Original Broadcast Date: Nov. 17, 1970
Attempted Synopsis: Attila the Hun gets his own sitcom; a buxom patient gets a stage-show-like examination; as if to counter the previous sketch, a statesman gives a speech while performing a striptease; a house is overrun with killer sheep; TV news for parrots; village idiots pontificate about their profession; a cricket match between pieces of furniture; a game show where a crabby woman answers questions for the prize of a blow on the head.
Review: It would be worth the half-hour just to see "The Attila the Hun Show," Python's priceless take-off on inane sitcoms. Happily, the rest of the segment is just about as funny. Terry Jones' deadpan stripping is priceless (How does Jones always get the strip routines, anyway?), and the finale, with John Cleese as a smilingly venomous game-show host, is laugh-till-you-cry hilarious. And this segment definitely makes the most of what its script calls Carol Cleveland's "undoubted attributes."
Priceless Gag: Just when you think Terry Jones has milked the strip routine for all it's worth, out pop the pasties.
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