GetBentley looks like keith moon?

[Cigaretteboatsrule]

@GetBentley That most certainly is Sir David Jason.

[DominoCheckmate]

huge fan of MP, but I guess they hadn't heard of simone de beauvoir.

[addisonshinedown]

Graham's legs are actually kinda nice, lolz

[EdM021]

Oo! Look! Paris!!

NORTH MALDEN WELCOMES CAREFUL COASTAL CRAFT.

This isn't Paris! Jean-Paul wouldn't live here!! It's a right old dump!!! XD)))

[lijluvr356]

Pause it at 3:14 exactly. It's a funny picture.

[Kestrelfire]

I found it funny how they had to shave their legs before they did this XD

[ZLUGGO]

FRELIMO! LOL!

[dharmaseed]

It's just gone 8:00, and time for the pengiun on top of your set to explode.

[BuddyNovinski]

Roads to Freedom is misbacktranslated. The original title is "Chemins au Liberté" not "Rues au Liberté". Rues au Liberté means STREETS to freedom!

[PrincesTomboy]

poor kitty :<

[murielsartre]

I mean, how can I go off and join FRELIMO when I've got nine more installments to pay on the fridge?

[Gjeorje]

..of course, this was all merely bourgeois propaganda to convince us that existence is`nt a meaningless sinkhole to inevitable doom...mind you. I never realised John Cleese had such nice tits.

[Funnysterste]

Mrs. Premise is hot!

[thepest88]

shes all legs

[pimasta314]

@Funnysterste Mrs. Premise is John Cleese in a very obvious looking wig.

[Funnysterste]

@pimasta314 What??! Why didnt you tell that earlier?!!

[CrimsonToast]

@Funnysterste Why does everyone faun over Cleese when he's dressed as a woman? Did I miss something?

[allergicdandelion]

@Funnysterste Mrs. Conclusion is hotter! ;)

[free0fight]

this is freakin' hilarious!!!=)))

[kjkj74]

Monty Phyton sartre and marxism FTW!

[Bristol92]

OH MAD! XD

Good Morning Mrs Cutout! XD

Love Graham and John and the rest of the pythons :)

[SockBoy65]

She actually says: "Oh Merde!" French for "Oh, 'poo poo' " - You figure it out - I keep it clean here, I do. :)

[esoraleak]

@Bristol92 Cleese said "Oh merde." It means "Oh shit."

[wonkeaux]

@Bristol92 one of the most perfectly surreal moments of the whole series. they had a scene or 2 with live actors interacting with animation/backgrounds, but I think that's the only time one of Gilliam's cartoons walked out on set!

[NoirFan01]

@Bristol92 I'm sure others have pointed this out but it's "oh, merd" (oh, sh*t in French).

[grauekatze]

oh, coitus!

[Gorboduc]

Of all the transitions from budgie-flushing to existentialism that I have ever heard, this one is by far the best.

[brandstifter68]

They're not singing anything at 2:30 but at 3:23 they're singing 'The Girl From Impanema' by Pery Ribeiro.

[paolomanueldec]

The girl from ipanema was written by Vinicius De Morales and Jobim. It was merely translated to english.

[xemily91]

they've got wonderful female voices for guys with such deep(ish) voices. what are they singing at 2:30?

[Endrawnia]

gods these two make the old women lmao

[KRAZYCorps]

"Your aren't a Marxist, Mrs. Conclusion?

No, I'm a revisionist!"

XD

[mrtyles]

OH COITUS!

[squirreldaemon]

intercourse the penguin!

[douro20]

You wouldn't understand why there is Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion here unless you knew who Jean-Paul Sartre was.

[legend145]

Surely it's to do with the construction of a philosophical argument ;)

[Blackadder125]

Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion are the ultimate Peppermills.

[lapislazuli7]

Pepperpots? ;)

[Blackadder125]

Peppermills. It's what the Pythons themselves called the women they played. Don't ask me why, though.

[lapislazuli7]

ahm...type in "Pepperpot" on wikipedia or watch "How to Irritate People" ... .... but I did not come here for an argument ;))

[Blackadder125]

O, seems you're right.

[lapislazuli7]

M: Ah, Is this the right room for an argument? A: I told you once. M: No you haven't. A: Yes I have. M: When? A: Just now. M: No you didn't. --- You are welcome, Blackadder125!!

[Blackadder125]

No, I'm not.

[Kebabsvein]

Chapman and Cleese at their best!

[hollytreeisland]

Og god, this is so funny!!!

[UnderAvg]

Good morning Mrs. Cut-out!

[DekalbBlues]

"Well, well, well. 'Course, Mrs. Essence flushed hers down the loo."

"Ooh! No, you shouldn't do that-- no, that's dangerous!  Yes, they breed in the sewers! Yes, eventually you get evil-smellin' flocks of huge soiled budgies flying out of people's lavatories... infringin' their personal freedom."

[colibri1]

"I was only telling the Rainiers the other day - course, he's always rude to them, the only classy friends we've got!"

[dmreeoogdaq]

"Oh bourgoisie this & bourgoisie that!"

[krambishmo]

Definitely one of their best sketches in my opinion, but why The Girl From Ipanema?!

[grecomic]

It's a cliche of the type of smooth jazz music used on the phone whenever you're put on hold.

[krambishmo]

Maybe that's all it is, but I wondered if there might be a more profound reason for that actual song title bearing some reference to the writings of Jean Paul Sartre. Perhaps not.

[JohnnyMarsden]

"The Girl From Ipanema" is what the Pepperpots are always singing!  No relation to Jean-Paul!

[mossfitz]

sophistication - popular - cheap - ha ha!

[Endrawnia]

oh gods these two are perfect lol

[Raihiar]

i think my favourite word of the english language is "bloody", but i cant find an equivalent word in german, which makes me sad :(

[kinskifreak]

I think it's often that way... I have the same problem with the word "lovely"... there is no equivalent word in german that says it that much... and I think "bloody" is far stronger than "blutig"... but that's just what I think =)

[Theaceoffate]

How about "Verdammt" or "Scheiß(e)"?

[kyrastube]

well, americans say "fucking" and the brittish say "bloody". its just a curse.

[lapislazuli7]

Kennt eigentlich irgendjemand deutsche Flüche, die so gut klingen wie bei MP, Fry & Laurie oder auch Black Adder? Wenn Deutsche schimpfen klingt`s mir oft zu fad oder aggressiv. Wir müssten mal kreativer fluchen üben... (oder bei den Dialekten abschauen?)

[dharmaseed]

Zum Teufel....was?!?!

[tors396]

Good Morning mrs Cutout XD

[Meeeeeeeeeeeep]

they make such good as old ladies haha

[dharmaseed]

'Tisn't!

'Tis!!

[squarerootskinner]

I love python ladies.

[SockBoy65]

If Mrs. Conclusion was going to ring BEA (British European Airways - now defunct) why did they take a raft? However they flew home at the end. I guess Mrs. Conclusion only had enough for a one way flight on her ACCESS CARD :) HAHA

[SockBoy65]

The look on John Cleese's Face when Michael Palin is explaining about the budgie being flushed down the loo is priceless. :)

[n0tn0w]

its chapman who is mrs conclusion

[SockBoy65]

Oh yes, Thank you for the correction. I always did confuse the two for some unknown reason. :)

[EuskaltelEuskadi]

lol at john cleese's muscular arms in tight sleeves! :)

[kydieisbullshit]

Did anyone else catch the Marxixt - Revisionist joke at 7:39?

[pepediaz69]

I cant remember what people thought at the time. I interpret it now as the idea that, in so far as Marxism is a science, it is, willy nilly, revisionist as for non-revisionist Marxism, remember Marxs words Si cela cest le marxisme, moi ju ne suis pas marxiste (quote from memory)

[mossfitz]

in Europe, most people with a with a good second level and everybody with a third level education knew the basics of Marxism in the 70s - thus the joke

[ianduckworth]

Michael Palin is using a London east end accent even though he is as said earlier from Sheffield, Yorkshire. He can do all the voices.

[why1so1serious1]

that's true and i love him for that

[hellohelogirl75]

Palin looks like he has spent a night in the gutter... XD

[theledzeppguy]

Yeah!!!

[TerriMorganDishife]

All that way....just to ask one question....crazy!

[cockanay]

Just what grannies do, I suppose :)

[SockBoy65]

They were going to Paris, and wound up in Iceland?! Bloody MapQuest!! :)

[DigitalGrotto]

3:22

[ragnarok993]

"Oh coitus!" roflmfao!!!!

XD that was awesome

[7spqr7]

caritis (means excrement)

[sm21454]

What I think is funny/cool about this clip (or any clip with the pepperpots) is that after a bit you don't think it's a few guys who have high-pitched voices. They become their own character, women with semi-goofy voices.

"hahahahaha She says he's spent the last sixty years trying to figure that one out!"

I enjoy how they don't call back aat 6, but rather travel there by raft...

Yay Monty Python!

[SockBoy65]

@sm21454 She didn't ring BEA, but travelled by raft. :)

(BEA was the now defunct British European Airways)