File:Parrot sketch.ogg
Parrot_sketch.ogg (Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 31 s, 47 kbps, file size: 179 KB)
Summary
[edit]- This media file has an associated English-language subtitle file TimedText:Parrot sketch.ogg.en.srt
Rationale: The Dead Parrot sketch from Monty Python in 1969 (30 second extract). The copyright on this clip is owned by the BBC. The clip is believed fair use for illustration of the articles Dead Parrot and John Cleese.
Transcription
[edit]Eric Praline (Cleese): I wish to make a complaint.
Shopowner (Palin): Sorry we're closing for lunch.
Eric Praline: Never mind that my lad, I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
Shopowner: Oh yes, the Norwegian blue, whats wrong with it?
Eric Praline: I'll tell you whats wrong with it, it's dead, thats whats wrong with it.
Shopowner: No, no! It's resting, look!
Eric Praline: Look my lad, I know a dead parrot when I see one and I'm looking at one right now!
Shopowner: No, No, its not dead, it's restin'!
Eric Praline: Resting?
Shopowner: Yeah. Remarkable bird, the Norwegian blue, beautiful plumage in't it?
Eric Praline: The plumage don't enter into it! It's stone dead!
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current | 19:16, 19 August 2007 | 31 s (179 KB) | Ianmacm (talk | contribs) | Rationale: The Dead Parrot sketch from Monty Python (30 second extract). The copyright on this clip is owned by the BBC. The clip is believed fair use for illustration of the articles Dead Parrot and John Cleese. |
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Transcode status
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MP3 | 118 kbps | Completed 05:25, 25 December 2017 | 1.0 s |