The Airline Pilots Sketch ------------------------- by John Cleese & Graham Chapman Transcribed from the video: "John Cleese on How To Irritate People"
S: Hang on, one of them is going to the washroom.
FO: "Inflate your life-jackets"
The Airline Pilots Sketch ------------------------- by John Cleese & Graham Chapman Transcribed from the video: "John Cleese on How To Irritate People"
Gustaf Sjöbloms and Björn Wingmans Script:
Michelangelo
Renaissance Choir:
[Gregorian Chant]
Servant:
A Michelangelo to see you, your Holiness.
Pope:
Who?
Servant:
Michelangelo, the famous renaissance artist whose best known works include the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the celebrated statue of David.
Pope:
Ah. Very well...
Servant:
In 1514 he returned to Florence and de...
Pope:
All right, that's enough, that's enough, they've got it now!
Servant:
Oh.
Michelangelo:
Good evening, your Holiness.
Pope:
Evening, Michelangelo. I want to have a word with you about this painting of yours, "The Last Supper."
Michelangelo:
Oh, yeah?
Pope:
I'm not happy about it.
Michelangelo:
Oh, dear. It took me hours.
Pope:
Not happy at all.
Michelangelo:
Is it the jello you don't like?
Pope:
No.
Michelangelo:
Ah, no, I know, they do have a bit of colour, don't they? Oh, I know, you don't like the kangaroo?
Pope:
What kangaroo?
Michelangelo:
No problem, I'll paint him out.
Pope:
I never saw a kangaroo!
Michelangelo:
Uuh...he's right in the back. I'll paint him out! No sweat, I'll make him into a disciple.
Pope:
Aah.
Michelangelo:
All right?
Pope:
That's the problem.
Michelangelo:
What is?
Pope:
The disciples.
Michelangelo:
Are they too Jewish? I made Judas the most Jewish.
Pope:
No, it's just that there are twenty-eight of them.
Michelangelo:
Oh, well, another one will never matter, I'll make the kangaroo into another one.
Pope:
No, that's not the point.
Michelangelo:
All right. Well, I'll lose the kangaroo. Be honest, I wasn't perfectly happy with it.
Pope:
That's not the point. There are twenty-eight disciples!
Michelangelo:
Too many?
Pope:
Well, of course it's too many!
Michelangelo:
Yeah, I know that, but I wanted to give the impression of a real last supper. You know, not just any old last supper. Not like a last meal or a final snack. But you
know, I wanted to give the impression of a real mother of a blow-out, you know?
Pope:
There were only twelve disciples at the last supper.
Michelangelo:
Well, maybe some of the others came along afterw...
Pope:
There were only twelve altogether.
Michelangelo:
Well, maybe some of their friends came by, you know?
Pope:
Look! There were just twelve disciples and our Lord at the last supper. The Bible clearly says so.
Michelangelo:
No friends?
Pope:
No friends.
Michelangelo:
Waiters?
Pope:
No.
Michelangelo:
Cabaret?
Pope:
No!
Michelangelo:
You see, I like them, they help to flesh out the scene, I could lose a few, you know I could...
Pope:
Look! There were only twelve disciples at...
Michelangelo:
I've got it! I've got it! We'll call it "The Last But One Supper"!
Pope:
What?
Michelangelo:
Well there must have been one, if there was a last supper there must have been a one before that, so this, is the "Penultimate Supper"! The Bible doesn't say how
many people were there, does it?
Pope:
No, but...
Michelangelo:
Well there you are, then!
Pope:
Look! The last supper is a significant event in the life of our Lord, the penultimate supper was not! Even if they had a conjurer and a mariachi band. Now, a last
supper I commissioned from you, and a last supper I want! With twelve disciples and one Christ!
Michelangelo:
One?!
Pope:
Yes one! Now will you please tell me what in God's name possessed you to paint this with three Christs in it?
Michelangelo:
It works, mate!
Pope:
Works?
Michelangelo:
Yeah! It looks great! The fat one balances the two skinny ones.
Pope:
There was only one Redeemer!
Michelangelo:
Ah, I know that, we all know that, what about a bit of artistic license?
Pope:
A one Messiah is what I want!
Michelangelo:
I'll tell you what you want, mate! You want a bloody photographer! That's you want. Not a bloody creative artist to crease you up...
Pope:
I'll tell you what I want! I want a last supper with one Christ, twelve disciples, no kangaroos, no trampoline acts, by Thursday lunch, or you don't get paid!
Michelangelo:
Bloody fascist!
Pope
Look! I'm the bloody pope, I am! May not know much about art, but I know what I like!
- У нас же есть Пресвятая Граната!
- Конечно! Пресвятая Граната Антиоха!
Священная реликвия, которая у брата Мэйнарда!
Брат Мейнард! Принесите Святую Гранату!
Несут с пением...
Принесли.
Пауза
- (Растерянно) Как... А как она пашет?
- ...Не ведаю, государь...
- Справьтесь в Книге Вооружения!
- "Вооружение", Часть Вторая,
главы с Девятой по Двадцать Первую
- (Нараспев)"И воздел Св. Антилла Гранату,
сказавши:"Благослави, o Господи, Гранату Твою,
коею да поразишь ты врагов Твоих
милостью Твоею на мелкие клочья!"
И смилостивился Господь, и возликовали люди,
неся дары, как-то, агнцев, овса,
макак ручных и огромную..."
- Можете пропустить сие, брат мой
- "...И сказал Господь: " Во-впервых да изымешь
ты Чеку Святую.
И тогда сосчитаешь ты до трёх.
Ни более.
Ни менее.
До трех должен быть счёт твой
и три должно быть в счету твоём.
До четырех ты не считаешь,
равно как и не считаешь дô двух,
если только не проследуешь до трёх.
О пяти- вообще нет базара!
При трёх же сосчитамши до "три"
да швырнёшь же ты Гранату врагам твоим,
коие ничтожны перед Ликом Моим, и да унюхают они Ея"- (Хором) Амэн
- Хорошо же! Раз!...Два!... Пять!...
- ...Три, о государь!
- ...Три!
LAUNCELOT: We have the Holy Hand Grenade.
ARTHUR: Yes, of course! The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!
'Tis one of the sacred relics Brother Maynard carries with him!
Brother Maynard!
Bring up the Holy Hand Grenade!
[singing]
How does it, uh... how does it work?
KNIGHT: I know not, my liege.
ARTHUR: Consult the Book of Armaments!
MAYNARD: Armaments, Chapter Two, Verses Nine to Twenty-One.
BROTHER: "And Saint Atila raised the hand
grenade up on high, saying,
'Oh, Lord, bless this thy hand grenade
that with it thou mayest blow
thy enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.'
And the Lord did grin, and
people did feast upon the lambs,
and sloths, and carp, and anchovies,
and orangutans, and breakfast cereals,
and fruit bats, and large --"
MAYNARD: Skip a bit, Brother.
BROTHER: "And the Lord spake, saying,
'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin.
Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less.
Three shalt be the number thou shalt count,
and the number of the counting
shalt be three.
Four shalt thou not count,
nor either count thou two,
excepting that thou then proceed to three.
Five is right out.
Once the number three, being the third number,
be reached, then lobbest thou
thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe,
who being naughty
in my sight, shall snuff it.'"
MAYNARD: Amen.
ALL: Amen.
ARTHUR: Right! One... two... five!
KNIGHT: Three, sir!
ARTHUR: Three!
[boom]