Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook

A Hungarian visitor tries to buy cigarettes and matches from a tobacconist, trusting a phrasebook whose translations bear little relation to his intentions. Confusion turns into an assault and an arrest. The book’s publisher then faces a courtroom interrogation that briefly becomes a game show. A policeman’s urgent request for a break supplies another embarrassment before the magistrate turns his attention to some suspicious audience footage.

This television sketch was remade for the 1971 film And Now for Something Completely Different.