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Monty Python - Flying Sheep

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    Good afternoon.
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    Afternoon.
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    Ah... lovely day,
    isn't it?
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    Ar... 'tis that.
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    Are you here
    on holiday or...?
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    No, no, I live here.
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    Oh, jolly good.
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    I say, those are sheep,
    aren't they?
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    Ar.
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    Yes, yes, of course,
    I thought so.
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    Only... why are they
    up in the trees?
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    A fair question
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    And one that in recent weeks
    Has been much on my mind.
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    It is my
    considered opinion
    That they're nesting.
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    Nesting?
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    Like birds?
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    Ar... exactly.
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    Birds is the key
    to the whole problem.
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    It's my belief that
    these sheep are laboring
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    Under the misapprehension
    that they're birds.
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    Observe their behavior.
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    Take for a start the sheep's tendency
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    To hop about the field
    on their back legs.
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    Now witness their attempts
    to fly from tree to tree.
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    Notice they do not
    so much fly as plummet.
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    Observe, for example,
    that ewe in that oak tree.
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    She is clearly trying
    to teach her lamb to fly.
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    Talk about the blind
    leading the blind.
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    But why do they think
    they're birds?
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    Another fair question.
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    One thing is for sure:
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    A sheep is not a creature of the air.
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    It has enormous
    difficulty
    In the comparatively
    simple act of perching.
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    As you see.
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    As for flight, its body is totally
    unadapted to the problems of aviation.
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    Trouble is, sheep are very dim.
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    And once they get an
    idea into their heads
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    There's no shifting it.
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    But where do they get
    the idea from?
    From Harold.
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    He's that sheep over
    there under the elm.
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    He's that most dangerous
    of animals--
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    A clever sheep.
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    He's the ringleader.
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    He's realized the sheep's life consists
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    Of standing around for a few
    months and then being eaten.
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    And that's a depressing prospect
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    For an ambitious sheep.
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    He's patently hit on the idea of escape.
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    But why don't you just
    get rid of Harold?
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    Because of the enormous commercial
    possibilities should he succeed.
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    and what exactlyare the commercial
    possibilities of a vine a viation?
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    bonsoir.
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    ici nous avons
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    les diagrammes modernes
    d'un mouton anglo-francais
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    ce n'est pas...
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    maintenant...
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    nous avons, dans
    la tete, le cabine.
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    tres bon.
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    ici, ou se trouve
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    le petit capitaine anglais,
    un monsieur trubshawe.
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    Vive brian,
    wherever you are.
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    d'accord, d'accord.
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    maintenant, je vous
    presente mon collegue
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    le pouf celebre,
    jean-brian jatapathique.
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    maintenant,
    le mouton...
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    Le landing...
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    Les wheels, bon.
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    bon.
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    Les wheels, ici.
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    c'est formidable,
    n'est-ce pas?
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    est bon, ooh, ah.
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    de la machine...
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    de la a vion...
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    de la baa, baa, baa.
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    Ooh, ooh, ooh, baa.
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    de la derriere
    du mouton...
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    Chug, chug, chug.
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    ah, merci beaucoup.
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    suivez la piste.
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    tais-toi.
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    pardon.
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    pas de tout.
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    mais...
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    ou sont les bagages?
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    ou sont les bagages?
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    ou... les voyageurs?
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    les voyageurs.
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    Gaspard?
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    merci.
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    les voyageurs.
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    les bagages.
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    ils sont... ici!
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    premiere classe,
    deuxieme classe...
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    et maintenant...
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    Baa, baa, baa.
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    Maa, maa, maa.
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    comme ca...
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    demonstration
    fantastique.
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    sur trois...
    un, deux trois.
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    maa, maa, maa, maa, maa, maa...
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    We get a lot of french people
    around here.
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    Oh, yes.
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    All over, yes.
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    And how do
    you get on
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    With these
    french people?
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    Oh, very well.
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    So do i.
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    Me, too.
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    So does
    Mrs. Ames.
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    Yes, yes.
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    Yes, I like them.
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    I mean, they think
    well, don't they?
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    I mean, be fair...
    Pascal.
    Mm, Blaise
    pascal.
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    Jean-Paul Sartre.
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    Yes, Voltaire.
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    Ooh.
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    Rene
    Descartes.
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    Hmm... hmm.
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    Hmm!
Title:
Monty Python - Flying Sheep
Description:

from Monty Python's Flying Circus
Season 1 - Episode 02 - Sex and Violence
Recorded 30-08-69 , Aired 12-10-69

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Video Language:
English
Duration:
04:34

English, British subtitles

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