Daily Dialogue — October 5, 2010

Mr Barnard: What do you want?
Man: Well I was told outside that…
Mr Barnard: Don’t give me that, you snotty faced heap of parrot droppings!
Man: What?
Mr Barnard: Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type really makes me puke you vacuous, toffy-nosed, malodorous pervert!
Man: What? I came in here for an argument.
Mr Barnard: Oh, oh oh I’m sorry, this is “abuse’. You want Room 12-A just along the corridor.
Man: Oh sorry. Thank you very much, sorry, thank you.
Man: Stupid git.

— Man (Michael Palin), Mr. Barnard (Graham Chapman), “The Argument Sketch,” written by Graham Chapman & John Cleese & Terry Gilliam & Eric Idle & Terry Jones & Michael Palin

This week’s Daily Dialogue theme is Monty Python’s Flying Circus. “The Argument Sketch” suggested by CWillGoWrite.

Trivia: Other possible names for the series were “Gwen Dibley’s Flying Circus”, “Owl-Stretching Time” (which was used as the name for one episode), “Bun, Whackett, Buzzard, Stubble and Boot”, “A Toad Elevating Moment”, “Sex and Violence”, “A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon”. One early working title for the series was simply, “It’s…”

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