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Monty Python's Flying Circus: Season 1, Episode 9

The Ant, an Introduction (14 Dec. 1969)

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Spanish Señorita / Jimmy Blenkinshop / The Man with a Tape Recorder Up His Nose's Brother / Member of the Mounties Choir / Pepperpot / Professor R.J. Gumby / Victor
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Voiceover / Spanish Lecturer / The Announcer / Sir George Head / Member of the Mounties Choir / Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs.) / Brian Equator (voice)
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Spanish Guitarist / Arthur Wilson / Kenny Lust / Arthur Name
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Spanish Dancer / Animated Encyclopedia Salesman's Wife / Customer / Ken Buddha / Audrey Equator
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It's Man / A Man with a Tape Recorder Up His Nose / Person on Tape Recorder / Bevis / Mr. Cook / Sweeney Todd / Lumberjack (voice)
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Encyclopedia Salesman / Carnival Barker / Kewpie Doll / Knight with Chicken / Mr. Freight (voice)
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Iris
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Best Girl
The Fred Tomlinson Singers ...
Mounties Choir / Singing Miners
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Announcer: And now for something completely different: a man with a tape recorder up his nose.
[after that]
Announcer: And now for something completely different: a man with a tape recorder up his brother's nose.
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