Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series)

E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease (1972)

Terry Jones: Tudor Job Agency Assistant, Messenger, Post Office Clerk, Various Roles

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• Voice Over : [and caption]  The Free Repetition of Doubtful Words Skit, Spoof, Jape or Vignette, By a Very Underrated Writer.

  [a Post Office counter window with "Telegram Enquiries" over the top, seen through an ornate vignette. The clerk is behind the counter and Mr. Peepee enters. They speak very stiltedly] 

  Mr. Peepee : I've come for some free repetition of doubtful words on an inland telegram.

  Clerk : Have you got the telegram in question?

  Mr. Peepee : I have the very thing here.

  Clerk : Well, slip it to me my good chap and let me eye the contents.

  Mr. Peepee : At once, Mr Telegram Enquiry Man.

  Clerk : [taking the telegram and opening it]  Thank you Mr Customer Man. Aha! "Parling I glove you. Clease clome at bronce, your troving swife, Pat." Which was the word you wanted checking?

  Mr. Peepee : Pat.

  Clerk : Pat?

  Mr. Peepee : My wife's name is not Pat at all.

  Clerk : No?

  Mr. Peepee : It's Bat. With a B.

  Clerk : And therefore I will take a quick look in the book.

  [Caption: One Quick Look in the Book Later] 

  Clerk : You're quite right, old cock. There *has* been a mistake.

  Mr. Peepee : I thought as much. What really does it say?

  Clerk : It say "Go away you silly little bleeder. I am having another man. Love, Bat". Quite some error.

  Mr. Peepee : Yes. She wouldn't call herself Pat, it's silly.

  Clerk : Daft, I call it.

  Mr. Peepee : Well it has been a pleasure working with you.

  Clerk : For me also it has been a pleasure.

  [to camera] 

  Clerk : And that concludes our little skit.

  [the two men slightly hold a final pose, with string quartet music playing. Camera pulls back to reveal a string quartet playing the music] 

  Voice Over : [and caption]  The Free Repetition of Doubtful Words Thing, by a Justly Underrated Writer. The End.