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The Spanish Inquisition (Monty Python) " The Spanish Inquisition " is a series of sketches in Monty Python's Flying Circus, Series 2 Episode 2, first broadcast 22 September 1970, satirising the Spanish Inquisition. This episode is itself titled "The Spanish Inquisition". The sketches are notable for their principal catchphrase, "Nobody expects ...
[The Inquisition exits] Chapman: I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition. [JARRING CHORD] [The cardinals burst in] Ximinez: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms - Oh damn!
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- Concept
- "Trouble at the Mill"
- "Photos of Uncle Ted"
- "Court Charades/Race Against the Credits"
- Other appearances
The Spanish Inquisition is a three-part sketch that appears in "The Spanish Inquisition," the fifteenth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
The joke involves three insane Spanish cardinals who appear whenever someone says: "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition."
Accompanied by a jarring chord, the cardinals burst in, led by Cardinal Ximinez, who says, "NOBODY Expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
It is Jarrow 1911 and a mill worker, Reg (Graham Chapman), walks into a posh parlour and tells Lady Mountback (Carol Cleveland), the lady sitting there, that there's trouble at the mill. When Reg (who is just the messenger and doesn’t know the answers to her questions) states "I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition", the three cardinals (acc...
An old woman (Marjorie Wilde) is showing pictures to a desperately bored younger lady (Cleveland) of "Uncle Ted" at various locations around the house, which the younger lady proceeds to tear in half. Finally she gets to a photo containing the Spanish Inquisition. The younger lady, her interest perking up, says "Oh, I didn't expect the Spanish Inqu...
In their final appearance, a judge sentences another judge to be burnt at the stake. When he says "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition", the entire courtroom looks to the witness door, obviously expecting the Spanish Inquisition. The end credits then roll as the three Cardinals rush to the courtroom from their house, arriving just in time to sa...
In a later episode, "The Buzz Aldrin Show", Ximinez appears, listing his favourite aftershave lotions. In the same episode, a chemist, after being threatened by Police Constable Pan-Am with arrest for heresy, comments, "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition," though the cardinals do not appear at this point.
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Ximinez: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red ...
The Spanish Inquisition is the fifteenth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Man-Powered Flight The Spanish Inquisition Jokes and Novelties Salesman Suddenly-Animated Head (Cartoon) Tax on Thingy Vox Pops Photos of Uncle Ted The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights Julius Caesar on an Aldis lamp Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Morse Code Smoke Signal Version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ...
