S2.E13

Royal Episode Thirteen

Name: Royal Episode Thirteen
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1970-12-22
Duration: 31 min
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle

Episode aired Dec 22, 1970
TV-MA
31m

IMDb RATING

8.1/10

857

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Eric Idle and Monty Python in Monty Pythonin lentävä sirkus (1969)

Monty Python's Flying Circus: Royal Episode 13

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Comedy

Miners brawl over historical facts; hospital patients serve the doctors; five shipwrecked mariners decide whom they will have for dinner.Miners brawl over historical facts; hospital patients serve the doctors; five shipwrecked mariners decide whom they will have for dinner.Miners brawl over historical facts; hospital patients serve the doctors; five shipwrecked mariners decide whom they will have for dinner.

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IMDb RATING

8.1/10

857

YOUR RATING

2Critic reviews

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Trailer 1:29

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Terry Gilliam and Carol Cleveland in Monty Pythonin lentävä sirkus (1969)

Terry Jones in Monty Pythonin lentävä sirkus (1969)

Terry Jones and Monty Python in Monty Pythonin lentävä sirkus (1969)

John Cleese, Graham Chapman, and Monty Python in Monty Pythonin lentävä sirkus (1969)

Carol Cleveland in Monty Pythonin lentävä sirkus (1969)

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Trivia
In the final sketch, when the studio audience charges the set, they are led by a plant in the audience: Ian MacNaughton, the show's producer, who makes various appearances throughout the show.

Quotes
[first lines]
Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not simply going to say, and now for something completely different this week, because I do not think it fit. This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. We don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian. We have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her Equerry has ask me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives. Although we here in studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way. Thank you. And now without any more ado and completely as normal, here are the opening titles.

Alternate versions
This episode caused the BBC some major headaches, due to the still-shocking theme of cannibalism that surfaces in the final sketches (and some memorably gruesome Terry Gilliam animations.) The 'Undertaker' sketch, which closes the show, was only allowed to be included in the show if the studio audience were heard to heckle the "disgusting" material loudly, and - following the punchline - invade the set in protest. Even so, this sketch has rarely been seen on English television since its original broadcast, and is often replaced with something innocuous from another show. The BBC videotape of episodes 11-13 of the second series, issued in the 1980s, includes the 'Undertaker' sketch, but the picture quality is noticeably poor, as if it's been edited in from another, possibly American or Canadian, source.