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diff --git a/montypython b/montypython new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..95c332970829 --- /dev/null +++ b/montypython @@ -0,0 +1,1517 @@ +Scene 1 + + [wind] + [clop clop] + ARTHUR: Whoa there! + [clop clop] + + GUARD #1: Halt! Who goes there? + ARTHUR: It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle + of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeator of the Saxons, sovereign + of all England! + GUARD #1: Pull the other one! + ARTHUR: I am. And this my trusty servant Patsy. + We have ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights + who will join me in my court of Camelot. I must speak with your lord + and master. + GUARD #1: What, ridden on a horse? + ARTHUR: Yes! + GUARD #1: You're using coconuts! + ARTHUR: What? + GUARD #1: You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin' + 'em together. + ARTHUR: So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this + land, through the kingdom of Mercea, through-- + GUARD #1: Where'd you get the coconut? + ARTHUR: We found them. + GUARD #1: Found them? In Mercea? The coconut's tropical! + ARTHUR: What do you mean? + GUARD #1: Well, this is a temperate zone. + ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin + or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not + strangers to our land. + GUARD #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate? + ARTHUR: Not at all, they could be carried. + GUARD #1: What -- a swallow carrying a coconut? + ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk! + GUARD #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple + question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound + coconut. + ARTHUR: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master + that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here. + GUARD #1: Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow + needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right? + ARTHUR: Please! + GUARD #1: Am I right? + ARTHUR: I'm not interested! + GUARD #2: It could be carried by an African swallow! + GUARD #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European + swallow, that's my point. + GUARD #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that... + ARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court + at Camelot?! + GUARD #1: But then of course African swallows are not migratory. + GUARD #2: Oh, yeah... + GUARD #1: So they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway... + [clop clop] + GUARD #2: Wait a minute -- supposing two swallows carried it together? + GUARD #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line. + GUARD #2: Well, simple! They'd just use a standard creeper! + GUARD #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers? + GUARD #2: Well, why not? +% +Scene 2 + + MORTICIAN: Bring out your dead! + [clang] + Bring out your dead! + [clang] + Bring out your dead! + [clang] + Bring out your dead! + [clang] + Bring out your dead! + [clang] + Bring out your dead! + [clang] + Bring out your dead! + [clang] + Bring out your dead! + [clang] + Bring out your dead! + [clang] + Bring out your dead! + [clang] + Bring out your dead! + [clang] + Bring out your dead! + CUSTOMER: Here's one -- nine pence. + DEAD PERSON: I'm not dead! + MORTICIAN: What? + CUSTOMER: Nothing -- here's your nine pence. + DEAD PERSON: I'm not dead! + MORTICIAN: Here -- he says he's not dead! + CUSTOMER: Yes, he is. + DEAD PERSON: I'm not! + MORTICIAN: He isn't. + CUSTOMER: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill. + DEAD PERSON: I'm getting better! + CUSTOMER: No, you're not -- you'll be stone dead in a moment. + MORTICIAN: Oh, I can't take him like that -- it's against regulations. + DEAD PERSON: I don't want to go in the cart! + CUSTOMER: Oh, don't be such a baby. + MORTICIAN: I can't take him... + DEAD PERSON: I feel fine! + CUSTOMER: Oh, do us a favor... + MORTICIAN: I can't. + CUSTOMER: Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't + be long. + MORTICIAN: Naaah, I got to go on to Robinson's -- they've lost nine + today. + CUSTOMER: Well, when is your next round? + MORTICIAN: Thursday. + DEAD PERSON: I think I'll go for a walk. + CUSTOMER: You're not fooling anyone y'know. Look, isn't there + something you can do? + DEAD PERSON: I feel happy... I feel happy. + [whop] + CUSTOMER: Ah, thanks very much. + MORTICIAN: Not at all. See you on Thursday. + CUSTOMER: Right. + [clop clop] + MORTICIAN: Who's that then? + CUSTOMER: I don't know. + MORTICIAN: Must be a king. + CUSTOMER: Why? + MORTICIAN: He hasn't got shit all over him. +% +Scene 3 + + [clop clop] + ARTHUR: Old woman! + DENNIS: Man! + ARTHUR: Old Man, sorry. What knight live in that castle over there? + DENNIS: I'm thirty seven. + ARTHUR: What? + DENNIS: I'm thirty seven -- I'm not old! + ARTHUR: Well, I can't just call you `Man'. + DENNIS: Well, you could say `Dennis'. + ARTHUR: Well, I didn't know you were called `Dennis.' + DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you? + ARTHUR: I did say sorry about the `old woman,' but from the behind + you looked-- + DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior! + ARTHUR: Well, I AM king... + DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By + exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma + which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society! + If there's ever going to be any progress-- + WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do? + ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. + Who's castle is that? + WOMAN: King of the who? + ARTHUR: The Britons. + WOMAN: Who are the Britons? + ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king. + WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous + collective. + DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. + A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes-- + WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again. + DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would-- + ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives + in that castle? + WOMAN: No one live there. + ARTHUR: Then who is your lord? + WOMAN: We don't have a lord. + ARTHUR: What? + DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take + it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. + ARTHUR: Yes. + DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified + at a special biweekly meeting. + ARTHUR: Yes, I see. + DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,-- + ARTHUR: Be quiet! + DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more-- + ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet! + WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is? + ARTHUR: I am your king! + WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you. + ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings. + WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then? + ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, + [angels sing] + her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur + from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, + Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. + [singing stops] + That is why I am your king! + DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords + is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power + derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical + aquatic ceremony. + ARTHUR: Be quiet! + DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power + just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! + ARTHUR: Shut up! + DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just + because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd + put me away! + ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up! + DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system. + ARTHUR: Shut up! + DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! + HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed! + ARTHUR: Bloody peasant! + DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, + eh? That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, + you saw it didn't you? +% +Scene 4 + + [arg] + [ugh] + [hah] + + ARTHUR: You fight with the strength of many men, Sir knight. + I am Arthur, King of the Britons. + [pause] + I seek the finest and the bravest knights in the land to join me + in my Court of Camelot. + [pause] + You have proved yourself worthy; will you join me? + [pause] + You make me sad. So be it. Come, Patsy. + BLACK KNIGHT: None shall pass. + ARTHUR: What? + BLACK KNIGHT: None shall pass. + ARTHUR: I have no quarrel with you, good Sir knight, but I must + cross this bridge. + BLACK KNIGHT: Then you shall die. + ARTHUR: I command you as King of the Britons to stand aside! + BLACK KNIGHT: I move for no man. + ARTHUR: So be it! + [hah] + [parry thrust] + [ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's left arm off] + ARTHUR: Now stand aside, worthy adversary. + BLACK KNIGHT: 'Tis but a scratch. + ARTHUR: A scratch? Your arm's off! + BLACK KNIGHT: No, it isn't. + ARTHUR: Well, what's that then? + BLACK KNIGHT: I've had worse. + ARTHUR: You liar! + BLACK KNIGHT: Come on you pansy! + [hah] + [parry thrust] + [ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's right arm off] + ARTHUR: Victory is mine! + [kneeling] + We thank thee Lord, that in thy merc- + [hah] + BLACK KNIGHT: Come on then. + ARTHUR: What? + BLACK KNIGHT: Have at you! + ARTHUR: You are indeed brave, Sir knight, but the fight is mine. + BLACK KNIGHT: Oh, had enough, eh? + ARTHUR: Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left. + BLACK KNIGHT: Yes I have. + ARTHUR: Look! + BLACK KNIGHT: Just a flesh wound. + [bang] + ARTHUR: Look, stop that. + BLACK KNIGHT: Chicken! Chicken! + ARTHUR: Look, I'll have your leg. Right! + [whop] + BLACK KNIGHT: Right, I'll do you for that! + ARTHUR: You'll what? + BLACK KNIGHT: Come 'ere! + ARTHUR: What are you going to do, bleed on me? + BLACK KNIGHT: I'm invincible! + ARTHUR: You're a loony. + BLACK KNIGHT: The Black Knight always triumphs! + Have at you! Come on then. + [whop] + [ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's other leg off] + BLACK KNIGHT: All right; we'll call it a draw. + ARTHUR: Come, Patsy. + BLACK KNIGHT: Oh, oh, I see, running away then. You yellow + bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. + I'll bite your legs off! +% +Scene 5 + + CROWD: A witch! A witch! A witch! We've got a witch! A witch! + VILLAGER #1: We have found a witch, might we burn her? + CROWD: Burn her! Burn! + BEDEMIR: How do you know she is a witch? + VILLAGER #2: She looks like one. + BEDEMIR: Bring her forward. + WITCH: I'm not a witch. I'm not a witch. + BEDEMIR: But you are dressed as one. + WITCH: They dressed me up like this. + CROWD: No, we didn't... no. + WITCH: And this isn't my nose, it's a false one. + BEDEMIR: Well? + VILLAGER #1: Well, we did do the nose. + BEDEMIR: The nose? + VILLAGER #1: And the hat -- but she is a witch! + CROWD: Burn her! Witch! Witch! Burn her! + BEDEMIR: Did you dress her up like this? + CROWD: No, no... no ... yes. Yes, yes, a bit, a bit. + VILLAGER #1: She has got a wart. + BEDEMIR: What makes you think she is a witch? + VILLAGER #3: Well, she turned me into a newt. + BEDEMIR: A newt? + VILLAGER #3: I got better. + VILLAGER #2: Burn her anyway! + CROWD: Burn! Burn her! + BEDEMIR: Quiet, quiet. Quiet! There are ways of telling whether + she is a witch. + CROWD: Are there? What are they? + BEDEMIR: Tell me, what do you do with witches? + VILLAGER #2: Burn! + CROWD: Burn, burn them up! + BEDEMIR: And what do you burn apart from witches? + VILLAGER #1: More witches! + VILLAGER #2: Wood! + BEDEMIR: So, why do witches burn? + [pause] + VILLAGER #3: B--... 'cause they're made of wood...? + BEDEMIR: Good! + CROWD: Oh yeah, yeah... + BEDEMIR: So, how do we tell whether she is made of wood? + VILLAGER #1: Build a bridge out of her. + BEDEMIR: Aah, but can you not also build bridges out of stone? + VILLAGER #2: Oh, yeah. + BEDEMIR: Does wood sink in water? + VILLAGER #1: No, no. + VILLAGER #2: It floats! It floats! + VILLAGER #1: Throw her into the pond! + CROWD: The pond! + BEDEMIR: What also floats in water? + VILLAGER #1: Bread! + VILLAGER #2: Apples! + VILLAGER #3: Very small rocks! + VILLAGER #1: Cider! + VILLAGER #2: Great gravy! + VILLAGER #1: Cherries! + VILLAGER #2: Mud! + VILLAGER #3: Churches -- churches! + VILLAGER #2: Lead -- lead! + ARTHUR: A duck. + CROWD: Oooh. + BEDEMIR: Exactly! So, logically..., + VILLAGER #1: If... she.. weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood. + BEDEMIR: And therefore--? + VILLAGER #1: A witch! + CROWD: A witch! + BEDEMIR: We shall use my larger scales! + [yelling] + BEDEMIR: Right, remove the supports! + [whop] + [creak] + CROWD: A witch! A witch! + WITCH: It's a fair cop. + CROWD: Burn her! Burn! [yelling] + BEDEMIR: Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science? + ARTHUR: I am Arthur, King of the Britons. + BEDEMIR: My liege! + ARTHUR: Good Sir knight, will you come with me to Camelot, + and join us at the Round Table? + BEDEMIR: My liege! I would be honored. + ARTHUR: What is your name? + BEDEMIR: Bedemir, my leige. + ARTHUR: Then I dub you Sir Bedemir, Knight of the Round Table. + +[Narrative Interlude] + + NARRATOR: The wise Sir Bedemir was the first to join King Arthur's + knights, but other illustrious names were soon to follow: + Sir Launcelot the Brave; Sir Galahad the Pure; and Sir Robin the + Not-quite-so-brave-as-Sir-Launcelot who had nearly fought the Dragon + of Agnor, who had nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol + and who had personally wet himself at the Battle of Badon Hill; and + the aptly named Sir Not-appearing-in-this-film. Together they formed + a band whose names and deeds were to be retold throughout the centuries, + the Knights of the Round Table. +% +Scene 6 + + BEDEMIR: And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped. + ARTHUR: This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedemir. Explain again how + sheeps' bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes. + BEDEMIR: Oh, certainly, sir. + LAUNCELOT: Look, my liege! + ARTHUR: Camelot! + GALAHAD: Camelot! + LAUNCELOT: Camelot! + PATSY: It's only a model. + ARTHUR: Shhh! Knights, I bid you welcome to your new home. Let us + ride... to Camelot. + + [singing] + We're knights of the round table + We dance when e'er we're able + We do routines and parlour scenes + With footwork impecc-Able. + + We dine well here in Camelot + We eat ham and jam and spam a lot + + [dancing] + + We're knights of the Round Table + Our shows are for-mid-able + Though many times we're given rhymes + That are quite unsing-able + We not so fat in Camelot + We sing from the diaphragm a lot + + [tap-dancing] + + Oh we're tough and able + Quite indefatigable + Between our quests we sequin vests + And impersonate Clark Gable + It's a bit too loud in Camelot + I have to push the pram a lot. + + ARTHUR: Well, on second thought, let's not go to Camelot -- it is + a silly place. + Right. +% +Scene 7 + GOD: Arthur! Arthur, King of the Britons! Oh, don't grovel! If + there's one thing I can't stand, it's people groveling. + ARTHUR: Sorry-- + GOD: And don't apologize. Every time I try to talk to someone it's + "sorry this" and "forgive me that" and "I'm not worthy". What are you + doing now!? + ARTHUR: I'm averting my eyes, oh Lord. + GOD: Well, don't. It's like those miserable Psalms-- they're so + depressing. Now knock it off! + ARTHUR: Yes, Lord. + GOD: Right! Arthur, King of the Britons -- your Knights of the Round + Table shall have a task to make them an example in these dark times. + ARTHUR: Good idea, oh Lord! + GOD: 'Course it's a good idea! Behold! Arthur, this is the Holy + Grail. Look well, Arthur, for it is your sacred task to seek + this Grail. That is your purpose, Arthur -- the Quest for the + Holy Grail. + ARTHUR: A blessing! + LAUNCELOT: A blessing from the Lord! + GALAHAD: God be praised! +% +Scene 8 + [clop clop] + ARTHUR: Halt! Hallo! Hallo! + GUARD: 'Allo! Who is zis? + ARTHUR: It is King Arthur, and these are the Knights of the Round + Table. Who's castle is this? + GUARD: This is the castle of Our Master Ruiz' de lu la Ramper (sp?) + ARTHUR: Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God + with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the + night he can join us in our quest for the Holy Grail. + GUARD: Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen... + Uh, he's already got one, you see? + ARTHUR: What? + GALAHAD: He says they've already got one! + ARTHUR: Are you sure he's got one? + GUARD: Oh, yes, it's very nice-a [To Other Guards] I told him we already got one. + OTHER GUARDS: [Laughing] + ARTHUR: Well, um, can we come up and have a look? + GUARD: Of course not! You are English types-a! + ARTHUR: Well, what are you then? + GUARD: I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you + silly king! + GALAHAD: What are you doing in England? + GUARD: Mind your own business! + ARTHUR: If you will not show us the Grail, we shall take your castle + by force! + GUARD: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your + bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called + Arthur-king, you and all your silly English kaniggets. Thppppt! + GALAHAD: What a strange person. + ARTHUR: Now look here, my good man! + GUARD: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal + food trough whopper! I fart in your general direction! You mother + was a hamster and your father smelt of eldeberries. + GALAHAD: Is there someone else up there we could talk to? + GUARD: No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-a! + ARTHUR: Now, this is your last chance. I've been more than reasonable. + GUARD: (Fetchez la vache.) + wha? + GUARD: (Fetchez la vache!) + [moo] + ARTHUR: If you do not agree to my commands, then I shall-- + [twong] + [mooooooo] + Jesus Christ! + Right! Charge! + ALL: Charge! + [mayhem] + GUARD: Ah, this one is for your mother! + [twong] + ALL: Run away! + GUARD: Thpppt! + LAUNCELOT: Fiends! I'll tear them apart! + ARTHUR: No no, no. + BEDEMIR: Sir! I have a plan, sir. + + [later] + + [chop] + [mrrrrrreeeeeeaaaaaaauuuuww] + [rumble rumble squeak] + MUTTERING GUARDS: ce labon a bunny do + wha? + un cadeau? + a present! + oh, un cadeau. + oui oui hurry! + wha-? + let's go! + [rumble rumble squeak] + + ARTHUR: What happens now? + BEDEMIR: Well, now, uh, Launcelot, Galahad, and I wait until nightfall, + and then leap out of the rabbit, taking the French by surprise -- + not only by surprise, but totally unarmed! + ARTHUR: Who leaps out? + BEDEMIR: Uh, Launcelot, Galahad, and I. Uh, leap out of the rabbit, uh + and uh.... + ARTHUR: Oh.... + BEDEMIR: Oh.... Um, l-look, if we built this large wooden badger-- + [twong] + ALL: Run away! Run away! Run away! Run away! + [splat] + GUARDS: Oh, haw haw haw. +% +Scene 9 + + Pictures for Schools, take 8. + DIRECTOR: Action! + + NARRATOR: Defeat at the castle seems to have utterly disheartened + King Arthur. The ferocity of the French taunting took him completely + by surprise, and Arthur became convinced that a new strategy + was required if the quest for the Holy Grail were to be brought + to a successful conclusion. Arthur, having consulted his closest + knights, decided that they should separate, and search for the Grail + individually. Now, this is what they did-- + [tromp tromp] + [slash] + WOMAN: Greg! +% +Scene 10 + + NARRATOR: The Tale of Sir Robin.... + So each of the knights went their separate ways. Sir Robin rode north, + through the dark forest of Ewing, accompanied by his favorite minstrels. + + MINSTREL (singing): + + Bravely bold Sir Robin, rode forth from Camelot. + He was not afraid to die, o Brave Sir Robin. + He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways. + Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin! + + He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed + into a pulp, + Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken. + To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away, + And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin! + + His head smashed in and his heart cut out, + And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged, + And his nostrils ripped and his bottom burned off, + And his penis-- + + ROBIN: That's -- that's, uh, that's enough music for now, lads. + Looks like there's dirty work afoot. + DENNIS: Anarcho-syndicalism is a way of preserving freedom. + WOMAN: Oh, Dennis, forget about freedom. Now I've dropped my mud. + ALL HEADS: Halt! Who art thou? + MINSTREL (singing): He is brave Sir Robin, brave Sir Robin, who-- + ROBIN: Shut up! Um, n-n-nobody really, I'm j-just um, just passing + through. + ALL HEADS: What do you want? + MINSTREL (singing): To fight, and-- + ROBIN: Shut up! Um, oo, n-nothing, nothing really -- I, uh, j-j-ust + to um, just to p-pass through, good Sir knight. + ALL HEADS: I'm afraid not! + ROBIN: Ah. W-well, actually I am a Knight of the Round Table. + ALL HEADS: You're a Knight of the Round Table? + ROBIN: I am. + LEFT HEAD: In that case I shall have to kill you. + MIDDLE HEAD: Shall I? + RIGHT HEAD: Oh, I don't think so. + MIDDLE HEAD: Well, what do I think? + LEFT HEAD: I think kill him. + RIGHT HEAD: Well let's be nice to him. + MIDDLE HEAD: Oh shut up. + LEFT HEAD: Perhaps- + MIDDLE HEAD: And you. + LEFT HEAD: Oh quick get the sword out I want to cut his head off! + RIGHT HEAD: Oh, cut your own head off! + MIDDLE HEAD: Yes, do us all a favor! + LEFT HEAD: What? + RIGHT HEAD: Yapping on all the time. + MIDDLE HEAD: You're lucky. You're not next to him. + LEFT HEAD: What do you mean? + MIDDLE HEAD: You snore. + LEFT HEAD: Oh I don't -- anyway, you've got bad breath. + MIDDLE HEAD: Well its only because you don't brush my teeth. + RIGHT HEAD: Oh stop bitching and let's go have tea. + LEFT HEAD: All right, all right, all right. We'll kill him first + and then have tea and biscuits. + MIDDLE HEAD: Yes. + RIGHT HEAD: Oh, but not biscuits. + LEFT HEAD: All right, all right, not biscuits, but lets kill him anyway. + ALL HEADS: Right! + LEFT HEAD: He buggered off. + RIGHT HEAD: So he has, he's scarpered. + + MINSTREL (singing): Brave Sir Robin ran away + ROBIN: No! + MINSTREL (singing): Bravely ran away away + ROBIN: I didn't! + MINSTREL (singing): When danger reared its ugly head, + He bravely turned his tail and fled + ROBIN: No! + MINSTREL (singing): Yes Brave Sir Robin turned about + ROBIN: I didn't! + MINSTREL (singing): And gallantly he chickened out + Bravely taking to his feet + ROBIN: I never did! + MINSTREL (singing): He beat a very brave retreat + ROBIN: Oh, lie! + MINSTREL (singing): Bravest of the brave Sir Robin + ROBIN: I never! +% +Scene 11 + + NARRATOR: The Tale of Sir Galahad + + [boom crash] + [angels singing] + + [pound pound pound] + GALAHAD: Open the door! + Open the door! + [pound pound pound] + In the name of King Arthur, open the door! + [squeak thump] + [squeak boom] + ALL: Hello! + ZOOT: Welcome gentle Sir knight, welcome to the Castle Anthrax. + GALAHAD: The Castle Anthrax? + ZOOT: Yes... oh, it's not a very good name? Oh! but we are + nice and we shall attend to your every, every need! + GALAHAD: You are the keepers of the Holy Grail? + ZOOT: The what? + GALAHAD: The Grail -- it is here? + ZOOT: Oh, but you are tired, and you must rest awhile. Midget! + Crepper! + MIDGET and CREPPER: Yes, oh Zoot! + ZOOT: Prepare a bed for our guest. + MIDGET and CREPPER: Oh thank you thank you thank you-- + ZOOT: Away away vile temptress! The beds here are warm and soft -- and + very, very big. + GALAHAD: Well, look, I-I-uh-- + ZOOT: What is your name, handsome knight? + GALAHAD: Sir Galahad... the Chaste. + ZOOT: Mine is Zoot... just Zoot. Oh, but come! + GALAHAD: Look, please! In God's name, show me the Grail! + ZOOT: Oh, you have suffered much! You are delirious! + GALAHAD: L-look, I have seen it! It is here, in the-- + ZOOT: Sir Galahad! You would not be so ungallant as to refuse our + hospitality. + GALAHAD: Well, I-I-uh-- + ZOOT: Oh, I am afraid our life must seem very dull and quiet compared + to yours. We are but eight score young blondes and brunettes, all between + sixteen and nineteen and a half, cut off in this castle with no one to + protect us! Oh, it is a lonely life -- bathing, dressing, undressing, + making exciting underwear.... We are just not used to handsome knights. + Nay, nay, come, come, you may lie here. Oh, but you are wounded! + GALAHAD: No, no -- i-it's nothing! + ZOOT: Oh, but you must see the doctors immediately! No, no, please, + lie down. + [clap clap] + PIGLET: Ah. What seems to be the trouble? + GALAHAD: They're doctors?! + ZOOT: Uh, they've had a basic medical training, yes. + GALAHAD: B-but-- + ZOOT: Oh, come come, you must try to rest! Doctor Piglet, Doctor + Winston, practice your art. + PIGLET: Try to relax. + GALAHAD: Are you sure that's necessary? + PIGLET: We must examine you. + GALAHAD: There's nothing wrong with that! + PIGLET: Please -- we are doctors. + GALAHAD: Get off the bed! I am sworn to chastity! + PIGLET: Back to your bed! + GALAHAD: Torment me no longer! I have seen the Grail! + PIGLET: There's no grail here. + GALAHAD: I have seen it, I have seen it. I have seen-- + GIRLS: Hello. + GALAHAD: Oh-- + VARIOUS GIRLS: Hello. + Hello. + Hello. + Hello. + Hello. + Hello. + Hello. + Hello. + Hello. + Hello. + Hello. + Hello. + GALAHAD: Zoot! + DINGO: No, I am Zoot's identical twin sister, Dingo. + GALAHAD: Oh, well, excuse me, I-- + DINGO: Where are you going? + GALAHAD: I seek the Grail! I have seen it, here in this castle! + DINGO: No! Oh, no! Bad, bad Zoot! + GALAHAD: What is it? + DINGO: Oh, wicked, bad, naughty Zoot! She has been setting alight + to our beacon, which, I just remembered, is grail-shaped. It's not the + first time we've had this problem. + GALAHAD: It's not the real Grail? + DINGO: Oh, wicked, bad, naughty, evil Zoot! Oh, she is a naughty + person, and she must pay the penalty -- and here in Castle Anthrax, we + have but one punishment for setting alight the grail-shaped beacon. You + must tie her down on a bed and spank her! + GIRLS: A spanking! A spanking! + DINGO: You must spank her well. And after you have spanked her, you + may deal with her as you like. And then, spank me. + VARIOUS GIRLS: And spank me. + And me. + And me. + DINGO: Yes, yes, you must give us all a good spanking! + GIRLS: A spanking! A spanking! + DINGO: And after the spanking, the oral sex. + GIRLS: Oral sex! Oral sex! + GALAHAD: Well, I could stay a BIT longer. + LAUNCELOT: Sir Galahad! + GALAHAD: Oh, hello. + LAUNCELOT: Quick! + GALAHAD: What? + LAUNCELOT: Quick! + GALAHAD: Why? + LAUNCELOT: You're in great peril! + LAUNCELOT: Silence, foul temptress! + GALAHAD: Now look, it's not important. + LAUNCELOT: Quick! Come on and we'll cover your escape! + GALAHAD: Look, I'm fine! + LAUNCELOT: Come on! + GALAHAD: Now look, I can tackle this lot single-handed! + DINGO: Yes! Let him tackle us single-handed! + GIRLS: Yes! Tackle us single-handed! + LAUNCELOT: No, Sir Galahad, come on! + GALAHAD: No, really, honestly, I can go back and handle this lot easily! + DINGO: Oh, yes, he can handle us easily. + GIRLS: Yes, yes! + GALAHAD: Wait! I can defeat them! There's only a hundred and fifty + of them! + DINGO: Yes, yes, he'll beat us easily, we haven't a chance. + GIRLS: Yes, yes. + [boom] + DINGO: Oh, shit. + [outside] + LAUNCELOT: We were in the nick of time, you were in great peril. + GALAHAD: I don't think I was. + LAUNCELOT: Yes you were, you were in terrible peril. + GALAHAD: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril. + LAUNCELOT: No, it's too perilous. + GALAHAD: Look, I'm a knight, I'm supposed to get as much peril as I can. + LAUNCELOT: No, we've got to find the Holy Grail. Come on! + GALAHAD: Well, let me have just a little bit of peril? + LAUNCELOT: No, it's unhealthy. + GALAHAD: Bet you're gay! + LAUNCELOT: No, I'm not. + +Narrative Interlude 2 + + NARRATOR: Sir Launcelot had saved Sir Galahad from almost certain + temptation, but they were still no nearer the Grail. Meanwhile, + King Arthur and Sir Bedemir, not more than a swallow's flight away, + had discovered something. Oh, that's an unladen swallow's flight, + obviously. I mean, they were more than two laden swallow's flights + away -- four, really, if they hadn't a cord of line between them. + I mean, if the birds were walking and dragging-- + CROWD: Get on with it! + NARRATOR: Oh, anyway, on to scene twenty-four, which is a smashing + scene with some lovely acting, in which Arthur discovers a vital clue, + in which there aren't any swallows, although I think you can hear a + starling -oolp! +% +Scene 24 + + OLD MAN: Ah, hee he he ha! + ARTHUR: And this enchanter of whom you speak, he has seen the grail? + OLD MAN: Ha ha he he he he! + ARTHUR: Where does he live? Old man, where does he live? + OLD MAN: He knows of a cave, a cave which no man has entered. + ARTHUR: And the Grail... The Grail is there? + OLD MAN: Very much danger, for beyond the cave lies the Gorge + of Eternal Peril, which no man has ever crossed. + ARTHUR: But the Grail! Where is the Grail!? + OLD MAN: Seek you the Bridge of Death. + ARTHUR: The Bridge of Death, which leads to the Grail? + OLD MAN: Hee hee ha ha! +% +Scene 25 + + HEAD KNIGHT: Nee! + Nee! + Nee! + Nee! + ARTHUR: Who are you? + HEAD KNIGHT: We are the Knights Who Say... Nee! + ARTHUR: No! Not the Knights Who Say Nee! + HEAD KNIGHT: The same! + BEDEMIR: Who are they? + HEAD KNIGHT: We are the keepers of the sacred words: Nee, Pen, and + Nee-wom! + RANDOM: Nee-wom! + ARTHUR: Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale! + HEAD KNIGHT: The Knights Who Say Nee demand a sacrifice! + ARTHUR: Knights of Nee, we are but simple travellers who seek the + enchanter who lives beyond these woods. + HEAD KNIGHT: Nee! Nee! Nee! Nee! + ARTHUR and PARTY: Oh, ow! + HEAD KNIGHT: We shall say 'nee' again to you if you do not appease us. + ARTHUR: Well, what is it you want? + HEAD KNIGHT: We want... a shrubbery! + [dramatic chord] + ARTHUR: A what? + HEAD KNIGHT: Nee! Nee! + ARTHUR and PARTY: Oh, ow! + ARTHUR: Please, please! No more! We shall find a shrubbery. + HEAD KNIGHT: You must return here with a shrubbery or else you will + never pass through this wood alive! + ARTHUR: O Knights of Nee, you are just and fair, and we will return + with a shrubbery. + HEAD KNIGHT: One that looks nice. + ARTHUR: Of course. + HEAD KNIGHT: And not too expensive. + ARTHUR: Yes. + HEAD KNIGHTS: Now... go! +% +Scene 26 + + NARRATOR: The Tale of Sir Launcelot. + + FATHER: One day, lad, all this will be yours! + ERBERT: What, the curtains? + FATHER: No, not the curtains, lad. All that you can see! Stretched + out over the hills and valleys of this land! This'll be your kingdom, + lad! + HERBERT: But, Mother-- + FATHER: Father, I'm Father. + HERBERT: But Father, I don't want any of that. + FATHER: Listen, lad. I've built this kingdom up from nothing. When + I started here, all there was was swamp. All the kings said I was + daft to build a castle in a swamp, but I built it all the same, + just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. + That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, + fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. + An' that's what your gonna get, lad -- the strongest castle in these + islands. + HERBERT: But I don't want any of that -- I'd rather-- + FATHER: Rather what?! + HERBERT: I'd rather... just... + [music] + ...sing! + FATHER: Stop that, stop that! You're not going to do a song while + I'm here. Now listen lad, in twenty minutes you're getting married to + a girl whose father owns the biggest tracts of open land in Britain. + HERBERT: But I don't want land. + FATHER: Listen, Alex,-- + HERBERT: Herbert. + FATHER: Herbert. We live in a bloody swamp. We need all the land we + can get. + HERBERT: But I don't like her. + FATHER: Don't like her?! What's wrong with her? She's beautiful, + she's rich, she's got huge... tracts of land. + HERBERT: I know, but I want the girl that I marry to have... + a certain... special... + [music] + ...something... + FATHER: Cut that out, cut that out. Look, you're marryin' Princess + Lucky, so you'd better get used to the idea. [smack] Guards! Make sure + the Prince doesn't leave this room until I come and get 'im. + GUARD #1: Not to leave the room even if you come and get him. + GUARD #2: Hic! + FATHER: No, no. Until I come and get 'im. + GUARD #1: Until you come and get him, we're not to enter the room. + FATHER: No, no, no. You stay in the room and make sure 'e doesn't + leave. + GUARD #1: And you'll come and get him. + GUARD #2: Hic! + FATHER: Right. + GUARD #1: We don't need to do anything, apart from just stop him + entering the room. + FATHER: No, no. Leaving the room. + GUARD #1: Leaving the room, yes. + FATHER: All right? + GUARD #1: Right. Oh, if-if-if, uh, if-if-if, uh, if-if-if we... + FATHER: Yes, what is it? + GUARD #1: Oh, if-if, oh-- + FATHER: Look, it's quite simple. + GUARD #1: Uh... + FATHER: You just stay here, and make sure 'e doesn't leave the room. + All right? + GUARD #2: Hic! + FATHER: Right. + GUARD #1: Oh, I remember. Uh, can he leave the room with us? + FATHER: N- No no no. You just keep him in here, and make sure-- + GUARD #1: Oh, yes, we'll keep him in here, obviously. But if he had + to leave and we were-- + FATHER: No, no, just keep him in here-- + GUARD #1: Until you, or anyone else,-- + FATHER: No, not anyone else, just me-- + GUARD #1: Just you. + GUARD #2: Hic! + FATHER: Get back. + GUARD #1: Get back. + FATHER: Right? + GUARD #1: Right, we'll stay here until you get back. + FATHER: And, uh, make sure he doesn't leave. + GUARD #1: What? + FATHER: Make sure 'e doesn't leave. + GUARD #1: The Prince? + FATHER: Yes, make sure 'e doesn't leave. + GUARD #1: Oh, yes, of course. I thought you meant him. Y'know, it + seemed a bit daft, me havin' to guard him when he's a guard. + FATHER: Is that clear? + GUARD #2: Hic! + GUARD #1: Oh, quite clear, no problems. + FATHER: Right. + [starts to leave] + Where are you going? + GUARD #1: We're coming with you. + FATHER: No no, I want you to stay 'ere and make sure 'e doesn't leave. + GUARD #1: Oh, I see. Right. + HERBERT: But, Father! + FATHER: Shut your noise, you! And get that suit on! And no singing! + GUARD #2: Hic! + FATHER: Oh, go get a glass of water. +% +Scene 27 + + LAUNCELOT: Well taken, Concorde! + CONCORDE: Thank you, sir! Most kind. + LAUNCELOT: And again... Over we go! Good. Steady! And now, the big + one...Ooof! Come on, Concorde! + [thwonk] + CONCORDE: Message for you, sir. + [fwump] + LAUNCELOT: Concorde! Concorde, speak to me! "To whoever finds this + note, I have been imprisoned by my father, who wishes me to marry + against my will. Please, please, please come and rescue me. I am + in the tall tower of Swamp Castle." At last! A call, a cry of + distress! This could be the sign that leads us to the Holy Grail! + Brave, brave Concorde! You shall not have died in vain! + CONCORDE: Uh, I'm-I'm not quite dead, sir. + LAUNCELOT: Well, you shall not have been mortally wounded in vain! + CONCORDE: Uh, I-I think uh, I could pull through, sir. + LAUNCELOT: Oh, I see. + CONCORDE: Actually, I think I'm all right to come with you-- + LAUNCELOT: No, no, sweet Concorde! Stay here! I will send help as + soon as I have accomplished a daring and heroic rescue in my own + particular... (sigh) + CONCORDE: Idiom, sir? + LAUNCELOT: Idiom! + CONCORDE: No, I feel fine, actually, sir. + LAUNCELOT: Farewell, sweet Concorde! + CONCORDE: I'll-uh, I'll just stay here, then, shall I, sir? Yeah. +% +Scene 28 + + LAUNCELOT: Ha-ha! etc. + GUARD #1: Now, you're not allowed to come in here, and we're-ugh! + LAUNCELOT: O fair one, behold your humble servant Sir Launcelot + of Camelot. I have come to take -- oh, I'm terribly sorry. + HERBERT: You got my note! + LAUNCELOT: Uh, well, I got A note. + HERBERT: You've come to rescue me! + LAUNCELOT: Uh, well, no, you see... + HERBERT: I knew that someone would, I knew that somewhere out there... + there must be... + [music] + ...someone... + FATHER: Stop that, stop that, stop it! Stop it! Who are you? + HERBERT: I'm your son! + FATHER: No, not you. + LAUNCELOT: I'm Sir Launcelot, sir. + HERBERT: He's come to rescue me, father. + LAUNCELOT: Well, let's not jump to conclusions. + FATHER: Did you kill all the guard? + LAUNCELOT: Uh..., oh, yes. Sorry. + FATHER: They cost fifty pounds each. + LAUNCELOT: Well, I'm awfully sorry, I'm -- I really can explain everything. + HERBERT: Don't be afraid of him, Sir Launcelot, I've got a rope all ready! + FATHER: You killed eight wedding guests in all! + LAUNCELOT: Well, you see, the thing is, I thought your son was a lady. + FATHER: I can understand that. + HERBERT: Hurry, Sir Launcelot! Hurry! + FATHER: Shut up! You only killed the bride's father, that's all! + LAUNCELOT: Well, I really didn't mean to... + FATHER: Didn't mean to?! You put your sword right through his head! + LAUNCELOT: Oh, dear. Is he all right? + FATHER: You even kicked the bride in the chest! This is going to cost + me a fortune! + LAUNCELOT: Well, I can explain. I was in the forest, um, riding north + from Camelot, when I got this note, you see-- + FATHER: Camelot? Are you from, uh, Camelot? + HERBERT: Hurry, Sir Launcelot! + LAUNCELOT: Uh, I am a Knight of King Arthur, sir. + FATHER: Pretty nice castle, Camelot. Uh, pretty good pig country.... + LAUNCELOT: Yes. + HERBERT: Hurry, I'm ready! + FATHER: Would you, uh, like to come and have a drink? + LAUNCELOT: Well, that's, uh, awfully nice of you. + HERBERT: I am ready! + [starts to leave] + LAUNCELOT: --I mean to be, so understanding. + [thonk] + HERBERT: Oooh! + LAUNCELOT: Um, I think when I'm in this idiom, I sometimes get a bit, + uh, sort of carried away. + FATHER: Oh, don't worry about that. + HERBERT: Oooh! + [splat] +% +Scene 29 + + [wailing] + FATHER: Well, this is the main hall. We're going to have all this + knocked through, and made into one big, uh, living room. + RANDOM: There he is! + FATHER: Oh, bloody hell. + LAUNCELOT: Ha-ha! etc. + FATHER: Hold it, hold it! Please! + LAUNCELOT: Sorry, sorry. See what I mean, I just get carried away. + I really must -- sorry, sorry! Sorry, everyone. + RANDOM: He's killed the best man! + [yelling] + FATHER: Hold it, please! Hold it! This is Sir Launcelot from the + court of Camelot -- a very brave and influential knight, and my special + guest here today. + LAUNCELOT: Hello. + RANDOM: He killed my auntie! + [yelling] + FATHER: Please, please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion! + Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who. We are here today to + witness the union of two young people in the joyful bond of the holy + wedlock. Unfortunately, one of them, my son Herbert, has just fallen + to his death. But I think I've not lost a son, so much as... gained + a daughter! For, since the tragic death of her father-- + RANDOM: He's not quite dead! + FATHER: Since the near fatal wounding of her father-- + RANDOM: He's getting better! + FATHER: For, since her own father... who, when he seemed about to + recover, suddenly felt the icy hand of death upon him,... + [ugh] + RANDOM: Oh, he's died! + FATHER: And I want his only daughter to look upon me... as her own + dad -- in a very real, and legally binding sense. + [clapping] + And I feel sure that the merger -- uh, the union -- between the + Princess and the brave, but dangerous, Sir Launcelot of Camelot... + LAUNCELOT: What? + RANDOM: Look! The dead Prince! + CONCORDE: He's not quite dead! + HERBERT: Oh, I feel much better. + FATHER: You fell out of the tower, you creep! + HERBERT: No, I was saved at the last minute. + FATHER: How?! + HERBERT: Well, I'll tell you... + [music] + FATHER: Not like that! Not like that! No, stop it! + SINGING: He's going to tell! He's going to tell! + FATHER: Shut up! + SINGING: He's going to tell! He's going to tell! + He's going to tell! He's going to tell! + He's going to tell! He's going to tell! + He's going to tell! He's going to tell! + CONCORDE: Quickly, sir! This way! + LAUNCELOT: No, it's not in my idiom! I must escape more....(sigh) + CONCORDE: Dramatically, sir? + LAUNCELOT: Dramatically! Hee! Ha! + [crash] + Excuse me, could, uh, could somebody give me a push, please...? +% +Scene 30 + + [clop clop] + ARTHUR: Old crone! Is there anywhere in this town where we could buy + a shrubbery! + [dramatic chord] + CRONE: Who sent you? + ARTHUR: The Knights Who Say Nee. + CRONE: Agh! No! Never! We have no shrubberies here. + ARTHUR: If you do not tell us where we can buy a shrubbery, my friend + and I will say... we will say... `nee'. + CRONE: Agh! Do your worst! + ARTHUR: Very well! If you will not assist us voluntarily,... nee! + CRONE: No! Never! No shrubberies! + ARTHUR: Nee! + BEDEMIR: Noo! Noo! + ARTHUR: No, no, no, no -- it's not that, it's 'nee'. + BEDEMIR: Noo! + ARTHUR: No, no -- 'nee'. You're not doing it properly. + BEDEMIR: Noo! Nee! + ARTHUR: That's it, that's it, you've got it. + ARTHUR and BEDEMIR: Nee! Nee! + ROGER: Are you saying 'nee' to that old woman? + ARTHUR: Um, yes. + ROGER: Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say `nee' + at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing + is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under + considerable economic stress at this period in history. + ARTHUR: Did you say `shrubberies'? + ROGER: Yes, shrubberies are my trade -- I am a shrubber. My name + is Roger the Shrubber. I arrange, design, and sell shrubberies. + BEDEMIR: Nee! + ARTHUR: No! No, no, no! No! +% +Scene 31 + + ARTHUR: O, Knights of Nee, we have brought you your shrubbery. May we + go now? + HEAD KNIGHT: It is a good shrubbery. I like the laurels particularly. + But there is one small problem. + ARTHUR: What is that? + HEAD KNIGHT: We are now... no longer the Knights Who Say Nee. + RANDOM: Nee! + HEAD KNIGHT: Shh shh. We are now the Knights Who Say Ecky-ecky-ecky- + ecky-pikang-zoom-boing-mumble-mumble. + RANDOM: Nee! + HEAD KNIGHT: Therefore, we must give you a test. + ARTHUR: What is this test, O Knights of-- Knights Who 'Til Recently + Said Nee? + HEAD KNIGHT: Firstly, you must find... another shrubbery! + [dramatic chord] + ARTHUR: Not another shrubbery! + HEAD KNIGHT: Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place + it here beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get a + two-level effect with a little path running down the middle. + RANDOM: A path! A path! Nee! + HEAD KNIGHT: Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must cut + down the mightiest tree in the forest... with... a herring! + [dramatic chord] + ARTHUR: We shall do no such thing! + HEAD KNIGHT: Oh, please! + ARTHUR: Cut down a tree with a herring? It can't be done. + KNIGHTS: Aaaaugh! Aaaugh! + HEAD KNIGHT: Don't say that word. + ARTHUR: What word? + HEAD KNIGHT: I cannot tell, suffice to say is one of the words + the Knights of Nee cannot hear. + ARTHUR: How can we not say the word if you don't tell us what it is? + KNIGHTS: Aaaaugh! Aaaugh! + ARTHUR: What, `is'? + HEAD KNIGHT: No, not `is' -- we couldn't get vary far in life not + saying `is'. + BEDEMIR: My liege, it's Sir Robin! + MINSTREL (singing): Packing it in and packing it up + And sneaking away and buggering up + And chickening out and pissing about + Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge + ARTHUR: Oh, Robin! + ROBIN: My liege! It's good to see you! + KNIGHTS: Aaaaugh! + HEAD KNIGHT: He said the word! + ARTHUR: Surely you've not given up your quest for the Holy Grail? + MINSTREL (singing): He is sneaking away and buggering up-- + ROBIN: Shut up! No, no no-- far from it. + HEAD KNIGHT: He said the word again! + ROBIN: I was looking for it. + KNIGHTS: Aaaaugh! + ROBIN: Uh, here, here in this forest. + ARTHUR: No, it is far from-- + KNIGHTS: Aaaaugh! + HEAD KNIGHT: Aaaaugh! Stop saying the word! + ARTHUR: Oh, stop it! + KNIGHTS: Aaaaugh! + HEAD KNIGHT: Oh! He said it again! + ARTHUR: Patsy! + HEAD KNIGHT: Aaugh! I said it! I said it! Ooh! I said it again! + KNIGHTS: Aaaaugh! + +Narrative Interlude 3 + + NARRATOR: And so Arthur and Bedemir and Sir Robin set out on their + search to find the enchanter of whom the old man had spoken in Scene 24. + Beyond the forest they met Launcelot and Galahad, and there was much + rejoicing. + ALL: Yay! Yay! + NARRATOR: In the frozen land of Nador they were forced to eat Robin's + minstrels. And there was much rejoicing. + ALL: Yay! + NARRATOR: A year passed. Winter changed into Spring. Spring changed + into Summer. Summer changed back into Winter. And Winter gave Spring + and Summer a miss and went straight on into Autumn. Until one day... +% +Scene 32 + + ARTHUR: Knights! Forward! + [boom boom boom boom BOOM boom boom boom boom] + What manner of man are you that can summon up fire without flint + or tinder? + TIM: I... am an enchanter. + ARTHUR: By what name are you known? + TIM: There are some who call me... Tim? + ARTHUR: Greetings, Tim the Enchanter. + TIM: Greetings, King Arthur! + ARTHUR: You know my name? + TIM: I do. + [zoosh] + You seek the Holy Grail! + ARTHUR: That is our quest. You know much that is hidden, O Tim. + TIM: Quite. + [pweeng boom] + [clap clap clap] + ARTHUR: Yes, we're, we're looking for the Grail. Our quest is to find + the Holy Grail. + KNIGHTS: It is, yes, yup, yes, yeah. + ARTHUR: And so we're, we're, we're, we're looking for it. + KNIGHTS: Yes we are we are. + BEDEMIR: We have been for some time. + ROBIN: Ages. + ARTHUR: Uh, so, uh, anything you can do to, uh, to help, would be... + very... helpful... + GALAHAD: Look, can you tell us wh- + [boom] + ARTHUR: Fine, um, I don't want to waste anymore of your time, but, uh + I don't suppose you could, uh, tell us where we might find a, um, + find a, uh, a, um, a uh-- + TIM: A what...? + ARTHUR: A g--, a g-- + TIM: A Grail?! + ARTHUR: Yes, I think so. + KNIGHTS: Yes, that's it. Yes. + TIM: Yes! + KNIGHTS: Oh, thank you, splendid, fine. + [boom pweeng boom boom] + ARTHUR: Look, you're a busy man, uh-- + TIM: Yes, I can help you find the Holy Grail. + KNIGHTS: Oh, thank you. + TIM: To the north there lies a cave -- the cave of Kyre Banorg -- + wherein, carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last + words of Ulfin Bedweer of Regett [boom] proclaim the last resting + place of the most Holy Grail. + ARTHUR: Where could we find this cave, O Tim? + TIM: Follow! But! follow only if ye be men of valor, for the entrance + to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man + yet has fought with it and lived! Bones of four fifty men lie strewn + about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or + your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty + big pointy teeth. + ARTHUR: What an eccentric performance. +% +Scene 33 + + [clop clop whinny] + KNIGHT: They're nervous, sire. + ARTHUR: Then we'd best leave them here and carry on on foot. Dis-mount! + TIM: Behold the cave of Kyre Banorg! + ARTHUR: Right! Keep me covered. + KNIGHT: What with? + ARTHUR: Just keep me covered. + TIM: Too late! + [chord] + ARTHUR: What? + TIM: There he is! + ARTHUR: Where? + TIM: There! + ARTHUR: What, behind the rabbit? + TIM: It is the rabbit! + ARTHUR: You silly sod! You got us all worked up! + TIM: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit. That's the most foul, cruel, + and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on. + ROBIN: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared! + TIM: Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide, it's a + killer! + KNIGHT: Get stuffed! + TIM: It'll do you a trick, mate! + KNIGHT: Oh, yeah? + ROBIN: You mangy Scot git! + TIM: I'm warning you! + ROBIN: What's he do, nibble your bum? + TIM: He's got huge, sharp-- he can leap about-- look at the bones! + ARTHUR: Go on, Boris. Chop his head off! + BORIS: Right! Silly little bleeder. One rabbit stew comin' right up! + TIM: Look! + [squeak] + BORIS: Aaaugh! + [chord] + ARTHUR: Jesus Christ! + TIM: I warned you! + ROBIN: I peed again! + TIM: I warned you! But did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, + didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it? Well, + it's always the same, I always-- + ARTHUR: Oh, shut up! + TIM: --But do they listen to me?-- + ARTHUR: Right! + TIM: -Oh, no-- + KNIGHTS: Charge! + [squeak squeak] + KNIGHTS: Aaaaugh! Aaaugh! etc. + KNIGHTS: Run away! Run away! + TIM: Haw haw haw. Haw haw haw. Haw haw. + ARTHUR: Right. How many did we lose? + KNIGHT: Gawain. + KNIGHT: Hector. + ARTHUR: And Boris. That's five. + GALAHAD: Three, sir. + ARTHUR: Three. Three. And we'd better not risk another frontal + assault, that rabbit's dynamite. + ROBIN: Would it help to confuse it if we run away more? + ARTHUR: Oh, shut up and go and change your armor. + GALAHAD: Let us taunt it! It may become so cross that it will make + a mistake. + ARTHUR: Like what? + GALAHAD: Well,.... + ARTHUR: Have we got bows? + KNIGHT: No. + LAUNCELOT: We have the Holy Hand Grenade. + ARTHUR: Yes, of course! The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch! 'Tis one + of the sacred relics Brother Maynard carries with him! Brother Maynard! + Bring up the Holy Hand Grenade! + [singing] + How does it, uh... how does it work? + KNIGHT: I know not, my liege. + ARTHUR: Consult the Book of Armaments! + MAYNARD: Armaments, Chapter Two, Verses Nine to Twenty-One. + BROTHER: "And Saint Atila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, + 'Oh, Lord, bless this thy hand grenade that with it thou mayest blow + thy enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin, and + people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, + and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large --" + MAYNARD: Skip a bit, Brother. + BROTHER: "And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the + Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three + shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting + shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, + excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once + the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou + thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who being naughty + in my sight, shall snuff it.'" + MAYNARD: Amen. + ALL: Amen. + ARTHUR: Right! One... two... five! + KNIGHT: Three, sir! + ARTHUR: Three! + [boom] +% +Scene 34 + + KNIGHT: There! Look! + LAUNCELOT: What does it say? + GALAHAD: What language is that? + ARTHUR: Brother Maynard, you're our scholar! + MAYNARD: It's Aramaic! + GALAHAD: Of course! Joseph of Aramathea! + LAUNCELOT: Course! + KNIGHT: What does it say? + MAYNARD: It reads, 'Here may be found the last words of Joseph of + Aramathea. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail + in the Castle of uuggggggh'. + ARTHUR: What? + MAYNARD: '... the Castle of uuggggggh'. + BEDEMIR: What is that? + MAYNARD: He must have died while carving it. + LAUNCELOT: Oh, come on! + MAYNARD: Well, that's what it says. + ARTHUR: Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't bother to carve 'aaggggh'. + He'd just say it! + MAYNARD: Well, that's what's carved in the rock! + GALAHAD: Perhaps he was dictating. + ARTHUR: Oh, shut up. Well, does it say anything else? + MAYNARD: No. Just, 'uuggggggh'. + LAUNCELOT: Aauuggghhh. + KNIGHT: Aaauggh. + BEDEMIR: You don't suppose he meant the Camauuuugh? + KNIGHT: Where's that? + BEDEMIR: France, I think. + LAUNCELOT: Isn't there a Saint Aauuuves in Cornwall? + ARTHUR: No, that's Saint Ives. + LAUNCELOT: Oh, yes. Saint Iiiives. + SEVERAL: Iiiiives. + BEDEMIR: Oooohoohohooo! + LAUNCELOT: No, no, aauuuuugh, at the back of the throat. Aauuugh. + BEDEMIR: No, no, no, oooooooh, in surprise and alarm. + LAUNCELOT: Oh, you mean sort of a aaaagh! + BEDEMIR: Yes, but I-- Aaaaagh! + KNIGHT: Oooh! + KNIGHT: Oh, no! + [roar] + MAYNARD: It's the legendary Black Beast of aaauuugh! + ARTHUR: Run away! + ALL: Run away! Run away! + [roar] + NARRATOR: As the horrendous Black Beast lunged forward, escape + for Arthur and his knights seemed hopeless. When, suddenly, the + animator suffered a fatal heart attack. [ulk] The cartoon peril + was no more. The Quest for the Holy Grail could continue. +% +Scene 35 + + ARTHUR: There it is! The Bridge of Death! + ROBIN: Oh, great. + KNIGHT: Look! + ARTHUR: There's the old man from Scene 24! + BEDEMIR: What is he doing here? + ARTHUR: He is the keeper of the Bridge of Death. He asks each + traveller five questions-- + KNIGHT: Three questions. + ARTHUR: Three questions. He who answers the five questions-- + KNIGHT: Three questions. + ARTHUR: Three questions may cross in safety. + ROBIN: What if you get a question wrong? + ARTHUR: Then you are cast into the Gorge of Eternal Peril. + ROBIN: Oh, I won't go. + KNIGHT: Who's going to answer the questions? + ARTHUR: Sir Robin! + ROBIN: Yes? + ARTHUR: Brave Sir Robin, you go. + ROBIN: Hey! I've got a great idea. Why doesn't Launcelot go? + LAUNCELOT: Yes, let me go, my liege. I will take him single-handed. + I shall make a feint to the north-east-- + ARTHUR: No, no, hang on, hang on, hang on! Just answer the five + questions-- + KNIGHT: Three questions. + ARTHUR: Three questions as best you can. And we shall watch... and + pray. + LAUNCELOT: I understand, my liege. + ARTHUR: Good luck, brave Sir Launcelot. God be with you. + KEEPER: Stop! Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me + these questions three, 'ere the other side he see. + LAUNCELOT: Ask me the questions, bridge-keeper. I'm not afraid. + KEEPER: What is your name? + LAUNCELOT: My name is Sir Launcelot of Camelot. + KEEPER: What is your quest? + LAUNCELOT: To seek the Holy Grail. + KEEPER: What is your favorite color? + LAUNCELOT: Blue. + KEEPER: Right. Off you go. + LAUNCELOT: Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. + ROBIN: That's easy! + KEEPER: Stop! Who approaches the Bridge of Death must answer me + these questions three, 'ere the other side he see. + ROBIN: Ask me the questions, bridge-keeper. I'm not afraid. + KEEPER: What is your name? + ROBIN: Sir Robin of Camelot. + KEEPER: What is your quest? + ROBIN: To seek the Holy Grail. + KEEPER: What is the capital of Assyria? + ROBIN: I don't know that! Auuuuuuuugh! + KEEPER: Stop! What is your name? + GALAHAD: Sir Galahad of Camelot. + KEEPER: What is your quest? + GALAHAD: I seek the Holy Grail. + KEEPER: What is your favorite color? + GALAHAD: Blue. No yel-- Auuuuuuuugh! + KEEPER: Heh heh. Stop! What is your name? + ARTHUR: It is Arthur, King of the Britons. + KEEPER: What is your quest? + ARTHUR: To seek the Holy Grail. + KEEPER: What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? + ARTHUR: What do you mean? An African or European swallow? + KEEPER: What? I don't know that! Auuuuuuuugh! + BEDEMIR: How do know so much about swallows? + ARTHUR: Well, you have to know these things when you're a king you know. +% +Scene 36 + + ARTHUR: Launcelot! Launcelot! Launcelot! + BEDEMIR: Launcelot! Launcelot! + ARTHUR: Launcelot! Launcelot! + BEDEMIR: Launcelot! Launcelot! + [angels singing] + ARTHUR: The Castle Aggh. Our quest is at an end! God be praised! + Almighty God, we thank Thee that Thou hast [something] safe + [something] the most- + [twong baaaa] + Jesus Christ! + GUARD: 'Allo, daffy English kaniggets and Monsieur Arthur-King, who + is afraid of a duck, you know! So, we French fellows out-wit you a + second time! + ARTHUR: How dare you profane this place with your presence!? I command + you, in the name of the Knights of Camelot, to open the doors of this + sacred castle, to which God himself has guided us! + GUARD: How you English say, I one more time-a unclog my nose in your + direction, sons of a window-dresser! So, you think you could + out-clever us French folk with your silly knees-bent running about + advancing behavior! I wave my private parts at your aunties, you + heaving lot of second-hand electric donkey bottom biters. + ARTHUR: In the name of the Lord, we demand entrance to this sacred + castle! + GUARD: No chance, English bedwetting types. I burst my pimples at you + and call your daughter an unrequested silly thing. You tiny-brained + wipers of other people's bottoms! + ARTHUR: If you do not open this door, we shall take this castle by + force! + [splat] + In the name of God and the glory of our-- + [splat] + Right! That settles it! + GUARD: Yes, this time and try + any more or we fire arrows at the tops of your heads + and make castanets out of your testicles already! Ha ha! + ARTHUR: Walk away. Just ignore them. + GUARD: No, remain you illegitimate faced buggerfuls! And, if you think + you got nasty taunting this time, you ain't heard nothing yet! Daffy + English kaniggets! Thpppt! + ARTHUR: We shall attack at once! + BEDEMIR: Yes, my liege! + ARTHUR: Stand by for attack! +% |