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(New page: From the "Sex and Violence" episode (10/05/69) of now legendary BBC comedy sketch TV series ''Monty Python's Flying Circus''. This madman has trained mice to squeak at selected musical p...)
 
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From the "Sex and Violence" episode (10/05/69) of now legendary BBC comedy sketch TV series ''Monty Python's Flying Circus''.  
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From the "Sex and Violence" episode (10/05/69) of now legendary BBC comedy sketch TV series ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''.  
  
 
This madman has trained mice to squeak at selected musical pitches, so that they can squeak tunes when "played" in the proper order. Unfortunately for the mice, "playing" means "hitting with large wooden mallets." He's allegedly playing "The Bells of St. Mary's," but it sounds uncannily like someone killing mice with a mallet. He is roundly castigated by the horrified audience and hauled off by the floor manager. Played by Terry Jones.  
 
This madman has trained mice to squeak at selected musical pitches, so that they can squeak tunes when "played" in the proper order. Unfortunately for the mice, "playing" means "hitting with large wooden mallets." He's allegedly playing "The Bells of St. Mary's," but it sounds uncannily like someone killing mice with a mallet. He is roundly castigated by the horrified audience and hauled off by the floor manager. Played by Terry Jones.  
  
This gag was later stolen by the Muppets for [[The Amazing Marvin Suggs and his Muppaphone]].  
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This gag was later stolen by the Muppets for [[The Amazing Marvin Suggs and his Muppaphone]].
 
 
See also:
 
 
 
*[[Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson]]
 
*[[Bolton Choral Society]]
 
*[[The Herman Rodriguez Four]]
 
*[[The Hunlets]]
 
*[[Jackie Charlton and the Tonettes]]
 
*[[Rachel Toovey Bicycle Choir]]
 
*[[Inspector Jean-Paul Zatapathique]]
 

Revision as of 08:42, 23 February 2011

From the "Sex and Violence" episode (10/05/69) of now legendary BBC comedy sketch TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus.

This madman has trained mice to squeak at selected musical pitches, so that they can squeak tunes when "played" in the proper order. Unfortunately for the mice, "playing" means "hitting with large wooden mallets." He's allegedly playing "The Bells of St. Mary's," but it sounds uncannily like someone killing mice with a mallet. He is roundly castigated by the horrified audience and hauled off by the floor manager. Played by Terry Jones.

This gag was later stolen by the Muppets for The Amazing Marvin Suggs and his Muppaphone.