An unlikely contender for a winner of an episode. I didn't get it when I was fourteen, but I needed more life-experience to understand most of it. Foreign film. Behind the scenes of making a movie, et al. Watch it a few times and you will be hooked; just like Eric the fish.
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A dreadful, tortured episode that should never have made it to screen
RogerBorg1 December 2022
One of the few genuine turds floating in the Python punchbowl, this is a tough watch, composed of just two excruciatingly over-extended meandering scenes, split by one animation, that resulted in a handful of scattered, uncertain chuckles from an audience waiting for a punchline that never came.
It's hard to see what the team were thinking here: there's no narrative to justify this structure, and precious little ideas within each scene beyond some try-hard but mild surrealism that is itself drawn out long after the laughter has stopped.
Unless you're a completist, this is one that you can easily skip and not miss a single thing.
It's hard to see what the team were thinking here: there's no narrative to justify this structure, and precious little ideas within each scene beyond some try-hard but mild surrealism that is itself drawn out long after the laughter has stopped.
Unless you're a completist, this is one that you can easily skip and not miss a single thing.
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