HAHAHAHAHA

@@krustykrevice3362 no it doesn't.

If you knew Michael Ellis, you'd understand.

@@gregoryeatroff8608 I used to know Michael Ellis but it was a different one.

LEARNING THE PIANO??!

And who the hell is Michael Ellis!!

I would like to buy 5 Satire, please.

Tenth floor is the sky.... Eleventh should be heaven, must be an atheists department store they don't even have a sub-basement level for hell... Missing out on all the fun they are.

Sub-basement is IT surely?

@@martinmills135 In the 70s?

Have you considered that the building may have been designed with that in mind? I've been to a store in Hong Kong that had two more levels above its roof garden since the size of the building halved past that.

@@jamesliu8095 If I had considered that, I would have been missing out on the obvious joke, seeing as this is a comedy sketch, I tend to assume that the intention is to be funny and not weird but reasonable.

Apparently, there are Vikings in the basement. I assume that they all want Spam.

No, it says, "Toilet Fixings".

Although Vikings eating Spam would explain 'dangerous gasses'.

Spillage66: Oops! I think I need to get me bloody glasses checked.

Sixth - Complaints Fifth - Complaints . . . First - Complaints .

Cool you know that. So sad he's dead now, Isn't it?

+Eryn McVay Oh God no! Michael Ellis is dead?

Leopard Basement Uh... Graham Chapman.

*Hang on a minute. There's more than one Michael Ellis knocking about. My uncle was called Michael Ellis, yet no one popped round his house to ask if they could use his name in a sketch! It's an outrage. I'd tell him to sue but he's now a transvestite called Mandy.*

Now that's comedy xD

I assume they changed the script due to “Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s” famously low budget.

No wonder this episode's so good, unlike most of the fourth season.

Ha! That is JUST LIKE the Lord God!

Just because it was years ago doesn't mean they were stupid lol

You'd be amazed at how many people think that... I have lost track of the number of people who discuss various things in the past (like disease control or lack thereof) and comment 'but they were stupid in those days' versus uneducated, for example. If anything, we've gotten stupider as time has gone on - especially in the US. Traders and most 'educated' people in Europe knew multiple languages, most pre-writing cultures could memorize literally days worth of verbal history... I have trouble remembering what I did 1 hour ago.

​​@@johnballentine4962 Thanks in advance for your forbearance in reading this: reckon I started thinking too late at night... In the mere four years since your remarks, the Dunning-Kruger effect in America is an epidemic. Ignorance in the US has skyrocketed - and it's taken on devotional quality. Coupled with weaponized evangelical conspiracy theorists who can barely do cursive writing, the ticking of the Doomsday Clock seems a mercy. I actually know someone - vs hearing about such things in the news - who frets about the possibility that tracking devices are being implanted in vaccines. His phone was in his hand as he confided this. Irony notwithstanding, it's hard to imagine what our population would be today if these folks had been extant in the polio/smallpox eras. As grim as it seemed in the early 70s, there was still a bit of light here. Here's to belly laughs, better animal shelters and keen writing in all formats. At least a beginning.

@@johnballentine4962 more so I like the fact this is only from the 1960s/70s, making out as though there has been a massive period of time between then and now lol

Humans have always been scumbags. That is nothing new.

Perhaps because it was a full ant, not half-an-ant?

Ant-onio Banderas.

Complaints

Are you actually talking about Terry Gilliam? The guy who makes a rare appearance in a sketch, being the lone American in Monty Python? (in the sketch he's a well-dressed store functionary-type)... Terry Jones is another Python regular, but he's in many sketches. Darker hair & darker colored eyes, though. Also, Gilliam did the animation for M Python too (& directed or co-directed w/Terry Jones films like The Holy Grail, Life of Brian, etc)

No one you'd know.

lmao

+45r2d2 Orange C*** Maybe we've just been looking at a bunch of them. Those guys, talking shit just before it ,were Scots Protestant bigots from Paisley.

It's not a C. It's a G. G stands for "Ground". In Britain and Ireland the floor that North Americans would call "the 1st floor" is called "the Ground Floor" instead. Otherwise, we are perfectly normal

It was recorded on 576i videotape.

I don't care.

You do really ,sir

He's a mutual friend of the Pythons. Gave them permission to use his name.

Everybody asks who is Michael Ellis but nobody asks how is Michael Ellis.

He did. It was 184 pounds (for all the accessories) and 1.5 pence (for the ant).

He put it on account (payment plan), which apparently got him out of leaving blood and skin samples.