Woody, Tinny  By: Monty Python

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Duration:	5:23
Release Date:	1974  (Stavro Arrgolus)
Lyrics By:	Monty Python (Stavro Arrgolus)
Music By:	Neil Innes (Stavro Arrgolus)
Produced By:	Ian MacNaughton (Stavro Arrgolus)
Released By:	BBC (Stavro Arrgolus)
Published By:	Kay-Gee-Bee Music Ltd. (Stavro Arrgolus)
Licensing:	BMI (Stavro Arrgolus)
Keywords:	BANTER, BATH, CARIBOU, CROQUET, EDWARDIAN, GORN, POSH, SERVANTS, TINNY, WOODY, WORDS

Reviews:
Most Python fans know that compared to the other 3 series, the 6 episodes of series 4 (made without John Cleese) tended to, to use a technical term, blow goats. This episode was the exception and this bit about Edwardian toffs deciding what words sounded like and shooting imaginary animals on the lawn was the funniest piece made in the final series.	- Stavro Arrgolus

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In the sketch, four motionless servants stand behind the Pythons. They remain motionless throughout...mostly. The young maid behind Graham flinches at the unexpectedly loud noise when he fires the rifle at the 'caribou' and smiles when Eric clocks Graham with the water. (Stavro Arrgolus)

Neil Innes gets a music credit for this sketch as his song "When Does a Dream Begin" is used as an instrumental intro. The song is used in different forms throughout the episode. (Stavro Arrgolus)

In this episode (42), most of the sketches tie into the main concept of this show, the 'light entertainment war'. This sketch supposedly takes place in the timeframe the rest of the show does, but avoids any connection to the main topic...until the end when a character from the 'Banter' sketch at the start of the show turns up and turns things back in the direction the show had started in. With a comparatively low body count. (Stavro Arrgolus)

Aka- the 'Gorn sketch'. Insane Edwardian toffs sit around discussing what words sound like. If one really wants to stretch things, it could be said that scaring Carol Cleveland's character with 'tinny' words was the precursor to the "Knights of Ni" sketch from Holy Grail. (Stavro Arrgolus)

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CAPTION: 1942 Egypt Ecuador Ethiopia England (The caption fades and we cut to an upper-class drawing room. Father, mother and daughter having tea. Four motionless servants stand behind them.) Father (Graham): I say ... Daughter (Carol): Yes, daddy? Father: Croquet hoops look damn pretty this afternoon. Daughter: Frightfully damn pretty. Mother (Eric): They're coming along awfully well this year. Father: Yes, better than your Aunt Lavinia's croquet hoops. Daughter: Ugh! -- dreadful tin things. Mother: I did tell her to stick to wood. Father: Yes, you can't beat wood ... Gorn! Mother: What's gorn dear? Father: Nothing, nothing, I just like the word. It gives me confidence. Gorn ... gorn. It's got a sort of woody quality about it. Gorn. Gorn. Much better than `newspaper' or `litterbin'. Daughter: Frightful words. Mother: Perfectly dreadful. Father: Ugh! Newspaper! ... litterbin ... dreadful tinny sort of words. Tin, tin, tin. (The daughter becomes upset and squeals). Mother: Oh, dear, don't say `tin' to Rebecca, you know how it upsets her. Father: (to the daughter) Sorry old horse. Mother: Sausage! Father: Sausage ... there's a good woody sort of word, `sausage' ... gorn. Daughter: Antelope. Father: Where? On the lawn? (he picks up a rifle) Daughter: No, no, daddy ... just the word. Father: Don't want an antelope nibbling the hoops. Daughter: No, antelope ... sort of nice and woody type of thing. Mother: Don't think so, Becky old chap. Father: No, no, `antelope', `antelope' -- tinny sort of word (daughter squeals again) Oh! Sorry old man ... Mother: Really, Mansfield. Father: Well, she's got to come to terms with these things ... seemly ... prodding ... vacuum ... leap ... Daughter: (miserably) Hate leap. Mother: Perfectly dreadful. Daughter: Sort of PVC-y sort of word, don't you know. Mother: Lower-middle. Father: Bound! Mother: Now you're talking. Father: Bound ... Vole ... Recidivist. Mother: Bit tinny. (the daughter howls) Oh! Sorry, Becky old beast. (the daughter runs out crying) Father: Oh dear, suppose she'll be gorn for a few days now. Mother: Caribou! Father: Splendid word. Mother: No dear ... nibbling the hoops. Father: (fires the rifle he's been holding throughout the sketch) Caribou...gorn! Mother: (laughs politely) Father: Intercourse. Mother: Later, dear. Father: No, no, the word, `intercourse' -- good and woody ... inter ... course ... pert ... pert thighs ... botty, botty, botty ... (the mother leaves the room) ... erogenous ... zone ... concubine ... erogenous zone! Loose woman ... erogenous zone ... (the mother returns and throws a bucket of water over him) Oh thank you, dear ... you know, it's a funny thing, dear ... all the naughty words sound woody. Mother: Really, dear? ... How about tit? Father: Oh dear, I hadn't thought about that. Tit. Tit. Oh, that's very tinny isn't it? (the daughter returns) Ugh! Tinny, tinny ... (the daughter runs out crying) Oh dear ... ocelot ... wasp ... yowling ... Oh dear, I'm bored ... I'd better go and have a bath, I suppose. Mother: Oh really, must you dear? You've had nine today. Father: All right, I'll sack one of the servants ... Simkins! ... nasty tinny sort of name. Simkins! (he exits) (A pilot from the 'RAF banter sketch' earlier in the episode enters) Pilot (Michael): I say, mater, cabbage crates coming over the briny. Mother: (frowns and shakes her head) Sorry dear, don't understand. Pilot: Er ... cowcatchers creeping up on the conning towers ... Mother: No ... sorry ... old sport. Pilot: Caribou nibbling at the croquet hoops. Mother: Yes, Mansfield shot one in the antlers. Pilot: Oh, jolly good show. Is 'Becca about? Mother: No, she's gorn off. Pilot: What a super woody sort of phrase. `Gorn orff'. Mother: Yes, she's gorn orff because Mansfield said `tin' to her. Pilot: Oh, what rotten luck ... oh well ... whole afternoon to kill ... better have a bath I suppose. Mother: Oh, Gervaise do sing me a song ... Pilot: Oh, OK. Mother: Something woody. (The pilot launches into a quite enormously loud rendering of `She's going to marry Yum Yum'. The impact of this on the mother causes her to have a heart attack. She dies and the song ends.) Pilot: For ... she's going to marry Yum Yum ... oh crikey. The old song finished her orff. Father: (entering) What's urp? Pilot: I'm afraid Mrs Vermin Jones appears to have passed orn. Father: Dead, is she? Pilot: 'Fraid so. Father: What a blow for her. (Stavro Arrgolus)

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