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Spam: Directed by Ian MacNaughton. With Terry Jones, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Graham Chapman. World revolutionaries are quizzed about football scores; figures from works of art go on strike throughout galleries in England; the search continues for a cure for over-acting; Viking marauders kidnap Englishmen who ask for canned ham.
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- 1970-12-15
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In the sketch, two customers are trying to order a breakfast from a menu that includes the processed meat product in almost every dish. It features Terry Jones as The Waitress, Eric Idle as Mr Bun and Graham Chapman as Mrs Bun. The televised skit also featured John Cleeseas The Hungarian, but this part was left out of audio recordings of the sketch...
Mr. and Mrs. Bun float down into a café (oddly inhabited by Vikings) and ask what's on the menu. The waitress (Terry Jones) lists off the items: 1. Egg and bacon 2. Egg, sausage and bacon 3. Egg and spam 4. Egg, bacon and spam 5. Egg, bacon, sausage and spam 6. Spam, bacon, sausage and spam 7. Spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam 8. Spam, spam, sp...
It premiered on December 15, 1970 as the final sketch of the 25th episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, and the following end credits were changed so every member of the crew has either Spam or some other food item from the menu added to their names. Despite its shortness, the sketch became immensely popular. The word "Spam" is uttered at least ...
The phenomenon, some years later, of marketers drowning out discourse by flooding Usenet newsgroups and individuals' email with junk mail advertising messages was named spamming, recounting the rep...The Hormel company, the makers of the meat product Spam (food), while never quite happy with the use of the word spam for junk email, have always seemed supportive of Monty Python and their skit. H...In 2007 the Hormel company decided that such publicity was part of their corporate image, possibly for the better, and sponsored a game where their product is strongly associated with the Monty Pyt...Comedy rap act Sudden Death incorporated the Monty Python Spam chant (albeit sung by the band, not sampled from the skit) into the chorus of their song Spam, though the song is about the junk-e-mai...Spam spam spam spam! From the second series of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” Transcribed from “Monty Python’s Previous Record” by Jonathan Partington.
The sketch premiered on 15 December 1970 as the final sketch of the 25th show of Monty Python's Flying Circus, and the end credits for the episode were changed so every member of the crew has either Spam or some other food item from the menu added to their names.
12. Recorded. 25 June 1970. Aired. 15 December 1970. " Spam " is the twenty-fifth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus . Sketches. The Black Eagle. Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook. Court. Cartoon - Student Demonstration, World Forum opening Titles. World Forum - Communist Quiz. Ypres 1914. Art Gallery Strikes. Cartoon - Art Gallery Strikes.
Jan 12, 2024 · Enjoy the hilarious Spam song from the classic comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus, featuring Vikings, eggs and bacon.
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And if we go down that history path the other way, the reason Monty Python made a sketch about Spam in the first place is because meat became a bit of a rarity during WWII for the English soldiers, and Spam was still mass produced and thus mass delivered to the soldiers, who very quickly became sick of it and essentially made a meme out of it by calling it "ham that didn't pass its physical".
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