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Dead Parrot

Monty Python's Flying Circus 1969 Season 1 Episode 8

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A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A customer tries to return a lifeless parrot to a shopkeeper with an inexhaustible supply of excuses.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Mr. Praline returns to a pet shop carrying a dead Norwegian Blue, but the proprietor insists there is nothing wrong with it. Demonstrations, arguments and a mounting catalogue of descriptions of death get Praline no closer to a refund. Sent to the proprietor’s brother in Bolton, he is drawn into another dispute about where he is, followed by a railway complaints detour. The Colonel finally steps in to stop the increasingly absurd proceedings.

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