Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series)

You're No Fun Any More (1969)

Eric Idle: Camel spotter, Voice over #2, Mrs. Brainsample, Mrs. Potter, Female tennis player, Detective Inspector, Tennis commentator

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• Narrator : It was a day like any other and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Brainsample were a perfectly ordinary couple, leading perfectly ordinary lives, the sort of people to whom nothing extraordinary ever happened, and not the kind of people to be the center of one of the most astounding incidents of mankind... so let's forget about them and follow the destiny of this man

  [Camera pans to gentleman in suit and bowler hat] 

  Narrator : Harold Potter, gardener, and tax official, first victim of the creatures from another planet.

• Angus Podgorney : But what about the forty-eight million kilts and the galaxy of Andromeda?

  Detective Inspector : I'm afraid that's just one of his stories. You must understand that a blancmange impersonator and cannibal has to use some pretty clever stories to allay suspicion.

  Angus Podgorney : Then you mean...

  Detective Inspector : Yes.

  Angus Podgorney : But...?

  Detective Inspector : How?

  Angus Podgorney : Yes.

  Detective Inspector : Well...

  Angus Podgorney : Not...!

  Detective Inspector : I'm afraid so.

  Angus Podgorney : Why?

  Detective Inspector : Who knows?

  Angus Podgorney : Do you think...?

  Detective Inspector : Could be.

  Angus Podgorney : But...

  Detective Inspector : I know.

  Angus Podgorney : She was...

  Detective Inspector : Yes.

  Angus Podgorney : Oh, man.

• Interviewer : Mr. Sopwith, aren't you in fact a trainspotter?

  Spotter : What?

  Interviewer : Don't you in fact spot trains?

  Spotter : Oh, you're no fun anymore.

• Detective Inspector : [to a man whose wife has been eaten alive by a blancmange]  I think what's happened is terribly, terribly funny... er, tragic!