Palin & Cleese also wrote the Dino & Luigi Vercotti sketch ("You've got a nice Army base here, Colonel…") from earlier in the season. Cleese & Idle's other major collaboration was the "Eric the Half a Bee" song, which never appeared on the show but bowed on Monty Python's Previous Record. Cleese often spoke of how he…

They went back to Toronto after the first season on NBC. 

They went back to Toronto after the first season on NBC. 

I've fallen off my chair, Brian.

I've fallen off my chair, Brian.

@avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus If your source on the "Dull and Ugly" writing credit is an official one, I'll concede the point; my source was the Wikipedia page for the Contractual Obligation Album, which appears to have fairly recently acquired a comprehensive-looking set of writer's credits.  Where…

@avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus If your source on the "Dull and Ugly" writing credit is an official one, I'll concede the point; my source was the Wikipedia page for the Contractual Obligation Album, which appears to have fairly recently acquired a comprehensive-looking set of writer's credits.  Where…

Which eventually killed him.

Which eventually killed him.

Cleese and Chapman's thesaurus sketches were so commonplace that Palin and Jones wrote up a parody of one just to make fun of them and read it out at a script meeting, thinking/hoping they'd be offended by it.  Not only did they not realize they were being mocked, they actually thought the sketch was great and it went…

Cleese and Chapman's thesaurus sketches were so commonplace that Palin and Jones wrote up a parody of one just to make fun of them and read it out at a script meeting, thinking/hoping they'd be offended by it.  Not only did they not realize they were being mocked, they actually thought the sketch was great and it went…

DID DID DID DID DID DID DID AND DID!

DID DID DID DID DID DID DID AND DID!

Pointless to argue about a subject as, ah, subjective as comedy, but that doesn't mean I won't: 1) whatever "sorry state" SNL was/is/may always to one degree or another have been in, that particular episode happens to be a really good one, Parrot Sketch notwithstanding: I mean, damn, it had the "Star Wars auditions"…

Pointless to argue about a subject as, ah, subjective as comedy, but that doesn't mean I won't: 1) whatever "sorry state" SNL was/is/may always to one degree or another have been in, that particular episode happens to be a really good one, Parrot Sketch notwithstanding: I mean, damn, it had the "Star Wars auditions"…

I will say that I was quite impressed that they managed to replicate the original pet shop set design, PERFECTLY.

I will say that I was quite impressed that they managed to replicate the original pet shop set design, PERFECTLY.

I believe it's also still available via Netflix Streaming, if you have that.

I believe it's also still available via Netflix Streaming, if you have that.

Fun Fact*: that sketch was written by Cleese and Palin, one of the relatively few occasions where a sketch was not penned by one of the established writing teams (Cleese/Chapman, Jones/Palin, Idle/his rampaging ego).  Cleese and Palin also wrote the "North Minehead Bye-Election" (aka the "Hilter" sketch) and "Sir…