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Flying Sheep
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
A bowler-hatted tourist leaning on a farm gate asks a shepherd why his sheep are up in the trees. The shepherd gravely explains that they are nesting, convinced they are birds, and points out their hopeless hops and crash landings as they try to fly between branches. The blame, he reveals, lies with Harold, a clever sheep who has worked out that a sheep's future holds little but being eaten and is plotting an escape by air. Asked why he doesn't simply get rid of Harold, the shepherd cites the commercial potential should the scheme succeed, prompting a narrator to wonder what those possibilities might be.
The funny people
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Highly quotable.
Notice they do not so much fly as plummet.
Talk about the blind leading the blind.
He's that most dangerous of animals, a clever sheep.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
John Cleese
Writer
Graham Chapman
Writer
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The narrator's closing question leads straight into the follow-on sketch, a French lecture on sheep-powered aircraft.
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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