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SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Mr. Smear brings his son Michael to the headmaster to protest what the boy has learned about reproduction. Mr. Casilingua tries to explain the curriculum, but the father insists that a respectable home is enough to produce children. Treating the school like a shop, he demands an exchange for his supposedly spoiled son. The headmaster offers a pair of laboratory locusts and puts the father’s own explanation of family life to work.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 3
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
I don't actually call myself a school.
Mine is soiled.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Stephen Fry
Writer
Hugh Laurie
Writer
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
John Hoare’s research into the production paperwork places the studio recording of this sketch on 10 December 1988, ahead of its 13 January 1989 broadcast.
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