History Recap / MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS2E5

-->"That's £3000 for us not to reveal your name, [[NoodleImplements the names of the three other people involved, the youth organisation to which they belonged, and the shop where you bought the equipment.]]"

-->'''Praline:''' [[ChromaKey Color separation]], you cottonhead.

Guest starring: Creator/CarolCleveland, Connie Booth, Ian Davidson, Lyn Ashley

* {{Blackmail}}: The eponymous gameshow in the eponymous sketch. Compromising footage of people has been obtained by the producers, the footage covering the whole gamut of embarrassment potential from evidence of homosexuality to evidence of multiple child sex offences. If the subject doesn't pay a significant amount of money, relevant parties such as spouses and the police will be informed.

Live from the Grill-o-Mat snack bar in Paignton, it's: an episode of the game show ''Blackmail'', a meeting of the Royal Society of Putting Things on Top of Other Things and their attempts to escape the cameras, the television show ''Current Affairs'', a house falling apart around a visitor, a school production of ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'', a butcher who alternates between insulting and not insulting his customer, and a documentary on the boxer Ken Clean-Air Systems.

* OneDimensionalThinking: Ken Clean-Air Systems' jog comes to an abrupt halt when he encounters a parked car in his way. He ponders the situation for a few moments before setting off back the way he came.

* TheDitz[=/=]DumbMuscle: Ken Clean-Air Systems.

* VisibleBoomMic: When Ken jogs in a street, a visible boom mic is seen as the camera shakes.

** Despite basing a whole sketch around this premise, they still avert it later in this episode, where the sketch about the house falling apart is all on film even though it's set indoors.

* TheDitz: Ken Clean-Air Systems.

-->'''Manager:" The great thing about Ken is that he's almost totally stupid.

* VideoInsideFilmOutside: Graham Chapman, on videotape, looks out of the door. The moment he does so the scene switches to 16mm, and he declares, "Good Lord, I'm on film! How did that happen?" After repeating the experience with the room's other doors and windows and determining that they are "surrounded by film", the characters come up with the idea to dig an underground tunnel; while not actually shown, it would have worked because such a scene would have been filmed on set and thus on video.

* ContinuityNod: The bishop rehearsing his line and insisting "I'm not in this show" is the same guy who was doing the same thing in episode 2-3, "Deja Vu".

* VideoInsideFilmOutside: "Good Lord, I'm on film!"

-->'''Praline:''' Color separation, you cottonhead.

-->''Praline bends over to the floor; animated versions of the Pythons are flying through a tube under the floor.

Live from the Grill-o-Mat snack bar in Paignton, it's: an episode of the game show ''Blackmail'', a meeting of the Royal Society of Putting Things on Top of Other Things and their attempts to escape the cameras, a house falling apart around a visitor, a school production of ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'', a butcher who alternates between insulting and not insulting his customer, and a documentary on the boxer Ken Clean-Air Systems.

Live from the Grill-o-Mat snack bar in Paignton, it's: an episode of the game show ''Blackmail'', a meeting of the Royal Society of Putting Things on Top of Other Things and their attempts to escape from the cameras, a house falling apart around a visitor, a school production of ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'', a butcher who alternates between insulting and not insulting his customer, and a documentary on the boxer Ken Clean-Air Systems.

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