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Gumby Flower Arranging
SKETCH-O-VISION
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The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Surrounded by flowers and tall vases, D. P. Gumby introduces a brief demonstration of flower arranging. He gathers a selection of blooms, then pushes them into a vase head-first. His lesson turns into a struggle with the arrangement as he pounds it down with a mallet.
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Then arrange them nicely in a vase.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
This is the original television version of the flower-arranging sketch, which was also performed in later Monty Python stage shows.
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