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Arsenal F.C.
The club have also been mentioned in several Monty Python's Flying Circus sketches, and in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where a barman remarks that the impending end of the world is a "lucky escape" for Arsenal.
You Don't Love Me Anymore
The cellist accidentally throws his bow into the pianist's eye, and the pianist gets his hand cut off; later, he is shown with a bear trap on his foot (A reference to the Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch, Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days").
Westminster Bridge
The bridge plays a prominent role in the Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch "Nationwide" ("Hamlet", Episode 43).
Alan Whicker
Whicker's World was lampooned in a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch featuring a tropical island where all the inhabitants dress and act like Alan Whicker.
Philip Sidney
Supt. Harold Gaskell of the Metropolitan Police Vice Squad is repeatedly mistaken for Sir Philip Sidney in a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch (ep. 36).
New Pudsey railway station
The station was featured in a 1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch (Science Fiction Sketch/Man Turns Into Scotsman) in which Harold Potter (Michael Palin) is turned into a Scotsman by creatures from the planet Skyron in the galaxy of Andromeda.
Goodness Gracious Me (TV & radio)
"The Marriage Emporium" - Homage to Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch and Dead Parrot sketch.
Albuquerque (song)
The doughnut shop scene is an homage to Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch.
Ilchester Cheese Company
In Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch, Ilchester is revealed to be the most popular cheese in the manor in which the cheese shop itself resides.
Sage Derby cheese
In Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch, one of the cheeses requested is "Japanese" Sage Derby, but no such cheese exists.
Terpsichore
The John Cleese character in Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch claims "I am one who delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse."
William Hague
During the 1998 Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth, the tabloid Sun's front page infamously read (referencing Monty Python's "Dead Parrot" sketch), "This party is no more ... it has ceased to be ... this is an ex-party.
Goodness Gracious Me (TV & radio)
"The Marriage Emporium" - Homage to Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch and Dead Parrot sketch.
Colossal Cave Adventure
(If you try to feed the bird:) It's not hungry (it's merely pinin' for the fjords). — a reference to Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch
Squire
This usage crops up frequently in comedy sketches by Monty Python, et. al. Example: "Yes squire, what can I do for you?".
The Funniest Joke in the World
"The Funniest Joke in the World" is the most frequent title used to refer to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, also known by two other phrases that appear within it, "Joke Warfare" and "Killer Joke".
Planets in science fiction
Skyron — Planet in the Andromeda Galaxy, home of immense blancmanges, in a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch.
Woolloomooloo, New South Wales
The Bruces sketch by Monty Python is set in the fictitious university of Woolloomooloo, mainly due to its typical Australian name.
Bruce Dickinson
During his time in Samson, Dickinson was billed as "Bruce Bruce" (derived from Monty Python's Bruces sketch ), a nickname that was forced upon him by their management.
Unix philosophy
Rule 6 is merely a humorous reference to Monty Python's Bruces sketch.
Spam
At least two songs named "Spam" have been released, neither of which has any connection to either the Monty Python sketch nor to the electronic uses of the term that came afterwards.
Spam
At least two songs named "Spam" have been released, neither of which has any connection to either the Monty Python sketch nor to the electronic uses of the term that came afterwards.
Bolton
Bolton is also referred to in Monty Python's "Blackmail" sketch, in which the host of the gameshow "Blackmail" (played by Michael Palin) announces that if a Miss Betty Teal from Lancashire sends the show 15 pounds, he will refrain from revealing her lover in Bolton.
Bolton
Bolton is referenced in the famous Monty Python's Flying Circus Dead Parrot sketch, in which it is the location of the shopkeeper's brother's pet shop.
The Ministry of Silly Walks
In 2005, the sketch was chosen by a poll taken in Britain as the 15th greatest comedy sketch of all time (and one of 5 Monty Python sketches in the top 50).
Lifeboat sketch
Monty Python's Lifeboat sketch appeared on Monty Python's Flying Circus in Episode 26.
Devil's Gallop
As well as being the theme for the BBC Light Programme's serial Dick Barton, other appearances include Dad's Army, The Goodies the Goon Show (the original theme music for which is called 'Goons Gallop' and is reminiscent of Devil's Gallop), "The Spanish Inquisition" sketch by Monty Python, Mitchell and Webb's The Surprising Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar sketches, and the 30 Rock episode "Tracy Does Conan".
Dead Bishop
Monty Python's Dead Bishop sketch, also known as the Church Police or Salvation Fuzz, appeared in the Flying Circus TV Show in Episode 29, "The Money Programme".
Road to Europe
He references the London theatre Royal Albert Hall, Big Ben, the London Underground, the rock group The Dave Clark Five, Monty Python's Spam sketch and "a baby's arm holding an apple" (Lenny Bruce's description of an African-American man's penis)).
Colony (computer game)
The game over screen spoofs the Monty Python's Flying Circus "Dead Parrot" sketch, referring to the droid rather than a parrot.
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