Lifeboat sketch
The sketch features five sailors in a lifeboat, and features several resets where the characters mess up their lines and the whole sketch has to be restarted.[1] The characters, trapped on the lifeboat and starving, decide to resort to cannibalism.
The Captain volunteers himself as victim, but is snubbed by two sailors, who are put off by the Captain's "gammy leg" and who would rather eat the flattered Johnson. All the sailors then begin bickering about who should be eaten first, on the grounds of who's too lean, not
The argument ends with the planned menu: "Look. I tell you what. Those who want to can eat Johnson. And you, sir, can have my leg. And we make some stock from the Captain, and then we'll have Johnson cold for supper."
The sketch is followed by the announcer reading a
The letter is followed by a highly cannibalistic
References
- ^ a b c Pythonet, "Monty Python's Flying Circus": The Sketches, Script for 'Lifeboat (Cannibalism)', archived from the original on 8 September 2009, retrieved 1 December 2009
{{citation}}: External link in|first=and|last= - ^ Chester, Simon (14 May 2012). "The case that keeps on giving". Slaw. British Columbia, Canada: Stem Legal. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ 14 Q.B.D. 273
- ^ Just the Words - Monty Python's Flying Circus - Episode 26 - Lifeboat (cannibalism)