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Monty Python's Flying Circus
S2.E4
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The Buzz Aldrin Show

  • Episode aired Oct 20, 1970
  • TV-14
  • 30m
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John Cleese and Monty Python in Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Buzz Aldrin Show
Play trailer1:09
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A supersleuth bishop investigates a suspicious insurance business; an elderly couple construct a house that has no walls.A supersleuth bishop investigates a suspicious insurance business; an elderly couple construct a house that has no walls.A supersleuth bishop investigates a suspicious insurance business; an elderly couple construct a house that has no walls.

  • Director
    • Ian MacNaughton
  • Writers
    • Graham Chapman
    • John Cleese
    • Eric Idle
  • Stars
    • Graham Chapman
    • John Cleese
    • Eric Idle
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.1/10
    1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Ian MacNaughton
    • Writers
      • Graham Chapman
      • John Cleese
      • Eric Idle
    • Stars
      • Graham Chapman
      • John Cleese
      • Eric Idle
    • 2User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Frog Curse
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    Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Buzz Aldrin Show
    Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Buzz Aldrin Show
    Trailer 1:09
    Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Buzz Aldrin Show

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    Graham Chapman
    Graham Chapman
    • Gumby #1…
    John Cleese
    John Cleese
    • Announcer
    • (voice)
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    Eric Idle
    Eric Idle
    • Gumby #3
    • (voice)
    • …
    Terry Jones
    Terry Jones
    • Gumby #4…
    Michael Palin
    Michael Palin
    • It's Man…
    Terry Gilliam
    Terry Gilliam
    • Shoplifter
    Sandra Richards
    • 'Semprini' Girl…
    Stanley Mason
    • Shoplifter's Mate
    Buzz Aldrin
    Buzz Aldrin
    • Buzz Aldrin
    • (credit only)
    Julie Desmond
    • Woman with Chest Rash
    • (uncredited)
    Brian Gardner
    • Hench-vicar
    • (uncredited)
    John Hughman
    • Man at Chemist's
    • (uncredited)
    Bill Leonard
    • Hench-vicar
    • (uncredited)
    John Lord
    • Godparent at Baptism
    • (uncredited)
    Mary Millington
    • Nude Lady
    • (uncredited)
    Tom O'Leary
    • Hench-vicar
    • (uncredited)
    Anthony Powell
    • Godparent at Baptism
    • (uncredited)
    Michael Stayner
    • Hench-vicar
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Ian MacNaughton
    • Writers
      • Graham Chapman
      • John Cleese
      • Eric Idle
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    Gumbies, Architects, Poets, and... The BISHOP!

    This is an episode packed with a lot of good bits. It begins with the first en masse appearance of The Gumbies, the dimwitted mascots of the show, and then flows into the Architects Sketch. The Architects Sketch is one of the rare Python sketches with a definite beginning, middle and end. This makes the rest of the episode even more bizarre, as it meanders in pure Python fashion.

    The rest of the episode is a riot of connected bits, including a poet installed in a suburban home and, of course, The Bishop. This is the Flying Circus at its most chaotic, and yet it's consistently funny. Why end with a tribute to Buzz Aldrin? Why not?

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    • Trivia
      Semprini was the surname of Alberto Semprini who was an English pianist, composer and conductor.
    • Goofs
      During the 'Architects Sketch' the window behind Graham Chapman is open slightly when he looks out at the 'idiots', but closed when he starts speaking to the 'clients' again.
    • Quotes

      Second City Gent: Are you proposing to slaughter our tenants?

      Mr. Wiggin: Does that not fit in with your plans?

      First City Gent: No, no, we wanted a simple block of flats.

      Mr. Wiggin: Ah, I see. I hadn't fully divined your attitude towards your tenants. You see, I mainly design slaughterhouses, yes, pity. Mind you, this is a real beaut, none of your blood caked on the walls and flesh flying out of the windows incommoding the passers-by with this one, I mean my life has been leading up to this one.

      Second City Gent: Yes, and well done. But we did want a block of flats.

      Mr. Wiggin: Well, may I ask you to reconsider? You wouldn't regret it, think of that tourist trade.

      First City Gent: No, no, it's just we wanted a block of flats and not an abattoir.

      Mr. Wiggin: Yes, that's just the sort of blinkered, philistine, pig-ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage, you sit there on your loathsome, spotty behinds, squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss about the struggling artist. You excrement! You lousy, hypocritical, whining toadies! With your lousy color T.V sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs! And your bleeding masonic handshakes! You wouldn't let me join, would you, ya black-balling bastards! Well, I wouldn't become a Freemason now, if you went down on your lousy, stinking, purulent knees and begged me!

      Second City Gent: Well, we're sorry you feel like that, but we did want a block of flats. Nice though, the abattoir is.

      Mr. Wiggin: Oh

      [Scoffs]

      Mr. Wiggin: the abattoir, but, if any of you could put in a word for me I'd love to be a mason. Freemasonry opens doors, I'd be very quiet, I was a bit on edge just now, but if I was a mason I'd just sit at the back and not get in anyone's way.

      First City Gent: Thank you.

      Mr. Wiggin: I've got a second-hand apron.

      First City Gent: Thank you.

      Mr. Wiggin: [Heads for the door] I nearly got in at Hendon.

      First City Gent: Thank you.

    • Crazy credits
      In the closing credits: Script by Buzz Aldrin and Neil "One Giant Step for Mankind" Armstrong.
    • Connections
      Featured in Monty Python's and Now for Something Completely Different (1971)
    • Soundtracks
      Peter Gunn Theme
      (uncredited)

      Composed by Henry Mancini

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    • Release date
      • October 20, 1970 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • London, England, UK
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    • Runtime
      • 30m
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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